Haha, good one!

Came accross a funny name yesterday when i made my 3rd B-Spec driver. I didn't choose him in the end, but there was one called N.Abend. German people will get it...

Are people from the UK still insisting on running summer tires all year?

@CoolColJ
That Photo Location looks really nice!

Anyway, i'm level 21 now. Got gold in all the top gear events... did the elise race with TC off... never want to do it again! God i hate that challenge.

Quote from GFresh :

Anyone seen anything of that B-Spec browser mode/control that was mentioned before release? I haven't, just wondered if it made it into the release...

As far as i've seen, we'll get it in an update.

Quote from danowat :

Damage unlocked was debunked yesterday, Sony stated that the damage (visual) is indentical no matter what level you are at.

So in order to get the same damage that was shown in that video of the rally car, i'll have to smash my car into walls at 200mph for about five hours?

If that's really true, then damage sucks big time in this game.

Quote from Boris Lozac :

You guys are playing it too much as a 'game' and are now complaining about it. I avoid A-spec and B-spec as much as i can, bought myself 4 nice Premium cars and i'm doing the licences, special events, time trials, and Online with my friends.. no one is forcing you to grind it. And i'm sure they will implement getting money from online races..

Yes they are forcing us to grind. I want endurance races, so i'll have to reach level 25. And what was that about unlocking true damage at level 40? I want that too.

If i wouldn't have to reach certain levels to unlock certain features, i wouldn't have to grind, but the way it is now, there's no other way.

Not everybody is happy with 50% content right from the beginning.

Quote from Gills4life :

Well I just hosted a room in the online lobby called LFSers get in here! But only Mason from here turned up along with loads of randomers.

It's 4pm in the afternoon... some people have to work at this time of the day...

Quote from tristancliffe :

Quite expensive tuning cars so that the crap AI can beat crap AI.

I agree with that. Spent 200'000 credits yesterday on tuning a standard car i'll never want to drive... just so my B-Spec driver could have an easy race.

The whole level system is starting to get on my nerves aswell... i'm still level 20, 45'000/69'000 points. I don't wanna know how many points i'll need from level 21 to 22. :bananadea

Quote from R34king :

The thread is post your car mate that could be anything you drive.. I dont see people complaining about half of the shitbox 1.3 euros you people call "your ride" some people here are so stupid haha

Dude, your car is a classic, and you are surprised about people who think it's sad to see it getting raped like that... seriously?

Quote from tristancliffe :

Also, you have to repeat "Speed Up" or "Slow Down" (and maybe the others) to keep him at the pace you want. Otherwise he just goes to sleep and gets REALLY slow. So if you want a quick lap you have to repeat Speed Up as often as it allows.

Why can't we fast forward in it? Endurance B-Spec races will be a BOOOOOORE. Not that I'll probably bother unless they reward nice cars

Yeah, I wish i could simply let him get up to speed, then tell him to keep it like that and let him do the rest himself.

I always try to find cars fast enough so they'll still win the race even if they're driving in "sleep mode".

And regarding the endurance races... nobody said you'd have to watch them! Start the race, then do something else (watch a movie, read a book, go out, etc.).

Quote from DevilDare :

Sounds like this mini manager mode is more fun than actual racing.

It's not. I was excited about it aswell after reading some comments. However, all you can do is give your driver four different commands: Slow down, Keep current speed, Speed up, Overtake. That's it!

The rest of it is simply watching him fail or win. Can provide some comedy if he decides to start drifting all of a sudden, but other than that... meh.

PS: If i tell my driver to overtake other cars, he usually fails, gets nervous, takes stupid lines... and sometimes even starts losing places. However, if i simply tell him to drive faster, he usually overtakes anyone in sight like it's no big deal...

Quote from danowat :

Who's had the funniest Ai driver name then?, I've raced....

J.Bieber
M.Ong
V.Lynn

Mine's are called T.Takahashi and O.Renault. My buddy has a driver called Macintosh. Yesterday i raced against a guy called H.Gay.

