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Will ground vehicles run on fuel (hydrogen or otherwise be battery powered) or vary depending on the vehicle If anything runs on fuel will there be a gear switching system implemented?

TL;DRGround vehicles have moved to the new physics, and the team intends to unify them with ships so they get fuel, power plants, cooling, signals, resource network and updated HUDs.

Richard TowlerVehicle Gameplay team

So yeah, so we basically moved the ground vehicles to new physics vehicles already and that's our first step to really improving the ground vehicles up to the same specifications as the ships So our next kind of ground vehicles V2 as we kind of call it that would mean the ships run on fuel They've got a power plant, they have a cooler and it all works just like the ships Obviously it might be a different power style but it will have power, it will require cooling in the same way that ships do And they'll generate signals as well in the same way that ships do even though it'll be different radiuses and stuff But yeah, we're going to convert the ground vehicles to use the full vehicle systems and that we have, including resource network as well.

John CreweVehicle Gameplay team

Yeah, we definitely want to unify all the kinds of vehicles we have in the game to all sort of work roughly in the same kind of way So yeah, adding fuel tanks, adding power to them even things like updating the HUD to be new HUD because some of the ground vehicle HUDs have been untouched for a while Yeah, there's definitely intention to do that kind of thing, for sure.

Star Citizen Live›Ask the Devs - Vehicle Gameplay·
Published on this date.15 Sep 2023