Yup, as above, riding the kerbs, and taking quite a bit of an advantage by cutting the corners as much as possible, because the game doesn't punish you as much as it should for running wide, you've just got to be properly aggresive.

While we are on the subject of corner cutting, how come, on the top gear track, the lap can get invalidated by the slightest of "cuts", however at somewhere like Monza and Le Mans you can take SERIOUS liberties with the chicanes.

Not too worried about getting anything in return Sinbad , just enjoy the bird!

Sweet, can't wait to see how this turns out

I remember saying a few pages back, that GT5:P looked better than GT5, I think the general feeling was, I was talking rubbish.........

Now up to level 25, pretty much had my fill with "career" progression, just golded the final AMG special, which was really, really easy.

Not bothered with B spec, find it really boring, so all I am doing now is trying to collect all the cars, and am quite enjoying time trialling them on the top gear test track, with comfort hard tyres, those tyres really do highlight the physics engine, even standards feel really good with comfort hards

Nice list, the RS500 is worth the price alone (to me)

I'll gift it over, I think I've got you as a friend on PSN?......

@Sinbad, do you still want a yellowbird?, picked one up this morning, will swap it for something of similar value (177'000cr)

Quote from Boris Lozac :

Well that's another issue, playing it like it's an RPG I'm looking at it from a totally different angle.. avoiding the stupid "skid recovery forced ON" career events..

If it was possible to have all the content I paid for, without "playing like an RPG", then I wouldn't bother with career, at all.

The fact is, PD have made it so we all have to trudge (backwards and forwards) down this yellow brick road to unlock content, so its not really a choice is it

Saving different "tunes" or "setups" is certainly not irrelevent to me, as for the lack of tracks, considering the "career" mode doesn't use all the available tracks, I'd say there was enough....for now.

Whatever is fine with me!

I was just thinking, a different combo a week, just for a bit of a laugh.

How about we run, just for fun obviously, because there is no way of policing it, a weekly time trial competition?.

We could use a randomly selected car and track, run them stock, with comfort hard tyres and no assists.

Any interest?

ALOT of good stuff from GT5:P went AWOL, along with those you listed, time trial leaderboards was one of them, also the "PP" system, which was good too, is missing.

Quote from CoolColJ :

Honestly IMO, not worth getting a PS3 just to play GT5.
That would make it one expensive game, which you may or may not like...

If you already have a PS3, then GT5 is worth getting, but it can frustrate and delight in equal amounts.
I sometimes I wonder what goes through the collective minds at PD... there are some strange oversights

+1

Online "hub" is up and running > https://www.gran-turismo.com/hk/gt5/signin/

Quote from 91mason91 :

Just raced 4 hours straight for nothing. Starting to think why i bother.

^ This is the problem with "race = reward" systems in games.

Instead of racing to gain XP or money or whatever, "we" should really be racing for the pure joy of racing

So much of the pre-release stuff (shadows, weather effects) were bullshots, but then again, thats nothing unusual these days.

Security update for recent jailbreaks apparently

Quote from 91mason91 :

Does anyone know what was included in the patch?

Online mechanical damage options mainly

Do I really need to re-tread ALL of GT5's faults again?, no matter what input device you use, the faults are still there.

I think you've mis-read my post.

Its quite a bit better with a wheel, than without.

Although playing with a wheel doesn't cure many of its other faults.....

Odd, so was I, had just updated to the latest patch and system update.

Mech damage for online only?, why?, at least give us the OPTION to enable it for offline play too.

@CoolColJ, sent you a "silver", also tried to join your lounge, but it said wrong version

@Gabkicks, also tried to join your lounge this morning, but it was full

Just online fixes, if you are playing offline, they won't affect you.