Starting the career ...

[Imo]

To be honest I fiddled around with the career menus for 10 minutes now and did not find out how to start to rally. I will give up on the career here. 👀

[Paradox1126]

its not that difficult.
just go through the events until you get to the rally for that month

[Imo]

I went through all the events but did not find the rally for that month. :-/

[Paradox1126]

Originally posted by Imo:

I went through all the events but did not find the rally for that month. :-/

every time you do an event it leads you to the rally. did you give up after two clicks? scroll through the calendar and you'll find it

[mike_ekim]

I have the same issue. The first calendar item is "Motor Show", and when you select it a dialog says "A benefactor target focuses on one of the other activities this week. Only one activity can be performed each week, skipping the others. Are you sure you want to skip the target activity?"

What target activity? It doesn't even say which one. I finally realized the target/hand icon which I assume means the one you should do (Lancia Hospitality). Why not have it as the first item? It's confusing have never used this interface. I expect a "Race" button or it being the first item or something like that.

[Imo]

mike is right. I stumbled over exactly the same confusion. 👀

[ZeroAffex]

You just need to worry about your benefactor. Bottom right of each rally has a symbol to designate 'benefactor requirements'. What you do between those special races is up to you. I'd say building up your engineers is the first thing to focus. That and the perks for the chief engineer since those are game changers, especially when you get the bonuses towards making your engineers more efficient and take less of a stamina hit during events.

It's really not that hard and gives you a lot of freedom to do what you want during the down time between benefactor required championships. Just wait until you get into season 3 or 4 with god-tier engineers/teammates. It's a freaking blast!

PS: If you mess up your first career like I did, it's not a big deal. You just won't get promoted at the end of the season. Pretty sure career mode is infinite or near infinite, so just have fun and do your best to make your benefactor happy :)

[Bernard The Gurnard]

I hate the ambiguity that appears in many games/menus and confusing explanations or non explanations about how the game work. There are a million threads about this so it proves that many players are as confused as hell.

How hard must it be to simply explain these things so we can bloody well understand what to do next? There is no excuse so listen up devs - speak like humans in our respective languages instead of us having put up with this crap as well as the failings of the game you have released.

This all to me just makes me not wan't to bother with the career as I shouldn't have to come to the forums to have it deciphered by other players.

The bigger picture is why on earth we bother buying games we have no faith in and your continual perpetuation of this behaviour just makes us 'sigh and walk away'

Can I suggest you wasters employ a basic psychologist and linguist to work for you nutjobs?

[Atavachron]

Originally posted by Imo:

To be honest I fiddled around with the career menus for 10 minutes now and did not find out how to start to rally. I will give up on the career here. 👀

I'll start the career when all bugs are gone !
Probably by mid July 2024 !

[Bernard The Gurnard]

Originally posted by Atavachron:

Originally posted by Imo:

To be honest I fiddled around with the career menus for 10 minutes now and did not find out how to start to rally. I will give up on the career here. 👀

I'll start the career when all bugs are gone !
Probably by mid July 2024 !

This sums it up perfectly. It shouldn't be the case at all. By then I might have moved on in disgust without ever having had the option to play the full game we paid for.

[Imo]

ATARI back in the old days said that you realise that you play a good game if you immediately understand how it works. Maybe that's why ATARI made mostly arcade games where all you need was a joystick and a fire button.

[ZeroAffex]

Originally posted by Imo:

ATARI back in the old days said that you realise that you play a good game if you immediately understand how it works. Maybe that's why ATARI made mostly arcade games where all you need was a joystick and a fire button.

Weird because when games grew more complex and became a lot less intuitive (90's games) Atari nearly went under for good and were basically non-existent for the last 30 years lol. Think that's a poor example.

If you guys can't spend literally 5 minutes to figure this game out, you guys never would of made it through the era of complex games without the internet or in-game tutorials. I remember waiting months to get a freaking used magazine or hunt down a paper guide for some games just to learn how to play or complete them.

No offense but all I see is a bunch of soft gamers these days. Makes me sad that everything has to be fully explained to people nowadays to the point of a toddler being able to figure it out or it's considered crap-ola. Myself, I think that's part of the allure, is finding out things on your own and not having your hand held the entire time. Just me though.

And the career mode is amazing in this game. I just wish I went with a custom build because I found out the parts I can unlock in career transfer to my "Builder" to be used everywhere else. I also just love the freedom to set my team up however and the fact engineers feel meaningful to have. And it can be played offline.. Huge step up from DR 2.0 in every facet.

[Bernard The Gurnard]

Utter nonsense.

No one here wants their hands holding at all. What has simply been said is about making it easier to navigate the game.

As a gamer of 30 plus years I don't need telling what it used to be like.

Once again a simple suggestion has been twisted and manipulated into 'other gamers' being soft. BS mate.

Why have we had to read many threads about this issue if there wasn't one? If you drive in real life would you like the manufacturer to hide the the headlight switch and the ignition just to make your proposed journey more painful and difficult. No - you want to get in and drive.

Too many bloody melodramatic drama queens in this forum.

[Surveyor]

I've restarted the career about three times. Not quite straight forward as other games but no big deal.
Good game. Glad to add it to the library

[Imo]

After playing computer games for 37 years and over ten thousand hours of play in Elite Dangerous, a game that was right from start not self explaining, had no tutorial and far too many keybindings I would not call myself a super soft gamer. 👀

[Drizzt]

The interface of the Career mode is not at all user friendly that's all!