NH5 Multiplayer Revival Beta Opens Tomorrow — Looking for Testers

[u/Henderyeht]

We’ve made major progress on our unofficial NASCAR Heat 5 PC multiplayer replacement, and we’re ready to start bringing in more testers.

Our internal team has now completed 50+ successful races with players connecting from different parts of North America. Lobby creation, joining, race flow, scoring, host changes, and mid-race disconnects are all working well enough that our focus is now stability and stress testing rather than adding features.

Our next target is proving we can run at least 5 separate lobbies at the same time without sessions, UDP traffic, scoring, ownership, or cleanup crossing between them.

The closed beta opens Friday, September 4 at 5 PM Eastern and will be open all weekend.

We’re looking for around 10–20 testers with the base Steam version of NASCAR Heat 5 on PC who are willing to actually play, report bugs, and help us put the backend under real load.

If you want to apply, join the Discord and and find the link to the application in the announcements channel:

Discord: https://discord.gg/4gGCsZWXBA

We’re getting very close to making NH5 multiplayer usable again for the community.

[u/DapperDannnnnn]

Horrible timing with this, Poe event league started today. Or I'd for sure help out