Your Truck choice and Trailer Choice (If changed)

[Flash]

So I find most trucks really slow and boring (my playstyle).. So I go for the 8 Engine Power Truck and usually try to go for a trailer change to 20k (fuel +2). Get the power and the cap for a fast playthrough across the map.

What about you O.o

[Tahnval]

Default truck, engine upgrades, a character with a +speed trait while driving and developing crew comfort and food supply to an extent that one person can be the driver most of the time and nobody needs to sleep, ever(*). Truck parts to make the truck handle adverse terrain conditions better.

Standard travel speed is currently 52 Kph and we never have to stop for sleep, which makes travelling significantly faster. The main slowdown at the moment is dust storms in autumn.


* The way to do with is to install an exquisite dining table in the truck and have a plentiful supply of stress-reducing food. My personal retcon is that the truck has an adequate crew quarters and crew who aren't driving chill out there and sleep there. IRL, big trucks can have quite nice crew quarters on them, between the driving cabin and the cargo section. The truck in the game definitely has a structure there.

[Flash]

Originally posted by Tahnval:

Default truck, engine upgrades, a character with a +speed trait while driving and developing crew comfort and food supply to an extent that one person can be the driver most of the time and nobody needs to sleep, ever(*). Truck parts to make the truck handle adverse terrain conditions better.

Standard travel speed is currently 52 Kph and we never have to stop for sleep, which makes travelling significantly faster. The main slowdown at the moment is dust storms in autumn.


* The way to do with is to install an exquisite dining table in the truck and have a plentiful supply of stress-reducing food. My personal retcon is that the truck has an adequate crew quarters and crew who aren't driving chill out there and sleep there. IRL, big trucks can have quite nice crew quarters on them, between the driving cabin and the cargo section. The truck in the game definitely has a structure there.

I didnt realize the default truck went 52 Kph.. Nice. My truck does 70kph with ex racer trait which is awesome. And yeah. Big trucks can have pretty good living quarters. I saw one once and was amazed how well furnished it was XD.. It would be nice if crew not driving actually rested if you chose the large metal truck (to offset the fuel economy horror that it is)

[Tahnval]

Originally posted by Flash:

[..]I didnt realize the default truck went 52 Kph.. Nice. [..]

It doesn't at stock. That's with an engine upgrade and a more skilled driver. The stock speed is 40. 5 HP, each HP contributes 8 kph to top speed. Engine upgrade takes it from 40 to 48, skilled driver adds 10% to take it to 52.

They must have had very big horses in the world of Dustland delivery if 5 HP can move a big heavy goods vehicle at 40 kph

[Steelfleece]

The faster, lightweight truck can do well over 80kph depending on circumstances and driver traits. I used that the last few times I played, just because it's perfect for the Lone Wolf playthroughs. If I went for a full crew playthrough, I'd be tempted to use the fatty truck. Always seemed to wind up with way too much fuel, so burning a little extra shouldn't be an issue.

[Flash]

okay. I didnt realize hp contributed to increased power/speed.. Only thought that was some stop gap and damage reduction from overall weather+terrain damage. Never upgraded till now since I didnt really expect to jump into volcanic terrain etc. extreme conditions (map not out yet) o.o

Nice!... I will do the power upgrade to my speedy truck for even higher speeds

[Tahnval]

I think that the truck parts that mitigate the HP debuff from terrain and/or weather are worth it on this map, though how much they're worth it depends on which truck you start with.

Default truck has 5 HP = 40 kph. Every -1 HP debuff takes 8 kph off that. So heavy rain in hills drops the speed to 1 HP = 8 kph and you will take forever to get anywhere. Add being even a little overburdened and your truck can't move at all. I encountered that several times early on.

With the speedy truck, the effect of the same reduction is less extreme. 8 HP = 64 kph, so heavy rain in hills drops it to 4 HP = 32 kph.

[Flash]

Originally posted by Tahnval:

I think that the truck parts that mitigate the HP debuff from terrain and/or weather are worth it on this map, though how much they're worth it depends on which truck you start with.

Default truck has 5 HP = 40 kph. Every -1 HP debuff takes 8 kph off that. So heavy rain in hills drops the speed to 1 HP = 8 kph and you will take forever to get anywhere. Add being even a little overburdened and your truck can't move at all. I encountered that several times early on.

With the speedy truck, the effect of the same reduction is less extreme. 8 HP = 64 kph, so heavy rain in hills drops it to 4 HP = 32 kph.

I had a facepalm moment. I assumed HP was Healthpoints. After my earlier comment I realized HP is Horsepower. I dont think tutorial even mentioned this term HP as horsepower :( ... wow

[GD]

umph how do you choose your starting truck?

[GD]

nvm

[Ikit Claw]

Originally posted by Flash:

Originally posted by Tahnval:

I think that the truck parts that mitigate the HP debuff from terrain and/or weather are worth it on this map, though how much they're worth it depends on which truck you start with.

Default truck has 5 HP = 40 kph. Every -1 HP debuff takes 8 kph off that. So heavy rain in hills drops the speed to 1 HP = 8 kph and you will take forever to get anywhere. Add being even a little overburdened and your truck can't move at all. I encountered that several times early on.

With the speedy truck, the effect of the same reduction is less extreme. 8 HP = 64 kph, so heavy rain in hills drops it to 4 HP = 32 kph.

I had a facepalm moment. I assumed HP was Healthpoints. After my earlier comment I realized HP is Horsepower. I dont think tutorial even mentioned this term HP as horsepower :( ... wow

Same, I never went into the swamps and other places that brought hp down because I thought it was health

[Flash]

Originally posted by Ikit Claw:

Same, I never went into the swamps and other places that brought hp down because I thought it was health

I think that the Hp lowering terrain and environment affect your tires.. But this game with its tiny multitudes of mechanics makes it annoying to test out if they affect your tires. When i first started, I didnt even realize you could move over hills. I was wondering how u get to cities on it. I thought it was like sid meiers pirates where you send your crew hiking XD

P.S.: I believe tire degradation is continuous over a constant time interval.. so the slower u travel the more damage incurred for a specific distance run.

[Flash]

For the high speed truck I feel like terrain reduction utility tools are hardly necessary except for maybe forest winch (since its pretty slow in forests).
1. I place 2 fuel -1 tools (yet to get upgraded engine or improvedflywheel -2)
2. Upgrade HP by 1 (fuel -2)
3. Place melee lawnmower, improved radiator and exquisite dining table
4. Make a few capacity upgrades from repair shop
5. Improved Rain water defence -1.5
Planning on eventually upgrading trailer itself and maybe desert threads (interchangeable with mountain chain depending on terrain for run) in future slots

With the above config, my rig is pretty good for trading and pretty speedy for long distance deliveries as well. Bandit attack I run away in most cases. Also I carry about 2.5k fuel since u might find it costly to run from a bandit attack and need around 1.8k fuel :(

[Greywolf]

The fast truck is really good for the android character since it is fuel efficient and you will not have much problems feeding your android. But I stay away from community building as it has no room for that, specialize in deliveries and small highly profitable trades. Try to avoid combat, it is not as good as the others for that.

Hard mode would be a biggest truck with the android. You would need to carry alot more fuel than usual which takes alot of room that could be used for deliveries or trading.

Merchants obvisouly needs the big truck. Who cares about fuel efficiency when you can do thousands of scraps of profit... It is also good to transform as a big fighting machine, but the game is not about combat, so a waste of scrap if you want my opinion.

The middle truck is good for beginners and you can basically make it the way you want as it has no specialties. You want to trade? Upgrade the cargo area. You want speed or fuel efficiency for long runs? upgrade that, etc.