Dude Cargo Chaos.

How to play Dude Cargo Chaos

1. From the harbor office choose Continue, the dispatch board, the daily delivery or the garage. Each route briefing lists the cargo, the hazards and the times for three stars and the master badge.
2. Hold W or Up, or DRIVE on touch, to accelerate. Steer with A and D, the arrow keys or the LEFT and RIGHT pads. Brake with S or Down; keep holding it to reverse.
3. Before bends, bumps, gusts and landings, hold Space or tap MAGNET to pin the load. Hold Shift or BOOST for speed and for longer jumps. Both drain the same battery, which recharges when you let go.
4. Read the hazards. Wait for carts and forklifts to pass, go as a crane load swings away from your lane, stop at a lowered barrier until the drawbridge is down, and ease off on oil, puddles and waves.
5. If you get stuck or fall in, Recover (R) returns you to the last lamp. It costs five seconds, plus one parcel when more than one remains. Losing every parcel or running out of shift time ends the delivery.
6. Brake in the striped bay at the far end to unload. The results card shows your time, the cargo you kept, the score, credits and any new vehicles or districts.

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About Dude Cargo Chaos

Dude Cargo Chaos is a 3D delivery game about a small truck with an open bed and a load that would rather be somewhere else. You drive from the loading depot to a striped delivery bay across a miniature harbor. Whatever is still in the bed when you stop is delivered. The trouble is how the load behaves. Parcels hold still while you drive gently. Push them harder than their grip allows and they slide, knock into each other and slam against the rails. A hard slide, or a parcel bounced up by cobbles or a landing, can go right over the side. Everything in the world, from the truck and its driver to the cranes, carts and water, is original procedural artwork drawn in the browser.

The cargo magnet is your main tool. Hold it and every parcel is pulled back to its place and pressed onto the bed. It shares one battery with boost, which gives extra speed and is needed for the longer jumps. Releasing both lets the battery recharge, and teal charging strips on some routes top it up while you drive over them. Deciding when to hold the magnet and when to save battery for a boost is what each delivery comes down to.

There are eight kinds of cargo. Timber crates are steady. Steel drums roll sideways in bends. Glassware breaks on hard knocks and rough landings. Ice blocks slide at the slightest nudge and lose value as they melt. Steel coils are heavy, slow the truck and roll toward the tailgate when you pull away. Harbor buoys are light, so they bounce on bumps and drift in the wind. Live lobsters shuffle their crate about on their own. Pressure tanks pop when slammed and knock the parcels around them.

The forty routes are spread across five districts. Harbor Yard keeps the eight original routes. The Fish Market adds cobbles, humpback canal bridges, market carts and wet stones. The Container Terminal brings forklifts, straddle carriers, swinging crane loads and a first jump between quays. The Storm Pier has side gusts, waves washing over the deck and oil on the loading area. The Night Shipyard, lit by lamps and your headlights, adds drawbridges with barriers, a slipway jump and a final route that combines everything. Each district opens once you have earned enough stars.

One star means you delivered at least one parcel. Two stars need at least sixty percent of the cargo value. Three stars need every parcel inside the route's gold time, and a stricter master time earns an anchor badge. A careful test autopilot drove every route to three stars, and every master time has been beaten by one of the test drivers. Deliveries earn credits for four small workshop upgrades: engine, springs, rubber bed mats and battery. None of them are needed to win. Stars unlock four more vehicles, and each one handles differently. The daily delivery always uses a stock truck, so every player drives the same route in the same truck, and it tracks your streak. Progress stays in this browser, and stars from the earlier eight-route version carry over.

A little help for your next high score

• Slow down before a bend, not in it. Parcels stay put below their grip limit, so a smooth line keeps everything in place even without the magnet.
• Use the magnet in short bursts: through bends, over cobbles, in gusts and while airborne. Let go on straights so there is battery left for boost and the next corner.
• Pull away gently with coils and ice aboard. Flooring it from a standstill sends them sliding toward the tailgate.
• At a jump, line up straight before the ramp, keep plenty of battery and hold BOOST all the way up. Switch the magnet on in the air to protect the landing.
• Waiting costs less time than a collision. Stop short of crossing traffic, watch it pass once, then go.

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