Nearly two weeks after first being teased, the fifth replace this calendar yr for Gran Turismo 7 is now upon us and it brings some important under-the-hood modifications as we’d been somewhat expecting.
Regardless of bringing a modest 4 automobiles to the sport — bringing the overall since launch to a pleasant, spherical 150 — the 1.71 replace is fairly chunky. The PlayStation 5 model is a fraction beneath 2.1GB, whereas PlayStation 4 house owners have a 2.12GB obtain (and the standard lengthy wait to repeat it over).
As is the standard state of affairs for these items, we had advanced notice of plenty of the broad strokes already. Nonetheless there’s loads of particulars that weren’t recognized till this morning, together with a fairly main refresh of the sport’s physics.
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Gran Turismo 7 Replace 1.71: New Vehicles
New content material is all the time the headline characteristic of a content material replace, and whereas we’ve recognized in regards to the automobiles broadly since August 9 there’s nonetheless the matter of pricing left open till at this time:
- Caterham Seven Superlight R500 2008 – Model Central – 75,000cr
- Hyundai Ioniq 6N 2025 – Model Central – 90,000cr
- Toyota Chaser Tourer V 1997 – Used Vehicles – 70,000cr*
- Toyota Mark II Tourer V 1997 – Used Vehicles – 70,000cr*
In contrast to the beautiful sturdy pricing of June’s Hypercar update, which might set you again over 12m credit, it’s a comparatively low cost month. The truth is, of the 39 updates to this point, 1.71 is the fifth least costly when it comes to preliminary outlay for automobiles.
Not one of the quartet breaks into six figures, and that’s even with the “Scorching”, low-mileage pricing of the 2 used automobiles. The Toyotas shall be cheaper down the road after they enter the common inventory rotation there.
Gran Turismo 7 Replace 1.71: Physics Overhaul
Now we’re into the meat of this explicit replace, which sees one of many largest modifications to the sport’s underlying physics since launch and the most important since the 1.49 update again in 2024.
There’s important modifications for nearly each facet of the physics, in addition to enter gadget changes, and a recalculation of the Efficiency Factors values throughout the sport’s fleet seemingly necessitated by the opposite modifications.
Physics begins with tires in fact — therefore the sport’s present, and second, tire-manufacturer partnership, with Dunlop — and it appears like each facet has been tweaked. There’s new calculations for rolling resistance, heating, and put on, primarily when the tires are slipping, whereas there’s an unspecified change to how grip loss happens with “Actual” off-track settings.
Together with that there’s a brand new map for engine torque management, with enchancment to partial throttle habits and management whereas drifting. Steering geometry throughout the board has been modified, together with new calculations for damping forces.
Considerably, there’s new default suspension and differential settings. That’s going to have a significant impact on how automobiles deal with proper out of the field. The identical applies to aerodynamic settings, the place relevant, and vary of adjustment in all three classes has been altered.
One other issue right here is modifications to how traction management and ABS behave, with new settings for the way and when TCS interferes and modifications to cornering manners whereas ABS is energetic.
Additionally tweaked on this replace is the downshift prevention mechanism. Whereas PD hasn’t gone into specifics right here, solely noting that it has been “adjusted”, preliminary testing suggests which you could drive a downshift in guide mode — leading to engine over-revving — sooner than when it was first introduced last December, however nonetheless to not the extremes of earlier than.
There’s a couple of particular modifications to a handful of automobiles, with the Hyundai Ioniq 5N gaining new freedom within the torque management system, and modifications to the engine/motor rpm limits for some EVs, the Tremendous Components automobiles, and two of the 2016 Tremendous GT GT500 automobiles.
Together with all of that, there’s modifications to enter gadget capabilities too. Commonplace controllers have new steering, throttle, and brake traits, whereas these with wheels have new throttle and brake enter and response maps and modifications to drive suggestions power, in addition to new vibrations throughout understeer.
Gamers with Fanatec wheels additionally acquire new settings, with a particular setup optimised for GT7 in addition to — in the end — assist for the FullForce feedback system.
All of that has some downstream penalties for the sport.
On a minor degree, there’s now new Efficiency Level limits for the Light-weight Ok Cup which beforehand featured the bottom restricted PP of any collection (however not any particular person race) within the recreation at 400PP. The bar is now 450PP, even when the occasion description nonetheless says the previous worth.
Extra notably there’s an across-the board reset of all occasion leaderboards, and all goal instances, with brand-new demonstration lap ghosts throughout Circuit Expertise, Licences, and Missions.
This one may cause some confusion, as your individual file stays seen to you and might mislead because of the new targets. In essence, your development stays untouched: when you already achieved a gold, this isn’t taken away from you in case your file is now solely adequate for silver; when you hadn’t but achieved a gold, it isn’t granted to you even when your file is now adequate for gold.
