The Fire Truck is an EPIC vehicle in Crash of Cars.
It pays to have elusive sentinels against the heat wave......
Descriptions[]
Fire Truck is a large vehicle with a mostly rectangular body. Its windows, wheel arches and undercarriage are black. Its grates, monitor turret body, and its rear steps are grey. The cab's upper portions and most of the middle sections are white. Its body is mostly colored in red, which includes a small portion of the middle section, the bottom half of the front, and all of the rear section. The front features a large vertical grille, with two front lights distributed to each side. Various pieces of grey firefighting accessories are attached to the middle with two ladders stretching to the backside too. Its wheel arches cover the wheels' width. On the back there are two small orange lights and a large, grey hatch at the bottom. Two smaller hatches are just ahead of the rear wheels. Sides of the back section visibly protrude slightly from the vehicle. On top there are two elevated barriers on the side of the monitor, which has a grey base and a yellow nozzle, both capable of rotation, firing streams of blue liquid when the ability comes into play. Ahead are two grey bars and a white skylight outlined in grey. At the very front there is a light bar of two orange section with a light silver beam in the middle.
Special Properties[]
The Fire Truck can destroy Flamethrowers within its range that are mounted on vehicles or dropped on the ground. When a suitable target enters, Fire Truck's monitor aims to it, and starts to launch blue water particles at it. After a second of continuous spraying, the Flamethrower becomes harmless and despawns.
Upon getting a kill or when destroying a Flamethrower, the Fire Truck will trigger its siren.
Strategies[]
The Fire Truck is a heavy vehicle that simply loses out to other contenders in a firefight. Although it the top speed is decent for a vehicle of it's size, the slow acceleration and large profile nullifies this advantage.
Its ability, however, is another story. It covers Fire Truck's speed disadvantage somewhat by outright removing them. Flamethrowers, being universally avaliable, are some of the more relevant power-ups in-game, especially versus slower vehicles as it quickly reduces anything to rubble if they cannot escape its wrath.This also makes it a prime counter to Dragon, whose ability is closely tied with Flamethrowers as well. The only map where it is redundant would be Water Park, where many water faucets can quickly eliminate any flametheowers walking into range, obsoleting its purpose.
Bear in mind that the Fire Truck does not target Inferno's integrated flamethrower, and it is able to take damage from all flamethrowers, so one may have to keep their distance to get the best out of the ability.
Gallery[]
Sound Effects[]
File | File Description |
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Fire Truck siren. |
In Other Languages[]
Please note that only official translations are used.
Language | Name | Description |
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English | Fire Truck | |
German | Feuerwehrauto | |
French | Camion de pompiers | |
Russian | Пожарная машина | |
Italian | Camion dei pompieri | |
Turkish | İtfaiye | |
Spanish | Camión de bomberos | |
Portuguese | Caminhão de Bombeiro | |
Japanese | 消防車 | |
Korean | 소방차 | |
Simplified Chinese | 消防车 | ”Fire Truck" |
Traditional Chinese | 消防車 | ”Fire Truck" |
Indonesian | Truk Damkar | |
Thai | รถดับเพลิง |
Trivia[]
- The Fire Truck is based on the Pierce-Arrow XT.
- The name "Fire Truck", however, is unspecific, as it is an umbrella term for any truck operated by a fire department. A more accurate term would be "Water Tender", seeing that its speciality lies in its mounted monitor.
- Upon extinguishing a Flamethrower, audio reminiscent of water vaporization is heard and a cloud of steam forms above it, though the dropped flamethrower plays its regular expiry animation instead.
- Fire Truck's siren is shared with the Ambulance.
Bugs and Glitches[]
- The Fire Truck can erroneously target Flamethrowers mounted on itself, effectively precluding it from using them. (Patched in Castle update)
Changes in Updates[]
- The Fire Truck was introduced in the game's Global Launch.