Stop The Beast - Monster Truck Edition - BeamNG Drive

[@Schaddn]

why does the beast look so cute tho, look how it wiggles its little wheelies on acceleration

[@BulanuRoz]

looks like a fken whale m8

[@segue2ant395]

"Probably the best Monster Truck Physics you'll ever come across" - clearly you never experienced that majesty that was Monster Truck Madness for Windows 95.

[@thewordywarlock7159]

I feel like part of the problem is that Beam doesn't really accurately portray the crushing power of a monster truck, as we saw during the stuntman mission stream.

[@jamesmchenry4708]

I mean, fair, but modern monster trucks are a _little_ lighter than the '80s trucks, have more sophisticated suspension, and don't hit cars with the violence those did. As well, modern _cars_ are _way_ stronger than the '70s malaise-era hoopties that were the victims of the early monster trucks. If you look at car crushes these days, the cars tend to hold up much better due to the higher-strength materials. in fact, the fact that parts actually fling off at a significant rate of knots when they do break is a major reason cars aren't used as often in modern monster truck shows.

[@jwalster9412]

I think the issue is that the cars in monster jam and whatnot have weakened roofs (also alot older cars are used) and stuff so they collapse, making the truck look like it weighs 70000LBS. These trucks don't weigh enough to crush normal cars if I'm not mistaken.

[@CWINDOWSsystem32]

​@PatrikGivens I'm pretty sure it's the other way around, low speed impacts are more accurate in BeamNG than high speed ones.

[@NFSHeld]

Well on the left side it says this Monster Truck is supposedly weighing 5.71 metric tons. That's well enough to crush any reasonable street vehicle, since IRL monster trucks usually weigh "only" about 4 tons. Anyway the bonnet of those cars do not look as if 1.4 tons (assuming equal weight on all wheels) just rolled over them, do they?

[@rccookie6202]

@@NFSHeldyou have to remember that there’s an engine under the hood, and that’s basically a block of solid metal with some cylinders inside. That doesn’t crush so nicely

[@3Dsjk]

At 31:00 your truck is floating and being carried along by the current. These monster trucks float, and the drive wheels do almost nothing to help propel you in the water. Try it in one of the pools on the grid map; they’ll just sit in one spot while the tires spin away.

[@Incommensurabilities]

Yep, the tyres displace enough water for them to float easily enough. And the devs added water flow physics too.

[@demoths]

A great survival video, but Alex's failed attempts to self right was a little painful 😂 someone get this man a scale crawler so he can practice!

[@cyanihilist]

Highly recommend making the rear-steering manual and mapping them to different buttons to get the most out of the truck.

[@wattsonexe1681]

I love Amys reaction to you flipping after trying to kill them lmao

[@ryshow9118]

Boop

[@1298Tomcat]

Definitely was a missed opportunity to change the monster truck each time to make it more interesting Since changing the body shell does nothing

[@ultmateragnarok8376]

Another vehicle that might be good for one of these is the other end of monster trucks - slow, and unstoppably heavy. The gargantuan dump trucks and so forth, that I know there were and likely still are some amazingly detailed mods for. Even a sufficiently large loader or similar could give hell to these cars, but it would be a fight to slow them down enough to allow such vehicles to escape. Hills might be your friend due to sheer torque, be that not caring about the uphill compared to cars or letting it free at very irresponsible and dangerous speeds on the downhill, but it's hard to say. Would certainly be very, very interesting.

[@fury7081]

Love to see the Gavril Durham get used as the beast in an episode, plenty of configurations and definitely strong, but has its weak points

[@Stickeebud]

Such a perfect pairing of a mod and a game engine, I love those flappy wheels! I remember trying to catch Monster Jam every single time it came on TV growing up, so this video is just giving me a full hit of nostalgia right now. Thank you Alex and crew ❤

[@p0ot]

So much fun to watch, as usual! Only critique is the color pallet of the snowy background was hard to see.

[@sameermohideen4913]

Saw a cheeky reset at 21:10 by the grand marshall

[@Nhf1185]

We absolutely need an official BeamNG x Monster Jam

[@TSkyravin]

I’d love to see a “Survive the Beasts” vid. You are in a “normal” vehicle and the rest are in former Beasts. You get a few lives and 10 minutes

[@Shaun_Jones]

Or a super beast video, where he’s in something truly ludicrous like the Belaz dump truck, and everyone else is driving normal beast vehicles like T-series and buses.

