Gran Turismo 6 Released December 6: OP Updated - The Bear and Badger

Bob

Cheers! You're so good bird off it puts me off seeing you speed by!

Birdorf

Cheers, but I'm not that good. Been sampling online doings the last couple of days and this confirms it.

Bob

Got the trophy for the 0.01 finish. Got enough stars for the I-b championship just need to find a car to do it in.

Bob

All golds I-a licence. The first cone challenge took about a million attempts but breezed through the rest first time.

isanbard

One of the visiting 3yr olds managed to get the One Big Jump trophy tho morning… Fun for all the family folks.

I'm very slowly getting through this little beauty. Great stuff. Can see myself getting it again when it drops on the PS4 as long as they make the GT steering wheel play ball.

Bob

And cross save.

[Deleted User]

Digital Foundry vs Gran Turismo 6

Runs much worse than Gt5 iirc. Like 5, forcing 720p in the Ps3 menu raises the frame-rate, but it's still well below the 60fps target most of the time.

isanbard

Interesting read there. I might give the 720 a run next time I have a crack then. Still plodding slowly through so haven't noticed too much slowdown issues at 1080 really.

It does give the impression that it was aimed at a PS4 at some point a while ago in dev and shoe horned backwards a bit to get it out on the PS3 in the mean time.

Bob

Is anyone up for some multiplayer racing? Maybe Saturday night?

Birdorf

Yes! I've had a great time these last few days. Played for about a dozen hours, got into some great full lobbies and had some fantastic races. Not come across any knobheads, yet.

Bob

Can you host if we get a few together?

Started the touring cars and the difference between a tc and the super cars like the mclaren is so well represented. Loving it.

Bob

indigo wrote:

Digital Foundry vs Gran Turismo 6

Runs much worse than Gt5 iirc. Like 5, forcing 720p in the Ps3 menu raises the frame-rate, but it's still well below the 60fps target most of the time.

That's not what the article says.

I think one also has to bear in mind the breadth of things they're simulating.

[Deleted User]

It doesn't say that it runs worse than Gt5, that's from my own memory of their vs Gt5 article, hence the use of iirc. It does say, and show, that the Gt6 runs at higher frame-rates when displaying in 720p.

Bob

I'm not sure what the settings are on my ps3 but if you have time to look at the scenery your doing it wrong.

I saw the iirc but was just clarifying it for people who might not have read the article and thought you where summing up.

[Deleted User]

It's not just a visual thing though, the frame-rate drops also add latency to the controls, making them less responsive, negatively effecting how the game feels to play. This is from the article's conclusion:

[font=Proxima, sans-serif]The frame-rate dips here are just too jarring at times, impacting the interface between player and game, introducing too much inconsistency into the way the cars handle from one race to the next.[/font]

Bob

Gran Turismo 6 still delivers the best GT experience to date with more content, features, and details than any instalment before it.

Which is all fair enough @indigo.

I'm happy that their pushing the envelope of what's possible rather than going down the safer route of Forza. Presumably if they stripped out weather and changable daylight conditions and night races they could have hit 60fps more reliably.. much as Forza has resisted adding anything new to it's rather sterile simulation model.

Birdorf

Barely noticed any slowdown, but I use bonnet cam and rarely race on dirt/city tracks, or in the rain.

Happy to start a lobby if there's interest. 550pp road cars would be my suggestion.

isanbard

Had a new and exciting error first thing this morning for my 200% log in. A PSN/Networking thing (error 8002E5BO) popped up. I went to the online lobby and it managed to connect ok and I got my daily log in sorted. The 3yr old then did his title trip to the moon and during that I was signed out again… Now when I try again it says the error code and also I can't log in because I haven't agreed to the online Ts&Cs.

Complete daftness all round but kind of what I expect from a trusty old Slim and old school PSN. It's had to go on wireless too now since the PS4 pinched the last ethernet cable. Might have to jiggle it all about a bit as the wifi in a PS3 is probably the worst of the lot. (PS4, PS3, 360, Youview (no wifi at all), Plex enabled Panasonic TV)

Edit: If I can get it sorted out I'll happily fill up the back rows of the grid. Apologies in advance for all the paintwork required all round following a race or two… heheh

Bob

Birdorf wrote:

Barely noticed any slowdown, but I use bonnet cam and rarely race on dirt/city tracks, or in the rain. Happy to start a lobby if there's interest. 550pp road cars would be my suggestion.

Me neither and I'm using 1080p 60hz thing (I noticed on boot up of my TV today) and I use nose came..

I was having a ball in the Touring Car championships this morning.. My subaru was just about fast enough to win the championship on the 550 races with a bit of gearbox fiddling so I gave it a power boost for the 600pp races but it still wasn't enough even with fiddling with individual gear ratios (I wanted punchy acceleration but still enough at the top to keep up on the straights) and even though I couldn't only manage fourth overall I was having such a sweet time slinging it through the R460 and bathurst.

Bob

Apologies for double post but what settings do you use for seasonal challenges Birdoff? Just spent ages getting the gold on the KTM X-Bow challenge and I was still half a second off your time.. I was wringing it's neck too!

Birdorf

I've used skid recovery force on most of the seasonals. I don't usually, but just wanted to do them as quickly as possible to get my hands on the cash.

Bob

Birdorf wrote:

I've used skid recovery force on most of the seasonals. I don't usually, but just wanted to do them as quickly as possible to get my hands on the cash.

Ah, to be fair I'd already switched on 1 ABS and 5 TCS (the default settings I normally switch off for career) and still couldn't seem to keep up with you through the sweeping bends where it's short wheel base make it want to spin out.

Bob

Just in case there was going to be a huge ground swell of interest in some GT6 racing tonight I can't do it now as plans have changed! We'll sort something out soon though!

[Deleted User]

Track set in the Spanish countryside coming in Feb:

more info here:
http://www.gtplanet.net/new-track-vision-gt-x2014-discussed-at-taipei-game-show/

Escape

It's not the Isle of Man. Go away, Not-the-TT.

[Deleted User]

Hope it's more like a long (it's >26km nurburgring) relaxing country-drive stretch of road, rather than something as intense and nerve-racking as the Isle of Man - wouldn't say no to it (and bikes) Dlc aswell mind.

isanbard

When's the senna dlc coming?

[Deleted User]

PD just said something vague like 'coming in a future update' iirc.

Bob

There's an update this morning!

Two new seasonals

isanbard

Was chuffed to bobbins (not you Bob…) that I was able to log in to PSN last night even through the maintenance to keep up my 200%er. Now there's some seasonals to play with all that bonus.

Bingo!

Let's have a quick look.. *beep*

Edit: Found this changelog. Might be true?

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