Development and Customization | Basic Information The Crew Guide

Last update: 21 October 2016

Player level

In The Crew you can reach levels ranging between 1 and 50. Your level is determined, basing on your experience points, which you receive for missions, tests and races. You need to reach a specific level, to be able to complete a given storyline mission. You can go anywhere o the map, regardless of your level, but you need a specific level to do tests, visit a car dealership and a tuning garage. For the Midwest it is level 1, for the West Coast level 10, for The South 20, for Mountain States 30, and for West Coast it is level 40. At the top level - 50 you gain access to faction missions and platinum car parts.

Car level

Car level depends only on the parts that have been installed. You receive them for completing storyline missions and tests. Each car consists of 11 parts. The parts that you receive from a given mission has its level. Depending on how you do on the mission, you can receive brown, silver and gold parts, and after you reach the top level, also platinum ones. Of course, the better you do, the higher the bonus for your car and the higher the level. Additionally, for each part, you receive a bonus. It may be acceleration, top speed, grip or braking.

Money

In The Crew there are 2 currencies. You earn Bucks, by completing missions, tests, races and for your actions (while on the road, you receive small sums of money for overtaking, passing by, at high speed, etc.) They are the counterparts of Dollars, for which it is the informal name. Crew credits are a premium currency that you can buy at the Uplay store. At the beginning of the game, you need to pick your faction. For picking one, you receive 100 000 Cc for free.

For completing an easy storyline mission, you receive between $1000 and $3000. This is not too much, given the fact that buying all of the cars is going to cost you more than $10 mln You earn much more from PvP races, where you can earn around 16-18 thousand for several minutes. Also, faction missions are profitable. For missions of up to 10 minutes, you receive $8000, whereas the ones of 10-60 minutes - $30000, and the ones that last more than an hour, you receive more than $88000$.

An excellent way of making money is visiting landmarks:

These are landmarks and other unique places around the USA. Around the map, there are 242 of them. For visiting each one, you receive $2000, and it takes little time.

The fastest way of development

As you already know, in the game, there are brown, silver and gold car parts. You receive them, depending on your score in a given mission. You do not need to do much to win the brown medal. This may seem enough. But later on, it may turn out that your car is too slow to complete the next mission, or win the brown medal, at least. Difficulty level of the races are organized in a way that allows the player to obtain silver parts in each. Therefore, if you win gold in a mission, in the next one it is going to be easier for you. The situation is different, if you win brown. This is why, it is a good idea to replay missions or do skill tests. Some of the missions are very hard and nearly impossible with cars at a given level. You need to skip them and return later on, with a much faster car.