[@mENTALdRIFTER]

Shrubberies, the natural predator of the monster truck

[@JaxHawkguy]

BTW I work for Monster Jam and at that 32:00 mins. the truck would not driving IRL with the right front lower 4-link missing. The front axle house would be rolled up under the truck.

[@OmegaPrime21]

The Grand Marshal cheated as it pings back and is full restored at 21:10 mark in the video

[@rccookie6202]

What happened in the river is quite simply that the truck floated with the current. The tires have so much air in them that they are buoyant enough to carry the whole truck

[@tevinabeysekera6038]

This is such a fun game to watch. Hope we can get a livestream where everyone gets a chance to be the camera vehicle, similar to the GTA 5 ones.

[@Rocker-1234]

the probelm youre having at 30:54 is that the trucks floating. the tires while big arent quite as heavy as you might think and designed to be floaty/bouncy for the show factor combine that with the light weight frame and what not and yea she can float but not quite self propell herself well since it doesnt have big enough treads/paddles on the tires

[@jamesmchenry4708]

glad you found the CRD again!

[@ianthomas1560]

2:30 Wendover, you mean Went-Over? I'll see myself out.

[@mENTALdRIFTER]

Ba-dum TISH

[@davidtt8372]

Hoping they do monster trucks around Mario kart tracks soon

[@demonsrun3281]

Screaming that he is turning the wrong way for self righting

[@Burger_Gaming778]

Man the monster truck and the cherrier in the last round are tough as nails

[@Nathan_Moor]

This one lacked tension, with how easily it handled collisions with the hunters. There's also the part that collision where not devastating when you in a big vehicle impacted them, so there was no catharsis that way either)

[@Manu-tt3wn]

It's always a good day when alex uploads

[@MalachiteSunlight416]

I wish you could do more of these Stop the Beast Episodes with the other Monster Jam Trucks, if Grave digger is an option I'd like to see them try and stop that Iconic Monster Jam Legend of a Truck.

[@IstasPumaNevada]

Like clown shoes chasing a giant novelty bow tie. :D

[@xxCanUDigIt88xx]

Amazing video, love the mods for Beam.

[@Guilherme-br3dh]

Monster Jam Urban Assault is looking good. But seriously Speedbeast picture is probably on the diccionary next to the word "commitment"

[@neatnoot214]

I think it would be interesting do to this with two smaller D-series, a Van, and maybe Laddo in a SBR4 and someone in a short body T-series, Idk if that would be too stacked against you lmao, but I think it would make things more interesting to have stuff closer to your weight/power level. Love the videos as always, ive been a fan since you were doing escape the police in GTA V

[@alexanderson5749]

Survive the beast needs to be a new game mode

[@JayFochs1337]

Perhaps a ramp from the bus/dump truck on the front would help with offensive capabilities!

[@Dannoprime]

Escape the flood in monster trucks please lol

[@Ozercraft86]

2:30 wendover went over you, get it?😂

[@anthonyrausch5708]

You guys need to do a “MONSTER TRUCK” drag race tournament.

[@HekkenDarkstorm]

Just wondering, could you combine this with race the flood? But only the beast has to make it to the top. All the hunters have to do is either stop it, of make sure the flood drowns it.

[@Shadowstrom]

13:26 I just imagined the Robot Wars MC/Fight Commentator exclaiming about Matilda losing her shell/body work

[@rottentrotten]

Hi, fan from Utah! This is definitely southern utah for you! Weirdly hot but still have the best snow on earth!

[@j0a3k]

Shout out to monster jam, very cool truck irl.

[@ilovepotstickers]

Whenever Alex said “I-series,” siri listened

[@JayFochs1337]

30:48 executed that poor cherrier vs a rock

[@jeremyproctor5249]

The first round reminded me of loins hunting a wounded wildebeest

[@thesunnynationg]

1:50 the truck got bushed off, and then someone Vendover it. 2:28 😂😂😂😂

[@3Dsjk]

I run these monster trucks all the time, and I played with the controls so that pressing on the left analogue stick toggles between 2-wheel and 4-wheel steering. 2WS is better at high speed, and 4WS is much better when taking tight corners at low speed. It is much easier to control this was.

[@6Twisted]

Beam needs to fix the grabby tyre problem.

