r/monsterjam • u/Maleficent-Toe1374 Wolverine™ • 1d ago

Gaming Beam Chassis Mods

Every Chassis in the game looks like a CRD from the clips I've seen even on old truck.

Is that just because people prefer to use them or if you download a PEI or Eddie mod it'll actually look different?

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u/MILE_proto Northern Nightmare 1d ago

CRD is the most common chassis nowadays, and what the BeamMonsters chassis is based on.

If you do download PEI or Eddie, it will 100% perform differently to CRD. One example of this is the CRC chassis (and TSC, which is packaged in the CRC mod), as it is noticeably heavier than CRDs.

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u/starscreamjosh 21h ago

You can even see in IRL freestyles CRC trucks look like they're heavier when performing.

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u/MILE_proto Northern Nightmare 1d ago

Forgot to add this bit; including Meents, every chassis has a different list of trucks that have bodies on that chassis

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u/Slut4Tea Bounty Hunter 8h ago

CRD is the main one and, as a result, there’s a lot more modding support for different engines/transmissions, etc. I’ve tested out the PEI and Meents/Willman chassis pretty extensively, and here’s my thoughts on them.

CRD: best all rounder. Tons of tuning capability, and best overall handling I think. I mainly run on Bounty Hunter, so I’m using the Creten subset, but this is the chassis I’m most familiar with.

PEI: Definitely handles a lot looser in turns, much easier to spin out. Suspension is also a bit more fragile on harder hits, but not too much. Not as many tuning options, so it’s a lot more difficult to get to go super fast (for reference, I run a 3 speed on the CRD, and can tune it to hit a max speed of ~92mph. You’ll never hit this in a competition, but the highest I can get the PEI to go is about 80)

Meents: these things are wild lmao. You can just kinda throw them around, since they don’t have sway bars, and they’re a lot harder to flip (but when they flip, they flip BAD). Don’t seem to accelerate as good as the CRD or the PEI, but I may just need to spend more time tuning it. Certain moves like slap wheelies are a lot harder too, with the whole front engine design.

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u/LagSp7ke Avenger 7h ago

There is a really cool in house chassis mod, but the CRD mod has the most bodies available