Imagine a random "upgrade the flood," where every run you get in a different random car, with the upgrades from the previous car carried over to the new random car.
that'd be super interesting to see. with the added chance being that an upgrade for some vehicles may turn out to be downgrades for others. such as removing the rear hatch from a van, which translates to removing the trunk from a car, which means no wing upgrade available which, downforce and grip to the road is the most important part of this challenge. interesting interesting
Unfortunately that would significantly increase the downtime between rounds because people would have to reapply all their upgrades between rounds and figure out which upgrades they had are not possible on the new vehicle, then sync all the vehicles.
@@theminerboy5694 Amy does do a lot of custom stuff though, so i'm sure she could figure out a way to make a custom script that would automatically do all that stuff for them, as well as having predefined alternatives to incompatible upgrades
I guess the advantage of Ewan's upgrade of removing the doors on the right side is so that the family sitting in the back of the MPV have a better view of the sea when they fall off the cliff.
I felt so bad for her, she had a more than capable car for it but every time she either got knocked out by another FR member or lost control in the snow She did her best though, I really think she would have done it had lady luck not been such a cruel mistress
Wow, the curse of the commentator was working overtime on this one, Alex says "It's going well" then immediately understeers off the map before telling Absol not to understeer and cursing them straight into a telegraph pole. This is real The Medusa Touch-levels of jinxing going on, though Richard Burton didn't manage to curse himself off a mountain 😭🤣 I did wonder if the Barstow's notorious glass driveshaft was going to make an appearance, and it did, though not until Gliscor's final run so something has clearly improved there.
A twist for upgrade the flood would be to turn on the odometer like you do for driven till destruction. Then at the end of every round you reset your distance after adding it to a total distance sheet. This way it favors consistency and slight team work over being first necessarily. Team Survive the Flood: If you wanted you could do a team version where you have a set amount of power over 3 vehicles. The team with the best total distance against the flood being the winner.
@@_MjG_Fair enough. I wouldn’t want them to not do this version either. I think there’s more premise with the team version as they have done quite a few team videos. The solo version would be tedious to calculate less runs = less fun. I’d be more interested to see a random version another comment made. A nice civilized online conversation unheard of. We have made history my friend.
@@bolton2726 Yeah, I wasn't trying to be antagonistic in my first reply. I do really enjoy it as it is, but perhaps there are improvements that can be made. Peace to you!
_"Tonight, we have a mosterous car and one goal - avoid the mob... of water! This is FailRace, where it's Race the Flood time on BeamNG, so expect to see:_ * 16:42 _"Russiky spins out an SUV._ * 26:40 _"Alex races hard in a Sports car._ * 5:36 _"And an out-of-work Stig... aids Speedbeast."_
Also...For a moment i was thinking..."oooh no-one with a vagina is winning yet" (which could be a bad look for women drivers) then i remembered there are no women drivers even being included, which is much more sexist than my original thought. Oh well. Inclusion yes 🙄🤦
This was an amazing round of UtF, great driving from all of you, and some standard FailRace bumps and crashes mixed in. The longer format was a lot of fun too!
Yes, but it wasn't all-wheel drive. I think the no 4x4 rule meant no all-wheel drive vehicles. In any case Alex's starting car was 6x4, it had six wheels, four of which were driven.
Idea on how to fix balancing of this mode (because currently, the strategy would be to stay in the back the whole time and get all the upgrades until the last race where you can win): Have a points system and have the competition be only like 5 races and in each of those 5 races 1st place gets 3 points, 2nd place gets 2 points and 3rd place gets 1 point.
Tbh, the best strategy for "winning" is taking the best base car (usually a modern one) with already good suspension and brakes, with decent power options. I don't think anyone was trying to manipulate the results mind, just that the starting cars are uneven to begin with
I feel so bad for Stevie ! They had the posibility to get to the top, they even got so close and than they just had bad luck and got stuck in the traffic, it was so painfull to watch.
I may be wrong but I believe I saw somewhere that it simulates the water pressure by increasing certain gravity figures. And yeah it’s really cool that it does that
Beam also simulates when you drive at high enough altitude, the power output will be reduced because of the lack of oxygen and really high performance engines can even just lock up when turned off.
@@SpaceGood.Also it simulates the engine just breaking when it gets too cold. On the map they are using if you start with an unheated engine and turn off the engine, it will refuse to start after a few minutes.
