Why It Would Suck to be a Wydra

[@TalksWithNoise]

Also, thank you to the BeamNG.drive devs for sitting down and helping me figure out why everyone mistakenly thinks you are a mess. I know AiTorror and AgentY were looking into the confusion between your brakes and clutch, so major props to them for feeding back advice for this video :)

[@MuYe]

Even AI can't drive the damn thing 😭

[@acidflows8166]

OMG ITS MUYE MUYE IM FIRST TO REPLY MUYEEEEEEE

[@TalksWithNoise]

AI: “Imma flip it.”

[@Dubs_Gaming]

LMAO SO TRUE 😭🙏

[@finc1945]

If I may quote your wise words muye "bro, WHAT WARE YOU DOING!!!!"

[@J.Durco_23]

Given the fact, that AI drives, you know, on roads, Wydra shouldn't be an AI traffic vehicle in the first place.

[@JustARegularTank]

wydra needs hug

[@iagocassonato3141]

Yes

[@Michael-f1u2x]

and an m2 browning heavy machine gun

[@AxisGMD2010]

@@Michael-f1u2x yes

[@srihariandco]

Maybe a surface to air missile

[@vvvxt]

*hugs Wydra*

[@QuebecGamer20]

They should add a snowmobile to make the Wydra look more useful in comparison

[@TalksWithNoise]

“Why is it dying on asphalt?”

[@Avetho]

@@TalksWithNoise No no, not that, snowmobiles do great on asphalt! If you go straight. But with the low experience of many players... "Why does it not turn?" "The understeer is so baaaaad bro!" "this vehicle sucks balls" "TF IS THIS UNTURNING JUNK" Because the same people who can't drive differential steering after hours of trying, also won't realize skis can't grip the asphalt XD

[@TalksWithNoise]

@ Ah, I was thinking it’d be like riding a snowboard across rock; Destroys the base. But understeer also being an issue with the sliding skis didn’t occur to me XD

[@CappuccinoBeam]

Hi

[@RedCobraQC]

Hello

[@flazeboi]

Wydra Engineers: *litterally re-invents steering for the sole purpose of having more grip in muddy land,exchanging much steering capabilities on roads* Wydra Users: *uses it solely on f$cking roads*

[@strawberrymilk9767]

kind of like the Ford Bronco, designed for offroading, yet all Broncos I see are owned by soccer moms.

[@r1zmy]

kinda like how 90% of pick up owners never took them off road.

[@benjaminwatson7868]

A side by side with mud tires is far superior to this kayak on wheels

[@averyw.3939]

@@benjaminwatson7868SxS won’t float though

[@benjaminwatson7868]

@@averyw.3939 oh no way the kayak on wheels is better in water

[@DeadTube5000]

"You look like a kayak with wheels." I lol'd *and* learned things!

[@TalksWithNoise]

*Slaps boat* “Now that’s something I wouldn’t mind driving in a swamp.”

[@khoigg6487]

Thanks, now i can enjoy the wydra and stop blamming it.

[@TalksWithNoise]

Wydra thanks you.

[@turbolul559]

same bro

[@Osifilms22]

can we all please start loving the wydra how it is?

[@TalksWithNoise]

If you don’t love the Wydra at its worst you can’t love it at its best.

[@TalksWithNoise]

@@mdsharifulbari4534 Cringe.

[@onesadcomputer]

Thanks to this comment, I shall appreciate the wydra and give it some love.

[@Sr1l_kr1l]

Welp im now realizing im an idiot

[@TalksWithNoise]

Me too.

[@Sr1l_kr1l]

@TalksWithNoise YOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[@plot5975]

"my name is the wydra, my clutch burns when I make a turn!"

[@Shaun_Jones]

It’s an 8x8 amphibious vehicle that only turns by skid steering, I would have thought that it being an off-road only vehicle would be obvious.

[@Maddiedogge]

If I could change one thing about the Wydra, it would be to add the option to use tracks instead of wheels.

