Planes Can't Stop Me! - BeamNG Drive

[@addickland5656]

That final segment was really Alex going (translation) "I'm a pretty damn good commentator, with over a decade of experience. But even I have not the faintest clue as to why Beam decided that my perfectly functional car.... should no longer be a perfectly functional car. Your guess is as good as mine. Until next time and goodbye....." (P.S. It was probably Amy not wanting me to win)

[@tahrey]

Or maybe something went wrong in the editing and his voice track didn't get dubbed on... hmm

[@aredub1847]

car driver excuses.

[@FearlessLeader2001]

11:50 BeamNG simulates the speed it takes the driver to move the shifter. You have to hold the button for a couple moments to give your driver the time it takes to actually move the shifter into place.

[@Shad0s]

I enjoyed the casual bullying of Alex in the skyrider

[@olivrser]

your perspective was halarious

[@sauces1313]

The night time video quality was remarkably good. Wouldn't mind seeing more.

[@tahrey]

Next time it'd be nice if Alex pre-set the display gamma (in beam) a little higher and left the postprocessing alone. The actual near-blacks in this were still pretty muddy but all the highlights were washed out, whilst upping the gamma should do the opposite somewhat, without making it too obviously overbright, though the daytime may seem a little glarey. It'd make for a good cityscape / industrial area night time vibe. I was quite pleased that his first instinct was to go across to Spearleaf when the sun set though, that was exactly what I was thinking would be a cool thing to do as soon as he noted the daylight fading out.

[@Karthos1000]

@@tahrey Still better than the Battle of Winterfell. You know which one.

[@tahrey]

@@Karthos1000 Actually, no... is that a game of thrones thing? I never watched further than the first episode.

[@Karthos1000]

@@tahrey Yeah, it is. That "you" was more of a generalist thing rather than "you, specifically." Anyone who's seen the show (at least, anyone who hung on through the painful final season) will know exactly what I'm talking about.

[@tahrey]

@@Karthos1000 i mean... You were atting me directly, so i kinda took it as that, though i still understand the use. But eh, i guess some kind of climatic battle that didn't go well for the protagonists or something. CBA with the show and particularly not the final season given the fan reaction to it.

[@DrakeGamer85]

_"Tonight, cancel all flights, the planes are on a hunt for a car! This is FailRace, where its Survive the Planes time on BeamNG, so watch on to see:_ * 6:45 _"A rally estate car dodges debris._ * 13:38 _"A truck cab catches some planes._ * 23:52 _"And Alex uses the speed!.... in a German sports car."_

[@toblexson5020]

That super i-series makes me wonder if a no-limits beam challenge would be fun, with 5 or 6 challenges randomly picked out of a set of idk, 20 or something vastly different ones, ranging from offroad to drag races to standard tracks, demo derby, etc.

[@vorgon8tor604]

They did something akin to this a while back, the did long jump, drag racing, circuit derby racing, mud racing and a couple other challenges it is plot into two livestreams I beleive

[@thomasdt1991]

Alex you need to use the High-Low with the truck. It's a so-called splitter, essentially turning a 5-speed into a 10-speed gearbox. It's not hi-lo gearing, it's a pre-transmission.

[@Madanbek_The_Dragon_Lover]

28:11 Oh come on, Alex! You could drive in a drain canal in terms to cool down the engine with the broken radiator! Missed opportunity for sure.

[@rennen71]

That doesn't fix the oil issues though, radiator you can supplement with water, but that doesn't do much to lack of oil

[@Madanbek_The_Dragon_Lover]

@@rennen71 But it turns out in this game you have to wait pretty much noticeable amount of time for oil to be depleted, and then engine being locked up.

[@pseudotasuki]

That map is gorgeous at dusk.

[@AshishSahu-m8u]

That was a great video. Do more night stuff if possible. Do a race at night with rain in ACC, it will be great.