Use a point system to make it more competitive. First 3 get minimal points every round. And then the one that finally reaches the end will get a lot of points
I feel like tires and suspension should be one upgrade for the 4 tires and one for the 4 shocks/coilovers, because who only upgrades one axle at a time IRL ? Brakes are another one, as when you upgrade the brakes, you would usually upgrade all four corners of the vehicle. Doors could be one upgrade for 2 doors, ie. 1 upgrade for the front doors and one for the back doors. Hood (or bonnet) and trunk at one upgrade each is fine. Otherwise, I really enjoy this type of content. Someone suggested a points system in the comments, and I was saying the exact same thing to myself as I was watching the video. So the order you finish would be based on actually getting to the finish, first and foremost, but those who don't manage to do it would be ranked based on the points they accumulated throughout the event. Anyway, it's just a thought.
Man, youtube's compression really doesn't like the white text on white background with all the snow. Really a good example of why YT's video compression sucks tbh, shame that they're doing you like this. Great video
I feel this format could do with some modification of the rules. I feel like there's no real incentive to win any race, because it puts you in the last place AND gets you no upgrades. I think for the mayhem to be more fun it would be cool if the placement on the grid was determined by the order you finished in the last race (1-3 first row, 4-6 2nd row, etc.), but also your placement dictates how much you may increase your power-to-weight ratio (1st place by 0.01, 2nd place by 0.2, ... 13th player by 0.13) etc. I makes keeping track of the value a bit more difficult but it keeps the incentive to win while making the cars in the back faster, causing more overtaking.
This was a @Stevie1055 and @RareGliscor1 Pain with a capital P! 34:05 pretty much summed up their evening with their fast cars but it made me choke on my drink how funny it was! 😂 Can't believe they DNF'd in the end with only top 3 podium finishers!
didn't you just upgrade your computer? why the framerate so low? amy's was perfectly smooth. maybe i'm thinking of another youtuber that just upgraded their computer. ah well, i don't even remember all my coworker's names :v
He upgraded his PC recently but it very quickly killed itself. I’m pretty sure they film a bunch of these videos in bulk so this video might be a bit old. I’m not too sure.
@@theapexanomoly5354 oh yes true. the good ol youtuber backlog. though they release videos at pretty similar times, and often very shortly after new mods are released, so the time gap never seems too big. hmm
As someone not all that well up on motor racing can someone please explain why slick tyres are the choice on icy roads? It seems extremely counter productive to me but I'm obviously missing something.
The track itself is mainly asphalt, and because the flood was relatively quick and the course is very windy and tricky, slicks are the best overall option for being able to handle the course. :)
The slick tyres aren't good for icy roads, but when there is more clear tarmac than road covered in snow or ice then slick tyres should be an advantage as you should make up more time on the clear tarmac than you lose having to slow for the snowy and icy sections.
It's not. The slicks are really good on the asphalt, but they struggle more than even regular tires do on ice. The problem is that if they prioritize grip on dirt and ice, then they sacrifice grip on the asphalt, which is what most of the track is made of.
Damnit - an old lady ignored a red light and smashed up my Firebird. It's been sitting in my driveway wrecked for about a year while I save up for a good body shop. Alternatively, which controller button is it for "reset"?
You ever thought of doing a Discord chat instead of commentating? I can imagine there would have been some choice insults hurled at each other in these races.
Alex: "That was such a good race against Gliscor"
Gliscor: "I'm glad Alex Drowned"
Imagine a random "upgrade the flood," where every run you get in a different random car, with the upgrades from the previous car carried over to the new random car.
You are an absolute madman! I LOVE IT! lol
That woild be so fucking chaotic yES
that'd be super interesting to see. with the added chance being that an upgrade for some vehicles may turn out to be downgrades for others. such as removing the rear hatch from a van, which translates to removing the trunk from a car, which means no wing upgrade available which, downforce and grip to the road is the most important part of this challenge. interesting interesting
Unfortunately that would significantly increase the downtime between rounds because people would have to reapply all their upgrades between rounds and figure out which upgrades they had are not possible on the new vehicle, then sync all the vehicles.
@@theminerboy5694 Amy does do a lot of custom stuff though, so i'm sure she could figure out a way to make a custom script that would automatically do all that stuff for them, as well as having predefined alternatives to incompatible upgrades
I guess the advantage of Ewan's upgrade of removing the doors on the right side is so that the family sitting in the back of the MPV have a better view of the sea when they fall off the cliff.
