Limp Mode

Limp Mode is a car simulation built around driving physics, vehicle wear and diagnostics. You tune cars, remap their ECUs and read OBD fault codes with a scanner. In the story, your grandfather is stranded at his summerhouse 1,000 kilometers away and needs a new engine to get home. You set out to find him a V8, alone or with friends.

Three ways to play

Hardcore and Fun modes support solo play or co-op for up to four players. Drift Mode uses open servers for up to 20 players and is separate from the other two modes.

• Hardcore Mode: Drive the full 1,000 kilometers with realistic wear, leaks, overheating and breakdowns. You repair the car yourself: for example, seal a cracked oil pan with 2K glue or replace it. Losing a bumper leaves the radiator exposed. If you have nothing to make a repair, you wake at your last safe spot and must go recover your car. Mistakes are not forgiven.
• Fun Mode: Keep the realism of Hardcore Mode, but take a shorter, 250-kilometer route with more starting money and easier ways to recover if your car breaks down. This mode offers fewer achievements and no leaderboards.
• Drift Mode: Take cars built in Fun or Hardcore to open servers, drift on tracks made with the track editor and bring your own pit box to every server. Cars from Fun and Hardcore stay on separate servers.

The road and its towns

The highway stretches through eight towns. The dead appear along the road near wrecks and in the headlights; farther along, they return, and CONSTANTIN NOPE belongs to them. The route starts quietly, while towns, shops, a dyno and a casino lie farther down the highway.

In NEW CREEPS, you can race the quarter mile and use the dyno. LOST WAGES has roulette and slots, TOKWO has a neon scramble, and in TOWN OF TASTE you can buy a house. People walk the streets, so watch your speed.

Driving with others

In co-op, you and up to three friends can travel together: one player can drive while another rides shotgun with the scanner, or everyone can drive their own car. Drift sessions support up to 20 players on self-made maps, including tandem drifting. You can join a public session or host your own, including a private one.

Each drift player gets a pit box with a lift and storage, and can design its appearance. Cars you bring are your own; if one is wrecked while drifting, it remains damaged in your save until you repair it. Build tracks in the editor and host sessions on them, or share tracks and pit box designs with the community. A parts shop and burger stand sit at the pit lane.

Diagnostics and repairs

The OBD scanner lets you read fault codes to identify failing parts, clear faults, or disable systems that activate because of faulty parts or overheating. Clearing a fault gets the car running again for now, but the problem returns, with shorter intervals each time. Disabling systems can provide more power, but comes at a cost.

You can also use the scanner to apply Stage 1, 2 and 3 tuning, Pops'n'Bangs and Launch Control. Every intervention has a cost, so you have to decide whether it is worth making.

Tuning and ownership

Tune mechanical parts, software and bodywork. Options include lift kits, wheel and track-width setups, paint, tint and body kit pieces. The ECU tool lets you add launch control and pops & bangs: read the car, change its map and write the changes back.

Your personal garage follows you into co-op and Drift Mode. Each car has a service book and odometer, and its damage, tuning and mileage travel with it into other players' games. Find a car in the world and register it to keep it permanently. Fun and Hardcore modes have separate garages.

Vehicle wear

Parts wear out and take damage, and you can strip parts from wrecks; used parts retain their used condition. A rock can crack the oil pan, causing a real-time leak that leaves a slick beneath the car and makes the road slippery. Driving without a radiator eventually affects the temperature gauge, while a weak battery can leave you struggling to start as a horde approaches.