The new upcoming NASCAR game is very promising

Jorge De Guzman said:
I was able to drive around the infields of Daytona, Homestead, Wilkesboro and North Wilkesboro. It was insanely fun lmao
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Eveything works if it lets you stop for a Hot Dog at Martinsville and a stop at the Porta-John, while still providing enough lucky dogs to get back on the lead lap.

The Talladaga infield would probably have an age verification.
 
Greg said:
Eveything works if it lets you stop for a Hot Dog at Martinsville and a stop at the Porta-John, while still providing enough lucky dogs to get back on the lead lap.

The Talladaga infield would probably have an age verification.
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I can’t seem to find my way onto the infield at Dega ha ha it’s a huge bummer
 
I still haven't gotten the game. That said, I've been researching some stuff, like racing cokpits.

I've settled on the Playseat Trophy. I think it's the best option for me. Not too expensive, not too heavy, easy to assemble and disassemble.

It has great reviews, with people saying that it's very comfortable.
 
JJ_14 said:
I still haven't gotten the game. That said, I've been researching some stuff, like racing cokpits.

I've settled on the Playseat Trophy. I think it's the best option for me. Not too expensive, not too heavy, easy to assemble and disassemble.

It has great reviews, with people saying that it's very comfortable.
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Whatchoo waitin' on, brother? You heard what my man Jr. said...THE TIME IS NOW! 😁
 
JJ_14 said:
I still haven't gotten the game. That said, I've been researching some stuff, like racing cokpits.

I've settled on the Playseat Trophy. I think it's the best option for me. Not too expensive, not too heavy, easy to assemble and disassemble.

It has great reviews, with people saying that it's very comfortable.
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In a dream world a rig would have a dispener that emitted the smells of racing gas ..
 
JJ_14 said:
I need to save up some money and also need to go to Wal-Mart and get a PS5 gift card to buy the game.
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I know the feeling. I've been pretty judicious with my game spending these days. This is the first game I've bought since May, and the first fully priced game I've bought since last November. Definitely worth it. ^_^
 
I'm not big on career modes in sports/racing games, so instead of starting a career, I went into Championship Mode and started an ARCA season. Gonna try to win my girl Lanie Buice a championship on 100 difficulty (I've been playing on 96 difficulty). 😬

I figured the AI would just stomp me, but I've been holding my own. I'm qualifying just outside the top 10 and then running well in the races. I feel like with the default settings, you have the advantage over the AI on long runs, as the tires start to wear out. I sputtered across the finish line fourth at Daytona after coming back from being spun out of the lead, and then I won at Phoenix, so Lanie's currently the points leader. ^_^
 
Mr. Gregory said:
I'm not big on career modes in sports/racing games, so instead of starting a career, I went into Championship Mode and started an ARCA season. Gonna try to win my girl Lanie Buice a championship on 100 difficulty (I've been playing on 96 difficulty). 😬

I figured the AI would just stomp me, but I've been holding my own. I'm qualifying just outside the top 10 and then running well in the races. I feel like with the default settings, you have the advantage over the AI on long runs, as the tires start to wear out. I sputtered across the finish line fourth at Daytona after coming back from being spun out of the lead, and then I won at Phoenix, so Lanie's currently the points leader. ^_^
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Career for me just makes it feel a little more like you’re actually racing for something. Also a season in career in each series with shorter races is perfect for trying all the tracks and using a kind of test session to get a feel and a baseline setup for each track and each series.

I’m halfway through Xfinity now. Also Josh Bilicki is a champion with 1 win along with Toni Breidinger in trucks.
 
hmmm298 said:
Career for me just makes it feel a little more like you’re actually racing for something. Also a season in career in each series with shorter races is perfect for trying all the tracks and using a kind of test session to get a feel and a baseline setup for each track and each series.
I’m halfway through Xfinity now. Also Josh Bilicki is a champion with 1 win along with Toni Breidinger in trucks.
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Of course that’s considering you care about setups. I tinker quite a bit with them and feel I’m pretty good at it in these games. But it takes a lot of laps and little changes to get each one right.
 
hmmm298 said:
Career for me just makes it feel a little more like you’re actually racing for something. Also a season in career in each series with shorter races is perfect for trying all the tracks and using a kind of test session to get a feel and a baseline setup for each track and each series.

