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what is beamng drive
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BeamNG.drive is a realistic vehicle simulation game (developed by BeamNG GmbH) best known for its soft-body physics and highly detailed vehicle damage. It’s primarily a PC title (available on Steam) and is popular for realistic driving, crashes, and modding.
Key points:
- Core feature: soft-body physics — vehicles are simulated as networks of interconnected nodes and beams, so collisions cause realistic, continuous deformation rather than predefined “damage skins.”
- Gameplay: free roam maps, driving challenges and scenarios, traffic and AI, user-created missions and scenarios. No choke-hold “arcade” goals — it’s more of a sandbox/simulator.
- Modding: extensive community mods add cars, maps, scripts, UI tweaks; the game is very mod-friendly and uses Lua for scripting.
- Multiplayer: no official built-in multiplayer, but third-party mods (e.g., BeamMP) provide multiplayer servers.
- Uses: entertainment (crash videos, drift/haul), vehicle testing and prototyping, filmmaking/sim rigs, and sometimes informal research/education because of the realistic deformation.
- Platform and performance: mainly for Windows (can be run on Linux/Steam Deck via Proton/compatibility tools); it’s CPU- and GPU-intensive depending on physics/detail settings.
If you want, I can recommend good beginner mods, explain controls and settings to improve performance, or point out best maps/vehicles to try first.
Key points:
- Core feature: soft-body physics — vehicles are simulated as networks of interconnected nodes and beams, so collisions cause realistic, continuous deformation rather than predefined “damage skins.”
- Gameplay: free roam maps, driving challenges and scenarios, traffic and AI, user-created missions and scenarios. No choke-hold “arcade” goals — it’s more of a sandbox/simulator.
- Modding: extensive community mods add cars, maps, scripts, UI tweaks; the game is very mod-friendly and uses Lua for scripting.
- Multiplayer: no official built-in multiplayer, but third-party mods (e.g., BeamMP) provide multiplayer servers.
- Uses: entertainment (crash videos, drift/haul), vehicle testing and prototyping, filmmaking/sim rigs, and sometimes informal research/education because of the realistic deformation.
- Platform and performance: mainly for Windows (can be run on Linux/Steam Deck via Proton/compatibility tools); it’s CPU- and GPU-intensive depending on physics/detail settings.
If you want, I can recommend good beginner mods, explain controls and settings to improve performance, or point out best maps/vehicles to try first.
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