Darkmark8910 Posted May 15, 2019 Share Posted May 15, 2019 (edited) tl;dr - weather effects currently present in the game also affect road quality, road safety, & the ability of a player to operate a vehicle safely; not only impaired vision from fog / thunderstorms, but also mucking up the operation of the vehicle itself (as tires/brakes can't handle mud/ice/snow well). Merging weather & vehicles / road safety would be awesome! Examples of hazards would be: Ice on concrete roads in late fall / early spring, when rainfall starts to freeze overnight & snow that's melted during the day freezes at night. Skidding on roads! I hope you're making your turns properly! Slip & slide all day every day, unless you're -really- careful and going -really- slow. Did you take speed demon? Oh boy, if your wheels spin out on you, you might be getting real close to Greene's. Heavy snowfall Limiting vehicles speeds, especially low-to-the-ground car speeds (like sedans). No snow plow service around town! Bonus points if snow also covers up cars' windshields & the like. Snow scraping time! Hopefully the zombies don't hear you de-icing the car.... Super-cold weather EDIT: per comments, winter tires to be able to move efficiently during the cold months? If it's notably cold for a few days (like in mid-winter in PZ) & a vehicle's low on gas, and the car hasn't been started for a few days, and the engine's old... you might have to find a friend to jump-start your car, because the gas lines (the route gas takes from the tank to your engine) froze from the cold & the engine won't start! Fun fact: while gas won't freeze itself, if your gas tank's pretty empty, water vapor builds up in it. That water vapor -can- freeze, and when it does, it makes your car unable to start. A week at a quarter-tank can screw you easy. Rain & mud on dirt roads / wilderness Did it rain recently, or is it raining right now? Time for some mud racing! All ideas are purely from living in suburban Chicago / rural Illinois for years & dealing with winter weather. What other ideas do you guys have for merging weather already in the game & vehicle operation together? Quick links:https://www.bellperformance.com/blog/how-to-thaw-frozen-gas-lines-in-a-car Edited May 15, 2019 by Darkmark8910 Geras, grammarsalad and Burger_Time 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pandorea Posted May 15, 2019 Share Posted May 15, 2019 ..seems to be too easy to die on the roads as is atm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burger_Time Posted May 15, 2019 Share Posted May 15, 2019 That would be pretty cool. Don't forget to change your tires to the snow ones if you really wanna stay on the road in winter. Geras, Darkmark8910 and grammarsalad 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkmark8910 Posted May 15, 2019 Author Share Posted May 15, 2019 11 hours ago, Pandorea said: ..seems to be too easy to die on the roads as is atm You know, I'm terrible at driving on roads too. I always feel the urge to drive at 70 MPH and forget that, just up ahead, there's a 90 degree turn. Maybe I'm a masochist by offering up this suggestion! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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