I’m halfway through Xfinity now. Also Josh Bilicki is a champion with 1 win along with Toni Breidinger in trucks.
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hmmm298 said:
Of course that’s considering you care about setups. I tinker quite a bit with them and feel I’m pretty good at it in these games. But it takes a lot of laps and little changes to get each one right.
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To each their own, brother. You and I approach racing games differently. We both paid good money for the game and can play it as we choose. There's no right or wrong way to go about it. If you enjoy career mode and tinkering with advanced setups, by all means, continue to enjoy those things.

Personally, I'm over creating myself in games, and I have no interest in all the minutiae that naturally goes along with a career mode. Some people really like that stuff. More power to them. As for me, I just want to race using the actual drivers and would rather simply chase an ARCA championship with Lanie.
 
Mr. Gregory said:
To each their own, brother. You and I approach racing games differently. We both bought the game and can play it as we choose. There's no right or wrong way to go about it. If you enjoy career mode and tinkering with advanced setups, by all means, continue to enjoy those things.

Personally, I'm over creating myself in games, and I have no interest in all the minutiae that naturally goes along with a career mode. Some people really like that stuff. More power to them. As for me, I just want to race using the actual drivers and would rather simply chase an ARCA championship with Lanie.
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It helps with longevity quite a bit also always have the setups to work on etc and a fastest personal lap time to try to find more speed and beat etc, so each race is different. as they are some of my favorite games and I plan on getting quite a bit of use. It can help after playing a few seasons etc to keep from getting bored with it, and I do enjoy the career anyway

And if I later race online I’ll have the setups to be competitive. Short races in career (anywhere from 7-25%) are perfect test and tune sessions especially driving in traffic etc, and it takes you to each track naturally that way as well.
 
hmmm298 said:
It helps with longevity quite a bit also always have the setups to work on etc and a fastest personal lap time to try to find more speed and beat etc, so each race is different. as they are some of my favorite games and I plan on getting quite a bit of use. It can help after playing a few seasons etc to keep from getting bored with it, and I do enjoy the career anyway

And if I later race online I’ll have the setups to be competitive. Short races in career (anywhere from 7-25%) are perfect test and tune sessions especially driving in traffic etc, and it takes you to each track naturally that way as well.
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Either way I think I’ve already gotten use well worth the money for this game, and I haven’t even tried Cup yet.
PS5 here btw.
 
hmmm298 said:
It helps with longevity quite a bit also always have the setups tk work on etc so each races is different, as they are some of my favorite games and I plan on getting quite a bit of use. And if I later race online I’ll have the setups to be competitive.
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Again, you and I just approach it differently. I don't play games online anymore and have no desire to go online with this one.

I'm not an engineer or a crew chief. I just want to race. That's where all the enjoyment and longevity comes from for me with these games. To each their own.
 
Mr. Gregory said:
Again, you and I just approach it differently. I don't play games online anymore and have no desire to go online with this one.

I'm not an engineer or a crew chief. I just want to race. That's where all the enjoyment and longevity comes from for me with these games. To each their own.
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I used to but I don’t play online much myself these days. Like you I also play strictly for fun now, so the approach is the same in that regard, I just like to dive deeper into things as I go. Habits. Of course I also want to race. And it’s been 5 years since we had a game. As long as we both enjoy it.

In Heat 5 I only played online for the trophies you have to to unlock after I finished career. I used to play games online quite a bit, but I just don’t have the attention span or time to do it much anymore with no pause button. :XXROFL:
 
hmmm298 said:
I used to but I don’t play online much myself these days. Like you I also play strictly for fun now, so the approach is the same in that regard, I just like to dive deeper into things as I go. Habits. Of course I also want to race. And it’s been 5 years since we had a game. As long as we both enjoy it.

In Heat 5 I only played online for the trophies you have to to unlock after I finished career. I used to play games online quite a bit, but I just don’t have the attention span or time to do it much anymore with no pause button. :XXROFL:
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Following up My hope is actually to use the first season of career in each series as sort of a test session like I said to get a good baseline setup for each track so I don’t have to worry about it after that and can also just race going forward. Then I will probably do some longer length races.
 
hmmm298 said:
Following up My hope is actually to use the first season of career in each series as sort of a test session like I said to get a good baseline setup for each track so I don’t have to worry about it after that and can also just race going forward. Then I will probably do some longer length races.
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That does help a lot to just get a feel for the game and physics etc and then “just race” later.
 
hmmm298 said:
Following up My hope is actually to use the first season of career in each series as sort of a test session like I said to get a good baseline setup for each track so I don’t have to worry about it after that and can also just race going forward. Then I will probably do some longer length races.
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hmmm298 said:
That does help a lot to just get a feel for the game and physics etc and then “just race” later.
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All these different racing games make you learn the way the game wants you to drive. I'm the opposite of you - going all in tweaking setups when I'm fresh to a game stunts my growth. Therefore, I tend to focus on the simple basics first.

