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Whilst busy last night I started my B-Spec driver "M. Baron" :)

He was alright and managed to win the Sunday cups easily enough, then I noticed my seven year old daughter was watching intently... hmmmmm

"Want a go?"

"Yeah okay"

Heh heh, M. Baron meet your new manager. So while daddy is busy so is the child...

Children, have their uses after all, getting you dosh in GT5! ;)

He's level 4 now.

Is there any benefit from training two drivers at once?

I'm guessing that the 24 hour races may require more than one driver, or the longer Racecar races may allow for more than one? It's actually quite an ejoyable aspect of the game, more interesting than I thought it would be anyway.

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Don't bother with the "like the win cup" right now. Get a Oreca Viper and go win the American challenge round Indy instead, it's worth 115,000 creditrs as apposed to 84,000 for LTW. 5 laps in a LM racing viper and you'll cream the opposition.

I was trying to win the race car for 'Like The Wind' rather than get cash. Didn't need the Viper for the American one, my modded corvette did the job on that.

The Euro Extreme Cup is bizzare, very easy as there are lots of low spec'd AI cars for this level of racing! Romped the German Extreme Cup too in the Audi I won for doing the Euro Cup too! Took a bit of easing back to get it around the Nurburgring though.

Now I have 3.5 million in credit, but still need to find cars for the Expert Classic and Japanese races to complete that section. Anyone know what cars to get and where? The only classic one I've seen is the Jag race car in the dealership and that's 20 million! :ph34r:

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I was trying to win the race car for 'Like The Wind' rather than get cash. Didn't need the Viper for the American one, my modded corvette did the job on that.

The Euro Extreme Cup is bizzare, very easy as there are lots of low spec'd AI cars for this level of racing! Romped the German Extreme Cup too in the Audi I won for doing the Euro Cup too! Took a bit of easing back to get it around the Nurburgring though.

Now I have 3.5 million in credit, but still need to find cars for the Expert Classic and Japanese races to complete that section. Anyone know what cars to get and where? The only classic one I've seen is the Jag race car in the dealership and that's 20 million! :ph34r:

I used a Race modded Camaro Z28 for the classic. Remember to mod it first, then buy the extra kit for it and apply it. Don't do what i did and mod it then moan about how rubbish it is due to my own incompetence

For the Japanese i think i had my Xanavi Nismo by then, so i walked it

I'm now at Cr3.5m but i need to purchase a Formula GT car for the final set of races in Extreme which is looking like a Cr4.5m purchase. Handily in the 'Dream Car Campionship' there is a 10 lap Indy race for 105,000cr and 9k exp. :eyebrows:

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You can get a Jag via facebook!!! Shot in the dark challenge thing, i have sent out grudges but it never seems to work on MAC so i may fire up a windows machine and try on there, its some super duper old jag you get for free so worth a go!

Huh? Got anymore details?

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Hawkeye

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Try this http://apps.facebook.com/takeittothetrack

Basically tou have some little games on there, go to the shot in the dark one, play thru it and then you need to set 4 x grudges and you get a bonus car code - some hella cool jag xj13

I cant seem to get my grudges to show so im blaming the MAC :(

Looks interesting, not keen on it posting crap to facebook though that I've done in game.

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Shimmyhill

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Just did the advanced karts, blimey thats good fun!!

The tension is amazing, the racing is easy but keeping it on the island is the hard part and it has amazing FFB on the wheel. Starting to really enjoy the game now and have got a million sitting in the bank.

Now to go blow it all on the ZR1 and race mod it for those challenges!

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I bought a Toyota GT-one yesterday. Then spent 2 hours trying to stop it spinning the wheels in 4th gear and tank slapping me into the wall.

The usual "just whack the gearbox up to some huge number to control the torque" didn't work as it just started spinning the wheels in 5th and in 3rd in any corner. Much meessing around with the limited slip diff, suspension, traction control and gearbox has made it manageable, but by God it's a beast using the pad. The same goes for the Minalta 88C you get for the LTW event. You have to caress the throttle coming out of corners, nailing it and she just goes spinning into the kitty litter. At 500,000 credits for a chassis rebuild you don't want to be doing that too often.

So once i'd got the thing partially taimed I did the Japanese JGTC extreme event. 10 laps around Suzuka in the pooring rain with a wild bitch of a car ready to kill you the first time you touch the loud pedal, concentrates the mind i can tell you. I won but it was hard work.

toyota_gtone8.jpg

"I'll kill you, bitch"

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Frankie Lee

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Whilst busy last night I started my B-Spec driver "M. Baron" :)

He was alright and managed to win the Sunday cups easily enough, then I noticed my seven year old daughter was watching intently... hmmmmm

"Want a go?"

