Julius Posted April 25, 2022 Author Posted April 25, 2022 (edited) Latest update: Yeah, they fixed the PP glitch for the Dodge SRT Tomahawk X VGT in Tokyo Expressway so that you can no longer use the fastest car in the game in a race limited to 600 PP cars, RIP. Oh wait, no, never mind, people have already got around that. Yeah, I've still been chipping away at the game, and it's probably been my main game over the last month despite the Café stuff being long done. Thanks to the above glitch after the previous update you could grind 825k in 18-20 minutes of 12 laps on Tokyo Expressway, compared with the Le Mans track which is a time restricted race which was at least 30 minutes long. As part of the previous update they also made all of the invite-only cars have invitations available until mid-May, which I've taken advantage of by grinding for and buying them all, as well as one of three legendary Le Mans cars needed for a hard to get trophy (I'm going to grind for these credits and then just sit on them until these two cars turn up on the store). I've got 6 Licence Tests to still go for Gold for, a bunch of Sport mode online races to complete, a few things related to trophies, and I've got Circuit Experiences to complete, so I think after I finish grinding away for credits I'll be tackling those one at a time; think I'll dial it back and just have an hour or so on it a day while I cruise towards those, because I want to get back to Dragon Quest VIII The game is still a lot of fun to play (giving myself the challenge while grinding of getting as fast a lap/race time on Tokyo Expressway with a car which is way too fast for a track like that has been the most fun I've had with the game!) but there's just so much getting in the way of that at times that I could easily see myself putting the game down once I get the Plat. Still, got a lot of time out of it! Edited April 25, 2022 by Julius
Julius Posted January 5, 2023 Author Posted January 5, 2023 So, this just got a VR mode announced for the launch of PSVR2 at CES: Unclear if it's for the full game, but it will be a free upgrade. Nice. I'll probably throw up considering how I drive, but hey, if that doesn't get me onboard for PSVR2, what will? (a new Astro game, that's what)
Choze Posted February 8, 2023 Posted February 8, 2023 This absolutely does make me want to get the PSVR sooner. Just a question of when. At launch or after?
Julius Posted July 26 Author Posted July 26 Weird thread revival, but I gave myself the goal when I returned to the game around it's 1st anniversary last year to collect every Ferrari in the game. The car saved until last - purely because it so rarely shows up in the rotation of legendary cars - was the 250 GTO, which costs 20m credits...and the last time I tried to get it sometime last year, I decided to splurge on a bunch of other rare cars I needed/wanted a matter of weeks beforehand Anyways, last month, my Ferrari collection was finally completed! Unfortunately, the most recent update added a new Ferrari (the F430 Scuderia)... ...so the collection is once again incomplete. I've yet to go back, but the F430 Scuderia was one of my favourites growing up, so it seems inevitable. More hilariously, though, and the real reason for my thread revival – this update came with some physics changes! Which have produced some absolutely hilarious results 1
Glen-i Posted July 26 Posted July 26 Legit, this is the first time I've been even remotely interested in a Gran Turismo game. If the developers had any sense of fun, they'd make this an "Ascended Glitch" and turn into a toggable feature!
Hero-of-Time Posted July 26 Posted July 26 I was watching some of those vids last night and couldn't stop laughing. If I had the game I wouldn't download the inevitable patch and just keep things as they are.
Julius Posted September 22 Author Posted September 22 So, I typically jump on with my group of friends to play games once or twice a week, and recently I've been stumped on what to play. We're currently in a phase of not playing the same game together but just catching up, which I'm all for, but I've been drifting between games or even just watching other people share their screen or stare blankly at the PS5 hub while doing so. It just all felt like I should be playing something. The other day I realised owning the digital version of GT7 means that I have both the PS5 and the PS4 version of the game, and having Platinum'd the game's PS5 version a few months after launch back in 2022, with nothing else to play mindlessly when on with my friends for now, I figured I'd redownload the PS4 version of the game and Platinum that. Sorted, right? Everything taken away from me, starting from square one, bides me some time to wait just a bit longer on finally pulling the trigger on that SSD for my PS5 with it thrown onto the external HDD I've got connected for PS4 games. Going through and earning a second Platinum sounded like fun to me, it was something to chip away at and I've been really good about not going for Platinum trophies in single-player games this year, which has allowed me to play more this year already than I did in the entirety of last year. But the Plat was going to drag me along because, otherwise, well, I might as well play the PS5 version of the game where I've already invested hundreds of hours. So I load up the PS4 version of the game when jumping on with them yesterday, and then notifications start popping up in the top right corner. 'Bronze Trophy - Living Your Car Life' 'Bronze Trophy - Living With a Legend' 'Silver Trophy - Speed Archdemon' 'Gold Trophy - Finale' Oh no... 'Platinum Trophy - Gran Turismo Platinum Trophy' Yep, that's right, it auto-popped every damn trophy and gave me another Plat with 0 minutes put into this version of the game. While I knew about trophies auto-popping going from some PS4 games to their PS5 versions, I didn't know it worked the other way around, too. How could I? Who in their right mind is playing the PS5 version of a game, getting the Plat, and then going back to what is by all means an inferior version of the game on PS4? This guy, that's who. There was probably a way around it if I'd known ahead of time, maybe something to do with not carrying over my save, or having a physical PS4 version rather than using the digital PS4 & PS5 bundle, or something. I don't know what the point in this post was, I guess it was probably just to share my devastation. And yep, I still have no idea what I'm going to play when I'm on with my friends next. 2
