PS3 GT5 Nascar seasonal - 14th March

So what do you guys think of the new seasonal?

650pp races in Nascars, 7 laps per race,

Tracks are London, Autumn Ring, Fuji, and Monza

I found London really tricky at first, and Autumn ring was only a little easier. I found the key to both of these was getting the right gearing, then I won both without too much bother.

Fuji was ok, and Monza could be a real cash cow for ppl would want to grind a little. I won the race by 25 secs, at 615pp, making 1.5 million at 130% bonus, so I think I could go below 600pp and maybe lower... 200% bonus, should be netting more than 3 million per race.

Jonny

 

I only do the seasonals and TT, not a fan of drifting on GT5.

That will beme on steam, but my laptop gone to visit HP for warranty repair of USB system. Once I get it back I will see you on steam.

I have raceroom, and did have beta tester account for it too, but not used it for a while.

As for my setup then for PC games it's my laptop with a xbox 360 controller, and I'm a sticks man on PS3 also. Never been able to get to grips with wheels, although to be fair I never tried a modern high quality wheel with force feedback etc

 

My Mrs isn't a gamer, in fact she thinks I'm a bit sad being a grown man playing games, so I don't think I would be allowed a complete set up, even if we had room for one, although it would be sweet.

 

I am a biker anyway, proper hairy arsed type, not a born again with all the gear and no idea.

Currently got a 600 bandit, and lusting after a speed triple. I had a laverda Formula s 750 until a couple of years ago, which I sold to buy the speed triple, but my dad became ill, and had to use the money to buy a people carrier!!!

The Mrs likes the bike too, in fact we never had a car until she was 6 months pregnant with the first kid.

 

Getting the correct gearing made a huge difference, do you know how to perform the "tranny trick"? This is exploiting a glitch in the transmission settings, to gain best possible settings, and not anything to do with cross dressing.

 

Hi Ace,

To use the tranny trick you have to perform the following steps EXACTLY.

1) Purchase fully customisable gear box, if not fitted.
2) Go into the gearbox settings
3) hit reset to default... do not skip this step
4) set Final drive ratio to highest possible value (lowest speed)
5) set the automatic gearbox adjustment slider to lowest possible speed. DO NOT TOUCH THIS SLIDER AGAIN.
6) set top gear to shortest possible ratio (lowest speed)
7) set first gear to longest possible ratio (highest speed)
8) set the other gears evenly between the two
9) Adjust the final drive ratio to give you your desired top speed (use the speed indicator top right but note the actual top speed you will get will be a little lower than indicated).

If you touch the automatic set up slider at any point other than when stated the effect is undone and you need to start over from step 3.

This trick gives you a long first gear and then closest possible ratios, which gives good acceleration, without compromising top speed, the only downside is pulling out of very slow corners in first gear can be difficult, but you can tune that out for specific tracks but altering the ratio of 1st.