GameInformer has posted full details on, which includes the addition of rivalries and momentum. Make sure to watch the new Developer Diary video while you’re there. The career mode starts in the truck series. As you go through your initial season you’ll get Hot Seat Race offers in the next series. Meet the criteria in these and you could get an offer to jump up to Xfinity at the end of the year.

When you accept a contract with a team, you take over one of their cars and replace that driver. Overall, there are no driver retirements, and the other drivers will stay in their series and do not migrate up with you. You can race in multiple series at once, and even do a multi-series race weekend if the schedule aligns. You can stay in the same series if you want. Brad Keselowski stopped by the Monster Games office and helped the team with one big aspect of NASCAR Heat 2: Driver rivalries and friendships. Both are naturally formed by how you treat drivers on the track.

Ideas for more realism in NASCAR Heat 3 career mode Want to start a thread for ideas for the development team to read before they get cracking on developing the next game. This will focus on adding some more realism to the career mode part of the game. Sep 09, 2018  There are more ways to race than ever before in NASCAR Heat 3! Jump into the enhanced Career Mode, where you can build your own race team and compete in the all-new Xtreme Dirt Tour. Prove that you are the best racer in the world in the all new Online Tournaments feature.

The rivalry system has a ramp-up period so you’re not going to see a driver go crazy if you have one run in. Tempers will boil over, however, the more you go at it. Driver relationships cool off somewhat between seasons so rivalries and bad feelings between drivers are not permanent. The studio says it wants to also make it so large wrecks at a plate track, for instance, don’t make you a bunch of enemies just because you got caught up in The Big One. You also get driver feedback from Keselowski and others via a message system, both as a way to help you and give some driver flavor to the mode.

Messages about your rivalry status with a particular driver pop up after races. Monster is currently working on other ways to involve the drivers in your career. Team momentum is earned by strong finishes at the track from week to week.

The idea is your strong performances lift your team members and crew ultimately giving you stronger, better performing cars. In general, the longer you stay with one team, the better that team gets. This allows you to build and improve one of the lower-ranked teams in real life.

This replaces the last game’s facilities upgrade function. This sounds promising. I'll give them that.Love the addition of the rivals. If executed properly, it can add an awful lot to career mode. I LOVED this feature back in the old EA game.Career progression or team building seems. Last year we spent race winnings on upgrading the team.

It wasn't perfect by any means, no doubt. This new system of progression and team momentum though seems even stranger of a choice.

So, basically the game dictates progression now based on your results? No control or input from the user at all? Not so sure I like the sounds of that. I guess it depends how it all works. Looks like you're still going to earn race winnings and such, but it just does things on it's own? Surprised they didn't really elaborate on how that works a bit more.I like the new paint scheme creator. While it's not a full blown paint scheme editor, it's at least some custom creation options to style your car a bit.

Looks a bit limited to certain stripe patterns, logos and such, but something basic and still customizable is better than nothing.Also like that you aren't forced to progress up to Xfinity, or Cup. If you want to be a career truck driver, do it. I hope however, that once you do jump up to say. Monster Cup, you can at least drop back down to Xfinity or Trucks the following year. Hope it doesn't stop you from going backwards if you chose to.

I have hope that it will let you do that though since the article said you can still run truck and Xfinity races from Cup if the weekends align and you have an offer. Jumper tx. I do though hope that you can take a contract in a lower series at the end of the year if you so desired.I see that Brad is back helping again this year, and if IIRC he helped last year too. I'm surprised he agreed to come back though considering the game had him last year always finishing in the back of the pack it seemed, especially after the 2017 update. LolAll that being said, sounds and looks like a nice set of additions to career mode.

Career got pretty boring last year once you leveled yourself up and maxed out upgrades, so this stuff should really help in that regard I'd think. However, they've got to get the game running and performing better on track visually (framerate needs to go way up, consistently), and the handling needs to be much better with the controllers, in addition to customizable driver aids, not having them locked to a preset 'normal' or 'simulation' driving style. That's the stuff I'm still waiting to hear. Let's hope not.

Total Team Control was an absolute joke, a arcadish, WWE-style 'feature' that ruined NASCAR 06. A shame, as NASCAR Thunder 2005 was an outstanding game with a superb career mode.I think NASCAR 05: Fight to the Top would be a better analogy here, or basically the main premise of the 05-09 career modes where you started at the bottom and worked your way up.

There is no 'Total team control' in NHE2 and you can't swap control to your teammates' cars. The main thing I remember about '06 PS2 version) was that it was pretty much a glitch fest, so it was my least favorite of that series. I think NASCAR 05: Fight to the Top would be a better analogy here, or basically the main premise of the 05-09 career modes where you started at the bottom and worked your way up.

There is no 'Total team control' in NHE2 and you can't swap control to your teammates' cars. The main thing I remember about '06 PS2 version) was that it was pretty much a glitch fest, so it was my least favorite of that series.Oh. That's right.

I forgot about that switching to your teammates car. That was awful. But, the career mode with the rivals, and the different series' to work your way through, with a calendar of events to play in any series you had a contract with, that was just an awesome setup.Rivals can be a great thing to add to a Nascar game if done right. EA at times seemed to make the rivals a bit too aggressive, to the point it wasn't realistic, but if you can execute the AI properly and tune them the right amount of aggression and/or payback, it think it's an awesome addition to any series based racing game. The whole 'ghost jumping' thing was a bit absurd in 06, but issuing commands to your teammates was pretty awesome, if unrealistic.

And the game was intelligent enough that your teammates wouldn't always obey your orders depending on the circumstances, which was also kinda cool.As far as the whole WWE thing, well, yeah. I've heard a few friends describe NASCAR as 'wrestling on wheels', with all of the conflicts and drama and whatnot. I can understand if people aren't into that sort of thing, but I think having personalities/rivals adds an interesting bit of depth to Career Mode (and the sport in general).

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No Kickstarter, Steam Greenlight, et al project 'reminder' posts. Posts and comments, whether in jest or with malice, that contain racist, sexist, homophobic content, or threats will be removed, regardless of popularity or relevance. I'm going into my third season in career mode, having a blast, but I wanted to see if anyone else is having the same sort of issues as me. The first is that I can't seem to ever qualify well at restrictor plate tracks. I qualify 40th quite often, despite the fact that my team/car is improving.Also, certain tracks like Martinsville and New Hampshire are just impossible for me to drive at. I was looking to see if anyone else feels this pain or has any tips/tricks that could help.

Martinsville you have to be right on the apron down low to have any speed and let the car roll through the corner before getting back to the gas. New hampshire is still a bitch for me too and im never good there. I think with NH it all comes down to throttle control.

You cant just stab the gas through the corner, you really have to finesse it. I have a big problem with getting loose into the corners there and using the brake is treacherous.

It's really not my favorite track (even tho I go to the races there and live in NE) but in the game it just takes a lot of practice. Definately check out HDvroman on youtube for setups. Using him as my crew chief I finished 3rd in the chase in my first career season on hard difficulty. His plate setups are almost too good and I end up almost falling asleep at dega while smoking the field with a 12 second lead. In general iv found that I never have speed if im using the high line at any track, the lower you go without hitting the apron and spinning out the faster you will be. Hope this helps. I just started my 2nd season with a win at Daytona, 15th at Atlanta and a 3rd at Vegas.