Darren S
ClioSport Club Member
This is an oddball one. I've had the game for quite a while, along with Euro Truck Simulator and left both titles lingering in the library for the most part.
A few months back, I tried ATS when I had the Logitech G920 wheel all setup, working in conjunction with the Fanatec shifter. The steering was much better with a wheel (as expected) - but the full blown manual gearbox and clutch controls were just too much. If you're doing an over-sized cargo shift for parts of a wind turbine, for example, you can be in 15th gear and not even at 30mph. Realistic yes, but not really that much fun - especially when you've 'peaked out' the engine at circa 1,500rpm.
Anyways, I recently tried it with the XBox controller and the default steering inputs were awful. Literally left and right movements resembling those of a TRON bike and I was just constantly zig-zagging down the road. A simple dial-down of the sensitivity in the options makes it much more controllable and whilst in the Options themselves, you have a wide range of making aspects of the game as easy or as difficult as you would like.
So I started from scratch again, picked a starting location and jumped onto the job market. Filtered it by price to get the most money I could and off I went...
When you reach your destination, you can have up to three drop-off options. Literally at the gates where you are award no bonus experience, somewhere quite easy to access within the yard for some experience, or exactly where the customer wants it (the most difficult) for maximum experience. During the journey itself, you can have any number of issues and events cropping up - traffic accidents, last minute braking, absolute bell-ends of traffic where they cut you up to get off the slip-road, dawdlers who trundle at 30mph when you're in a 55mph zone, level crossings and on the super-sized cargo hauls, you're given police escorts where they close off roads and allow you to go through red lights.
As you progress, your experience increases, allowing you to transport various different (and dangerous) cargoes. You can get better upgrades for your truck, buy different trucks, employ staff and expand your business. The icing on the cake is that there is a very active Workshop section to the game, where fans have created many mods for the game - ranging from sound effects, graphics tweaks, real-life logos and businesses, etc. It all adds to making it a bit more believable and fun to play.
Well worth giving it a go if you fancy a detour from the usual driving-type games.
A few months back, I tried ATS when I had the Logitech G920 wheel all setup, working in conjunction with the Fanatec shifter. The steering was much better with a wheel (as expected) - but the full blown manual gearbox and clutch controls were just too much. If you're doing an over-sized cargo shift for parts of a wind turbine, for example, you can be in 15th gear and not even at 30mph. Realistic yes, but not really that much fun - especially when you've 'peaked out' the engine at circa 1,500rpm.
Anyways, I recently tried it with the XBox controller and the default steering inputs were awful. Literally left and right movements resembling those of a TRON bike and I was just constantly zig-zagging down the road. A simple dial-down of the sensitivity in the options makes it much more controllable and whilst in the Options themselves, you have a wide range of making aspects of the game as easy or as difficult as you would like.
So I started from scratch again, picked a starting location and jumped onto the job market. Filtered it by price to get the most money I could and off I went...
When you reach your destination, you can have up to three drop-off options. Literally at the gates where you are award no bonus experience, somewhere quite easy to access within the yard for some experience, or exactly where the customer wants it (the most difficult) for maximum experience. During the journey itself, you can have any number of issues and events cropping up - traffic accidents, last minute braking, absolute bell-ends of traffic where they cut you up to get off the slip-road, dawdlers who trundle at 30mph when you're in a 55mph zone, level crossings and on the super-sized cargo hauls, you're given police escorts where they close off roads and allow you to go through red lights.
As you progress, your experience increases, allowing you to transport various different (and dangerous) cargoes. You can get better upgrades for your truck, buy different trucks, employ staff and expand your business. The icing on the cake is that there is a very active Workshop section to the game, where fans have created many mods for the game - ranging from sound effects, graphics tweaks, real-life logos and businesses, etc. It all adds to making it a bit more believable and fun to play.
Well worth giving it a go if you fancy a detour from the usual driving-type games.
