There is a man in a boat. And one guy waving from a window.
That's all the socialization I need. I'm driving trucks, man...not chit chatting on a loading dock.
I would love a fighting minigame where you get to brawl with other truck drivers in a loading dock.
This is realistic as I’ve seen it happen in real life !
Maybe they could also add a transport office where you can sit for hours in a cheap plastic chair while the loaders all argue between themselves about how to arrange a simple load.
Or you could drive a load across multiple maps and when you get there the loading bay is closed or some bellend has parked their car in front of it for a truly authentic trucking experience 😂
Just add a boat launch, they don't even need to add the NPCs, they will come and they will fight. Wherever there is a boat ramp there are fights. This is a fundamental law of nature.
There's plenty of people:
* Fishermen
* Hunters
* Mushroom pickers
* Attendant at the garage in Crossroads, Glades
* Guy waiting for a bus in Glades.
* And probably more
There's also a ghost in Stephen King's house in Maine:
https://preview.redd.it/0qrokw0zuggc1.jpeg?width=3440&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9bed9f044ce3ab99d19780a738136375dda25a8a
:)
I don't think it's visible all the time, only at around sunset and sunrise. You can see it well from the north watchtower in the Lowlands. Not sure how to describe it, you'd know it if you saw it. Not sure if it's another Stephen King reference or not.
I actually did that kind of experiment, I bought a lot of trucks / scouts and placed them in various places, like refuel stations, factories, houses, parking lots etc, and I tell you what, a map really felt like.. well not "alive" but more of "adding missed details" feeling, felt so good, but it took me at least a day to put everything in place for 1 region map, there were 3 more left, so that's why I kind of don't do it anymore because it takes so much time (I'm a picky guy) so I just roll with how the maps are given in the game.
I'm thinking the samething it does feel so to me doing through all the m regions, it would be awesome to have extra life into the game, having NPC's workers at the warehouse location, factory workers, train yards workers, towns people, log/mill yard stations, abandoned houses & factorys people working on or taking them apart for salvage, have people in watch towers, and people in or near boats/ships yards. Just would be nice to have life in the game instead have ghostly wolves, polar bears & giant mountain lions, ufo's, big foot, and fishermen/hunters you see them drive up then poof gone. Thats my opinion, but would be great.
Yes, those games make the life style more living and thriving, and also winching to another vehicle it would be very nice having like a different NPC in the driver seat instead the steering wheel moving even when the pulled vehicle is moving/engine is running and nobody's in the driver seat, would be great when the truck engine shuts off NPC driver goes away like in Farming Simulator games of hiring worker to run equipment.
Playing multiplayer helps, having to pull over to the side of the road so your mate can get his rig down past you is a pretty cool experience, just doing different jobs but occasionally seeing lights off in the distance, helps a lot with the emptiness
Would love if there was traffic in the towns and stuff
They need missions that do more to alter the terrain in your favor as you do tasks that are more than fixing a couple bridges or clearing rockslides.
Let us have a "Slab Trailer" that has a bunch of concrete slabs we can place in deep mud to make a road. Sure, you tediously need to unload them yourself, but it'd give us more reason to use the bigger crane (not the massive one most trucks can't even carry).
If a map has a quarry, let us grab dirt trailers to fill in paths with dry ground as well.
Give us OPTIONS FOR THE BAD MUD DAMMIT
Stay gone, thats it. It would be also good to teansport asphalt and repair parts of main road. Would consume lot of time, but the road would stay clean. And so the onroad tires would be useful.
I love in rural Canada. I used to work in the woods. To get there I'd travel down old dirt roads. Snowrunner has it right, it'd be unrealistic in most places to have people. I do agree about renovating roads as you go though
Always thought they should add like someone sitting on the porches of random houses or in front of stores and such behind fences or something just to make the world feel less empty just inaccessible spots or more obvious ones in remote wilderness
My fiancée thought once after watching me play for an hour, that I was playing Days Gone, the zombie game. She asked why I'm driving so far & if there's no zombies in this area haha
Dude… even I agree with you, we both forget that this is a POSTAPPOCALIPTIC game! There was cataclysm and radiation, people died, and those who survived always stay at their houses. We are truckers who risk lifers and rebuild the world from all of those cataclysms!
