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    Wusoth's Avatar Junior Member
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    Many Ideas to try to improve The Crew 2

    Here is a rally of several ideas I had to improve the players' experience on the game

    I will use this color to clarify what has to change if updates make changes to certain points. I would just add the date when I had an idea, when it would be a new idea.

    Addition of contents

    1 : Have several houses at various places on the map. Even if we had to buy them to unlock, it would not be a problem i think.

    2 : I miss the many bonuses on The Crew 1, I must say. All those little challenges we had with a whole bunch of vehicles and things to do that increased our daily salary. This allowed us to focus on things other than racing or challenges from time to time. Even if in The Crew 2 it would not increase our salary since there is none. We could very well have a list of things to do with different vehicles and in different ways that would bring us small bonuses. Given the diversity of vehicles on The Crew 2 compared to The Crew 1, this would only make the list of challenges much more focused and diverse. Why not add Loot Luck Bonuses, or Loot Quality or Bucks Bonuses permanent ways to achieve a certain number of challenges for example. This would allow us to optimize the gains of our races by means of challenges. For example, after 25 challenges, we win a 1% increase in Bucks won in races, challenges and live rewards. But that’s just one example.
    Edit 06/01/2019 : Another idea would be to create a daily salary of Crew Credit that could be improved through these challenges.

    06/01/2019 :
    3 : Have the ability to purchase aesthetic parts for our cars using spare parts. That would make the spare parts a little more useful than they are now. And that would allow high-level players not to do races for nothing after getting all their equipment. It would save them the trouble of doing races for nothing.


    Modification of existing content

    06/01/2019 :
    1 : I have the impression that this is already the case, but I prefer to give the idea just in case. The idea would be to win the Loot equipment faster than the others. Because if all parts of the equipment are obtained as quickly as the others, this makes the Loot equipment useless in the event that the others equipment is recovered before.

    06/01/2019 :
    2 : Retrieve end of race rewards automatically. I don’t know if there’s an explanation, but I personally don’t understand why we have to collect the rewards ourselves at the end of a race. We lose time, especially when the rewards are suddenly far away from you. This current operation has already made me miss the opportunity to restart a race more than once because I didn’t have time to collect the rewards. And I don’t necessarily want to go to a headquarters to collect the missed rewards every time.

    06/01/2019 :
    3 : Currently it is difficult to assign a Live Reward box to the vehicles you want. Given their locations or simply because when changing to the plane it propelles you to a crazy speed in the air. This makes it very difficult to access the rewards with an airplane. The idea would be to have a choice that appears when the Live Reward opens so that you can select the category or vehicle to which you want to assign it. Instead of changing vehicles every time (which is really not practical).

    06/07/2019 :
    4 : There are now upgraded versions of some legendary equipment that can be obtained through the Summits. The only problem is that unless you look at the piece-by-piece equipment to see the statistics, you don’t know the direct difference between a normal legendary equipment and a legendary Summit equipment. The addition of a very small visual logo indicating that the quality of this equipment is superior to normal would suffice. Something that would fit on the basic picture so that we don’t have to go into each part individually. It should also be impossible to turn these legendary upgraded equipment into spare parts.


    Recalibration System

    1 : Have the choice to exchange parts of equipment that you no longer want against spare parts OR against bucks. Even a small amount of bucks would suffice.
    For example :
    Rare 75 bucks
    Epic 150 bucks
    Legendary 300 bucks.
    Since spare parts have been added, there is a big imbalance between bucks and spare parts. The improvement of the parts costs so much in bucks that you end up with 0 bucks and 500,000+ spare parts in no time. And even if I had enough bucks to improve what I want, I still have a lot of spare parts left. Which brings me to the next idea

    2 : Given the chance to get the desired affix when using the recalibration system, I would say that dividing the current cost of Bucks needed by 2 would not be bad at all. I’ve already spent several million personally in this system and I find that we are fast getting to the stage where we are spending 20,000+ And if 20,000 is the maximum instead of the current 40,000 or so, I think it would be much more balanced and our reserves of Bucks would say thank you. Edit 06/01/2019 : It seems that the limit is now going to be 32,000 and some. That’s better, but still very expensive, in my opinion.

    3 : Have the ability to create a random legendary part using a number of spare parts. For example: 5000 spare parts against 1 random legendary parts in the chosen category and at the chosen vehicle level. This would allow several things:

    - First, to make useful the spare parts which are being stored more and more and which are currently being used for almost nothing.

    - Second, to allow legendary equipment to be made without necessarily reaching the maximum level of the vehicle. If for example you have your Drift which is not increased at all and you do not manage very well, you take 5,000 spare parts, you select the drift category, you select the Drift vehicle and this allows you to create a random legendary part of the vehicle category and level. This will eventually allow you to potentially have better affixes on your parts (since it’s legendary so 2 good affixes) and thus better succeed your future drift. Provided of course to put the right affixes for the right disciplines of course. Otherwise it wouldn’t make much difference. But in this case it is up to the player to learn how to play well.