[@KyleSeubert]

I think I know what happened Alex. The bell has a weapon mod now and it looks to me that one of your "friends" shot you. At least by looking at the effects on screen in super slow mo I can see the bullet trails

[@jwalster9412]

Or it could be sparks.

[@Acela2163]

That would be twice now that one of the planes killed alex by using a weapon mod.

[@tahrey]

Nah, I played it back a couple times after reading this, and I can't see anything that would be bullet trails or the like (don't know if Beam even shows those anyway?). The flickering sky and such is just replay artefacts, I think it only checkpoints the model data in sync with the framerate of whoever was recording it (which in this case wouldn't have been Alex as his replay recording clearly wasn't running at the time) and the engine interpolates from that - quite glitchily - if you run in slow motion. It being multiplayer probably only adds to that corruption. Most likely it's because it's a hillclimb / time attack car which already sits very low to the ground with a lot of protruding aero parts, which had got damaged and had some debris visibly tucked under, that hit a very slightly misaligned bit of the modelled road surface, caught on it super hard like some Beam collisions are wont to do (there was some video I saw recently which had a really egregious example of that which caused the entire car to ricochet backwards almost as fast as it had been going forwards, but can't remember if it was an FR one) but without sticking, and most of it got fired sideways as a result whilst the already loose parts of the bodywork carried on forwards. Be worth driving over that same spot in some ground-scrapingly low customised vehicle and seeing if it gets caught...

[@TheAruruu]

@@tahrey I think the clip you're talking about was indeed a failrace episode, but i don't think it was on beam. i'm pretty sure it was on wreckfest.

[@tahrey]

@@TheAruruu Maybe, but I swear I remember watching it and thinking "jesus how do you break the beam engine that bad". Maybe it was an automation car or something? That or another rally / hillclimb type car. Car jump arena 2 perhaps?

[@aceade]

The end-game of this sort of thing HAS to be against an AC-130 gunship (if that's even possible in BeamNG)!

[@thedyingmeme6]

ENEMY AC130 ABOVE!!!!!!!

[@JustAnotherRandomPersonOnline]

They do have the B25 Mitchell (WWII American Bomber), don't know about an AC-130 though.

[@thedyingmeme6]

​@@JustAnotherRandomPersonOnline yep. I belive it was a newer FRFC memeber who last time actually HIT Alex w a bomb from the Mitchell (I believe it was someone from Neils' crew)

[@mrsumo1]

Did Shados or LongbowX go and use a bomb or incendiary bullets against Alex? Someone dropped a bomb on Alex at the end of the last "Survive the Planes" episode if I remember correctly.

[@Shad0s]

The skyrider does not have bombs, and Longbow was not here for this. Last time bombs were dropped accidentally, however this time we genuinely don't know what happened, none of the aircraft had bombs or anything like that

[@Boa_Omega]

that was Dangerman who bombed Alex in the no limits STH

[@richardarthur-nycstories]

I think that last one was the 'Tunnel cheese' Gods saying "Ut uh, not again"!!

[@Dasyati]

say what you will about the truck's durability but whoever's driving it is extremely dead

[@EvanMoon]

Limited slip differential is a must in such a game

[@1mariomaniac]

I feel like the Claria had a limited-slip (otherwise no power would've been getting to the remaining wheel). Just the way it was configured didn't seem to let the car keep going from a stop.

[@tahrey]

@@1mariomaniac Beam *might* model getting some traction from the hub rolling on the ground? Which would give you a bit of movement, even with an open diff, but very slow. And then some resistance against it which would push a little power into the surviving wheel to gradually get up more speed. Though my experience with LSDs in Beam has been that they generally don't seem to transmit anything more than quite token power to the loaded wheel even when the unloaded one is spinning at unreasonable speed, and usually don't have any adjustment, though it still doesn't make much difference even if there is some. It'd be nice to have some stiffer options to sit between "very nearly useless" and "completely locked"... Or even some ESP / e-diff functionality that independently brakes a spinning wheel using the ABS system (and in doing so forces torque back to the other side), rather than simply using throttle-cut traction control, much as that would be era inappropriate to anything other than the hillclimb car in this vid. However if you've had the entire wheel complete with brake drum / disc come off, like what happened with the Claria, it's not going to do much good anyway. I wonder if it even simulates a dual circuit brake system properly, so if you have the entire assembly ripped off one corner like that, the braking force rapidly disappears from the opposite corner and leaves only the other two working? (And maybe in this case also kills the parking brake)

