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dgsrcM's avatar
dgsrcM
Seasoned Novice
4 days ago

Suggestion to improve Career Mode immersion

It would be great to bring back interviews and add a social media system similar to EA FC. The choices made in interviews could influence rivalries with other drivers and even affect how the team views your signing or potential transfer.

Social media could highlight transfer rumors and the public’s reaction to the team’s performance, while cutscenes could give more weight to key career milestones such as the first podium, the first win, and the first championship title.

The main point is that Career Mode needs much more immersion. Right now, it feels very shallow and quickly loses its charm after just a few seasons. Even when the game becomes repetitive and less engaging, if we still push forward, reaching major milestones results in little — or sometimes nothing — happening. This completely kills the motivation, as it makes achievements feel meaningless and shows that not even at the peak of a career does the game manage to surprise.

Please, EA, consider adding features like these. They would bring far more excitement, realism, and countless extra hours of fun for us fans.

4 Replies

  • dgsrcM's avatar
    dgsrcM
    Seasoned Novice
    3 days ago

    It would be great to have a historical list showing each driver’s titles and where you rank among them. This is yet another example of how the career mode still falls short, with such a limited database. Hopefully, in the next edition, they’ll bring at least some of these improvements.

  • AEF251's avatar
    AEF251
    Seasoned Ace
    3 days ago

    I miss Claire and having a real rival. I agree the questions got repetitive so it would require a lot of work to implement correctly but somethings could be done more easily. Rumours of driver transfers could swirl for underperforming or over performing drivers. Or a pundit suggesting your driver had a bad qualifying or race if you finished out of the predicted slot would add some colour. 

    I would also lime to see a historic list or race winners which you can see where you currently sit with the greats in number of race wins, or driver titles. Maybe the same for the team in the constructors. 

    I know that Braking Point takes a lot of resources which I don’t appreciate because I never play it. But those resources could make the career modes more immersive. 

  • dgsrcM's avatar
    dgsrcM
    Seasoned Novice
    3 days ago

    I understand that interviews and social media can become repetitive if not implemented carefully. Perhaps they shouldn't appear after every race, but rather be used occasionally—that alone would help keep things fresh.

    But the real problem is that career mode desperately needs more depth and immersion. Right now, the game quickly loses its surprise. By the end of the first season, you've experienced practically everything the mode has to offer, and in subsequent seasons, almost nothing new happens, regardless of your performance. This destroys long-term engagement.

    Other games have proven how powerful these details can be. In Football Manager, for example, you can be congratulated by club legends after winning a major title, achieve "club legend" status, or even have a stadium named after you if you've spent years building success with the team. These are details that keep the experience fresh and engaging, generating much greater immersion.

    Adding this kind of depth and unpredictability to career mode would dramatically increase immersion and keep players coming back for much longer.

  • SmokyAtom07's avatar
    SmokyAtom07
    New Adventurer
    3 days ago

    I completely agree that there is a hollow feeling to it.  It's not that it is awful or anything but that there are deeper potential avenues they can go down like some of what you've suggested such as the cutscenes. You achieve something big... and it feels like just another Tuesday where it's not really recognised and you move on.    I swear there used to be a cutscene when a driver won the drivers title where they would run into the garage and jump all over their mechanics  (I may have imagined it)  but now it's just a spinny donut. 

    If there's an option to have them on, or to turn them off for those that just want to drive without the workplace politics then that would also be great. 

    My concern with improvements like these would usually be that it just moves the goalposts.  They bring in interviews and then people say they don't change anything and are repetitive. They bring in commentary and people complain it's the same 12 lines over and over.  They bring in social media and it's the same posts over and over.    They'll give an inch and people will immediately demand a mile and say that the inclusions aren't enough.   I'm not saying it shouldn't happen, because you're right, but I just hope it's done in a way that doesn't open the floodgates for a different wave of gripes. 

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