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The places you’ll visit inRoadcraftdon’t have well-developed infrastructure - that’s what you’re there to fix! Until you get things under control, though, your vehicles are going to do a lot of off-roading, and that comes with the danger of getting stuck. Spinning your tires in the mud, flooding your engine in deep water, or flipping a truck on an incline that turns out to be just a bit too steep are all ways you can find yourself immobilized.
Luckily, there are a few options, from quick fixes to last-ditch emergency measures, that you can use to escape these tricky situations.
Change Drive Modes
Most vehicles have several drive modes that you can switch between, adjusting how the wheels turn when you hit the gas. Not all of them are available on every vehicle, and some are always on for certain trucks, but the modes that you can generally toggle on and off are:
X
E
Driving engages all the wheels instead of just the front ones.
A
Left Shift
Driving applies less torque to the wheels, giving them more chance to grip surfaces at the expense of speed.
Y
Q
Prevents wheels from turning at different rates from one another, which can help or hinder traction depending on the terrain.
In general, it’s best tohave All Wheel Drive engaged at all times, since you’ll be driving in rough terrain more often than not. If your vehicle gets stuck, the first thing you should do istry moving both forward and backwardwith different combinations of drive modes, both straight and while turning. Sometimes all you need is to find a little grip for one or more wheels to get unstuck.
Pull The Vehicle With A Winch
Scout vehicles and transport trucks are equipped withwinches, which can be used to pull cargo around, including other vehicles. If a truck can’t pull itself out of a bad situation, help from a winch vehicle might be what it needs.
If it’s the winch vehicle itself that’s stuck, it can potentially pull itself out if there’s a secure object like a tree or building to anchor the winch to.
Attach the winch to the stuck vehicle, ideally in line with its wheels, and make sure its parking brake is off. Then, engage the winch truck’s parking brake and haul in the cable. In most cases, this should pull the stuck vehicle out, at least enough for it to move under its own power again.
Of the two winch options, thetransport truck is heavier, making it a better anchor for stuck vehicles. It’s also designed for rescuing vehicles, as it can simplyload them onto its bedand bring them to a better location.
Move The Stuck Vehicle With A Crane
This is an extreme option, but a fun one - provided you don’t also get the crane stuck, of course. Cranes canmove other vehicles, so if you’re really in a jam you can lift a trapped truck out of the mud and move it to where it needs to be. Just be sure toanchor the crane before trying to lift the heavy payload, or you’ll probably tip the crane over.
This approach is best forrescuing overturned vehicles.
Use Recovery / Fast Travel
When all else fails, you may alwaysuse the game’s Recovery featureto teleport the stuck vehicle back to one of your bases. While you’re in the driver’s seat of the stuck vehicle,hold the recovery button; R on a keyboard, D-pad up on a controller. You’ll be able to choose which of the unlocked bases you want to bring the truck to.
If you have a Field Service Vehicle deployed, you may also take a recovered truck to its location,at the cost of one Fuel.
Recovered vehicles respawn instantly at the base’s garage, as though they were freshly deployed. This isusually the only way to save a vehicle whose engine is flooded or otherwise stalled, as getting them back on the road won’t fix the internal issue.
Since recovering to a base is free, you can also use this feature asa one-way form of fast travel.
