Update Speculation thread

i hope they would keep the gendarmerie police skin, pretty underrated police config

 

I would like the devs updating it to give it a 10x10 big wheels variant like the SHERP with loads similar to the T/MD-series (Logs, citerns, pipes and passagers/ambulance variants) and some missions to save peoples in wrecked and flooded roads like Snowrunner.

 

This would be the only thing that sticks out from there but we don't know what branch it was for or anything else, it could also be something stopre page related

 

Randolph hasn't gotten any attention since the trailers released, maybe there could be an expansion
For context, Randolph is the manufacturer of some (maybe all idk) trailers in the game, look at the mudflaps of the dry van trailer

 

Fun fact: Randolph is named after the city that the IRL equivalent company is based out of... I just have to share that fact every chance I get
I'd love trailers to get more attention. I know they said the heavy hauler content is done for now, but the light trailers really need some attention. The caravan especially feels outdated without any triggers for the doors for example. Plus with motorsports being the current focus that thing will be useful for some banger racing.

Speaking of backwoods races and upcoming content... The Hirochi drag strip now makes 2 modern prepped surface drag racing tracks in game. I wonder if there will be anything really differentiating them. I don't know off the top of my head what elevation that map is, but a high altitude track would result in a different meta than the Belasco strip. a 1/8th mile would also change things up. Hopefully someday we see an older unprepped track. Maybe I've been watching too many 1320video videos but I'd love an old sketchy unprepped strip on ECUSA, which would also be a cool way to tie in some meta statement about the death of local tracks in recent years.

 

3, counting the one in Gridmap

How about the long highway stretch on the coast?

 

It was a great update, except the fact that all of the new 5 vehicles introduced in this update (excluding the Wydra) became forgotten and hardly used at some point

 

Some lore about the ECUSA highway being part of a former Vanderbilt Cup style track would be cool, but for the track I was thinking something like Brown County Dragway. That's a little 1/8th dragway in the woods that does a lot of no prep events. It's overall a sketchy track, even including a grass median and dirt return road. Something like that would be relatively easy to hide in the existing woods on the map. Another option would be a firehouse with a 1/8th mile unprepped track. A lot of firehouses in NY have drag racing teams and a couple firehouses host events, it would make sense to include a little local culture on the ECUSA map while also providing a unique motorsport niche.

 

I can't actually remember the last time that I used the Rockbasher.

 

Call me weird but I use stambecco quite a lot! Dunekicker on the other hand naturally has quite a narrow use case but is so cool nonetheless.

 

It's kinda like with some mods. I totally adore that tiny electric kids' toy from LucasBE, but idk if I played with it for more than 30 minutes. I still have it in my game since it dropped though.

However, with the vehicles from this update, they spent some precious dev time on which – as cool as this five is – could be allocated somewhere else. I'd honestly take an alternative to an already existing car over these. Say, a Vivace competitor from ETK.

 

Exactly! Plus it was created after a terrorist attack in France on the 17th of October 2015, so if rejuvenated, it's gonna be 10 years old later this year! It's important for the lore, I believe!
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The Stambecco and the Rockbasher are awesome off-roaders plus the Stambecco 6x6 variant is quite stable on spirited driving too!
The Dunekicker is also one of my favourite vehicles, especially the Stadium Truck variant, which is the best balanced of the three variants!
The Piccolina Autobuggy is certainly more sensitive to big jumps than the aforementioned 3 vehicles but it's still a great dune buggy racer!
The Wydra is on a class of its own in terms of weirdness and that's why I love it!

 

I don't know where how well they could fit that, but I feel like it could be a old repurposed runway of an abandonned local airport. Akin to the one in Utah or Jungle rock Island, but paved and repurposed for drag racing

 

Whoooa! Just imagine a Vivace-sized RWD ETK car! A B-Series!
And since it's smaller and cheaper than the 800, the 3.0 6-cylinder variants could be as such:

1) The standard Bc6tt 340/Bc6ttx 340 variant could use the 340 ECU with the ttSport Exhaust, for a total of 354hp/470Nm (according to the Torque Curve UI App), with the standard blue-calipered Sport Brakes with the Sport Brake Pads and the option of the Sport 6-Speed Manual (with the Sport Flywheel) or the 8-Speed Automatic plus RWD or AWD.

2) The standard Bc6 ttSport variant could use the 360 ECU with the ttSport Long Block, ttSport Turbocharger (for better low-end grunt, since it doesn't give more power/torque by itself) and ttSport Exhaust, for a total of 396hp/498Nm (according to the Torque Curve UI App). Like the first M2 of 2016 used the standard N55 but with S55 pistons, connecting rods and crankshaft. It can use the standard grey ETK TTF5 wheels (complete with widebody suspension and bodywork, front and back), the 7-Speed ttSport DCT can be optional, while the brakes can still be the standard Sport units, with the blue calipers, but with Semi-Race Brake Pads. No AWD here.

3) The Bc6 ttSport+ variant could use the 460 ttSport ECU with all the aforementioned ttSport parts plus the ttSport Carbon Ceramics and the ttSport 7-Speed DCT as standard and, also, a carbon fiber roof. No AWD in here either.

4) There could also be a Bc6 ttSport Heritage Edition with the 440 ECU, the same Sport 6-Speed Manual (with the Sport Flywheel) as the standard ttSport variant, the same carbon fiber roof as the ttSport+, the bronze ETK TTF5 wheels, some nice Heritage Edition graphics and, of course, RWD!

 

Funnily enough that's also a thing you see in real life ECUSA, I'm planning on taking my Mustang to one of those this summer. We already have the airport on Italy we could use for that though, a fire department or older local track would be unique to the official selection and easier to work into an existing map.

 

Those types of things do exist irl. Also, you could still end up using it as a runway at the same time!

 

i think it would be cool if they had logos on upfits or aftermarket equipment

 

For some reason the 1-mile drag race on the Italy Runway doesn't exist anymore and that's a shame.
Also, there's a runway in the Automation Test Track, at the Kurupae Aero Club, and it's ~900m long, so that could be a good base for drag racing too!

 

bmw 1 series?

 

or a vivace competitor from Ibishu maybe a new covet!