Hard mode is fun, but all my trucks look like wet napkins.

[Muffin]

I can manage to keep my vehicles working fine, but small scrapes add up quickly, leaving my vehicles in rough shape. Also, vehicles I recover, like the White Western or Twinsteer can be repaired quite easily with repair trailers in the world, but the body is terribly damaged.

I know its only cosmetic, but I'm spending hours looking at these vehicles. I would like them to look kinda nice! I was thinking about how this could be fixed.

1. Have a separate, cheaper repair option at garages for bodywork/wheels/internals, and a discounted total repair.
2. Allow body damage to be repair with service parts in some bulk cost, like 200 parts.
3. The nuclear option: Allow users to disable all cosmetic damage in the game options.

I tried look for mods, and the only option i could find would be modifying a .pak file myself, and I struggled to follow a guide only to have it to not work. Unless I've missed something, there really isn't a premade solution for my problem.

In the time being, I did make a new save in New Game+ that kinda solved my problem, but I already 100%'d Michigan on my Hard mode save.

I would love some assistance on this. A new guide for modding the ini files, a premade mod, maybe a super cool dev that could solve this issue?

[Nite69]

work trucks have a beat up look in real life but well maintained mechanically so why not have it that way in game too?

[Veter]

Originally posted by Nite69:

work trucks have a beat up look in real life but well maintained mechanically so why not have it that way in game too?

Because some of that *visual* damage can make impossible using cabin im first person camera mode, like side mirrors go throught driver head.

[BakerBay]

Hello. I am totally with you on this one!
Seeing a visually beat-up truck in hard mode doesn't make me proudly think of a rowdy workhorse, it makes me wonder if somethin's wrong with my graphics card!
It's not about the visual damage itself, it's about HOW it is implemented.

[deckerdave1973]

On my hard mode playthrough, every truck gets a full repair before getting shipped off to the next map. After a couple of maps were completed, I was not hurtin' for cash anymore so it was not a big deal.

[Beast of War]

Originally posted by deckerdave1973:

On my hard mode playthrough, every truck gets a full repair before getting shipped off to the next map. After a couple of maps were completed, I was not hurtin' for cash anymore so it was not a big deal.

Yeah i do this too......constant repairing would cost too much but this is tolerable.

And like this you will make an effort not to bang up the truck too much.

[Lt. Heinz Becker]

Agreed.

It would be nice to have the option to pay for individual components at a lower price than to pay one lump sum to repair everything. Alternatively, have repair points on service trailers repair cosmetic damage. Spintires was this way.

It's annoying to be driving carefully and then random phantom damage to the suspension and tires by half buried pebbles or sticks. Then the frame of the trucks looks like a bent paperclip and the only way to cosmetically fix it is a full repair at the garage. Small rocks bending the frame of the truck.... laughable.

Small things like this would make the game more enjoyable but they'll never add it to the game.

[Leonid]

Thats why i started new game +. I choose option when i can sell trailers for 30% cost. And thats good for such body repairs. Another rules same as hard mode.

[thegazbeard]

Originally posted by Nite69:

work trucks have a beat up look in real life but well maintained mechanically so why not have it that way in game too?

In civilised countries, a "beat-up work truck" would be prohibited from being used as too many body panels would be in a condition hazardous to other drivers (panels falling off while driving etc.) and drivers would be subject to losing their driving license for taking such trucks on the road.
This develops an expectation to see near-pristine trucks even in non-highway areas like quarries and forestries. Dirt on a truck due to use is a completely different topic than damage state.

[Muffin]

im closing this thread. I dont give two ♥♥♥♥♥ about "realism", i just want to look at the pretty truck and go "oooo, ahhhh".

This thread was pretty useless, no offense, but there weren't any real solutions offered

[Adventurous350]

I agree OP. In fact, I recall discussing this a few years ago. It is ridiculous to have to pay the full repair cost for small damage. I would be more okay with it if the damage was more realistic, but most of the time it looks awful (clipping, excessively unrealistic, bent frames from a pebble, etc.).

As others mentioned, I tend to repair when I transfer a truck to another region. I avoid it within a region, because it can become very costly. It sounds like you figured it out, but in New Game + you can disable cosmetic damage if I am remembering correctly. That does not help in the hard mode save though. If I weren't so deep into my hard mode save I would have not started one. I would have began in New Game + and never looked back.

[Beryll Argent]

It would be nice to just have an option to disable the visual damage.
Especially certain front bumpers end up looking more like a graphics glitch than affected by wear and tear after just a random minor 1 engine damage incident from touching the ground or similar.

[BurakZG]

There is no solution, other than, earn some money and repair in the garage. As far as I remember, In Alaska I manged to earn enough to get all trucks repaired. Now after 10 Seasons finished, they all look decent and I have enough money to fix them and decorate them the way I want.