How Good is Gran Turismo Sophy 2.0 in GT7 Spec II? 

If you want the sound to stop, you can remove player names display over cars in your settings.

Now I hope you can enable Sophy in custom offline races with more laps. Would be awesome to run an hour race on nurburgring.

Also, the reason you count bin the McLaren is because - unlike the regular AI - it's running on the same sets of physics as you are. Their mass isn't heavily increased to enhance AI stability. This also means that when the AI hits you, it's not like a freight train anymore (y'all know what I'm talking about)

You get the 400% bonus if you do the circuit experience on that track as well.

This makes me excited for the future of Sophy, honestly. Seeing moves like the McLaren, and even that KTM defending the position heavily were amazing to see. Sophy clearly can "see" other cars gaining and immediately tucks itself in to defend the inside. If Sophy was the default AI, we might be able to have standing starts again.

Wow that last race in the 458 looked like unreal fun! Really keen to see Sophy added to more circuits, especially trickier ones like Bathurst and the Nürburgring. Hopefully they'll add a proper difficulty slider which completely removes rubber banding from the highest level. I've watched a few videos where it's pretty apparent they're still programmed to let you pass on straights until you get to first, then they're able to use 100% of their power and keep up with you easily. It's great that they're a lot more challenging in corners now, but I'd love to see it properly unleashed for a real challenge. You get sick of winning every single race after a while. Also hope they give you the option to disable the emojis and noises. And fingers crossed it's not too long until we can race Sophy in custom races of any length. I dream of doing endurance races against Sophy at Bathurst and the Nürburgring. Really excited to see how they compare to the regular AI on those tracks, especially going across Skyline at Bathurst where the regular AI would inexplicably brake in highspeed corners, allowing you to pass 3-4 cars every time you pass that section. That kind of behaviour really killed the immersion for me.

The sound of the vacuum cleaner remained.

Its a catch up system I saw aYou Tuber who demonsrtated sophy has way slower laptimes, when u are behind and faster laptimes when ur ahead. Basically, they need to reduce the effect of the catchup by at least 50% for hard difficulty or on the podium cars for it to be more challenging for A+ drivers. They have to limit sophy, because its hard to scale perfection yo name it sometimes suck, If they didn't sophy would be impossible to catch after u battle your way to the top, and even if they add qualifying, who as a non pro could out qualify sophy, either u give her slower cars or use catch up when she's ahead. They should turn the catch up off when she's 1 second ahead & turn it on when she is getting too far to keep race close. That way they get U near enough, but its up to ur skill to pass her

Anyone knows any reference that explain what are these gt sophy emoji means? I dont understand some of the emojis

Sophy or no Sophy, GT7 is a drivable game now. Really gives you the race esp when using an underpowered car and useyour skills when racing up against any car. The circuits are so wonderful...this is the real SIM racer in 2023 and beyond

3 laps just isn’t enough. I want 15, 20 laps with this AI with a pit stop. Would be more fun that way

For some reason they dont have the same performance or power like player. You can see in replay that on straight player is accelerating a little quicker and higher top speed than the same car driven by sophy. not much but like few %

is the main objective in every race still to start in dead last and blow past a bunch of slower cars? if so, not sure how big a difference sophy even makes. still holding on to hope that PD eventually offers a race weekend format with starting from pit lanes/practice/qualy/race like every other decent racing sim has

Why doesn't your watkins Glenn have sophy? Mine has sophy at Watkins and not road Atlanta. Weird.

Have you teied custom race with AI set to weak boost? They are up to 8+ seconds a lap faster than with it off or set to strong.

How you setup that porsche? Its oem?

I have raced against Sophy 1.0 and 2.0 and can definitely say that 1.0 was nearly too hard and 2.0 is quite easy, too easy. I seem to remember watching an interview with Kaz who eluded to the ease in training an AI that’s too good and the seemingly perplexing problem of making the AI more sporting to race against. Because the best challenge is specific to the driver themselves, each driver is at a different skill level. So, perhaps time will tell if Sophy 2.0 will adapt to your driving pace, albeit starting out too slow, we can only hope.

bspec when you put it on max was better to watch

It's way to easy and the races are to short

Sophys lap times are also 5+ seconds a lap slower than regular AI

ok, just a silly copy of forza`^s ai "drvatars"

