Tank Generations
Tank generations classify the major technology leaps in the development of tanks in Garry's Mod. This classification system is still being developed but can be viewed as follows:
- 1st Generation
- Vanilla-Only
- 2nd Generation
- Wiremod
- 3rd Generation
- Pew-Pew / Early ACF
- 4th Generation
- Advanced ACF / Daktank
First
First generation tank designs were often thruster or wheel powered vanilla designs, commonly being public dupes or modified derivatives thereof.
Second
Many second generation tanks were developed in the wake of early faction conflicts on Wiremod heavy servers like Snyde, heavily emphasizing wire turrets for their primary damage output. Later designs would implement Expression 2 and other more advanced wire technologies for their primary armament.
Third
Third generation designs are an early evolution on Wiremod designs, featuring limited ACF ballistic considerations and wire-based drivetrains, often being modified wire vehicles fitted with ACF of Pew-Pew. Examples of this would be converted Omegatrion designs.
Fourth
Fourth generation tank design are highly optimized ACF builds with the explicit purpose of battlefield dominance. These vehicles can feature advanced building techniques as well as exploiting bugs in ACF's code to defeat incoming projectiles.