Truck

“	A utility vehicle used to mobilize troops and supplies.	„
	— In-game description

The Transport Truck is a large vehicle useful for transporting items and players. It has an inventory with 15 slots, and can carry up to 6 players: the driver, a passenger and 4 people in the back of the truck. Players that are overencumbered cannot enter a truck.

The truck is much faster than players when traveling on roads. Because of its speed and large inventory, it is the best method for transporting infantry and supplies. Travelling off-road dramatically reduces speed, so it is highly recommended to travel using roads.

The truck is very weak to all types of fire. Only a few small arms rounds are enough to disable it. Because of this, trucks are mostly used behind the front lines along defended roads.

When a truck is destroyed it explodes, killing any players inside. A "trunk" appears under the vehicle wreck, containing the items that the truck had inside of it.

Vehicle Variations

Trivia

Locked trucks

Like all vehicles, the truck can be locked by a player who is standing at one of the vehicle's doors or sitting in the driver's seat. Locking the truck prevents anyone but the player who locked it from opening its inventory or entering it. The lock may be removed by the player who unlocked it or with the use of a Wrench. Note that, unlike in many games, the opposing team can also enter or access the inventory of the truck in the same way as members of your team.

Trucks can also be claimed by a squad with three or more members. While claimed, only members of the owning squad may remove items from the truck's inventory. Additionally, members of the owning squad are able to fully access the vehicle while it is locked, including entering any of the seats or taking things from the inventory. Unlike the lock, the squad claim is not removed by a wrench. The squad claim is relinquished after two hours of inactivity.

Accessing a stockpile

When delivering items to buildings with Stockpiles (Static Bases and Forward Bases), it is possible to access the stockpile without exiting the truck. The player needs to move the truck's cabin near the Stockpile building and access it (E key by default). Base's inventory and stockpile will appear as usual, but instead of the player's inventory it will display the inventory of the truck. This allows for an easy transfer of items to and from the truck.

When taking items from the stockpile, the player inside the truck can Shift + Left click an item to extract 3 units of the item instead of one. The assembly time is significantly shorter than assembling the items one at a time. Items unloaded in excess will be dropped under the truck.

Vehicle Encumberance

Trucks can like players be encumbered by the weight of their load slowing them down. The player weight does not seem to play a role here only what is inside the Truck. This means that a full truck of supplies can be differantiated by its speed from an empty one by how slow it is. This slow increases until 300% encumberance where the Truck has 20% slow applied to it which is the maximum and 10% at 100%. The slow is applied gradually. On the flip-side of this is a speed increase up to 20% for being empty. The weight for an item is different in a vehicle than in a players inventory and might require more research to create a list for item weights.

Bugs

Trucks are known to sometimes glitch into the ground. If this occurs simply exit and reenter the vehicle.

Tutorial Video

Historical Reference

The inspiration for the Warden variant can be seen in the French Citroën H Panel Van.

Gallery

A colonial truck and warden truck in-game parked side-by-side.