are the truck simulator games fun?
>download latest ATS>choose to start off essentially from a Loves outside Sulphur Springs, cool, been too long to remember how accurate it looks>truck has like 17 gearsIt was an impulse download like most things so I wasnt hard filtered just lost interest as a pick me up. Like most vehicle sim games its great in theory, just have to be in the mood and it would be awesome.
>>722585175>truck simulator games funI don't even know why you fags asks subjective questions, if you want to know if something is fun for you, you should try it by yourself
>>722585175I wouldn't say fun, it's more cathartic than anythingthere was a period where I would set my wheel up every night simply to play ATS for an hour or two to chill out before bed
i tried playing a couple times but it just makes me really sleepyi dont get why its so popular
The DLC is too expensive but I'm too lazy to pirate. I only want it for the Japan mod anyhow.
>>722588706>road>road, JapanU faggots should kill yourselves.
>>722585175They were, but i hate some of the changes they've made over the years. Nighttime is way too bright now, and the game stopped working on my system randomly so I can't even play it anyway now. Heard they STILL never added dirt physics or working truck washes, either. They've been saying they will for years.
>>722585850I'll redownload ATS like once a year for a week and realize I want a roadtrip sim more than I do a truck sim
>>722592216You can basically do that. Just get the smallest truck you can, don't do a haul with a trailer, and just cruise around.
>>722591001It's >road, Bosnia>road, Japanactually.
If you haven't been keeping up with each new state at time of release and doing the time-limited events you're basically missing so much content it's ridiculous. You can never get the items unless you now pay extra on the Steam marketplace.
>>722585175I prefer a different type of truck sim
>>722593518I'm so mad about these devs for botching mudrunner VR
>>722585175They are very fun
>>722594137UEVR not an option?
>>722595985Holy shit at this point just buy a real truck
>>722595985>woman's on her phone the entire timeTypical
>>722592591They are working on a, I guess you could call it a road trip dlc with cars so you can drive around in a Ford or Dodge/Ram with some cool options to choose from
>>722585175Absolutely. I actually ended up getting a wheel, shifter, and pedals because of truck sim and that’s introduced me to other great driving sims like dirt rally 2, assetto cross, and beam ng. I even got trackir for headtracking, which I still use for flight simulators as well. I highly suggest anyone who has a good gaming pc to get into driving games. It’s such a niche and untouched genre.Kinda crazy how I actually learned how to drive stick shift through driving sims like beam ng
>>722595985The woman looks like she has down syndrome.
>>722593518>Difficult gulag torture for the sake of selling their DLCI swear slavics just torture themselves because they think it makes them feel something.
>>722595985Yep it's gaming time
>>722593518It’s such a shame you can’t shift individual gears properly in this game. It’s essentially gta 5 driving with mud physics, boring ass driving game with eye candy.
>>722596319With that setup you can play some very kino space sims and flying sims too. It’s not just driving
>>722585175Only if your setup looks like this
>>722585175they're ok but you have to have a certain mindset. trucking in real life is mind numbingly boring, and this game is true to that at least. the game's map is also pretty close to real life, like there are truck stops in the game that are modeled after real life american truckstops, and that's kinda cool for someone who has actually gotten behind the wheel before. it's nice but it's the kind of thing you do when you want to keep your hands busy while you concentrate on something else, like listening to a 2 goddamn hour long analysis of your favorite vidya by some no-name youtuber or whatever. also, it's interesting that the game's simulation is accurate enough that I think people could use it to learn how to drive a truck for realsies so if you want to actually get behind the wheel, then I'd say if nothing else it's a good study guide for certain things like learning how to back a trailer. (before you say that's ridiculous, there are real life companies that make you use a simulator similar to this in order to even qualify for employment, to demonstrate that you know what to do while behind the wheel)
>>722595985this looks a bit comfy not gonna lie
>>722585175Why do people play this shit? If you enjoy trucking so much, then quit your job and become a trucker.
>>722585175We don't use the word "fun".Seriously, they're games where you throw on a podcast or a YouTube video and you have a controller or a wheel in your hands and minimal interactivity so you're not just sitting there watching your screen like a lead-paint addled boomer zombie.
>>722598471>become a truckerwouldn't recommend it, friend.
>>722598471youre so right. For example, I like battlefield games so I will go shoot people in Ukraine.
>>722595985Why is she not sucking his cock? That's peak right there even if she's fat, she should be servicing her man, that's the entire point of having your chick in your truck with you.
>>722598514compared to?
>>722585175>Ameritruck simulatorDoesn't US mostly look like a desert? It'll get boring real soon.
>>722599719retard-kun please think critically
>>722598746with that dumb of a comparison you probably should go...
