Goat Racer mod for Garry's Mod

Goat Racer

Garry's Mod mod | Released 2009

The action is high-paced, crazy and offers MORE then 6000 ability/upgrade/weapon/paintjob/vehicle combinations.

If you're lucky you might find yourself firing a flack cannon from a Lamborghini at 300 MPH."

There is a wide variety of weapons, vehicles and upgrades to choose from to increase your defensive and offensive abilities as well as speed and agility.
These can be purchased through a deep money and leveling system.
Winning a race get you the ultimate prize, but if you die you'll earn some money anyway to make the gamemode more balanced.

Progress: 100% with coding, 88% with maps, models and stuff like that - Gamemode is finished. Release: TBA
Beta: Tested, completed

If you have an idea or a question or you want to apply for the Goatracer beta test you'll have to sign up on the forums linked below.
It's an awesome community forum. It may not look perfectly active, but once you've posted something you'll get a response in less then an hour. I guarantee it. Probably even in a matter of minutes.

Official forum:
Thegoatriders.omgforum.net

Facepunch thread for all you FP users:
Facepunch.com

The gamemode is essentially finished, and final touches are being added before a public test can be tested.

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GoatRacer update #3

Dec 28 2009 News 1 comment

Later wrote: There will be another open beta today at the IP 89.145.117.246 if you want to join. If you want to skip the horrifying wait of 40mb worth of content to be downloaded you could always download it from here (Does not include actual game mode for copyright reasons, Lua files will download very quickly):

Garrysmod.org

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Well, the beta (December 26th) was a complete success, racking up some nice racing footage and having some fun. I got enough money from just loosing to get me a jet engine. With it I increase my chances of winning. Of course that's just one of extremely many tactics. We're all too low level to unlock awesome vehicles and weapons, so it all started with these normal jeep races without weapons. Later on we found out that the airhorn worked superbly;

...and we made a tower!

There will be another open beta today at the IP 89.145.117.246 if you want to join. If you want to skip the horrifying wait of 40mb worth of content to be downloaded you could always download it from here (Does not include actual game mode for copyright reasons, Lua files will download very quickly):

Garrysmod.org

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The only bugs visible on the beta were that the player models in the vehicles somehow ended up far from their original vehicle.

And that some times the timer bugged itself after voting a new map, so we couldn't join the race. Oh, I also promised to make a complete list of weapons, upgrades and abilities added so far.

Weapons:
Gigantic Lazer Cannon
Mouse aimed turret
Proximity mine deployer
Auto Aiming Turret
Short range rockets
Long range rockets
Mouse aimed rocket
Homing rocket
Flack cannon
Jumping mine deployer
Saw blade launcher
Shocket Launcher
Mounted Shotgun
Classical Disasters
MGSG (Massive Goat Spam Gun)
Ike's spikes
Messengers
Boomblaster
Sploders
Abilities (You can only use one of these):
Jet engine
Shield
Turbo
Flight
Invisibility (Donator only)
Jumping
EMP generator (Seriously expensive, donator only as well)

Upgrades:
Trash
E-cell upgrade
Ammo upgrade
Flacks upgrade
Mines upgrade
Rocket upgrade
(And more, probably including armor upgrade)

Vehicles:
Normal Jeep (start vehicle)
VW golf (2008) (quite cheep)
Chevrolet Corvette (this is beginning to cost!)
Ford Mustang (this is quite expensive)
Toyota Supra (this is überly expensive)
Lamborghini Murcielago (This is extremely quadruply expensive)

Next up? Custom skins. You can purchase custom paint jobs from the menu.

Beta incoming

Dec 25 2009 News

After loads of tests with TG members only, we come to the date 26th of December where anyone is free to join. This time around with loads more weapons...

Goatracer vehicle list + completion news

Dec 15 2009 News

To keep the game balanced, awesome and a quick DL the car count is a classy good 6 vehicles. Don't worry. They are unique with millions of weapon/upgrade...