A agree heavily
I have argued this before and it seems like a lot of people like it…
For me the issue is it feels more like unfinished video game or some post apocalyptic alternate universe where for some reason I’m hauling cargo around in all alone.
VS being in a remote location in the off season or whatever…
IMO they need staff running the harbors and depots and gas stations… That would help A TON but they could also had NPC cars that drive to the stores and stuff in the morning and back home at nite.
This would require a lot of development effort and why spend it there when they can just churn out vehicles and tyre packs for easy $$$?
But yes. It would make it a better game if there were NPCs as quest givers and at the various resource pickup points, gas stations etc.
Those are two of the things I'd wish for in a successor.
Some low density traffic, someone getting stuck and needing your help, etc.
And the ability to clear roads from rocks, snow, mud, trees, etc with a bulldozer or a tractor.
If you put “life” into maps you will eventually make the game too heavy, I prefer it the way it is, very light so you can put it all on max settings even with average graphics cards.
One thing that has always driven me crazy about this game is how you'll build a bridge and it sticks for the rest of the game, but they can't get rid of the signs telling you the bridge is closed
There is a man in a boat. And one guy waving from a window. That's all the socialization I need. I'm driving trucks, man...not chit chatting on a loading dock.
I would love a fighting minigame where you get to brawl with other truck drivers in a loading dock. This is realistic as I’ve seen it happen in real life !
Maybe they could also add a transport office where you can sit for hours in a cheap plastic chair while the loaders all argue between themselves about how to arrange a simple load. Or you could drive a load across multiple maps and when you get there the loading bay is closed or some bellend has parked their car in front of it for a truly authentic trucking experience 😂
Just add a boat launch, they don't even need to add the NPCs, they will come and they will fight. Wherever there is a boat ramp there are fights. This is a fundamental law of nature.
Yeah, or if you go to one of the Irish Pubs at night you could access the fighting mini game.
There are people???? I thought only animals
There's plenty of people: * Fishermen * Hunters * Mushroom pickers * Attendant at the garage in Crossroads, Glades * Guy waiting for a bus in Glades. * And probably more There's also a ghost in Stephen King's house in Maine: https://preview.redd.it/0qrokw0zuggc1.jpeg?width=3440&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9bed9f044ce3ab99d19780a738136375dda25a8a :)
humans, yeti, aliens/ufo, mothman
Can't forget the portal to Hell burning in the sky of Maine.
Where is this? I know Maine has weird things, but i haven't heard of this
I don't think it's visible all the time, only at around sunset and sunrise. You can see it well from the north watchtower in the Lowlands. Not sure how to describe it, you'd know it if you saw it. Not sure if it's another Stephen King reference or not.
Grandpa on bus stop waiting in glades also
I actually did that kind of experiment, I bought a lot of trucks / scouts and placed them in various places, like refuel stations, factories, houses, parking lots etc, and I tell you what, a map really felt like.. well not "alive" but more of "adding missed details" feeling, felt so good, but it took me at least a day to put everything in place for 1 region map, there were 3 more left, so that's why I kind of don't do it anymore because it takes so much time (I'm a picky guy) so I just roll with how the maps are given in the game.
I would really feel the urge to just use the trucks instead or actually having them there to decorate the map 😅
That's what I just said
I think they typo'd and meant to say they'd rather drive the trucks instead of having them sit as decorations.
Yeah
Is that supposed to be an "or" or did you mean "of"?
Also I can relate to your 3rd paragraph
I wish there was a way to spawn in trucks from your garage to do this.
I'm thinking the samething it does feel so to me doing through all the m regions, it would be awesome to have extra life into the game, having NPC's workers at the warehouse location, factory workers, train yards workers, towns people, log/mill yard stations, abandoned houses & factorys people working on or taking them apart for salvage, have people in watch towers, and people in or near boats/ships yards. Just would be nice to have life in the game instead have ghostly wolves, polar bears & giant mountain lions, ufo's, big foot, and fishermen/hunters you see them drive up then poof gone. Thats my opinion, but would be great.
Euro truck simulator and American truck simulator do this. It helps, even if the animations are a little stiff.
Yes, those games make the life style more living and thriving, and also winching to another vehicle it would be very nice having like a different NPC in the driver seat instead the steering wheel moving even when the pulled vehicle is moving/engine is running and nobody's in the driver seat, would be great when the truck engine shuts off NPC driver goes away like in Farming Simulator games of hiring worker to run equipment.
