NASCAR Heat 3
NASCAR Heat 3 Patch #1 Arrives Tonight For Xbox One, Soon For PC & PS4 - Patch Notes Here
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The first major NASCAR Heat 3 patch is scheduled to arrive tonight for Xbox One, later this week for PC and sometime next week on PlayStation 4. Check out the patch notes below.
- Fix custom setups being allowed in lobbies that are not supposed to allow them.
- Added Dale Earnhardt, Jr. to NASCAR Xfinity Series roster.
- Improved force feedback for steering wheels.
- Added option to enable centering spring for steering wheels. (PS4 and Xbox One)
- Added option to play spotter through headphones. (PS4)
- Added skid sounds when driving on dirt.
- Career: Added option to sim races.
- Career: Can choose paint job when driving someone else’s car.
- Career: Added manufacturer display to sponsor cards.
- Career: Added manufacturer description to agent recap.
- Career: Can access car paint kit for custom cars.
- Career: Can access the character editor from the career home screen.
- Career: If you make the playoffs, you earn an invite to a team in the next league.
- Career: display upcoming tracks when setting work plan.
- Career: Tuning adjustments.
- Performance improvements.
- Fixed crashes in career mode.
- Fixed tire wear at Eldora in dirt league.
- Fixed issue where cars would occasionally appear all black in car chooser.
- Fixed crashes in car editor and character editor.
- Fixed wheels appearing without cars briefly at start of multiplayer races.
- Fixed stages at the Roval.
- AI: Adjust pitting behavior at some tracks.
- AI: Various improvements.
- UI: Various improvements.
- Scaled down replay overlay art.
- Fix slowdown during some challenges.
- Other fixes and improvements.
edit: You do NOT have to restart career. Just popped into mine, the option to sim races is there. I must have misunderstood the paint scheme stuff though, because you still can not change your paint scheme in owner mode. You can change the colors, but not the actual scheme/pattern. Will report more on a race tomorrow, specifically that little hiccup I'd have while driving. No time to check right now.
edit: You do NOT have to restart career. Just popped into mine, the option to sim races is there. I must have misunderstood the paint scheme stuff though, because you still can not change your paint scheme in owner mode. You can change the colors, but not the actual scheme/pattern. Will report more on a race tomorrow, specifically that little hiccup I'd have while driving. No time to check right now.
When you sim a race, does it sim a result for your car as if you ran it or does it sim the race as if you did not show up for that race at all?
Phenomenal, and much needed. This career mode will be much more enjoyable without the mandatory grind.
It sims the race as if you showed up. You still earn money. Points. Fans. Progress towards your contract goals.
As for the simmed results, you won't see them. Youll only see where you finished, and your earnings. While speaking on results, they don't seem to favorable to the player. I simmed two xfinity races, finished 37th, and 38th. Mind you my xfinity cars are only at 85 overall, but that seems a bit punishing. I'd like to see how it sims one of my truck races, because my team there is at 95 overall. I'm thinking after I run this Talladega Cup race, I should have another truck race on the schedule to see.
Seems when you sim a race, all you get after from other drivers is negative feedback as well. All 3 races I've simmed, I've gotten 3 messages from other drivers upset with my driving.
Not sure if that's intentional, or a glitch. Seems odd though. Something to keep an eye on.
As for the simmed results, you won't see them. Youll only see where you finished, and your earnings. While speaking on results, they don't seem to favorable to the player. I simmed two xfinity races, finished 37th, and 38th. Mind you my xfinity cars are only at 85 overall, but that seems a bit punishing. I'd like to see how it sims one of my truck races, because my team there is at 95 overall. I'm thinking after I run this Talladega Cup race, I should have another truck race on the schedule to see.
I would have prefered an option to flat out skip races and not have them be simulated as if you were there. I'm mostly concerned about the ability to run select Truck and Xfinity races once I'm running full time in Cup.
It's dumb that the game forces you to either run every race or no race at all in any given series. Simulating takes away the obligation to actually play the races but I'd rather not have the races I choose to skip polluting my stats as well as earning me rivalries.
I find it quite weird that the career does not allow one to run only a partial schedule given that, in real life, NASCAR only allows drivers to run for the championship in one series and limits the number of races they are allowed to run in others.
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Very annoying...so I'm starting year 4 in Xtreme Dirt. I'd like to just sim all those races and concentrate on getting up to the trucks.
Very annoying...so I'm starting year 4 in Xtreme Dirt. I'd like to just sim all those races and concentrate on getting up to the trucks.
It should come up right when you select "go race", there should be an option next to it that says "sim race" In a big grey box, with black text just like "go race". Are you in owner mode? Maybe it's not an option in driver mode? I have no idea, but as long as you downloaded the patch, it should be there.