with this change i thought i was the fastest (excluding Hovers with reapers), but still there are some wheeled builds that i can’t close the distance.
I ditched Apollo, for the lightest gen out there, i reworked the frames to a bare minimum, one good shot and the all thing will go kabum, i gave up a drone and three pieces of “armour”. i switched the cab, and the co-driver
I don’t know what else can i take off
I can’t mount boosters.
I’m not looking for top speed only but also acceleration
Get rid of two of your ST wheels, and make sure you have two non-ST wheels in the mix to keep your tonnage up. With a cabin and engine that reach 120, Falcon is often your best choice, or the one that reduces movement part power drain (forgot which one that is).
Also, Bigfoots are the slowest accelerating wheel. Hermits or buggy wheels give you a lot more acceleration.
It’s not that they are ST wheels. It’s the power drain they have. Bigfoot has one of the worst power drain of all the wheels. Move to a smaller wheel (with less drain) is really what you want to do.
That would also be my first recommendation, but if he’s sticking with Bigfoots, six is too many to be fast. And non-ST have significantly less power drain.
Hermits or buggy wheels would be the faster choice for sure.
I think you can get up to max tonnage with four Bigfoot ST, but swapping in two non-ST will definitely be faster.
I normally tried to get away with st, non-st, st with those but It left a lot to be desired when it came to acceleration. You can upgrade them which brings them down to -17 drain but the improvement isn’t that much. I have a set of the large wheels upgrade like that and I still find them slow.
I would still recommend moving to more efficient wheels.
one of my radiance builds is an aggressor cabin 4 buggy st wheels and 2 buggy non st wheels and a cheetah engine , it will hit 100 before it gets to the ramp coming out of the garage … of all the wheels ive tried buggy feel the fastest
With the exception of the omni’s and hovers most of the wheels are pretty straight forward in energy power consumption to acceleration. The others are a little more power hungery for their listed values.
I can’t change the wheels i’m tied up to Bfs + cheetah ( drones) without the two the freaking things will take forever to spawn , time i don’t have 99% of the time.
and only the drones are in the “upper deck” .
But i did this
Loosing 2 wheels is also a fair option. doing ST, Non-ST would be the best.
You could grab hertz if that’s what your stuck with that will max the bonus you can get out of that combo. That will give you -20% for speed and travelled Distance requirements.
That would also open you up to maybe using just 2 bigfoot non-st and a smaller wheel set ST in the front.
Do you need Yuki for this build? Try Falcon or Grizzly for more of an acceleration boost.
Then try adding some armour back. With your power drain reduced, you may be able to carry more mass.
Also, you might want to try shrinking your build a bit, so that you don’t have so much exposed frame to protect, and for more nimble handling.
In PVP i use Grizzly because of durability and mass limit, i unlocked Yuri because of tonnage ( more acceleration), i totally forgot about movement parts penalty.
I will see that tomorrow
I already shrunk the build by 8 pins, handling it’s fine, that chunk that i lost was because the gen was hit. There isn’t almost any frame to get hit, it’s an I with 1x8 and 1x6 frames. But if one of them get hit i lose the entire back or the entire front.
The only difference for a skeleton racing build from the good old days it’s the modules, even the “armour”, i saw much heavier racing builds back in the day.
Let’s see how my luck turns out tomorrow ( i only did 1 run with 4 wheels) and yes, the car seems a bit more naked without those two addicional Bfs.
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Tempting suggestion.
I like buggy wheels, i have buggy wheels i also have studded wheels, I used them a lot for racing back in the day, there isn’t anything faster than studded wheels going out of the gate.
I have resources to unlock one more co-driver after that i have to grind for it, i didn’t decided which one but Hertz could be one of them.
Billie and Jay i know i will not unlock them for now.
Don’t scrimp on frame usage. Frames weigh very little for what you get.
Fast wheels are: Buggy, Landing gear, gun mount wheels. Yup, they limit how much weight you can put on your build. But you can hit 120 with many cabins with high acceleration.
