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Gran Turismo 5 Spec II |OT| - We Love DLC!
- Thread starter Metalmurphy
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weekend_warrior
Banned
No you need a SuperGT.
I have a Honda Epson NSX but it didn't show up as one of my useable cars. Guess I'll check the online dealership later to buy a car that works.
Doh nevermind, just needed to tune it to under 600pp.
iKeepPlaying
Banned
If slipstream is when the other car puts behind you so it gets less air resistance, ergo, going faster. No, that wasn't. The second car just went next to me like nothing. And I know there isn't rubberbanding on GT5, but fuck... if the CPU is going to play soft on me, don't wait till the 8th lap to go full serious.
Maybe the CPU isn't affected by tyre wear?
Pretty sure that tyre wear and fuel affects AI as well, at least according to B-Spec. They usually drive more carefully and thus their tyres lasts longer.
Dr Frasier Crane
Member
OK after a bit of tinkering I've got a fire and forget set up for winning the B-Spec Spa seasonal. So now I can just set L.Lynch off and 27 minutes later collect 4,000,000 credits.
Feels good.
Feels good.
Would you mind sharing ?... you egotestical rat ! ;-p
weekend_warrior
Banned
I use a NSX Takata (though any SuperGT would probably work). Install stage 3 turbo, in the settings max downforce, add no weight, reduce HP to meet 600pp. Set transmission to 190mph, I tweaked the suspension settings but not sure you need to, install sport soft tires. At the start of the race all you need to do is pace up once or twice. Your Bob will get into the middle of the pack and his pace will not automatically decrease, by around lap 5 or 6 you'll take the lead and his pace will slow, but as soon as the other cars get near him he'll pace up and never drop back. Lap 8 the other cars will pit, your Bob won't, he'll take a big lead, his pace will go cold but he won't lose the lead before the race ends. $4,000,000 credits in 27 minutes. Repeat.
It's possible that when he get's to around 6th place he'll get stuck behind a slow Lexus and the lead pack will pull a big lead, and when he does get by there won't be any cars close enough to automatically keep his pace up. You'll still take the lead when everyone pits but it might not be enough to hold when he goes completely cold, so depending on the timing of the leap frogging he might not be in the lead at the finish line. So if you're near your controller hitting X X to increase pace every few minutes is a good idea.
Here's a bit of a stupid question since I haven't really played much of this game yet. I got a car from finishing the B license tests and another from the first series of races. I opened them in the Car Delivery option, but I can't actually find them anywhere. Do I actually own these cars or not?
Metalmurphy
Member
Yes, if you tried to access them from the restrictions menu on a race it's possible that it simply doesn't meet the restriction, so it won't show up. Besides that, make sure you look in both the Premium and Standard section
Metalmurphy
Member
Weather doesn't really matter, what matters is how wet the track is, there's an icon that shows it in %. You should change to Intermidiates at around 30%, it stops raining near the end iirc and track starts drying out.
Spa was easy once I used an Arta NSX, Sarthe however, my bob got overtaken in the last freaking corner! Argh.
Well I've just been starting on Sport softs and not changing at all. I was just wondering why the top group of cars didn't pit twice (make that 50% now, I've won the event twice and finished near the back twice)
Going to try to figure out the LeMans seasonal after I get enough cash to buy the R8 in the online dealership, used 20,000,000 buying the Ford '67
weekend_warrior
Banned
I've run Spa about 10 times now and have yet to see once where the other cars didn't pit.
Dr Frasier Crane
Member
ARTA NSX '00 (Standard) - Tuned to just below 600PP, Down-force set to Max front and then what's left to the back. Gears set to 179. Tyres at Sports Soft. Only choose someone with a mentality in the middle. When the race starts pace up twice (to get him close to the back of the chap in 11th) and you're done. If you don't pace up at the start you run the risk of coming 2nd.
Hasn't failed me yet in over 20 races, average win by 15s.
Golded both B-Spec expert events, my ticket was a Mazda Furai, which I already had. Phooey.
I was awarded a Zonda R, that i already had too.
weekend_warrior
Banned
Ya'll is n00bs at this. I'm gifting my ticket to my paint mule so I get more cars from it.
Dash Kappei
Not actually that important
Golded both B-Spec expert events, my ticket was a Mazda Furai, which I already had. Phooey.
I'll send you another lev23 ticket if you want
Metalmurphy
Member
If anyone still hasn't gotten an FT-86 Concept II '11, besides adding GT5NRL, also leave a msg on that PSN ID.
