![]() ![]() ![]() Still, there's at least some variety in the longer layouts, as well as a lovely lavender field to race by, so it's not all bad.Īll of which is gratis, a nice fact that doesn't quite do enough to make up for the more unwelcome of Gran Turismo Sport's new additions - the microtransactions. Some of those layouts aren't particularly inspiring, either - with the abundance of 90 degree turns in a fair few of them it brought to mind nothing less than Phoenix's short-lived F1 street circuit, host to a grand prix in 1991 that's gone down in infamy for failing to attract as many spectators as an ostrich festival going on elsewhere in town. Gran Turismo Sport might not quite be best in class in this department anymore - if it really wants to keep up the pretence of being a sim it'd do well to give us control of the DRS system in the newly minted Mercedes W08 F1 car, or take a leaf out of Project Cars 2's book and be a bit more explicit in how it manages ERS in the LMP1 cars - but feeling the weight of a GT3 car wash up against the extremities of a track as you guide it round has something of the sublime.Ī new track joins the mix, too, and while we all wait for the inevitable and overdue arrival of Spa-Francorchamps we'll have to make do with Sainte-Croix - a long, complex track that's so light on assets it looks like it was conjured up in Gran Turismo 6's track editor. It feels wonderful, and after a short break it's lovely to get reacquainted with the tangible sense of weight transfer working together with suspension dynamics to create some real magic. Another big backward step - online races are now rotated on a weekly rather than daily basis, meaning it's easy to get fatigued of the same three events. This isn't the first time there have been tweaks in this department, though the changes made post-launch never quite sat right with me - cars became too pointy and too planted, but now after the July update they're much more analogue beasts, and the importance of staying on the racing line seems to have been underlined with the new tyre model. The handling model has undergone a fairly big overhaul, and it's a noticeable improvement. Under the hood there's been some significant alterations too, and indeed the biggest change made by the July update is the one that's hardest to quantify. And thanks to Gran Turismo's active, talented community there's no shortage of designs to choose from online - so if there's a particular era of Alonso lid that you're after you've pretty much covered. It's an absolute blessing if all you've ever wanted to do is get your own Derek Bell replica helmet design in-game, all while serving up some Toyota and Denso realness with a new set of overalls that look just lovely when sitting in a Supra and hotlapping the Nordschleife. For the nerds and the tinkerers - and I'm very much talking about myself here - there's the ability to design your own overalls and helmet. There's good stuff in there - plenty of it, in fact. ![]() So it's been for coming up to 20 years, and so it is with Gran Turismo Sport's big July update - all of which amounts to the most profound change that's been made to Polyphony Digital's PlayStation 4 exclusive since it came out last October, a patch that alters the fundamentals while adding a suite of new features on top, with some decidedly more welcome than others. Definitely never be a pushover as a consumer but at least give them.some chance.Oh Gran Turismo, forever a series that comes up with ways to delight just as often as it comes up with new ways to disappoint. Yes they are “world known” but they still aren’t considered a “superstore” or a “big box store”. I just look at it this way, they have been in business for quite some time and are pretty well-known, with high quality products, so I highly doubt they’re going to just be robbing and not delivering. I will not play the whole, just be thankful for this or that card because that’s our prerogative as consumers to have specific wants. There is not a single company that does not have some issues in the customer satisfactory department. Honestly, if it was your company, if it was my company, if it was anybody’s company, they would still have the same problems that found a tech is dealing with. Everybody always says “if it was my company”. What if that was an order that was already in the packaging process of and then all of a sudden it gets canceled now they have to stop that whole process plus paperwork and it back stuff up so it ends up being a lot of variables that come into play. But as you just mentioned that’s another thing, look at all of the orders that keep getting canceled and things of that nature that I see on this forum left and right that they actually have to resolve. ![]()
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