There is no sadder chat message than gliscor's 'I am in groundhog day', this video was Gliscor getting beaten by fate and luck at every turn.
where did she say that?
I felt so bad for her, she had a more than capable car for it but every time she either got knocked out by another FR member or lost control in the snow
She did her best though, I really think she would have done it had lady luck not been such a cruel mistress
6:47 curse of the commentator
Also at 37:17
I did a thing!!!!
You happen to do that, every once in a while...
@@Timberwolf69 Sometimes even the right thing 🤣
🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Oh no, shad0s is colabing with 'i did a thing.' we're doomed.
You did a thing!!!!
Wow, the curse of the commentator was working overtime on this one, Alex says "It's going well" then immediately understeers off the map before telling Absol not to understeer and cursing them straight into a telegraph pole. This is real The Medusa Touch-levels of jinxing going on, though Richard Burton didn't manage to curse himself off a mountain 😭🤣
I did wonder if the Barstow's notorious glass driveshaft was going to make an appearance, and it did, though not until Gliscor's final run so something has clearly improved there.
Sounds like they managed to get hold of some less brittle glass...
The barstow's driveshaft has gotten stronger over the years.
Hysterical
my lack of course knowledge really came to bite me in this 😅
You honestly did really well, considering all the crashes you got caught in weren't your mistakes.
Depression the video.
So unlucky!!😂
I look forward to the Miramar getting a BeamNG refresh because
It is shocking
It certainly looked "interesting" to drive. The tail wagging the dog comes to mind 😂
I swear if they refresh/add another left-hand drive vehicle without adding an official left-hand drive map I'm going to [redacted]
Well, it also has a solid rear axle, which didn't help
@@longbowxmkii I was very impressed with your full NASCAR Cup series crash in the last run. 😂
@@JamieCameron-Mackintosh-z7c I'm not sure why but it just understeered wildly suddenly. Maybe it was just a wheel on snow but it was not good lol
A twist for upgrade the flood would be to turn on the odometer like you do for driven till destruction. Then at the end of every round you reset your distance after adding it to a total distance sheet. This way it favors consistency and slight team work over being first necessarily.
Team Survive the Flood:
If you wanted you could do a team version where you have a set amount of power over 3 vehicles. The team with the best total distance against the flood being the winner.
I vote NO.
@@_MjG_ Oof capital "NO". Why not? I could see this not working in practice but I'm curious to hear other thoughts.
@@bolton2726 Not hat it matters, because I don't see them changing the format. I just don't think your idea would be as fun a watch.
@@_MjG_Fair enough. I wouldn’t want them to not do this version either. I think there’s more premise with the team version as they have done quite a few team videos. The solo version would be tedious to calculate less runs = less fun. I’d be more interested to see a random version another comment made.
A nice civilized online conversation unheard of. We have made history my friend.
@@bolton2726 Yeah, I wasn't trying to be antagonistic in my first reply. I do really enjoy it as it is, but perhaps there are improvements that can be made. Peace to you!
_"Tonight, we have a mosterous car and one goal - avoid the mob... of water! This is FailRace, where it's Race the Flood time on BeamNG, so expect to see:_
* 16:42 _"Russiky spins out an SUV._
* 26:40 _"Alex races hard in a Sports car._
* 5:36 _"And an out-of-work Stig... aids Speedbeast."_
*monstrous
#spellingfail
Also...For a moment i was thinking..."oooh no-one with a vagina is winning yet" (which could be a bad look for women drivers) then i remembered there are no women drivers even being included, which is much more sexist than my original thought. Oh well. Inclusion yes 🙄🤦
Doing a F1 point system would make this even more interesting, only points until 9th place. If you get two upgrades you don't get a point
"This has gone very, very well for me!"
:)
Poor Gliscor, so many great starts only to get ruined by others practically every time.
Luck = 0 😂
Getting lag killed can wreck your race. Getting lag killed when there are so many trees and boulders around WILL wreck your race... 😢
20:30 great race! Then a quick out for 2 more upgrades... strategies! 😅
My favorite FailRace series 😎
O love how the old curse hit hard when you said "its going well" 😂
This was an amazing round of UtF, great driving from all of you, and some standard FailRace bumps and crashes mixed in. The longer format was a lot of fun too!
This racing type has shot up to one of my favourite combinations!
6:47 Ah, the commentator's curse strikes again lol
That was the best version of the Race the flood!!! Please more of Upgrade the flood 🙏
Takeshi's castle reference lol
Loved mxc
Beam racing is my favourite FR content. 😁
30:07 great recovery Stevie!
the flood videos on beamng are by far my favorite to watch
18:00 And the 2024 award for Worst Placed Lamppost goes to....