Hero-of-Time Posted September 22 Posted September 22 Haha. Yeah, it's rare that it goes from PS5 to PS4 but some games do support it. 1
Julius Posted September 22 Author Posted September 22 I mean, just look at how stupid this Platinum trophy screenshot is! I didn't even get a chance to calibrate my display! 1
Julius Posted September 22 Author Posted September 22 1 minute ago, Hero-of-Time said: Haha. Yeah, it's rare that it goes from PS5 to PS4 but some games do support it. This was that Jim Ryan again, wasn't it?! 1
drahkon Posted Monday at 10:22 PM Posted Monday at 10:22 PM Yup, I'm in full on "licences are great fun, FUCK THIS SHIT, oh so close to gold, FUCK THIS SHIT AGAIN, YES, GOLD!!!!"-mode I remember playing GT5 with a friend and we pushed each other to new heights with records in those licence tests Now I don't have friends who play the game @Julius your ghosts don't seem to show up... 1 1
Julius Posted Monday at 10:57 PM Author Posted Monday at 10:57 PM 25 minutes ago, drahkon said: @Julius your ghosts don't seem to show up... Thought I spotted you playing this I've been popping back in myself the last few days to help with some of my hand-eye recovery, love this game so much! Yeah, not really sure what's going on there. Not sure if it's because I've uninstalled since completing these License Tests (as replays are tied to the game download, weirdly, so if you save any but then uninstall...it's gone for good), or because of this weirdness I remember reading about back at launch where you needed to do it through a friend's User Page. Probably not the latter if you can see the option for it, though? Actually, I wonder if it's to do with updates since then from tweaking the mechanics leading to changed goals? E.g. B-6 shows as Gold needing a time of 10.700s, yet I have Gold back from when I claimed it at launch from a best time of 10.843s? So maybe the ghost would mess things up – "Julius got a Gold for this, why didn't I after beating his ghost?!"-sort of thing? Anyways, glad that it sounds like you're enjoying it, the License Tests are great fun and a great challenge, I might need to do the Master License stuff at some point (though I wish they came with a new set of trophies, that'd help motivate me I think!). I'm nearly some 300 hours in now after coming back to it again and again, but mostly needing to delete it between grinding binges because of how chunky a game it was. Well, now I have my new SSD installed, so I guess it'll be sticking around for good! 1
drahkon Posted Tuesday at 07:05 AM Posted Tuesday at 07:05 AM 8 hours ago, Julius said: Actually, I wonder if it's to do with updates since then from tweaking the mechanics leading to changed goals? E.g. B-6 shows as Gold needing a time of 10.700s, yet I have Gold back from when I claimed it at launch from a best time of 10.843s? So maybe the ghost would mess things up – "Julius got a Gold for this, why didn't I after beating his ghost?!"-sort of thing? That's probably it. So you got the easy way out? 1
Julius Posted 10 hours ago Author Posted 10 hours ago My First Gran Turismo, the game's demo which was announced as part of PlayStation's plans for their 30th anniversary celebrations a few months ago, is dropping this Friday: Quote My First Gran Turismo will be available at no cost through the PlayStation Store this Friday December 6th at 12:00am Local Time. One of my favourite games this gen and I'm pretty sure my most played of current gen releases? Perfect time to hop in and test it out if you haven't yet On 12/3/2024 at 7:05 AM, drahkon said: So you got the easy way out? Them lowering the needed times for Gold suggests the tweaking made the game easier since launch, so...no
drahkon Posted 10 hours ago Posted 10 hours ago 17 minutes ago, Julius said: Them lowering the needed times for Gold suggests the tweaking made the game easier since launch, so...no But didn't you say you got gold with a slower time in B-6? On 12/3/2024 at 8:05 AM, drahkon said: E.g. B-6 shows as Gold needing a time of 10.700s, yet I have Gold back from when I claimed it at launch from a best time of 10.843s?
Julius Posted 10 hours ago Author Posted 10 hours ago 2 minutes ago, drahkon said: But didn't you say you got gold with a slower time in B-6? Right – the Gold time before was 11 seconds flat, so whatever tweaks they've made mechanically since then has resulted in them lowering the Gold time to 10.7 seconds, which to me suggests that whatever changes they've made in terms of mechanics/handling/etc. has made getting a faster time more attainable (as a time of 11 seconds flat now only gives you Silver). That makes sense to me, anyways bah I'll give it a whirl later, see what you make me do?!
drahkon Posted 9 hours ago Posted 9 hours ago 8 minutes ago, Julius said: bah I'll give it a whirl later, see what you make me do?! 2
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