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[pisskop]

Yea, they cost 2 mechanics skill and its also a bug.

[Descan]

it sounds like it might be a typo and should be 30 lbs :v

[Ehndras]

Huh. my storage batteries are pretty light.

[Greiger]

Yea there has been a lot of things broken with the vehicle change.  Though I think storage batteries being so heavy was even earlier.  Regular car batteries are far more swappable now. all you need is a screwdriver and 0 skill and you can attach or detach a car battery.  Its something I've taken to doing when I find a car that just need an electric charge.  I find another car with a battery nearby and just add a second battery to the car I want to start.

Also just a heads up, you can't have more than 1 engine running simultaneously on a vehicle anymore.  I vaguely recall it was removed for a couple reasons.  Horrible spaghetti code rife with special cases that required horrible hacks every time someone worked on the vehicle code, and that it supposedly made no sense.   First bit I agree with, second part I don't completely agree with.  But since we can make more complicated engines now in modding there's not much point to multiple engine cars anymore.

[Aoi]

Then I started getting crazy eventually ending with a shipment of 1,200L of blood.

I was driving cross-country a few years ago... heavy pouring rain, icy roads, bumper to bumper traffic, I'm stuck behind a tanker. A few minutes of running right behind it, I notice what the label on it says: "PIG BLOOD - NOT FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION".

I immediately slow down and let somebody slot in between us.

[Ehndras]

LOL.

Shiiiiet, I'd rather ram a blood-tanker than a fuel tanker.

[Darkmere]

At least is wasn't ammonia.

[Ehndras]

What would be cool is if you crash an ammonia truck into a bleach truck.

Suddenly, mustard gas!

...Is that possible in-game?

Sneaky-ass way to take out pesky NPCs

[Random_Dragon]

Been some instabilities as of late, though they're working on it.

[Aoi]

LOL.

Shiiiiet, I'd rather ram a blood-tanker than a fuel tanker.

The fuel tanker is probably easier to explain though. Call up insurance: "Yeah, I was in an accident. The car is probably totalled because there's, like, a million gallons of blood soaking into the back seat."

And don't forget about the therapy you'll need: "So you're telling me that every time you close your eyes, you see the elevator scene from The Shining..."

[Ehndras]

Heh. I already did*. When I was 7 I used to dream anti-gravitic wellsprings of blood seeping out of the carpet and trailing, flickering, dripping up toward the ceiling where it coalesced into a pond, then a rushing spring, and eventually a roaring river. Bloody handprints all along the walls, streaking at the doors, near the closet, near the bed, near the window, deep claw-like gouges on all the wood furniture, across the inside of the window, and such.

My brain's way* of telling me my Dad was about to drop dead and we couldn't escape our fates. *shrug*

A 7 year old intellectual's brain is its own worst enemy.

(edit: sorry for typos its 5 am and I just woke up)

[Kaitol]

Hey. Whoever removed all the V8 engines could you... not do that? Now that V8's magically ceased to exist you're stuck with an under powered V6 diesel or an overpowered gasoline guzzling V12, if you can even find one. My customized APC went from being a perfectly serviceable 70 mph to chugging along at 40. Which is barely tolerable.

EDIT: And slows down to 16-20 mph on grass. Okay, this is ridiculous. Hunter zombies can outrun it on grass.

If you want an easily testable example of this, spawn a military cargo truck. They're almost exactly as heavy as my APC and have the same crappy 4 liter truck engines apc's have now.

[pisskop]

black coffee master race

Mocha Latte?  Not in MY Apocolypse

coffee girl who takes my order usually wasnt there today.  manager was, managed to stick enough sugar into the coffee to taste like they smear sugar water onto a plate, let it dry, and then licked the dried resin

[duckman]

An APC weighs about 13000 lbs on its own without modification. Most of the examples in that weight range I found run on 250-400 HP engines, give or take, so using a gas guzzler in it is probably correct.

As for the V8 engines, looks like they got turned into the Wankel and traction engines. The Wankel is a lower efficiency but more abuse tolerant standard gasoline engine and the traction engine is functionally a low-speed-only diesel V12.

[Greiger]

I may either be the only one that noticed this or it may be a bug with one of my mods but does it seem like speed has been halved?

What used to be 20 mph or 2 tiles per turn now seems to be 1 tile per turn, and that barely outpaces zombies, 40 mph is now feeling like the old 20.   And I was cruising along a road at 60 and found that a deer was actually outrunning my car.  Deer are quick, but I don't think they are that quick.