[@FerralVideo]

There's a mod for that! It's really cool. The user modeled the entire tread, and it pushes the BeamNG physics engine to its limit (and beyond! It can fall off and/or explode at higher speed.)

[@thefancydoge8668]

Yea like it already has track steering, I don't understand why it even has wheels

[@phoenixproto3149]

It would suck to be a Burnside because the damn thing hasn't been updated in half a decade

[@Caffine_Kitsune]

I agree with the toaster

[@oldjeeper9174]

Moonhawk is an old car from any point)

[@HIROCHISUNBURSTTTT]

burnside? that dude is dead, dawg never got a full name and is a rigs of rods car

[@Gabstermi]

The Moonhawk: 💀

[@ProjectEurobeat]

At least we have the Nine now

[@watarod]

Wydra shall not be abused

[@SockyNoob]

Love how this is basically one giant roast of the BeamNG user base lol.

[@jade-a7990]

just lmao by carmighty to show polish

[@christians.8700]

Well, turning from standstill on grippy surface makes your clutch (or belt) burn easily. I recommend turning when it’s already moving and only for small curves at one time, then it works better. The turning radius is not the best then, but it kinda works. I also often use the high/low transfercase and putting it on low for sharp turns or turns from standstill, so the clutch / belt lives longer. Also you can remove some of its wheels, so it has only two than four wheels on one side, so less grip means better turning. But you have to be carefull, because you can‘t remove any of the wheels you like, because if you remove one specific wheel (i don‘t know which one anymore, you have to try yourself) you may have no drive. I think it‘s a differential thing or bug, but i don‘t know. Also the problem of difficult turning is how the differential works. Because when braking one side to standstill, the other side would turn (i think) twice as fast, as it normally would, when the tire on left and right turn freely. So the engine and drivetrain needs more power to turn the wheel (even when not to overcome friction and brakeforce from the other side). If some of you have lego technic or something like that, you can try it for yourself: built a little setup with a motor, which drives a open differential coupled to a tire on each side and watch the speed of both tires. The left tire should spin as fast as the right tire. Then try to stop one of the tires (of course without hurting yourself), then you will see a increase in speed on the tire, which turns freely even without changing the speed of the Motor or changing gears. But speeding up one side by braking the other means less torque output on the wheel, which turns freely, and that is the problem why the wydra can‘t turn well on grippy surfaces.

[@TheoTheCrasher25]

How someone knows this much about the wydra is beyond me

[@racer927]

Everybody who hates the Wydra *needs* do play the mod map "Jungle Crawl" with any Wydra variant and then try it with a different vehicle.

[@shadyhazza]

I vaguely remember it featuring on a later season of Trailer Park Boys, where they built the model railway across the border

[@kovy6447]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="9">0:09</a> didnt expect CarMighty here

[@user-sq5mr8ut1o]

I see an amphibious off road technical with option for conversion into a troop transport and with an up armored variant.

[@fancydan1262]

Me when I first got the Wydra: “It floats! That means I can drive it on water!” Me less than 30 seconds later: “Oh boy. A slight current. Well I’m fucked.”

[@Hornet4]

i love how the "group of Polish people" is just CarMighty clones

[@StoryWeaver3701]

Dang...this is super-helpful! I've struggled with all the problems you noted here, and for reasons that should have been obvious to me. You get a subscribe and like for sure!

[@HATECELL]

I think the Wydra would profit from a cross-drive steering transmission like those found on tanks and some tracked tractors. It would be a bit unrealistic on such a small vehicle, but provide smooth steering and constant power to all wheels. Basically instead of locking up the wheels at one side it subtracts an amount of rpm one one side and adds the same amount of rpm on the other side

[@FerralVideo]

There's actually a mod for that. A torque-vectoring differential. It also adds a torque converter.

[@Rooracer11]

What DO you want us to be reincarnated into? A pebble?

