Funny, I know a lot of people who are glad that the devs didn’t put cars into the game and use the development time for more game-related things. Nobody I talked to outside the forum agreed to having drivable cars would be a good thing.
How would you armor a car? Do you need a forge for that, requiring a lot of steel? The whole “armouring a standard car” mechanic would need to be implemented from scratch. And with the generous but limited carrying capacity this might become quite a problem. (I’m already hearing the cries for an even larger carrying capacity.)
The suspensions of regular cars are not designed to carry a lot of weight. Usually the cars weight plus about 400-500kg is the maximum. With the driver weighing about 70-80kg plus the 96kg in the backpack this reduces the amount the suspensions can lift to quite a small value.
Of course there are specialized companies who build armoured cars which can withstand quite an attack. But they are still not impenetrable. And I wouldn’t dare giving a teenager credit to build such a car. But then one can build ammo after collecting the blueprint for it.
sounds to me you’re talking about GZ (although the bugs decreased over time, there are still a lot present).
Why take a lot of things in transport if your plundra box is full and you don’t need anything ?? Why transport at all, if there is a quick teleport to any point on the map ?? and why do we need cars if most of the interesting places on the map do not have a road ?? I think the topic is useless at all) sorry
Some very very good points, well made here community - I’ve re-read it a few times, but still can’t get my head around why you would need a motorised vehicle. That said - who knows what may come in time
However, to keep this interesting in the interim - what vehicles would you suggest - and would you be able to hold all 4 players in it simultaneously firing weapons during at battle…
Allright, f**k it. I want a «Spark»
Fast as hell and has no brakes. Aim for the nearest bot and jump off right before impact!
And I just realized, you can even leave your co-op buddy on the seat for increased velocity and impact. Just give him an adrenaline shot for the trip and watch him go!
Then, GZ isn’t the game for them, if all they look for in a game, is ability to drive vehicles.
The added fuel cost due to the weight of the armor would make any armored vehicle very inefficient. Not to mention their slow speed, again, due to the weight of the armor.
In-game example (spoiler)
Just look at Calle’s truck. It has the capacity to carry the extra armor and power to move the whole thing as well but at max, it is driving at walking speeds, since truck’s engine isn’t capable of more. Car’s engine is even less powerful (less torque), where getting even going would be miracle with all that armor.
Sounds a lot like State of Decay 2. Of course, SoD2 has completely different gameplay than GZ.
https://forum.generationzero.com/u/knobitobi
“Funny, I know a lot of people who are glad that the devs didn’t put cars into the game and use the development time for more game-related things. Nobody I talked to outside the forum agreed to having drivable cars would be a good thing.”
We both brought sircumstantial evidene into it again. Sorry, I started that one. But since were on the topic of circumstancial evidence, When talking to your dudes, did you ask them about specificaly using cars for one thing, (such as combat) or did you just say, “what do you think of cars,” and they gave you their general opinion?
I know how suspensions work. However…
Calles Truck could do it just fine. And that appeared to be just an augmented delivery/box truck.
Also, during the missions when you had to gather materials for Calles truck, when you cme to the truck, it was not at all difficult to put on. So saying that you would need a forge is an understandable question, but you wouldnt nessisarilly need a forge. However, to be fair, welding may come into play. But again, although welding was brought up in dialouge for that mission, it wasnt a massive project.
That would add to the usefullness of gas tanks. Plus, it would make you be more careful with how you use your reasourses.
Also, you could add an armor VS weight ratio, so sfter a certain threshold, you start sacrifising more and more exceleration and speed in general.
I agree that armoring a standard car would be quite a bad idea. It’s done in real combat zones, but it’s just complicating things more than they’d need to be.
For “armored car”, we need to look no further than the KP-bil, or literally “Armored body car”, a WWII vehicle which received a final upgrade in the 80’s.
sounds to me you’re talking about GZ (although the bugs decreased over time, there are still a lot present).