    - This also allows players to want more often to change the affixes of their parts since it would be on legendary parts. We wouldn’t feel like wasting our Bucks and spare parts on Rare or epic.

    - At the same time it would make it possible to no longer force players to increase their vehicles to the maximum level in order to put their driving skills into practice. If I take the example of the street race which is at 280 maximum. Anyone who buys a new vehicle but doesn’t want to do a lot of race to have a chance to do races in extreme difficulty and win legendary parts could get some thanks to spare parts. If a player is quite advanced in drift and drag race but the Street race is not his thing, he could prepare an equipment in advance by using the spare parts he has stored thanks to Drift and Drag race. Even if this equipment is only 190/280, it is legendary and affixes counts a lot for some disciplines. Statistics are not indispensable in all disciplines, but there are some that help a lot. Like increasing the multiplier in drift, for example. However, even by building up an entire legendary 190 level equipment, if the player really wants to increase his Street race to the maximum, he knows that he must continue to race to win in level.

    - It also maximizes everyone’s chances for the Summit. Without, however, putting new players at a disadvantage compared to higher players or vice versa. If there are disciplines in the Summit that the new player did not have time to increase, but that he on the other hand played well on one or more others, he can quite easily prepare himself a legendary low-level equipment in the disciplines that he has a problem with and thus no longer be as disadvantaged as at present. But it would not really be the best possible either since his vehicle would not be improved to its maximum. This always leaves a better chance of success for those who have spent a lot of time to maximize everything.

    - Anyone who finds the Summit too easy could prepare vehicles lower in level but legendary to participate. This concerns above all those who seek "competition". It would allow them to be classified in Summit by having really low vehicles, it’s a bit like a dream for them, right ?

    06/07/2019 :
    4 : Ability to spend a (fairly large) amount of spare parts to change the double bonus. For example, if I have a legendary Loot bonus and I would like to have it in nitro, I could spend 2,500 spare parts to get a chance to get the nitro bonus instead of the Loot. Currently it is really very difficult to empty its spare parts stock (or even impossible) given that the recalibration system costs more in Bucks than in spare parts. As a result, I find myself with an ever-increasing stock of spare parts (currently more than 1,000,000). And since it is also very common and frustrating to win legendary equipment that have the statistics that interest us but not the right bonus, I figure it might be a good idea.


    Gameplay System

    1 : Be able to saved to favorites Numb 4 (direction down, which is not currently used) an airplane, a boat or a car. This would make rapid selection much less limited than currently.

    2 : Regarding the challenges: I do not know how much is the current rate, but having a 50% chance of receiving a loot on a challenge would be nice. Because currently I never get anything on it, which makes the challenges useless or almost. Correct me if I am wrong on this point, I do not know very well how the challenges work.

    3 : Add the social dialogue "I don’t own the Playstation plus" for all those who like me look like a big egoist when they simply answer "no" to the question "wanna race?" We’re not all rich enough to pay a subscription plus a game to play with other people, unfortunately. So if we could at least be given an opportunity to explain it, that would be very kind. I am currently icon 410 and every low level player who tries to communicate with me must think I am too strong to play with them, which of course is not the case at all. But I can’t tell them, so I just say "no." I know I’m going to be told that all I have to do is deactivate the online ID, but I don’t see why I should hide because I’m not paying a subscription.

    06/01/2019 :
    4 : One thing that is really not practical is when you pause the game during a race and you come back into play. You then come back in one fell swoop and you don’t have time to analyze where your vehicle had stopped and most of the time, if you don’t pause at a time when you know you’re in "safety," you’ll end up in a tree, in a car or a whole bunch of places other than on the road. The idea would be to make a small change. Instead of returning to the race in a single stroke, if we had the image frozen for 1 to 2 seconds before the race restarted, we would have time to prepare to start again correctly. It would save us a lot of crashes.


    Menu's improvement

    1 : Have the ability to save our position anywhere on the map, in our homes or in HQ. And have the ability to enable or disable these options in the menu.

    2 : Have an option to disable Freeride challenges. For those who often go freeride, there are always speed challenges difficult to avoid. By the way, I find them rather useless, given what they give you. We waste a lot of time waiting for the reward, which temporarily cuts off the GPS.

    3 : Being able to put all your icon points at once in one skills. Let me explain When you step up on the game, you quickly realize that you have a lot of icon points. One can reset one of the three branches and put back its icon points. The problem is it’s "point by point". Which, after a while, is very, very long. What should be added is simply the ability to press the triangle button (PS4) to place all the remaining points in the skill on which our cursor is placed. That would save a lot of time. And still, I’m only 400 right now, and the higher-level players that I am will understand very well what I’m talking about.

    4 : I think I’ve seen this idea before, but I’ll give it anyway just in case. Add a category of storage "not displayed" to allow us to put in all the vehicles that are useless and that only increase the size of our list of vehicles. Even if there are currently filters by discipline after a while you have so many vehicles that you end up losing yourself.

