GT7’s Subsequent Replace Completes GT-R Household, However Provides No New Observe

October’s month-to-month Gran Turismo 7 replace arrives tomorrow, and it brings 4 new automobiles — yet another than standard — although, disappointingly, no new monitor. Not less than the automobiles are fairly strong.

Main the cost is the “Kenmeri” Nissan Skyline 2000GT-R — the second-gen GT-R, based mostly on the KPGC110 Skyline. The earlier KPGC10 GT-R is already within the recreation, as are all of the variations of Nissan’s flagship sports activities coupe that might comply with, so this completes the household. This GT-R was notably constructed just for the 1973 mannequin yr, and simply 197 exist.

The subsequent-oldest within the group is the 1980 Maserati Merak SS — a automobile recognized for, amongst different issues, being central to one among High Gear’s most traditional moments. In contrast to that “SS,” this one is an actual SS, with all of its marketed 217 horsepower from the manufacturing facility. It joins the 2008 GranTurismo S as the one different automobile from the Italian marque within the recreation.

The opposite two additions are rather less thrilling, as a result of they’re constructed off automobiles already within the roster. The Mazda Roadster NR-A is a cool, club-racer tackle the ND, with a roll cage, racing seats and harness. This MX-5 boasts a pretty livery, too, bearing the brand new Mazda Sprit Racing insignia all of us started to note final yr. Rounding out the quarter is yet one more GT3-class Nissan GT-R — a post-facelift chassis with the double-wishbone suspension and revised cooling system that Nismo launched in 2018.

It’s affordable to anticipate that this replace will carry some further occasions and Menu Books, as most do. However what it notably lacks is a brand new monitor or configuration for a preexisting one, which might be good at this level in GT7’s post-release life. Frankly, significant updates really feel as by means of they’re beginning to dry up; the sport didn’t have sufficient occasions at launch and will at all times use extra, and the flexibility to promote automobiles, a function requested by customers since day one and formally teased in March, remains to be lacking regardless that those who have snooped around the game’s files say it’s ready. A person by the identify of Nenkai on Twitter, one such researcher, hinted at the possibility of Grand Valley Speedway making a return within the close to future.

If Grand Valley — a circuit that dates again to the very first Gran Turismo, identical to Trial Mountain and Deep Forest — is in reality coming again, it’s doable developer Polyphony Digital is holding onto that announcement till the World Remaining of the 2022 Gran Turismo World Sequence, which is scheduled for the weekend of November 25.

That is all hypothesis after all — each the very existence of Grand Valley in GT7 and the theoretical timing of its reveal. Polyphony has delivered fan-favorite tracks throughout its massive esports gatherings earlier than, like when it launched Spa-Francorchamps in GT Sport in the course of the New York spherical in 2019.

We’ll have to attend and see about Grand Valley, however you possibly can look ahead to the aforementioned 4 automobiles to drop together with patch 1.25 at 2 a.m. Japanese on Friday. Throughout that point, the sport will go down for upkeep for roughly two hours, so that you received’t be capable to take pleasure in the brand new content material — or, certainly, the overwhelming majority of GT7 — till the servers are again on-line.