Frame Addons

**Frame Addons** is a mechanic exclusive to the vehicles in *MotorStorm: Untamed Tundra* and *MotorStorm: Off The Grid*. It allows all vehicle classes to be given certain advantages to even out the playing field against all of the other vehicles.

However, Frame Addons can only be used in a casual online lobby, or when the player is at 80% completion of The Festival.

## List of Addons

### Logging Crane

The Log Crushers, certain Bobtailers, and Crossers can mount a logging crane and a log carriage, while the Boggers can exclusively mount a logging crane, which can knock over certain breakable objects, such as guard towers, wooden bridges and generally anything else that can be broken, which can block off routes where any vehicle smaller than a Racing Truck may have an advantage.

It can be activated by pressing both the right and left bumper, and can be lengthened by pressing up on the D-Pad, while it can be spun to knock objects over by using the right thumb stick. However, using the logging crane can backfire if a turn is taken too sharply.

Lastly, it can be folded and put back into position by pressing down on the D-Pad.

It is also interesting to note that the Atlas Journeyman comes with a logging crane by default.

### Beacons

A pair of amber beacons, which can be mounted to all massive and gigantic weight vehicles, except the Monster Trucks, they provide no additional effect, besides marginal illumination at night.

### Fuel Cistern

The Bobtailers, Big Rigs, certain Scouters, and Crossers can mount a fuel tank to give the vehicles significantly better boost acceleration, at the price of a shorter boost duration, and can also give the vehicles a much wider boost explosion radius that will send anything smaller than a Big Rig back a considerable distance, while it will instantly wreck anything smaller than a Mud Plugger.

It is worthy to note that the if the Crossers have the fuel cistern installed, a fireproof exhaust will be installed, which places the class's exhaust pipe at the very front of the vehicle.

### Container Carrier

The Dump Trucks can mount a container carrier with a small shipping container strapped down to the frame addon, which gives the trucks a considerable grip and weight advantage, yielding more ramming power, at the price of a significantly higher center of gravity, which can lead to the truck tipping over and the container dismounting, leading to it becoming an obstacle in the track.

### Dump Bed

The Big Rigs, Bobtailers, Crossers, and Dump Trucks can mount a dump bed that can dump heavy gravel on the track, making it harder for the smaller vehicles to remain under control. However, the dump bed can only be used once during a race, and the Dump Trucks can dump a considerably bigger amount of gravel onto the ground.

It is interesting to note that the Atlas Earthquake is equipped with a dump bed which cannot be removed, and can dump the largest amount of gravel out of any vehicle that can be equipped with a dump bed in Untamed Tundra and Off The Grid.

### Abandoned Oil Rig Drill

The Blockers can mount an abandoned oil rig drill that is heavily strapped down to the bed of the truck, which enhances the class's grip on rougher terrains, and also enhances the class's ramming power, at the price of a shorter and less accurate ram trajectory. If the drill comes dismounted from the truck being tipped over, it will cause the drill to become a static obstacle on the track.

### Abandoned Shipping Container

The Blockers can also mount an abandoned oversized shipping container to the vehicle's bed, which enhances the class's ramming power significantly more than the abandoned oil rig drill, but at a much more shallow ramming trajectory, and a higher center of gravity. If the truck ends up tipping over, the container will be dislodged and will become a static obstacle on the track, just like the abandoned oil rig drill.

### Trash Carriage

A frame addon exclusive to the Bobtailers and certain Big Rigs, which allows them to drop trash onto the track, which can make the track bumpier, and surprisingly more slippery.

### Water Tank

Another frame addon for the Bobtailers and the Dump Trucks, which allows the vehicles to spray water on any surface of the track to make the terrains much more slippery. It can cool the class's boost indirectly, and is only allowed three uses per race, where the water tank will spray water from all sides of the vehicle in an intense jet of high pressure non-potable water, despite any vehicle caught in the water jets can cool their boost.

It also works for between thirty second intervals.