"Yeah okay"

Heh heh, M. Baron meet your new manager. So while daddy is busy so is the child...

Children, have their uses after all, getting you dosh in GT5! ;)

He's level 4 now.

Is there any benefit from training two drivers at once?

I'm guessing that the 24 hour races may require more than one driver, or the longer Racecar races may allow for more than one? It's actually quite an ejoyable aspect of the game, more interesting than I thought it would be anyway.

I'm getting into it a bit too. Seems there is quite a bit of depth to it. Different drivers handle different cars better. Apparently a naturally "hot" driver gets more excited but also reacts to instructions quicker. Seemingly the overtake instruction only really works if you issue it at an appropriate time.
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I'm getting into it a bit too. Seems there is quite a bit of depth to it. Different drivers handle different cars better. Apparently a naturally "hot" driver gets more excited but also reacts to instructions quicker. Seemingly the overtake instruction only really works if you issue it at an appropriate time.

I deliberatly chose a hot-head as I wanted a Senna alike. He seems better in my souped up Z4 than he does in the 2nd hand Corolla... :)

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I bought a Toyota GT-one yesterday. Then spent 2 hours trying to stop it spinning the wheels in 4th gear and tank slapping me into the wall.

The usual "just whack the gearbox up to some huge number to control the torque" didn't work as it just started spinning the wheels in 5th and in 3rd in any corner. Much meessing around with the limited slip diff, suspension, traction control and gearbox has made it manageable, but by God it's a beast using the pad. The same goes for the Minalta 88C you get for the LTW event. You have to caress the throttle coming out of corners, nailing it and she just goes spinning into the kitty litter. At 500,000 credits for a chassis rebuild you don't want to be doing that too often.

So once i'd got the thing partially taimed I did the Japanese JGTC extreme event. 10 laps around Suzuka in the pooring rain with a wild bitch of a car ready to kill you the first time you touch the loud pedal, concentrates the mind i can tell you. I won but it was hard work.

http://mitsuru-1029.cocolog-nifty.com/photos/uncategorized/toyota_gtone8.jpg

"I'll kill you, bitch"

Get a wheel! :P

It makes controlling the 'I will kill you while you sleep' cars much easier to handle. Well apart from the Formula GT in the wet around Monza... :hmm:

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Hawkeye

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My B-Spec Bob is a strange chap. Some races he's on the mark, even in equally powered cars, but in the pick-up truck race! It's like he's gone on strike. It's powered up to f*ck, and I won those races easily in the same vechile but him oh no. Twaddles around as slow as you like and at best musters a 10th place. <_<

I think he has a pick-up truck phobia!

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The Formula GT, is it a premium modelled car with proper cockpit?

That ZR1 is a bit of a beast with the mods on isnt it!!?

Formula GT is a standard model with no cockpit. It's awesome to drive, if that's any consolation.

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The Formula GT, is it a premium modelled car with proper cockpit?

It is a standard car unfortunately, but it is PD's take on a F1 car if they had not banned V12's and active do dah's (950bhp, 500KG, spins up the rears under full acceleration in 3/4th in the dry and corners like it is on rails). So no time to look at the cockpit anyway.

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The official Gran Turismo 5 steering wheel, the Thrustmaster T500RS, goes on sale today in Europe, Africa and Australia with an eye-watering RRP of £450/€500.

To celebrate, Sony's put out a video of the wheel in action, which you can see below.

The Thrustmaster T500RS is only the second ever wheel to be officially licensed for use with Sony's simulation series, apparently.

The T500 RS wheel and pedal set is said to be optimised for GT5. The wheel weighs 4.6kg; the pedal set 7.3kg. The gearshift levers, the wheel's central spokes section (30cm in diameter) and the pedal set are all entirely metal.

The wheel itself offers 1080° rotation. A motorized stop means the three full turns are adjustable. The magnetic sensor-based H.E.A.R.T (HallEffect AccuRate Technology) is incorporated into the wheel's steering mechanism. The wheel has 16-bit resolution and 65536 values on its steering axis.

"The goal that I set for the Thrustmaster team was to design for me the most precise wheel ever developed, without any latency – to accurately reproduce the sensations of GT5, and let users truly feel the emotions experienced by drivers on real racing circuits," said Polyphony Digital boss Kazunori Yamauchi.

