Trucking Simulator Games Discussion

[MasterXtreme]

According to the game photo and angle, they are not on I-90, but instead US-87 which in this case, is used as a freeway exit/entrance onto I-90.

Nice mapping and perspective, @Captain Ridiculous.  Thank you.

I don't think they'd take us to Billing's International Airport.  It's very small, more regional with flights to bigger airports such as Denver, Seattle, or Portland.  But who knows?  Maybe?

The refinery is just southeast of downtown Billings. I am sure in game it will be a Chems plant.

[Anyponedrawn]

I love looking at the map.  The biggest city in Montana really doesn't look all that big on the map.   I love that. 

[MasterXtreme]

As mentioned, they really aren't that big, APD.  Billings only has some 110,000 people.  About 60,000 more than Wyoming's largest city.    Compare that to Seattle or Denver (within their sphere of influence) and those cities are between 600-700,000 with Seattle having a metro area of 3.7 million and Denver around 2.8 million.

[Rainberry]

I just had something very strange/cool happen.  I was driving on Wyoming 789, just south of Rawlins.  It was night time and all of a sudden I saw streaks of light across the sky!  I've never seen that before, but it was some form of meteor shower from space!  I tried to take a picture, but for some reason the game reset everything around me in camera mode, all the traffic disappeared and so did the meteors in the sky.

Anyone else ever see this?

[timmelon]

Maybe not actual showers, but single meteors are one of common events in ATS atmosphere — from my memory, Nevada has a lot of them.
A static night sky may be not interesting to watch, so they just make the rare event more frequent than IRL — like ubiquitous auroras in Skyrim .

[Silverwing]

I have seen single meteors in the sky, but never several.  So you saw several of them, Raine?

[Rainberry]

Yes, it was a whole bunch of meteors flying across the sky at once.  It wasn't airplanes because they didn't have blinking lights.  It was a bunch of meteors.  I will definitely try to replicate this and get photos of it.

[timmelon]

F10 key always works. Don’t forget about it .
Thank goodness this function exists in the game, because on my three-monitor monster the PrintScreen shots look like that, so, the cropping tool is required . People with only one monitor don’t have this pain.
UPD: but it doesn’t matter today

More Adriatic shoreline for ETS!

This short teaser looks great, although I see a lot of comments like «why no Greece?». Let’s see how many posts with screenshots will be published in their blog before the release . I think something between 20 and 25 is the most likely number.

[MasterXtreme]

I think it's nice.  This is also a nice way for SCS to make some more money by splitting it into two parts.  It's already a fairly big region.  So this will be a nice addition to a part of the world often overlooked.

[Graymist]

This is pretty exciting!  I will be honest, I'm not too excited about another Mediterranean region as we've had a lot recently with Spain, Italy, etc.  But I am excited that there might be a challenge with this DLC.  Smaller roads, tighter streets, mountain routes.  I am curious to learn more about this part of the world besides tensions and wars.

[Silverwing]

I'm not gonna look at the blog post comments or else I will get mad.

I'm happy to see the announcement we all knew was coming.

[Rainberry]

I did not see any meteors this time.   I will keep searching.

[MasterXtreme]

For those interested, Hard Truck is on sale at GOG.com for $1.

GOG.COM / Hard Truck

[timmelon]

A good offer.
Last time I played it a bit a year ago.
Can’t believe I have spent with this game so much time in my childhood — one ride from Istanbul to Paris in ETS takes more time than discovering of a whole HT:KotR map .

[MasterXtreme]

Yes, it's an interesting game with the fictional locations.  It's definable something for nostalgia.  But for those interested, it's pretty cheap right now for a few days.