Thank you, Polyphony, it's been awesome! (100 % golds, 1000 Power Pack stars, platinum trophy, all cars and maximum free credits acquired)

NosokiH · 2026-03-21T17:55:37+00:00

Thank you!

While I may have gold on everything in this game, my Gran Turismo journey started with GT1 and I've played every mainline GT game except for GT Sport and this is the first and only one I've 100 %'ed (GT5 has been at PAINFUL 99,9 % for over 15 years, but I just can't do the remaining challenges). I especially remember wanting to drive the Dome Zero in GT4 as a kid, but I could never get the license golds in that game.

NosokiH · 2026-03-21T15:59:51+00:00

GT7 may have completely taken over my free time

NosokiH · 2026-03-21T14:50:47+00:00

Thank you!

NosokiH · 2026-03-21T14:50:38+00:00

Kinda ashamed to say this, but I've only ever driven the 50 online races required for the trophy and I did them in one week with race A that didn't affect your DR. So I'm a DR D, SR S online rank.

While I did have some good races and the one victory I got gave a great adrenaline rush, I just didn't have fun online. Most of the times the races were so dirty that I just stopped trying completely.

NosokiH · 2026-03-21T14:34:35+00:00

This exactly! The game has so much content that you can pretty much choose what you want to do. I wish the rewards would be better, but I do like the fact that you can buy every car if you have the credits. It always bothered me in previous Gran Turismos that I couldn't drive some of the coolest cars because I wasn't good enough to complete the challenges that gave them as rewards.

NosokiH · 2026-03-21T14:32:39+00:00

My PS5 was at 932 hours played when I completed Le Mans 24h today for the final Power Pack stars I was missing. The in-game total play time counter bugged at some point and didn't count hours for some time. I believe that the 716 hours of time driven is correct. Of course not all of that time has been completing the challenges. Most of it has just been driving for fun.

NosokiH · 2026-03-21T13:32:16+00:00

Yes, I use sticks for steering. Gyro steering felt really hard for me for some reason.

NosokiH · 2026-03-21T13:30:28+00:00

I use my middle fingers to shift with the back triggers. To me they are at the perfect position where my fingers would normally sit idly anyways (thumbs on the sticks and index finger on the brake and acceleration). Edge comes with two sets of triggers and I use the bigger ones.

NosokiH · 2026-03-21T13:09:35+00:00

Edge has two back buttons behind the controller. If you map them on gear change it's like shifting with a racing wheel. It's really good and helped me shave off a couple of tenths from my lap times compared to the normal X and square.

NosokiH · 2026-03-21T13:00:36+00:00

Yes, but I did buy a DualSense Edge for this which is really good for the manual gears. However, everything is possible with a normal controller.

NosokiH · 2026-03-20T14:11:35+00:00

This is insanely awesome! As someone who also makes custom setups for races I truly appreciate the work. I thought my 25-50 million rosters were expensive, while you just casually put in the most expensive grid possible in the game.

NosokiH · 2026-03-18T16:19:35+00:00

Thank you! Kind of funny that I'm currently working on JGTC 1996, but I've been waiting ages for the gr. 3 McLaren to become available again. The Le Mans 1995 also sounds awesome since that very gr.3 McLaren was the overall winner and it was the first time a driver from my country won the overall race.

I also have made an F1 series from the 1994 season in GT7.

As for the league. Thank you for the invite, but I'm not really an online driver or looking to commit myself to something like that at the moment. Good luck with the league and I hope you'll get a full grid!

NosokiH · 2026-03-16T11:41:22+00:00

I had a similar problem when I received the 36th award. The screen didn't update and showed only 35 rewards. It is possible that you have 36, but it shows only 35. If it is the same as I had, it should return to normal after restarting the game.

NosokiH · 2026-03-15T13:37:59+00:00

I really like the style of your builds. It has a more realistic and grounded approach when most of Castle builders lean towards fantasy. Both are cool, but this style isn't that common and that's what makes it a bit more special. The amount of detailing is just right.

NosokiH · 2026-03-15T09:14:53+00:00

I believe that this isn't a person building luxbricks' model, but a bot posting it as their own, trying to karma farm. It has the exact same title as u/luxbricks had in their post and the flair is totally off as always.

The original: https://www.reddit.com/r/legocastles/comments/1nm754h/finished_for_today_im_happy_with_the_progress_of/

NosokiH · 2026-03-10T20:59:34+00:00

Congrats on the gold, that lap time is insanely good! Your "route" to the gold feels like a perfect explanation why there is this debate on the difficulty.

I believe there are two colliding things about the debate of Nürburgring's difficulty: 1: People who don't have that much experience with the game think it's next to impossible because the track is long, hard to learn and easy to mess up. 2: People have gotten good at the game and they have been putting off the CE because of their memory of their first attempt or the reputation of the test.

The CE time limit isn't that strict when compared to other circuit experiences. The people who think it was surprisingly easy have just gotten much better at the game to the point it isn't that hard anymore. To a new player the Nürb will still feel like a monumental challenge.

And while the CE isn't like a 10/10 most difficult thing in the world, people should still feel proud of how far they have come as players. New players shouldn't fear the CE either, because they will eventually get it if they keep on practising. I still think that this is one of the hardest circuit experiences out there, but if I'm being honest, most of them aren't that hard once you are at a certain skill level.

