NASCAR '14 Available Now - Post Your Impressions

[Segagendude]

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These impressions are a downer. Good thing Season 2003 is moddable and is still being modded today.

[brandon27]

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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.

That just happened to me at Pocono. BTW... did you guys know Pocono is now like a restrictor plate race where the pack runs two sometimes three wide all race in a big pack?? Anyways, I got punted bigtime off the start after qualifying 15th. Ended up running in the back of the pack, 43rd all race because the AI cars were all drafting, and I was drafting with the 42nd place car, but I'd get close enough, then just fall back and they'd pull away. I ended up finishing 41st though, because the two cars in front of me had a rather hilarious brake check momment coming out of 4...err.. 3 and i flew past them. Hilarious.

After that, I raced Michigan. Greg Biffle ran the entire race distance (10%) without pitting with fuel at 3x. Everyone else pitted twice. Awesome job. Pretty pathetic actually.

I can honestly say, Im really starting to lean towards the fact this game is worse than last years. That's pretty bad considering it's pretty much a copy/paste. Apparently the only way to play it is with fuel and tire wear completely off.

Im afraid to say, it may be time for these guys to consider closing the garage doors.

[Stormyhog]

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What is the effect of the steering linearity slider in control options? Thanks.

[brandon27]

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Bug after bug, after bug for me tonight...

Lead the final 9 laps of the race at Kansas... won the race, did my burnout, watched Gordon get out of the car and celebrate... Results have me finishing in second.

How can they not get this right?

[Aggies7]

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Bug after bug, after bug for me tonight...

Lead the final 9 laps of the race at Kansas... won the race, did my burnout, watched Gordon get out of the car and celebrate... Results have me finishing in second.

How can they not get this right?

Those are the bugs that genuinely drive me nuts. I don't know how they don't catch that before release.

[thedudescrew]

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I like the game. It has been fun but frustrating at the same time. I won the first 3 races and since then have struggled. The short tracks have been brutal for me. I get pole most of the time but always end up losing it. I can't hold lines and even with the difficulty being at 5 percent i still lose. Lol. I have had issues with it freezing and if i ever put it fails and i just sit there as the race continues. I do have a question though for you nascar guys. How do you improve the sponsor relationship in the game? I have two right now and they are not moving, Heck one of them went down after last race where i finished 33 after leading 20 of the 25 laps at Martinsville. They caught up and caused me to hit the wall and then the aggressive AI turned me around in the corner and i lost it all.

[TCrouch]

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Did you create a new paint scheme and slap the sponsor logo on your car, under stickers I think it was? It gives you a tutorial pop up when you obtain a sponsor telling you how to do this.

[Rules]

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Bug after bug, after bug for me tonight...

Lead the final 9 laps of the race at Kansas... won the race, did my burnout, watched Gordon get out of the car and celebrate... Results have me finishing in second.

How can they not get this right?

This is an easy one. Since Gordon doesn't win in real life, the game won't recognize it either in the game.

[brandon27]

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Those are the bugs that genuinely drive me nuts. I don't know how they don't catch that before release.

Seriously eh? Like, if they could fix that really silly, sloppy stuff like AI pitting, and finishing orders, making the AI less tank like and more aware of the users position on the track, this game can be a blast, and a great game. It's just the little frustrations that really hold it back.

[thedudescrew]

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Did you create a new paint scheme and slap the sponsor logo on your car, under stickers I think it was? It gives you a tutorial pop up when you obtain a sponsor telling you how to do this.

Yes, sponsor logos are on the car. One on the trunk and other on the sides. Thank you mirror effect.

[rstiles]

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So far here is what I've encountered:

-3 hard freezes at various times
-At Phoenix in career I hit the rewind because I made a bad decision and caused a wreck. Well it rewinds me all the way back to the start of the race and the CPU has control of my car. No matter what I tried I could not regain control of the car. So I just watch for a few minutes as my car went around the track under CPU control.
-As has been the case for 3 years w/ this game you can't get 3 laps of practice in at Bristol due to cars coming up the track and causing huge wrecks.
-At Fontana, during my career w/ 20% length, 2x tire wear & fuel on my first green flag stop, I pulled into the pits only to stay. My car just sat in the pitstall running for 6 minutes before I just turned the Xbox off in disgust.
-While making adjustments to the car I have noticed you have to make large changes just to get a different feel with the car.

Bottom line is the game isn't worth $50 and I have t wonder if the development team even test everything before they release the games. They get so many little details right from the track sponsors, and everything in between but they fail miserable at the most important parts of racing and Nascar, the actual racing and pit stops.

[Aggies7]

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

According to the Playstation Drop Blog it was be offered digitally in March.

[bravesfan1984]

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this game is beyond frustrating. i can't get past the fact that the ai has no recognition of where you are on the track, getting spun out constantly. i can't even play it.

[Aggies7]

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Got a few races in last night. Trying to improve at Daytona, prior to starting my career, but still struggling to hold line using a controller. I have tightened it up which helped a little, but still struggling.

[cusefan74]

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Got a few races in last night. Trying to improve at Daytona, prior to starting my career, but still struggling to hold line using a controller. I have tightened it up which helped a little, but still struggling.

Try a different view while driving, maybe that will help you some.