RLS Career Overhaul | v2.7.0 | 0.39 Compatibility Update

BeamNG 0.39 Compatibility

Career Overhaul has been extensively updated for BeamNG.drive 0.39.

• Migrated the mod’s Lua, UI, routing, pause-menu, map, and facility integrations to the new 0.39 structures.

• Reworked override loading to prevent vanilla 0.39 modules from replacing Career Overhaul systems.

• Removed thousands of obsolete bundled vanilla files, reducing conflicts and unnecessary package content.

• Updated West Coast USA assets, facilities, dealerships, garages, event areas, roads, lighting, and terrain data for the 0.39 map.

• Restored missing Auction House and Ravix model/material references.

• Fixed phone input bindings after the mod mounts.

• Fixed extension loading involving path-based modules, UI console handling, Taxi passenger modules, facilities, fuel prices, and drift spots.

• Fixed Racing Team dependency unloading and optional expansion-map checks.

• Improved loading into supported career expansion maps.

• Protected force-feedback restoration when vehicles are unavailable or have changed during loading.

Legacy Save Migration

Older career saves now have a dedicated migration system.

• Added automatic detection of saves requiring migration.

• Added a detailed compatibility report before loading an older save.

• Reports missing content, incompatible vehicles, unavailable garages, loose parts, and other possible migration problems.

• Migration always creates a separate copy and leaves the original save untouched.

• Players can:

  • Sell everything and receive the estimated value.

  • Choose individual vehicles, parts, and garages to sell.

  • Attempt to preserve everything.

• Added clear warnings for blocked or risky migrations.

• Rebuilt legacy insurance data into the current format.

• Preserved compatible insurance and ownership information.

• Added rollback protection if migration preparation cannot finish safely.

• Prevented missing insurance data from wiping vehicles during the first load.

• Fixed migration handling for missing vehicles, garages, or invalid save versions.

• Fixed copied and renamed profiles retaining the previous display name.

New Career Setup

Starting a career has been completely redesigned.

• Added three distinct starting paths:

  • Career – the primary progression experience.

  • Story – curated challenges with specific rules and goals.

  • Custom – complete control over progression and starting conditions.

• Added new difficulty presets:

  • Casual

  • Standard

  • Hard

  • Hardcore

• Difficulty now controls money, XP, and starting cash on a per-save basis.

• Added starting map selection.

• Added starting garage selection.

• Added a direct starting-cash input.

• Added Police and Maintenance Mode options during profile creation.

• Custom careers can configure:

  • Global economy speed.

  • Global XP speed.

  • Starting cash.

  • Per-activity payouts.

  • Per-skill XP rates.

  • Police.

  • Maintenance.

  • Cheats.

• Profile cards now show the career path and difficulty.

• Moved the Police preference to individual profile cards.

• Fixed difficulty, Hardcore rules, and Hardcore starter vehicles not persisting correctly.

• Improved profile switching to follow the same reliable process as changing maps.

• Fixed profile and backup renaming.

Phone App Store

The phone now has a proper App Store.

• New phones begin with four core dock apps instead of every app being preinstalled.

• Apps can be installed through the App Store.

• Added descriptive store cards for each app.

• Skill-gated apps appear in the store but explain their requirements when opened before unlocking.

• Fixed app installation and home-screen refresh behavior.

• Fixed App Store icons and delayed home-screen icon rendering.

• Moved individual app settings to dedicated settings pages.

Phone Tutorial and Wiki

• Added a guided phone tutorial after the career introduction.

• Expanded the tutorial to explain fundamental phone apps and navigation.

• Tutorial completion is remembered globally, so experienced players can skip it on future profiles.

• Fixed the final tutorial step causing a full-screen blackout.

• Added a developer option to replay the tutorial.

• Renamed the Guide app to Wiki.

• Reworked the Wiki into expandable categories and topics.

• Updated gameplay descriptions, hints, and Marketplace documentation.

Phone Notifications

The notification system has been substantially expanded.