[@GuardianOne24]

Honestly I’m surprised people where complaining about it. In my limited time of using it, I knew it was to handle off-road/muddy terrain. I didnt think that the 8x8 drive and tank steering wasn’t a dead giveaway. Because of that I have never ran into any issues and its incredibly fun driving that thing in muddy marshlands as a trailblazer. Sad to see how people run to blame a machine then look into what it’s actually designed for.

[@revstreak]

Thanks for this video i didnt knew how it was meant to be driven, i didnt even knew it had a way to be drivien now im going to use the wydra waaay more and thanks for the mechanical explanation it actually helps a lot to understand how it really works and what i was doing wrong

[@DSADEESA]

Lol this is so cool having an auto turned into an animal story like the why its hard to be raised as a horse

[@momashi69]

Poor Wydra... poor poor Wydra. The butt of all of Muye jokes and persecution.

[@octopuscardoor]

You leave my Wydra child alone

[@applegod7]

this makes me want to drive a wydra. thank you.

[@SZpotol]

What makes it even more cute is that wydra means otter 🦦🦦🦦

[@davidinark]

Hahha, missed a perfect opportunity to include a "My Cousin Vinny" moment describing the diffs. XD Either way, though, Very informative video!

[@SirGobetto]

boat. (also why did u drown stammy)

[@TalksWithNoise]

He’s trying to find a sponge after watching too much Discovery channel.

[@vermillion.__-_.]

this is a good video, id like to see more like this. fun, teaching people about things is good

[@Maniac3020]

I struggled so much with this thing, until I learned I had to be moving before I could turn.

[@dotjpeg-bng]

I can't think of any negative myths about it but as I'm a huge fan of it, I'd love to see some light shone on the Wendover in a video!!

[@FerralVideo]

Wendover is great. My favorite is the late model 3800. The hill-climb is a literal actual weapon, and one of the fastest vehicles in the game I'm actually able to drive. Chugs fuel though.

[@Boxplx]

Community:I hate the wydra. me after this video: LEARN TO DRIVE IT

[@CentreMetre]

I remember when i first saw and tried to use this, and thought "this us kinda weird, it doesnt steer, but turns via braking, that's kinda cool." Then i realised it floated on water and thought I was just a water sports vehicle.

[@Gigglenotosaurus]

Is this a parody on the “why it’s sucks to be a (insert animal name here)” cause I’ve been seeing those videos a lot lately.

[@TalksWithNoise]

Check description :D

[@LazyCatAnims]

Poor Wydra :

[@FPU_Wydra]

Thanks for an explanation like that, people hate me too much.

[@MulleMap]

poor wydra, he was so excited about beamng.

[@drummingwithnate9709]

Wydra needs a hug

[@CappuccinoBeam]

I know a guy which makes a style of videos that are so similar to this one…. I’m sure it’s nothing, great video noise!

[@Joe_Nutsy]

This video exactly.

[@Emerald-Block-FR]

As a Pigeon my 3 wheels tip me over I wish I could float on water

[@hugoparox]

That's actually not how a clutch in a CVT works, CVT's use centrifugal clutches that have weirdly shaped arms, connected to spring that swing outwards from g-forces of the thing spinning, which at high enough revs, pushes against the wall causing the thing to turn. It's not related to the belt in this case.

[@FerralVideo]

Yep! When introducing it the patch notes even said it was the first vehicle to feature such a clutch. They're also sometimes called "slipper" clutches.

[@aksel_1]

I feel bad for the Wydra now

[@seithiophi666]

The crossover we all needed

[@grolribasi]

Great work! Just the tip, Dinzo's videos are net, but the original is James Toland channel.

[@vvvxt]

the Wydra is actually my guilty pleasure when it comes to exploring maps in BeamNG. Fairly durable and can conquer most terrain and its not crazy fast to where im afraid to drive it!

