I got a Civic engine from a 6 star daily this morning, stuck it in a Mini. Much tire smoking hilarity now, 400hp FF monster.Won a 6 star ticket for finishing the extra cafe menus.
I had one already this week and got an engine - today I got ..... an engine for a Toyota. Sheesh!
I'm stuck on the 1st double bend 1, 3rd drift mission I think. Don't think I'll be completing any more series that have them. Switched to controller just for them, but can't nail it. Infuriating!Did the two last drift missions that took my an eternity and a lot of swearing yesterday. Managed to get 7536 and 5311 (Gold is 7500 and 5300) LOL. Definitely not going back to doing those stupid things. They should never have been in the game.
De-tuned 911 RSR will walk it, if you have it.Struggling with the porsche cup at Nürburgring as it starts to rain half way thru it. Getting close though should have it done soon
Pity it can't be used at that Goodwood race to smoke that mad red mini!I got a Civic engine from a 6 star daily this morning, stuck it in a Mini. Much tire smoking hilarity now, 400hp FF monster.
The custom races are a whole new level of this game...... just wish they'd give better rewards. But for driving fun, they're hard to beat if set up well.Today I just had the best race I’ve ever done I think in the history of playing Gran Turismo. In like all of the games period. I was going full beans the whole time and the AI was cheating of course but in a really enjoyable and entertaining way this time somehow.
So I got bored of doing the roulette grind today and decided to actually play the game for a bit. After buying/winning a bunch of new Gr.1 and Gr.3 cars with the tickets I decided to try a custom race. This was after a post I saw that mentioned how using full boost on the settings provided a decent challenge.
I was curious about this so I decided to do a race on Watkins Glen since I hadn’t driven it much at this point. But for some reason when I was setting up the race I decided to do an hour and a half timed endurance race with 12x tire wear and 13x fuel consumption. The race started in the early morning and would end in the middle of the night.
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I set 8 prototype class cars and 12 GT class cars as competition. I started 8th at the back of the prototype class.
So the race started and I made quick work of the 6 other prototypes, besides the Toyota TS030. Somehow despite my best driving the AI decided to become incredibly quick and this Toyota was up my butt for the entire race.
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I had one lap extra of fuel on average than he did and pit stops were frequent. But after I went into the pits a lap later he would always be right behind me.
In the above photo, we were that close together for pretty much the entire length of the hour and a half race. I really had to pull every trick in the book I had to keep this guy behind me.
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And sometimes he even did. Whenever he passed me he’d slow down and only ever got about 2 second ahead but if I wasn’t careful and kept focus he might have gotten away from me. Luckily I was able to keep focus and even managed to perform several undercuts on him when he’d go into the pits to retake the lead. Unfortunately he’d always be right back up my bottom whenever I exited the pits a lap later.
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Then in the last 20 minutes or so the race went into the night. It was incredibly difficult at first because I lost the use of my braking markers in the darkness. I went wide on a few corners but somehow managed to keep up a good defence and stay ahead of the Toyota.
He was only a few tenths behind even on the final lap and easily closed the gap on any straights, but luckily some GT-class traffic in the boot section saved me on the last lap and I won with a 2 second buffer. Probably would have been overtaken on the last straight otherwise.
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By all accounts this was the most enjoyable race I’ve ever had in Gran Turismo. Intensity, strategy, it required all of my skill to keep this faster Toyota behind me while bobbing and weaving between GT class traffic. If you haven’t given a multi class race like this a try I’d definitely recommend it for sure.
I hate the rally stuff even more now. Stuck on the windmills super licence.Don’t usually bother trying for gold in the licence tests because I’ve never been fast enough, just take my bronze and go. Driving better with the Dualsense so going to see if I can get them this time.
Got the NA and IB this morning, passed a few people here on the leaderboards. Final test at Trial Mountain took a very long time.
The last 2 licences look quite evil though.
I did the first 2 with a wheel, then did the third on my third attempt with a controller. The cone knocking challenge in a square shape is also impossible with a wheel. Did it first try with controller on steering sensitivity 10 with 2 seconds to spareDid the two last drift missions that took my an eternity and a lot of swearing yesterday. Managed to get 7536 and 5311 (Gold is 7500 and 5300) LOL. Definitely not going back to doing those stupid things. They should never have been in the game.
I had too switch too gamepad from wheel for the rally stuff, so much easier i feltI hate the rally stuff even more now. Stuck on the windmills super licence.
I'm already on pad with autoI had too switch too gamepad from wheel for the rally stuff, so much easier i felt, don't be ashamed too use some assists, auto gears can be handy sometimes
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Sorry for going off topic mate, but I saw the ship in your profile pic and recognised it. Both my dad and grandad worked in the shipyard where it was built and they worked in it!Well got my Gold Sport mode TT time down too a 1:37.725, will folks be waiting till the last day too slap an even better top time in as it only relates too how far you are off the fastest time and then yer back too a silver lol. Got some more engines woohoo lol, some Grmn car that I already have 2 of, like gts end up with dupe cars galore. get sad that everytime I look in the ucd it's the same ole stuff , same colours, sure GT1 had a better ucd than this crap lol. Be trying more TT tonight before the deadline is up, more time too be had just need too hook it all up![]()