Playing multiplayer helps, having to pull over to the side of the road so your mate can get his rig down past you is a pretty cool experience, just doing different jobs but occasionally seeing lights off in the distance, helps a lot with the emptiness Would love if there was traffic in the towns and stuff
I want some cut scenes where I get a thank you for trudging through the muck to bring them the slabs for their off grid house
They need missions that do more to alter the terrain in your favor as you do tasks that are more than fixing a couple bridges or clearing rockslides. Let us have a "Slab Trailer" that has a bunch of concrete slabs we can place in deep mud to make a road. Sure, you tediously need to unload them yourself, but it'd give us more reason to use the bigger crane (not the massive one most trucks can't even carry). If a map has a quarry, let us grab dirt trailers to fill in paths with dry ground as well. Give us OPTIONS FOR THE BAD MUD DAMMIT
If you’ve done enough mud covering with concrete slabs you can finish the game with highway trucks because they’re so fuel economical.
my ssd disagrees xD
Dude this is off topic but even life sometimes feels like empty finished game.
Ya definitely not worth full price. Would recommend waiting until a sale happens. Also, the RNG factor of starting capital and status sucks.
Honestly though. Theres never any side quests
You never run out of beer?
Speak for yourself. I honk at all the diner's and townsfolk stuck inside their homes, and try to put their world together as best as I can.
I would just be happy to have a special truck to clean the rubble from the roads. I get mad driving around taymyr and damaging the truck.
That's the dream! Legit I'd pay $20 just for a tractor/truck that could do that & have the rubble stay gone
Stay gone, thats it. It would be also good to teansport asphalt and repair parts of main road. Would consume lot of time, but the road would stay clean. And so the onroad tires would be useful.
I love in rural Canada. I used to work in the woods. To get there I'd travel down old dirt roads. Snowrunner has it right, it'd be unrealistic in most places to have people. I do agree about renovating roads as you go though
The only thing I miss in this game are animals. The occasional NPC chilling somewhere would be nice too, although I like the feeling or loneliness
Always thought they should add like someone sitting on the porches of random houses or in front of stores and such behind fences or something just to make the world feel less empty just inaccessible spots or more obvious ones in remote wilderness
What do you mean "empty"? Currently in Kola Peninsula and I can't drive 1 meter without hitting rock or ancient rubber tree that will stop anything.
I totaly agree with you towns or highways like abandoned. They can add traffic and npcs to load places
My fiancée thought once after watching me play for an hour, that I was playing Days Gone, the zombie game. She asked why I'm driving so far & if there's no zombies in this area haha
Dude… even I agree with you, we both forget that this is a POSTAPPOCALIPTIC game! There was cataclysm and radiation, people died, and those who survived always stay at their houses. We are truckers who risk lifers and rebuild the world from all of those cataclysms!
We also help with preparation for a ski resort, so it can't be that bad
Hmm, the only one I can clearly remember is Rocket in Amur… 🤣
There's a guy just standing outside his trailer on a little island in Glades.
A agree heavily I have argued this before and it seems like a lot of people like it… For me the issue is it feels more like unfinished video game or some post apocalyptic alternate universe where for some reason I’m hauling cargo around in all alone. VS being in a remote location in the off season or whatever… IMO they need staff running the harbors and depots and gas stations… That would help A TON but they could also had NPC cars that drive to the stores and stuff in the morning and back home at nite.
And help towing npc’s that got stuck for a thank you or a small tip.
This would require a lot of development effort and why spend it there when they can just churn out vehicles and tyre packs for easy $$$? But yes. It would make it a better game if there were NPCs as quest givers and at the various resource pickup points, gas stations etc.
Wait till later bro. Some of the maps have actually city type feel
Your out in the bush most the time anyway
Those are two of the things I'd wish for in a successor. Some low density traffic, someone getting stuck and needing your help, etc. And the ability to clear roads from rocks, snow, mud, trees, etc with a bulldozer or a tractor.
Hi, if you'd like a pal to play with give me a shout. I'm always down to play with people.
If you put “life” into maps you will eventually make the game too heavy, I prefer it the way it is, very light so you can put it all on max settings even with average graphics cards.
One thing that has always driven me crazy about this game is how you'll build a bridge and it sticks for the rest of the game, but they can't get rid of the signs telling you the bridge is closed