[@hawkstable8889]

Counterpoint. Why not just design it in a way that wide radius turns aren't possible if it causes the brakes to fade so fast? Or better yet it could use a clutch-braking system like some tanks where wide radius turns simply cut power to the inside wheels and full steering lock causes the brakes to kick in to fully lock the wheels. The best, though most complicated solution would be to use a double differential or hydrostatic system, allowing regenerative steering. This means that the inside wheels slow down and the outside wheels speed up to achieve a wide radius turn without losing speed. In addition these systems would allow neutral steering, where the wheels turn in opposite directions to turn in place.

[@averyw.3939]

I think the wydra is supposed to be cheap, small and simple. Those suggestions would be good for something larger and more powerful though

[@JaCKal_0000]

ah yes the americanized and wheeled floating version of the german krettenkrad

[@cruize55]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="115">1:55</a> i feel immensely called out..

[@blazeelvirafirehoof7844]

I don't drive the Wydra much, but I do like it for just doing some chill rock climbing up that one hill on that map. if you know you know.

[@LexYeen]

I just learned what the thing on a trailer down the road is.

[@cutezlamiD]

germans:polish have bad cars polish:yeah yeah you can be dumb

[@HamdanFaqariali]

I feel like this needs a hug and fix up so it can be useful

[@CelestialTamDong]

THIS VEHICLE IS THE SPIRIT OF WHUKA. TRULY A GREAT VEHICLE. THIS VEHICLE IS GOOD.

[@NS-8101]

this made me shed a tear

[@georqedubyakush6066]

Lowkey like the wydra, i got to drive something like this once. i just love that they are slow, but they just keep going, almost no terrain will stop one of these irl or in game

[@itsskip]

I think it would be cool if they added traditional steering linkages for all of the 8 wheels or just the front 4, enabling users to have crab walking capabilities or good turning capabilities.

[@averyw.3939]

It’s hard to make all those linkages water proof. Obviously that doesn’t matter much in a game but from a realism standpoint you’re better off with as few holes as possible in an amphibious vehicle

[@itsskip]

@@averyw.3939 I know that it has been done for a few vehicles such as the Shaman 8x8, but you are probably incredibly correct about the lack of water-tightness and more mechanical wear and tear. I didn't think of that. I hope you have a nice day!

[@Soupfromchina]

i have a wydra irl and i straped a nerf mg to it and now its like a tank in my nerf wars

[@djdareqkebab]

Extremely underrated video

[@FedeBeam]

They should add snow tracks to it. And make some more suspension configs.

[@SWR_Quackula]

Never have I wished so much that a BeamNG car were real so I could give him a hug :(

[@snaketv1715]

What I got from this vid is that I was the only one to test this off-road. Also that it uses cvt. Also that I should stop launching it like crazy. I actually had fun with this vehicle.

[@thestupidruski]

this is actualy relay informative

[@elite_re1ard]

under rated youtube channel lol. earned a sub for the goofy truth and my 1000k hours of love for beamng

[@zorilla0]

The true measure of a car's reliability is its ability to tolerate occasional improper use and lax maintenance. Instead, these fail if you go even slightly outside the scope of their intended use. Even conventional trucks can handle being driven on pavement with 4WD engaged for short distances without shredding the transfer case. Personally, I still get clutch temperature warnings when driving the Wydra in a straight line offroad, so it can't even get that right.

[@MixStuffUp]

I love the wydra. Poor little guy.

[@J4m1eYT]

Bro made this actually sad 😭

[@Britt0nline123]

Really great video.

[@bepowerification]

what polish engineers/company designed it? because all I find is that its based on an Argo Aurora and/or Conquest. there is a "Wydra" in Poland but it looks very different and was not commercial, and there's only one prototype afaik

[@FerralVideo]

Thanks for the enlightenment. TIL how to drive Wydra, and now I kinda want to go drive one. In Johnston Valley, where it'll be well suited. Also in re the ending; Aurata is one of my favorite vehicles. Like a Wydra, keep it in its element (in this case offroad, but not crawling) and it'll take _good_ care of you.

[@TalksWithNoise]

Aurata is ridiculously fun on wheel. It got way too much hate.

