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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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Open
Reproducibility
Always
Operating System
Windows 10 x64
Category
General

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Lumix created this task.Sat, Dec 28, 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.