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Shadokin posted:That mirror is one of several places that cause blind spots in real life. You have to pay attention as you come up, and lean forward to get a different view. For particularly bad spots you angle your cab as best you can to give you as much clear line of sight as possible. Oooh, we have a real-life truck driver in this thread! Have you played ETS2, or are you just spectating?
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Stick Insect posted:You could verify your game cache and it will only re-download files deemed corrupt. Thanks, I gave it a shot but no dice. Ah well, I'll just use stock for the moment!
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Mar 30, 2014 07:47
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Ah gently caress. I started a new game with new mods yesterday and then a jazzycat update comes out within hours and apparently updating painted truck traffic breaks saves for some reason. I thought it didn't even save traffic since it reloads whenever you load a save? Probably shouldn't have deleted the old version entirely. Some day I'll have a save that works long enough for me to get anywhere. Nevermind, it worked when I tried again. Weird.
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Mar 30, 2014 11:58
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A while back there was a mod that made the interior noises louder, is that still a thing and does it work with the latest version? They just sound a bit.. wimpy, otherwise.
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Mar 30, 2014 12:02
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Has there been any indication of the devs planning achievements for ETS2? I think it's exactly the kind of (open-ended) game that could benefit a lot from having some kind of carrot dangling while you're trucking endlessly.
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Mar 30, 2014 12:16
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The perils of mixing Promod with Jazzycat.
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Mar 30, 2014 13:09
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The yawning put that video on the next level. It was perfectly timed.
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Mar 30, 2014 13:34
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Can someone link the "New delivery locations" mod please? I thought Jazzycat made this but I don't see it on his site and not finding it in a quick fashion.
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Mar 30, 2014 14:26
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FredMSloniker posted:Oooh, we have a real-life truck driver in this thread! Have you played ETS2, or are you just spectating? Just spectate. My laptop screen is broke and I haven't had time to get it fixed, so the wonders of a euro truck simulator are currently lost on me. I do love all of the cab overs though, they are pretty sweet looking. You can actually get some imported here, as well as some of the companies still have a couple of models they might sell here. Interesting fact about cab overs. They are actually much more aerodynamic then they would appear to be, way more so then the "classic" style of the long nose peterbilt. The biggest reason American companies switched away from them? Workers comp. A lot of people were getting hurt while getting in and out of the cab, resulting in them moving away from that design. They also didn't have a safe crumple zone, so if you wrecked you had a very bad day. I was pretty surprised when I learned this! Shadokin fucked around with this message at 15:14 on Mar 30, 2014 |
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Mar 30, 2014 15:09
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pfft, the 'classic style' lorry is cab-over. weird long nose is yank style.
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Mistayke posted:Can someone link the "New delivery locations" mod please? I thought Jazzycat made this but I don't see it on his site and not finding it in a quick fashion. He took it down. I guess because it doesn't work with 1.9 (yet) he doesn't want people installing it then complaining to him that it doesn't work.
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Anyone got a 'better sky' mod to recommend? Driving along at 10 PM and seeing a sky that looks like someone did a 50-50 mix of 'blue sky and fluffy clouds' and 'night sky and stars' is hurting my immersion. (And while I'm at it, what time zone and season does the game use anyhow? It seems to be light out for a disproportionate number of hours...)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2Zegv3FxFI Guy backs a B-double onto the ferry that crosses the Bass Strait from mainland Australia to Tasmania.
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snail posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2Zegv3FxFI (We don't get a clear shot of his face but I do know he drives trucks for that particular racing team.) EDIT: OK apparently he drives the team's other truck. The Deadly Hume fucked around with this message at 14:32 on Mar 31, 2014 |
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Shadokin posted:Just spectate. My laptop screen is broke and I haven't had time to get it fixed, so the wonders of a euro truck simulator are currently lost on me. I do love all of the cab overs though, they are pretty sweet looking. You can actually get some imported here, as well as some of the companies still have a couple of models they might sell here. So how many dead hookers can you stash in your cab? Also  at Americans being too retarded to get into fancy Euro trucks without hurting themselves. 
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Mar 31, 2014 06:21
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Rob Ford posted:So how many dead hookers can you stash in your cab? More like too fat. 
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Largepotato posted:More like too fat. Oh snap - never thought of that, but I bet you're right.
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snail posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2Zegv3FxFI I see Red Bull Racing uses a MANly truck.
