Why It Would Suck to be a Wydra

Why the life of a Wydra is nothing but suck.

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[TalksWithNoise]

Also, thank you to the BeamNG.drive devs for sitting down and helping me figure out why everyone mistakenly thinks you are a mess. I know AiTorror and AgentY were looking into the confusion between your brakes and clutch, so major props to them for feeding back advice for this video :)

[MuYe]

Even AI can't drive the damn thing 😭

[QuebecGamer]

They should add a snowmobile to make the Wydra look more useful in comparison

[flazeboi]

Wydra Engineers: *litterally re-invents steering for the sole purpose of having more grip in muddy land, exchanging much steering capabilities on roads*
Wydra Users: *uses it solely on f$cking roads*

[DeadTube]

"You look like a kayak with wheels."

I lol'd *and* learned things!

[Osifilms]

can we all please start loving the wydra how it is?

[khoigg]

Thanks, now i can enjoy the wydra and stop blamming it.

[Shaun_Jones]

It’s an 8x8 amphibious vehicle that only turns by skid steering, I would have thought that it being an off-road only vehicle would be obvious.

[Challenge]

"my name is the wydra, my clutch burns when I make a turn!"

[phoenixproto]

It would suck to be a Burnside because the damn thing hasn't been updated in half a decade

[Maddiedogge]

If I could change one thing about the Wydra, it would be to add the option to use tracks instead of wheels.

[Hornet]

i love how the "group of Polish people" is just CarMighty clones

[SockyNoob]

Love how this is basically one giant roast of the BeamNG user base lol.

[christians.]

Well, turning from standstill on grippy surface makes your clutch (or belt) burn easily. I recommend turning when it’s already moving and only for small curves at one time, then it works better. The turning radius is not the best then, but it kinda works. I also often use the high/low transfercase and putting it on low for sharp turns or turns from standstill, so the clutch / belt lives longer. Also you can remove some of its wheels, so it has only two than four wheels on one side, so less grip means better turning. But you have to be carefull, because you can‘t remove any of the wheels you like, because if you remove one specific wheel (i don‘t know which one anymore, you have to try yourself) you may have no drive. I think it‘s a differential thing or bug, but i don‘t know.

Also the problem of difficult turning is how the differential works. Because when braking one side to standstill, the other side would turn (i think) twice as fast, as it normally would, when the tire on left and right turn freely. So the engine and drivetrain needs more power to turn the wheel (even when not to overcome friction and brakeforce from the other side). If some of you have lego technic or something like that, you can try it for yourself: built a little setup with a motor, which drives a open differential coupled to a tire on each side and watch the speed of both tires. The left tire should spin as fast as the right tire. Then try to stop one of the tires (of course without hurting yourself), then you will see a increase in speed on the tire, which turns freely even without changing the speed of the Motor or changing gears. But speeding up one side by braking the other means less torque output on the wheel, which turns freely, and that is the problem why the wydra can‘t turn well on grippy surfaces.

[racer]

Everybody who hates the Wydra *needs* do play the mod map "Jungle Crawl" with any Wydra variant and then try it with a different vehicle.

[TheoTheCrasher]

How someone knows this much about the wydra is beyond me

[GuardianOne]

Honestly I’m surprised people where complaining about it. In my limited time of using it, I knew it was to handle off-road/muddy terrain. I didnt think that the 8x8 drive and tank steering wasn’t a dead giveaway. Because of that I have never ran into any issues and its incredibly fun driving that thing in muddy marshlands as a trailblazer. Sad to see how people run to blame a machine then look into what it’s actually designed for.

[Amber-tujo]

My Grandpa owned a similar vehicle, from a brand called Argo. Thank you for fighting for its amazing utility and versatility. I mean this thing in my Grandpa's case *floats on water*, it brings tank-y steering to the consumer in a useful way, and it just powers through offroading in ways you can't even get out of a traditional vehicle's approach. I absolutely loved the thing, it did SO much. From 10 miles down an impossible trail in anything less than a well set up all terrain Jeep, to _on that same trip_ floating in the water fishing, and there and back again. From driving it down the drive way onto the trailer, a stupidly loud and concrete crunching affair, to rolling it off onto the nice off road ground it was DESIGNED TO SLIP TO STEER ON. So many more memories I don't need to share, and it even looked badass sitting in a garage between the amazing things it could do.

I swear that the one my Grandpa drove had two levers for the steering rather than a handlebar because of the exact problem in the video. Worked great, the interface was clear, and it was awesome.

[shadyhazza]

I vaguely remember it featuring on a later season of Trailer Park Boys, where they built the model railway across the border

[sqmruto]

I see an amphibious off road technical with option for conversion into a troop transport and with an up armored variant.