[@tahrey]

Re: Gearbox issues, mentioned this a few times by this point, but IDK if you even read the comments that often so here goes again - *You gotta take the gearchanges **_slower_** in certain vehicles like this that have less than race spec transmissions, and by that I mean **_hold the shift button longer._* I know it goes against every hardened sim racer instinct, but that's how the Beam devs have the game engine set up at the moment. The period where the button is held is considered as the stick being held between gears, where you're letting all the internals sync up with the clutch depressed, and it only then gets shoved home and the clutch released when you let go. I think this is also why block changing doesn't work very well a lot of the time any more, because it doesn't properly recognise you double / triple tapping as an instruction to directly change up/down two or three steps, but instead an attempt to make two or three very rapid individual shifts? As a comparison: For a race transmission you can just tap it and that'll be like quickly banging up or down through a straight cut box, and the only "synchro" damage it should take is if you try to go into reverse when moving forwards (more actual gear damage, but that's how Beam counts it). For more typical road cars you have to give it just a fraction of a second for the synchromesh to do its thing, but that's pretty much the equivalent of a distinct morse code "dot" vs an instant click (mind that I do drive with Manual Assist on, so usually don't use the clutch, but that CAN still help for faster shifts for some dumb reason, very rapidly go hold clutch - tap shift - release clutch, total time to do all that still being slightly faster than the slow press of shift alone and bypassing the power and time-wasting rev-matching Beam otherwise insists on). For something stodgy like a truck, you need more a morse "dash". Still not super long, not even the length of a Eurotruck shift, but maybe a quarter to half a second could be enough to make the difference between it being clean and it grinding then jamming, or dropping into neutral. The clutch also helps, but more to let you get back on the power quicker by bypassing the revmatch hang time. The range splitter isn't so much of an issue overall. Using it could help with shortening the hang time in the upper gears, but if you have only one button bind that you can easily make, and you're not pulling trailers, the clutch is probably more useful to help with launches and all of the gearshifts. Really it's meant to let you keep near peak power more of the time when slogging up a steep hill with 20 tons behind you, or within the economy rev range when cruising long distance. The one place here it might have a benefit is going from 4th to 5th, as truck boxes tend to have more evenly spaced ratios than in cars (so effectively it "feels" like 1st - 2nd are closer than most familiar transmissions, and 4th - 5th are wider) because that better fits their use case, just to avoid bogging down on the hills so much... but really you may be as well just to let it rev out more in 4th before shifting (slowly!), or leave it in Low all the time. After all if 4H is too short but 5H is too long, somewhere in between the two should work, right? And there'll be an even progression up to it from the 4 lower gears. It'd make reverse a bit slower but it's not like trucks go very fast backwards anyway. And/or try different diff ratios in combination with that.

[@tahrey]

(Maybe at some point they'll _properly_ model real world truck box behaviour and shift patterns (e.g. dual range with additional split on one or both ranges, that has shiftlogic that lets it be easily shifted between the top of low and bottom of high without needing an actual H-pattern controller), but not holding my breath. Until then the best option is probably something like this, but perhaps with 8/9/10 main ratios that represent the gears in both main ranges arranged sequentially, and you roleplay not having much real use for Lo gear in high range, or not being able to split the lower ratios, etc. Something like that works OK for the Optidriver type semi-autos in Eurotruck, where it takes an 8-speed with high-only or dual range splitting and presents it as a sequential 12 or 16 speed (or a 10-speed with high-only split as "12+2"), and you can double/triple/quad tap the shifter very quickly to make block changes, effectively choosing how big a ratio gap you want on each shift (generally wider in the low gears and narrower in the upper, though it's useful to have the single shifts for low speed heavy hauling in hilly areas, and block shifting into top from two or three gears down when running bobtail and hitting the speed limiter))

