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29 Jan 2016, 8:54 pm

do u love the game ? what are your favorite mods/truck/cars etc



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30 Jan 2016, 8:23 am

I have not yet played this. I've been meaning to, but there is always some violent bloodbath which must be completed first.



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09 Feb 2016, 6:38 am

It's very relaxing to play. I've bought a steering wheel specifically for this game.


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10 Feb 2016, 5:35 am

I enjoy this game a lot. My favourite truck is the Volvo.

I haven't got round to buying my own truck yet. I'm happy just doing jobs on a freelance basis.



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10 Feb 2016, 7:57 pm

im now am in love with both of these 2 cars, they're fast and rarely flip. and yes the game is very relaxing. i put my favorite songs in its music folder and travel/ fall in deep thoughts . and oh of course i use the no damage mod, and seat adjustment no limits mod because sometimes i love to sit on the other side of the truck/car.
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21 Feb 2016, 11:37 am

I have it, but I haven't played it yet. I have played Trucks & Trailers and Scania Truck Driving Simulator. They were both very enjoyable.



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11 Mar 2016, 5:54 am

Yeah ETS2 is great. It's definitely the epitome of the zen-like gaming experience

Promods addon is a must. Jazzycat's trailer addons are also nice.

I recently bought a TH8A shifter (which is far, far superior to Logitech's shifter) - it adds that little extra bit of immersion that makes the game much more fun.


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11 Jun 2016, 4:04 am

Been playing SCS games since "18 Wheels of Steel: Haulin'".

Played ETS2 a lot, maxed out garages and hired all available drivers (actually ran out of them). A tip: if you go on a ferry a bunch of times, you can make time pass really fast and your employees level up fast, which means they make money faster.

Currently playing ATS and have 4 employees, about to expand to my second garage. As for making your employees level up fast in ATS, when you are tired, visit a parkingspace and sleep 3 times, drive some to get tired, then sleep some more (and repeat).


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11 Jun 2016, 4:20 am

It's a great game and completely different from the type of games I normally play. I've always liked driving in real life on long stretches of highway, and this recreates that. It's a great podcast listening game, like Elite Dangerous (which to me is just space ETS2). I've only ever played it in VR, for which its support is a little rough around the edges; you have to do a bit of config file tweaking to make it work optimally. A bit disappointing given it's supported VR for so long.



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11 Jun 2016, 4:35 am

Enigmatic_Oddity wrote:
I've only ever played it in VR, for which its support is a little rough around the edges; you have to do a bit of config file tweaking to make it work optimally. A bit disappointing given it's supported VR for so long.


I've tried briefly to get ETS2 to run with DK2, but it didnt work, tried different Oculus runtimes 0.4 - 0.7 and the 2 variations on the Beta versions, but it did not start so i gave it up. VR is very "frontier" (if you get my David Braben pun) these days so i don't expect much in the way of a good implementation for now.

(Had lots of probs with the DK2, on my laptop the demo scene didn't work, but the actual VR enabled programs did... )

Hope ATS gets official support for Oculus and Vive soon, may get a headset with a better resolution if that happens.


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11 Jun 2016, 9:34 pm

American Truck Simulator has had official VR support for a while now. Both run fine with consumer hardware, the issues I had were not with having it start up at all but with forced artificial movement when looking out the window. That can be changed with a config.cfg file tweak. The developers have moved on from using beta Oculus runtimes for a while, which is why you're likely having problems.

If you still have the DK2 you might be able to try it with the most recent Oculus runtimes, but be aware the consumer software no longer lets you configure the IPD of the headset as the consumer Rift has hardware IPD adjustment.



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12 Jun 2016, 4:13 am

Enigmatic_Oddity wrote:
American Truck Simulator has had official VR support for a while now. Both run fine with consumer hardware, the issues I had were not with having it start up at all but with forced artificial movement when looking out the window. That can be changed with a config.cfg file tweak. The developers have moved on from using beta Oculus runtimes for a while, which is why you're likely having problems.

If you still have the DK2 you might be able to try it with the most recent Oculus runtimes, but be aware the consumer software no longer lets you configure the IPD of the headset as the consumer Rift has hardware IPD adjustment.


Nice! Last time i checked, there were nothing in the ATS beta tab, but that was a looong time ago. Never had any probs with IPD or any other things needed to be customised for me. Hopefully it will work and i'll see more than the profile selection menu and get into the game this time. I remember getting ETS2 to run once, but then it never started up in VR mode again... like i said, i do not expect much out of the games support for VR for the moment.


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12 Jun 2016, 10:04 am

Got ETS2 + DK2 working but realised that the samegames are incompatible with the Oculus builds... Meh.

Awesome feeling, except that sometimes there are some black flickering graphics just in front of my head that are really annoying, and one time when i started, my head was in the roof of the truck so i restarted. Found out about F12-recenter-view later on.

Driving is 1 billion times easier when you can just move your head around the interior and lean back if anything is obscuring your view, which means less damage from crashing. Only played a few times with OR, but had just 1% once time when i was driving.

Too bad on the lag though, i dont get motionsick from ETS2, i feel more... weird IRL after taking it off as if the brain is expecting lag in the real world and i get disorientated for a few seconds, even laying in bed writing this.

Still, awesome :D


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