NASCAR '14 Available Now - Post Your Impressions

[TCrouch]

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Thought they would have fixed that by now.

This is my motto for almost everything in ETX's NASCAR games. It's either that, or "gets worse the more you play it".

I'm seeing things this year that again aggravate me to no end. Most of the things complained about in this thread have been there since the first version.

[OnlookerDelay]

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I received my rental copy of the 360 version on Thursday and have had a chance to get in a little seat time with it. I'm using a Fanatec GT2 wheel with Club Sport Elite pedals. I was able to navigate through the career mode menu with, but I had to stop short of tailoring my car to do it. I just accepted the default and went on. There weren't any affordable upgrades to my default car so I went right into the opening week at Daytona with that.

I had already tried a practice race, using the default race tune, at Daytona using 85% AI, and they walked off and left me. I backed it down to 60% and that seemed to be a good fit for the default tune for me at Daytona. I qualified 30th for the 500 and pretty well held my position during my 20%race with 3X wear and gas multipliers. I was as high as 8th place and as low as 40th. I finished 32nd.

The driving and racing experience was more satisfying to me than IL, at least at Daytona. Yes, the AI drivers are more aggressive and will try to plow through you, but I was able to hold up pretty well. I can see where it would be more of a problem at speedway, where we're having to brake for the turns. All of the pitting seemed normal and orderly, in both the qualifying race and the full race.

My experience so far is a positive one, but I haven't tried the shorter races where a lot of people are identifying problems. I have a feeling my impressions will sour once I experience some of that. Game feels good with my Fanatec wheel though... even better than IL, so that's a plus!

[Aggies7]

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My assumption is that they already have the paint schemes and rosters done(or very close) since the field is set. I can try on Monday and see if I can get a lock down answer, as the worst they can tell me is the do not have one yet.

Any word on the 2014 car sets and possible a patch for new Chase format?

[bigdoc85]

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I'm having issues with restarts -- that is where the AI just plows me. I am on the gas 100% and AI seems like it has a turbo boost!

[Aggies7]

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Try to ease into the gas. You maybe spinning wheel. I was doing that at Daytona and got ran over before the line every time

[BurghFan]

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I don't have this problem mine is up to like 200 give or take a few.

Yeah, it is fine now. Must've just been something that happened that one time.

Anyway, some more impressions/experiences.

1. The draft/pack racing effect appears to be too strong on non-plate tracks such that packs of cars easily run down single cars. It is near impossible to catch up to a pack of 3+ cars while single cars or pairs of cars can be relatively easily caught.

2. Default setups for Martinsville appears to be totally broken. Running 20% race 55% AI difficulty 2x fuel/tires I qualified 5th, but got completely obliterated during the race. My car was extremely loose and I couldn't keep up with anyone and was just getting blown away. Finished 43rd 16 laps down (42nd was 6 laps down) though I kind of gave up in the last 10 laps.

3. There appears to be a bug with the pit stop animations on some tracks. I will be in the race view until shortly before my stall then ithe camera suddenly stops following my car some distance before my pit and I see my car continuing into its pit stall then hear the pit stop sound effects and once the stop is created it goes back to the in-car view as my car exits its stall until it reaches the exit line then it goes back to my in-race view. I'll try to make a video later.

4. AI pit windows are far too wide and unrealistic. Ran a 20% (80 lap) race at RIR with 55% AI, 2x fuel/tires and a few cars started pitting between laps 20-25 while most cars pitted around lap 40, but several cars didn't pit until around lap 75. This apparently also caused the scoring to go a bit haywire as during the last couple laps it kept switching between me being on the lead lap and 1 lap down. Additionally then the checkered flag waved literally 1 second after the white flag. It initially said I finished 5th, but once I got the end-of-race screen it said I was 23rd.

[SportsAce]

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Anyone have any idea if this game will be released digitally on the PlayStation Store?

[Aggies7]

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Anyone have any idea if this game will be released digitally on the PlayStation Store?

I really have no clue, but I don't see why it wouldn't. Bob would problem know better than anyone.

[BurghFan]

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3. There appears to be a bug with the pit stop animations on some tracks. I will be in the race view until shortly before my stall then ithe camera suddenly stops following my car some distance before my pit and I see my car continuing into its pit stall then hear the pit stop sound effects and once the stop is created it goes back to the in-car view as my car exits its stall until it reaches the exit line then it goes back to my in-race view. I'll try to make a video later.
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After some more investigation, it appears to be entirely random rather that onlhy on specific tracks

http://youtu.be/UxJrBExL9G4

[Stormyhog]

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I noticed a bug in the control settings where I made some changes to my senstitvities but when I tried to restore them back to defaults my changes still remained. I have the PS3 version.

[cusefan74]

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I noticed a bug in the control settings where I made some changes to my senstitvities but when I tried to restore them back to defaults my changes still remained. I have the PS3 version.

There's always something more with this company. It makes me want to do this...

[BurghFan]

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Another bug I just noticed. The race lengths for the Darlington and Spring Kansas races are reversed. At 20% race length Darlington is only 53 laps when it should be 73 while Kansas is 73 laps when it should be 53. It's like they switched the tracks but not the other race details. Especially since it still says "Mothers Day weekend" at the Darlington race despite it being in early April as opposed to May.

[cusefan74]

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Online is not any better in this game then it was in the last game. Still all sorts of bugs and glitches. To me it doesn't look like they improved anything with the online except adding leagues. I thought that they would do something to at least make it more stable or something, but nope it still is bad.

[bigdoc85]

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Not surprising -- it's like that review said, basically a "cut and paste" of the prior game with a roster update and some minor changes.

Online is not any better in this game then it was in the last game. Still all sorts of bugs and glitches. To me it doesn't look like they improved anything with the online except adding leagues. I thought that they would do something to at least make it more stable or something, but nope it still is bad.

[cusefan74]

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Not surprising -- it's like that review said, basically a "cut and paste" of the prior game with a roster update and some minor changes.

Now that I think about it, I think it's worse. At the plate tracks sometimes I try to get up behind a car and when I get into about 2 or 3 car lengths they pull way ahead of me all of a sudden. It looks just like I was bump drafting the car in front but I wasn't even close to it. Then I start getting closer and it happens again. The strange thing is it will only happen with one car and the rest of them in the race I am fine with.