It's hard to keep track of who has it already.
It's hard to keep track of who has it already.
I'll send you another lev23 ticket if you want
Nah I'm cool, thanks though!
Yep. Think I have most of the stuff from it, but saving a couple million is worth it. Hopefully they'll do another event with a lvl 24 ticket too.
With regards to the B-spec race on Spa, I wanted to do it in auto-pilot mode and set the tyres to "Intermediate" for when the pit-stop would happen. As usual lap 8 came and the new intermediates were added. Then it went to the pit stop the next lap again for hard tyres. I know that it would chooses hard tyres by default when it pits but I find inters to do a better job.
So why the fuck does the game have to force pit stop beyond the scheduled stop for hard when I specifically mentioned to stick to inters? It wouldn't matter much if as I could cancel the pit stop but in my absence why does the game override my initial command?
So why the fuck does the game have to force pit stop beyond the scheduled stop for hard when I specifically mentioned to stick to inters? It wouldn't matter much if as I could cancel the pit stop but in my absence why does the game override my initial command?
Dr Frasier Crane
Member
Just put on Sports Softs and you never have to pit and auto-win.
Dash Kappei
Not actually that important
No problem then!
If anybody on my friends list wants to be gifted a Lv23 ticket you just have to ask
Dash Kappei
Not actually that important
Sarthe I dunno, but Spa is super easy and it works 100% of the times:
Buy Honda Takata Dome NSX 03 from the OCD
Upgrade to Stage 3 turbo
Lower top speed by 10kmh
Aero: 27f 45r
Engine%: lower till 600pp
start with intermediate
never pit
start: pace up x2
You'll win everytime by 58" to 1:04"
As good as it is, you can't leave it on auto pilot mode and leave. I tried someone's advice of using sports soft because it'll never ask you to pit, but in the end, I came 3rd iirc.
Any advice for the Circuit de la Sarthe?
I'm still a bit confused by some things. I'd been letting my B-Spec driver run the Supercar Festival repeatedly with the free Nissan GT-R GT500 Stealth I got, and he was always able to pull ahead of every other car so that there was probably at least an 8 second lead on the second position. Do the competitor cars change under certain circumstances? Suddenly he can just barely bull off 2nd, and is always in a fight with the other three leading cars.
I've won the race several times with the strategy posted by Dash, using an Arta NSX. Pace up two times and you are done.
Cars change randomly and are selected within a specific group. Usually this doesn't imply big performance differences between different cars selections though.
Dash Kappei
Not actually that important
I swear to god that's what I'm doing, pace up 2x and I'm done.
Here's what I'm doing for la Sarthe: Chaparral 2J '70
Sports soft
370kmh
Stage 3 turbo
Pace up till you catch the shit pack (lap 2/beginning of 3)
Done, never pit.
Haven't try yet leaving it on autopilot from the start, so I dunno but I think it needs to be babysat a bit with pacing up on the first few laps.
Edit: it seems that this one doesn't *always* work, I noticed I just came in 3rd right now
Using the R8 might be more efficient after all
Dash Kappei
Not actually that important
Btw, watching this B-Spec at La Sarthe gives me goosebumps.
Is there a similar A-Spec event I can't remember/I'm not aware of?
Afternoon>Evening>night>morning + weather
Is there a similar A-Spec event I can't remember/I'm not aware of?
Afternoon>Evening>night>morning + weather
fu3lfr3nzy
Member
Dash Kappei
Not actually that important
24 Hours of Le Mans in A/B-Spec
Racing alone 23h50m out of 24h isn't really my idea of a thrilling experience, what I need is something <20laps where day/night+weather=pitting stategy and razor racing really means something.
At this point I'm kinda angry that B-Spec seasonal isn't A-Spec as well, I could run that for a month with a different car every time and I'd be sooooo happy :'-)
weekend_warrior
Banned
Here's what I did:
BTW, La Sarthe is not good for grinding. Gold it once for the level 23 ticket, then stick with Spa for the grinding.
Thanks for the input and the tip.
Launching January 17th in the US.
Damn, I really wish SCEE release this at some point, it is crazy they will release it in both Japan and US but not in the Eurolands.
Someone need to Photoshop more logos and quotes on the cover. Preferably quotes from the Vs thread...
Someone need to Photoshop more logos and quotes on the cover. Preferably quotes from the Vs thread...
LOL yeah, it's pretty bad.