>>722595985Wouldn't a VR headset be better than all of this for immersion ?
>but farming in my favorite JRPG is fun tho!
>>722599901Nice Canada photo.
>>722600140I don't think so. The screens act as the truck's natural windows, and you can play for hours without eyestrain. Sure, details outside won't be shifting perspective, but that's probably not what the guy is after anyway.
>>722592884Wow, I missed an ugly paintjob or a flag for my dashboard. Do you refuse to use mods or something?
>>722585175I had a moment where I played euro truck with a vr headset, steering wheel and racing chair almost dialy for a few hours. It was max comfy to me, driving around, chilling, building an empire and shiiit.Now I dont have the time for that, but I will return. Fucking sucks MS paperweighted my Reverb g2 tho
>>722596630Ah yes, the infamous 4 dollar DLCs that offer 50-100 hours of playtime, what a rip-off.
>>722604074What anon said>I swear slavics just torture themselves because they think it makes them feel something.
>>722593518I enjoyed Roadcraft and almost finished the entire campaign but god damn this felt like ass. Couldn't play it for more than a couple hours.
>>722604267I stand by what I said. If you wait for one of the very common sales, the season price goes down to 4 or 5 bucks each. And each of those seasons gives you (depending on your skill) a solid 50 hours to complete it. I agree with the livery and truck only DLCs, those are horseshit. Other than that I have about 400 hours into the game and I bought 4 seasons total.
>>722595985why would he ruin his gaming by bringing that creature?
>>722596610guy looks disabled too, nice for them to looksmatch
>>722604828>I agree with the livery and truck only DLCs, those are horseshit.but i really like the crocodile...
>>722597784>also, it's interesting that the game's simulation is accurate enough that I think people could use it to learn how to drive a truck for realsies so if you want to actually get behind the wheel, then I'd say if nothing else it's a good study guide for certain things like learning how to back a trailer. (before you say that's ridiculous, there are real life companies that make you use a simulator similar to this in order to even qualify for employment, to demonstrate that you know what to do while behind the wheel)yeah they are ads for real truck companies hiring in ETS
ETS2 is god tier when they don’t close off a fucking ramp for a traffic accident and make you travel an hour off route to make a uturn, get back to the same overpass, and have the other off-ramp blocked off by another accidentWhich shouldn’t be a problem BUT IT KEEPS FUCKING HAPPENING
>>722597585The skull brings it together.
For me? It's cruising around in the Crew 2. It's not a sim game but I think it's fun to explore the 5000km^2 map and take it all in.Turn off the UI and also turn off the UI sounds. When you are exploring the open world, there is this annoying "live rewards" sound that means you are near a (useless) reward crate, just know you can turn that sound off in the menu, and that's it. Just cruise and enjoy.
>sit in traffic>come home>simulate sitting in trafficin physical form, i am a burger. in mental state, i have become german
>>722606835Traffic sucks but it’s unironically good in vidya because you have to gauge your pedal presses to not get accident penalties
>>722605910BAD TO THE BONE
>>722606107I do the same but I blast melancholic soviet radio while cruising through the middle of some russian peninsula.Just me and the road.
>>722606835I mean, you can make your deliveries faster and make more money faster ignoring the traffic laws in these games
>>722585175anyway no I wouldn't call them fun, not in the traditional dopamine-reward sense. as anons said they're more like a 'zone out and listen to music/podcasts/dude weed lmao' type thing. personally I find ETS2 way more interesting because Europe is strange and foreign and there's constant switch-ups in geography, road signage, speed limits, city layouts, detour types, even just road junctions (clovers vs roundabouts etc), but the drawback is that there's wildly varying quality for the world itself and the UK is really fucking bad and so is half the mainland but the addons are all pretty neat. ATS is a lot of flat desert and long, long straightaways since that's what the American southwest and midwest tend to be like IRL and since it's all the contiguous US, there's no "oh fuck I forgot Polslovaklandia has an unmarked 50km/h limit in towns and got jump scared by a 2000 euro fine popup" or the super-big bridges in Scandinavia and shit. overall there are a lot of inaccuracies and flaws and mistakes and bugs that you notice after a while (recently i've been unable to un-notice the billboard sprite trees and the starts showing up over clouds instead of outside at night) but until and between them it's pretty comfy. especially at night and in storms. this post was not paid for by SCS, who can go to HELL since they got rid of individual map packs>why don't you just drive a truck for real?because i don't live in europe, silly, and the process isn't as easy as walking in and saying "hire me" unless you're a poor immigrant who speaks no English>>722608042that goes against what my autism allows
>>722606835>he doesn't run every red light>he doesn't speed like he's running from the law>he doesn't ride in the median or veer into oncoming traffic just to pass the slow as fuck grandma>he doesn't break all the laws while not giving a fuck about the consequencesbro that's half the fun.
