Star Trucker - American Trucking Simulator In Space

[Terminal_Boy]

I picked this up yesterday and am having fun dying due to my shonky flying breaking my truck and running out of oxygen.

Using an XBox controller as I couldn’t steer at all with keyboard and mouse.

Top tips so far:

1. If in doubt, come to a complete halt and then see what’s up.

2. Tip 1 applies doubly if you plan to EVA for repairs etc. as your suit can’t catch even a slow moving truck.

3. Put supplies in boxes as some items don’t like drop damage and everything will be floating around when you change out Grav System batteries.

4. Switch systems off using the breaker panel when changing out UCCs.

5. Fit as many Oxygen filters as you can afford.

6. Turn off all cabin lights when driving to save batteries.

Happy trucking!

 

[Terminal_Boy]

I cannot believe you cannot change the controls on this.

Yeah, that’s a bit of a fail on the devs part. One of the reasons I dug out the XBox controller.

Hopefully, they might improve it as part of the Hotas/joystick support they’re working on.

 

[Terminal_Boy]

So as a fan of ETS and space in general, I've had this wishlisted. What's it like? Is it more storytelling or is it pretty much ETS in space?

There’s a convoy system where doing errands/favours for other truckers builds skills etc, but I haven’t survived long enough to use it…

 

[Terminal_Boy]

It’s 10% for another week I think.

 

[Terminal_Boy]

Job boards and consumables shops are in the Business Hubs going by the 2-3 places I visited in my 2 hours of dying stupidly.