Vehicles

## Overview:

> "Thousands of pounds of steel smashing into a horde of flesh-eaters at 40 miles an hour. It's like your worst intrusive thought, but now it's legal." - Culver
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During the chaos of the initial outbreak, many people attempted to flee the city in all directions. With the military closing all of the exits and the many major roads leading out of the city, traffic hit a city-wide standstill. Soon, not a single vehicle was able to move even a single inch for hours. This created the perfect conditions for a massacre when the second strain broke out.

many of the streets and roads in \_\_\_\_\_ littered with abandoned vehicles, dead bodies, and various other obstructions. Some areas were "closed down" with roadblocks set up by the military. All of this made travel in vehicles

Despite this

Over long distances, vehicles are often a far more efficient and safer means of transportation than walking. However, as powerful and useful as they are, they must be constantly fueled, kept in a state of good repair, and driven with the utmost caution in order to be used effectively to their full-purpose. Vehicles can be used for a number of things including (but not limited to): fast travel around the city, transporting passengers, transporting cargo, killing hostiles, and of course as a quick means of escape or life-insurance. Sometimes, all it takes is an engine and simple set of wheels to make the difference between life and death. Additionally, if vehicles are well-modified to endure the hardships of the outbreak, it can boost survivability for the player character even further. Most vehicles, when acquired, can be modified by the player character to suit their needs whether it be cargo transport, personnel transport, or even just to be a universal-purpose vehicle. There exists a variety of vehicles in the game world, all split into different categories - ranging from small engine vehicles like golf carts and ATVs, all the way to gigantic semi-trucks and rare helicopters.

## List of vehicles

There are many varieties of vehicles that can be found and driven in the world, each of their own model and coming from a brand. The list below categorizes vehicles into styles by similar characteristics between each other.

### Small Vehicles

* Dirt Bike, Golf Cart, ATV, UTV
* Motor Scooter, Moped, Motorcycle

### Passenger Cars

* Old sedan, Old coupe, Old hatchback, Old Full-sized car,
* Sedan, Coupe, Hatchback, Full-sized car, Taxi, Police Cruiser
* Sports car, Luxury Car, Supercar

### Pickup Trucks

* Small Pickup Truck, Medium Pickup Truck, Large Pickup Truck

### Passenger Vans

* Small Minivan, Medium Minivan, Large Minivan

### Utility Vans

* Small Cargo Van, Medium Cargo Van, Large Cargo Van
* Step Van, Multi-Stop Van, Cutaway Van

### Buses

* Minibus, Shuttle Bus, City Transit Bus, School Bus, Tour Bus, Tourist Coach

### Box Trucks

###### *Main article: Box Truck*

* Light Box truck, Medium Box Truck, Cabover Box Truck, Refrigerated Truck,

### Flying

* Electric helicopter
* News helicopter
* Police helicopter
* Military helicopter

## Tips

Every vehicle has its own advantages and disadvantages: a bicycle obviously offers no protection and virtually no carrying capacity whatsoever but can navigate the tightest of spaces and requires almost nothing to repair. A freight truck offers ample protection and massive amounts of cargo space but needs special, often hard to find parts for repair and can only drive on the widest of streets with no obstacles. A helicopter can transport anybody or anything virtually anywhere in complete safety regardless of obstacles, but is extremely difficult to repair and fuel up and is among the loudest of vehicles and sure to attract unwanted attention. Pick wisely - there is always a vehicle that will work better than others for a given situation. It is generally a good idea to collect and fix up different vehicles for the different purposes they are best used for.

Remember that while a supercar is extremely fast and a freight truck is extremely powerful, replacement parts for these vehicles are not easy to come by, and even if taken the best of care, no vehicle is insusceptible to wear and tear - replacing and repairing parts is an inevitable truth. Be sure to always maintain vehicles, as not doing so is a sure way make the vehicle break down and leave you stranded somewhere undesirable.

Before the outbreak, the attention that a sport car's loud exhaust brings would have been well-received for the driver. Now that flesh-eating beasts with a trigger for loud noises roam the streets, driving a car like that is akin to ringing a giant dinner bell. Think twice when choosing a vehicle for aesthetics alone.

Vehicles are not limited to cars on the road. A golf cart or ATV can be very suitable for off-road vehicular needs.

Vehicles are not toys and must be driven carefully - if a rollover occurs, the vehicle often becomes permanently unusable and must be abandoned.

Vehicles can be used as powerful weapons against the infected by driving into them, but take caution - repeated hits will cause damage to the bodywork, lights, windows, and vital parts of the engine, depending on the location of contact. That being said, many vehicles are able to dispatch or carve a path through hordes of infected by ramming into them. Reinforcing vehicles by adding grille guards, bumpers, or just welding some metal plating onto it will make the vehicle more effective at ramming into infected.

Save for a tank, no vehicle is impervious to the infected. Mutant infected often

Always keep fuel efficiency in mind. With scarce amounts of gas or diesel, the more fuel-efficient vehicles may sometimes end up being the better choice, even if they are lacking in protection, speed, and cargo capacity. A box truck might not have enough gas to make it home after gathering all of that scavenge, but a small golf cart might be able to take everything back in a few trips.