NASCAR The Game 2011 Q&A and Impressions

[dynamicvision]

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And with that video of Michigan, I bid you all a very fond good night. I appreciate all the patience and kind words also over the last 4 days. I also want to say thank you to all the guys who got the game early, and took their own time, to chime in with impressions and question answering.

It has been a fun ride, and by the time I wake in the AM, hopefully half you guys have the game. I hope you all enjoy the game as much as I have. I look forward to racing with a lot of you guys on-line, and for those guys that ventured over from the official Eutechnyx site......thanks for stopping by.

Thanks for everything blue! I hope to race with you in less than 20 hours!

[mason3132]

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Just got in one on Bristol i start off in the pits and it wouldnt let me go for 4 laps so i start the race down 4 laps cross finish line and it says fastest lap .40 secs. My question is did these guys ever even start the game up and play it online. The

[Hibs06]

I'm sold. I'll be picking it up. The difficulty increase with the patch has tipped the scale.

[scoman]

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Cautions dont even come out on 5 car pile up man i hope the patch atleast fixes some of these issues.

You on the 360?

[lVlAtlZiX]

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2x Wear means that in a 50% race u have the exact same wear as u would in 100% race with normal wear. So this means that 3x Wear is what u want to run if u are doing a 25% race as that is half of the 50% obviously. The only time to use 4x wear is anything below 20%. This makes it so u have 1 stop on a 10% race or 2 stops on a 20%.

[chapmac24]

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Just got in one on Bristol i start off in the pits and it wouldnt let me go for 4 laps so i start the race down 4 laps cross finish line and it says fastest lap .40 secs. My question is did these guys ever even start the game up and play it online. The

sounds like you need the patch, my friend

[lVlAtlZiX]

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DAM this is really not good... this came from the offical game fourm...

Online Problems So Far

1. When people pit online under the yellow you can't tell because their cars are still riding around under yellow on your screen.
2. Damage online is even lamer than the damage offline
3. Crashes online with other cars often result in my car coming to an abrupt stop for no reason.
4. Online restarts are messed up, cars are often seperated my multiple car lenghts when the green flag waves.
5. Online had No car collisons at watkins glen without any reasoning or notice
6. Online registered 1st and 2nd place both as 2nd place in one race I was in.
7. Online pit stops are really lame and take any pit strategy out of the race.
8. Career Driver is the ONLY car you can race online. You have to restart your career to change your online car.
9. When you create a private match you only have 60 seconds to invite your friends before the race starts automatically.(THIS IS REALLY BAD NEWS FOR LEAGUES)
10. Race length options are not very good. 2% 5% 10% 50% 100%.(added for hitstickmaster2)

Obviously some of this will be tweaked or fixed with the patch, but the online pit stops are flat out horrible. You stop in your stall and the pit options pop up, as soon as you confirm what you want your car just drives away. No pit stop animation, it doesnt even make you wait there while a invisible crew works on your car. It just lets you drive away completing the pit stop INSTANTLY.

man iam only going to play the game online but if this is the case ill stick with iracing.

So is this post so far true? IF this is then the pit stops are seriously lacking, one of the main things I liked about this gm in the vid docs was how nice it was to finally have an animated pit crew back, not like iRacing and their timer.

[mason3132]

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So is this post so far true? IF this is then the pit stops are seriously lacking, one of the main things I liked about this gm in the vid docs was how nice it was to finally have an animated pit crew back, not like iRacing and their timer.

100% correct

[Ænima]

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I'm mainly buying the game because I want to play offline with the stout AI and lengthy career mode. I hope they have quickmatches without much in the way of pitstops.

I think they'll jump on the pit problems once they realize how significant they really are. Hopefully people cut them some slack as a new developer. It is a phenomenal RACING game. That's a great foundation for the detail work to come.

[nascarthegame]

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And with that video of Michigan, I bid you all a very fond good night. I appreciate all the patience and kind words also over the last 4 days. I also want to say thank you to all the guys who got the game early, and took their own time, to chime in with impressions and question answering.

It has been a fun ride, and by the time I wake in the AM, hopefully half you guys have the game. I hope you all enjoy the game as much as I have. I look forward to racing with a lot of you guys on-line, and for those guys that ventured over from the official Eutechnyx site......thanks for stopping by.

Hey Blue, for if you come back on tomorrow. I've read every post in here to this point, but now I can't remember if you mentioned it. What camera angle do you use when you are racing? I'm just impressed with how well you control the car, and wondering if your race view makes a difference. I've noticed in other racing games I play, when I am inside the car I drive better than the follow view.

[bdrew18]

Can anyone confirm if it is 2 player offline?

[Aggies7]

Can anyone confirm if it is 2 player offline?

Yes split screen for exibition. Unknown for season mode.

[AEJustin]

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Just got home with my copy!! WOOO Taking Jr around Kentucky right now (360)

[Aggies7]

Just got home with my copy!! WOOO Taking Jr around Kentucky right now (360)

Congrats...impressions?

[AEJustin]

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So far pretty cool, put it in and messed around on the create a car feature for a few mins and just now jumped into a race, qualifying at Kentucky, got the pole (didn't mess with the difficulty just yet but did turn my assists off) It is a beautiful looking game though so far! I'll be back shortly after this race, might get my camcorder out and record the replay or something.