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[Feedback] Fuel consumption of ground vehicles not realistic at 1x multiplier
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Game Version number: 1.2.1.169
Modded?: No

Issue Description:

Hello,

I ran a little test to see how much vehicles consume fuel, and I found that at 1x multiplier (the most realistic), ground vehicles were still consuming a huge amount of fuel. I think helicopters are the most realistic when at 1x (after 10 minutes of flying I was still at 100%).

For the cars i tried with the jeep and humvee. They have an approximate range of 500km in real life.
In Arma after 5km of driving, i consumed 5% of my fuel. This means that 100% of fuel equals 100km of range.

I don't know if it's a gameplay/design decision or if it is a mistake so i report it here.

Thank you

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Severity
None
Resolution
Open
Reproducibility
Always
Operating System
Windows 10 x64
Category
General

Event Timeline

Lumix created this task.Dec 28 2024, 1:02 AM

A realistic Huey UH1-H (source DCS flight manual, so if not totally accurate, it is pretty close) has an internal fuel tank of 770 liters, and it's calculated fuel consumption rate is 318 liters/hour. That means flight time of around 2 h 30 minutes, so 10 min flight should have used about 6 % of fuel.

And the ground vehicles. When driving around I've noticed a difference in fuel consumption whether driver uses full throttle or not (with keyboard controls the difference with just W-key and shift+W -key). It's like the difference between a Sunday drive to the store and driving in a race and results in a drastic difference in fuel consumption. The same really should be true when driving on level ground vs. going uphill.

I do agree that the fuel consumption rates are off (the biggest oddity I can remember at the moment relates to the BTR when it's in the water), but a little more detailed study of the issue is probably needed.

Fuel consumption is too high. This is probably by design to make refueling matter, but its annoying. Helicopter fuel consumption depends on many factors like elevation, payload and manuevering. Helicopters should be consuming more fuel with the type of flying ppl do in the game.

Geez changed the task status from New to Feedback.Fri, Jan 3, 4:33 PM