• Converted phone-related toast messages into proper phone notifications.

• Added Android-style banners while the phone is open.

• Notifications can be tapped to open the relevant app.

• Added swipe-left and swipe-right dismissal.

• Added separate controls for lock-screen and banner notifications.

• Added a master notification toggle.

• Added individual app notification controls.

• Added notification-duration selection.

• Added a simplified notification mode that only displays the app name.

• Added Do Not Disturb.

• Notifications now check whether their app is installed before appearing.

• Existing events can generate catch-up notifications when their app is installed.

• Added event-specific FRE Contract notifications.

• Added Tuning Shop job-complete and job-failed notifications.

• Added Dakar and Road Authority notifications.

• Improved notification text layout and prevented long text from leaving the screen.

• Fixed excessive or repeated phone popups.

• Fixed notification settings not refreshing after installing an app.

Phone Marketplace

The Marketplace is now fully usable from the phone.

• Added private-sale listings to the Marketplace app.

• Added a dedicated selling tab.

• Vehicles can be listed directly from the phone.

• Added an offers inbox.

• Added detailed vehicle information pages.

• Added phone-based negotiation.

• Added deny-offer confirmation.

• Phone and computer Marketplace searches now maintain separate state.

• Added routing to private sellers and listing vehicles.

• Listing vehicles now spawn at their advertised location.

• Added the option to call an actual Taxi to a listing instead of teleporting.

• Removed misleading Taxi fare quotes because final fares are metered.

• Vehicles with disqualifying damage cannot be listed or sold.

• Offers can no longer be accepted after the vehicle has been damaged.

• Fixed price formatting, untranslated negotiation text, and Marketplace scrollbars.

• Fixed accepted values changing before validation.

• Improved handling of failed offer actions.

• Preserved offer IDs through UI synchronization.

• Prevented double-clicking an offer action.

• Fixed the phone router becoming stuck after canceling a purchase.

• Added an app-opening shortcut pill to relevant Marketplace screens.

• Serialized vehicle thumbnail captures to prevent overlapping or corrupted captures.

Realistic Walking and Vehicle Entry

A new immersive entry and walking system has been added.

• Added first-person transitions when entering and exiting vehicles.

• The player approaches the driver’s door before entering.

• Supported doors can open and close during the sequence.

• Entry positioning accounts for vehicle dimensions, driver location, right-hand-drive layouts, obstacles, oversized tires, tracks, and attachments.

• Added fallback entry handling when the normal walking path is blocked.

• Added a more natural walking camera with configurable head movement and sprint behavior.

• Added separate toggles for:

  • Realistic Vehicle Entry

  • Realistic Walking Camera

Vehicle and Trailer Deliveries

• Restored the ability to accept multiple vehicle-delivery jobs.

• Attached trailers are now recognized as part of the player’s vehicle group.

• Trailer trains can correctly trigger delivery and parking markers.

• Long trailer combinations no longer fail because the rear trailer is outside the original detection radius.

• Vehicle and trailer deliveries now use cargo-style navigation.

• Every currently actionable destination can appear on the route instead of the most recently accepted job replacing the others.

• Destinations can be completed in a practical order.

• Fixed delivery markers and icons repeatedly appearing or glitching during attached-vehicle checks.

• Fixed trailer parking spots on West Coast USA.

• Fixed delivering vehicles stored in another garage.

Bus, Paramedic, BeamEats, and Facility Work

• Fixed Bus reputation always being awarded to Central Station.

• Bus shifts now remember and reward the correct organization.

• Cleared stale Bus organization data when starting a different shift.

• Added configurable draw distances to Paramedic and BeamEats work locations.

• Added a dedicated forklift mast controller.

• Forklift tilt controls now correctly drive the mast.

• Fixed mast tilt losing control to the upfit tilt system.

Police and Pursuits

Police behavior has received a significant overhaul.

• Reduced excessive ambient police density.

• Reduced overly sensitive offense detection.

• Slowed early pursuit escalation so minor incidents remain in the softer warning stage longer.

