NASCAR '14 Available Now - Post Your Impressions

[BurghFan]

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]

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]

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.

Quote: Originally Posted by cusefan74

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]

Quote: Originally Posted by bigdoc85

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.

[Segagendude]

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

[brandon27]

Quote: Originally Posted by cusefan74

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]

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

[brandon27]

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?