Every level of weight reduction multiplies the weight of the car by -5%, down to 8 times, depending on the vehicle.
If you have a 1500kg car, the first upgrade would save 75kg, the second upgrade 150kg, etc.
These are tweaked via testing and are made sure that they didn't break that much.
Base
0-100: 10.41s
100-0: 4.04s
2nd Upgrade
0-100: 9.36s
100-0: 3.72s
4th Upgrade
0-100: 8.44s
100-0: 3.50sBallasts increase the weight of the car, and chassis reinforcement strengthens the hull of the car. Arcade ballasts do not reduce traction.
The main section of the mod is only compatible with vanilla vehicles, but there is an optional license plate version that can universally applied with any vehicle, including mods. It is not guaranteed to work and results may vary.
Some notes/caveats:
- The more weight removed, the more likely unwanted behavior can occur anyway.
- The center of mass does not change.
- The mod reduces the spring strength of all parts in order to keep the car from literally imploding. This includes suspension springs. You may or may not need to stiffen them back.
- A few cars may make a collision noise upon spawning with high levels of weight reduction. Unless the UI specifically says that damage has been done, this is mostly harmless not cause for concern.
- The Hopper's camera and g-force at a standstill will vibrate a lot. This is mostly unnoticeable when driving.
- Generally, adding weight is a lot more stable on the game engine than removing it.
This mod is technically a lie. For some reason, scaling the weight of a car doesn't actually affect it's grip. The car will still accelerate faster at higher speeds, but the traction seems to be unaffected. Braking times are similar and the car will still wheelspin as much. It's like if weight scale is x0.8, then the car's friction is also x0.8. To compensate, the friction scaling is manually increased. I played around and tested to get handling that feels just right and about what you'd expect when you 'remove' or 'add' a certain amount of a car's mass. This means that the mod is less just 'changing' one value of a car and more of an amalgamation of several settings. This has downsides; one of which is mentioned, in that the car become slightly wobblier and jelly-like depending on how much weight is removed. And speaking of downsides:
Incompatibilities:
- Any mod that also uses the scale values. This won't directly break the game, but either one or the other is likely to be overwritten and invalidated.
Is this mod balanced or realistic?
Lol no
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In the upcoming days mod approvals could be slower than normal.
Thank you for your patience.
Weight Reduction Kits 1.9
Simple global weight reduction, addition, & chassis reinforcement for all vehicles
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Recent Updates
- 0.30 Update Sep 21, 2023
- 0.29 Update Jul 10, 2023
- 0.28 Update Apr 5, 2023
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Author's Response
There are other mods that do it better and with more freedom. I recommend Indestructible Vehicles or the Global Edits mod.
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