• Added police loudspeaker messages as pursuit severity increases.

• Police aggression now rises with wanted level, pursuit duration, and offense severity.

• Police contact speed now scales with wanted level.

• Roadblocks are reserved for the highest pursuit stage.

• Adjusted pursuit scoring and evasion timing.

• Restored the selective police AI override required by the new behavior.

• Fixed police continuing to chase after a pursuit ends.

• Fixed police units retaining pursuit flags or incorrect AI modes after an evade.

• Wrecked police vehicles now reset more reliably.

• Fixed Police preferences turning themselves back on.

• Fixed traffic and police setup when entering or rebuilding a career.

• Improved Road Authority vehicle availability on Skeleton Coast.

Demolition Derby

Demolition Derby AI has been updated for 0.39.

• Derby vehicles now receive the correct custom AI controller.

• Fixed AI vehicles failing to start or remaining parked.

• Improved target validation when another vehicle is eliminated.

• AI drivers change targets more naturally instead of repeatedly attacking the same opponent.

• Added new recovery behavior for stationary or deadlocked AI.

• Improved recovery when vehicles become stuck against one another or arena boundaries.

• Reduced unnecessary AI mode resets.

• Improved engine startup and countdown behavior.

Freeroam Events

• Updated FRE systems and overlays for 0.39.

• Improved event checkpoint reliability.

• Increased the final checkpoint trigger volume from the original compatibility value.

• Updated event assets and checkpoints to match the 0.39 West Coast map.

• Fixed extension loading and route handling for Freeroam Events and FRE Contracts.

Auction House

• Restored the Auction House for 0.39.

• Restored missing Auction House materials.

• Lowered Auction House music volume.

• Improved the handoff of vehicles won at auction.

• Fixed won vehicles appearing frozen or broken.

• Fixed hung AI plans when leaving after bidding.

• Fixed Lua errors caused by stale auction plans.

• Improved the ordering of freeze removal and vehicle ownership changes.

• Hardened auction purchase recovery when something fails during the handoff.

Tuning and Part Shopping

• Updated Tuning and Part Shopping interfaces for 0.39.

• Restored the 0.38-style Live Wheel Data display.

• Live Wheel Data now scrolls independently.

• Apply buttons and tuning toggles remain visible while Live Wheel Data is open.

• Fixed the Tuning route reporting itself as mounted before initialization succeeded.

• Removed fuel and battery level from the tuning menu.

• Updated shopping-cart and part-selection integration for the new UI.

World and Environment

• Restored the rolling time-of-day cycle.

• Fixed the time-of-day toggle not changing the actual scene setting.

• Cargo and Big Map screens no longer unintentionally alter environment settings.

• Fixed traffic spawning after changing maps.

• Fixed players occasionally being left in free camera after a map change.

• Added and adjusted gates around the port and burnout-track areas.

• Restored missing model materials and updated custom West Coast locations for the 0.39 map.

Performance and Stability

• Improved marker-interaction performance.

• Reduced unnecessary nearby-vehicle and attached-trailer scanning.

• Reused vehicle-position snapshots instead of rebuilding them repeatedly.

• Reduced marker icon flickering and prompt spam.

• Optimized player-driving statistic updates.

• Improved Facility Loading performance.

• Reduced unnecessary updates in banking, insurance, inventory, businesses, vehicle shopping, phone time, and challenge systems.

• Throttled loaner-vehicle monitoring.

• Deferred loaner returns until after active vehicle iteration completes.

• Prevented parallel vehicle-thumbnail capture jobs.

• Fixed duplicate initialization in the override manager.

• Fixed vehicle-position data being accidentally mutated during marker checks.

• Improved career and expansion-map loading reliability.

• Fixed several Lua reload and extension dependency failures.

As always, thank you for all the feedback, testing, and bug reports. The move to BeamNG.drive 0.39 required touching nearly every major part of Career Overhaul, but it also created the foundation for a cleaner UI, safer save upgrades, better performance, and much more control over how each career begins.