Gran Turismo's Most Difficult Race

Driving Missions 25 - 34: • Gran Turismo 4: Missio...
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[@Exponaut_R-01]

Having finally beaten this mission in August, after it has taunted me since my childhood, even when knowing what to do, after having grown up, this mission just plays with your mind. Even with three different guides pulled up, corner cutting, and wall riding, there's 12 different sectors, and between each one you're constantly uncertain of if you took that corner Well Enough. It's the same feeling you get when 15-30 second license tests. "Was that entry good enough? What about my line? My exit??" except the feeling lasts for what feels like forever. Then the cycle repeats over and over. While you constantly stress out about making errors. While you constantly stress about about what the SLR is doing, what your tires are doing. While you realize you're approaching the next opponent and need to not choke this pass. While you blast down that giant straight and think about that exact moment you need to hit the brakes., and nervously wonder where along the last few corners you'll encounter the 300 SL. I bet I took a few years out of my shoulder pumping my fist to beating this.

[@hamyshanky8794]

Despite never having played a Gran Turismo game, your commentary really got me hooked! Great video!

[@dodecahedron1]

not quite any order, there's a bug in the US version that means mission 1 doesn't properly mark as finished if its not done first so if you do any mission before mission 1 you can never get the delorean, but as long as you do the first driving mission first you can do the rest in any order you want

[@Prxpagandalf]

😳

[@austingoodrich1468]

Love your content dude, could listen to you talk about the ins-and-outs of speedrunning any game and be totally glued

[@Muhluri]

Cool how you used Trevor morris' NFS carbon music

[@chwisuwuaprl03]

I absolutely love this video, never thought someone would make a video of this quality about my childhood game :')

[@autdelux]

when i think of Gran Turismo i think of GT2 Pikes Peak and the infamous escudo

[@Papamanual]

ive only ever tried to beat the escudo with the escudo... Why even bother trying with another car lol.

[@reillywalker195]

​@@PapamanualFrom my testing, the Cultus is actually quicker than the Escudo off the line and can beat the Escudo up Pikes Peak. While the Escudo may be more legendary and rightly so, the Cultus is seriously underrated and deserves to be in more racing games.

[@ASMBrad]

Great content, background music and commentary is spot-on.

[@Catterham_real]

Not quite The SLR is equipped with Comfort Tires (hard), the worst ones. You can check it on the Replay of a successful Run. You're even taunted in the Mission Description

[@doppelkupplungsgetriebe]

kaz moment

[@sportquattro8430]

Great Video on this legendary challenge! I come back every few years to this mission to see if I still got what it takes :D If you know your way around the Nordschleife its not that bad, but definitely not easy. Dont get me wrong, I started learning the track back in the day with the Karmann Ghia in arcade mode and it took some years and games to get the hang of it, but it all started in this game! BTW there's nothing better than doing a lap on the real track, after all these year's of training ;)

[@DoobieKeebler]

The challenge reminds me of the classic Progect Gotham Racing game people would play on that track: Cat Vs Mouse. It is teams of two players each, where one teammate is a Mini Cooper & the other teammate is whatever super care they desire. The Minis start first, while the supercars wait & the goal is for each supercar teammate to help their Mini Cooper beat all the other Minis across the finish line. This can be done by pushing a teammate from behind, so they go faster, crashing into an opponent's Mini at 150MPH after dodging the super car that was defending it. The PGR developers eventually made it an official game type in later sequels because people were just playing the different game names un-officially.

[@sweetpepino1907]

This video definitely deserves more attention, this challenge seems maniacal

[@SolidSnake684]

Still the one of the greatest racing games of all time in my opinion. This video really takes me back to my first playthrough of GT4, where I wasnt good enough to win the harder races, and wasted money on unhelpful upgrades. Feeling totally stuck, the best way I found to make money at that point was to race on Fuji Speedway 90's and cut the hell out of the chicane at the end while ramming anyone out of the way in the process. Sometimes you gotta do what needs to be done haha. After years of rubber banding AI in other racing games, I never feel bad about dunking the CPU like this.

[@7th_Heaven]