>>722608315>implying my shitbox Iveco with 300hp can even get up to the speed limit before the next toll booth, nevermind having the power to pass someone
>>722608524this is why I like ATS more, you can actually barrel down the highway at speeds faster than molasses dripping down a strip of fly paper. incidentally I'm sort of excited for the road trip dlc, I hope I can actually trick out a mustang and speed down I-40 at breakneck pace like I'm compensating for something.
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>>722606835>>722608315what's a road law?
Game came out in 2015 but you basically need an RX 6000 to run it now. It was fine for me for years but all the new states are so graphically heavy it cuts the FPS by half. Disappointing since the engine is from like 2010.
It has been four months. The American long nose trucks still have not realized that I am a Swede.post truggs>>722608810no yeah I get it, and I do keep a couple of the 700hp Volvos and shit for silly "haha I'm using ALL the gears" ass-hauling, just different strokes for different folks and all. The Road Trip thing for ATS interests me mostly because I'm worried about how they'll handle rigid-body cars and especially ones with a solid axle like the Crown Vic, since one of the aforementioned flaws is that all the trucks have IRS which is IIRC almost unheard of for trailer-haulers. Mostly I just wanna see that comfy Ford green interior croozing through the desert.>>722609135That's exactly why it runs so shit half the time, it's an old engine that can't make use of modern hardware. It doesn't even have multithreading and on the graphics side of things, it's some unholy kludgery now that's still 2010 underneath with modern temporal anti aliasing and dithering (HOW I HATE DITHERING) added on top. That said, it does scale down well- or at least ETS does- so it'll run at native res on an ancient 1060.
>>722608991that's boring, he's just following a narrow road, from third person no less. the driving academy shit they've added with double reverse parking and all is ball-busting
>>722599719It did for the first 4 years of the game. It was just California (half desert), Nevada, Arizona, and New Mexico (all desert). It was boring af and the map was in an L shape so you had to keep going over the same highways back and forth. It's better now, but now they're in the Great Plains and it's nothing but endless cornfields now.
>>722605654You can turn that off in settings, anon...
>>722610223how the hell are they gonna do the east coast and its cities and roads at that scale? the whole region is like the benelux part of europe. if they use a trucking game to show "two streets of new york and pittsburgh" and two empty highways leading to them rather than ignoring the fucking cities all the other games have done and actually having you drive to all the industry AROUND them, i'll be very disappointed
>>722610350Not him but if you forget to turn it off, turning it off mid-job doesn't get rid of the detour.
>>722608524>dislike thing>go out of my way to make sure it no longer can exist instead of just ignoring itWhy has the world become like this?
>set rain to 100%comfiest game ever, prove me wrong
>>722610617It was always like this, but social media allowed people who don't like a thing to go viral by complaining about thing.
>>722607181I might get that game, friend
where are my logging chads
>>722610835>raise rain probability>install mod to make raindrops look better>install sound mod to make thunder and lightning sound better, over top of the rain mod because the thunder in THAT mod sounds badthese games would be very heavily helped by a 'combine/sort/list overrides' mod tool like the Elder Scrolls games have.
Once I was driving down a straight road in Germany, I think, at night, listening to classical music on the radio, and I ended up falling asleep in the real world, even though my character in the game was wide awake.
>>722611898i was going to post that later and ask the ATS players if they would do a long haul with the P16
>>722610418They probably won't even put NYC in the game, or it'll just be some shipping yards on the outskirts. It's like with Texas, they didn't even include the Alamo because "trucks don't go there." I don't give a fuck about realism, I wanted to see the Alamo. It's the main attraction in Texas. So no, I don't expect to be driving through NYC or anything fun like that. Hell you can't even see the Eiffel Tower in Paris in ETS2. They won't let you drive down the Champs Elysee.
>>722606835I think driving in video games is more fun than in real life.
>>722612662If I wanted to drive through NYC, honestly I'd just boot up Midnight Club. Or True Crime Streets of NY.
>>722592216I was hoping FF15 was going to be that, and it sort of was, but not really. It would've been cool if the whole narrative was just bros doing a grand tour of the world to fight and find the strongest monsters, and that's literally it.
>>722613257now you know what game you have to make
>>722595985What a disgusting hogbeast
why is the countryside so comfy to drive on? both in-game and IRL
This was as far as I got before I quit. Seems like a good place to stop for now. All legit, btw.
