The track on the second mission is deliberately slippery, due to heavy rain. To complete the race missions, you need to slow down when you reach a turn and then boost as much as possible when you clear the corner. It might be easier to do with a vehicle that has its center of mass close to the ground (you can enable center of mass display in Build Mode). We played one of the race missions on stream, you can check out the VOD to see what kind of vehicle was able to beat one of the stages:

https://youtu.be/OUSHSRg2Rsw?t=6079
You can rewind the footage to see how this vehicle was constructed.

You can also complete sidemissions to increase your build limit and earn more parts.

In regards to your vehicle getting stuck on terrain: you can press the * button to reorient your vehicle. If you're not in combat, you can also enter a build mode and shift+WASD to move your machine away.

Also there is a hand brake, Left Alt

I watched your video and noticed that the person driving (I assume is a developer) had a tough time controlling his vehicles as well. I did most of the side mission and have about the same equipment/budget as the person in the video had. Maybe slightly less because I gave up on a couple of them because some were just too hard to complete. The example I already gave was the one with 3 airships that show up and destroy me in seconds.
I have a suggestion for you since this game just came off early access and I see that a developer responded (which is cool that you did BTW ).
How about when a person chooses any mission you have the option to do easy, normal, hard and maybe "extreme" and then the more difficult you choose the more reward (budget/unlocks). I personally gave up on some of the side missions after attempting multiple times. I got frustrated and I'm sure many others will too. I think that would make for better game play if you gave us options like drop down to easy if it's too difficult (less enemies / weaker enemies, etc).
Back to the wheels. I understand the rainy, slippery roads causing traction issues but I think the wheels need more friction throughout the entire game. They slide around on dry ground too. Even the tracks, which have much more surface area then wheels, slide around too much. Tracks should be slower speed limits but better traction than wheels. They are meant for off-road applications.
Also it's not just sliding around turns, they spin out and you sit there waiting for them to finally get you moving and they don't allow for much traction climbing hills or going over rough ground. That also makes it frustrating when you are trying to maneuver and you slide down a hill and sit there at the bottom spinning your wheels because it won't climb back up. I think if the handling is improved then the game play will also improve.

Originally posted by KaosKnite:

I watched your video and noticed that the person driving (I assume is a developer) had a tough time controlling his vehicles as well. I did most of the side mission and have about the same equipment/budget as the person in the video had. Maybe slightly less because I gave up on a couple of them because some were just too hard to complete. The example I already gave was the one with 3 airships that show up and destroy me in seconds.
I have a suggestion for you since this game just came off early access and I see that a developer responded (which is cool that you did BTW ).
How about when a person chooses any mission you have the option to do easy, normal, hard and maybe "extreme" and then the more difficult you choose the more reward (budget/unlocks). I personally gave up on some of the side missions after attempting multiple times. I got frustrated and I'm sure many others will too. I think that would make for better game play if you gave us options like drop down to easy if it's too difficult (less enemies / weaker enemies, etc).
Back to the wheels. I understand the rainy, slippery roads causing traction issues but I think the wheels need more friction throughout the entire game. They slide around on dry ground too. Even the tracks, which have much more surface area then wheels, slide around too much. Tracks should be slower speed limits but better traction than wheels. They are meant for off-road applications.
Also it's not just sliding around turns, they spin out and you sit there waiting for them to finally get you moving and they don't allow for much traction climbing hills or going over rough ground. That also makes it frustrating when you are trying to maneuver and you slide down a hill and sit there at the bottom spinning your wheels because it won't climb back up. I think if the handling is improved then the game play will also improve.

Thank you for your reply and for the kind words! There are bigger wheels and tracks unlocked later in the campaign, it should be easier to navigate rough terrain with these - you can check them out in Creative Mode. In regards to friction of smaller wheels/tracks, we'll look into it. Modifying physics is difficult, even a tiny change can cause serious errors so it's not an easy fix but we'll try.

We'll look into the difficulty settings of individual missions based on your feedback. Can you specify, which mission spawned the 3 airships that destroyed your vehicle? A rough estimate will do, for instance, what were the previous missions leading up to the overly difficult one?

Thanks for considering my suggestions. I will redo the campaign and take a video of the mission in question. I can't go backwards on my current one. Once I get back to it. I'll upload the video for you to check out.

I made a video to show the mission that I had trouble beating but I actually beat the mission in the video. I also mentioned a few other things with the game during the video. I'm not much into doing videos but please check it out and see.

https://youtu.be/f704YoDdseA