Car Damage Changes

Implement a point system with stalls. Create Small stalls, medium Stalls, and Large stalls. Each stall gives points. small = 1 beep, medium = 2 beeps, large = 3 beeps. Right now when you stall the car you hear 3 beeps always. Instead have the number of beeps correspond to the size of the crash. After a certain amount of beeps 8-10 have the car give out. Then players know when they’re getting close to their last crash and can drive accordingly.

You should get ONE big crash, chases/races should not be cut short by one mistake. You should get one crash over 100-120 that you can do and continue driving after (but you get lots of beeps for it). This crash punishes you by now limiting the amount of future mistakes you can make in driving but doesn’t cut the chase/race short.

Your car should only lose its wheels when your last crash is 120+ MPH. It should only start leaking and explode if the crash was 90-100+ MPH. Crashes lower than that should still disable your car but not cause a leak or loss of wheels. (Adjust the MPH limit if you disagree).

The amount of time you stall for right now is random, adjust for stall times according to crash strength. IE small crash is 1-2 sec stall large crash is 4-5 sec stall and medium inbetween

Right now if you take jumps in your car jumps will cause a leak/kill your car seemingly at random. Punish people for messing up jumps by causing a bigger stall, but if you land a jump perfectly (that isn’t 100 feet in the air or something crazy) you shouldn’t be punished the same as when you mess the jump up and hit a wall or land upside down/sideways. Allow people to take medium sized jumps without stalling at all if they land the jumps sucessfully. Allow people to still take larger jumps but with punishment IE if they land it perfectly = small stall, if they mess it up = big stall. Jumps and routes take skill and bring more variety to chases as a cop I miss when people did them and weren’t just driving straight and doing racing lines.

When your car’s at its last breaths (When one more small crash will take it out) indicate that by causing the car to smoke. You should still be able to drive it but you will know that your car will go out next crash because of the visual smoke indication. Maybe nerf the acceleration/top speed by 10-15% while smoking aswell.