>>722585175I love them, very comfy. I mostly play ATS even though I'm a Brit because the UK is shit (DLC announce finally though) and I don't like the variation in quality in ETS2, the DLC areas bar Going East look great but the older parts look shite.
>>722613886Impressive, did you find many hidden roads?
>>722614085As many as I could. Unfortunate there is no counter to know if I got them all, but I found a lot of cool stuff.
>>722613380Grok, prepare to create game on my prompt
I am using dirt rally as autistic driving session on first gear
I was pleasantly surprised how much I enjoy the heavy road and off-road hauling in this game.
>>722585175Fun is subjective. For example, I don't like anal, but the OP's mother does. You'll never know unless you try it yourself.
>>722613785No other drivers make driving very enjoyable
>>722614928So you HAVE tried it, is what you're saying?
>>722607181What game?
>>722615590snowrunner, we've been posting about it for a while
>>722585175No, but powerwash simulator is, and exposes whether or not you have an obsessive/compulsive side to you
>>722615737Cool, might pick it up>steam sale ended Fug, guess I'll wait. Is all the DLC worth it?
>>722615940you should try the 3 base maps and then decide if you want more of that experience, some maps are better than others and the difficulty is all over the place
>>722615940Just get mudrunner to see if you like it, its on saleat GMG
I too kinda wish ETS had a road trip mode. Mostly because such a game would very much scratch the itch early test drive and need for speed games did.
the graphics of most simulator games just aren't good or immersivecyberpunk has driveable trucks in it and with path tracing that's the stuff i want
>>722585175They're more comfy than fun. I'd rather they do Africa next rather than Europe again. I want to put my truck together out of old parts and then try to make it through without getting taken out by landpirates.
>>722615940Snowrunner has a -50% sale on the base game every month for a week or so. So if you aren't in a hurry, check it out in a a few weeks.Try not to instantly buy DLC trucks if you decide you like the game. The base game has a learning curve and steadily supplies you with tools, trucks and upgrades to overcome the challenges. A lot of DLC trucks are an absolute overkill that diminish the base game challenges and leave you out of a learning experience that you WILL need in DLC maps.
>>722585175Fun? Maybe, I find driving in general can be soothing and this game is a pretty cheap way. When I have 12 hours driving I can work through problems
>>722616763It always amazes me how in every video of Africa they never wear shoes.
>>722585175>no serial killing mode unrealistic and lame
>>722585175>Get ETS2>Get promods map that greatly expands European road network with new areas and towns that weren't depicted before, complete with tourist landmarks>Get regular car mod>Buy wheel, pedals and shifter >Drive around Europe in a fast little car, listening to the radio and speeding now and thenIt is wonderful
>>722616482the trick is to drive at night or in the rain, where the world naturally looks all flat and diffused so the lack of precise shadows is less noticeable>>722616420yeah same, ETS really hits the NFS4 vibe at times and the whole idea of a Grand Tour comes from europe, but they really wanted to do coaches instead for some reason
>>722600140The weight and feel of the headset is more distracting than the small uptick in visual continuity.
>>722617980I don't agree, the headset weighs about 350 grams, it doesn't even register
>>722617858All the regular car mods feel like shit though, the physics are super not meant for small non articulated cars. I'd rather just use a short truck with a really low cab like the older Mercedes Actros.
>>722617832How would this even work? Has something like this ever been tried?>drive truck or vehicle to truck stop>maybe stalk or cruise around a little>pick up local prostitute>rape and strangle (or strangle then rape) in your cab>dispose of the body (or keep it)>pick up new cargo delivery job>beep boop, a few days later >*a body has been found- try to hide it better next time*>or maybe you left it out in the open on purpose...
>>722618196i have already put an unfortunate amount of thought into something like this but figured there'd be no audience. wasn't quite thinking of truck-based serial killers in general though
>>722618190There are a couple that feel alright, one is a Skoda with its own physics plugin, the other is a VW, but yeah the game is designed around big trucks, it doesn't come naturally
>>722618279truckers could be a DLC my man
>>722618196Anon was kidding, but a lot of retards bemoan the lack of certain features in games, but are completely unable to justify what such a mechanic would feel like or even what the point would be.See everyone who wants impregnation mechanics in wegs.What do they want? They can't articulate it.Is it watching her wretch in the morning? Is it being there for the birth and raising a kid? What is the value add.Can't tell you.
>>722618585I understand that. I have the same feeling towards game mechanics, but in the opposite way."Maybe for this game mechanic you'd have to like do some button inputs in time with the character movements, that sounds cool""Wait, would I want to do this 258 times until I beat the game though?""Nah that's gay and boring" oh well
>>722618585big belly erotic
>>722595985he got this entire setup just because he REALLY likes getting roadhead