From my experience so far, Sophy only uses stock cars and stock tire, means racing hards, sport hards and comfort hards..no softs or medium....So, if you want to see GT Sophy's true speed, I would suggest to use stock cars with hard tires.....I also noticed that Sophy is better optimized for road cars than race cars

That manoeuvre from the McLaren looked amazing. I’m an absolute noob when it comes to sim racing but even I, with my limited knowledge, loved that

Btw if the binging noises bother you, turn off the UI element that displays car names above cars onscreen. I had that turned off and I don’t get the emojis.

it seems sophy only see the car were driving and assume were using the stock car and match it. Hopefully future updates they would adjust it based on PP and not the type of car we use

sophy makes me consider buying gt7 and a ps5

SUX ITS NOT ON PS4

Srry no aids an rs tyres !

They've done something to straight line speed with Sophy imo, it's way better than standard everywhere else but slower on the straights in equivalent cars for no real reason. Hopefully PD let's us tune that out with preferences because if they do (and add lap options) this will be the best AI in racing games IMO. e; also you can turn pinging and emoticons off by turning off opponent car names

While I greatly appreciate the video, why, WHY did you keep flipping to your mug on the screen?? We can see you just fine in the little box if we really want a glimpse of you. That was kind of a mucky thing.

only quit start is a joke with 3 laps, nothing for self created maps -.-

Definitely makes for some enjoyable racing and with a bit more of a tweak this could be spectacular. Great video as well, thank you. Worth a sub too so I'll catch you in the next one. ✌️😎

Youll notice too that when the mclaren made that move the caterham moved in to defend for a bit.

Dumbed down this so much it’s boring, just so they don’t offend slow driving customers

Can you Set sophy in offline Customizing races?

What tire setup did you use for this race aka did you match the tires used by Sophy in each race?

Great to see someone using Cockpit cam online rather than the awful roof cam. Not sure why but my Sophy does not Bing Bing Bing Bing... which is good

Why I can't access Colorado Springs anymore?

Why does GT always have you start at the back of the grid? They should have you qualify and not tone down the capability of the AI.

Please give us Sophy at the Nurburgring and Bathurst!!!

This was a massive amazing suprise, the racing in race cars is phenomenal, road cars is too easy. They made the a.i easier so u have a chance at winning since u start in 10th, we need a harder setting and ability to choose how many laps u want and time progression for now, untill they bring it into event races & custom races eventually, and sophy can do pitstops & drive in the rain.

This seems to be a toned down version of Sophy. The Sophy challenge that came and went was way more difficult.

Just let us race grid start PD! I think this vid gives Sophy way too much credit. Setting expectations far too low. I’m sure Grid AI was better than this 15 years ago.

this is the thing i want most from racing games. better AI. glad to see GT pursuing this. meanwhile, forza's AI only keeps getting worse over time.

You need to use road tyres (comfort or sport) when using road cars. That's what sophy will be using. I never understand why so many use race tyres in the game on road cars which ruins the physics and handling feel, and competitiveness of ai who are not using them.

They dumbed sophy down , definitely needs to have more agressive and faster driving. the first version seemed better. PD pobably need to have several AI models used to represent different driving levels.

What we need now is a better ffb, I can't feel anything when breaking, I can't feel some curbs even if the curb sound is there, and like every game with different classes of cars there should be a per car ffb setting, at least for the torque. Unfortunately I don't see many people talking about this so maybe I'm wrong...what do you think?

Loving the return of Sophy, even though she's nerfed a bit compared to the demo in Feb. I am super excited for its future though. Now that it has a permanent home in GT7 it will now gather data and improve itself exponentially. Apart from the easier level they are at some of the moves they make are still just plain awesome. I love how they place the car on the track when another car is right behind. They make the car as wide as possible making you rethink your next move. And I love how they take risks and sometimes sacrifice the racing line to get past, and how they try to say ahead. This is the future. But for now it's a warm welcome after a day of racing online against drivers with little to no racecraft.

They slowed Sophy down so sad

The always on emoticons are an extremely poor choice and are supremely irritating in a game that calls itself “The Real Driving Simulator”

I stopped playing GT7 because it's so unrealistic. Oh great they added emojis!! And all these arcade "racers" are eating it up. Sad really

What I took away from this video: 1. GTPlanet doesn't prepare anything for their videos; 2. He's "so sorry."