Excavator Power

[ChickenFlucker]

We all should rally the new devs to fix how under powered the excavators are. A slight hill and it all but stops moving, not exactly realistic and quite annoying

[Jenny Belle]

most of the machines get stuck to like .1 mph on a slight hill and its infuriating

[Underbank]

+1

[Maya-Neko]

Not just the excavators, but pretty much with all tracked vehicles i've driven so far. Tyred cars do it as well a littlebit, but it's quite expected from them to some degree.

[Metallos]

It seems to be intended, these machines are powered by an engine from a Polski Fiat[en.wikipedia.org], the flagship of Polands (former) car industry. It's since release of the game.
Also excavators like we have in the game don't have gears, they drive with hydrostatic motors and the main engine only drives the hydraulic pump.

The only vehicle which has enough power is the dump truck.

[Maya-Neko]

Originally posted by Metallos:

It seems to be intended, these machines are powered by an engine from a Polski Fiat[en.wikipedia.org], the flagship of Polands (former) car industry. It's since release of the game.
Also excavators like we have in the game don't have gears, they drive with hydrostatic motors and the main engine only drives the hydraulic pump.

The only vehicle which has enough power is the dump truck.

Where's the reason for them to be incapable to take a 2 % slope without loosing 95 % of their power output? That would instantly make them unusable for the job they're designed for, especially in real life.

Like nobody expects them to climb without losing speed, but currently it's like you're hitting a slope and then just hold the button for 20 seconds, until you've driven 20cm further and suddenly get full power again out of nowhere.

[NomadUniverse]

I've commented for years about the pathetic traction of track machines. They have never addressed it.

[Simon McAllister]

Yeah have a father that was a heavy equipment operator for a excavation company for just over 40 years. Excavators are not that prone to slowing down because of a slight hill.

[Spector]

I ask for a fix since a long time ago, i'm still waiting.

[Drillbo Baggins]

It's an old game running on very bad, outdated code created by a team that is no longer part of the project. Don't expect it will ever get fixed and just move on and wait for the second game to come out. Fixing the issue is most likely more technical than any of us realize and would just introduce more unintended problems that would require much more work to figure out and fix.