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Mar 31, 2014 09:01
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So this has sucked me in. I can't really explain why and it's even harder to explain to my friends why I'm playing it quite so much but there's just something very, very relaxing about it. It's almost like a kind of meditation, I zone out totally playing this game just moving along tapping arrows to turn every now and then. I've gotten into the habit of searching out an album I've always wanted to listen to or failing that one that Pitchfork reviewed really well, sticking it on Spotify and just doing a delivery whilst listening to it start to finish. It's just very, very relaxing for some odd reason; the other day I took a delivery from Wroclaw to Paris, put a huge playlist on and once I arrived realized I'd just spent about an hour and a half or so not really knowing where I was. Since I've only just gotten sucked in by it I was wondering what all of your total miles driven is? I'm at 10,312 miles, most of them done in my trusty Volvo. I opted not to use the bank loans and have just upgraded my first garage, few more runs and I'll buy a notMerc for my next truck and hire somebody.
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Mar 31, 2014 19:11
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I refuse to buy notMercs in game because Mercedes apparently gave the cold shoulder to SCS when everyone else (rightly) saw the positive exposure it brought to them. That's right, I'm not giving my e-money to any non-eCompany out of protest 
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Mar 31, 2014 19:48
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Overwined posted:I refuse to buy notMercs in game because Mercedes apparently gave the cold shoulder to SCS when everyone else (rightly) saw the positive exposure it brought to them. That's right, I'm not giving my e-money to any non-eCompany out of protest Good news! https://twitter.com/SCSsoftware/status/448400532336832513 Maybe I'll drive something that's not a Scania soon 
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Mar 31, 2014 19:55
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Nice! Proof positive that the best revenge is life lived well. Oh, what's that, now that you see we're massively successful you want to reconsider? Well, we'll think about it. My people will be in touch.
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Mar 31, 2014 20:10
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deadly_pudding posted:Good news! That looks like an actros mp4, so we should be getting that and the new daf at some point. Pretty cool seeing that when the game first came out the only two licenced trucks were scania and man iirc.
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Shadokin posted:That said it amuses the poo poo out of me that you all play this and I am entertained every few weeks when I recheck the last couple of pages to see what people are saying. The same can be said about most jobs that are simulated. We have RL air traffic controllers that fly flight sims with us that don't understand why VATSIM controllers do it for free. Same with some of the people who fly commercial aircraft for a living. I work with a guy who's parents own a farm and he laughs his head off whenever I remind him that people pay to play Farm Simulator in their spare time. Then there's train sim spergs... let's not talk about them. We autists are a strange bunch, apparently.
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EvilJoven posted:The same can be said about most jobs that are simulated. We have RL air traffic controllers that fly flight sims with us that don't understand why VATSIM controllers do it for free. Oh, I understand it. In fact I participate in it. It let's me practice my craft at home while drinking with goons. Now let me see if I can vector this airplane in a straight line.....
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For me, I think the main reason I enjoy the game is simple enough: I enjoy driving. But I don't have the time or money to just drive wherever I want to go. Euro Truck Simulator 2 lets me drive through pretty scenery, and it includes goals like leveling up to keep me motivated. (I dread the day they include cheevos.)
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FredMSloniker posted:For me, I think the main reason I enjoy the game is simple enough: I enjoy driving. But I don't have the time or money to just drive wherever I want to go. Euro Truck Simulator 2 lets me drive through pretty scenery, This really for me. Bonus in that if I stop to look or in some way would have caused an incident in real life, it is just pixels here.
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I usually play ets and drink till I either crash or get close, then stop.save and play Saints row III, pretty sure if you did that in real life next game you'd be playing is DWI arrest sim.
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The Ferret King posted:Oh, I understand it. In fact I participate in it. It let's me practice my craft at home while drinking with goons. Now let me see if I can vector this airplane in a straight line..... OK, let me rephrase that. A lot of goons have RL jobs, for which there are simulators, that they wouldn't bother doing in their free time while sober.
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I don't play this game while drunk. It's relaxing on its own. Just something about unwinding by driving down a road at 100km/h listening to Hotmix Radio. And I don't really play games when drinking alcohol anyways. Never saw the appeal of it.
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Well you see when you have a family you get limited fun (usually one late night a week for me) so you need to cram as much fun into that night as possible.
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New paint job DLC has just dropped. Also there is an update to ETS2? I dunno.
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MyFaceBeHi posted:New paint job DLC has just dropped. Also there is an update to ETS2? I dunno. The new update has to do with the DLC. (confirmed by devs on steam discussions)
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The DLC paint jobs that just dropped on Steam is also 20% off. I get them because it's like a small tip for the devs for such an enjoyable, relaxing game.
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I am $0.20 short of being able to afford the DLC right now 
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Something might have appeared in your Steam inventory. Not sure what.
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Thinking about getting the expansion - how much content is in it and how do the maps compare to the vanilla maps?
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Skinty McEdger posted:Thinking about getting the expansion - how much content is in it and how do the maps compare to the vanilla maps? Get it! Seriously, don't question it, just get it. They did such a good job on the Go East DLC that it is worth your time and money. Also, the new paint jobs are alright.
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