I love how Gliscor came and took a very straight shortcut, just to not turn before the wall att about 4:00- 🙂
The best FAILRACE racing series IMHO !
Love the beam videos, hoping for another survive the descent stream soon
Alex you car is a proper offroader with 4x4
Yes, but it wasn't all-wheel drive. I think the no 4x4 rule meant no all-wheel drive vehicles. In any case Alex's starting car was 6x4, it had six wheels, four of which were driven.
@JamieCameron-Mackintosh-z7c oh sorry 6x4
Idea on how to fix balancing of this mode (because currently, the strategy would be to stay in the back the whole time and get all the upgrades until the last race where you can win): Have a points system and have the competition be only like 5 races and in each of those 5 races 1st place gets 3 points, 2nd place gets 2 points and 3rd place gets 1 point.
Who used this unbalanced “current strategy”? Cause I counted no one..
Probably because it’s completely flawed in practice.
Tbh, the best strategy for "winning" is taking the best base car (usually a modern one) with already good suspension and brakes, with decent power options. I don't think anyone was trying to manipulate the results mind, just that the starting cars are uneven to begin with
@@cpzmelbs Yeah, it'd be unfun if they just tried to be slow..
I feel so bad for Stevie ! They had the posibility to get to the top, they even got so close and than they just had bad luck and got stuck in the traffic, it was so painfull to watch.
heeeeey its back i been binging the upgrade vids
Definitely need to upload the live version of this one!
Huh, the fact your tyres are popping after being deep enough in water tells me that Beam simulates water pressure over depth... Thats unexpected hah
I may be wrong but I believe I saw somewhere that it simulates the water pressure by increasing certain gravity figures. And yeah it’s really cool that it does that
Beam also simulates when you drive at high enough altitude, the power output will be reduced because of the lack of oxygen and really high performance engines can even just lock up when turned off.
@@SpaceGood.Also it simulates the engine just breaking when it gets too cold. On the map they are using if you start with an unheated engine and turn off the engine, it will refuse to start after a few minutes.
very entertaining. would be nice to see a dedicated comentator and camera man
Whoever shoved a jet engine in the pickup is truely someone after my heart, and theyve won it
Upgrade the flood is one of my favorite series!
I feel bad for stevie, they couldn't get through the traffic. Would've def cleared if they had any clean air
Race the flood with upgrades are my favorite videos🎉🎉🎉
what's happened to the frame rate on this video ? on my end it's very poor
Idk, it may very well just be 10+ cars on a map with lots of foliage on BeamMP while recording is bogging down the performance.
Yes !!! I've been craving Upgrade the flood for days. Thank you !
Russiy is Flatout 2 fan, I suppose 🔥
Blaster XL car with "blastr" text
the commentary is amazing
Commentator's curse was exceptional in this one
I feel bad for Gliscor, they had such a good car.
Amazing show, all of you got some mad skills to run through this one.
Use a point system to make it more competitive. First 3 get minimal points every round. And then the one that finally reaches the end will get a lot of points
I feel like tires and suspension should be one upgrade for the 4 tires and one for the 4 shocks/coilovers, because who only upgrades one axle at a time IRL ? Brakes are another one, as when you upgrade the brakes, you would usually upgrade all four corners of the vehicle.
Doors could be one upgrade for 2 doors, ie. 1 upgrade for the front doors and one for the back doors. Hood (or bonnet) and trunk at one upgrade each is fine.
Otherwise, I really enjoy this type of content. Someone suggested a points system in the comments, and I was saying the exact same thing to myself as I was watching the video. So the order you finish would be based on actually getting to the finish, first and foremost, but those who don't manage to do it would be ranked based on the points they accumulated throughout the event.
Anyway, it's just a thought.
So much chaos was made at the start lol
6:48 Couldn't have timed that better if you tried.
I haven't watched yet but im so excited and I wish I had friends to do this with
13:44 People, you gotta remember to Resafe Joinly
God i wish i found you guys 10 years ago. Would have loved to been apart of this. Keep it up great content 💪👍💪👍
Love your BeamNG vids! And everything else of course :)
You really should allow one upgrade for first place if the water got everyone
I love a bit of Race the Flood
love these videos
Man, youtube's compression really doesn't like the white text on white background with all the snow. Really a good example of why YT's video compression sucks tbh, shame that they're doing you like this. Great video
Holy framerate Batman!
