Early Experimental Preview of Career Concept

What the thing i like most from beamlr: all races have your own vehicle, not a loaner/default. And you get to bring your car to track event on external maps, so one moment you're in west coast, get a race in automation test track, you get there and do the race and your car is there! Amazing.

The thing beamlr lacks and may need some help from engine folks (wink wink nod nod): damage persistence in the car config so you can keep the state when moving one map/mission to another

Other nice things: scrapyard buys for project cats, races are organized in leagues of increasing difficulty with a clear winning state, part odometer performance

Things that are meh: oil leak mechanic. Part performance already punishes enough for old parts, the oil refill is just idk busywork? Doesn't impact gameplay that much, you just go item menu and use oil every now and then. I understand the realism angle and i dont mind the mechanic, but it doesn't really have a gameplay aspect beyond clicking a few menu every now and then if you know what i mean.

 

I think a calculation based on simple power to weight ratio would be good enough to set the classes for racing, and let the player tune the suspension and what not to get a leg up, more reasons to upgrade parts and use the tuning function. They don't all have to be like this just a few "bring your own tuners day" races would make a lot of people happy.
Also any chance for repeatable AI races? I know you can play a race as many times as you want but the rewards can only be earned once, you can't live off from racing unlike deliveries. Maybe after a few days of cool down the rewards will be available again, like regular racing events. Again they don't all have to be like this, maybe the last few races you unlock like the highway races and the circuit races are legit properly organized events you can repeat indefinitely, and that in itself would be a reward for finally graduating from sketchy illegal street racing into a pro.

 

I think what people want to see from the motorsports area is the ability for their chosen vehicle to be used exclusively to complete racing related events, like how we can choose our own vehicles for delivery game play. BeamLR does this by assigning performance classes to the player vehicle. Performance class is determined by power to weight, which isn't end-all, be-all when it comes to racing, but it could help implement another idea:

Opponent racers that match current player vehicle performance class. What that would boil down to is a pool of vehicles in specific performance classes that could appear when the player enters an event. for instance, D-Class (lower performance vehicles) would have a pool of say 10-15 vehicles that the game could choose between. These vehicles could be default configs, or configs that were made by the dev team to be competitive in the class. Race payouts and rewards could scale with the number of laps and number of opponents for the given challenge/race to make the game more interesting. Currently the time trials and races area easy to cheese by reducing the number of opponents or laps down to 1 and still receive the same payout/XP rewards.

 

are there any plans on being able to eventually pick more than one car because I'll probably just pick the BX-series because it's my default car, I just think it'd be cool to have it and the CCF at the top or something along those lines not just one is all, because it just feels like most people would pick the same car as what their default is

 

Does this imply there will be more nuanced and complex performance upgrades coming? I'd love to have spark timing or fuel ratio at least to some singular value for everything degree, since we already have engine overheating, dont know about pre ignition. I'd also like to see the game simulate the obvious drawbacks of going for a performance engine for higher RPM.

 

That seems like a massive scope increase from the current system of torque curve and fixed values for efficiency, friction, etc.
To add realistic engine tuning parameters, you'd be looking at replacing the entire engine simulation with something like what Automation has, which would not only take tons of development time, but would also eat into optimisation.
It would still be cool though...

 

*Very cool, which is why i asked, not that i think it's mandatory for the game, but it would be very cool.

 

Now, that is probably a stupid question, but I'm just not sure enough. Is this mode coming to all the maps?

 

Then they could further integrate Automation for it then, right? The tuning doesn't have to be done in game. I've also been thinking the same thing he has for a while about in depth engine tuning for BeamNG.

 

sorry wrng thread

 

So there's a rendering issue that happens only in career mode, the non-colorable black part of those tow-tone Scintilla wheels will appear as gray. Here's a picture of the same car in career mode and in free roam.

 

Is there a way to connect further trailers in career mode that have been fitted with tow bars? I can't enter the trailer like in free roam and I can't interact with anything but the tailgate and support leg externally, attempting to use the couple command just uncouples the first trailer. I was going to create an increasing amount of mayhem which grew every time someone offered a small utility trailer for sale.

 

Would it be possible to add the ability to buy used parts?

 

I like idea of Sponsorships , it feels like NFSU2

 

Any plans on adding the dry van trailer to career mode deliveries?

 

Could it be that you have left the vehicle? Vehicle that you are not in right now, have reduced graphics quality to an extent. This is particulary visible when using high reflection paints.

 

How many storage spaces are you allowed to buy? (please say as many as you can afford so i can own like 500 cars)