Topic: Gran Turismo 7

@Th3solution nice get on that Lexus! I think the only thing that wasn't minimum on a ticket for me was some fancy brake pads for a car I can't afford for quite some time lol.

@Elodin I get the minimum award on those stupid tickets every time. feels rigged. well minimum, or invitations which like @Th3solution said does feel live service-ish. Like I'd literally only just started playing and I get an invite for Ferrari. Not even a million credits to my name at that point but I have an invite for 3 cars totalling something like 8 million credits. And that invite is timed. And it's like don't worry you don't have to buy it but your car collection thing is gonna have an empty gray spot until you do. But no pressure. Lol.

Then yeah, the daily (grind) workout. Sure I don't have to log in and race 26 miles, no penalty if I don't but I've played enough Animal Crossing and Farmville type games to know when I'm being manipulated to play, even when I'd rather not. Because essentially if you aren't earning, you're not making progress toward one goal or another. And it's even another thing given the unpredictable nature of what the prize is for that 26 miles. Like that's basically a slot machine. Or, as we gamers call them, loot boxes. And obviously you don't just get said loot boxes from your daily workout. There's also the menu books where I carry out super important tasks like collecting cars, getting oil changes, widening the body of a car, etc so I can see what I "win."

Yeah it's definitely got a fomo mechanic at its core.

Unless you really like a particular car, I wouldn’t bother using an invite. I bought several cars and I barely use them compared to the Gr3 & 4’s

@Elodin @zupertramp Yeah, on the roulette tickets I’ve done so far I’ve been awarded the minimum about 90% of the time. Once I got the Lexus and once I got a mid level credit award. The rest of the time it’s been the 2000-5000 Cr. award. It might be just chance, but the one time I got the car I had several tickets I’d saved up and did several back-to-back rather than redeeming each one right away. I have no idea if that helped my chances but I doubt it.

Push Square GT7 Fastest Lap Challenge - week 10

Hi everyone, I'm back this week having missed last week so hope everyone is fully fuelled and ready to go. I've relaxed the requirements as per comments I've received so hopefully we should have a full field this week. A quick reminder for anyone that hasn't taken part yet, each week I pick a different track and car combination - hopefully one that we've all got from playing the campaign or one that isn't too expensive from the used car or brand central dealers and we then see who out of all of us can set the fastest lap with it using the TT mode on the specific track. It's open to anyone from novice to seasoned players and is just a bit of fun with the only prize on offer being the feeling of smugness knowing that you've beaten your fellow Push Square forum members.

The car this week is available quite early on in the cafe menu and hopefully is one that people haven't upgraded etc. It's an FR car so should be an easy car to control, coupled with a short course layout that will hopefully mix it up a little.

Track: Suzuka Circuit- East Course
Car: Corolla Levin 1600GT APEX (AE86) '83
Settings: Default settings sheet (if you think you might have changed settings just create a new sheet)
Tyres: Comfort Medium
Time of day: 06:00
Method:

The idea is to go in blind, no practice using the track / car combo before hand and no restarting - this is going to rely on everyone being honest as there's really no way to police this. Any day Monday to Thursday this week go to World Circuits, select the track followed by Time Trial -

Select the specific time of day -

Select the car and tyres -

You've got 5 laps to put together a solid lap time. Once you've crossed the line on the 5th lap exit the time trial and take a screenshot as per the example or just record your time:

Then either upload the image to Twitter or another sharing service e.g. imgur.com and post the link here or just post your time in a message, whichever method suits you best and whenever you like. I'll then gather all the times up and publish the results on Friday.

Good luck!

@render going to give it a shot tonight. Will be my first try at this. Ill make sure I take off anything I bought for the car too. Can't wait to embarrass myself

1:08.884

@Elodin I doubt you’ll embarrass yourself more than I usually do. Getting this right in 5 laps is definitely not my forte but it’s always fun trying.

@MatthewJP That was quick and could well be quick.

Not sure how to share my best time, but it
Was. 1:11.697.

Was best on my fourth lap. Got greedy on my fifth and was way worse. Was fun. To share. Now we have a low and a high point. 🙃. Happy to participate.

@render It’s also my first time to participate in the weekly challenge. I’m finally far enough along to join in, having opened up most tracks and cars.

Nevertheless, the quality of my driving still leaves much to be desired. I did very poorly but here it is —

1:11.775

A hair behind @Elodin 😄

I’ve been driving FR and MR mostly, so I actually found going back to a FF was harder. Lost control several times, as you can see 😅

On a separate note, I’ve been playing so much GT7 that now when I get in my real-life car to drive I’m automatically looking for the best driving line to take around a turn and the best path to pass someone. 😅 I’m kinda worried about myself.

It also makes real driving feel exceptionally slow.

@Th3solution haha same. Amount of times I've come close to scraping my alloys trying to hit the apex of a roundabout!

@Elodin @Th3solution Thanks for taking part and those times are not to be sneezed at. It isn't easy getting it together in 5 laps and I've tried various different ways to tackle it. I'm going to do mine later and no doubt I'll be in a similar ballpark.

@Th3solution @Elodin @render yeah I can't imagine mine will be any better. Been too busy to get to it so far (still working on my sambabus laps at the ring) but I'll get to it some time I hope.

apologies in advance but im fairly sure my attempts to use this image hosting link is bound to end in disaster but here goes....

so ill include times as well

1) 1:11:585
2) 1:11:686
3) 1:11:145
4) 1:10:089
5) 1:09:475

Best one was the last one (like how it shows steady improvement - however slight)
1:09:475

@sorteddan Nice one, that was a steady improvement indeed and at least you were always getting faster.

I managed a 1:08.816 but it was a really messy attempt as you can see

@render
Think my technique followed from all those licenses i recently did, which was - if i can set a ghost, I can beat that ghost, if I can beat that ghost i will (eventually) reach my target.
So my laps go: base lap, base lap, slight improvement, slight improvement, slight improvement.

Yours seem to have gone:
Cack, cack, cack, jackpot!

Maybe I'll have to go more gung-ho in future.

@sorteddan I do try and approach it just as you did there but for some reason by the time I've reached the first corner I've thrown that out the window and just pushed too hard too soon 😅

1:08.046

@Kairu wow! Well done! As well as everyone else under 1:10.