I want to really get a feel for how these cars and trucks handle in their default, untweaked forms on each track, in practice, in qualifying, and in packs with other cars and trucks as a race progresses. I'm already much improved from where I started, in terms of speed and car/truck control, just from putting the time in.

I'm DEI Era Dale Jr. right now, man. Car run good. I can bury myself in setup sheets and Steve Letarte instructional videos later, if I feel like it. For now at least, I just want to race.
 
Mr. Gregory said:
All these different racing games make you learn the way the game wants you to drive. I'm the opposite of you - going all in tweaking setups when I'm fresh to a game stunts my growth. Therefore, I tend to focus on the simple basics first.

I want to really get a feel for how these cars and trucks handle in their default, untweaked forms on each track, in practice, in qualifying, and in packs with other cars and trucks as a race progresses. I'm already much improved from where I started, in terms of speed and car/truck control, just from putting the time in.

I'm DEI Era Dale Jr. right now, man. Car run good. I can bury myself in setup sheets and Steve Letarte instructional videos later, if I feel like it. For now at least, I just want to race.
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As long as we both enjoy it that’s what matters.
I’d be interested to see what kind of lap times some of you guys do.

Also the Letarte video is the last thing I’d use for that tbh. While informative for new players it seemed plenty basic and more of a marketing thing for the game and the feature.

After getting the baseline most of the speed in the setups is made from the suspension (springs and shocks) I’ve found.

The only thing I’ve found missing in the game so far really is the ability to pick our noses. ;)
 
hmmm298 said:
The only thing I’ve found missing in the game so far really is the ability to pick our noses. ;)
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That is of course other than things like hiring drivers in career etc, as that’s just not realistic to expect in year one.
 
Also granted some of it is downtime when I pause to take care of dogs for a couple hour etc, and I may have left it in overnight a time or two on main menu (I’m not sure if it counts that time or not), it says I already have over 100 hours in the week the game has been out.
 
hmmm298 said:
As long as we both enjoy it that’s what matters.
I’d be interested to see what kind of lap times some of you guys do.

Also the Letarte video is the last thing I’d use for that tbh. While informative for new players it seemed plenty basic and more of a marketing thing for the game and the feature.

After getting the baseline most of the speed in the setups is made from the suspension (springs and shocks) I’ve found.

The only thing I’ve found missing in the game so far really is the ability to pick our noses. ;)
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This is the most fun I've had with a NASCAR game since NASCAR 2005: Chase for the Cup, which is my all-time favorite NASCAR console game.

I'm certain that I'm not running world-beating lap times, and that's obviously not my ultimate goal. Just having fun here, plopping down on the couch with a controller in my hands after work and on weekends. I'm in week 2 with the game, playing with no assists except for 15% stability control when learning a road course, and then once I get more confident, I turn it back off. I'm qualifying anywhere from the bottom half of the top 10 to just outside it on 100 difficulty with Lanie Buice, who I believe is rated somewhere in the mid 70s-lower 80s on speedways and/or intermediates. I'm more than content with that.

I was being facetious regarding Letarte and half-joking regarding Jr. I'm pretty much Hendrick Jr. Plate tracks and ovals 1.5 miles or bigger are my thing. I'm not as strong on short tracks or road courses in this game but am steadily improving on those. I think the AI is a bit OP on road courses. I usually lower the difficulty a couple points on those and then bump it back up once I learn the track. Only road courses I haven't learned yet are COTA and Chicago.
 
Okay, four races down in this 100 difficulty ARCA season, and I've gotten Lanie three wins so far, at Phoenix, Bristol, and Rockingham. We tearin' it up! 😁

I tried a 25% loose slider setup at Rockingham, which is as loose as I can handle right now, and I found a couple tenths over the neutral setup I usually run. I'm not crazy about the bumpiness of that track, but it was a fun race.

I might try increasing the race length from 25% to 50% after Talladega, which is next. I feel like I have to really haul the mail to run down the leader after the pit stop and don't want to have to rush so much. I'd rather be able to pace myself more and catch the leader on my terms. I'm having a blast with this, though. ^_^
 
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