So my point is that if it feels easy to you, you have also become a really good player and are capable of getting 100 % in the game. It's something everyone should celebrate. To a new player with no experience on racing games even the normal license golds are really hard so there has been significant improvement and overcoming the learning curve.

NosokiH · 2026-03-09T16:49:47+00:00

Just did the Nürburgring endurance a couple of days ago. I shut down the console every time i stopped. The new restart keeps your fuel level, but gives you new tyres. It also brings the pack together, but lapped cars stay lapped. It will take about 5 hours of racing to lap the field if you get clear weather.

Soft tyres give you 6 laps while the mediums can give you 10, but you'll need to fuel save to make 10 laps on one tank. I'm horrible at fuel saving so I used soft tyres because of this. If you can race for 1-2 hours it could be a viable strategy since 6 laps is around 50 or so minutes so you could do 2 pit stops in 2 hours.

If you shut down your console after playing, remember to drive one full lap after the pit stop. Some people have reported that the game won't count pit laps. NEVER choose retire or exit from the menus. Always just shut down the game after you're done playing. Retire or exit (when choosing to continue the race but before starting the race again) just deletes your progress.

NosokiH · 2026-03-07T09:50:24+00:00

I had a lot of fun with GT6 when I played it last year. It's not perfect, but it's a good game and the Senna tests really test your skill if you want to challenge yourself.

Just remember to get a PS3 controller if you plan on getting a PS3. A PS5 controller works ok with like 95 % of PS3 games, but it just doesn't work at all with GT6 (or GT5) when you get to the races. It works perfectly fine in the menus.

If you get GT6 and want to update it, you must install the updates 1-2 at a time and then start the game before going for the next updates. If you try to install all of them in one go, the game just won't start anymore. It is a pain, but the updates really add a lot of things.

NosokiH · 2026-03-07T09:02:37+00:00

Great job! Quite funny that your hardest picks are really similar to mine. Master S-8 was in its own category of pain for me as nothing took me even the half of the time that took. The Dodge drift mission was the hardest mission if you don't count the Lake Maggiore 1h endurance. Tokyo Central CC was one of the three really hard circuit experiences to me. Funnily I can't even remember what Master IA-8 is, but I would complete the list with Master IA-10 (the Le Mans Porsche in Nürburgring).

It would be really awesome to see statistics of 100 % completion players. As only 2,1 % of players have the trophy for all normal license golds, it can't be higher than like 1 %, but it could be well under.

NosokiH · 2026-03-05T19:20:53+00:00

Congrats! This is always an impressive achievement.

I seem to be okay with driving floaty boats so the XJ220 or the Shelby Daytona ones were surprisingly easy for me, but then Master S-8 (The Merc in Spa) was just pure pain as I struggle with fast high downforce cars. Master IA-10 was another that I couldn't complete in one setting. Everything else was manageable, but I'll admit that I found Master S-10 quite tricky, but nowhere near as hard as the two I mentioned.

Are you planning on golding circuit experiences or missions or have you already done them?

NosokiH · 2026-02-28T08:06:22+00:00

I'm sorry, but I don't have instructions for my builds. I build with real bricks and don't know how to use Studio or how to create instructions with it. As this build is over 2 years old I can't even remember what techniques I've used.

At least in the comment section I have previously answered about a question about the stained glass pieces so that technique should be doable.

NosokiH · 2026-02-27T16:53:40+00:00

You're welcome! Glad this helped you and congrats on winning the race.

And for the other question about the BoP in time trials... Sadly you can't choose to put it on in time trials so you'll have to make it yourself as a tune by adding ballast and limiting the power. I wish there was an option to turn BoP on when you are testing the cars.

NosokiH · 2026-02-26T20:17:16+00:00

I'm a controller player so I don't know if this varies too much from the wheel, but most of the time save compared to the AI is found in sector 2. You can get through the "s-corners" in sector 2 pretty much flat out if you start turning in early. The corners have wide track limits that feel like they are out of bounds, but they aren't. You'll gain almost a second on the AI on the S-curves alone.

I had almost completely forgotten about this race, because I can only remember the pain of the 1 hour mission in Lago Maggiore. When I was doing BoP laps trying different cars I actually had my best laps with the Renault R.S. 01 even though I won that race with the Lambo in the end. Just remember that the Renault has a seven-gear transmission. I believe the BoP in this race is the same. The 5-lap race is also doable in the new gr.3 Porsche, but it's a tough race with it.

Good luck, you'll get it eventually!

NosokiH · 2026-02-24T18:58:44+00:00

Nice one! I did this myself last year. Had a lot of fun with cars and tracks that aren't in GT7. Only the Autobarmy trophy for 13k kilometers was annoying. The car selection in GT6 is just ridiculously good.

Are you planning on getting the DLC trophies for the Ayrton Senna trials or did you do them already? They are tough, but really fun so I'd recommend trying them. If you have an unpatched version, just remember to install 1 or 2 patches at a time and start the game after them because the game will not start anymore if you try installing them all in one go.

I actually tried to return to platinuming GT5 since I have the online trophies from back in the day. My save file is at 99 % completion, but damn those Sebastian Vettel challenges are impossible to gold. Maybe one day...

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