Another quote...
It's been six years in coming, but EA has finally delivered the goods. They
rewrote their physics engine, spent extra long months tweaking and tuning
and testing after the console versions shipped. The extra time has paid off
handsomely...

Is this like saying "if you like raw food like say, sushi, you'll love our
undercooked hambergers...?

What the hell did they do in Beta Testing? I fking hat to think how bad it
was, back when they though "well it is done, lets see what they find wrong
with it" or do they actually just go through "beta-test" only to fullfill
accepted developement cycles?






Schooner enlightened us with:
> "For multiplayer racing, EA has finally raised their game to the
> point where you can theoretically race in a full 43-car grid online.
> I did some test races with the folks at EA, as well as some members
> of the NASCAR gaming community, and I have been pleased with the
> results. There's not too much lag, and all the options Papyrus gave
> us for setting up and running race servers are here in abundance,
> including a dedicated race server program if you're running a league
> or just feel charitable."
> Hmm, so its good but laggy and has all the admin features we need yet
> I have read many posts already that states it has hardly any admin
> features at all.
>
> "Unfortunately, even if you follow every audible and visual
> instruction, the game can shaft you when it gets confused about where
> you are and what you should be doing."
>
> "In the course of a single caution, while accurately following the
> computer's directions, I still managed to go a lap down and earn a
> stop and go penalty. The in-game instructions in that situation were
> neither accurate nor timely: I was told to slow down to get behind a
> certain car. When I slowed down, I got a warning that I was going too
> slow and almost immediately was told I'd lost my place in the line
> for going too slow, even though I was just waiting for the other car
> to catch up to me."
> "After pitting, I exited the pit lane as the pace car was going by,
> and slowed to fall back to the end of the line, only to be told that
> I had lapped the field under yellow and would be assessed a stop and
> go. Things like this forced me to turn on the "auto-drive" feature
> during cautions. But even that mode didn't work right. I was told
> that I was the "Lucky Dog" and that I should proceed past the pace
> car to get my lap back. But the AI driving my car refused to budge.
> And I could not override it! So, I didn't feel like such a "Lucky
> Dog" after all.
> That will be an issue if it cannot properly track car placements.
>
>
> "Fortunately, you can turn off yellows and tweak other rules to
> minimize the negative effects of these problems until a fix is
> available. For multiplayer, it is a serious issue that will probably
> have many leagues resorting to turning off yellow flags until it is
> fixed."
> Thats nice, just turn off yellows for now for online.
>
>
> And it got a 9.2
>
> Maybe a patch will fix all these issues but it seems to have some
> glaring bugs already
>
>
> "PC24" > wrote in message
> .. .
>>
>> Never heard of the guy. Does he own a wheel.
>> Or is he just an EA brown noser ?
>> In article >,
>> says...
>>> http://pc.ign.com/articles/588/588381p1.html
>>>
>>> 9.2 out of 10.