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I've been looking to buy back into Train Sim and I see the 2020 pack just released. Are the 2020 inclusion trains/locations any decent or are there better packages to pick up during a sale? It's been a while but my fondest memories are more of commuter English trains than long hauls or shunting scenarios which I guess means I'm a fan of anything involving attentive through driving.
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I am thoroughly disinterested in TSW because by the time I play Train Sim I want to be the train and not be a guy running around a train. So I was originally eyeing up TS. But I guess it's worth asking if TSW is offering anything worthwhile beside that to consider that instead. It didn't seem like it last I heard about it.
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Sep 24, 2019 15:20
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What's the point this time around? I never really had the hook get set with Spintires and it seemed mostly a mudding with friends sim even with some of the transport and point of interest goals. I started up a My Summer Car run over the weekend actually. The Finnish teen small business stuff still has a concerning hold on my number go up soul and gives a point to the traversal around the map with your different transport types.
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Apr 28, 2020 15:10
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drat it looks really good graphically. I really want to believe it has an acceptable campaign here, it's both highlighting the shop and currency aspect while also kind of glossing over it. If you couldn't tell by starting an MSC game I'm desperately craving outdoor driving while being stuck indoors.
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Apr 28, 2020 21:20
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I impulse bought and lol steering wheel support is partially-fully broken depending on your wheel, known issue, check back later. I'm not sure this is a big loss because apparently Mudrunner never really got good wheel support so I'm not gonna expect suddenly better here.
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Apr 29, 2020 00:07
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I think I like Snowrunner for different reasons than I thought I didn't like Spintires. The money is kind of a vestigial asset cap to keep you from filling the map up with too many trucks and trailers. I haven't sold anything to see how much if any is lost on the exchange but at the end of the day you're going to get more feels from checking the mission or task off the list than from the money and experience you get from it. Where it's actually hooking me is the flow just seems nicer than I remember in Spintires. That's possibly because I never really learned the map right then, but here there's a lot of dirt roads (on the first map, wouldn't doubt things get more off road in later maps) and even some good stretches of tarmac so you aren't spending 50% of the trip rocking yourself out of mud you didn't see or climbing a ridge you just barely misjudged your rig being able to climb. The garage and upgrade stuff is pretty neat but wouldn't doubt some of that came out of Mudrunner, again last I touched in the series was the original.
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Apr 29, 2020 17:52
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I'm still just building some of the traversal helper tasks in the first Michigan map but are you supposed to be able to tell how much one truck might be able to haul over another? The only power stat is power to weight ratio which is a garbage number for doing any intelligent planning of haulage. You get that heavy duty truck once you get the to garage but I'm wondering if I'm falling into a trap using it for hauling instead of the highway truck and maybe I'm supposed to be doing something like using the highway truck to haul ridiculous amounts until it gets stuck and use the heavy duty for repair/fueling/winching duty if the highway truck is stuck.
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Apr 30, 2020 14:45
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TjyvTompa posted:There is an icon somewhere that shows how many "units" it can take, but from what I can gather all trucks that can take a load can load 2 units. Regular trailers can take 2, then there are lowboys that can take 4 and 5, there is an icon somewhere that shows you how much. Most cargo take up 1 unit but some take up 2, for example steel beams (planks?) and concrete slab. Harminoff posted:Looks like the people behind Jalopy have a new sim out today
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Apr 30, 2020 16:42
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If you start selling your starting trucks after a couple missions you can afford an off-road truck from the shop. The progression in this game seems slightly upside down that way. Level gating all terrain tires for the highway/heavy duty trucks sure is a decision that seems like it's made to force you to sell those starting trucks and come back for aesthetics/fuel efficiency if you want after you get a few levels working with an off-road truck.
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May 1, 2020 15:41
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Hitting a stride in Snowrunner now that I have a Paystar offroad and the Fleetstar heavy duty. Have all terrain tires so diff lock means you're never really truly bogged down in mud (except for some of the no mans lands of 3 ft deep fields and mud banks with tasks to rescue material, you are clearly meant to do these with mud tires). And Paystar stock engine and Fleetstar fuel guzzling upgrade from Black River map mean most grades can also be traversed in low with diff lock. Drummond Island spoilers this is where you get the offroad gearbox which is for the Paystar and Fleetstar at least (all highway, offroad, and heavy duty american trucks maybe?) and lets you run diff lock at low+ which gets your rear end movin https://imgur.com/kOHGKiH. It seems easier to come from Island Lake but I haven't actually loaded the Island Lake map to know what the traversal is from the dam tunnel to the Drummond tunnel. I came in directly from the dam and had to ford the river, if you can't tell by fog of war its a bit north of the tourist attraction flag Also they don't make it immediately clear but you can burn out your gearbox running diff lock on non slippy surfaces at 25 pts gearbox damage an offence. You can tell its happening if your transmission overlay shows up changing colors.
