Is there a way to turn this off? I still think damage should just be optional. I don't want to have to waste all my credits fixing my cars. I will learn by losing races, not by having to spend all the money I won.

...

but sometimes it's fun if everyone is in on it.

What's the point of owning a 1.5 ton car now?

Oh well looks good at least

play arcade mode, and try sucking less.   ;) 
 
I kid . 
 
I'm downloading this right to try it out. I can't wait.  

Wait, they made this game for years and years and finally, the week after the game comes out, they think, "Hey, maybe we should put damage in?". Oh well, I bet the cars sound real good. 

The fact that they had to patch out the bumper-car technique from Online Play is dicks, but that's great to hear. I can't wait to have my fixed PS3 so I can finally get around to playing.

Wait, they made this game for years and years and finally, the week after the game comes out, they think, "Hey, maybe we should put damage in?".

sounds cool

Everyone was clamoring for this so it is great they were able to change it so fast. Hopefully I'll be picking this up soon.

"  The new 1.03 update adds realistic mechanical damage to Online and Arcade mode from the start, in GT Mode you still need to advance further to unlock it.  HOWEVER, for people not willing to play past level 30ish to see how realistic GT5 can get, you can now do it in Online and Arcade mode.   The above picture is after a slight bump at around 30 miles per hour, I lost both my wheels, there's also improved damage to showcase this.  This is with the "HEAVY" Setting for Mechanical Damage. So fear not, if some guy is being a fucking dick online...he cannot win by bumper cars now!   REJOICE!  JOIN THE ONLINE AND FEAR NOT PRICKS WHO BOUNCE OFF OTHER CARS DURING TURNS! "

I don't see the option to turn it on in Arcade, or the Options.

" @KaosAngel said:

"  The new 1.03 update adds realistic mechanical damage to Online and Arcade mode from the start, in GT Mode you still need to advance further to unlock it.  HOWEVER, for people not willing to play past level 30ish to see how realistic GT5 can get, you can now do it in Online and Arcade mode.   The above picture is after a slight bump at around 30 miles per hour, I lost both my wheels, there's also improved damage to showcase this.  This is with the "HEAVY" Setting for Mechanical Damage. So fear not, if some guy is being a fucking dick online...he cannot win by bumper cars now!   REJOICE!  JOIN THE ONLINE AND FEAR NOT PRICKS WHO BOUNCE OFF OTHER CARS DURING TURNS! "

 Mechanical damage is only available in the online mode.     "

I pooped a little.

Now Gamer is saying, that this patch can delete save games for some players and you need to reinstal the game after that. Can someone confirm this? Haven't seen much rant about this online.  http://www.nowgamer.com/news/4789/gt5-patch-103-causing-problems?

" @KaosAngel said:

"  The new 1.03 update adds realistic mechanical damage to Online and Arcade mode from the start, in GT Mode you still need to advance further to unlock it.  HOWEVER, for people not willing to play past level 30ish to see how realistic GT5 can get, you can now do it in Online and Arcade mode.   The above picture is after a slight bump at around 30 miles per hour, I lost both my wheels, there's also improved damage to showcase this.  This is with the "HEAVY" Setting for Mechanical Damage. So fear not, if some guy is being a fucking dick online...he cannot win by bumper cars now!   REJOICE!  JOIN THE ONLINE AND FEAR NOT PRICKS WHO BOUNCE OFF OTHER CARS DURING TURNS! "

 Mechanical damage is only available in the online mode.     "

" @Cyborgmatt said:

" @KaosAngel said:

"  The new 1.03 update adds realistic mechanical damage to Online and Arcade mode from the start, in GT Mode you still need to advance further to unlock it.  HOWEVER, for people not willing to play past level 30ish to see how realistic GT5 can get, you can now do it in Online and Arcade mode.   The above picture is after a slight bump at around 30 miles per hour, I lost both my wheels, there's also improved damage to showcase this.  This is with the "HEAVY" Setting for Mechanical Damage. So fear not, if some guy is being a fucking dick online...he cannot win by bumper cars now!   REJOICE!  JOIN THE ONLINE AND FEAR NOT PRICKS WHO BOUNCE OFF OTHER CARS DURING TURNS! "

 Mechanical damage is only available in the online mode.     "

...then how the hell is it there for Endurance Races in GT-Mode?  If you played the game and got far you'd know that in a second.  Damn, I can't believe you keep coming out with this bullcrap.  "

Good thing they're listening to their customers-hopefully with a bit more kanoodling and happypoking some more people will be able to get the game they wanted from the beginning.
@KaosAngel:
 Have you reviewed this game yet? I'm interested in what you want to say.

