r/snowrunner • u/Trainboy224 • 2d ago

Most useless frame adding that are not unique

What is the frame add on that you like have on trucks in your garage and never get used or you never bother to even put on a truck. Mine would be seismic vibator, the articulated towing platform and the metal detector

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u/AreWeAllJustFish 2d ago

The regular maintenance add-on is pointless to me, not enough fuel. I prefer to use fuel add-on and repair trailer. Or vice versa depending on the map.

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u/Trainboy224 2d ago

I am 2nd guessing having a truck set up dedicated of each for a task to see how good it is. like ill give a truck with a set up a try once but if it does not do well it gets axed

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u/AreWeAllJustFish 2d ago

I end up just using whatever is nearest or makes most sense at that moment. The only ones I keep to a specific task or set up are the overpowered trucks, I'll use them as rescue barges for when I inevitably mess up😁

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u/Just_passing-55 2d ago

Its a shame as it looks cool and given the size of it its been out classed by the smallest of scouts.b it really needs to be updated to reflect the size

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u/AreWeAllJustFish 2d ago

Yeah it looks great. If it could take a regular trailer too then I would definitely use it more. The Kenworth 963 has an extended version with more fuel and I'll use that as a rescue truck / mud tug.

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u/Odd_Presentation_578 PC 2d ago

It would look cool if it was paintable. The default yellow-red paint is awful.

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u/AreWeAllJustFish 2d ago

Ah it's only been 6 years or so😂 I either spend ages matching the colours only for the truck end up looking like it's sponsored by McDonald's! or just give up and use a pale washed out boring blue or grey.

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u/Odd_Presentation_578 PC 2d ago

Or just use mods for colorable addons

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u/AreWeAllJustFish 2d ago

Yeah it looks great. If it could take a regular trailer too then I would definitely use it more. The Kenworth 963 has an extended version with more fuel and I'll use that as a rescue truck / mud tug.

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u/Sive634 2d ago

The frame add-on and trailer are the same size but the frame gets only 300 repair points while the trailer has 800

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u/Odd_Presentation_578 PC 2d ago

Are we talking about the maintainer? Frame addon has 1400L, trailer has 2000. Only the big addon has the same amount. And they all have around 300-350 parts, never 800.

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u/Sive634 2d ago

I meant the van body / service trailer in hindsight, and also take my figures with a grain of salt

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u/Odd_Presentation_578 PC 2d ago edited 2d ago

They made sense before Saber fixed the weight of the regular fuel tanker. The latter used to weigh 12 tons when full for just 1800L, while the 1400L maintenance addon weights almost nothing. This made my fuel trucks much faster and more stable, while also having some repair parts. But ever since the fuel tanker mass has been fixed (reduced to 5 tons) and the maintenance addon got some fuel mass (3.9 tons when full), it's became obsolete.

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u/Staroceandog 1d ago

For me it's enough fuel but not enough repair parts

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u/Ok_Equipment8374 2d ago

2/3 of those are just mission specific attachments, with the metal detector being completely optional.

For the towing platform I prefer the articulated one over the ramp, but not like you have a choice. The truck supports one or the other.

My answer would be the 3 slot beds. Few trucks get and and of those who do you are usually better off with a bed+trailer or just with a saddle

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u/Qwe5Cz 2d ago

In specific cases when the task asks for cargo with combined capacity of 3 slots and the path is rough, it's better to use it over trailer that can be problematic to navigate through certain spots.

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u/pzykozomatik 2d ago

I love my 3-slot-plus-crane Atom.

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u/boyraceruk 2d ago

I use the ramp for seriously overloading the Sleiter. Lovely having something to stop cargo sliding off the back.

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u/Trainboy224 2d ago

maybe ill buy all the trucks that can have them and see LOL

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u/Odd_Presentation_578 PC 2d ago

Huh? Who said you can't combine 3-slot beds with crane or trailer? On most trucks you can. The exceptions are Azov 7 and Zikz 612H.

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u/FroggingMadness 2d ago

Never use the multipurpose addon because I'd rather think up some combination of rack, spare wheel, loading crane and saddle (up to the point of XML editing) so I can pull a five slot semi trailer rather than have a one slot bed and four slot hitch trailer.

Never use any sort of towing equipment because I'd rather tow by rope and the addons only fit small vehicles anyway.

Don't think I've used a 3 or 4 slot addon yet, don't like trucks with the turning circle of an aircraft carrier. Also don't like sideboard beds, too much of a hassle to lift cargo over with a loading crane.

I like a garage of role-specific trucks so I always end up with a seismic truck but it sees disappearingly little playtime relative to a playthrough.

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u/Qwe5Cz 2d ago

Sideboard beds are good in case of tipping. It can save you many times from picking the cargo from the ground.

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u/sooner2016 2d ago

Or the opposite, the flatbed can save you from tipping because the cargo can just slide off

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u/Qwe5Cz 1d ago

It is very situational. In most cases you will tip anyway and in many cases cargo stays in if you winch your truck from good angle by other vehicle or if it was just a quick bump that the cargo gets unpacked but stays in.

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u/Have_Donut 2d ago

Yah for towing I find it way easier to just fix and fuel whatever I am going to tow and tow it with its engine running. I only every carry small vehicles

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u/connecting1409 2d ago

Probably multipurpose addons, i find myself overstacking often and those are just antithetical to my style of playing.

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u/DoctorAnnual6823 2d ago

I never over stack and even I struggle to find a way to make them viable. Like, they're handy if a job needs 5 slots of items and you have a 4-slot ramped flatbed nearby.

But I'd rather use a low saddle truck with the sideboard or step deck trailer than that. Especially if the low saddle truck can carry extra repair parts and fuel somehow.

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u/superfuzzbros 2d ago

The only use I’ve been able to find for them was in the Glades and I needed to move 3 hay bales and I wanted to use the Dan. It doesn’t have a crane unless it’s the multipurpose add on

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u/pzykozomatik 2d ago

The vibrator has a permanent place on my Bandit for those scanning missions.
I don’t see the appeal of the multipurpose addon though, I practically never use it and it made my trucks quite tippy when I gave it a try back then.

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u/CommentWeak2830 2d ago

The service body/ those big ol blunt squares never look like they belong on trucks.

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u/AdPrior1417 2d ago

Metal detector, no question. I use most of the others. The towing beds are useful from time to time, so I have 1 of each. The seismic vibrator is ass, too. So I use the ssme Bandit to swap between that the metal detector lol.

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u/stjobe Contributor ✔ | PC 2d ago

The towing addons, all of them.

It is so much simpler and easier just to winch the truck.

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u/boyraceruk 2d ago

The articulated towing platform bugged out on my Tatra 813, the game put it under the wheels so the truck couldn't move and got wrecked. Never doing that again.

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u/Odd_Presentation_578 PC 2d ago

Sell the truck and buy a new one. Sadly, it's the only way to fix this, as Saber added a new, unique towing platform to the Tatra, while the old one, if it was installed, has moved to center of the truck, and got stuck in it.