{"id":51897,"date":"2021-02-03T11:37:14","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T19:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/?p=51897"},"modified":"2021-02-06T12:07:03","modified_gmt":"2021-02-06T20:07:03","slug":"project-cars-3-a-month-of-rivals-mode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2021\/02\/03\/project-cars-3-a-month-of-rivals-mode\/","title":{"rendered":"Project Cars 3: a month of Rivals mode"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the multiplayer modes in Project Cars 3 is called Rivals.&nbsp; It consists of month-long seasons.&nbsp; Each month, there is a single event which you can drive as often as you like to improve your standing.&nbsp; There are also rotating weekly events and daily events, each with a limited number of attempts.&nbsp; When each event closes, you win points based on how you placed on the leaderboard.&nbsp; Those points accumulate over the course of the season.&nbsp; At the end of the season, everybody&#8217;s ranked and wins experience points based on how well they did.&nbsp; And, of course, you&#8217;re earning experience points along the way just by driving the events.&nbsp; However you choose to play, you&#8217;re always making progress in Project Cars 3.&nbsp; If you drive, you advance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But what if I let Project Cars 3 have a turn at the wheel?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Previously, I&#8217;ve chosen to play the campaign mode for the most part.&nbsp; But this month, I&#8217;m going to commit to the Rivals mode for a couple of reasons.&nbsp; The main reason is variety.&nbsp; The Rivals mode is like a sampler of all the different ways to play Project Cars 3.&nbsp; I&#8217;m not terribly interested in all the advanced hypercar and formula car races, but I&#8217;ve discovered that they&#8217;re not qualitatively different from the road races I prefer.&nbsp; Basically, driving skills are driving skills, regardless of whether you&#8217;re in a Lamborghini Sian FKP 37 (a set of DLC career races is based on whatever that is), some open-wheel formula car like the one Stallone drove in Driven (yes, that&#8217;s my main frame of reference for these cars), or a Honda Fit (hi, real life!).&nbsp; And because Project Cars 3 is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2021\/01\/21\/what-does-project-cars-3-have-that-other-racing-games-dont\/\">built from the ground up to reward driving skills<\/a>, it&#8217;s the first racing game where I can actually do well in cars that would normally run away from me.&nbsp; I know this from being shoved into these cars in Rivals mode.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The other reason I&#8217;m going to play Rivals mode is because it&#8217;s a great way to advance your accolades.&nbsp; Accolades are the achievement system in Project Cars 3, but unlike most achievement systems, they have gameplay implications.&nbsp; By playing the campaign mode, I&#8217;ve been diving deeply into a handful of accolades, tied to specific cars and tracks.&nbsp; Each accolade has five levels, and at each level you win a sum of experience points.&nbsp; So you&#8217;re constantly rewarded for running up the tallies with certain cars and certain tracks.&nbsp; And in career mode, you focus on a few cars and tracks at a time.&nbsp; But by driving the daily events in Rivals mode, I&#8217;ll jumpstart the lower levels on a ton of different accolades.&nbsp; For instance, there are 53 tracks in Project Cars 3.&nbsp; After dozens of hours playing, I have yet to try most of them.&nbsp; And in the career mode, I only own 11 out of about 200 cars.&nbsp; Furthermore, your earned experience points are applied to each car, leveling them up and applying a discount to upgrades for that car.&nbsp; So by sampling different cars in Rivals mode, I&#8217;ll be pre-leveling them before I even buy them.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The final reason to try Rivals mode is because I realized it&#8217;s not like the competitive mode in most racing games in that I don&#8217;t have to be really good to earn a meaningful reward.&nbsp; I just have to be consistent.&nbsp; Because you&#8217;re awarded points at the end of the season for each event, you&#8217;re going to rack up a score just for showing up.&nbsp; I realized this on Monday when I booted up Project Cars 3 and got a message about my reward for the January season.&nbsp; Which I&#8217;d forgotten all about.&nbsp; But I had sampled a few Rival events and my points were dutifully applied to the overall standing.&nbsp; Sure, I ended up in the Bronze category, but I still got a reward.&nbsp; And if I&#8217;d showed up for more events, I would have gotten a bigger reward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So for February, I&#8217;ll be showing up to do all the events as a way to let Project Cars 3 show me what it has to offer.&nbsp; I&#8217;ve been in the driver&#8217;s seat so far.&nbsp; I&#8217;ve been choosing my cars and events up to now.&nbsp; But I&#8217;m going to see what happens if I let Rivals mode drive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Up next: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2021\/02\/04\/project-cars-3-top-ten-reasons-i-didnt-get-a-better-lap-time-today\/\">top ten reasons I didn&#8217;t get a better lap time today<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the multiplayer modes in Project Cars 3 is called Rivals.&nbsp; It consists of month-long seasons.&nbsp; Each month, there is a single event which you can drive as often as you like to improve your standing.&nbsp; There are also rotating weekly events and daily events, each with a limited number of attempts.&nbsp; When each 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