American Truck Sim

[ex-railwayman]

Nice one Steve, thanks for the heads up. Looks very promising, just hope it has a real scale 1:1 map.
Added to my Steam wishlist.
Mike.

You're welcome Squire.

I haven't seen what the real scale map specification is Mike, if we have to drive across the Nullarboor Plain, then it'll take about 15/20 hours, not sure I could sit down long enough to do the whole journey, I'd have to bring my camp bed out and sleeping bag.........lol

Cheerz. Steve.

[SMRY]

Nope, I've only ever had 2 nicknames in over 20 years on the internet, ex-railwayman for railway/train associated computer games and TransportSteve for Flightsimming and Trucksimming, etc.

Cheerz. Steve.

Sure. I'll keep the HipHuggers close at hand.

[haverfordwest]

You're welcome Squire.

I haven't seen what the real scale map specification is Mike, if we have to drive across the Nullarboor Plain, then it'll take about 15/20 hours, not sure I could sit down long enough to do the whole journey, I'd have to bring my camp bed out and sleeping bag.........lol

Cheerz. Steve.

Good find there Steve, there is an Australia mod for ATS, but it is quite small and 1:10 scale.
I couldn't see any scale info on this new one, so fingers crossed. Save button Steve, drive for 2 hrs and sleep for 12 hrs buddy.
But don't sleep on the ground, some of those Aussie spiders are lethal.

Mike.

[seagoon]

...some of those Aussie spiders are lethal..

Not to mention the snakes, scorpions, crocodiles.....and drop-bears.

[seagoon]

..... if we have to drive across the Nullarboor Plain, then it'll take about 15/20 hours,.....

Nah....not that long. We did Eucla to Ceduna in 8 hours back in 1975, when the highway went further north than its current route.

[SMRY]

Not to mention the snakes, scorpions, crocodiles.....and drop-bears.

What's a crocogator or 2 in the O'l sleeping bag. O'l Hogan will take care of any threats. "You Call That a Knife?", "Now That's A Knife". No Roo as well, stands a chance with good O'l Crocogator Dundee watching over the Rd Train.

[SurvivorSean]

I almost gave in recently. I probably noticed some cool images here, remember how cool things looked. Even the trips though tiring at lower scales was fun, still the journey was cool and it didn't get boring like perhaps some nights running a train across a desert or more recently a forest canapy in pitch black can be. The truth is there is lots of these such areas of highway between certain locations even in some of the more densely populated regions of North America between cities.

Now what I was giving into was the feeling handcuffed to my server when I decided to go 24/7 on the only machine I currently own that can run anything decent (my toaster laptop can barely run YouTube). The last time I gave up a 24/7 server was when I gave that computer to my son. He enjoys the variety but has his favorites he goes back to as well.

But there is nothing else I really missed. The survival, driving, and space games I can live without. For me my server is what drives me. But there was ATS and I think I figured it out.

ATS is more than just eye candy, it's got some pretty cool operation in it. But there is one thing that always becomes boring to me and that is just making money with no real risk at losses. No labour disputes, trade disruptions, recessions, etc. Of coruse neither does the train simulations and at the very least ATS has currency and strategy on how to make more money (but where is the risk?). Even running your rig into a guard rail or into another car does nothing.

Then there is all these beautiful add ons, where you pay for that beauty. Sure you get more trade routes but the more states you get, the more chance you'll use each state even less the bigger the country gets.

I think in total I invested in the majority of states currently available less some of the newest offerings in the last year. I know there was times I'd run it then get bored and do something else. Was it worth it probably at the time, but as much as I miss it, when you calm the eye candy down a bit I don't think I'm missing that much. If I'm missing someting (in what I'm missing), let me know.

Thanks

Sean

[NorthernWarrior]

Haven't been on either ATS or ETS2 for many months, I must admit, not even got round to buying the Wyoming map DLC.

Guess I burned out a little bit then got hooked into Snowrunner, distracted by Run 8 V3 and now back doing Journey Mode in TSW2.

The biggest issue with both the SCS games is that while I can take the scaled down distances, the largely generic towns and cities start to grate after a while. There were also issues with sounds following a major update, mainly affecting ETS2 and that really put me off playing.

[SurvivorSean]

Yeah the small towns and fast time. My son says the towns are bigger in the Wyoming update and yeah it looks good from what I can see in the promo.

Personally I would've appreciated a smaller ratio closer to 4:1, 6:1, or worse 8:1 for the maps and time. Those ratios for most people would allow you to spend 1 evening after work in what amounts to 1 day travel. I understand that makes development more timely but not necessarily as difficult. This could for example scale a city and town to something much more reasonable allowing key features and also assets that blend in to multiple places with prime buildings and assets for certain locaitons. Curvature would not be as restricted as well as certain grades that would flow much better for a more relaxing experience the the white knuckle runs in some locations in densely populated areas.

Thanks

Sean

[haverfordwest]

Just re-installed ATS & ETS2, first time on pc since middle of April. 1.44 has this new feature in cabview. Where the driver stays fixed on the horizon, so when you take a bend it is similar to the effect of super elevation. I feel quite motion sick, after a short drive





Mike.

[NorthernWarrior]

Interesting, I didn't notice that during my brief drive a couple of evenings ago.
Will have to drag myself off Run 8 Donner and give it a go (also GWE has apparently finally had its update in TSW). So much to do...

[haverfordwest]

There is a slider option for how much horizon fixing you want to have Vern. I set mine to about 75%. They have also introduced an option to low\raise suspension. Unlike the train games, updates are thick and fast.

Mike.

[NorthernWarrior]

Thanks Mike I will check it out later.

[haverfordwest]

No problem Vern. Just had a quick drive in ETS2, with my fave Roman Diesel.

Prime mover sounds, to die for buddy.

Mike.

[haverfordwest]

Purchased the new Montana map dlc earlier, i missed that it was released on the 4th.

Bargain at only £9.99





Mike.