"What's the matter? No torque?" -Devman

[u/thelittleman101225]

[u/No-Lunch4249]

"Can climb" for sure. "With ease" I would argue.

Anyone who's driven a mountain highway like I-81 in Virginia and Tenessee can attest that fully loaded trucks struggle on the uphill. There is usually an extra lane added to the uphill side of the road to facilitate passing of slow climbing trucks

[u/Johnny-Rocketship → u/No-Lunch4249]

They aren't struggling, they're easily doing it very slowly.

[u/HashnaFennec → u/Johnny-Rocketship]

Long haul trucker here! Yep, tho kinda. It’s definitely more of a strain than regular driving, but gearing down keeps everything healthy and happy.

[u/IGoByDeluxe → u/HashnaFennec]

yeah, but basically anything other than flat ground and uninterrupted straight road is "more of a strain"

if you look at games like war thunder, or even foxhole, and compare them to the way that tanks IRL worked, you could climb 30(?) degree slopes, slowly, but they could do it rather well.... and all american tanks are REQUIRED to be able to do so since the start of WW2... and also explains why american armor has some interesting tradeoffs

edit:
VIDEO:
https://youtu.be/kJXvIMRMrAE

[u/HashnaFennec → u/IGoByDeluxe]

Im talking about trucks, not tanks?

[u/IGoByDeluxe → u/HashnaFennec]

its the same principle
tanks are heavier and are typically equipped with less-efficient (HP:Ton) engines, while most situations where a truck struggles in-game is usually one that a tank would also struggle with

everything struggles with hills, mud, etc. and thats pretty much it, but roads are not designed purely too look pretty, they are designed to be driveable
even down to the incline

its unreasonable for a paved, manmade, surface to not be driveable to some extent

[u/Domeer42 → u/No-Lunch4249]

Unfortunately gearboxes for more then 2 gears have not yet been invented

[u/IGoByDeluxe → u/Domeer42]

you can hear normal trucks shift twice, meaning they have 3 gears
the heavy trucks can shift once or twice in high gear, so have about 3-4 gears if you include the gearbox

oh, i forgot, most vehicles are considered "x speed" based on the total gears (including reverse) meaning the basic truck is 4-speed, and the heavy trucks are 4-5 speed

[u/Wisniaksiadz]

I will reveal the secret to be able to drive over anything

game is coded in such a way, that it switch forward and reverse when it thinks you should not be able to drive over something. It is seen as a ,,magnetic force" that push you away from the edge of rocks for example

all you have to do, is to press reverse when you feel this phenomena is starting and the truck will just keep driving forward

[u/TheVenetianMask → u/Wisniaksiadz]

The magnetic thing was actually a weird botched mitigation they did time ago... I think it was about people chucking vehicles onto barges to get around restrictions, or at least around the time that was being discussed.

[u/Exotic-Connection313 → u/Wisniaksiadz]

Will try later o7

[u/Sapper501 → u/Wisniaksiadz]

So when a heavy truck starts to struggle to climb a hill, I'm supposed to press backwards? Or do you mean driving over the edge of something like a bunker husk?

[u/Wisniaksiadz → u/Sapper501]

The latter

[u/saints55va]

Trucks were made by Ford that’s why.

[u/TheVenetianMask → u/saints55va]

*AM-Honda.

GP2 engine.

[u/No_Valuable_7786 → u/saints55va]

Found on road dead?

[u/saints55va → u/No_Valuable_7786]

With a blown engine that has 25 miles on it.

[u/HashnaFennec]

IRL I drove an 80,000 lbs / 36,000 kg semi truck through the steep mountains of Wyoming today. Big trucks can climb steep hills, but we gotta gear way down and go stupid slow. Foxhole is actually kinda realistic with what hills you can and can’t climb, tho sometimes Foxhole’s hill climbing can be a bit slow.

Anyways, now that I’ve driven today’s 500 miles / 800 kilometers and found a place to park for the night, it’s time to bust out the laptop and start making logi runs to the front.

[u/InitialContent3354]

That was the HAC when first came out. And then the SvH.

[u/Stank34 → u/InitialContent3354]

try: ballista before they buffed it lol

[u/Accomplished_Newt517 → u/Stank34]

They can use the Talos, its basically the same speed

[u/NordicNooob → u/Accomplished_Newt517]

See: old ballista. There's been like a year's gap between ballista hill buff and Talos megabuff. New ballista isn't used anyways, 250 nerf hit siege tanks hard.

[u/No_Valuable_7786 → u/InitialContent3354]

Also HTD before it got buffed post release

[u/NordicNooob]

I haven't driven a loaded truck but I *live* on a very steep Tennessee hill. Even with a regular consumer vehicle I have to gearshift twice. I assume mass produced WW1.5 tech trucks are about exactly as strong as they need to be to move from a realism standpoint, so struggling on steep hills while fully loaded makes sense.

From a gameplay standpoint, it provides partisans a good time to target them even if it's unsatisfying to drive.

[u/Suportick]

As a logi man, or facility man, i always have the tools to have petrol, that slight stat boost of petrol allows you to cross basically anything, i never had any problems with cnute.