[@nowthatscrazy]

You should try one with the BTR-80. That thing wrecks anything it touches

[@thedyingmeme6]

_TORO!!! TORO!!!!_ FUCK YEAH LOVE ME SOME MONSTER TRUCKS!!!! GRAVEDIGGER FOREVER

[@ICKY427]

when you're in a fragility contest and your competition is beamng tires

[@thesunnynationg]

who had the green cherrier in the last round? 😳😳😳😳 very aggressive and still the last to survive, couldn't have done much more 👍👍👍

[@FearlessLeader2001]

Alex's lack of knowledge about vehicles unfortunately came through, specifically monster truck suspension. IE, not knowing what a panhard bar is or that monster trucks float on water because of how much air is in the tires

[@jaspartomlinson8525]

the to save it is, you turn the wheels like you had and a little bit of throttle and then you hit the breaks

[@TunerGuy_90]

If y'all get bored lol. Everyone should do a "freestyle" competition!!! Have your live group, judge each run!

[@boyraceruk]

The Beast needs some Tweels.

[@EvanG529]

"The European mind cannot comprehend this"

[@beatermotorsports]

I imagine driving a monster truck in beam is not too far removed from driving a TVR irl tbh.

[@clumsygarage1578]

I kinda miss the smaller scale versions of these. Maybe beef up a bastion as much as possible and use that?

[@SpectralFlames05]

And you know what’s funny? How damaged it was at the end it would still be fixed before it’s next run at the same event

[@redmist6131]

We need to see a live stop the beast

[@imrpovking845]

They did a stream of that a while ago.

[@BeaudoinMotorsports]

BEAM MONSTERS BABYYYYY

[@Erin-000]

fantastic!

[@LukeTheJoker]

El Toro Loco!

[@BeaudoinMotorsports]

CRD with a... 3 Speed... someone modded the Mod, Alex 👀

[@jaspartomlinson8525]

what you broke is a four length bar I love monster jam and I am British

[@20thcenturygamer22]

Someone needed to bring the cannon

[@leducthecanuck]

2:35 the Wendover went over

[@TheRealAlpha2]

I notice they only call Alex rude when he turns the tables on them. I really wish the damage display was a bit more accurate, it'll show all the body panels red when they get dented but lose an axle and it seems like there's no indication anything is wrong until your wheel comes flying off.

[@rccookie6202]

There’s another damage ui app which shows the deformation very detailed

[@evguenyaltai4120]

Guys were totally fixing their cars tho

[@cruz25617]

Monster trucks acts more like a hovercraft than it does actually crushing vehicles. The problem with monster trucks in games are, while yes they tend to do a good job with physics, they tend to go overboard, and essentially, they turn more into basketballs. Being far too bouncy focused, and taking away from the satisfying crunch that is the entire bread and butter of a monster truck. They glide or bounce over car's, rather than dig in deep with the tires and crush. This has been a thing for the longest in multiple games, which basically render them unplayable and not as fun as we'd like it to be. I'd say, bring back the very first monster truck big foot, which was a mass monster with the giant tires and that would fair much better at crushing. Though, wouldn't be practical. But would be less bouncy.

[@music-channel69]

I've noticed that with your timer, whenever it has a 1 at the end of it, it lags for 2 seconds and then quickly jumps to the 9 to work normally until 1 again.

[@davidmoore1253]

Hunt the Survivors with one of the Beasts? Survive the Beast?

[@thedyingmeme6]

Its almoat always Survive the Beast lmaoooo

[@RicheyRocks]

the problem in the river he was having is because monster trucks actually float due to the missive tires

[@ziggie16]

its a torsion bar that was broke in the front

[@laladieladada]

beasts vs monster beast?

[@DamnedSilly]

You know a lot of those trucks float, right?

[@bfaproductions7121]

They do but they get stuck if the water is too deep/too big. I have gotten stuck in that river with a monster truck

[@nocount7517]

What about Survive The Beasts?

[@scotttait2197]

Whoever driving the green with black stripes = cheaty bugger

[@mENTALdRIFTER]

Peak STB

[@marcwiley]

yeeeeeees

[@natetwehues2428]

Not nearly enough tap dancing truck

[@demon12792]

Monster truck float in water. Can't drive forward if tires not on ground.

[@fyae]

1/3 video in, the chassers' done more offroading than the monster truck

[@Armin-ry9rm]

KILLDOZER

[@wheelwrightpl9429]

Wendover went over

[@BulanuRoz]

the idle sound on that engine annoys me a lot

[@Cobra_427]

It's supposed to sound like blower surge like the real trucks have but currently Beam doesn't simulate blower surge

[@SoDevious]

Dude, the Deathwobble on this thing is a problem.

[@loonielee9334]

Still need to get back to recording with you shame I had to sell everything when I got Ill to keep food on kids table