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May 2, 2020 23:35
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Feel like I need a cigarette after that truckfuckling in Not a Drill. The route I took for the maintenance module was pretty calm all considering, trailer disconnected twice which means my greatest enemy was actually the truss bridge. But the physics interpolation in the game right now is special and every trailer hookup with that thing was nerve wracking because I needed to jam into it in reverse, quickly couple, and cross my fingers the shaking doesn't propel me to the moon. Least I'm not playing multiplayer where those interpolation errors followed by rapid acceleration away from intersection points (thus to the moon) seem routine when mixed with the net code. 
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May 3, 2020 20:43
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50% of my time spent yesterday was hubris related to a bad idea involving a semi trailer and the dinky crane to do the machinery recovery mission in Black River where the boxes are on hills/ridges. Ended up resetting as they all ended up in the trees on a ridge. Was loaded up 3 separate times until a bad grade sent the rig for a trip. Semi trailers are so good! And so bad! I'd probably use the other trailers more if you could lock or even lift the front axle. I know how to back up and maneuver steerable trailers but I don't like it.
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May 4, 2020 14:09
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If you're in dirt and just want to go vaguely backwards you can break the axle all the way, wiggling enough that you ground the back of the truck to the front of the trailer and apply maximum throttle, once it's cocked all the way to the side it's just a bad sled for the moment. You can similarly jackknife and put your truck paralell to the nose of the trailer, hit reverse, and turn in place, now with all the wheels on the trailer acting as a bad sled. These actions cover what I do 90% of the time and is honestly vaguely the "right" answer for an empty flatbed that you don't pay maintenance on (if somebody was paying for tires and axle repairs you would be getting screamed at for doing these) Otherwise it's just a game of telephone where you use your truck butt to tell another truck what to do. The front axle controls the attitude of the truck. And you control the front axle with the hitch on your truck. People like to be pithy and play on normal trailer backing in and say it's simple, you just do the opposite of the opposite of what you want to do, but that loses the subtlety that the trailer is backing in like any other trailer, you're just controlling the steering through a layer of translation. From 3rd person this is almost easier than normal trailers because you can see the axle very clearly. Besides trying to break the axel just so with a loving analog stick.
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May 4, 2020 15:40
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Anime Store Adventure posted:I can back up doubles OK in truck sim, but something about the steering axle on these trailers confounds me. It almost seems like they’re too loose or something - I can’t turn it to the angle I want and then turn the wheel to push that angle. (If that makes any sense.) Otherwise I blame analog stick steering. But make sure you aren't being too aggressive on the first break. You start it with a very gentle turn, then do the full opposite lock to get in front of the tongue while it starts turning. It's already going to be on its way to turning before you see the tongue noticeably break and you need to be on your way to catching it already so if youre not catching it, the first gentle turn wasn't gentle enough (or the stiction in the hub is hosed up) madeintaipei posted:Wait, that's the right way to back steerable trailers? Can't even do it on asphalt in game. I can back up any size trailer you'd find behind a pickup IRL, but the steerables elude me. If you can back in a trailer, that's half the battle but also a lot of visual memory to override.
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May 4, 2020 16:40
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When you're in automatic and you tap the clutch button the gear shift AI will redetermine the gear and often shift. You don't need to wait for it's dumbass to redline or bottom out. I'm actually happy to use auto again and less obsessed with using L2-L3-H as the most disappointing manual.
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May 6, 2020 13:20
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The task and contract UIX is trash but I have two rules now to work around. Sometimes you need to use an exact something or other. Also sometimes if it's just materials there might be trailers nearby. You can check both of these by always highlighting the requirement in the map to see where your options are. This isn't perfect when there's multiple sources unfortunately and you also need to look at the different pickup points then. The task headings don't seem to make it clear if the first header is a prereq or not. So always track it and see if your heads up tracker gives you everything or just the first piece. If it's just the first piece it's a prereq and you need to do it first.
