I took a spin on the minibike which now has physics and ik on the handlebars. If you don’t know what IK is, it stands for inverse kinematics and means the hands are linked to the handlebars so when the handlebars move the characters arms move with it. It looks pretty cool. I cruised around, ran out of gas, put more gas in it. I decided to build a ramp and see if I could get any air with it but I fell to the ground pretty fast. So I changed my motor out to the best one I could get and tried again, and I got quite a bit of air! So I played around with various ramps and had fun making my own little tracks and seeing what kind of jumps I could pull off.

After trying out various stunt jumps I decided to go for a nice cruise in the country to see how it felt just cruising down the roads. I was scouting out for towns and POIs and it was lots of fun finding everything so fast. You can off road and go up hills (slowly but you get up them). For a first programmer version I was very impressed with it, big kudos to Joe who worked hard on the physics, it feels great already. The steering isn’t very responsive but I had lower quality handlebars. Handlebars determine how fast you can turn. So this bike can be upgraded and you can improve a lot of aspects about it so don’t gripe when your first minibike sucks, the 600 quality one is a blast.

Will the minibike be worth building? Absolutely! It is a serious game changing experience. Driving through snow storms was just absolutely jaw dropping. Imagine the envy of other people on the server when they see someone has crafted one and they drive by on it and get the air drop first :) Or you die and lose your stuff and need a ride to get your gear back, the guy on the minibike can be the hero. Lots of interesting game play for sure!

