NASCAR Heat Evolution Features 40-Player Races

But the biggest thing DM Racing wanted to do to separate NASCAR Heat Evolution from any NASCAR title you’ve played before is in online competitive multiplayer. As the first official NASCAR game on PS4, DMR recognized they had the power to do things never before possible in a NASCAR game. So they committed to giving players the real deal: a full field of 40 racers in online multiplayer — 40 human players all going for the checkered flag in the same race.

In previous NASCAR console games, each multiplayer game was hosted by a specific user, and that kind of peer-to-peer system could result in a number of issues — the host could leave, or have a poor connection, and that could negatively alter the entire race. DMR knew that system wouldn’t fly if they wanted to put 40 players together in NASCAR Heat Evolution. They built a new system where each online game’s data is hosted by a server. All race data comes from that server, so the entire race experience is no longer tied to any one player.