About vehicles...

[Tokugawa_Killer 0]

I really like this game, appreciate the work you are doing and fully understand that it is still in alpha stage, but what's up with the vehicles?

 

I was so much happy about cars, but when I first got to drive one (yes it takes so much time assembling one), I was really disapointed by the mechanic...

 

My question is the following : have you ever actually drove a car in real life? Because I have never seen a car (even the worst one) with the horse power of a turtle. The bus, I can more or less understand, but cars or trucks?

 

So please, change that and give us real vehicles that can actually work.

[blackberrygoo 1416]

Yes this is really an issue with manual transmission mechanic being in its infancy and for the buses case I believe it's because the hit box of the truck gets stuck in the earth (especially on small uneven hills / bumps).. I can tell you this though : the sedans and hatchbacks are POWERFUL , try looking for those and don't be discouraged by the other vehicle bugs (disappearing wheels, hitting invisible road blocks , and the worst of all the vehicle glitch that makes a perfect car unmovable for some reason).

The vehicles will be fixed in due time , the v3s was good before but when manual transmission and the new vehicles came out , it put all of them into a somewhat broken state .. But somewhere along these iterations of .59 the hatchback and sedan cars got much more horsepower (and traction) so go for the cars !

Edited January 14, 2016 by Grapefruit kush

[eno 1049]

What many people fail to realize is that DayZ is the first BIS effort to actually implement any vehicles whatsoever. As even the noobiest noob will tell you, absolutely NONE of the games ever created by BIS starting as far back as Operation Flashpoint had any road capable vehicles to speak of. ARMA 2 similarly was absent of anything with wheels. It is then understood that given that these are the FIRST EVER IMPLEMENTED into their video games that things will be, let's say a little rough around the edges. ARMA 3? A more modern title that was grown out of its predecessors maps? Nope- not a single working vehicle was ever programmed into the game so don't even go there! 

 

I mean... perhaps if there were vehicles in any of the other games there may have been some potential to, you know, borrow some of the experience gained in those other titles and enhanced the development of cars in DayZ instead of being forced to reinvent the wheel.

 

Fortunately, all other BIS titles had heavy emphasis on pedal bicycles so I expect their integration into DayZ will be seamless and problem free. 

[Sandman94 11]

Hatchback and sedans, especially the hatchback is quite powerful. Perhaps you are having trouble figuring out how the manual transmission works. I know it took me a bit before I got one moving smoothly - it takes practice. Once you hear the engine basically over-revving you need to gear into 2nd, 3rd, 4th using q and e. The most recent hatchback I assembled I took to an airstrip, got it up to 4th gear and I'm guessing I was hitting around 70+ mph/~112 kph (wasn't looking at speedometer cause I don't like driving in first person).  Point is once you get familiar with the transmission you can whip around pretty easily. A warning though, since repairing/putting together a vehicle is so time consuming, I tend to only go up to third gear when driving on roads. Otherwise inevitability I will lose control and end up in a tree or barbed wire or a sign, or whatever else.  

 

Since we are on the topic of vehicles...my only suggestion would be to consider lessening the damage on wheels when you hit something. I've been in and seen more than a few car accidents and not one of the times have the wheels on my car looked like they hit a police spike belt after the fact. At this point I just laugh and shake my head but seriously when do tires ever get shredded to pieces like that? If anything the tires are the one thing that usually remain intact upon driving your car into something.   

[Fuggaak 0]

I've found a sedan that was in the middle of the woods, fixed it up and got it running, but it's almost immobile. I got it out of the trees, dirt, and grass on to a main road but it still barely budges. It's like I have tires made from ice or slick with oil. Almost flat ground I move about 20 meters into an incline, then the car slows and goes backwards even tho I'm putting maximum acceleration. I know how to drive them I've used them in exp with the Q and E shifting. I have no idea what the problem is. My tires are all worn, and the engine parts are pristine. Really frustrating putting 3+ hrs into gathering parts and running them back just to have an immobile vehicle.