Maxwell Vagrant Appreciation Thread

[Debesta]

On 12/17/2019 at 8:07 AM, J-Scott-D said:

OK, now I'm even more confused. I had already hired the Hangar Mechanic as the gun guy and the character that I'm doing the heist on has the Bunker, MOC with MOC Mechanic and  Avenger with weapon workshop. And he was locked/unable to choose.

 

It's looking like it would be much  easier to pay full price for it. 

Simply put, the guy who offers the Vagrant is Chester McCoy. Yes, he's the mechanic model. If you hire him for guns, you can't hire him for cars and vice versa. Every car person offers the same vehicles on every heist type. Chester is the only one who can provide both guns and cars but, not the same time. I hope this helps.

[Bravado Buffalo]

[J-Scott-D]

I gave up trying to figure out why the guy had a lock on him and bought it. I have a lock on one of the prep missions (security Intel) and it's because I never did the Casino Missions for Agatha. Maybe that was why I couldn't choose that driver. Whatever.

 

 

 

[Cognoscenti]

 

[SummerFreeze]

On 12/21/2019 at 5:36 AM, Shiloh Comes said:

What is there to appreciate about this vehicle other than the exhaust note?

 

It's a piece of cr4p. Priced at 5 times what it's worth and the moment you take it off-road it spends most of the time facing the wrong way after spinning out.

 

The humble little Bifta utterly embarrasses it.

That's not my experience. The Vagrant is a lot faster than the Bifta so maybe that explains the spin-outs.

[Yellow Dog with Cone]

Rover, wanderer, nomad, vagabond.

 

[NULL AND VOID]

Love the fact that when the driver leaves the vehicle the passenger doesn't automatically enter the drivers seat.. 

[Mellowbum]

I love this thing some people complain about it spinning out but hey that's why breaks exsist also I personally belive this thing handles better than some super cars just my opinion 

[Scottiedog123]

Gone for more of a street look with mine, brilliant car, and just as good off road on these road tires.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[SummerFreeze]

54 minutes ago, Scottiedog123 said:

Gone for more of a street look with mine, brilliant car, and just as good off road on these road tires.

Yeah, its tires don't clip so which set of wheels you choose has no effect on performance.

[HamwithCheese]

I like how when the Dune FAV came out, I said they should've given us a Nomad with a gun on it. Then they released the Barrage and that's kind of what I was going for.

 

 

Then they release this and it's somehow more expensive than both of those.

[suicidal_banana]

On 12/12/2019 at 12:23 PM, HamwithCheese said:

Grippy

Uhhh, it has less grip then the most used super cars, im honestly dissapointed by its handling

[TheLordMarvel]

6 hours ago, suicidal_banana said:

Uhhh, it has less grip then the most used super cars, im honestly dissapointed by its handling

 

You're kidding, right? This vehicle has wayyyyyyy more grip than tons of the supers.

[Scottiedog123]

Sometimes I wonder if we are driving the same cars.

[rodriguez_pc]

This thing obsoletes at least 90% of all civilian cars in the game, If you don't race, that is.

If you could only own one regular car, this is it. (speciality vehicles i.e. armored and/or weaponized excluded ofc). The only things it can't do: carry more than 2 people at once (a non issue for most players) and complete some hard time trials where super-class speed and cornering are a must.

Near super-tier top speed (over 120 mph), sports tier cornering, and outperforms all dedicated offroad vehicles (except bikes... maybe) when you leave the tarmac.

And to top it off, it's got no doors, so getting in and out of the car is really quick -- no more open/close door animations. You might say 'but you get easily shot out of it'. Well... I doubt the NPC aimbots care about your vehicle's window size. And human players will blow you up most of the times anyway.

A must have car.

[Gregistopal]

Really fun car my only complaint is the non working light bar

[79'Blazer4x4]

17 hours ago, Gregistopal said:

Really fun car my only complaint is the non working light bar

I still don't understand how working light bars and other extra lights(stock or added by customization) aren't a universal thing in this game yet. It seems entirely random what vehicles get working extra lights and which ones don't, They even changed the aftermarket rally lights in the Vapid GB200 from non-working to working(and they very rarely improve on or fix already existing vehicles), so clearly it's not that hard to make them work.

Edited January 19, 2020 by 79'Blazer4x4

[Scottiedog123]

It's mental.

I really hope that in VI, it's all done properly.

 

[Zader]

 

This thing wasn't worth the asking price, performance-wise, but I have genuinely wanted one of these by name for ages now, and I'm glad we have one.

It's a lot of fun to drive around, and I'm disappointed I likely won't be able to drive it in the snow again, as it tore up everything I threw it at.

[Arrows to Athens]

 

 

[éX-Driver]

Gotta love how it has precisely zero side-impact support. It’s also missing about 70% of the Nomad’s triangulated tubing chassis, meaning this thing would probably fold in half the first time you took it off road in real life. I bet R* didn’t model the extra tubing for the same reason the Sabre Hotring has doors: they couldn’t be arsed to make proper entry and exit animations of the character slithering through a small opening. 

[Pedinhuh]

This car feels like the Emerus of the off-road class.

 

It has balls to the walls acceleration, quite high top speed which is taken to 11 in bumpy surfaces and tons of grip but you will oversteer and spin if you're not careful.

 

Experienced drivers have problems to explore the performance of it up to 100%, noobs will just crash it and say the car sucks.

 

But whoever master this car will be untouchable by the rest of the off road class.

 

[Yellow Dog with Cone]

On 1/19/2020 at 5:57 AM, Scottiedog123 said:

It's mental.

I really hope that in VI, it's all done properly.

 

IMO, we shouldn't wait until GTA VI to get all the optional headlights in the game fixed, it's not like R* is an indie company or anything.

[crsN]

I would have preferred Atom but Nomad is good too.

Edited February 6, 2020 by crsN

[SilverRST]

Anyone knows why I can no longer select the Vagrant in Stunt Races? The same goes for the Everon. I could select the Vagrant but now not anymore after the first time.

[SummerFreeze]

3 hours ago, SilverRST said:

Anyone knows why I can no longer select the Vagrant in Stunt Races? The same goes for the Everon. I could select the Vagrant but now not anymore after the first time.

I still can.... maybe custom vehicles was Off?

[SilverRST]

1 hour ago, SummerFreeze said:

I still can.... maybe custom vehicles was Off?

No, I was hosting and custom vehicles was on. But I could only select 3 offroads of my 10+ other offroads. 

[SummerFreeze]

20 minutes ago, SilverRST said:

No, I was hosting and custom vehicles was on. But I could only select 3 offroads of my 10+ other offroads. 

Which race?

[Arrows to Athens]

1 hour ago, SilverRST said:

No, I was hosting and custom vehicles was on. But I could only select 3 offroads of my 10+ other offroads. 

I've noticed that some races limit the amount of cars you can race. For example, only 5 or 6 of my supers will be available to use, while the others won't show up at all. 

Edited February 8, 2020 by Arrows to Athens

[SummerFreeze]

5 hours ago, Arrows to Athens said:

I've noticed that some races limit the amount of cars you can race. For example, only 5 or 6 of my supers will be available to use, while the others won't show up at all. 

In Creator you can limit the cars that are available but AFAIK there is only one official Off-Road stunt race, and the Vagrant can be used in it as long as custom vehicles are allowed.