i suppose it would use quite a lot, but the game is quite low on file size anyway, so we can have a bigger game
Would be useless until we get the career mode, because you normally don't drive a car in Beam for longer than a minute without respawning..
It would be nice if we had rust that structurally weakened the car. I would love to see a rust bucket old moonhawk crashing into a wall and desintegrating into brown dust.
The rust as a structural factor is a really great Idea, it would bring a whole new dynamic of tuning/part options to the game. Perhaps in the parts selector could be "rusty fender" or "Rusty Frame", and then, in the tuning menu you could adjust the rot factor of said part, it's visual appearance would still look the same, like a heap of rust, but it's strength would be adjustable. I do not know if that is currently possible, to adjust Jbeam strength in the tuning menu, but if it is, or if that is planned, It would be a fun addition to the game's customization. (This is included in a thread I created to discuss such things, if anyone wishes to entertain more suggestions on the topic: Rust and more disscussion thread)
I think the post you quoted is referring to a sliding selector on the tuning menu, not actual rust occurring before you eyes in-game.
That was a joke, I was poking fun at the fact that he drove around to run out of fuel. I am not saying that is bad, I have done that more than once in fact.
tbh I feel like this has to be a thing before final release, I think the campaign will eventually be working your way up the ladder from the likes of a lowly pizza delivery man all the way up to a variety of career paths and recreational activities based on the cars you buy. and to fill in the gap in price between 1000 and 5000 and more importantly the gap between 0 and 1000 there needs to be a few different determining factors to determine the "price" of the randomly generated "cars for sale" page of jegslist or the local used car lot. We already have trim level, but currently that is the only one, we have yet to see (bar the beater covet) any cars with minor or major mechanical issues rust being one such issue. It would give the future campaign mode a much more unique experience if the cars on the "Jegslist" or what have you page had randomly generated colors, trim levels, tire quality, rust, body damage, engine damage (maybe even cars with blown head gaskets for sub 500$) but either way, the start of the campaign in my eyes would be impossible without some form of a rust system, as there would be little to variety in the cheap cars available when you first start off. Plus ive wanted a system to make cars structurally or mechanically weak since the beginning (like rotting brakes, shot suspension, wheel bearing screaches, bad belts screeches, bad manual synchros or slipping automatics) and a rust system is necessary to achieve shit tier cars, I cant see it not being added, it just takes patience like everything else in the early access world also just to clarify, having the rust increase while driving is kind of useless, it takes months or years for rust to spread on a car, it should just be a fixed but randomly generated or user set value for each part
Yep, that's pretty much the exact type of game I want beamNG to be with a bit of the SLRR type used car system with more detail
I Often drive for 5-20 minutes without wreaking my cars, however rust is just another texture channel to increase GPU overhead and make the game that much harder for me to run. --- Post updated --- By how much exactly? Not worth the performance taxation for the feature. The dev team still needs to optimize things like texturing in the game for the render engine, from what I know the amount of gpu memory they need is way more then it should be. I remember reading somewhere they are already reaching graphical performance limitations and that's part of the reason the game crashes occasionally for the general install base.
actual "real-time-rust" would be pretty useless, you would have to leave the game runnig for months until something could happen being able to buy used cars that are already in bad condition might be a nice idea though.
