Nitro

Revision as of 13:22, 12 August 2010 by gtw>ZDUPH (Added alot of important things to the TBoGT section.)

Nitrous, short for nitrous oxide (N2O) and sometimes abbreviated as nitro, is used to boost the speed and acceleration of a vehicle in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas and The Ballad of Gay Tony.

GTA San Andreas

Nitrous is a vehicle component that can be installed on modifiable vehicles in the three available mod garages around the state. When installed on a vehicle, the "fire" button can be pressed to activate nitrous. Nitrous will increase the speed and acceleration dramatically, along with exaggerated motion blur and bright blue flames spewing out of the exhaust pipe(s). After a few seconds the nitrous exhaust ceases and the vehicle may revert back to its normal top speed. The boost is followed by a delay that won't allow a player to use another boost right away.

To know when you can fire a Nitro boost again is to look at the exhaust after a depleted boost. If the fumes are colored blue, the boost is still in its "delay" state. If the fumes revert back to the normal, grey fumes, then the Nitro is ready to be fired again.

All mod garages have nitro as an available part. nitro comes in three "strengths": 2x, shown with a small tank; 5x, with a large tank; and 10x, with 2 small tanks. Each option determines how long you can use a Nitro boost.

There is a secret of using nitrous all the time, just go out of your car with nitrous, then enter again to the car with nitrous, then it is ready again to use without any delay.

The Ballad of Gay Tony

Nitrous is limited on during races, although the boost can be controlled. Much like in Need for Speed and other similar games, a small bar next to the radar will show the amount of nitrous available, which will regenerate after some time. Unlike in Grand Theft Auto San Andreas, the nitrous in TBoGT can instantly catapult a vehicle to it's top speed, or close to it. When Nitrous is ready, a high-pitched humming noise can be heard from the car, along with small orange fumes from the exhaust pipes. There is a trick in TBoGT Race and GTA Race mode; when the race is about to begin, hold the E-Brake and the Gas buttons at the same time until the timer says GO, then release the E-Brake, and if done correctly, the car will get a HUGE boost of speed that will easily propel it into 1st place (this does NOT work when the Host of a GTA Race selects the APCs.) Also, unlike in Grand Theft Auto San Andreas, motorcycles are also equipped with nitrous, but only in Race and GTA Race modes. This can be VERY dangerous, especially with traffic set to high. Hitting anything with nitrous equipped on a bike will severely injure or even kill the player on impact.