Nice Takeshi's castle reference Alex haha
Watching speedbeasts car in the 4th round was entertaining
I could have watched 5 more rounds of that ^^
I feel this format could do with some modification of the rules. I feel like there's no real incentive to win any race, because it puts you in the last place AND gets you no upgrades. I think for the mayhem to be more fun it would be cool if the placement on the grid was determined by the order you finished in the last race (1-3 first row, 4-6 2nd row, etc.), but also your placement dictates how much you may increase your power-to-weight ratio (1st place by 0.01, 2nd place by 0.2, ... 13th player by 0.13) etc. I makes keeping track of the value a bit more difficult but it keeps the incentive to win while making the cars in the back faster, causing more overtaking.
This was a @Stevie1055 and @RareGliscor1 Pain with a capital P! 34:05 pretty much summed up their evening with their fast cars but it made me choke on my drink how funny it was! 😂
Can't believe they DNF'd in the end with only top 3 podium finishers!
I love these
NGL I feel like crashing right away on the first lap to get 2 upgrades might be a smart idea.
Ruskys crash made me laugh.
Phrase of the day: Russkiy has had an accident
Keep these videos coming out man, really cool stuff!
20:37 - 21:22 was legendary LMAO
Amazing commentaiting
Heck yeaaaaaaaahhh an Amy win!!! 🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷
Theme of today's video must be "don't hit the Pit".
didn't you just upgrade your computer? why the framerate so low? amy's was perfectly smooth. maybe i'm thinking of another youtuber that just upgraded their computer. ah well, i don't even remember all my coworker's names :v
He upgraded his PC recently but it very quickly killed itself. I’m pretty sure they film a bunch of these videos in bulk so this video might be a bit old. I’m not too sure.
@@theapexanomoly5354 oh yes true. the good ol youtuber backlog. though they release videos at pretty similar times, and often very shortly after new mods are released, so the time gap never seems too big. hmm
Its not an old video, probably a mix of recording software resettting itself and TH-cam compression. This was filmed last week. :)
@@Shad0s hecc. the combination of whatever the issues are make his recording a shados of its former self unu.
@ ah, I see. I was just guessing at the most likely answer. Gotta love screen capture being wonky
Look at the direction of that jet engine's tailpipe.
The tail is being pushed DOWN at 2,500 horsepower...
would be cool to see this upgrade system used for things like demo derby or banger racing.
YES! ANother one of these!
Everyone starts with the same car. Everyone gets a completely random upgrade after each run.
Ya know I was just thinking I hope he does another upgrade the flood
nice slideshow
But can i just say multiplayer beam i love it keep it going peops
is is allowed to climb up the side of the mountain, like from where dangerman is at 30:33?
You were doing sooo...oh well 😂
Stevie you only had one job
18:00
maybe theres an upgrade the flood but offroad? idk if theres any map fitting for this but it would negate the whole slicks issue
As someone not all that well up on motor racing can someone please explain why slick tyres are the choice on icy roads? It seems extremely counter productive to me but I'm obviously missing something.
Most of it is still tarmac and not icy
The track itself is mainly asphalt, and because the flood was relatively quick and the course is very windy and tricky, slicks are the best overall option for being able to handle the course. :)
The slick tyres aren't good for icy roads, but when there is more clear tarmac than road covered in snow or ice then slick tyres should be an advantage as you should make up more time on the clear tarmac than you lose having to slow for the snowy and icy sections.
It's not. The slicks are really good on the asphalt, but they struggle more than even regular tires do on ice. The problem is that if they prioritize grip on dirt and ice, then they sacrifice grip on the asphalt, which is what most of the track is made of.
Thanks guys, makes sense. :D
Have they ever tried allowing the shortcuts?
Survive the mountain video please
Damnit - an old lady ignored a red light and smashed up my Firebird. It's been sitting in my driveway wrecked for about a year while I save up for a good body shop.
Alternatively, which controller button is it for "reset"?
An electric car will work underwater in BeamNG. Just saying 😏
please do this with an offroad track
Can we get a live version of this with film crew voice chat? Please and thanks
What car does Longbow have?
What is the UI app on the left with the hp and weight called?
You ever thought of doing a Discord chat instead of commentating? I can imagine there would have been some choice insults hurled at each other in these races.
It would be a bit chaotic with this amount of people
Well, howdy there, Internet people!