Project Zomboid

Project Zomboid

'67 Cadillac Gage Commando
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Quilava Feb 18, 2023 @ 8:40pm
Petition for KI5 to make some real Track APC/IFV, Tank
As we all know, we have some track APC and tank mod such as: M113, WZ531,WZ551, XM93 Fox, BRDM2, M1A1 Abrams. But sadly most of them is very OLD and havent up to date yet, some have so many bug report dat fill the comment and discussion, some conflict with other mod that may crash the game ... Yet few fix or update had been done, so many is scare to use and have to ask around in the comment section to see if it safe or compatible (this including me)

I dont want to make other modder look bad, im truly appreciate their hard work and fashion to make these awesome vehicle for the community when dev refuse to add it, it is a joy to have such vehicle in the game. Yet we cant use, just by the fear it may causing bug, crash, fps drop, so on and so on ...

This is when i see you come in the big picture. Your modding so far is the least bug, model is detail to the rim, and the customize? *chef kiss* never before i see vehicle with our level of customize, so "MODULAR", roof pack, bullbar, windshield, spare tire, ...? It feel so food to customize your vehicle to your own liking and not just repair it and keep it the same as before when you first get one, that truly is the selling point of your mod

Dont think im over praise your mod too much, anyone in the comment section think the same, i dare say no one argument on this, and for that reason, we really need you to take on the big job for track APC/IFV and tank

We need new "track" APC, we need TANK, HEAVY slow moving vehicle with protection and power to run through thousand of zombie and came out 0 scratch (Pls dont compare this to the "wheels" APC, they not same, track vehicle just on another level), military mod will never be the same without these vehicle, who else like me, feel sad when look at ur base with no tank or track APC?

The work is heavy to animate the track, so i dare say skip it, make it like Vilespring M113 or the M1A1, cut the animation, put on "skirt armor" to hide the "road wheel" and track from not moving, if you want to make it feel like moving, you can edit the back wheel into "drive sprocket", so when move it still rotate to feel more realistic and easy to mod without making any animation, this is the best solution i can come up with and im open for more idea to make this work

I know you dont like to put "half-hearted" mod out, this remind me year ago i ask you to make an 8x8 armored truck , you said it have too much wheel and so far you the game only support 4 front turning wheels, extra wheels mean it have to be static and wont move, you dont like it at all, also making custom animation can be janky and lot of work. But we "dying" in need of some "STABLE" heavy track APC and Tank before build 42, so im humbly ask for you to bypass the animation part and use my solution i come up with to save the workload and focus more on "customization" feature

For which vehicle you can make, i have some suggestion:
- M1283: the turretless version of Bradley IFV (USA)
- Ares: focus carry variant of Ajax IFV (UK)
- Bren: WW2 universal carrier (UK)
- Centurion ARV Mk II: APC version base on Centurion hull (UK)
- Jordanian MAP APC, Temsah: converted version of Centurion tank (Jordan and Arab)
- Nagmashot, Nagmachon, Nakpadon, Puma (not to mistake with German Puma IFV): converted version of Centurion tank (Israel)
- Namer: heaviest APC in the world, converted version of Merkava tank (Israel)
-Achzarit Mk1: converted version of T55 tank (Israel)
- Marder IFV: it and IFV, not APC, but i think you can skip the turret since it smol enough (German)
- BTR-MDM: converted version of BMD3 (Russian)
- BTR-T: converted version of T55 tank (Russian)
- BMO-T: converted version of T72 tank (Russian)
- ... (if someone know more bizarre vehicle, pls do tell us more)

For why these suggestion only APC/IFV, im sure tank is more common know to everyone already, so im assume you can search for it easy (but im open for idea if you need), also because i know you wont make a tank unless you know how to make turret work or simply because you like something that can carry stuff around than a tank which cant carry anthing much at all(but if you dont mind the turret part, we still happy to have a stable bug free tank to drive around and run over zombie or park in base just look cool)


At the end the decision is your, to adapt this new track vehicle idea into mod, i hope you can bring the new wind to modding community, to fill the gap we so desperately need in military vehicle, im sure it will be undoubtedly an amazing mod like all of your other vehicle mod, the market is open and the stage is all your

Hope i can you your reply soon

I wish you, family and friend, a good day, a great year ahead, and thank you for all the awesome mod you bring to us
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Quilava Feb 26, 2023 @ 10:00pm 
Feel free to point out any anything that you cant agree on, i hope me and other can come up with alternative solution

Also, sir KI5, if you can, please leave a comment if you agree with the idea or not so we know wat to expect, or any problem to give more detail if you can so we can work this out
Last edited by Quilava; Feb 26, 2023 @ 10:03pm
KI5  [developer] May 6, 2023 @ 3:37am 
sorry, i saw this when you made the post but i was on the road so i couldn't reply and it got lost in the notifications later. bottom line is, i would love to make tracked vehicles but i will not do it until there is a good way to simulate tracks, i don't want to skip them or make something that is impacting performance or doesn't work in mp. so until that is possible, this will have to wait.

Thank you for the kind words and the time you invested in this, i really appreciate it. I will lock this discussion for now and leave it here until there is a way to make something like this really possible and then we will see.
Last edited by KI5; May 6, 2023 @ 3:38am
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