Even Music Rally has had its leaderboards reset…
Gran Turismo 7 Replace 1.71: New Races & Occasions
Though the physics replace part is fairly weighty, there’s not an enormous change to the issues you are able to do with the 574 (plus one) automobiles.
We knew in regards to the three new races — and sure, simply three, regardless of the 4 new automobiles — yesterday, however the codecs and rewards remained underneath wraps till this morning.
Other than that there’s solely a brand new collection-based Seasonal Menu, and a brand new Circuit Expertise (for the sixth time in six successive updates). The replace provides no additional races, missions, or menu books, whether or not bonus or additional.
Gran Turismo 7 Replace 1.71: New World Circuits Races
- European Clubman Cup 600 – Barcelona-Catalunya GP/NC (4 laps) – 75,000cr
- Japanese FR Problem 450 – Kyoto Yamagiwa (2 laps) – 40,000cr
- World Touring Automotive 600 – Suzuka Circuit (4 laps) – 95,000cr
As anticipated, the Caterham is the quilt star for the European occasion, the Toyotas for the Japanese occasion, and the 6N for the WTC600 race.
Though all three races are on circuits which might be on the longer aspect, it’s simply ten laps of recent racing this time spherical.
Gran Turismo 7 Replace 1.71: New Circuit Expertise
This one’s fairly wild, with a uncommon look of a street automotive in a Circuit Expertise occasion. It takes you to the sport’s solely mixed-surface course, Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya Rallycross, and it contains only one check. Similar to Northern Isle Speedway, that is the full-lap assault solely.
You’ll be driving the Mitsubishi Lancer Evo V GSR ’98 for this one, with a gold time of 51.5 seconds. Confusingly that’s value 30,000cr (for the “sector”) and a bonus 240,000cr (for all-gold), or 270,000cr for 50 seconds’ work…
As anticipated, there’s a brand new Seasonal Menu, requiring you to gather automobiles from the replace inside a brief window of simply 17 days.
Unexpectedly, you’ll want to select up all 4 automobiles from the replace, and the motivation for doing so is a 4-Star Roulette Ticket. As this has mainly a 50% probability of supplying you with a reward of 30,000cr or much less, the motivation is just not notably attractive.
Gran Turismo 7 Replace 1.71: New Engine Swaps
There’s a bumper crop of ten engine swaps within the replace, bringing the overall accessible near 300 now, and unusually the brand new automobiles are concerned within the set.
That begins with the Caterham, which has a uncommon downgrade accessible within the form of the Suzuki Jimny’s 660cc unit. This one is clearly impressed by the Seven 160/170, which had an analogous turbocharged Suzuki engine (simply with extra energy) to make it eligible for kei automotive advantages in Japan — although it was a particular narrow-body model of the automotive, not the usual chassis of the Superlight.
Each the Toyotas have some huge boosts, taking the Lexus SC430 Tremendous GT automotive’s V8 in a clearly drift-inspired swap. One other automotive getting Tremendous GT energy is, oddly, the Crimson Bull X2014 Junior which now accepts the NSX’s unit.
It’s a bit mix-and-match elsewhere. The Crimson Pig Mercedes can now ditch the outdated V8 for a more moderen engine from the 2020 Mercedes-AMG GT3, whereas the SLS AMG will get slightly household improve to the Pagani Huayra’s V12 AMG engine.
Ford Windsor energy is now accessible for the Ford Focus RS and Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX — each a second swap for these automobiles — whereas the 996 Porsche GT3 now takes the Turbo S engine from the 992.
Lastly, and topping the charts for loopy factors, the 2007 Suzuki Swift Sport joins its 2017 sibling in accepting the miniscule however potent V8 from the model’s Imaginative and prescient GT automotive.
Gran Turismo 7 Replace 1.71: Different Modifications
Clearly there’s some extra Scapes, with the previous Winter Olympic host city of Whistler in Canada now the positioning of ten new places. Notably that is the second look within the collection of Whistler, with the Ice Area in Gran Turismo 4 internet hosting a race known as the “Whistler Ice Race”.
An enormous change for PlayStation 5 Professional gamers is an replace to assist the newest model of the PlayStation Spectral Tremendous Decision (PSSR) upscaler, itself launched again in February.
Elsewhere there’s an attention-grabbing word that the choice matrix for shortcut penalties has been “toned down”, which we’re more likely to see in motion within the Each day Races and the GTWS Exhibition season beginning this weekend. Additionally most likely debuting within the latter is a brand new “Championship” setting for mechanical injury, which will increase the frequency and restoration time of sunshine injury.
In any other case that’s it for larger modifications — except the varied GT Cafe conversations float your boat — and anything shall be by the use of particulars not particularly talked about within the patch notes.
Our neighborhood shall be uncovering these within the regular Undocumented Changes thread over the approaching days and earlier than you ask it doesn’t included any up to date Suzuka signage regardless of that showing in the GTWS event last weekend. Three years since its debut…
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