let me give you a tip. get IB license. take your best car and go cittia de aria costa di almafi special condition/rally race. you win those two races. Toyota Rally Raid Car will be the prize. It is worth over a million. That means sellback will get you like 200-300k cash in hand. Sell it. .Redo the races. it will not be super easy. win another Rally Raid Toyota. Sell it. take the $500,000 and buy a Tommy Kaira ZZ-II and use that for the same races reconverting the winnings to maximum upgrade of the ZZ-II. mine was I think 934 horsepower plus full weight reduction pack, Nitrous oxide and racing exhaust racing suspension... add a classy spoiler and adjust front and rear downforce proportional to the HP gain. you can do this by speed testing it on open tracks. The car should have improved handling. I then used the maximum upgraded ZZ-II to destroy the 4WD cup, every rally race got easier (buy soft super soft tires as well as snow and ice tires and dirt tires). Change tires for the event you enter. some races might benefit from a stage 2 or stage 3 turbo instead of the full level 4. the ZZ-II will fall short on F1 class championships. I bought a Chaparral 2J and gave it the maximum NA engine improvement pack I think it was level 3 for that vehicle. The Chaparral 2J can be used to gain victory in the classic cup as well as the American Championship. yeah. that thing should be banned but it is not. I fondly remember it going like like 0 to 145MPH in like 5 seconds. So beautiful. then for European cups I bought a clio and fully loaded it the long and hard way. Also had the UK version of the 427 Cobra if I recall. that is a great car. XJ220 is not as good in GT4 as it was in GT3 but is is a very strong opponent. Took years to get to that point. Had over 40% of the game completed. think the garage was over 150 vehicles if I recall. loved the CarbonR, the Pitwork Z, the Takata DOME NSX the Caddilac CIEN (good for American Championship and FR if I recall) requires full upgrade. loved the Opel touring cars. Tommy Kaira ZZ-II is best production car of GT3 and GT4. Tommy Kaira ZZ-II is the one to use for the ultralight cup or whatever it was. Compact cup or something. Toyota GT-ONE and Pikes Peak Escudo were my goals but I don't remember if I got them in GT4. Don't think I did. think I landed it in GT3 though. be like steven covey. make plans objectives work toward your goals if you play it again. Such a great game but it can be ridicuously challenging too.

[@7th_Heaven]

correctiom: ZZ for ultralight/compact cup

[@Ferrari255GTO]

6:00 the racing line you used is different: in the left you are close to the middle, and pull towards the right because of small corrections i assume, on the right you stay on the left side and are in the ideal position to take the corner, wich is specially important on narrow sections like this one.

[@omlett6482]

God i remember trying these when i spent time at my dads house while growing up. The later missions were so brutally difficult that i learnt what Gamer rage felt like at the age of like 9

[@helloScuffed]

If mission 34 is too easy for someone, I recommend playing the NTSC version of GT4.

[@7th_Heaven]

isn't the NTSC version our standard one here in the US? I don't think any of my stuff back then or since is PAL

[@helloScuffed]

@@7th_Heaven The NTSC version is standard in the United States, and in your region Mission 34 is definitely more difficult than it is here in Europe.

[@7th_Heaven]

gotcha

[@Prxpagandalf]

"NTSC is harder" 🤣🤣🤣 Why? PAL has more difficult handling, more tire wear and the license tests are more difficult to because of the times required.

[@helloScuffed]

@@Prxpagandalf Man, the fact that mission 34 is more difficult in the NTSC version is well documented, so I'm not sure what you mean. The PAL handling is harder, but more predictable so you don't spin out of nowhere like in NTSC. Instead of acting like a dork, just play both versions and you'll see for yourself. 🙄

[@AegisCrusader]

Absolutely underrated. Thank you for the info! Very entertaining.

[@albalmer7]

"games from my childhood" -> plays ut99 hyperblast MY GUY

[@alceunobregajr]

This is the most difficulty challengue in video game history , me in my childhood never did it , but my father always have attempts on it , after we complete the game with only this mission left , he face the challengue in weekends beetween beers ( he used the 130 secounds to drink lol ) , took 10 months for him to complete and we finally got the 100% complete , good memories.

[@otter4519]

really makes me wonder if they even playtested this map. the countdown alone is insane. great vid btw

[@ThaClancyFam2]

Super dope. I remember this mission…it sucked royally. I was never able to complete it. Kudos!

[@simon_969]

I never got that far in gt4 Time for me to go back and face my skill issue

[@7th_Heaven]

3:20 Takata DOME NSX!!!!! Such an awesome amazing car. One of the only racecars with green on it. Totally forgot about driving missions

[@MrPens87]

Pretty sure this mission was the reason I got a racing wheel. Still was super difficult but man I’ve been sim racing since, it’s been a blast. I’m thankful for GT4 and for it for getting me hooked on this fun pastime of Sim Racing.

[@davidspangler4430]

Loved that track, used to get a time with a new car before i would upgrade them, then one after, all because of this challenge i became obsessed with it, and the gullwing lol

[@davidspangler4430]

A one lap time, didn't specify lol

[@Theferrariguy]

August 2018, I completed this challenge. I screamed so loud but no one could hear me because they went to get Chinese. Best one I've ever had though

[@asaadjackson9603]

Omg I absolutely hated that mission. Made me go back to Tekken Tag

[@NoobKillerRoof]

Great video. The music suits very well

[@moo4983]

Came back to this video just now after beating mission 34 for myself: 9'12.351, just got the two Le Mans endurance races to go then I'm at 100%!

