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YOOOOOO
LEGRAN WIT NO CHMSL

...I'm the only one that cares about this, aren't I?

 

Let me rephrase that- BeamNG is becoming less focused on automotive history and accuracy, and more focused on gameplay, physics, and slowly fleshing out the vehicle roster for when career mode releases 20 years from now

 

you're also the only person i've seen that doesn't call it a third brake light

 

Spoiler: Reference Photos

When the face sag D-Series was first shown, the complaints were focused at two things: the doors, and the size of the valence. In the above spoiler I put pics of a 1980's F-Series, C/K, and Dodge D-Series, along with a pre-facelift Gavril D-Series taken out of the dev blog. The real trucks have a valance that is too small to even see head on. Personally I could go either way with this one, as I do like the fact that the valences are interchangeable, even if I can't help but wonder how the truck would look with a valence as small as the real trucks. Then there was the doors. Most of the hubbub at the time was from the lack of contemporary mirrors, which thankfully was resolved by release. However, CaptainZoll ,made a mockup with period correct door handles, quarter windows, and a higher door line which IMO looked so much better than the 1990's doors we currently have (note how those features are on all 3 of the 1985 trucks I posted pics of). Then there's the engine choice issues (For the D-Series as a whole, not just the '85). Compared to the IRL counterparts, a big block V8 is more or less necessary, and a diesel i6 would be good, though not mandatory from an accuracy standpoint.

The way I see it, the devs just didn't add a base model Piccolina in game. A lot of people like under powered cars and for some reason the post war Italian compact economy car doesn't have any configs that are actively under powered. It wouldn't take anything away by adding a P90; people who don't care about slow cars wouldn't even notice the addition but it would be a big addition for the casual driver crowd.

 

LeGran remaster?!?

 

That's two things related to the LeGran's rear window (The other)

They might just be cleaning things up a bit with her.

 

Most likely this. It is already known that some parts of the LeGran will be used in the Wendover, so some cleaning up of said parts would be logical.

 

TL;DR Pre Facelift D series Valence too large, Door line too low, needs older chrome door handles, and needs "Smoker windows".

 

Taking a clearly 1990s pickup (as design-wise, it's primarily based on the 1988-1999 GM GMT400 platform trucks), changing nothing but the bumpers, mirrors, and fascia (which is rounded enough to fit a 90s model anyway) and calling it a 1985 model is like taking a cantaloupe, painting it green, and calling it a watermelon. To be a true 80s truck, it needs a different body design entirely.

Alternatively, they could just revert the years to start in 1988 and make the pre-facelift a base model fleet fascia only.


But I highly doubt they'd do either of those things, as they've repeatedly stated accuracy is not their primary goal.

 

For me i think the D-series Pre-face list needs new taillights, New dash. Chrome hadels and then she will be perfect ( 90% )

 

Another screenshot from the updated WCA.

 

the race track is still there

 

wcusa racetrack needs to go on a new map and the city needs to be copy and pasted

 

its my favorite track, i hope they dont change it

 

I hope they dont change it either, just cut and paste it to a new map and extend the wcusa city.

 

#NukeWCUSAraceway2020
#MakeWCUSAFinallyGreat
Now in all seriousess, i think it would be great if they moved that track to a different map. The point of WCUSA was to have some proper city driving, and a bit of mountain roads, but that doesnt work at all when almost half of the map is taken up by a racetrack that barely no one uses, so most of those end up being either a single almost straight and depressingly short stretch of road, or not there at all.

 

I think they should convert it into a street circut, and build the city around it.

 

Im very temped to just copy and paste the city and get rid of the race track and move it to a new map

 

WCUSA is certainly a map where a lot of space, in my opinion, was wasted by the race track. I think that more suburbs and roads would have been nice. I would have loved to see more roads on Industrial Site too, but there's only around 3 short roads.

 

I kinda like the idea that WCUSA tries to do, making a racetrack on a (non-abandoned) map you can also free-roam. For example, I could drive around, and then when i'm bored of that, I can go to a racetrack with my same car, without having to switch maps. No other map does this, and it is a great concept, except it is taking up a lot of space. Perhaps they can move the racetrack on to a different spot in WCUSA, maybe on that island that's connected via the bridge.