iRacing is Developing NASCAR Games for Consoles, PC, and Mobile Platforms

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ScottPuss20
However I had the most fun on North Wilkesboro in the truck.
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Okay, I haven't even looked at the track list yet, but I had no idea this track was in this game, and if I didn't want it before, I certainly do now. Maybe I am a little biased since I live in North Carolina, but I loved racing on this track in NASCAR Racing on PS1, and it pleases me to see that this track was added to the game. I could be mistaken, but I think the last time we ever got North Wilkesboro on disc was with NASCAR Legends.
ScottPuss20
It has a lot of character and lapped traffic kept me on my toes the whole time.
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I know that feeling. Reminds me of Martinsville in NASCAR 2000, that track was a lot of fun in that game for this very reason. It pleases me to see North Wilkesboro is like this.
 
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Only planning to play the career. I’ve seen the carnage online and want no part of it.

Even for someone who hasn’t played a Nascar game since Daytona on the Dreamcast, that first race was way too easy. Need to find a more challenging difficulty level.
 
Fezzik
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Only planning to play the career. I’ve seen the carnage online and want no part of it.

Even for someone who hasn’t played a Nascar game since Daytona on the Dreamcast, that first race was way too easy. Need to find a more challenging difficulty level.
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If you mean the Discovery race, it is easy so people can qualify for the Menards series and start their career. Once you start that series races you can go to the career race settings and set the AI up to 105%.
 
jlbmel
If you mean the Discovery race, it is easy so people can qualify for the Menards series and start their career. Once you start that series races you can go to the career race settings and set the AI up to 105%.
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I actually meant the first Menards race, but I’ve redone it now at a much higher difficulty and been put firmly in my place.
 
I used to think oval racing was boring, so it's very strange to be having much more fun on those than the road/street circuits. Some of it is probably due to the awful brakes on these cars (and the weird track limits punishment system). Still getting to grips with the strategy, I don't know when to pit and when to stay out, never mind all this stage stuff. Need to watch some actual racing.
 
Fezzik
Only planning to play the career. I’ve seen the carnage online and want no part of it.
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The 40 player multiplayer races on Talladega are indeed like Wreckfest but when you get a clean race on an oval that is not flat out the racing is brilliant. You should probably give it a try. As time goes on only the serious players will remain so the racing will probably get better over time. Great game.
 
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SPDN Stefano
The 40 player multiplayer races on Talladega are indeed like Wreckfest but when you get a clean race on an oval that is not flat out the racing is brilliant. You should probably give it a try. As time goes on only the serious players will remain so the racing will probably get better over time. Great game.
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Any specific recommendations? I'm still learning all the circuits.
 
Fezzik
Any specific recommendations? I'm still learning all the circuits.
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Richmond, Dover, Kansas, Indianapolis Park (the short one), Phoenix. Had good online races in all of those. Dover is just a great track anyway as is Indianapolis Park. Phoenix always has multiple lines to run which makes it very intriguing to race online on as it's dictated by setup and so on.
 
Fezzik
I used to think oval racing was boring, so it's very strange to be having much more fun on those than the road/street circuits. Some of it is probably due to the awful brakes on these cars (and the weird track limits punishment system). Still getting to grips with the strategy, I don't know when to pit and when to stay out, never mind all this stage stuff. Need to watch some actual racing.
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I mean, you're racing at near full speed, in curves mostly, negotiating tight traffic, so yeah i never understood the boring part.
 
For some reason, Erik Jones is an absolute menace on superspeedways. He forces his way into the middle of the pack, making me check up and causing me to spin out off the front of someone's nose. Thankfully he isn't a problem on short tracks where I easily lap him. However I do find it interesting how I dominated at Indy and Gateway (I won the race at Gateway by like 16 seconds at 25% length) yet got mired back in the pack on short tracks like Iowa and Richmond. Just goes to show how varied the tracks are... even if they don't look too different from each other on paper. Never have I experienced race tracks like this.
 
I enjoyed playing this, downloaded yesterday evening.

Just getting the hang of things (haven't gone anywhere near setups yet) but early impressions are good!

Miles ahead of the old NASCAR heat games for me.
 
So I would like to try this, but only if there are some non-oval tracks. Can anyone confrim which nob-ovel tracks are in the game?
 
Charlotte Roval, Watkins Glen, Chicago, Lime Rock, Sonoma, COTA. Maybe I missed another one. There are a lot of tracks in this game.

The oval racing is also a lot of fun by the way, except maybe super speedways like Talladega and Daytona.
 
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SPDN Stefano
Charlotte Roval, Watkins Glen, Chicago, Lime Rock, Sonoma, COTA. Maybe I missed another one. There are a lot of tracks in this game.
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If I'm not mistaken, Mid-Ohio is another.
 
Well darn. Thought since it was on the ARCA schedule that it'd be there.
 
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RACECAR
Well darn. Thought since it was on the ARCA schedule that it'd be there.
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I think there's around 4 or 5 circuits missing from the game that should be there, the dirt tracks, Madison, Salem, Toledo, Berlin and Elko in ARCA, and of course Meixco City from the cup series schedule.

Basically if iRacing hasn't scanned it, it's not there. Mexico City has only just released on iRacing so maybe we will see that in an update.
 
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I wish you could switch schemes in championship mode. That kinda makes paying extra for all the paint scheme packs seem a bit of a waste of money. Hopefully they’ll patch it, I’m sure the same thing happened with one of the Heat games (or was it Ignition?)

That aside though, I’m still thoroughly enjoying this. It’s made me return to World of Outlaws now though, as a bit of a precursor to starting my career mode in ARCA. I’ve just run a full season of midgets (2nd) and will try some Late Models next. It’s amazing how that game, despite being fairly samey in that it’s a load of short, intense dirt oval races, just doesn’t get boring. I feel like that same spark is right there in NASCAR 25 but the amount of content and variety has just skyrocketed. If you have WoO24 and NASCAR 25 on your HDD you basically have an entire start to finish career in US stock car racing right there. I can’t wait for the Indycar game.
 
MagpieRacer
I think there's around 4 or 5 circuits missing from the game that should be there, the dirt tracks, Madison, Salem, Toledo, Berlin and Elko in ARCA, and of course Meixco City from the cup series schedule.

Basically if iRacing hasn't scanned it, it's not there. Mexico City has only just released on iRacing so maybe we will see that in an update.
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The strangest omission is Portland since it's been on their service since like March
 

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