[@beambreaker5907]

@@TalksWithNoise i agree!!! the Aurata is so much fun on utah. i like how the FFB feels with my wheel

[@RXTITANZ001]

More please 🙏🙏

[@iikrzii3053]

when is the how to tune a drift car video coming?

[@jonthefuzz]

honestly after this video i tried the Wydra with the tires removed on the road and it worked just fine and was kinda fun.

[@INFSWCC]

the hirochi aurata would be amazing if it didnt explode when you hit any sort of deviation in the ground and didnt flip all the time

[@Jurriou]

Wydra LIVES MATTER

[@maclenix]

I helped a small little hydra move a cargo box to an island

[@nboo2]

wtf this is cool af do more please

[@MartinVladov]

The poor live of other vehicles and plz more of this

[@Thechocycrasont]

Poor miss understood wydra poor little thing

[@zat-1-fury]

just give the wydra a torqe converter and dual diffrential stearing that should solve basicly all of the major issues other than speed

[@FerralVideo]

There's a mod for that on the repo.

[@jankington216]

When you upgrade the brakes, it doesn't improve anything

[@SimplesmenteMateo]

I feel bad for the wydra ☹ It needs a hug

[@piotrfurcinski1896]

I still can't belive that out of all Polish cars they choose... this... thing. We had Fiat 126p, Fiat 125, Polonez, Syrena. Out of these I think Polonez would be best because it already has diffrent body styles like sedan, pickup, caged pickup, box van, not sure about racing version but it wouldn't be hard to make.

[@JaimeCrager]

That thing doesn’t suck it literally has the abilities of driving water and having good off-road

[@sixpest]

Funny as hell cause here recently ive been looking for an Argo 8x8 for sale but cant find any at a decent price, So youtube recommended this video to me a little bit later

[@AdaBow10]

When it comes to the Wydra I don't think I've driven it on asphalt or grippy surfaces if at all (😶). I usually bring it out to do some off-roading. I missed out on all the frustration heh heh 😅

[@cyrianou3946]

Hey! I've got a sugestion, its another small, cute and "slow" vehicle, its the wigeon, which is in the shadow of the Pigeon, its sad since the wigeon is really great and well detailed, but its still abandonned, aight cya!😊

[@FerralVideo]

Wigeon is one of my favorite vehicles! The Mantis is HILARIOUSLY zippy and grippy, and with a few tweaks to work around an aerodynamics bug even the base models are solid fun - and get absurd fuel economy too. In my "bug-fixed" variant I still get 30MPGs at full whack in 5th, and over 60 doing 60. The bug: The tailgate and rear glass assembly poses a MASSIVE aerodynamic drag, and a very slight amount of downforce. Removing the glass alone does not fix it. The fix: Remove the entire "tailgate" assembly group. Put the Naomi Adjustable Wing (default angle works great on the "base" tier car) back on to cover the slight amount of downforce and settle the car back down. It'll be VERY frisky if you leave it off. With the vastly reduced drag, you can swap the trans for a five speed and the rear diff for the tallest ratio available. It'll STILL redline doing over 90 on flat ground on a stock engine. (Been a while since I did this test, forgot if you need the sport exhaust or if the base exhaust will do the trick.)

[@Loafguy-c8c]

more of this please

[@DaniBatkataBG]

Slippery terrain isn't really a problem any most vehicles in beamng. I've tested the wydra's grip and surprisingly it doesn't get you out of mud better than any awd/4wd car. Unfortunately in beamng offroad grip can be gained with just more power which I don't find realistic.

[@SimpleFoxProductions-G]

Now I know how to drive this thing😀. I can enjoy it now 😁

[@RyanJiff]

I was hurting the Wydra all along with my steering habits :( I'm sorry Wydra.

[@HIROCHISUNBURSTTTT]

real wydra: don't worry, it's fine brah

[@antontsau]

Big surprise - cheap and simple friction turning does not work properly and reliably. Great news... from 1930s, when it was proven on fast tanks and everybody had to install planetary side gears.