Trucking Simulator Games Discussion

[Rainberry]

Big news day!

[timmelon]

So, now I have a setup for exploring Illinois (there are so many loading screens with Chicago already). 860 cab is sooo smooth — the existing dryvans look too angular and need more streamlined shape to match its design. Anyway, I like the new VNL face more than one Volvo makes for Europe. 


Before bying that, I tried the electric truck just to fill the gap . Not bad, but... too easy .

[Soda]

I love that VNL front end! It's gorgeous!

[timmelon]

Let’s go to Chicago!

The first thing I appreciate so much is that they work better with Steam today — I was able to pay for the DLC in a minute after pressing the button . Sometimes in the past, it could take an hour or even more before the DLC finally becomes available.
So, my first delivery is going to be from Dubuque to Chicago, and then further to the south. As usual, my exploration of new map started at midnight, so there was not so much to look at before I reached my first destination point.

[Rainberry]

So cool! I can't wait to try it out.

I'm always surprised when people go to the grand prize (Chicago in this case) first.  I always work around what I think will be the coolest part and save it for last.

[Anyponedrawn]

Typical midnight drive.  I'm in St. Louis heading to Springfield.

[MasterXtreme]

I won't be able to play till tomorrow night but I purchased it!

[MasterXtreme]

So cool! I can't wait to try it out.

I'm always surprised when people go to the grand prize (Chicago in this case) first.  I always work around what I think will be the coolest part and save it for last.

I do the same thing.  I save the big cities for last.   It's hard to do that in external contracts sometimes.

[timmelon]

Well, Chicago has a lot of locations, so you still need to return there (preferably at daytime ) to see everything... and finally catch that train from the promo videos.
Unlike these new huge depots in the suburban area, the tunnels under Chicago have so small storages so there are no room for boom barriers, which makes them use the wedge barriers instead. As for details I like in every new SCS work, of course, there are new trees which form their own kind of tunnels above the rural roads .

I already see a big contrast with other cities, where the buildings are much lower and don’t stand so close to each other, and outside scenery has endless fields. Also, the ad for the next state is already here.

They should stop giving the exploration achievement for discovering only a part of new cities — it took only five deliveries to open 8 cities of Illinois.

[MasterXtreme]

Good photos! Looking good.

[timmelon]

As for smaller details, I like how these slingshot-shaped power line towers are grey (zinc-coated?) near the freeway to match the lighting poles color, but are brown in areas with wooden utility poles to match their color as well . However, the brown lighting poles also are present on the freeways... like it’s a sign we already are in the Rust Belt . Also, the new state has its own warning signs about the seatbelts and helmets — the second one looks not very clear for me, it needed a second look to learn what is drawn there and what that «GET IT ON» means (of course, my first thought was about the song ). Just a helmet on the white background could be better.
And yes, these beautiful driveways to the depots when the single right turn from the freeway is not enough .

Speaking of Rust Belt: this train seems to be abandoned for a while, but all the rails around look too shiny.


UPD:

Some beautiful Irish scenery

Especially on the first screenshot. I can’t geo-locate all these landmarks, so I will just look at the pictures .

[RainySunshine]

I had a hard time getting any external contract deliveries to enter Illinois.  In fact I had none.  So I drove to Marion, IL and still couldn't get a delivery in state.  So I ended up delivering to Iowa from Illinois! Oh well.  Maybe tonight it will work out better.

From what I saw, during the daylight, the state looks good.  I only drove through some rural rougher areas along the eastern and southern fringes.

[timmelon]

I have already made 15 deliveries, which was enough to drive every major road at least one time. Not a huge state, but again, its road network is much more dense than Nevada has . I hope when they decide to rework Nevada map, they will add more roads there.

[Silverwing]

I am liking Illinois way more than Louisiana.  To me Louisiana is kind of the forgotten DLC.  It was good, but forgettable, which is not what I expected at all.  Illinois is great so far. 

[timmelon]

Stonehenge

Since they are doing all these landmarks, that mean the number of secondary roads is going to be increased .

P.S. Have you already done a delivery into this quarry near Chicago? It looks much bigger from the driver’s POV than on the map — mostly because of the straight vertical walls which don’t increase its footprint as much as in normal looking quarries .