

With plenty of disparate activities to take part in – and a huge variety, too – combined with BeamNG’s fun driving model, traversing the map to your next destination is a joy. Clicking a mission will bring up a sub-menu showing which Career Branch it belongs to, plus an overview of its content. You can select a route to missions and points of interest via the in-game map (I mapped this to the ‘M’ key), and helpful arrows on the road will point you in the right direction. Players can traverse the highways and byways in search of additional spawn points and missions. Here, you can pick your favourite car, upgrade it and begin exploring the map. Our early look at BeamNG’s career mode sees us begin in the West Coast USA map, in our ‘home’ garage complex.

BeamNG.drive’s secret career mode: first impressions The Adventure Career Branch brings stunts and car games to Beam NG’s career mode – naturally grabbing the attention of more casual racing game fans. Want to shoot cannonballs at a phalanx of three-wheeled Pigeons? Of course, you do.

This is where the innate silliness of BeamNG shines through. More varied emergency service operations are expected in future updates too. The Specialized Career Branch appears to hinge on classic cops n’ robbers style scenarios, where chasing down and disabling a criminal’s car for at least five seconds leads to EXP gains. Vehicle recovery, delivering cargo in precarious conditions and fulfilling other tasks make up the Labourer Career Branch, with a focus on heavier machinery like trucks, vans and pickups expected. The Motorsports branch involves pure racing, be it on the city streets, race tracks, dirt tracks or simple drag races, players will gain EXP for finishing first and within certain time limits.

Hard hat: ready! BeamNG.drive Career BranchesīeamNG.drive’s Career Branches are divided into four: Motorsports, Labourer, Specialized and Adventure. At the moment, no indication has been given on what cash rewards can be used for, but it wouldn’t be a stretch to assume cash can purchase extra vehicles, props and other upgrades. Being paid to crash? Are we some kind of 2008 Renault F1 driver or something?Įxperience points are separated into Branch Experience (Branch EXP) and Beam Experience (Beam EXP) categories, so levelling up in individual Branches will increase your overall Beam EXP. Experience points lead to levelling up, with future updates offering in-game cash rewards. There are four in total, with experience points gained based on the number of relevant missions passed (and how well you’ve performed). Next, we are introduced to the game’s clever career branches.
