Euro Truck Simulator 2

if you dont like driving the trucks, I thinking this may not be the game for you hah

ScumLord wrote: »

I see they have police in it now.

They have an irritating habit of spawning right behind you as soon as you go over a limit, I find.

I have played this game for ages now. I originally had the separate UK & Euro Truck Simulator on a combi CD-ROM before I had bought this game on Steam.

I got ETS2 sometime last year on Steam for about €6 which I thought was a great price.

I had found about the game first while looking up videos on Youtube. I had intended to look at videos of the original game that i had before; but the videos for the multiplayer version of ETS2 on Youtube came up at that time. I had watched a few of them at first & i thought they were enjoyable. Now I addicted to them to watching idiots on the road videos every fortnight or so from one guy's channel in Finland.

Here is his link that shows them. So far he has about 100 idiot videos for ETS2 on his channel which I think is amazing.

https://www.youtube.com/user/Merceli88

I had my own truck before my laptop before my laptop broke down a few months ago due to a broken hard drive. I had lost my files while they were not backed up on the cloud or on a memory stick. OneDrive or Dropbox could be a suitable cloud based option if you have games on Steam that do not allowing saving your files online.

The truck I had before was a Scania R730 & I had it painted with the Irish Flag Decal in dark green metallic paint.

I have currently one garage in the game which is based in London, England.

I play mutliplayer too & it's fun at times. I play on the EU1 server & the near majority of the drivers on it are very friendly when they pass you by on the road.

Although I had a few gits intentionally crash into me on that server before when I was driving a Renault Magnum Excellence in Koln in Germany & I think the other one crashed into me somewhere in either Amsterdam or Rotterdam. I also had another fecker crashing into me recently as I was struggling to drive up a hilltop on a Volvo FH16 around Germany or Switzerland. I heard recently that the police car add-ons in mutliplayer are played by administrative staff only. No purchase of a police car is allowed in the game.

The road to avoid on the EU2 server in multiplayer (the server without the speed limiter) is between Calais & Duisberg. The traffic has been recently unreal on that road. I've seen on Youtube that the admin cops are there now regularly to close it down on occasions because of a high amount of truck drivers on it. There is usually about 100 drivers on that road at one time so traffic jams are a huge issue on it.

I'm not playing multiplayer now because I sometimes download the beta versions of the game that is only in single player on Steam.

The latest one I have is Beta V1.26. To download the latest beta version here is how to do it.

Right click the ETS2 game logo or name in your Steam library & click properties at the bottom of that list.

Once in 'Properties'; A box will appear on the screen & you click 'Betas' on the top label.

Once your in Betas; click on the drop down menu somewhere near the top of the box.

Click on ''public_beta - 1.26 public beta" to download it straight away.

wnolan1992 wrote: »

I have logged over 260 hours in this game, and something has only clicked with me in the last 10 minutes...

Spain and Portugal aren't in the game! Seriously, I'd never noticed that before.



Anywho, real reason for posting is just wondering if anyone else picked up the latest expansion (Vive le France)? I bloody hate the roads in France now. Some of the junctions there confuse the absolute bejaysus out of me. It's very like the Scandinavia DLC in that way, the roads added in those expansions feel way harder to navigate than base game or Going East. The amount of toll booths in France too, my lord!

My company's doing fairly well at the moment, have 4 other drivers on the road, pulling in a sizable income each day. Next time I'm back in Austria I'll be buying a second garage (my HQ's in Vienna) I reckon.

Next you'll be telling me Ireland is nowhere to be seen either :rolleyes:
And France has always been peppered with tollbooths but at least since the rebuilt the old parts they've added the auto-barriers from Scandinavia to some of them (not all though as I found out after a high speed encounter)
Saving up for Viva La France though, but for now I still have lots of exploring to do and achievements to unlock even after nearly 3 years.

wnolan1992 wrote: »

Nope. I'm driving a Scania (for the sole reason that it has a trip computer that the others don't seem to have (as in, it tells you how much further you can go before running out of fuel)), I think I have one DAF which was my first expansion of the company, and 3 Mercedes which I bought in one go.

I'm guessing the DAF is an XF95 or an XF105 and the Mercedes ones are the Actros models.

wnolan1992 wrote: »

Anywho, real reason for posting is just wondering if anyone else picked up the latest expansion (Vive le France)? I bloody hate the roads in France now. Some of the junctions there confuse the absolute bejaysus out of me. It's very like the Scandinavia DLC in that way, the roads added in those expansions feel way harder to navigate than base game or Going East. The amount of toll booths in France too, my lord!

I drove down to the south of Spain this summer and I can tell you there's a crazy amount of tolls, not only that they're expensive. The most I paid was €32.

Spain is almost as bad, but they trump France for confusing junctions. When you come up to the lights, only the lights on your side of the junction apply to you. The ones across the way are an additional set of stop lights on a different timing. So if you can get a green light on your side and the light on the other side of the junction could turn red leaving you stuck in the middle.

Another thing they do is put traffic lights on the way into town that go red as you approach and when you stop they flash amber. They're not on junctions or zebra crossing, they're just there to make you stop and go entering the town. Confusing as fup the first time you come across them.

Roundabouts are a free for all where anything goes, it's everyman for himself, Even on big 8 lane roundabouts.

Some very good news for the ETS2 crowd. The game is a winner of The 2016 Steam Awards in two categories.

The "Sit back and relax award" & "I thought this game was cool before it won an award" award were won for ETS2.

Full list of winners of the first ever awards here

http://store.steampowered.com/SteamAwards/

Thanks Guys,

I'll get it installed again and look at the options. I think around the time I had been playing it originally all the feedback was saying you really needed a wheel and it put me off somewhat. Will look at it again as I had really enjoyed it.