Grime and punishment (...for vehicles)

[Arek_PL]

[quote=“Shopkeeper, post:4, topic:12530”]Depending on the execution it sounds cool.

Thinking about it, you could also make fungal attacks and terrain have a chance to ‘fungalize’ vehicle parts. It wouldn’t do much more then obscure vision and mess with traction early on depending on the part, but the final stage could cause it to start throwing off spores.[/quote]

good idea too

[Sheb]

Reeks of Filthy Clothes syndrome, IMO.

I dunno, the whole sight-blocking is a new mechanic that would add new challenges. We need a few more refinement (windshield wipers?) but it could add to the game, rather than being largely redundant with the damaged clothing already acting as a way to disincentive using zombie clothing.

[BeerBeer]

Rain could clear any outdoor tiles of MOST of any filth. But interior tiles would require, say hosing or bleaching (manual cleaning). Bleach is pretty aggressive or damaging on some materials though.

And I wouldn’t necessarily want to force this on anyone but rather have it as a mod, although I pondered that minimizing the mod selection increases the ease of debugging and troubleshooting as there would be less potential mod combinations.

[Tawarochir]

[quote=“Tawarochir, post:5, topic:12530”]Reeks of Filthy Clothes syndrome, IMO.

I dunno, the whole sight-blocking is a new mechanic that would add new challenges. We need a few more refinement (windshield wipers?) but it could add to the game, rather than being largely redundant with the damaged clothing already acting as a way to disincentive using zombie clothing.[/quote]
I didn’t mean the redundancy so much as the tedium.

[Sheb]

Well, depends what it implement. If the only effect of grime is estethics and sight-block, you only NEED to clean windshields and cameras. It wouldn’t add much tedium over the fixing of the minor vehicular dmaage you’re already going to experiment with when driving through zeds. If windshield wipers are implemented alongside, you have a relatively easy way to remove that small amount of tedium (and you can keep your windshield clean whitout stepping out of your vehicle).

Now, how can this be implemented so that you can’t wash the grimy windshield from inside?

[SpadeDraco]

Well, its better than the rust idea. I’ll give it that. I do like that it forces you to occasionally get out of the deathmobile and it doesn’t require absurd amounts of scavenging to support. My only potential concern is that people will avoid it by just setting their windshields and camera’s behind an extra quarterpanel.

[Zilenan91]

I think this would be a cool feature if it wasn’t too hard to maintain your windows to be clean. Driving through a street, splattering zombies across your windshield and ramming into a building because you’re blind would be hilarious.

[StopSignal]

I think this would be a cool feature if it wasn’t too hard to maintain your windows to be clean. Driving through a street, splattering zombies across your windshield and ramming into a building because you’re blind would be hilarious.

Exactly this. So beautiful.

Rags, containers of water, soap and etc. to clean, it would be great as long as it doesn’t hurt much to clean, and the gameplay thing being blocking sight of the windows, and being gory as hell, which is great.

Also, what about making the gore attract animals with the smell?

[SpadeDraco]

Also, what about making the gore attract animals with the smell?

I know you probably meant “predatory animals”, but when I saw this I just imagined a massive sea of cats trailing along behind my RV and cleaning it like little furry remora every time I park.

[Arek_PL]

My only potential concern is that people will avoid it by just setting their windshields and camera’s behind an extra quarterpanel.

who doesnt do that? cameras are fragille and expensive and most cars (not only deathmobiles) have rams

[Rot]

I’m pretty sure gore does get splattered over vehicles after collisions.

I remember that yesterday I had to mop up gore from my light tank yesterday. (Gore is more of an aesthetic thing, atm.)

[StopSignal]

Didn’t bile from the boomers did that? Or it was just discussed before?

[Pthalocy]

I would prefer it to be largely flavour/aesthetic (save for the windshield blinding, I love that), with the methods of cleanup simple and game-y. Please let rain wash off most mess. Let driving fast enough shuffle off most snow, if you don’t mind being blind for the first few minutes of your commute. Easy to remove and not tedious is key, so we can enjoy the FUN!! potential ramming a messy horde presents!

[Arek_PL]

yea, this sounds far better than rust idea

[gamejunky]

As purely an aesthetic thing, I think this idea could be enjoyable. But it having any effect on game play mechanics would be a huge mistake. If that happened, at best it would end up panning out to be something that seemed fun for maybe 1 day (for novelty) and then it would just become a nuisance.

[Pthalocy]

If it was a temporary effect that went away on its own after a brief period (VERY videogamey), we could have our ‘don’t ram a bunch of giant mutant mosquitoes unless you WANT blood’ AND not have to micromanage duct-taping windshield wipers and (a)pplying soap and water to our doom mobiles every time we want to go scavenging.

If it goes anywhere, I’d be for a less-realistic cleanup method. This proposal already gives us the realism of consequential gore, which is the fun part of it anyway. Windshield wipers could just be an option that speeds up the gunk time-out period, rather than being mandatory on pain of death shitty windshields and having to wash the car 24/7.

[Pandromidal]

I’m in favor of aesthetic grime/gore on vehicles if someone want’s to code it, but please no cleaning simulation. Vacuuming my actual car is enough.

[Pthalocy]

I just realized I could have summed up my previous post by saying “make windshield obstruction act like boomer bile does on the player’s face”.

Unless that no longer resolves itself after a handful of turns, that’d be the ideal comparison. Waiting it out should be the easiest option. Unless you crash your car, I guess.

[man-teiv]

[quote=“SpadeDraco, post:11, topic:12530”]My only potential concern is that people will avoid it by just setting their windshields and camera’s behind an extra quarterpanel.

who doesnt do that? cameras are fragille and expensive and most cars (not only deathmobiles) have rams

A bit OT, but how do you get that vehicle view? It is beautiful.

[Arek_PL]

its simple
actualy its 2 screens from vehicle creation menu
one taken when im inside vehicle and one taken outside
i cut one view from one screen and pasted it into another