The second most requested feature for State of Decay has just been roughed out, and is now in testing. That’s right. One of the features of the fifth free Title Update (TU5) will allow you to toss a bag full of stuff into the back of your vehicle and drive it away. I spoke to Programmer Chris to get the details. (Our Steam players might recognize the name as one of the two people who did the PC version, but Chris works on all things State of Decay.) Here is the plan:
Chris says: “We have added a trunk interaction to the back of all vehicles. This means you can take your favorite car with you on a supply run and load it up before the long trek home. You have to be careful, however, as vehicles are vulnerable; our plan right now is that a destroyed vehicle takes with it everything that it was carrying. You can still interact with the inventories on vehicles that have been flipped – allowing you to rescue your precious resources before they go kaput. Finally, in lieu of having to ‘unload the groceries’ by making individual trips back and forth between the vehicle and community storage when you reach a base, you can instead drive the vehicle into a parking spot (indicated when you’re driving up) to automatically turn in rucksacks. All other inventory remains in the vehicle.”
Wait. What? “Other inventory”?
Basically, each vehicle now has an inventory with a limited number of slots, same as any container. A rucksack is considered one item and takes up one slot, even if that rucksack is full. If you drive a vehicle up to a parking spot, the rucks will be automatically unloaded, but anything NOT a rucksack will stay in the vehicle until you move it.
My hoarders reading this should not get too excited. There are some game limitations we’re dealing with, here, so you won’t be able to fill up every trunk in every car on the entire map. Chris says “there are a limited number of vehicles that you can maintain inventory in at a time.” We don’t yet know exactly how many loaded vehicles we can get away with, but we’ll let you know when we know.
We are still determining how many slots there will be in a vehicle, so I can’t answer that yet, either.
This feature will be free, of course, and appear in the original game, Breakdown, and Lifeline.
So…what do you think? Let us know in the comments…