Quote from (-Mark-) :

Yeah ofc i tuned everything else, im not stupid enough to whack all the power in without modifying anything else lol

I think im gonna see what else i can do, maybe change the suspension settings etc

oh, and my driver is lvl 17

Hmm, maybe another car would be better then, i don't know.

My B-Spec driver is at level 8 (another one at level 5). Whenever i give them a clearly faster car, they are in first place after T1 and usually finish almost lapping the last cars.

Quote from (-Mark-) :

i gave my guy a ~700BHP Gallardo to go against the 590BHP Gallardos..best he can manage is 4th.

Did you install the correct tires? And what level is your B-Spec driver?

Also, tune the car more perhaps? Install racing suspension, lighten the chassis, racing transmission, clutch, blabla...

By giving them a car that is CLEARLY better than the competition i didn't mean an equal car with simply 100hp more.

B-Spec is to win cars in GT5 while you have other things to do. Give them a car that's clearly faster than the competition, start the race, walk away. Once the race is finished, come back and collect your prize car, then repeat. Easy.

Went back to the special events yesterday. Tried to get gold on all the AMG driving school ones (the ones that are available at lvl 20). The one where you have to do a lap on the ring with the SLS in 7:05 was quite a hard fight, but very rewarding when i got it (finished the lap in 7:01:XXX).

I take back what i said about the SLS not being a fun car to drive. On sport tires it's a blast! You guys who are playing this with a gamepad are seriously missing out!

XBL/PSN: jibber951

It's normal to gain a little weight when we grow older (depends on genes anyway, some people will always be thin). I think it's just the media that makes us think we should all stay in perfect shape until we die... it's not natural in my opinion.

However, since i care about myself aswell, i try to watch what i eat sometimes, and do a little workout stuff three times a week. The best benefit of working out is that it'll make you feel better (more fit?).

This went completely off topic by the way...

Quote from JJ72 :

Agree with that, actually I will put it this way, the more low profile a car is, the more likely it will handle naturally. I think they had tinkered with some popular cars (S2000, elise etc) to exaggerate how most people would imagine their handling to be.

I think the S2000 is pretty good. It has too much of a tendency to get sideways, but the real car is like that aswell if you push it hard (the game has it right, just way too exaggerated).

I've never driven a high horsepower car on racing slicks, so i can't really comment on those. However, i've been passenger in quite powerful cars on semi-slicks on trackdays. I feel like it's the same in real life... the more sticky tires a car has, the more boring it becomes to drive. That's the reason i've never bothered with semi-slicks for my S2000... i just have a feeling it is much more fun with road tires. So in this regard, maybe GT5 isn't too far off from reality.

@Ginho
You can use them, but you have to favourite them first in your garage (online you can only choose from cars that are your favourites).

What's up with the black jokes? Is racism cool all of a sudden?

Quote from danowat :

I am constantly finding the physics of cars go from blindingly good, to woefully bad, depending on the car, I think that premium cars are generally better.

I also find the physics feel different depending on the car. Yesterday i was driving some more powerful cars for the first time (SLS, 458, etc). With most of the "average" cars (S2000, NSX, RX-7, etc) the physics felt really good (comfort tyres)... however, cars like the SLS or 458 on sport or even racing tyres... physics feel very dumbed down and almost arcade-like to me. Was quite a disappointing experience.

I don't feel like premium cars have better physics. In my opinion it's a bit like forza... the slower cars feel much better in general.

I did gold in that test aswell, no tricks required. Just look for visual reference points on the track and it's not such a big problem.

Now do the same pic while in a slide and with a big cloud of smoke behind the car.

Quote from danowat :

I tried to take some pics of me sliding my standard CL600, I gave up, as I couldn't be bothered to spend so much time trying to polish a turd.

When GT5 looks good, it looks amazing, but equally, when it looks bad, it looks really bad.

I second that impression. Tried the same thing, gave up on photo mode five minutes later... it's terrible.