There are tutorials, and you don't have to jump in the light campaign right away, you can just mess around in sandbox until you get the hang of building cars and only then add the complexity of setting up factories and such in the campaign. The interface has also been improved a lot in the latest patches and will likely keep getting better. Everything has very informative mouseover popups and there are additional question mark buttons that show an explanation of what you're dealing with in any tab of the car or engine designer.

But of course knowledge of cars helps a lot. It's just the sort of game that has to give you a loooot of information and options and frankly I can't imagine how they could make it much more easy to learn without oversimplifying things. So I guess I would rate the noob friendliness at around 5 to 7

I'd say it also depends on preferred learning style and how much time you have. It is not a streamlined game, but it does provide you with most of the info you need to play it well. We do have good engine design tutorial scenarios, those will cover you well on the engine side. That is still lacking for the cars and the campaign itself though. Watching my or others' let's plays will help quite a lot to get the overall flow and will make you able to learn it pretty quickly. I'd say: 4-6/10 depending on your time and patience.

Thank you both for the response.
Time and patience are not a problem, i spend a lot of time playing Football Manager, which needs a tons of information, time and dedication.

I'm thinking i might just say F it and go for it, if it doesn't click with me i can always come back later on since it's still in development

One last thing, i was wondering if there's a way to edit the UI (font size to be more specific), i have really bad eyesight and games where you need to, sort of, read a lot get quite challenging. If there isn't, it doesn't take any points away, but if there is it adds a lot of value for me

PS: i'm loving you Fruinian Supercars LP, i'm only 7 episodes in but i's been enough to make me wanna try it for myself

There is no way of changing the UI scale or font size (yet), the only accessibility option we have is a color blind mode. The new UI is quite a bit cleaner though and will continue to be cleaned up with some more UI changes soon, specifically with readability in mind. Those colored numbers in the side panels can be hard to read for instance, although video compression makes that look worse than it is.
Cheers!

Thank you for the quick response. Haven't seen the new UI yet, but the old one looked really good and organized already.
The only thing i can remember not being really clear was the "k" and "m" after a number when in red, but that sounds more like a YT thing

It's decided, I'm in, tomorrow i'm gonna engineer the hell out of some cars for sure

Cheers my man, you're awesome

Let us know how easy or difficult you find it getting into this, and if you have any issues with readability, let us know! :)

Pretty much everything is done from the lower third of the screen when you're making the car. That's where all the adjustments are for the engine, the drivetrain, paint, etc. and that's where all of your fixtures are. I find it pretty intuitive (paint system is a bit clunkier than it was a few months ago in my opinion, minor gripe though) and I'm sure you will too.

I've taken a look and it looks promising. I had a couple of crashes whilst doing a challenge, but that's ok.

What i didnt know was how GPU intense this game was, even in the menu my R9 390 is at 100%. I thought it would be more of a CPU and SSD kinda game lol

I have an R9 380 4GB... I feel your pain lol

Originally posted by Anonymus (The Golden What?):

I've taken a look and it looks promising. I had a couple of crashes whilst doing a challenge, but that's ok.

What i didnt know was how GPU intense this game was, even in the menu my R9 390 is at 100%. I thought it would be more of a CPU and SSD kinda game lol

New games are supposed to use 100% GPU power when you ask them to. If you don't want that then just go into the main options menu, check your current framerate, then limit the framerate to something lower than what you can achieve. Otherwise of course 100% load is expected :)

Wait, so even if i upgrade my card, i'd still be at 100%? It gets pretty deafening when the card is at 100%.
I always thought it was because it was an old-ish piece of hardware and that a 5700XT was gonna fix my problems.

About the fps limit, i put a 144 limit (using a 144hz monitor) even though i barely get 60 fps in the menu, do you think that's doing more wrong than good?
Since there aren't really a lot of moving parts i guess i could always limit to 40 or 50 :-/

Of course you'd get 100%, even with a 2080 you'd get 100% if you demand enough frames per second from it, I'm surprised that surprises you :P
If you don't like running your GPU at or near 100%, do as I said above and limit your framerate to something that loads the card as much as you want. You can also lower the resolution scale and other effects to get more frames or less load if you framerate limit it.

Thank you for the quick lesson. I'm surprised because it only happens with this game and with Black desert. With other games fans don't rev up this much so i don't know if it's at 100. Maybe they're limited at 60 fps for portability, they are CPU heavy or something, i have no idea, that's a world i'd rather not put my foot in, too complicated for me :D

The point is, the game is really fun, i'm a bit lost, but easy does it :)

I know this may sound dumb, but see if your version of windows has a magnifier.
Windows 10 has a magnifier app in 'Windows Ease of access.'

just go play your own way, you need LOADS, i mean it LOADS of mods to make a good looking car though, beamng exporting is so bloody fun, thanks for making me buy this car game shinyodd