Pickup Crawler and Prerunner - The modular Multi-Tool of the Desert

So far I'm gonna give this new truck 3.5 out of 5 stars. 1. The light bar doesn't work. That bummed me out but maybe in the future. 2. You can't run a diesel engine in the crawler or Ultra4 version because the fuel cell. It has a little arrow option so they might be working on a diesel variant for the fuel cell. 3. Would have liked to see LED headlights instead of the standard ones that come on every D15. Those are really my only "complaints". Other than that its and amazing truck. I feel like the power and the way it launches from a dead stop is perfect compared to the real life trucks. That 3 speed transmission is awesome. The only bug I have ran into is sometimes the 6.9L engine will only rev out to 4000 rpm. Since its only happened a few times its not that big of a deal. I love that the solid axle crawler version has a standard four link with hydro steering and no pan hard bar. I think they should remove the pan hard bar on the hopper Ultra4. There really is no need for it since its already a four link. I see people saying the suspension is a little wonky but I feel like it is perfect for realism. In the future I would like to see LED headlights/lightbars, the black valence in the front just like the real life trucks instead of the tube bumper, diesel tank, maybe a double rear spare tire carrier with the option to run them vertical, horizontal, or stacked like on the Herbst trucks, a rear view mirror, and a siren. A siren because like on the real trucks they use them to tell trucks or anything in front of them to move out of the way or that they are behind them. Excellent update

 

i think alt m turns on lights maybe ctrl tho

 

IIRC the lights are bound to whatever you have foglights bound to (alt n by default I think)

Double rear spare tires would be awesome, as well as more of these parts ending up on the factory truck + a more subtle wide body so we can have a score class 8 rig

Personally I wish we had the option to remove panhard bars on all vehicles in game. Part of what makes Beam special is the ability to do what other games don't allow, including make questionable suspension set ups

 

I think the devs are going for a more realistic suspension feel. In my opinion, they have delivered on that. Tuning the shocks in the tuning menu can allow big jumps and hard hits all you need to do is play around with the settings. Though I do agree that some adjustable bump stops would be nice.
all we need now is a better map for this style of truck, something like johnson valley(where the king of the hammers is held) which has both crawling and high-speed desert.

 

A new problem: The rear suspension bucks a lot, get shot upwards in big bumps and jumps.

 

I absolutely love the prerunner parts, made a Pro4 truck using the prerunner as a base, but I will say the rear fender support is really on there, even slamming another truck into the fender it stays connected, I feel the rear fenders should come loose a smidge easier but other than that it's amazing

 

I can't even imagine what you could build to top this thing

Any thoughts on a 4 wheel steer system and/or a dig to lock the rear wheels on either the D-Series or Hopper? That crew cab crawler certainly wouldn't mind another tool to help out the turning radius on tight trails

 

Lol, i was asking trackpad about the buggy, already seen tons of pics of yours. Looks fun, nice addition to have it in game as the sunburst offroad.

 

I'd absolutely love having a D10 prerunner and crawler! Great work otherwise! I'm having a blast with the custom Early D15 I built!

 

The setup seems mostly fine other than the two points I've mentioned (the bump stops especially). I know goosah knows what he's doing, but from my experience tuning dampers for desert racing is a huge rabbit hole to fall into, and unlike road stuff, the amount of information available is a lot more limited.

And no, I don't own a desert buggy or offroad racer. Closest I've done is Mini-baja SAE back in uni and mountain biking which follows similar principles (although with air shocks and single stage dampers). For the most part I'm just a mechanical engineer who really enjoys seeing long travel suspension work.

If you check the progression of suspension setups on my buggy, you'll also see that I learned quite a bit throughout the months trying to tune that thing correctly, and it's still not perfect.

I think it's pretty much already a legal class 8 truck. The main things that would need to be changed is removing the windshield and extending the exhaust so it's not right under the cabin.

And you can't just "remove the panhard bar", since on any live axle setup that uses one, the panhard bar is the only thing keeping the axle from moving laterally. The live axle suspension on the crawler and pre-runner don't need a panhard bar because they're using triangulated upper links for lateral rigidity.

 

A fellow mtb enthusiast
OT: As said before, The body panels are getting caught up in the wheels, not allowing them to move. I dont know how to prevent this, but it does get annoying. Maybe make the body pannels easier to break off?

 

I meant a contemporary class 8 truck, though I guess that would still be closer to what we have than what's in my head. I'm really just asking for something a bit less extreme but still off road race worthy. Something that is to the prerunner what the pig is to the superpig.


As for the panhard bar... That is indeed the entire reason I want to remove the panhard bar. Beam is great for letting you do silly things that you can't in other games and making cars with stupid suspension set ups is great fun

 

the 4000 rpm is a new feature, its two step. Gas and brake in any car limit the revs to 4000 rpm.

 

Can we get some extra attachments to the roof lights like light covers or cages like how it is on the normal lights?

 

yes, I have found that is a problem. they need to add more clearance to the bonnet and fenders, but until then I'm just running mine without any front body work.

 

I don’t know why, but when I was playing with the prerunner variant but slightly modified (4wd, 1000hp) on baharama, it just ejects the headlights for some reason.
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Also, on Ghost’s desert, the default prerunner feels like it’s running on ice, and switching to crawler tyres doesn’t help much either.
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Is the fuel cell 95 or 100l because you can’t make the fuel cell full on the D-series because the slider only goes up to 90L

 

I have noticed that when you are hard into the throttle the rear suspension is sagged sufficiently to be almost touching the bump stops, when you hit a bump under full acceleration, this results in the rear suspension bottoming out and creating the "kickyness" (as someone pointed out earlier). I have watched many videos on Bryce Menzies youtube channel and (i know its a trophy truck, not a Prerunner but oh well), and the ride height even when under hard acceleration is far enough away from the bump stops so when you hit a large-ish bump under full squat the rear suspension still has room to move upwards into its travel. I know that it is hard to change the physical suspension at this point (you would also have to change the rear subframe to have more clearance) but since there is bucket loads more room in the rear fenders I would say the truck would benefit greatly from MORE UP TRAVEL.

 

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