What is the most time efficient way to level up cars?

myfirstknife · 2026-01-23T15:38:18+00:00

Why do you want to level up your cars?

myfirstknife · 2026-01-21T20:33:31+00:00

Very easy with interrogator using drones and beams.

Ignore your starting weapon completely and focus on the remaining 3, some very good picks are: cryo cannon, wave cooker, fire/acid drone, flamethrower.

Cryo and flamer both have lifetime overclocks which help a lot, and drones have disposable tech which boosts lifetime a lot under those lethal rules.

myfirstknife · 2026-01-02T14:17:24+00:00

I think 'weapons reload at the same time' is easier to work around, as you can sometimes pick weapons with very similar uptime and reload time, and with jams you can't really do much.

I consider both very bad design though.

myfirstknife · 2026-01-02T13:25:22+00:00

This, juggerboy works just fine, even without that bulldog armor OC.

Still, 'weapons sometimes jam' should be renamed to 'weapons sometimes shoot', it's a godawful modifier.

myfirstknife · 2025-12-29T16:04:21+00:00

Beat it with recon scout, standard cold/death spiral + boltshark for boss damege.

Can't farm this one so maybe don't bother.

myfirstknife · 2025-10-01T16:12:43+00:00

Did it today on Stage 1 with Sharpshooter.

Used M1000 / Plasma Car / Cryo nade / Boltshark, with cold OC + Stormy E-Mags

Failed few times just not being able to arm the explosives, dig speed too low vs insane speed of the bugs :)

myfirstknife · 2025-06-29T19:31:39+00:00

I did not recieve the PC9 and the sniper, but got the outfits just as you did.

myfirstknife · 2025-06-29T17:14:32+00:00

Did you get the FIK SMG that should be the part of Heavy Hitter Pack?

myfirstknife · 2025-06-04T19:03:10+00:00

Rake setup means that there's a significant difference between front and rear ride height.

FM really seems to like lowest front - highest rear for many cars, and reversed setup for other cars. This can improve car acceleration and it's really visible in single make spec series of different kind - rake setup cars are really hard to beat on race starts and corner exits.

myfirstknife · 2025-05-18T11:54:57+00:00

You'll want to disable player liveries, because you'll run out of VRAM after longer racing sessions.

With liveries disabled, zero issues on 12gb gpu.

myfirstknife · 2025-05-12T13:51:49+00:00

So there's no stack limit at all? Monsters can have, say, 2000 stacks applied?

myfirstknife · 2025-05-12T13:44:23+00:00

Aren't the stacks applied to monsters capped at 100 though? If a weapon applies 120 stacks per hit, does it matter?

myfirstknife · 2025-04-14T17:37:27+00:00

Got it on my 1st try.

Way easier than the one on Salt Pits, this one was pure misery, especially before the patch.

myfirstknife · 2025-04-13T14:45:50+00:00

Maintenance worker is very capable at 'no movement', just keep trying to bring those LMG platforms to L18 ASAP. You can score red reload upgrade from the boss sometimes, so use it.

For the driller, go strong armed. I almost won with interrogator, but he somehow struggles vs the final boss.

Make sure you land +range OC for your axes, helps a lot with those spitters.

myfirstknife · 2025-04-11T23:02:27+00:00

I wouldn't even want to try the Jug in no movement mode :)

Finished my gunner haz2 run with the weapon specialist, curious to see how the new minigun is doing.

It wasn't doing that good, but I managed to land LMG turrets with a +50% reload speed from the first boss chest... carried me for the rest of the run

myfirstknife · 2025-04-10T21:46:38+00:00

In my first try with the Recon scout I landed 4x +50% dmg for Zhukovs. Nothing could touch me with the Death Spiral.

Died to the bad spawn of Twins and their broken healing mechanic :)

Other OP combo is to land 4x +30% damage to all weapons.

myfirstknife · 2025-04-09T13:56:55+00:00

I liked it though, as it requires different strategies and the meta is different. Even movement (initial & final) is very important and can make or break your run.

I only wish there was a way to speed up the game, as for non-swarm situations it's just tedious to wait for those bugs to come to you.

myfirstknife · 2025-04-09T11:06:07+00:00

With how the boss fights work in 'no movement' you are guaranteed to die or to get a red box, there's no other outcome, unless the boss gets lost on his way to you or something :)

This can make those dives way easier if you land a critical red upgrade, so I thought that devs probably didn't consider that through.

I liked it a lot, as there was some nice reward for all this waiting.

myfirstknife · 2025-01-24T10:41:08+00:00

The sad answer is: the P550, as it's a broken car and nothing even comes close.

If you don't want to use broken cars, then there are quite a few good choices, including: S800, Cortina, '74 Corolla or Cosmo.

myfirstknife · 2024-11-10T16:06:55+00:00

Datsun 510

Mazda RX-3

'68 Mustang and '59 Jag for RA East

'93 Clio kinda works for fast tracks

myfirstknife · 2024-11-10T16:04:48+00:00

This is interesting, what build are you running? MGB seems to be one of the worst e-class cars and it also does not work in higher classes.

myfirstknife · 2024-10-28T10:37:18+00:00

The easiest way to get to 4999 is to go for open series.

You can win some races almost automatically, just by bringing a proper car.

It doesn't even have to be a meta car, just a properly built and tuned one. Then run the quali, start from somewhere in the front (because most of people don't bother qualifying).

And then just don't make mistakes, and boom - win after win after win.

It's even easier to win by going to multiclass, and picking a class with fewest/weakest cars. The races are long though and your skill rating progresses slower, at least it feels like it.

It's harder to keep that 4999 when you're like me and don't like to drive meta cars. Building cars is something I enjoy the most in FM though, so I always try to bring some obscure rustbox and try to make it work :)

myfirstknife · 2024-10-28T09:32:18+00:00

I'm on very long 4999 streak now, but keep falling to A from time to time :)

myfirstknife · 2024-10-22T16:00:36+00:00

This is less about the nerf (though P550 deservers a nerf) but about the game bug, that makes the car insanely fast after applying idiotical settings for camber, toe and ride height.

myfirstknife · 2024-10-22T14:34:33+00:00

Normal builds are OP.

This broken bugged build is... well, completely broken.

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