The new battery drain at vehicle startup is potentially crippling since the battery will not charge when driving as it should.
Description
Description
Details
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- Severity
- Major
- Resolution
- Open
- Reproducibility
- Always
- Operating System
- Windows 7
- Category
- General
Steps To Reproduce
Drive around with a partially depleted battery, it will not charge.
Additional Information
Suggestion: Make the health status of the battery affect charging - for example when damaged it could take twice as long to charge and be unable to charge above a certain %, when badly damaged it could instead not be possible to charge at all.
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Hello Beavis.
There is currently no such feature as car battery charging while driving. However, we have took a note of this as a suggestion and it may be implemented at some point.
Regards,
Geez
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Okay, fair enough. But, with all due respect, then there really should not be a feature that drains the battery either. I would suggest the 1.11 battery drain is put on ice until charging when driving is a thing. Being forced to take the battery out to charge it will become a very annoying meta game.
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As predicted, the battery drain feature brings nothing but frustration in this form. Naturally a mod popped up pretty much instantly (indeed, he already had the scripts for the E-cart mod) that fleshes the feature out to what it should be. Please, consider making batteries charge in a car with the engine running.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2403496172
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What is the point in introducing a "realistic" mechanic but only half implementing it?
Batteries in real vehicles get charged while driving.
I don't mind the batteries draining when starting the engine, but not when they don't recharge with a battery charger (bug), and not when they don't recharge while driving (realistic).
It's like allowing the player character to get hungry (realism) but food doesn't work - stupid.