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I think I am near the end of the menus (mid 30s or there about) and took a side-track into the missions. Golded the first two, though that last fuel conserving lap on the 2nd took more tries than I would have liked. They seem to work well as an extension of the licenses and circuit experiences for forcing you to try different approaches, learning new skills and adapting your driving.

I’m still working through the menus on this, still, to be honest, finding it quite dry and blunted. Twat awful interface that’s abrasive to use but, worse, do t feel terribly connected to the road on a pad in the way I definitely do with ACC.
I realised earlier I was on the default middle difficulty when trying to turn manual gears on, so I’ll try the full fat setting next and see if that improves things.

The fucking menus though. Would I like to exit a race? Oh, there’s the exit button- that must be the thing you click to exit, awesome! No. It just moves you on to a replay that you have to skip and THEN you hit an exit button a second time.
And the not being able to change a car thing IN A GAME ABOUT CARS whenever you want. Backing out of interfaces, three deep, back to the map, trying to remember which icon I need, clunkily moving the cursor to it, selecting, loading, moving the cursor to “change car”, scrolling a disordered mess of cars I can’t sort (Forza knocks this game for six here), scrolling about, picking my car, unnecessary confirmation message, backing out to the map, remembering where I was, loading three screens in a row- all to be where I just was LET ME SWAP CARS WHENEVER I WANT IN YOUr CAR COLLECTING GAME YOU KNOBHEADS.

Tried to race online earlier- you have to load up someone’s room and read what car/conditions/PP/etc they require… and then do all of the above to match that. By which time the race had started, obviously.

I think it’s actually going to break me.

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I do agree they really need to simplify getting back to the World hub at least. Have the credits win page then with the option to watch replay, have a HUB button. It does become a bit muscle memory for button presses to get back to the hub but it shouldn't be as bad as this.

It's a pity because I am loving the driving in this.

There's definitely something hokey going on with rain and the AI. I just did the Nissan sports car menu race at Fuji, 3 laps going from damp to very wet. Every lap that passed I was having to go way slower, but the AI didn't really seem to slow down at all. And I don't buy that the AI were on intermediates or something, because eventually I backed right out, went back in and got a dry race, and the AI were going the same speed as they were in the damp and the wet. I get that rain makes it harder to stay on track, but it shouldn't effectively bump up the AI difficulty like that.

Yeah, I'm not a fan of the menu structure. Wish this had an arcade mode like the previous entries where I could just pick any car and track and race. Then championships and career mode are nice to have, modding a crappy Honda is still nice... but sometimes I just want to get in a BMW and drive around Tokyo.

The mission in question is American Wilderness and it's bugged since the update. It puts the car on Racing hard tires rather than dirt with no way to change them. I had wondered how gaming Dave was nearly 4 second ahead of me with absolutely no chance of gold given the lack of grip. Now I know it's not me I guess I need to wait for a patch to fix the patch.

Edit: PD seem aware of this. It effects some licence tests, missions and circuit experience and will be fixed in the next update. A few other things listed within the game.

I was finally getting around to do my A licence tonight and was having no end of trouble with A-8, no matter what I did I didn't have the grip the demo car had. Looked online and saw a YouTube replay that had loads of comments saying how the fuck was it that easy? Someone then pointed out the tyres in the replay and in game demo were dirt while everyone trying to do it at the moment is on comfort mediums, no fucking surprise why bronze was as good as I could get!

By the way regarding the tyre thing. I think it had bugged and failed to force me to select intermediates. I’m getting the pop up now when I just tried to enter Nurburgring on softs

My spotify music keeps bugging out in this for some reason. Where do japanese games keep finding these generic mid 2000s rock songs though, they all sound exactly the same.

Speaking of mid-2000s rock I was a little disappointed that Feeder weren't on the tracklist. They were pretty synonymous with the first few games (in the PAL versions at least) and with this being an anniversary of sorts I really thought they'd pop up for nostalgia.

I've had a Spotify playlist of classic GT songs that I used for Sport. Disappointingly I think I'll be using it for this too. I wish they could integrate Spotify like they did the old custom soundtracks on PS3 where the game still handles track selection so we could still get the jazz menus, but hey ho.

The in game settings for the wheel are limited to FFB Max Torque and Sensitivity. Got mine set at 5 & 1 and do the proper set up through the wheel itself.

Still planning to do the online racing tonight? 9pm?

Ah shit really. I'm pretty sure one of the chilli pepper races I did was a grid start? I assumed they all would be.

Yeah I can probably get on. I'm planning on drinking so won't be responsible for setting the room up though.