[@tahrey]

NB have you tried getting a mini wireless keyboard to sit next to you whilst you're using the controller, or having some kind of streamdeck profile that could make it work as a secondary button panel in-game and be more convenient than leaning over to the main board you use for chat/commands? Beam has so many different controls that are routinely useful that I find there's not really enough keys on a keyboard in the first place, let alone trying to map everything onto a joypad. Once you've done throttle, brake, steering, shift up/down, handbrake, camera angle, horn, lights, reset, menu there's like... the D-pad and up/down on one of the sticks left (if you want to play dangerous with the possibility of accidentally triggering something whilst steering), and one of the pad directions is already taken for ignition. I guess hi/lo range, diffs and clutch would be my personal choices, but I've likely forgotten some vital feature in all that, and it still leaves things like 2/4WD, drive mode, shift mode, getting in/out of a vehicle, pause, slowmo, indicators, aux lights/siren, attaching/detaching trailers, freecam, no reset teleport, cruise control... etc... up in the air. Those alone could pretty much fill a 16-button deck.

[@stephenwadecapps1983]

Possible desynch, epic final hit though, enjoyed every moment of this one.

[@57thorns]

7:15 That was a precistion strike if anything,

[@LostInPhilly89]

*precision #spellingfail

[@alexanderjones6383]

I like the addition of the countdown clock.

[@nealridgway5337]

Beam content is my favourite type on your channel. Keep up the good work

[@messiermitchell4901]

Bad idea: Survive the aircraft but it's Speed (1994)

[@pseudotasuki]

As a physical embodiment of Speed (that being my surname), I second this suggestion.

[@authoranonymous8892]

That or "Survive the Aircraft: Utah"

[@tahrey]

You mean The Bus That Couldn't Slow Down?

[@Timberwolf69]

@@tahrey It could, but it shouldn't, as a bomb was rigged into it, set to explode below a certain speed.

[@tahrey]

@@Timberwolf69 Couldn't do it whilst still surviving. Like you can't jump through a wall of fire.

[@trautsj]

His timer sounds A LOT like my air fryer and I got very confused for a second lol

[@JustAnotherRandomPersonOnline]

I'd like to see the day night cycle put into more of theses videos!

[@PersonWMA]

The Quad i6 makes a visceral noise that registers in my gut and has enough synethesia to make me believe I'm the one being pushed back into my chair.

[@thedyingmeme6]

Going from the estate car to the Big Fucking Semi (10:13) literally made me go "oh ho?" Out loud lmaooooo 22:04 Amy with the "nice countdown dingus"

[@authoranonymous8892]

I love Amy's commentary. I hope she posts a hunter's perspective.

[@tahrey]

Failrace: Now sponsored by ASDA, NNN, and IEDs

[@yumenoko-g6y]

@@authoranonymous8892 She's uploaded her perspective now

[@isiahking7296]

Loved the vid but that final crash would’ve been cool to see.

[@Tehno-40]

Next time Alex make sure they aren't allowed missles

[@Connor-re8pl]

was just binge watching then noticed a new vid

[@hinty6424]

So.... Planes 2 Alex 1 Map 1?

[@dictatorspud6072]

It's almost like you tied a steal cable to your engine block and drove till it got tight

[@ryanpangle]

I love this series 😂

[@epic1527]

Can you play as the plane too ? :)

[@Lv80WoWmage]

Alex: "I thought I hear a jet." Audience: "Yes Alex you did here a jet, its called an ME-262, the world's first operational jet fighter back in 1944."

[@Nightmareof94]

As a long time ace combat player the safety tunnel would become the why do i hear free bird tunnel

[@spectralace314]

These videos are an excellent example of why fragmentation grenades are so dangerous and commonly used.

