ive started b-spec.
Just completed the beginner and working on other races.
i like bspec when i am playing gears of war on my other monitor lol...
i'll go and see about beating that race...Thank you


got the car. my gallardo is faster...

This game is awesome, I am throughly impressed.

I just got it Saturday and played for a few hours yesterday but I already like the clean design of the game and the cockpit views are definitely my favorite.

If you find a caterham fireblade 02 in the used car dealership pick it up. It's a blast to drive. Pump it up to about 185 hp and put sport soft or race hard on it . Fun. I just spent about 3 hours racing that car online with a bunch of other caterhams -- awesome, but I suck

I remember seeing this car featured in Top Gear BBC; kool car for sure. Add me up when you get the chance, PSN in sig =P

Request sent. I'm usually online starting at around 9pm Central time

Now that they have remote B-spec races that let you login and run races from the GT website I need more PSN friends with shrared B-Spec racers. I have a level 8 and a level 21. I'll probably create a couple more to start leveling up. Post you're PSN tag here and I'll send you an invite if you are interested in having your B-spec drivers grind for you.

I need some GT5 friends too! I got no AI drivers to race against.

My PSN ID is flashburn2012.

Request sent. You have to specifically set your driver to "online" status. While he/she has that status, you can't use them in normal B-spec.

Accepted. My racers have been shared. Now I need some more people on my list.

ive got a racer at level 20 im sharing

i also have all the cars built for season 7 events that im sharing along with the vettle x2010 and the Ferarri F2007

PSN: MCNAGTROC

Cool.

Oh, I forgot to say my PSN is Zaggeron (go figure ...)

It's a bummer when sharing cars you can no longer use them. I can see not using them at the same time as someone else, but not at all? I used to have a whole suite of Zs shared --1970 240, 1979 280, 1983 300zx, 1989 300zx, 007 350z and 2008 370z :). Is there a 260 in the game?

what do you mean you can use them anymore? you just have to take them off share

That's what I meant. You can't use them while they are shared. Before the patch that made no sense at all since all "sharing" did was allow a friend to view the car. Now it makes a little more sense. Still, you should be able to drive them online or in A spec unless they are being borrowed...

Since I drive my Zs in GT5 on a regular basis, it's annoying to share/unshare them all the time when I want to drive them ....

It's not really a big deal, I was just commenting that it doesn't make much sense from a game-play perspective

Hmm, I don't see any of your drivers or your ID on the Gran Turismo web site.

Also, MC I sent you a friend request.

i was just online and i added everyone that requested!

PSN: MirthlessSmile
Add me!

GTP_EricW

Don't know if I should start a new thread for this but just curious oh what you guys think about the 370z's nature in GT5. You think its comparable to real life? I felt that the Z in the game "felt" heavier and draggy, maybe thats just me.

Oh psn: southerncadesi, but I don't play as much as I would like =/

Depends on your settings, honestly. It is hard to really judge since we don't know what the Z's settings would be in real life. I would say though that with everything off, it can be comparable to turning VDC off, provided you have a wheel set up.

tires too play a role... sport soft feels pretty good on the car and feels similar to the ones ive driven.. when you had to drive the 370 on the comfort tires in GT Academy it was horrible and made me hate Z's for like a week lol

Yeah, those comfort tires turned the Z into a slip 'n slide. Even the braking was horrid.

Haha :iagree: It was hard keeping that thing under control for GT Academy. Anyone here place in the top 128 or whatever it was?

the GT academy thing so far was a debacle.. i spent alot of time on round 1

they ended up having to cancel round 2 after changing the tracks twice due to cheating..

on round 1 i got 260th which is the last spot on the leaderboard ....i just felt good about that and wished they would have taken the top 260 since thats how many rankings they showed :( i know the reason i didnt get 128th.. the cape ring track.... on the other 2 tracks i was only 1-2 secs off but on cape ring i was a good 5-6 secs and thats what killed my over all time...but there was a place in cape ring before that big jump where you could swing wide and go off the track to keep momentum... i didnt do it but i think thats were the top handful of guys were picking up alot of that time.. i drove my absolute *** off and got 2:50 as my best time

also on the Rome track in the G37 before the straightaway you could bounce off one of those walls to keep momentum.... again i suspect that was some of the difference in time again


the new software patch is supposed to fix this to make round 3 fair......

Yeah, I didn't score an overall rank, mainly due to not knowing the "limits" of the tracks for the event. I had some laps that felt perfect, but would be 2-5 seconds off the top 128, which really made me wonder. I had no idea people were actually using exploits though.

Wow I never thought you could cheat in GT5 haha. That's still impressive that you got 260 though.

oh yeah you could cheat really bad on the round 2 Indy road course.. there was a place where you could cut through the grass and take out two turns.... the penalty system didnt pick up on it and the top 10 players had 3-4 sec faster times than what was deemed possible to do..... they changed out that track and added another but people were still cheating so they canceled the whole round and moved everyone directly to round 3...


here is how people were cheating on Indy









but i mean i put alot of time in it and atleast i show up on the board in my region... to get in the 128 i would of had to get my cape ring time in the mid 2:40's

http://img37.imageshack.us/img37/591...4000355931.jpg

nice driving MC!

for the competitions they should treat it like NASA or SCCA would treat a time trial... contact = DQ session.... 4 wheels off anywhere = DQ session

Holy crap. How does that not register as a DQ?

PSN levi_xs I'm lvl 22 and I don't have a wheel I love to race clean just need some friends to play with and do a proper race... Not like the ones you find online

some sort of glitch people found... i mean usually it will turn your lap time red when you do stuff like that but like i said i guess there are areas people found where it didnt register... im going to guess on the Indy one someone just went off in the grass by accident and noticed it didnt invalidate the lap and then just passed it on to others.. thats how i found out about the cape ring area.. i pushed way out off the track and noticed my time was still white..

the new patch is supposed to fix all that and thats why the round 3 went live today... i wish i would have made it... i bet i could have done good on the actual show as i actually have alot of autoX experience and a fair amount of track experience in Zs and GT-Rs which i assume will be the real life cars the contestants will use... :mad:

I don't remember the 370Z being the A-Spec menu option. Is this new, or does the A-Spec/B-Spec pictures change? They sure do love the Z's, with the Dealership being the 370Z headlight, and the Used Cars dealer being the 350Z taillight.

http://i54.twitgoo.com/2enry21.jpg
http://i54.twitgoo.com/auijj7.jpg

If only they would let me put a damn Turbocharger in the 370Z, bastards.

it changes as you progress.. once you get to endurance on Aspec the left side driver will be shaking the right sides hand

http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/682...1223044804.jpg

Nice racing with you and Eric tonight!

Yes, it was good racing with you. I saw you online in your lounge last night and joined the race you were in. I really enjoy the lower hp <400hp races.

yeah it was cool i have to get used to race without aids and i need to buy a light car the gallardo was 2 sec off pace

Ah cool. Well I don't want it to change! :rofl2:

Has anyone bought this new Fanatec wheel? I'm really tempted to:
>>>Fanatec.com

It works on the PS3, PC, and Xbox 360. I figure with Forza 4 coming out at the end of the year, I'll definitely get use out of it between GT5, Forza, and Dirt 2/3. I have the Logitech Driving Force GT now, which is good enough, except the fact that it doesn't work on the 360, and honestly, I enjoy Forza more than GT5.

It's tempting. Right now I switch between the Driving Force for PS3 and my Xbox 360 wheel.