Gran Turismo 5 & Forza 4

[Phil89]

Here's a lap I recorded in the X2010 on my new track. It's 9km long and has 61 corners. Weeeeee!!

[[Q]]

ohlast week i reailzed i've already "completed" the historic race. i don't remember doing it, but i managed a silver in the 1st race and a bronze in the cote d'azur race with either my old corvette or old corvette race car. they called it complete even though i didn't get golds.

i was considering trying to level up to race the laguna seca 200 mile race. how long do you think it would take to do the race in the red bull car?

[Phil89]

Around one and a half to two hours I think. I just listen to music to make the time go by quicker.

[Phil89]

I just finished the Suzuka 1000km endurance race.

4 hours, 23 minutes. 345,000cr. 1.2m experience. Up to level 32 A-Spec now.

Also won this car.

[Phil89]

Some guy has found logos for 25 tracks that aren't currently in the game on the remote racing website.

No indication that they'll be added to the game though, but it certainly would be awesome if they were made available through future updates.

1. Super Speedway
2. Driving Park (20r60r)
3. Apricot Hill
4. Citta di Aria
5. Costa di Amalfi
6. Grand Canyon
7. Hong Kong
8. Ice Arena
9. Infineon Raceway
10. Driving Park (Kashiwa)
11. Las Vegas
12. Midfield Raceway
13. Twin Ring Motegi
14. New York
15. George V Paris
16. Opera Paris (Tarmac)
17. Seattle Circuit
18. Seoul Circuit
19. Swiss Alps South
20. Tahiti Maze
21. Valencia Circuit
22. El Capitan
23. Cathedral Rocks (Dirt)
24. Cathedral Rocks (Dirt Mini)
25. Cathedral Rocks (Dirt Short)

[[Q]]

i don't think it means anything. that just looks like a list of tracks from GT4 that are not in GT5.

[Phil89]

Maybe. We can still hope though.

Here's the original article:

While poking around the Remote Racing section of the official GT5 “My Home” website, GTPlanet user Yonis made an interesting discovery: the site has been loaded with 24 logos for tracks which aren’t currently playable in the game. Here’s how he did it (hint: the images are publicly available on Polyphony Digital’s web servers if you can decipher their file names), and here’s what he found:

1. Super Speedway
2. Driving Park (20r60r)
3. Apricot Hill
4. Citta di Aria
5. Costa di Amalfi
6. Grand Canyon
7. Hong Kong
8. Ice Arena
9. Infineon Raceway
10. Driving Park (Kashiwa)
11. Las Vegas
12. Midfield Raceway
13. Twin Ring Motegi
14. New York
15. George V Paris
16. Opera Paris (Tarmac)
17. Seattle Circuit
18. Seoul Circuit
19. Swiss Alps South
20. Tahiti Maze
21. Valencia Circuit
22. El Capitan
23. Cathedral Rocks (Dirt)
24. Cathedral Rocks (Dirt Mini)
25. Cathedral Rocks (Dirt Short)

Yonis pointed out these images are accessible under a GT5-specific image directory on the gran-turismo.com website (…/gt5/remote_race/common/courselogo/) and sized appropriately for the GT5 remote racing site. It should also be noted the tracks above have never been seen together in any GT game – Valencia was not in GT4, while Hong Kong, Las Vegas, and George V Paris were absent from GT PSP.

It is impossible to know exactly what these images are doing on the GT5 web site, though it’s tempting to speculate… El Capitan has already been seen in Gran Turismo 5 via the accidentally-leaked Red Bull “Horse Power” trailer, so we know at least a few of these updated circuits must be floating around Polyphony Digital’s offices.

Whether or not they’ll be coming in future updates to GT5 – or if they’ll be saved for Gran Turismo 6 – remains to be seen. Regardless, kudos to Yonis for this discovery, and thanks to Dylans1o for the tip!

***UPDATES***

Yet another track logo for “Super Speedway” has been discovered on the site, bumping the total number to 25. This logo is particularly interesting as it represents a circuit not seen since Gran Turismo 3. GT4 and GT PSP instead used Twin Ring Motegi’s actual “Super Speedway” and represented the track with Motegi’s logo. Though the overall shape of the original course (it was in GT2 as well) and the Motegi course are the same, their surrounding backdrops were very different.

There have also been questions about when, exactly, these image files were uploaded to Polyphony Digital’s servers. As noted by user MitsuStigi in the comments, this information is revealed in the image’s HTTP response headers, many of which show a date of March 9, 2011 or January 28, 2011. The Remote Racing website was launched with GT5 v1.06 on February 18th.