[@slowrainbow6436]

So far this is somewhat my favourite challenge this and survive the decent

[@alxti]

You need to use the splitter on the truck, the pattern is: 1L, 1H, 2L, 2H, 3L, 3H, 4L, 4H, 5L, 5H so you can have 10 speeds and it will be happy. I have my splitter toggle button to X on my ps4 controller

[@JamesPyke-z2z]

The trucks have the torque to skip gears, going every gear high and low is slower than how he does, even if he fucks it up sometimes

[@DAFPvnk]

You only need the splitter if you're heavy and need the extra torque. And by heavy I mean, carrying a load. unladen it should be happy sat in High-range. The issue as alex says, is that he has not bound a clutch to his controller and you do need to clutch if you dont want to throw through all 10 gears.

[@tahrey]

@@DAFPvnk The gap between 4th and 5th is pretty big though, there's points where it may have been useful to go 4H - 5L - 5H maybe, just to get the extra power (which is torque maintained at higher engine speed so you can use a lower gear and get more multiplication). Or just leave it in low range throughout, as there wasn't any point where he really got up to speeds that would exceed what you can do in 5L with that extended rev limit, and it wouldn't have bogged down so much.

[@squidwardo7074]

You only really need to do this when you're towing a heavy load

[@Trinoya]

Well, the universe it seems decided that you had had enough fun and games for one day, but at least it was a most excellent scene of destruction.

[@whichgodofthousandsmeansno5306]

"It's raining planes, hallelujah...."

[@jasonbrondel5319]

earliest ive caught one of these

[@dylanevans6819]

That I-series sounds like an angry ghost. GRRR-oooOOOoooo-GRRR

[@cire7208]

for the gear issue hold the shift button down longer

[@MatchBreakers]

Imagine this also with traffic xD

[@tom13794]

going frame by frame on the replay at the end it looks like some sort of weapon tagged you just before you start breaking apart

[@jamesmaclennan4525]

He needs to invite Broughy to join him in this.

[@TheBlackEventorizon]

28:40 - The mating ritual of the Delorian

[@cudak888]

Got a kick out of this, as always. Just not enough A380's though. They're always good for some butt-puckering moments.

[@authoranonymous8892]

Your last car did a Bluesmobile.

[@eamonahern7495]

Plot twist. One of the hits was from the glider that was still going after beat the descent.

[@ThatBaritoneGuitarGuy]

1,200 horsepower in an 80s BMW? I thought for sure the engine would explode, or the body would torque itself apart, long before anything had a chance to hit you.

[@tahrey]

If you're tuning the engine that hard, probably safe to say you'd have the sense to reinforce the frame, mounts, etc...

[@ThatBaritoneGuitarGuy]

Good old-fashioned German engineering!

[@sharkk127]

I feel like you should maybe add a rule where after the half way mark someone can grab the me 262 and slam it into you at 400+ mph

[@Skoobzzzz]

The planes took that personally

[@thebeastmk2]

The day night thing is neat it might be a bit too dark though 😂

[@1mariomaniac]

BeamNG night has always been like that. Kinda wish it was a little brighter because it's very nearly pitch black, especially since I don't think any of the maps have dynamic lighting (like street lamps and the like).

[@tahrey]

@@1mariomaniac There's a gamma control in the display settings, it can make a heck of a difference. Just remember to hit the Apply button to lock it in. Though, I have found there can be other problems, like if the ambient occlusion system glitches out for some reason. That made shadows way too dark and have a weird texture for me, can't remember exactly what I did to fix it but I remember trying a lot of different things. Certainly had to do a full cache clean, maybe video driver update along the way, as well as disabling a bunch of mods (maybe uninstalling one that had overwritten an important file?).

[@benjackson8731]

to me the last run looks like some invisible plane hit alex somewhere between the front whell and the door on the right side, juding by the way the car shunted sideways. But if noone was near there on their screen, then im not sure aside from game being weird and creating lag shadows.

