Guide

Using a vehicle as a weapon without wrecking it

How to hit things with a vehicle in R.E.P.O. while keeping the vehicle and yourself in one piece.

Applies to

0.4.0, read from the copy of the game this site was built from (see the sources page)

Before you start

• A vehicle you can drive
• Room to build up some speed
• The understanding that the vehicle is an item you can lose

Steps

1. Decide which size of hit you are going for before you commit.
   small, medium and big impacts each have a threshold and a required distance of their own
2. Hit on purpose rather than repeatedly, because impacts are watched over a window and then cooled down.
   impact detection runs over a window with a cooldown and a cooldown per kind
3. Count the cost of a big hit before taking it.
   durability loss is scaled by a multiplier with a separate amount for each size of impact
4. Give monsters their own time between hits.
   each size of impact has its own durability cooldown for enemies
5. Aim the part of the vehicle that actually hits.
   the vehicle carries hurt colliders of three sizes and an impact box of its own
6. Keep it upright while you line the hit up.
   stabilisation is a force with angular drag, a maximum tilt angle, a correction torque and lift
7. Respect the speed limits rather than holding the throttle down.
   speed is limited by both a soft and a hard maximum with limits on the body's velocity
8. Recover deliberately if you lose control.
   the vehicle is an item with a state and a timer of its own

Common mistakes

• Ramming at full speed and paying for the biggest durability loss there is.
• Hitting in bursts and then wondering why nothing registers during the cooldown.
• Forgetting the vehicle is an item and treating it as scenery.
• Lining up a hit and rolling the vehicle instead.

Related entries

How the game behavesHitting things with a vehicleA vehicle carries a small, a medium and a big hurt collider.How the game behavesDriving a vehicle and staying uprightA vehicle is an item with a state and a timer of its own.How the game behavesThe lights and beeps on a vehicleThere is a front and a back light, each with its own renderer and emission colour.

Sources

A local copy of the game, read only. Grounding for each step is on the technical reference pages; no number is estimated.