Update Speculation thread

I'm certainly looking foward to what we see with the Bolide. Hopefully the high trim editions will see some aggressive body work.

 

Not to mention, a lowrider

 

lmao this is in the fullsize jbeam

//hoppin and a boppin

 

And...updating...

 

were in the devblog?

 

I hope that when the H-series gets overhauled, it will receive a passenger body style option, or maybe even optional two-tone paint, such as this:


Also, great job on the mini-update, hope to see more revamps of the current vehicles in-game soon.

 

I noticed something interesting about the old and rusty police and taxi skins for the Grand Marshal, they are actually a combination of the normal old/rusty skin and the police/taxi skin. There are no skin files for a "rusty police skin" for example, so there seems to be a means to combine skins now, meaning that we could very easily see "old paint" and "rusty" versions of many more vehicles and skins.

 

Also... lowrider D-series anyone?

 

Or d series drift truck

 

There's a ton I want to see for the H-Series, but I'm not sure it's any more likely to see a complete remaster over any other older vehicle, aside from the frame updates mentioned in todays devblog. Roamer and H-Series already got the body updates after all.

As for the above comments concerning the D-Series: Isn't the D-Series a little big for those? That stuff is generally kept to minitrucks and utes from what I've seen.

 

i'm pretty sure the bolide is the most bland/undetailed car we have at the moment, particularly the engine. handles like a dream though, and that sound!!

not only does it deserve an update, it needs one. and a rally version is so obvious that they just have to add it.

 

The Grand Marshal seems to have gotten a wraparound PIT bumper, but no config uses it. I would not be surprised if there are more police versions in the works.

 

Kinda weird to think that i never noticed that the Grand Marshal didnt detach from the chassis even thought it was a body-on-frame car. If im honest i thought it was a unibody with front and back subframes.
Really nice update anyway. I feel like the revamps are breathing some air into old cars. The original car roaster is getting a long overdue update. Now i would like to see the Moonhawk get some love because that poor thing seems to have been forgotten to time.

 

The Moonhawk got its body reshaped at the same time as the Sunburst; while I was trying to start a riot over the Sunburst reshape I also somewhat miss the big, blocky, pretending-to-be-a-full-size-car Moonhawk too.

I do hope the H-Series gets a full overhaul and not just a body/frame separation (even though it already got a body reshape at the same time as the others); it's been one of the most content-poor vehicles in the game for a long time (to the point where there isn't even a factory manual-gearbox config that doesn't also come with company decals and some lading) even while its platform-mates the Roamer and D-series have been blowing up and becoming config spam kings. It's time the H-series got a chance to shine!

Back to the Grand Marshal, now that the custom variant has been renamed to "Street - Tuned" it would seem that the old "Custom" nomenclature is going away completely even for American cars. But you know what else it really needs? A decommissioned police car straight off the auction block. So stripped of its lights & sirens but with its cop shocks, cop motor, etc. still intact.

 

With the Black body and white doors

 

make sure the cigarette lighter still works

 

Also, just so everyone knows: In the transition to "Street Tuned" the Grand Marshal Custom lost its MT swap, 18" wheels, and Sport tires.

 

Just so everyone knows the GM has been updated

 

Random pointless trivia that I really couldn't be bothered to find an on-topic place for: the devs actually do seem to have a fairly consistent system for placing nitrous bottles in their cars.

Fully-enclosed, short roof: Longitudinally on left side of trunk; some have it as far forward and then left as possible, while the Miramar's is a distance away from both the bulkhead and wheel well
Fully-enclosed, long roof: Longitudinally on left side of cargo area, as far forward as possible
Fully-enclosed, mid or rear engine: Longitudinally in passenger footwell, as close to the center console as possible
Pickup truck, cargo van, or Jeep-type SUV: Transversely in passenger footwell
Heavy truck: Longitudinally between driver and passenger seat, centered
Bus: Longitudinally on floor in rear of passenger compartment, centered

So far the game lacks any dev-made minivans, motorhomes, front-engine buses, or open-wheelers. Likely that a minivan, lacking any upfits to stay out of the way of, would have the bottle in the cargo area like any other longroof in the game, and the others I have no idea about.

Also, I just found out tonight that the 200BX, while visually very similar to an S13 liftback, is actually a true notchback with a fully-separated trunk.

It appears that the newly lore-ified Grand Marshal, for the last two years of its life, was available only to fleet customers or as a sports model. Kind of an interesting detail. Also, the new Street Tuned is specified to be "1993-1997" so it's likely that model-year differences are planned to exist at some point.

I... suspect? that the Gavril light truck family is headed for some model-year realignment. D-series 88-94, H-series 95-01, Roamer 92-99 despite looking more modern than either of the others. Can anyone explain what's going on there? Did the Roamer get restyled two years earlier than the D-series?