    5 : Being able to retrieve Live rewards from icons points more easily for the categories you want. Ideally:
    - Go to the icon point that contains the live reward
    - Press X (PS4) to open the discipline selection and then select the desired discipline.
    - Once the selection of the discipline is made, the list of vehicles of the discipline opens. Once the vehicle is selected, press X to validate and win the Live award on that particular vehicle.

    6 : Have in the Catalogue a filter that allows to display cars by brand OR by discipline. It would be much more convenient and quick to see the list of existing cars by disciplines in the catalogue, if you wish, rather than having to go to a HQ every time.

    7 : be able to access contracts from anywhere. And also be able to pin several. It is quite unbearable to have to go to a headquarters to access the contracts because only one was able to be pinned down and we no longer remember what to do in the others. Edit 06/01/2019 : I It is now possible to pin the 3 contracts, therefore no longer need this part of the request. On the other hand, being able to access contracts from anywhere is still relevant.

    8 : To be able to deactivate harassing comments made by Hiro, Sofia, Wade and company. It’s often the same comments (it’s even exactly the same for some races). Besides, it’s hard to hear them say that we’re not moving fast enough when we’re ranked 46th in a race out of all the players that we do... Once or twice is fine, but regularly it’s really unbearable. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t want to lower the sound of all the voices in the game, I just want to be able to disable these useless comments during the races that only make me lose my concentration. Besides, these comments are made any time it’s ridiculous. Yesterday I start a Monster truck race and there is Hiro who tells me "he is too jealous", I had not even started yet ... Thanks, but no thanks.



    Followers system

    1 : In freeride, gain followers when passing very close to other cars like The Crew 1 to gain followers. I think it's a little lacking for those who got used to it.

    2 : I don’t know why this system isn’t there either, but why not add the gain of followers by impacting objects in freeride ? Would that generate too many followers ? That would be a nice addition.



    Menu's presentation

    1 : Have a better presentation of the News section. I find the current News page very sketchy. Which doesn’t make me want to look at what’s there at all. If there were separate pages in the News section such as "News/ Pack/ Information" and we could go from one page to another to see what interests us, it would be much more enjoyable, I think. Right now I just feel like I’m seeing a page where you put everything you have to say no matter where it goes. I’m pretty sure I’ve moved on to rating useful information at least once because of this.

    2 : Have better arrangement of icons skills. I don’t know how to give too many ideas for them to be better ordered. But right now I really feel like the three different talent trees don’t make any sense in terms of arrangement. Some skills don’t seem to be in the right place. The names of the various skill trees do not correspond to all the skills in them either. It doesn’t make too much sense when you look a little closer. That may be my opinion. Feel free to give me feedback if you find that illogical as well.



    Statistics

    A totally secondary idea, but I would find it interesting to have posted somewhere the number of times and the total distance covered on each race.


    Those were the ideas I had. Don’t hesitate to tell me if there are any that you liked and agree with. Thank you for reading me so far (if you have)
    Please feel free to give me feedback on these ideas. And don’t forget to like it if you like one or more ideas.
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    there is a big imbalance between bucks and spare parts
    Very true, in other words, scapping parts is still useless and have no benefits for the upgrading system because the spare points gain is too high and the amount needed for recalibration is too low which make it only optional and unnecessary for the recalibration system, and in the other hand, the requirement of bucks is too expensive and is seems to be the main payment method for recalibration that taking the place over the spare points, which means the spare points is only optional and weither it’s intergated or not integrated it will have absolutly no effect on the recalibration trading.
    As you rightly pointed out, the proper solution for this would be adding the ability to gain bucks from scapping system in additiion to the sparepoints.
    Removing the bucks requirement and increasing the amount of sparepoints needed for recalibration will also make the scrapping system very usefull.
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    Nice post, these points you wrote make sense. Little things like these would make huge improvement, both in gameplay and accessibility.
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    Yes it will be for TC3 or TC4...
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    Maybe not, who knows?

    Yes, the spare parts system is pretty useless at the moment. That might be a good idea, provided it’s done properly. And given the Bucks and spare parts imbalance right now, I’d say it really isn’t right now. That’s why I’m proposing ideas. Don’t hesitate to give yours as well, I could add them if they make sense.

    If you like my ideas don’t forget to like it to bring up and make understand that these are ideas that really appeal to players.

    And i think "Removing the Bucks Requirement" is not the solution because it would be too easy just with spare parts. On top of that, I find the Bucks pretty useless right now for high-level players who no longer need to buy vehicles, their Bucks only serve for the recalibration system. If we remove the Bucks needed for the recalibration system, they would start storing Bucks unnecessarily again. The right balance would be that the new/medium players may not spend too much in the system and at the same time that the high levels that store Bucks by millions can spend some new ones.
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    I have added some ideas and modified some. I have also updated some ideas that have changed during the last Updates.

    By the way, if a Moderator Passing by could change the title of my subject to "Many Ideas to try to improve The Crew 2", I’d be grateful to him.. Because I don’t know if it’s normal or not, but I couldn’t do it.
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