Of course, this would be the most basic way of tackling this. Provided that the gears ratios are spaced out in a linear fashion you would just need to figure out the moment when you need to trigger the downshift and apply that regardless of current gear. You could just apply a simple rule that you downshift 2 gears every time (except for when you're in second), then restart the calculation.

You don't have to do complicated calculations on the fly to figure out exactly which gear you need to downshift to. Basically unless you're really in too high of a gear the vehicle will find a way to go across the hill, even if it's struggling.Īs far as MR is concerned it's not even that much of a problem to figure it out.

In real life when climbing a hill rpm lowers in a decreasing fashion. If i took a Truck right now and drove it up a hill keeping momentum in the throttle, then i would 9/10 most likely not downshift with an automatic transmission. Of course, we could only do that if it were properly finished said in My Big Pet Peeve With Mudrunner.: That should also allow the community to make interesting maps without having to add 5+ lumber mills to compensate.įrom what I'm seeing MR2 will feature quite a bit of a gameplay change so it would be nice if we could still go back to MR1 for the 'old-school' style. I would also like to see maybe a small slider to control the points needed for each lumber mill, on choosing a map screen. I think they just made it so that weaker trucks can't pull big loads uphill but they should have just made the engines stall instead (yes, even in automatic and first gear - so that you would need to get a running start before reaching the hill). Otherwise I second the weird traction on pavement. I just checked SpinTires new beta and there the automatic transmission downshifts properly allowing you to keep as much momentum as possible. One huge pet peeve is the behaviour of the automatic transmission which always downshifts to first and makes you slow down much more than needed.

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