NASCAR Heat 5 Patch Arrives Today - Adds Dale Earnhardt Jr. to Xfinity Series, New Custom Schemes, Fixes, Updates & More

A new NASCAR Heat 5 game update is scheduled to arrive today, featuring plenty of additions and fixes, including new custom schemes, adding Dale Earnhardt Jr. to the Xfinity Series and Bubba Wallace Sunoco scheme.

UPDATE: (7-22)

We have a hotfix patch that went up today which addressed the following:

New Custom Number Fonts not showing up
CGR team description
Text on screen when racing at Charlotte Roval
Justin Haley and Daniel Hemric firesuit issue

This should be available now for all platforms.

— NASCAR Heat (@NASCARHeat) July 22, 2020

Many users are still having issues after the patch. The NASCAR Heat Twitter page has posted a response for those of you having issues in career mode.

It should be working for everyone now. If it's still crashing for you it might mean the save is corrupted and the career needs to be restarted. Sorry about that, but you will still receive the pre-order and Gold Edition bonuses when you do that.

— NASCAR Heat (@NASCARHeat) July 22, 2020

Check out the full patch notes below.

Added

• Dale Earnhardt Jr. to Xfinity Series
• Bubba Wallace Sunoco scheme
• 2020 Revised Schedule to Championship Mode
• 2 New Custom Paint schemes
• 3 New Custom Fonts
• More logos in Custom Car and Custom Driver
• New Challenges
• Team Penske eNHPL driver schemes

Fixed

• Issue that caused users to be able to select Tony Stewart’s scheme in Career
• Updated career so DLC Cash will work in Full Career
• Trophies that had outdated logos on them
• Adjusted DNF parameters
• Updated Custom Championship to allow all tracks in any series (excluding Dirt)
• Updated Restart Zone art at New Hampshire
• Updated track art at Charlotte Roval
• Updated Victory Scene background at Chicagoland
• Fixed various text issues throughout Online
• Fixed various text issues throughout Challenges
• Fixed various text issues throughout Options menu
• Updated incorrect driver names
• Fixed mismatching online custom car numbers
• Updated Kyle Busch’s Xfinity Pit Equipment
• Updated certain eNHPL Driver photos
• Updated dirt track Taggart to Fanatec Fairgrounds
• Updated driver’s paint schemes
• Updated incorrect Truck series team descriptions
• Updated logos in Dirt Career
• Updated Driver Select categories

Removed

• Motorious & Speed Digital Logos (Replaced with 704 Games logos)
• Spectator Ticker (undergoing QA)