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May 7, 2020 15:15
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Finished Michigan contracts tonight. Will come back for tasks eventually but excited to get into Alaska and start slip sliding on ice.
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May 10, 2020 03:08
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Elector_Nerdlingen posted:Do you get anything for finishing an area's contracts? So really nothing important if you were expecting trucks or upgrades.
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May 10, 2020 04:20
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Unlucky7 posted:Is there a way to view what is actually stored on a trailer? I know you can generally tell by the icons but I have seen 2 different items with the same icon (Specifically Consumables and Service Spare Parts).
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May 10, 2020 11:52
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Contracts with a globe usually have a bit of a building thing going on when finishing. They also roll up to the map status you see when changing maps. I guess that makes them main. Contracts to open depots and tasks to build bridges are my priority when getting to a map though. The contract or task usually mentions the hitch you need when it comes to special trailers. But rule of thumb is no semi- qualifier is a simple hitch including curtainsiders, semi- trailers use saddle low, the super special contract trailers are saddle high, and I don't think you find them around the map really but heavy semi- use saddle high. Oh and scout are ball hitch to scouts only.
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May 10, 2020 13:12
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There's a bunch of globes that are single map, especially when you start repairing the pipeline in Alaska. It just tells you which contracts complete the 3 global progression things you can see from the region select menu: 
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May 10, 2020 18:21
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Mechanically yeah but I really like roleplaying as a redneck in the pickup or hummer. Loadstar is almost cheating, it's a truck engine on a utility truck frame.
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May 12, 2020 20:14
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Does anybody have anything good or bad to say about Gold Rush before the sale ends? Wouldn't mind an alternative to Farm Sim for repetitive task zoning out for $15 and have caught something of a dig for gold bug from messing around with Hydroneer.
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May 13, 2020 16:51
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The BM17 is cool looking but I'm puzzled how an off-road truck doesn't have a locking diff option. It's a highway truck for military improved dirt roads I guess. Doesn't help when it's stuck in mud. You can traverse a ton of the Alaska map on iced road though so I guess it could be worse? I think I've spoiled myself with the White Western Star. All of the strengths of the Paystar and Fleetstar in one frame without the tippyness of either.
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May 14, 2020 15:42
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The trucks look nice when they get dirty so I have an excuse that least use them for one task or contract. I've found a good way to use more heavy trucks or specialized trucks is to use something like a generalized truck (My White Western Star with chained tires) until it gets stuck in mud and use the off-road specialist or heavy to tow it out. The biggest problem with this is the chained tires problems in mud are greatly exaggerated. They're similar to all terrain which is enough to keep moving in any mud that doesn't come up to your body while diff locked. So I haven't actually gotten stuck besides the time I had a P12 tow a P6 with mud tires for Floating Drill through the mud doldrums at the turn off to the main road.
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May 14, 2020 17:33
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StarkRavingMad posted:Pros: It's relatively low on bugs and jank these days and works pretty well. Otherwise this is exactly the My Summer Car like garbage I'm looking for in an industrial simulator. Slotting parts in and laying cables is my actual idea of a video game good time these days. E VVVVVVVV Need to start heading my post about which niche simulator I'm talking about now that I've got two on my plate. This one is for Gold Rush, a game with singleplayer pick-up truck loading makes the multiplayer physics in Snowrunner look bulletproof. zedprime fucked around with this message at 20:53 on May 15, 2020 |
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May 15, 2020 16:16
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You can turn off tips in options menu. You must turn off tips in options menu or you will throw your controller at the monitor.
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May 17, 2020 04:16
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I think the consoles are hardcoded as equivalent to PC physics = medium. The lower the setting, the more you run into phasing on for non active trucks and trailers. Make sure the engines on, you're in truck switch range, and gently caress with positioning just so. Its dumb and broken and every patch claims it fixed it and better get fixed.
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May 17, 2020 18:51
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ColonelJohnMatrix posted:Just picked up Snowrunner on PS4 and it feels like a nice upgrade over Mudrunner. I like having various objectives and I love the different scenery versus the vanilla mud runner muted greys and similar colors. Won't spoil much past that besides if you explore a bit you can pick up some heavy trucks that are useful for heavy truck things but also for selling and buying a different heavy truck if you'd like.
