BeamNG

Let’s boil the existing cars down to their basic functions and look at what’s missing. For instance, the D-series is a pickup truck with many variants. Many have voiced the desire for a modernized pickup and that’s fine. But we already have a fundamentally complete pickup. So for the sake of my argument, nothing more would be needed in the pickup department.

The same goes for T-Series. It’s an old tractor. People want a euro truck (me too!), but we currently have a two-axle cabover with a fifth wheel. Basically the concept of some European tractors. A modernized tractor would still be 3 axles that pulls a box.

We can go on and on. We have a rear engine sports car with a flat 6. Doesn’t look like a 911, but in terms of weight and balance, it’s roughly there. ) maybe a Porsche head will set me straight, I’m willing to admit if I’m wrong.

Roamer is a SUV with SUV geometry. We’re covered there. 200 BX is our JDM drift toy. Man, I wish I had a Lincoln Town Car! Oh wait, I can just make a luxury spec Grand Marshall. You get the idea.

I’ll repeat the question which I would like you to answer: What automobile are we fundamentally missing?

I am personally having trouble thinking of a gap. Hell, you can basically make configs all of the cars that live in Radiator Springs in the hit Disney Pixar movie Cars, minus Guido, the Italian forklift, who i would argue is really more of a piece of industrial equipment than a car and therefore not “missing“.

(Please don’t answer airplanes, boats, rockets, etc. That’s a different conversation, I think. Just automobiles for the sake of this academic discussion. I am also not interested in talking about mods. Just vanilla BeamNG.)

TL;DR: I drive rocket bus in multiplayer

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PSA: BeamNG has more than 1 dev (old.reddit.com)

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The original was posted on /r/beamng by /u/BrunoEye on 2025-01-28 12:06:31+00:00.

There are completely separate people working on new cars, new maps, physics, AI etc.

Adding a new car doesn't mean you have to wait longer for an improved tyre model.

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That's a new one. "Instability detected in 'simple_traffic'." (old.reddit.com)

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Hot Take, BeamNG doesn’t need new content for the next few updates. (old.reddit.com)

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The original was posted on /r/beamng by /u/RepulsiveName886 on 2025-01-28 09:56:37+00:00.

I’m a sole believer that at some point we’ll need to get an update solely focused on changing and patching some core issues with Beam. (Long Post)

I’ve been playing the game for years now, and there’s been something worrying me with the recent updates, that thing being how they prioritize certain things.

For example, in 0.34 they made a new main menu, which is a great change, but for some reason the “Campaigns” button is here, mind you Campaigns hasn’t been changed in years, It still uses very old pictures and is pretty much outdated. (Since Career mode is playable, and we have Scenarios that do get updated, and even a Rally mode now)

Another example, we’ve been asking them to make the UI more responsive for years, which looks like it’s finally getting worked on as the UI that uses Vue seems to be more responsive then the older one. But there are still other parts of the game that use this old UI.

The amount of vehicles in the game keep going up with almost every updates, (Bruckell Nine, MD Series, Hirochi Aurata) these new vehicles keep bumping up the detail standard of the game, making the other vehicles more and more outdated little by little. (Vehicles like the Burnside Special, Hirochi SBR4, Gavril Bastrow, Bruckell MoonHawk)

The Bruckell Nine has an unbelievable amount of details, to the steering column being actually connected to the wheels, the welds of the frame, the brake lines actually running through the whole car and connecting to the wheels. The engine block of the Nine has more textures then the whole interior of the Sunburst.

The way that they’re handling vehicles addition/remasters is always going to give those results unless they have a sort of detail “ceiling cap” or find a way to remaster all of the vehicles at once.

Also adding a brand new experimental game mode, (Rally) while working on another experimental game mode, (Career) imo, doesn’t make sense.

They redesigned the bus shelters though, while we haven’t got a new map in 3 years. A change, or revamp to the Bus Routes mode since it’s been added 5 years ago, or a much needed remaster to the Wentward DT40L a vehicle added 6 years ago.

People have been asking for skybox upgrade for years, new features such as : Different Ai behaviors, Rust, Dust, Dirt & Mud, Paint scratches, Dynamic Weather, Gas Caps, Pictures for the Part Selector, the Famous tire thermal and wear rework, Radial blur. And I know that if they could just press a button and add the feature they would, but It seems like it’s not being a priority at the studios, or even being worked on.

Now, I love this game & devs with everything I’ve got, i’m criticizing it because I enjoy it so much. They’re the most passionate, hard working devs I know. But at times it just feels like they’re going all over the place with these updates. (understandably so, BeamNG is trying to appeal to pretty much every single vehicle niche)

One request I have is that they at least communicate, or inform us about what is planned or being worked on at the moment. The way it’s teased is enjoyable, but imo keeps people in the dark regarding what direction we’re going for. For example, Whats the progress on Vulcan ? What is the progress on the multiple feature that I mentioned previously, What about the planned features for Career mode ? A roadmap of some sort please ?

Thank you for reading through all of this if you did.

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Diana IRL (i.redd.it)

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