Fuel!

[MR_CHEWYNumNums]

Lol I said exhaust note, a.k.a. the sound that comes out the pipe in back in layman's terms. The trucks even idle I mean literally the only reason noise would be produce is from explosive compression in at least 2 "chambers"... thus some from of internal combustion... sooo I'm preeetttyyyy sure your wrong and there's a logical fallacy in the sound the vehicles produce when you apply throttle

lol no need to explain what that is, just totally didn't see "exhaust"...lol as a matter of fact I just read note and said WHATTTT???? Actually I'm not wrong buddy, the people that actually created this world know more than your speculating mind. Once again I watched an OFFICIAL (maybe I need to stat this to prove it's not speculation) video.

[Fiancee]

Doesnt fit to the game in my opinion. Yeah, much better in Fallen Earth, the world is like 5 time bigger.

[Pizzarugi]

"Sorry guys, but I'll be late for the next Arkfall, I forgot to refuel after the last one."

Yeah, no.

[Ensu]

I wouldn't be against an equippable fuel mod for my vehicle, that slightly improves acceleration, but a fuel bar in addition to our boost bar? Eh, not so much. Doesn't suit the game engine, or immersion. If this were a survival horror or a simulation it'd fit, but Defiance's vehicle gameplay is more arcade than simulation.

Edit:

From the fluff on steam about the unlockable rewards:

RM-Nomad M4 - Powered by a non-threaded, multi-combustion fuse tank.

A-Tex Growler - The Petrahol super charged engine will give you a boost power when it’s most needed.

[EAST N2382R]

lol no need to explain what that is, just totally didn't see "exhaust"...lol as a matter of fact I just read note and said WHATTTT???? Actually I'm not wrong buddy, the people that actually created this world know more than your speculating mind. Once again I watched an OFFICIAL (maybe I need to stat this to prove it's not speculation) video.

Okay order of events: 1st-fuel was brought up
2nd:fuel was shot down
3rd: fuel was rationalized away by the fact "the was no internal combustion engines" because obviously replaced with ArkFall tech
4th: I point out a paradox where, if indeed there were no longer IC-engines, the vehicles still acted and portray the characteristics of a normal engine. Things like exhaust note, idle, exhaust system in general and flames when using boost. I didn't say wether or not they were. Just pointing out a fact
5th: guess what I was right and it's confirmed that all vehicles are still driven by internal combustion but with a supercharger (forced induction) and a new type of fuel by trion themselves in a developer diary....

[EAST N2382R]

As I pointed out before. Having a fuel requirement is idiotic in an environment where you pull vehicles from your pants. You're killing my immersion. Maybe I have a 7/11 in my pockets as well, with a service attendant that fuels me up and washes my windows every time I store my handy dandy shrinking ATV.

No I totally agree, I loveeeeee the ability to warp a vehicle anywhere, truly awesome feature

[Kane]

Well why not take it a bit further:

1. Fuel
2. Food (and general character sustainability)
3. natural needs (urinating...and...more) like...sorry guys need to go behind the bush for a moment, that hellbug scared me so much i **** my pants...brb..
4. diseases, how about your character dies because he cut himself on a rusty piece of metal a few days ago and now has gangrene and needs an amputation or he caught something alien that kills him in a few hours from infection (meaning a permanent delete of character to keep the realism going), and in case of amputation he should retire because he can't be an ark hunter anymore so your entire gameplay should be just farm simulator and such.
5. and ofc perma death, resulting in having to start over from the beginning of the game...
6. bullets should cost money

i mean really, are we going to play second life or any kind of life simulator here? should we ask the devs to implement jobs in game in case our career as an ark hunter is not as profitable as we thought?

oh and lets not neglect the copulation needs, i mean we need to reproduce as a species right? let's ask for sex in game, and church to oppose that, and police force to stop us from looting and then let;s quit the game because it is not fun anymore...

[pieofdeath123]

I'm a bit fat and i'm not tasty!
So, dont eat me!
I just want to see some kind of fuel, these machines do not run from the air you know...

No, just get out thats a horrible idea and would just make this game less enjoyable.

[EAST N2382R]

Honestly let's make this into an arma like simulator

[Angeleus09]

I recall watching a Defiance Central video where they stated official lore was that vehicles were powered by a distilled form of Hellbug crap which I guess is petrohol.