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Players have the problem to control the car/tank at high speed, if they want just to drive long, straight road.


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Thanks, good find.

Look on mod vehicle snap for 0.14.x. Its great.

Drifting a factorio car

Here's what bothers me.

If you press W to go forward - or S to go backward - while the car is moving in the opposite direction, the car simply stops.

To change direction, you must do the following:
- Release forward, press backward instead.
- Wait for the car to stop.
- Release backward, press backward again.

This holds true if the car has _any_ velocity, even a tiny amount. Try this:
- While the car is still, press forward _very_ briefly. Let the car roll forward on its own.
- Notice the car is still moving after 10 seconds. After about 20 seconds tho, it looks like it has stopped.
- Press backward. Notice the car doesn't move backward, because it actually still has _just a tiny bit_ forward velocity left.

Cars usually have a pretty consistent behavior in video games.
I was getting badly eaten in the tutorial, because I was constantly getting "stuck" in the middle of biters. I'm pressing a key and the car just sits there. It was pretty annoying

Hello, this fairly recent post fits in the "improved vehicle control" category pretty well in my oppinion:

viewtopic.php?f=6&t=64257

Thanks, carry on!

As for the car, can we just have the turning radius increase as a function of the speed? That way, as it goes faster the steering gets less "touchy". Want to turn sharp? Just slow down.

I bet there's a mod for this, but I'm too new to understand Mods yet.

-jim lee

I agree with this, I’ve struggled a bit with driving the car along and have found myself having to alternately tap A and D to go in a straight(ish) line by snaking.

One other suggestion of mine is to be able to set a different default zoom value compared to standard, such that when you enter a vehicle it zooms out. This is something I’ve had to take to doing manually, as I found that the car goes at such speed and doesn’t stop quickly (which is realistic) that by the time a tree, or building or electric pole comes onto the screen in your path, you’re going to hit it. Zooming out allows me to see what’s coming and better avoid it in time. Exiting the vehicle should restore you to the zoom level you had previously.

Biasing the camera towards the direction of travel might be good too,along with the zoom out.
The faster you go, the less you care about stuff you've left in your dust and the more you care about the stuff coming up in front.