So some good additions to the game, though I could have used with more offline and online items. Such as offline AI racers, and matchmaking for online.

Here are some pics:

Awesome, very stoked with some of those features Using a G25 atm so the support for it is very welcome. Also the mid save endurance races! hells yeah. Dont care about the nascar stuff, but at least we get in car cockpits for standard cars

Like so many other new racing games, Gran Turismo 5 simply thrives on downloadable content without devaluing the preexisting content. Upcoming DLCs for the game will offer a wide array of new cars, including F1 models and god knows what else.

It's about damn time.

Apart from the Nissan's the other cars look awesome.

Stupid question, but I havent been able to find out if this DLC is free or not?

Probably have to pay for the DLC don't see them giving that out for free.

Spec 2.0 is apparently live now for download which brings in all those new enhancements.

Great will download it tonight

It's only 1.2gb anyway so it's a quick download, sadly won't be downloading it anytime soon, Dark Souls takes preference

Apparently though downloads are very slow due to congestion on the servers.

Also some SA peeps might experience lot's of time outs due to the SEACOM situation.

Well I downloaded it last night, was very slow, took around an hour to download. Also raped my cap as I use cell c 3g, but oh well. As for the improvements, well first off its so much quicker to load races now, both on and offline ones. Also the bonus system, where consecutive log ins give you bonus cash and experience multipliers really rocks. They both go up to 200%, which is seriously good for anyone trying to level themselves or BSpec drivers.

The best improvement is that you can now save during endurance races which means I'm actually attempting them. I started a 4hr endurance last night. However what poliphony gives with one hand, they take with the other. So yes you can save, but only when you go into the pits. If you dont exit the game when you save, then its cancelled and your progress isnt saved. Also when you save and go back into GT5, you are only allowed to continue your endurance race. You cannot do anything else.

So yeah a mixed bag there. The in car view is nice, but I dont really use that one much either. I also appreciate the support for the G25 wheel as I'm using it atm, but it wont affect most people.

Oh and I read that the one proper track is Spa Francorchamps, which is pretty much the only track I've really really wanted in the game, so now i'm seriously considering the DLC...

Waylander42 said ...


The best improvement is that you can now save during endurance races which means I'm actually attempting them. I started a 4hr endurance last night. However what poliphony gives with one hand, they take with the other. So yes you can save, but only when you go into the pits. If you dont exit the game when you save, then its cancelled and your progress isnt saved.

I fail to see what the problem is here? Saving in the pits makes the most sense. It also stops the feature being broken in that you can save whenever.

The two big problems with not being able to save were:
1) You had to find a crazy amount of time to play a 24hr race straight.
2) If you have a power failure at 23hrs 59mins in you'll loose everything.

The update fixes the first problem, but not the second. And while I understand the argument that its not very realistic, well if its that important to you, then fix it for the rest of us and you can play it realistically still.

What... Im not complaining about saving. Ive been asking for the feature for ages. ... im merely saying that saving via a pit stop is the best way to go about it. Pitstops are like a resting period (drivers change, car gets refueled etc) so it sort of works in conjunction with the games aims.
Saving at any time that suits you abuses the endurance nature of the race.Unless you are racing the Unless you are racing Le Sarthe or the Nurburing, saving at a pitstop is hardly a time consuming feat to accomplish.

Pit stop is the best way to do it, even if you get a power failure you will lose what? at most 30-45 minutes of gameplay. Nothing compared to hours and hours like previously.

No you guys arent understanding. From what I've read on the GTPlant forums you still can loose hours of gameplay. For eg.

You do a 4hr endurance race. After 2hrs you decide to save and come back to it later. You reload your save, exit the pits and continue on for an hour. You're now 3hrs into the race. At this point the power goes out. Logically you'd assume you'd be reset to your pitstop. However the way I've come to understand it is that in fact none of your content has been saved because you have continued on.

Similarly if you race for an hour. Come into the pits and save, then continue on immidiately without quiting, your progress has NOT been saved. This I know for a fact as the GT5 message tells you this.

Finally got gold on the seb loeb snow challenge last night! So stoked as I've struggled with this one forever

Those were the easiest to gold next to the Nascar events. The rally parts of GT have always been incredibly easy to do for some reason.

Got gold on those Loeb challenges first go except for 1 which I had to try a 2nd time, easy xp and cash.

The red bull events on the other hand.....

Dude I dunno how you did the snow event first time or even second. That was a serious challenge for me, even though I breezed through the dirt ones. I'm still working on the rb ones though. If you dont have a wheel you can get bronze but no more. First time out with a wheel I improved my times by between 10 and 12 seconds overall. Also was able to get gold on monza. Working on the other two and slowly getting my times down.

I got gold with a pad, don't play on a wheel get just as much feedback from pad as I do any wheel.

I take my hat off to you then! Dunno how you can get gold in those rb events using a controller.

Yeah i use a controller and i all im struggling to get gold on is the vettel races and that random rally event before it.

im personally fine with a controller