Career Mode has been in development since the very start of this game, But I have one question. What IS Career Mode? Is it an open-world Map with currency, Traffic and Police? Is it a pack of scenarios where your past progress counts? Is it a Work simulator? What IS IT Really? I Have no Idea!
As far as I know the original plan was to make it like Street Legal Racing Redline but with more variety, so just about everything related to cars you can make your career on. Delivery, tuning, racing, derby, repairs, dealerships, rally, etc. And all of that would be combined so for example if you damage your car you can repair it yourself, or take it to a derby, finish it off and buy a new one at a dealership. Idk if/how the plans have changed since then, that was the plan years ago. I hope it will be possible to buy car parts and build a project car like in MSC but with more possible options for parts to choose and less annoying to build, so you can build an offroad car or a race car or a tuner car or whatever you want. However idk how they will handle buying separate parts with each one having a price and stuff, so maybe project cars won't be a thing.
yes, i'd imagine there's going to be multiple "career paths" which you start by meeting different characters, some of which might lock you out of doing others (for example not being a police officer and a street racer/getaway driver at the same time). the "get busy" campaign probably showed off the beginning of the stuntman career path, you'll likely get more jobs from the movies dude involving car chases, stunts, maybe operating a "camera car", etc., gradually increasing in complexity and difficulty. I could see racing being split up into a couple of groups: -derbies and banger races (probably ran by the redneck sounding person in the barrel knocker scenario) -illegal street racing (perhaps accessed by someone you meet in legitimate racing) -official circuit and closed-course street racing -official rally and offroad racing I could also see them maybe adding shortcuts from one career path to another, for example proving your ability in illegal street racing may get you a job as a smuggler or getaway driver.
Great idea! i hope to see this in vanilla game or in mod repository someday. Also, like you said, some different carrer choice must be present (police, street tuner, mechanic, paramedic, different kind of legal racing etc..) and you may have the possibility of switch between them with different charcaters.
I hope repairing your cars will be a thing. It's still not an in-game mechanic. I wonder if it is a viable thing for the devs to implement and if we will see something like that in career mode at all.
That would explain the Scintilla movie car! All your ideas sound so cool, I hope career mode ends up at least half as cool as that sounds.