Gran Turismo 7 update tweaks Power Pack rival performance, downshift behaviour

At Traxion, we’ve been enjoying the recent Power Pack DLC for Gran Turismo 7, as noted in our review.

A week after its release, a Version 1.66 update has landed for the game, and within the changelog, there is this small single note:

• Power Pack: Updated the game balance and behaviour of Rival Cars in the race events

In very brief testing, the 1990s Civic race at Suzuka initially felt more like a challenge on the ‘two-chilli’ difficulty. Other events could be different. Also, the handy guide by Sarah has now started to reappear, as if we’re new to the game mode.

Elsewhere, changes have been made to the suspension for the VW ID.R and all three Jaguar Vision Gran Turismo models. The ‘engine flywheel moment of inertia’ has also been tweaked for the Hyundai VGT Gr.1 and the Aston Martin Valkyrie.

Downshift protection-ish

More significantly, however, changes have been made to how downshifts work. To this point, it is believed that smashing down the gears manually, as quickly as possible, and then bouncing off the rev limit was ultimately the quickest way to stop.

However, now “input will be ignored when trying to shift gear down at extremely high rpm/speed.”

In testing, trying to rapidly change down in a Honda Civic is met with simply nothing until much lower engine revs – acting like a shift-protection system, minus the beeps.

The full changelog is listed below.

Gran Turismo 7 Update 1.66 patch notes

1. Physics Simulation Model

　- Adjusted the behavior of the shift down operation when “Gear Shift: Manual” is enabled in Assist Settings wherein the input will be ignored when trying to shift gear down at extremely high rpm/speed;

　- Adjusted the engine flywheel moment of inertia for the following cars:

　　・HYUNDAI N 2025 Vision Gran Turismo (Gr.1)

　　・Aston Martin Valkyrie ’21

　- Adjusted the suspension dynamics for the following cars:

　　・Jaguar Vision Gran Turismo Coupé

　　・Jaguar Vision Gran Turismo Roadster

　　・Jaguar Vision Gran Turismo SV

　　・Volkswagen ID.R ’19

As a consequence, the Performance Points (PP) of the above cars have been updated in line with these changes.

2. Power Pack

　- Updated the game balance and behavior of Rival Cars in the race events.

3. Steering Controllers

　- Adjusted the force feedback of the steering controllers.

4. Multiplayer

　- Fixed an issue wherein only the first page of the list would be displayed in the “Lobby.”