American Truck Simulator

cheesyboy said:
Played 2 hours of the demo last night. Was good fun.

Used a 360 pad, manual gears.

I'm overdrawn thanks to speeding and a couple of dings (where I'd been speeding :) ).

The only slightly jarring thing was the parking - the tough option just seems a little 'gamey' sometimes (no way would they really want it in those spots). I like the challenge of parking properly in the more reasonable spaces, but tend to use the overhead view for the slightly silly ones.

It's a bit tedious sticking to 55, though.
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The speed is state dependant, in some areas it goes upto 65-80 think it's Nevada that has it higher.

I like the hard parking options, it's easy when you get the hang of it.
 
Qjumper said:
Does the quality of truck you give your drivers influence their performance and profit ? I have heard a few peopke say different things on this. Anyone have anything concrete.....
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I believe only the engine size effects performance and nothing else, however ATS also has custom transmissions BUT I don't know if this makes a difference to your employees..

still.. would be nice if you could actually see your employees driving around on jobs but I imagine that this would require extra cpu power and lots of bug testing to put in place
 
Right few mods which way be of interest I have just seen.

http://atsmod.net/ats-brutal-environment-hd-sound-engine-gold-2016-1-0-x-by-stewen/ (This was on ETS2 and is very good for sounds)
**This works fine, but has changed my default truck for the Transformers truck. Very, very fast.**

http://atsmod.net/mascarello-roma-370-6x2/ Never driven a bus in ETS2 but will try this and see how it works.
**Loads in Peterbilt dealership, around $150K to buy. Not sure how jobs work with it.**
http://atsmod.net/ats-the-map-to-vancouver-v0-0-1-alpha/ Small map mod.

http://www.bestatsmods.com/international-lone-star-v2-0-ats/ Funky looking truck.

Will try the ones I can and report back.
 
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My set-up for Euro Truck was a 360 pad, for ATS I've splurged on a TrackIR, a copy of Voice Attack and started using an Xbox One controller. I don't have the room for a wheel, reckon this is the next best thing :D

Current progress, two trucks, single AI driver and a garage. Need another job or two to get a third truck going, feels slower than when I played ETS but that seems like a long time ago.
 
QlimaxUK said:
amazing how there's entire modding websites up already how do they throw these things together so fast!
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Yeah, most of the sites are pointing to bug ridden download spots. :eek:

That is always the case with ETS2 too. When this gets Steam workshop support, it should be better (hopefully). :D

Loving the game, just need to get rid of those Tribbles ;).
 
Look guys what a looong sausage they gave me for this job

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I've had that trailer before, was a nightmare to take around the 55mph country roads. Parked it easy enough even on the hardest settings but don't fancy repeating the drive.
 
Is there any tweaks to make Alt+Tab work?
If i want to change tasks, i usually end up with a black screen and a mouse pointer, and need to do a hard reset at the end.
 
koolpc said:
Trying the demo and to be honest i dont think i will be buying this. Just seems much the same and rather boring after a while. I will give it longer as it may though!
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MP is fun when your finished with SP

but there is plenty to do with leveling, company management, employees and trucks then there's all the mods
 
Had a few strange happenings after Switching back to SP after MP, first my funds jumped up from a few K to 78 million, then today all my company drivers ratings have jumped to 10 :confused:
 
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