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Need help with how you are supposed to play through the Career (and how I skip Rallycross)

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I'm confused with how to progress in career mode.

At the start of career mode, there are 4 options:
-A Rally
-An uphill climb
-A Rallycross
-FIA World Rallycross Championship

I think based on the first car I bought, I just happen to be limited to picking the Rallycross. Is this right? If I picked a different first car, would I be able to play Rally or Uphill climb?

So here are my questions:

1) What am I supposed to do to progress in the career? Do I complete the Rallycross event which is the only one I can join  (what position do I need to get in the final?) and then do I complete the other two (Rally and uphill climb) in order to then unlock the FIA Championship?

2) I really hate the Rallycross, so is there anyway for me to play the game and progress only playing Rally and uphill climb? How would I do this (maybe re-start the game and pick a car that would let me play Rally or uphill climb)? Can I really progress / complete the career mode while skipping Rallycross?

3) How does the online stuff and the option to just create your own custom tournament thing co-ordinate with progressing in the career? Is it a case where the goal is to just earn credits and buy more cars, so that it doesn't matter which mode you play in the career section (the main career, online, creating a custom tournmanet) as long as you collect credits? This would be good for me because then I could just focus on Rally races and ignore Rallycross.

Thanks for any help.

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@TheQuick The goal is to earn credits to buy cars and compete in their disciplines.

You start off with enough credits to buy one 1960's Rally car or a Class RX Mini. For everything else, you have to earn credits and buy the cars to compete.

Online Events are basically there for an extra challenge and to buy credits to spend on cars in career mode. Certain Online events require you to have purchased the eligible vehicles and use your version (which upgrades automatically the more your drive it) for the race. Other online events (DiRT Daily Live) give you a random car and track, so everyone is competing on a level playing field.

All of these earn you credits that you can spend in career mode to hire mechanics (for faster repairs), purchase perks (for faster upgrades) and buy new vehicles to race with.

Custom Championship allows you to select a difficulty and season length, but the individual stages, the game selects for you, and it adjusts the credit rewards based on your combination of length and difficulty.

TL;DR

1) You can start off in 1960's Rally or Class RX, and then progress to higher vehicle classes. No discipline is compulsory. You unlock disciplines by buying an eligible vehicle.

2) Yes, just start by buying a 1960's Rally Car and go from there.

3) Online stuff is mostly just a separate source of income where all but one (DiRT Daily Live) require you to have the eligible vehicle(s) bought in Career Mode.

Not sure about Leagues.

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The FIA World Rallycross Championship unlocks after you have won Championships at the first two difficulty levels in rallycross. However if you aren't interested in rallycross you can just ignore it and concentrate on rally and hillclimb...

...but you only have enough money at the start to buy one car, so make sure you buy a rally car and not a rallycross car if that's what you want to do! If you have bought a rallycross car with your starting money then you don't need to do many races to earn enough for a rally car. The daily challenges are a quick way of bring some money in as well. 

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You can completely ignore Rallycross, if you like. The only way to unlock the FIA Rallycross Championship is to reach the "Professional" championship in the Rallycross section. That said, the FIA is simply the same thing.

@789ifyz is correct in that you can choose to race in anyway that you like, with any class, provided you own the vehicle. However, I would like to add that using Custom Championship is an ideal place to upgrade any of your owned vehicles, which is turn makes them far more competitive in your Rally Championship.

https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/threads/crap-dirt-rally-club-ps4-racenet-league-events-live.344617/page-44


Check it out. If you think you'd dig it, feel free to join. A bunch of really nice...and surprisingly fast folks. Great fun and makes you look forward to preparing every week.


Also, for Hillclimb, you can only use vehicles within the "Hillclimb Class". i.e. you can't see how fast you can climb the mountain in a WRC car...unfortunately...

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Holy...you had asked what position you need to be in to progress. At the end of every season, you need to place in the top three to advance to the next level. Remember...winning is not the objective. Finishing is.

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