What the hell is with the motorcycle?

[CommanderCody1138]

I let off the break, I'm slowing down, probably going 2mph, I prepare to get off the bike, put one foot on the grou-DEAD!!!

DEAD.

I'm convinced its cursed, and emits a "floor is lava" field of death until it comes to a TOTAL and COMPLETE stop.

This thing is broken and its a bummer, it would be great for solo plays and people who want to just sample run.

[YOPG]

You can't just get off from still moving bike, like in real life. It needs to stop like serious stop man :)

[CommanderCody1138]

Originally posted by YOPG:

You can't just get off from still moving bike, like in real life. It needs to stop like serious stop man :)

I know I even joked that duing a game but come on, when your basically crawling with it...you die. Its trash.

[BlackjackGT]

"It's working as designed." - Arrowhead....

[Ghazghkull]

The bike is a joke anyway, if your are using it and still trying to win you are doing it wrong! ;P

[Toothbrush Cheapwood]

It's a war bike. Respect it. The motor needs to be oiled after traveling anyway....

[Farrel]

It's a safety feature!

The MC-109 'Hammer' motorcycle doesn't have an airbag, as it's an open vehicle. An airbag firing would just throw the rider from a moving vehicle. This is unsafe.

So in the interest of not leaving a soldier wounded and potentially dying after a nasty crash, the ministry for health and safety mandated that the airbag should be replaced with a spring loaded spike which fires in the event of a crash.

A crash, in this case, is detected by a loss of weight in the saddle whilst the vehicle is in motion, signifying that the driver has been thrown and will potentially land in a crippled and vulnerable state. Thus the spike is deployed, euthanising the rider instantly and relatively painlessly.

At the same time, it encourages safe driving practices, as a crash will result in death, rather than only a chance of it.

[Toothbrush Cheapwood]

Originally posted by Farrel:

It's a safety feature!

The MC-109 'Hammer' motorcycle doesn't have an airbag, as it's an open vehicle. An airbag firing would just throw the rider from a moving vehicle. This is unsafe.

So in the interest of not leaving a soldier wounded and potentially dying after a nasty crash, the ministry for health and safety mandated that the airbag should be replaced with a spring loaded [...]

ROFL

[Grandpa!]

Originally posted by Guybrush:

It's a war bike. Respect it. The motor needs to be oiled after traveling anyway....:smoke::epiczombie:

We must keep the bike well oiled or its machine spirit will get angry and crash head first into a behemoth and kill the rider

[Toothbrush Cheapwood]

Originally posted by Grandpa!:

Originally posted by Guybrush:

It's a war bike. Respect it. The motor needs to be oiled after traveling anyway....

We must keep the bike well oiled or its machine spirit will get angry and crash head first into a behemoth and kill the rider

True story....

[ShutUpAndGoogleIt]

The bike does not follow the laws of physics

[Game jotgachi hane]

Easy fact dude. Just remember what you learned in real life when you got a driver lisence. Be sure whether the bike or IFV is completely stop or not.

[Vamandrac]

The bike is useless. Just use the cardio perk and call it a day.

[BlackjackGT]

I do have one awesome video of me and a Helldiver named Sumocat (we've lost touch since I'm afraid) having an all too brief fabulous time on the MC-109. This thread seems like just the opportunity to dig it up again!

Hell(divers) on Wheels, Born to be Wild

https://youtu.be/9_hF6MdZuMw
*This works better if you sing Steppenwolf's "Born to be Wild" while viewing it.

*For some reason, the embed here on Steam is "mute," but when I view it on YouTube itself, the sound is fine.

I'd say if it's useful at all, it's on lower-medium difficulty missions where the LMGs lack of AT ability isn't a concern, and you can run over lots of lesesr targets. It can be kinda useful on snow of desert environments, not at all on volcano type (you'll just ride off cliffs to your death constantly).

I dunno if it would be useful on illuminates because any fence beam would one-shot kill it if it intersects, though you can say that about every vehicle or exosuit in the game.

Watching my vid, the fundamental issue is that the front wheel does not "pivot" the way a motorcycle's front end would. The whole cycle is this stiff, long, one-piece vehicle that steers like a big woodend board. Which can be fun as heck :-) Just not precise to steer with.

More than likely that's just a technical limitation of the engine or the game not having really been designed from the get go to support this type of vehicle.

The difficulty in trying to be effective with the cycle's Light MG is really you're limited to a very tiny firing radius off the "right" side of the motorcycle. When I was driving with Sumocat on board I really had to make a concerted effort to steer with the right side pointing towards aliens so he could get some shots off.

[FallenG0D]

By the way you can actually get off the bike even at full speed without taking damage, you just have to turn left and get off at the right angle kinda hard to get but possible.

[BlackjackGT]

Originally posted by FallenG0D:

By the way you can actually get off the bike even at full speed without taking damage, you just have to turn left and get off at the right angle kinda hard to get but possible.

This would be cooler if your Helldiver then rolled like a turbocharged bowling ball that wiped out any aliens in his path.