This Pacific Drive car layout guide will go through the best parts for your car, including the panel, door, and bumper.
In short, the best car build involves using mostly armored parts, with the exception of doors that should be zone-dependent and hood/trunk that should grant any resistance types you’re lacking.
Let’s go through everything you need to know in further detail.
Best Car Layout in Pacific Drive
The most important thing to keep in mind is that each part has bonus effects that also apply to all adjacent parts. Additionally, each part type has pros and cons, and while it can seem like a good idea to have every part armored, it’s actually not recommended.
Before moving on, if you’re new to the game, make sure to check out our list of the 12 best tips and tricks in Pacific Drive to help you get started.
Based on that, here’s the best combination of parts in Pacific Drive:
- Bumper (front and rear): Armored – this is essential since it will help with collision; you can crash into enemies or objects and pass by explosions without taking too much damage.
- Panels (front and back): Armored – Armored panels will grant adjacent benefits to almost every part of your car and will significantly increase resistance.
- Headlights: Biolights/Insulated – biolights are ideal for vision since they are the brightest headlights available, while Insulated will help with survivability.
- Hood: Lead Panel – The hood gets adjacency bonuses from other parts, so investing in an armored hood is not necessary.
- Doors: Insulated/Anticorrosive/Armored – The best doors in Pacific Drive depend on the zone you’re exploring. Use Insulated for the Outer Zone, Anticorrosive for the Midzone, and Armored for the Deep Zone.
- Trunk: Lead/Insulated – As this is the last part of your car and grants adjacency bonuses to various others, I recommend adding any resistance here that’s missing.
Also, you can consider adding some radiation protection, but it’s not necessary. The storm at the end of each area applies radiation damage to your parts.
Radiation resistance will help with that, but you can easily survive without it if other resistances are more important.
Keep in mind that armored car parts have the lowest HP when compared to all other high-tier parts. However, they also have the highest resistance to impact and explosion. As a result, you’ll need to repair your car in Pacific Drive less often and overall save up on resources.
Wrapping up
To summarize, the best car layout in Pacific Drive involves using armored bumpers and panels, biolights as headlights, lead hood and trunk, and insulated, anticorrosive, or armored doors, depending on the zone you’re exploring.
Just make sure to check drive statistics after each trip to see how much damage your car took and what caused the most damage. Then, based on that, prioritize resistance stats that you’re lacking.
What’s your current car layout? Feel free to share your favorite builds and stats in the comments below.
For more similar content, check out our Pacific Drive Transmuter guide to help you exchange excess materials.
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