![]() Longer gearing means high top speeds at the cost of acceleration, while shorter gearing leads to lower top speed but faster acceleration. ![]() Gear ratio affects your speed and acceleration. Mixed road surfaces like somewhere in the middle depending on the percentages, which the game always tells you. Suspension tuning depends on the road surface you’re racing on, as materials like dirt favour a soft suspension while tarmac requires a stiff suspension. Like most racing games, if you start tinkering around underneath the hood of your car, you can improve your performance immensely, and Wreckfest simplifies the tuning process to make things easier for all, while also providing an overview of the track you’ll be racing on so you can customise the setup on a race by race basis. The special vehicles like the school bus are great for when you plan on heading online, but the events that unlock new versions of regular cars, like the Rammer RS, will save you from spending credits on a new B class car. Special events and challenges are a frequent part of the Career Mode championships, and while they don’t offer much in the way of points you need to progress, they do offer rewards in the form of new vehicles. Deathmatches are point based and rewards constant destruction, while the last man standing events are only concerned with the sole survivor, which requires a slightly more careful approach to victory. For derby events, it’s worth checking whether or not the event is a deathmatch or a last man standing affair. The career mode offers a wide variety of event types, including banger racers, destruction derbies, more traditional folk racing and special events, which we’ll get to. If a car loses armour on one side, they take more overall damage, so in essence, you should “sweep the leg”. Vehicles in Wreckfest have an overall amount of health, along with armour on the front, back and both sides. ![]() It also pays to channel your inner Cobra Kai by showing absolutely no mercy. Also, if you’re moving faster, you’re harder to hit, so it pays to put the pedal to the metal. The faster you are moving when you collide with another car, the more damage you do to them and the less you take. The tagline “drive hard, die last” isn’t just a bit of snappy marketing, as the game’s mechanics support those words. If the car ahead of you slows down for a corner, rear end them, as you’ll get EXP and will often force them off the track while stopping short enough to take the corner with no problems. Wreckfest actively rewards you for getting stuck in and smashing your competition to pieces, so do that. This is an obvious one, but one that needs stating: be aggressive. Mine is bigger than yours.įor racing game players who might be more accustomed to the likes of Forza Motorsport or GT Sport, Wreckfest is a whole other beast, so if you’re planning on getting behind the wheel of one of Wreckfest’s assortment of battered bangers, we’ve got a few tips that should make your life a bit easier. After being available on PC for a while, Wreckfest, Bugbear’s return to the destruction derby racing genre, has finally launched on PS4 and Xbox One, offering a fully fledged career mode, a fantastic car deformation engine and the ability to crush a group of 20+ lawnmowers while driving a combine harvester.
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