NASCAR 21: Ignition (Motorsport Games)

[Mike Smith]

This thread is for the general discussion of the Article Motorsport Games Releases More Interesting Details on NASCAR 21. Please add to the discussion here.

 

[Mike Smith]

This thread is for the general discussion of the Article Motorsport Games’ NASCAR 21: Ignition Release and Pre-Order Dates Announced. Please add to the discussion here.

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

This is the most important question for me for this game but also for the other upcoming BTCC, NASCAR and Le Mans titles: are dedicated servers supported for PC communities?

I am mostly an online player and I have patiently waited 10 years for dedicated server support for the Codemasters F1 series and it never came. Seeing there is some spill over coming from Codemasters to Motorsport Games I hope this trend of peer to peer hosting will not continue for the sake of the great PC community. I understand it for consoles but PC really needs proper dedicated server support.

 

[Ole Marius Myrvold]

I think we all know the answer to this @Bram Hengeveld . With that being said, I would love to be positively surprised

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

Had that scenario been mentioned anywhere?

 

[Ole Marius Myrvold]

Nah, but the trend in gaming seems to be less and less dedicated servers overall, does it not? One could hope for rF2 netcode and dedi-servers though. There is still no game I feel so safe in rubbing and bump-drafting as in rF2.

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

As the title says, when will this game hit Steam?

 

[Jan Larsen]

According to Google, October 26th

 

[Trebor901]

Just watched the latest dev diary the team have done and Nascar 21 isnt running on the rF2 engine like everyone thought it would. Its actually running on the Unreal Engine

 

[wolftree]

Just watched the latest dev diary the team have done and Nascar 21 isnt running on the rF2 engine like everyone thought it would. Its actually running on the Unreal Engine

They were never going to use the rF2 graphics engine (thank lord), just the physics engine.

 

[TPGRacing75]

Just watched the latest dev diary the team have done and Nascar 21 isnt running on the rF2 engine like everyone thought it would. Its actually running on the Unreal Engine

They are basically doing what Kunos did with ACC. Unreal for graphics, and an in-house physics engine for the driving.

 

[Trebor901]

They are basically doing what Kunos did with ACC. Unreal for graphics, and an in-house physics engine for the driving.

Just hope they manage to optimise it well

 

[theguy69]

Just hope they manage to optimise it well

I don't think they'll be able to. The minimum requirements are pretty high and in NASCAR you have big grids so expect very high cpu usage and decently high GPU usage

 

[Equipe Matra]

I don't think they'll be able to. The minimum requirements are pretty high and in NASCAR you have big grids so expect very high cpu usage and decently high GPU usage

They also bought Black Delta who managed to release a game (KartKraft) that runs quite well on UE4.

 

[theguy69]

They also bought Black Delta who managed to release a game (KartKraft) that runs quite well on UE4.

I don't know man. The system requirements on the steam page are quite high. I dont think this game will run well unless you have a really good PC

 

[Equipe Matra]

I don't know man. The system requirements on the steam page are quite high. I dont think this game will run well unless you have a really good PC

Well I have both and on my systems it runs better than ACC, especially in VR. Of course, it won't run well on a 5-year old machine.

 

[theguy69]

Well I have both and on my systems it runs better than ACC, especially in VR. Of course, it won't run well on a 5-year old machine.

Yeah I have ACC too and it runs great but ACC and KartKraft both have low system requirements on the steam page. This game has high system requirements

 

[peteduggan35]

There a appear to be many problems with this game. Not all popular wheels supported and many other problems. Was looking forward to this. Not so sure now

 

[Jan Larsen]

Yeah, more and more videos popping up with various issues, not looking good atm.

 

[chrisi2174]

I had pre-ordered it on Steam and played it for 45min more or less. It has masses of bugs and you can not even use the buttons on your steering wheel, which means driver camera, look right and left and back and also the menu control is all via the keyboard.
You can't drive yourself out of the pits either, but you find yourself driving on the track right away, which might not be so bad if my car hadn't had damage almost every time.
That's why it only took me 45min to give up on this game and request a refund on Steam. My conclusion is that it is unfortunately the worst racing game of the last few years at this point, they don't get a handle on that so quickly!