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May 22, 2020 16:15
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How is Derail Valley with mouse and keyboard? e. I obviously have very low standards for in universe control nonsense through mouse and keyboard with my playtimes in My Summer Car and Gold Rush and yet I'm still worried about it portraying itself as VR first.
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May 24, 2020 19:09
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Good thing they thought ahead to insure the new guy Yeah, the keyboard control isn't as responsive as Train Sim World but it seems to work enough. Your brakes feel weird but maybe that's a more realistic take on air service brakes. I can't get a hang of if, when and how to use train brakes besides as an estop because it can't seem to add pressure back by the time they bite. Definitely appreciate a train sim that involves orienteering with awful station schematics and switches appearing behind trees and curves.
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May 24, 2020 23:26
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I think I'd play more Derail Valley if there was some ease of use upgrade to set switches from the maps. Travelling and setting switches is fine but station navigation especially during shunting just gets frustrating when you end up a train length away from the switch you need and teleporting like a maniac to it takes me out of the experience. I guess the answer is stop taking shunting but I'd also be more into shipping missions if they included loading and offloading. Side note somebody suggested Stormworks weeks ago and it's been my jam lately. It's a good "one of those" where I've never been able to get into Space Engineers because space ships in a void and the terrestrial options have been quixotic or badly physiced. But building Lego poo poo and tuning PID loops is extremely my jam even though I'm bad at both.
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May 31, 2020 02:46
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I've had buffers do that just in normal operation. If you couple/recouple they'll occasionally reset to a correct distance. Waiting to hear on a buffer fix really, they are really stupid right now.
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Jun 7, 2020 17:29
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Last possible candidate, Gold Rush is shoveling dirt into a bin forever which I guess is like cleaning in the OCD it was there and now it's not way. Farm Sim probably scratches similar itches in a definitely better way thinking about it though. You're painting/sweeping with tractors, and lumberjacking is cleaning up trees.
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Jul 10, 2020 13:21
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Train station, maybe. There's been some pretty famous train station renovations. But has there ever been such a thing as an abandoned stadium? I'm used to them being bulldozed instantly to be used for something else. Landlords Super put out a preview of the next patch btw and I'm optimistically excited about it turning into an actual game.
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Jul 10, 2020 19:27
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StrixNebulosa posted:https://store.steampowered.com/app/451340/Gold_Rush_The_Game/ This Gold Rush? There are several on steam. If yes, that looks... hmm. Worth a try if I can get over my aversion to messing up natural wilderness.
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Jul 11, 2020 02:16
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Hydroneer is an extremely $10 game and make My Summer Car and Derail Valley look they have all the user friendliness as a narrow triple-A game. It's not bad, just be ready for what it's offering. If it looks interesting I'd recommend sitting tight for a week and checking out the response to the content patch dropping this week. Besides any content concerns, if it's anything like release there will be about a week of frustration because the main release starts working like a nightly candidate as they patch one thing and introduce 5 new bugs for the moment.
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Jul 13, 2020 03:35
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Station houses and unloading machines desperately need better visual management. Trying to find the flat textured cube with an open door or the grey metal box along a load/unload line is torture. The station house dots on a schematic station map is some very complicated and deep psychological torture. I know where most of them are now by experience but still it's a pain.
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Sep 8, 2020 13:28
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Adding damage modeling to Stormworks isnt a simple fork. The only reason you can model a Type VII sub and still get 45 fps instead of 4.5 fps is the whole thing is baked together (mostly). IIRC there's some simple HP systems going on that let your hull get punctured and sink if you run into something too hard. But the only reason it works as well as it does is because they aren't bogged down in voxel sim of every component. E. Looking at what Gcombat actually is and I guess the bar isn't set very high if that's all you want. Just joust your boats More thinking reflex because everyone's first thought when wanting to add combat is "why is this not space engineers" and the above applies to that. zedprime fucked around with this message at 16:29 on Sep 25, 2020 |
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Sep 25, 2020 16:27
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A part of me was really interested in Course Play and Seasons when I first started Farm Sim. But that's somehow turned into lawnmower go brrrrrr instead and playing unmodded because it's just fun to see the heavy machinery generically in action instead of specifically and widely in action. By the time I'm calculating soil nutrients and stuff I want SimFarm management style instead.
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