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Bizarre Creations has popped its first title update for Project Gotham Racing 4 on Live.

It brings with it four new tournament modes: Daily Tournaments, Super Saturday, Simulation Sundays, and the Global Cup. Each is made up of numerous elimination rounds that will eventually crown a winner to sit atop the Leaderboards or have their Gamertag in flashing lights on the PGRNations homepage.

To join in you have to race fast enough on a Solo Hot Lap to finish in the qualification part of the Tournament Leaderboard. Fail to show up for your elimination rounds, however, and you will be chucked out like a used crisp packet.

Daily Tournaments take place from Monday to Friday and 640 (five groups of 128) of you can qualify for each day of racing. Top two from each round go through.

Super Saturdays are a day-long event for the weekend, where 2560 (five groups of 512) duke it out - with the top two from each round going through.

Simulation Sundays restrict you to using In-Car-View and Manual Gear changing, and 64 of you can qualify to race against each other. Top four will go through this time.

Global Cup is a bi-monthly event that takes two weeks to complete, where 512 of you compete - top 20 from each Nation and top 32 from "Rest of World". Elimination takes place on the second Saturday of the tournament.

The update is available now and brings with it numerous other tweaks and fixes. However, the free roaming Cat and Mouse mode just narrowly missed out on being included and will apparently be available in a separate update soon.

Good luck.

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ruckus #1 4 years ago

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Go 'Rest of World' \o/
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rhinoxious #2 4 years ago

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Nice for those who take their times seriously,

personally I'm happier racing with my back end hanging out leaving rubber across the whole track.

Will there be kudos based tournaments too?
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Der_tolle_Emil #3 4 years ago

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@Rhinoxious: I know what you mean. Racing fast can be fun but there's so much joy from getting a good drift right around the corner even if it's slower in the long run.

I don't want to see kudos based tournaments though. It will be a total snake fest I'm afraid - even some of the arcade/career races require that you keep on drifting constantly even on straights to get the required kudos and personally I think that is the worst design decision in the entire game. I don't think many people really enjoy it.
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Popzeus #4 4 years ago

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\0/ This sounds like a great idea. Just hope the weekday tourneys are at a sensible time of the evening.
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homerramone #5 4 years ago

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Shame they dont have a 'Kudos' mode, where 1st place dont count - only the Kudos.
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FmCUK #6 4 years ago

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I hope they support a decent amount of spectators for the games, but also that it's implemented well enough to not affect those playing.

A mirror of the game data on bungie/microsofts servers ought to do it.

Anyone know how they're doing this now / plan to?
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HonestJoe #7 4 years ago

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Cool idea; up there with FIFA 5 on 5 I reckon
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MakyoDetector #8 4 years ago

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Too bad the driving physics are rubbish... otherwise I'd be really into this game.
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SomaticSense #9 4 years ago

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^^^ How is NFS this year then?
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