[@BansheeNT-D]

The Zonda LM Race is the whole torture worth 😃

[@LowlyDegenerate]

Wall riding to win. Ross Chastain is most pleased

[@BAIGAMING]

Great video, it's a nice retrospective of this horrible mission and you did a great job beating it. Oddly, I didn't find it too bad compared to some of the golds, the thing is that you have to really know the track, there's so many turns as you said and you have to optimize everything. If you're really good at controlling that monster of a car, you can overtake the 1st place car in that long straight. Waiting to start the missions definitely is horrible though, I think it's because they jerry rigged the game, like the way it's programmed cannot support having the opponents be in the middle of the race, they have to get to the point naturally. I wonder too if the AI is slightly chaotic, what I mean by chaos is that the AI might make slightly different moves each race and is never 100% identical on different runs. I swear in some of the races, not mission 34 but another one of the one lap magic races the first place car crashed and couldn't race because of how bad it was, I think it was one of the tight turns with that Plymouth you mentioned. It's so strange, I always find myself drawn to watching people do mission 34. I dunno, I found it fun, but in 2004 and those years there was not much else to do, so I'd always have another TV and a show running while I waited to start. Interestingly I remember trying to re-create the same car in career mode so that I could practice freely without having to wait on a timer, but the car cannot be re-created, I tried it with friends and it was impossible. I can't explain it well, but that car in the mission is poorly tuned on purpose and you actually can't replicate it normally, the developers clearly knew what they were doing and were trolling the players, but at the same time it teaches you to keep practicing to overcome unfair challenges.

[@ejune98]

thank you i might finally beat this fricking game

[@georgem2768]

I managed to complete mission 34 last night and I screamed out of joy and excitement. Even though I cheated by cutting the same corners and wall ride at the 1st carrousel, I don’t care.

[@TallTapper]

cars they exist

[@gtmaniacmda]

I played again with "online resources" and my PC and I wasn't able to beat it 100% legit, I had to corner cut the 90 degree turn. I'll do it legit one day... Also, you can also fix the splits not showing up as well as the penalty timer not going away by setting the EE/IOP clamping to 'Full' and VU clamping to 'Extra'.

[@Papamanual]

Thankyou - I dont know if ill make any more GT4 vids in the future but that did the trick!

[@JasonMatyas-l6l]

Thats one of my fav tracks.

[@jagergerg9771]

Excellent race

[@Sheraad190]

Challenge is hard but not impossible. You need to learn how to drive the SLR first on multiple tracks and races. Then try to come back to this challenge and see how much better you are able to manipulate the car and do it without cheating.

[@KeumJooMinzhy]

My best is 9:14 and with out that dirty trick, but thanks im gonna use these trick hahaha

[@theawsomenesdestroyer]

Love these vids

[@rickyortegaa]

Underated vid

[@cocomunches2796]

Deserve more than 3k subs brah

[@Papamanual]

I appreciate that my guy. Im relatively new to this so hopefully things take off for me :D

[@cocomunches2796]

@@Papamanual np mang the punch out speedrun vid is my fav btw

[@luisaucedo]

3:55

[@xXwatevermanXx]

Looks like cheesing it is the only way to beat this race

[@Papamanual]

There is at least one video I found of someone beating it clean, but I am simply unwilling to put in the time to get that good. Even with my cheesing, Im still barely able to win in the end.

[@pikl9655]

good video

[@quackman]

7:15 I wonder if they needed to run everything in real-time first to make sure it was fair, couldn't be equal otherwise for environmental change reasons? still, I wonder why the game couldn't just run that on its own out of real-time.

[@3576alan]

13:00 That's not cheating.... It's just good driving; You need skill to pull that off right.

[@hazi91]

10:47 So it's not the Gran Turismo's most difficult race?😜

[@DJV_TF]

You forgot to mention you SHOULDN'T actually do the missions in any order, as not doing them in order will make the game unable to be beaten 100% on NTSC. Yeah, imagine a kid doing the 3 24-hour tracks and all the gold licenses and not seeing 100% because of that.

[@gustavson1985]

What were they thinking? "A real driving simulator". Even waiting for start was as close to real. This mission was not that hard. As a veteran of first four Gran Turismo parts (i beat them all), i could say there was one, even more difficult. Gran Turismo 2, IA 10-Licence with Toyota GT-One. I remember i've spent days on SLR and Nurburgring, but i remember spent weeks on Toyota licence that i mentioned.

[@Papamanual]

Agree, getting gold on many of the license tests were actually more difficult that this.

[@gustavson1985]

@@Papamanual Laguna Seca xd

[@helloScuffed]

Do you have a PAL or NTSC version of the game? In the NTSC version, the wait before the start of the race is 8 seconds longer than in the PAL version, not only that, the NTSC 300 SL is 4 seconds faster for some reason. NTSC does around 9:12 (sometimes 9:13), while PAL 300 SL does around 9:16. Which makes it easier to gold mission 34 on PAL version.

[@gustavson1985]

@@helloScuffed I had it PAL in around 2007.

[@helloScuffed]

@@gustavson1985 The differences in the time required to complete the bronze, silver and gold licenses between the PAL and NTSC versions of all Gran Turismo games is a deep rabbit hole to go down. I recently tried to complete mission 34 in NTSC version and I find it much harder to pass.

[@AwsomeDude518]

I remember when I was 14 and I finally beat this mission by cheating. 9 years later I can beat it clean no problem

[@kredentials.]

so cheese the mission and not beat it in actuality lol i'm that kind of person

[@jakuborlik1511]

I remember doing the 34 mission when I was 9 or 10. I did it in 3 rounds? Something like that. I was stuck on different place in gt2. Viper on Laguna Seca test during s licence. I was 5 back then and I was stuck on it for MONTHS.