[Lamrock]

Anyone still play this?

[JaoSming]

Been wanting to, but no i haven't played in a bit.

[deihatein]

Anyone still play this?

Phil89 probably

[Phil89]

Indeed.

[Phil89]

Finished the Nurburgring 4 hour endurance race last night. Only had to 'race' for 3 hours though because I was that far ahead.

Up to level 34 A-Spec. Not sure if I'll get bored enough to do the 9 hour at Tsubuka though.

[Phil89]

http://www.gtplanet.net/gt5-spec-2-0-is ... to-follow/

The GT community has been eagerly awaiting news of the next significant update following last month’s announcement hinting at new content and features for us this fall. According to a very rare English-language tweet from Kazunori Yamauchi this morning, that new content and features will be a “Spec 2.0″ update to the game in October and downloadable content shortly after:

GT fans, thanks for waiting… The GT5 Spec 2.0 update is coming the 3rd week of October, with DLC following a week later.

There is no news yet for fans regarding exactly what the Spec 2.0 update will bring nor the nature of – or the price of – the DLC to follow, but GTPlanet will report this information when it is revealed…

Exciting news, possibly. Obviously can't get too hopeful until they release details of what will be added to the game though.

Some new premium cars would be nice. New tracks would be even better. Would love to see Spa added.
Or some Formula One circuits like Melbourne, Canada, Abu Dhabi, Valencia, Catalunya, Silverstone and Sao Paulo.

[Lamrock]

Exciting news. I expect it to bring a lot of GT4 tracks back and make a couple patches worth of improvements. Won't compete with 4za though.

[[Q]]

hey guys if you have an 03 STi that looks like this

can i have it? or maybe I'll trade you something. thanks.

[JaoSming]

I think I have it....not sure though. I think there is a PS3 underneath all that dust but I'm too scared to check.

[Lamrock]

I believe I have a red one but I don't see myself booting up GT5 until Spec II comes out.

[JaoSming]

Spec 2.0 Details

• Simplified interior view added to all standard cars

and there we go, you won me back GT5.

• User control of the weather change feature
• Added a setting sheet feature allowing you to save multiple car settings
• Spec 2.0 opening movie
• Improved UI response and usability
• Replay fast forward/rewind
• Mid-race save feature for endurance races
• Expanded online lounge features (Narrowing down car types, shuffle races)
• Expansion of the B-Spec remote race you can play from gran-turismo.com (a graph display now shows changes in race rankings)
• Expanded Photo travel features (you can now take photos of cars together with your avatar)
• Added a "NASCAR Pit Scene" stage to Photo Travel
• Added eleven 2011 model NASCAR cars
• Added the Nissan GT-R N24 Schulze Motor Sport
• Improved physics and AI
• Support for the Logitec G25/G27 Steering wheel
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

[[Q]]

I believe I have a red one but I don't see myself booting up GT5 until Spec II comes out.

well, if you got it, I'll take it. thanks man. if i got anything you want i'll give you something in return

and jao, the endurance saving is huge too. seriously how did they expect us to finish a race longer than 3 hours?

[shadowgrin]

how did they expect us to finish a race longer than 3 hours?

Guts, determination, and not being a pussy. Jao has a wife and upcoming kid, what's your excuse Q? Pusseeeh...

[Phil89]

• Simplified interior view added to all standard cars

and there we go, you won me back GT5.

It's almost like getting 800+ new cars. Can't wait to find out what the DLC will be too.

[Lamrock]

They put so much work in to the interiors and premium car models only for me to spend most of my time driving standard cars in the bumper cam they've had since the first game.

[[Q]]

yeah honestly i'm a fan of the close 3rd person view which most people can't understand, but i've been playing driving/racing games for fucking forever and most of them back then were in 3rd person

[Phil89]

I believe I have a red one but I don't see myself booting up GT5 until Spec II comes out.

You may want to start it up next week.

If Sebastian Vettel becomes the winner of the F1 World Championship title in the Oct. 9 Formula 1 Suzuka GP, To commemorate Vettel’s 2 year consecutive world championship title, We’ll give away the “Red Bull X2010 S.Vettel” color, TO EVERYONE WHO LOGS ONTO GT5 WITHIN 1WK FROM VETTEL’S VICTORY…

Pretty generous considering they cost 20,000,000cr in the game and you have to be level 40 to buy one.

[[Q]]

It says "color" not "car" so I think they'll just allow you to paint your car with the red bull logo & colors?