Early Experimental Preview of Career Concept

I have experience several time a bug that when you use your own car for a mission (eg : a race) and you crash it heavily, your car will be restored when you exit the mission but still suffer internal damage (can't turn on the engine for example).
Overall, career mode is really great and I love it. Here are some ideas for it :
- Adding to the milestone reward (2000 bucks for 10 deliveries for example) a reward that is granted every time you play (250 bucks for each delivery or something based on the distance). This would enable kind of a "grind" type of gameplay
- Garages and houses : changing the spawnpoint like in the forza horizon serie
- Rescue missions : You will retrieve crashed car with a flatbed
Can't wait to see more !

 

Hi, let me say a few things real quick(a very much reduced version of this i posted on steam). I only registered to give feedback on the career mode as i absolutely think this has the potential to be a terrific addition to the single player, to bring all the game has to offer together, in one great game mode.
I know everyone is looking for different things in the career mode, so i can just state what i am looking for or what i am missing right now, and what i think would be ideal. So, here are my 2 cents.

The Problem
- Right now the actual "career" part, is very much disconnected from what you are actually doing in the career game. In the career right now, at bare minimum, you spawn your car from quick travel point to quick travel point, this cost no money or fuel, and then drive a very short distance to a challenge, and once there your car becomes useless. If you crash it, it has no consequences, it hardly costs money.
So, right now this kinda works "exactly" like free roam, with only minute difference in practice, differences that dont really matter at the end of the day. You are not invested in your car, not financially nor emotionally, the car is not important right now since you dont do anything meaningful with it.

I think, in order to make the career mode more personal and attach the player to his(or her) investments(the cars), there need to be things at stake here. Money needs to matter, the player cars need to matter! A lot more than they do now.
For me, ideally it would look like this.

These are the cornerstones that need to be in place, one way or another ->

- "The car you come in, is the car you get"
Players should need to use his own cars at ALL time. If you come with a Pigeon to a crawl event, than this is what you get in the event(just an exampe). If you want a crawler, you simply have to buy a crawler car, switch to your crawler, and go to the crawler challenge, and then use the crawler you bought. This must be the whole reason for the economy, to buy cars because you want and need them, and the best tool to get the player invested in it, and by having the player use "his" personalized cars, it makes sure he is also emotionally invested(something very good for gameplay/immersion).

If the player wants a free car "presented" to do an event, he can always play a campaign or a mission from the main menu, the career mode should not be a mere repetition of what you can do in the main menu already, it would be massively wasted potential.

- Challenges should get progressively more difficult, to promote the player to upgrade his cars!
Events should have a static difficulty, and it should be up to the player to "up his game", ie. tune his car or buy new models to make it work out in his favour. There need to be actual challenges for the player to adept to and to overcome, if things are effortless they have no meaning.
Once you win an event by using your wits and your driving skill, sitting in the car you build up, "your car", it will be a very memorable experience and the player will get more and more invested in the career every time he does that, and he will grow attached to the car, it will become important to him. Right now(!), the car in your career has no significance as it does nothing for you.

- The damage you take in challenges is damage YOU have to pay to repair. If you wreck your car in a race then this is on you.
This is an important factor to get the blood pumping. Its not only your beloved car on the line, its also your money on the line to restore it.
Of course there need to be some difficulty level selectable by the player. Not everyone wants to be financially challenged, but i would enjoy if a totally wrecked car sets you back a good amount of money.
For this purpose it would be great if you could transport your "wreck" to a garage yourself, with a trailer or truck. Nothing should teleport or happen with magic, think a bit like "my summer car" i guess.

- Quick travel point make sense in free roam, but in career they do not. Quick travel does not cost fuel. Quick travel should be either an option you can turn off or entirely removed(in career!).
In short, quick travel circumvents a large part of the game mechanics and the resources you consume(fuel).
So, in my eyes, career mode should be without quick travel, at least as optional toggle where you can turn it off for good.


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With these cornerstones in place, the career would be absolutely independent from the other game modes already present. It would be unlike free roam and unlike the single missions that give you free cars you dont care about.
The game play experience would be unique and it would invest the player in what he does and in his vehicles, and after all, the vehicles should matter a lot in this game mode.
For me, this would be a terrific way to handle the career mode.

Thank you very much,
All the best

 

hey do you know how i can get a demo because i want to test drive but i dont have the demo

 

The thing with this line of thinking is that it's not as though BeamNG Career mode is going to be the only game mode (hopefully). I'd imagine that the standalone scenarios/missions (and having to load a map to get scenarios is getting a tad annoying) would stay, as would freeroam; meaning that a lot of the more casual players would stick with those modes, allowing BeamNG's career mode to be that rare game where career cars become an accomplishment.

 

i need a demo link i want to test drive but i emailed the team and have not got the link yet

 

There’s no demo link.
Open the game, then start spamming the „career” button until a pop-up appears. Then the rest is smooth sailing.

 

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cant i cant buy the game so i need the demo
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i cant buy the game

 

I don’t think there’s a free demo of the game, but I could be wrong.
Could someone more smart please confirm or deny my statement?

 

i cant i have no brain cells
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i wish beamng drive was free

 

Is insurance fraud finally coming in 0.31?
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There is a demo, but your limited to covet and grid map + it’s from 2015

 

just been playing a bit more recently and had a thought that i wouldnt mind you lot think about adding
it'd be cool if you could load your user created configs and then the game calculates the cost of all the parts and if you have enough you can apply it all at once, similar to forza setups
would just be helpful because i like to build cars in freeroam to test for career but it'd save a lot of time

 

why don't you remove the coming soon... because the career mode is in a good state

 

I assume because they have said there is a probability you will lose your save etc. By hiding it away it is obvious that you are entering an unfinished mode.

 

In the future for introduction missions to drifting (and I'm guessing circuit racing as well) it would be nice to give more noob-friendly cars and have those missions structured like a driving school sort of thing. I mainly focus on circuit racing generally and I decided to try out drifting in career, but they teach you very little about holding a drift to say the least, so it would be nice if those kinda missions teach me how to drift more extensively lol

 

awesome. thanks for the updates

 

to be 100% honest beamng current career mode would be perfectly acceptable for 2023 racing games standards