### Van Body

The Scouters, Crossers, Bobtailers and Big Rigs can mount a repair cabin, which can not only increase their vehicles weight and enhance ramming power, but also allows the vehicle to take more damage before wrecking, despite just like most frame addons, can heavily increase their vehicles' center of gravity.

### Cabin Protector

The Boggers can mount an external rollcage that generally give little-to-no difference in their performance, besides making the vehicles more stable when driving on angled terrain.

### Mounted Plow

Snowcats, Trekkers, Plowers and Boggers can mount a small pair of plows on the rear that can severely deform all terrains except tarmac, which can deepen and soften most terrains down to the soil. At that, the plow heavily slow down the vehicle using them by a significant margin, and can only be used three times per race, in ten second intervals.

### Snow Plow

Exclusive to *Untamed Tundra*, the Mud Pluggers and Snow Pluggers can mount a special snow plow, which can push the snow in front of the vehicle to either the left or the right.

However, Snowcats in both Off The Grid and Untamed Tundra come with a snowplow by default, and can be used indefinitely.

### Spotlights

All vehicle classes can mount a set of spotlights or LED lightbars, depending on how old the vehicle is, which can provide bright illumination to the road ahead of the player. It provides no additional effects.

### Front wheels

A feature exclusive to the Snow Machines, which replaces the front skids with small wheels, which are ideally used on hard surfaces.

### Turbofan Snowblower

A feature exclusive to *MotorStorm: Untamed Tundra*, which allows a very select few Crosser trucks, moreover the conventionally styled crosser trucks are allowed to mount a jet engine to the front, which can swivel back and forth between the left and the right, which can easily blow away any vehicle smaller than a Racing Truck, and heat up other vehicles' boost if too close.

The addon melts the snow next to the vehicle, depending on which side the blower is pointed at, and also causes the vehicle's boost to rise until getting into critical boost, where it will automatically shut down and enter a cooldown mode. It can only be used twice per race, once pointed to the right, and once pointed to the left.

## Vehicle Exclusive Frame Addons

### Water Cannon

A feature exclusive to the Molotov Drago, and the fire truck-based Scouters, with allows the vehicles to shoot out a massive blast of pressurized water in front of the vehicles, which can make the terrain much more slippery for the other vehicles. It can also cool the vehicle's boost, but at an extremely slow rate.

### Dual-Edged Snow Plow

An addon exclusive to the Patriot Compadre, which allows it to push deep snow in front of the vehicle onto either side.

### Pusher Blade

A feature exclusive to the Jon Doe Sloth and the Ron Geare Bronx, it consists of a small bulldozer blade that can push small objects out of the vehicle's way.

### Heavy Crane

The Kramarlov Kran can mount a heavy mobile crane, which can knock trees and multiple other types of objects the standard mounted crane cannot. However, using it makes the truck prone to tipping over.

### Pusher Axle

The Heavy Hitchers have a built-in pusher axle, which can be lifted or lowered, to give the truck better ground clearance, or to give them a lower center of gravity, which aids them in acceleration. It can be lowered and lifted by pressing up or down on the D-Pad.

### Mounted Ripper Blades

The Dozers come with a pair of ripper blades that can deform all of the terrains in Off The Grid, including deforming tarmac all the way down to the soil.

### Heavy Pusher Blade

The Dozers also come with a heavy pusher blade as well, which can wreck any vehicle class in a T-Bone or Head-on collision. It can also completely demolish certain buildings to create obstacles in the road, granted the bulldozer is at a high enough speed.

## Static addons

There are certain addons that vehicles have that cannot be used, and are only on the vehicles for aesthetic purposes.

### Mounted Machine Gun

All of the vehicles based upon military vehicles, including the Warhogs can have a mounted turret gun, based off of the Browning M2HB.

### Mounted Tank Cannon

The Warhogs come with a mounted tank cannon, based off of a QF-76 "Pounder" tank cannon.