" @KaosAngel:  Have you reviewed this game yet? I'm interested in what you want to say. "

man im a ps3 owner and i say this: 
 
GT5 is not a good game

You posted a video with a pitstop, which doesn't show any mechanical damage. The tyre stuff you talk about is just the tyre-wear setting, I'm talking about proper mechanical damage like the MP has. I haven't unlocked endurance races yet don't have time to grind it out (level 21 atm) but my friend has and he hasn't seen any mechanical damage. Everyone else on the internet, GT-Planet, SA, Neogaf etc are all saying that mechanical damage is in online only so I'm sure you're incorrect.
 
But if you're so certain that it is in SP then why don't you just do this please: 
    

@Cyborgmatt  said: 

" Take a picture of it because you seem to be the only person with mechanical damage in single player apparently.  Make sure we can see a list of the AI drivers and the red mechanical damage symbols on your car status please. "

cool damage now : )

i downloaded the pacth installed it and all of a sudden my PS3 broke :-((( don't know if it's age ( is a first gen PS3 bought at release ) or something because of the patch ( cause i read there are problems with the patch for some ppl )
 
how can i know if it's patch related or not ??? 
the game started normally after update, but i wanted to see what the update did so i pushed the GT-news thing at the begin page, and all of a sudden the screen got all snowy like and didn't respond anymore ( only the background music continued playing but nothing worked, not even the controller ) so i shut it down manually and restarted it and now it's snowy from the start ( and nothing responds ) restarted it again and now the screen stays black and the PS3 doesn't seem to start up at all ( the light goes green it makes a bit of fan noise and then it goes silent ???
 
somebody knows what"s happening ???
 
grtz Allen :-(((

I can't believe they're patching in essential features, post-launch, for a game that was in development for 6 years.

" I can't believe they're patching in essential features, post-launch, for a game that was in development for 6 years. "

So which would of you preferred? Them to hold back the feature until GT6? Ship the game even later for a relatively minor feature? Or ship it with the feature in place but buggy?

The patch was around 140MB, so I would assume most of it was already on the shipped disk, it just needed tweeking, or maybe server side stuff first.

" I can't believe they're patching in essential features, post-launch, for a game that was in development for 6 years. "

" @JJWeatherman said:

" I can't believe they're patching in essential features, post-launch, for a game that was in development for 6 years. "

So which would of you preferred? Them to hold back the feature until GT6? Ship the game even later for a relatively minor feature? Or ship it with the feature in place but buggy?

The patch was around 140MB, so I would assume most of it was already on the shipped disk, it just needed tweeking, or maybe server side stuff first.

"

" man im a ps3 owner and i say this:   GT5 is not a good game "

Welp, all we need is an XP system for online racing now. 
 
Still, this is awesome.

" @Cyborgmatt said:

" @KaosAngel said:

"  The new 1.03 update adds realistic mechanical damage to Online and Arcade mode from the start, in GT Mode you still need to advance further to unlock it.  HOWEVER, for people not willing to play past level 30ish to see how realistic GT5 can get, you can now do it in Online and Arcade mode.   The above picture is after a slight bump at around 30 miles per hour, I lost both my wheels, there's also improved damage to showcase this.  This is with the "HEAVY" Setting for Mechanical Damage. So fear not, if some guy is being a fucking dick online...he cannot win by bumper cars now!   REJOICE!  JOIN THE ONLINE AND FEAR NOT PRICKS WHO BOUNCE OFF OTHER CARS DURING TURNS! "

 Mechanical damage is only available in the online mode.     "

...then how the hell is it there for Endurance Races in GT-Mode?  If you played the game and got far you'd know that in a second.  Damn, I can't believe you keep coming out with this bullcrap.  "

I can understand why they have to patch the game considering there is no way they could have finished the game during the short dev cycle that they had...