[@VFRSTREETFIGHTER]

The game seemed to glitch on that last match, I say it was a win for Alex.

[@Heyant]

If you go to amys perspective and watch the final chase, Blaser comes in at mach Jesus and gets forced reset

[@trautsj]

42 min vid. NOICE!!!!!

[@hydronpowers9014]

Bro, watch your jet! Watch your jet! Watch your jet!

[@ShadowSpark0039]

wow. Taken out by glitch. Shame :(

[@Roxas13XIII]

God: "Stay down, final warning"

[@robertdemare6140]

rule suggestion: you can be exposed to open air for 20 percent of the run, except for the last 2 minutes

[@robertdemare6140]

(*in open air, as in straight above the verhicle)

[@BrendenBlades]

I’m so early’

[@SunstriderGames-cx7vr]

17:42 The timing XD

[@jayeastman3602]

You turned into an actual wrecknado 😂.

[@JamieCameron-Mackintosh-z7c]

Well, that was... ODD 😂

[@Hackanhacker]

Fun version of survive the hunt :P

[@charlesjmouse]

Circus car!

[@JustAnotherRandomPersonOnline]

What about doing this one with a bus?

[@deltathedragon6223]

where do you actually get these mods, they are not in the beam ng repository?

[@1mariomaniac]

Some can be found on the BeamNG forums (such as the Bell 407 helicopter) and others (like the massive commercial jet) are from Modland. I personally don't recommend mods from there though, Modland has always felt a bit sketchy to me.

[@SunstriderGames-cx7vr]

25:49 Spaceballs reference.

[@djaydeved]

12:08 i doubt this'll be read by alex but in the off chance that he does read this you gotta split the gears! thats the proper way to drive the 10 speed the gear indicator isnt really setup the way it should, because its reading the gate, rather than gate+splitter, your loosing half your gears 1/2 3/4 5/6 7/8 9/10 the proper way to shift is low range then high, low, grab next gate and then get high range once you max out the low range thats why your having so many issues because 8th the 10th is so damn far, if you just split the last gate to low range itll shift properly i also suggest binding the range/splitter to a button some where to allow splits between gears

[@DavG_NZ]

nice outro dingus lol jk.

[@caliban2805]

Failrace UAP patrol

[@eddiev2257]

yeah that last death was just a religious experience

[@IDyn4m1CI]

Instability issue, or weaponized mod, it doesn't matter what it was. That's a lame way to go out on the last round

[@pietrozala3420]

Sir, a second plane hit the cherrier

[@P747]

Next time, can you PLEASE avoid drivning into the same damn city. It gets old really fast. It's way more fun when you're exploring places you rarely or never been at.

[@tahrey]

There's only one city on the map, and they haven't used this map for Survive the Planes before (or indeed for HTS for a while). Not sure what you're driving at?

[@Subreon]

that last death was simply a skill issue. you should've just not exploded. rookie mistake. and even in that state, you should've still been able to dodge that jet that hit you into the ocean. bro ain't got the schmooves.

[@SunstriderGames-cx7vr]

Why does the countdown timer freeze on the 0s?

[@spookyblush-speedruns]

'nice countdown, dingus' xD

[@darksheikgaming]

I always find it interesting that the UK and various countries calls it an Estate Car, whereas here in the US, we call it a Station Wagon.

[@tahrey]

Probably matching the original uses they were put to in their respective settings...

[@markboekraad7525]

🎪🚚🚁😂

[@MANTRAKKK]

Lol

[@aredub1847]

tunnel so cheat

[@edwardburek1717]

Baron FailRace's Flying Circus hits the sky once again, with the sole intention of hitting Alex.

[@MrJuniorLaws]

What happened at the end the slo mo showed nothing hitting you so was it a map issue

[@Heyant]

I can tell you for a fact that Blazer hit him at Mach Jesus and didn't show on the replay

[@PromiseDK]