TMCC20
ONLY MOMENT
BRIEF
The production team is in need of an armoured vehicle for a chase scene that occurs towards the end of the movie. In particular, said vehicle will chase after a car driven by the two protagonists (to be specific, a sports CUV in the vein of the Porsche Cayenne or Macan), with plenty of gunfire being exchanged between the occupants of the two vehicles. The screenwriters have sought to achieve an element of surprise followed by a lasting sense of tension during the chase (part of which should be fulfilled by the armoured vehicle’s imposing presence as a previously unknown, but very apparent, threat to the protagonists).
In essence, what the movie needs is a deadly-looking armoured vehicle.
It doesn’t necessarily need to be big, but it does need to be bad.
REQUIREMENTS
ENTRY
- Vehicle model and engine family name: â €TMCC20 - [Your_Forum_Username]â €
- Vehicle trim and engine variant names are free
- 1 forum post in this thread is required, and must contain images of your vehicle
- Vehicle submissions (as .car files) will only be accepted via DM
- If submitting a vehicle as multiple .car files, state within the DM which one contains the engineering
ENGINEERING
- Vehicle model and trim year: 2010-2014 inclusive
- Engine family and variant year: 2000-2014 inclusive
- Minimum wheelbase of 2.60 m
- No glued aluminum or carbon fibre chassis (not durable enough for stunts)
- No V16 engine configuration
- No magnesium engine block (safety risk with pyrotechnics)
- No fuel with a Research Octane Number (RON) of higher than 100 (excessive running costs)
- No leaded fuel (unsafe and illegal)
- Catalytic converter (illegal otherwise)
- Advanced 2000s or Advanced 2010s safety
- No usage of the advanced wheel and tire sliders to decrease the width or diameter of the wheels
- No usage of both advanced ride height sliders (though a single slider is allowed for rake angle adjustment)
- Minimum reliability score of 55
- Minimum offroad score of 20
- Maximum approximate cost of $80000 AMU
- Maximum service costs of $3600 AMU
- +3 drivetrain quality, +5 wheel/tire quality, and -15 weight optimization for each additional axle
- No usage of the wheel/tire quality slider except as outlined above
- No usage of the weight optimization slider except as outlined above
- Quality per slider must be between -5 and +5 inclusive, except where outlined above
- Engineering must be contained within one vehicle, if multiple are used for more wheels or separate components (e.g. a gun turret)
DESIGN
- Maximum of 3 additional fixture-made axles or axles from invisible vehicles, for a maximum of 5 total axles
- The sizes of fixture-made wheels should correspond to the size of the actual wheels
- A degree of flat armour plating placed on (or constituting) the body
- At least 1 mounted gun of any sufficiently large calibre (i.e. no submachine guns)
- No usage of the advanced wheel width slider (the tread width slider is allowed, but may impact aesthetics)
- With any usage of the advanced wheel diameter and tire diameter sliders, the former should be half of the latter (e.g. +20 tire diameter corresponds to +10 wheel diameter)
INSPIRATIONS
APC (Uncharted 4)
Terradyne Gurkha (on which the U4 APC is based)
Panhard CRAB
Otokar Arma 6x6
Arquus Scarabee
Elite Goliath (Split/Second)
AM General HMMWV/Humvee
Avtoros Shaman
International Workstar (armoured)
PRIORITIES
INTIMIDATION FACTOR
Arguably the most important quality, design-wise, is how imposing the armoured vehicle will look in the movie. While camerawork and special effects can help accentuate this, they won’t be able to cover for something that the protagonists’ sports SUV can simply ram off the road. The vehicle should have an indomitable air about it—that is, it should be something that, at first glance, appears unstoppable.
CURRENT DESIGN
Since the movie is set in the present day (by 2014 standards, anyway), the production team isn’t looking for a decades-old design with sealed beams, nor one that would be right at home on a vapourware supercar. While a fair amount of gaming peripheral-like angles on the body are to be expected, try to also think practically where lights in particular are concerned. While LED bulb arrays are fair game, unbroken LED lines and shapes like those on today’s EVs are too sophisticated and likely won’t do you any good here. The same applies for grilles as well.
ENGINEERING AND
DESIGN CONSISTENCY
To sum it up, your engineering should more or less match with your design, and (to a lesser degree) vice versa. If the vehicle was dinged up, or built or inspected on a Friday, take a point or two off the chassis or body quality. If you have an interior with sideways-facing bench seats behind the front row, I’ll expect a rear bench or two on the engineering side. Custom fixture-made offroad coilovers? I’ll be thoroughly disappointed if you chose leaf suspension. Of course, not all fixture-made components can be accounted for with certain engineering choices, hence the (admittedly hacky) quality-and-weight-per-axle rule.
SENSIBILITY
I want to encourage unconventional vehicles to some degree, while also ensuring that at least a handful of examples (or at least one fully functioning prototype) of any of them could reasonably be produced. There’s a difference between quirky engineering and shitpost engineering. If you feel like you’d be better off justifying certain choices with lore, please do so.
UNIQUENESS
This one should be self-explanatory. Despite a couple of the inspirations above, the producers aren’t looking for armoured_truck.png incarnate. Note that heavily modified road-going cars and trucks (e.g. the Killdozer in car form) are also an option.
COST-EFFECTIVENESS
While the production team is willing to spend a little more for something that’ll make an impression on the big screen, it’d be worth their while if they got what they paid for. As with similar challenges in the past, given the choice between two vehicles with essentially the same visual impact and stats, the less expensive one will win.
NOTES
- With up to 100 RON of octane available, you might be wondering what the point of using a lower-grade fuel is if it has no effect on stats. Well, for each full octane point below 100 (down to a minimum of 91), $50 will be taken off the approximate cost of your vehicle. As I'm only taking into account the approximate cost after this bonus is applied, you can use this to your advantage by sacrificing engine performance to fit other things within the budget or just make your vehicle cheaper overall.
- As per usual, interiors are not required, and not having one won't negatively impact your score. Of course, a suitable, well-made interior will help your score, and a shoddy, out-of-place one will hurt it.
- Every body type is allowed. Even discounting the overabundance of resources at the antagonists' disposal, a bit of suspension of disbelief is usually expected for action movies, so if you want to slap armour and a gun onto a Rally Fighter or even a jacked-up supercar, you're more than welcome. Just be wary of the impact on the aforementioned intimidation factor.
- Aside from the stuff outlined in the Requirements section, other advanced settings such as engine placement and scale are fair game.
CHANGELOG
- 2022-06-20 21:56 EDT: removed advanced engine scale restriction, clarified things relating to wheels, added grip quality as required for extra axles
- 2022-06-20 22:08 EDT: increased cost and service cost limits
- 2022-06-20 22:18 EDT: more clarifications, removed incomplete wording
- 2022-06-21 00:21 EDT: added fuel octane bonuses
- 2022-06-21 14:35 EDT: added rules for use of multiple .car files per entry, opened submissions