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A few things i am surprised are missing from this artical.

This wheel currently only works with 1 game (GT5), every other PS3 racing game has no force feedback at all (same on the PC) "edit - what i mean is other games that do have force feedback on them (grid, dirt, shift etc and any PC racer) the FFB doesn't work with this wheel", sure they are working on PC drivers and trying to get updates added to other PS3 racing games to make the FFB work BUT still this wheel is being released and right now it works with only 1 game!!.

The clutch on the pedal set does not work at this time for GT5, they have decided to not activate the cluth for GT5 until the 6 speed shifter comes out so you can't use the clutch with the included paddles just to tide you over.

It's a cool looking gadget BUT to release it while it works with only 1 game and not even fully is just crazy.

FFS :facepalm:

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You would think with all the signature editions now gathering dust on shelves at £50 they'd learned their lesson about how much the hard core are prepared to pay. Yes we'll wait for 6 year, but not to then pay over the odd for a game let alone an over priced add on. Sure they'll sell maybe a hundred units, but when you compare that to the number of units GT5 has shifted, it'll be peanuts. It's too late, too expensive and smacks of Sony trying to wring some more cash form us.

I imagine most people are prepared to pay a £150 for a wheel top whack. Anymore than that, however fucking sparkerly it is, is just pissing into the wind. I'd love one, but you goingot need to have a seat with that aren't you. Which is just more money.

But the most pissy thing about it is ... The game is designed to uise that, not having a whell is a possitive disadvantage. It's just flicking the V's at all us pad users and laughting hard in our faces.

Cunts

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Hawkeye

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My GTFP is the first wheel I've ever splashed out on and I'm loving it on GT5 (and F1 2010), but even at £80 I was a bit iffy at splashing the cash. You'd need to be uber minted to drop that sort of cash on a wheel. Even the more hardcore are likely to be shopping around for a G27 or the like.

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You would think with all the signature editions now gathering dust on shelves at £50 they'd learned their lesson about how much the hard core are prepared to pay. Yes we'll wait for 6 year, but not to then pay over the odd for a game let alone an over priced add on. Sure they'll sell maybe a hundred units, but when you compare that to the number of units GT5 has shifted, it'll be peanuts. It's too late, too expensive and smacks of Sony trying to wring some more cash form us.

I imagine most people are prepared to pay a £150 for a wheel top whack. Anymore than that, however fucking sparkerly it is, is just pissing into the wind. I'd love one, but you goingot need to have a seat with that aren't you. Which is just more money.

But the most pissy thing about it is ... The game is designed to uise that, not having a whell is a possitive disadvantage. It's just flicking the V's at all us pad users and laughting hard in our faces.

Cunts

I think you underestimate how much people will play, some PC wheels start at £600 and top out well over £1200 when adding pedals, shifter etc.

And really, a driving game that should be not made for a wheel? Thats what Blur is for, for the record its pretty easy with a pad and far easier to save terminal slides as you dont have any movement to get to full lock unike on a wheel. While a wheel is better and will get you better times the game can be played fine on a pad and it should be a disadvantage on a game with such decent physics - it would be a tragedy if GT5 was optomised for a pad!!! :facepalm: Come on bob, next you'll be in the singstar thread saying that singing into the pad is not working or using it as a guitar in rockband sucks ;)

Get a wheel and a wheel stand and you suddenly have a different game, a better game and one that will give you years of fun for a modest outlay in the scheme of things.

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Who would wanna use a clutch with paddles?!

And yeah, I stopped playing racing games for ages as I found them boring, then I got a wheel! Currently rotating GT5, F1 2010 and Hot Pursuit*.

* Not tried that with the wheel, probably won't.

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Who would wanna use a clutch with paddles?!

And yeah, I stopped playing racing games for ages as I found them boring, then I got a wheel! Currently rotating GT5, F1 2010 and Hot Pursuit*.

* Not tried that with the wheel, probably won't.

I tried it, doesn't work well!!! There is going to be a 6 speed shifter for the Thrustmaster they just dont have it ready yet.

I just did the Beginners classic car set, old Alfa shifting with stick and clutch and it was brilliant - in the faster race and LM cars i use the paddles, i will hook up the sequential shifter and try that to as i bet that would be good for lots of cars esp the rallying!

I have been on it most of the day, totally addicted to it now and even enjoying the B spec even if my bob is an idiot!! Mind its quite handy setting him in a race with an overly powerful car to grind out some credits while eating dinner etc ;)

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