Euro Truck Simulator 2

[jomni]

It has an algorithm to calculate price and cargo capacity based on the aircraft characteristics.  Sometimes it's wonky...  A 777 freighter with little cargo capacity because you can fill it up with a lot of fuel for long haul but most are relatively ok.


I've been playing this for or than 2 years already and I haven't paid off the lease of any of my planes.

[JasonPratt]

Okay, I'm just going to throw this out here...

Red Ball Express -- from the makers of Euro Truck Simulator 2. A moving target in the greatest war of world history, but your loss may spell defeat for your nation. Drive for your life, and for the life of your army, in campaigns all over the world, for Axis as well as Allied nations, East Front and West Front, from northern routes bringing supplies across frozen lakes to besieged Leningrad, to southern routes in the North African campaigns -- including the renowned Allied grand logistics triumph of Normandy known as the "Red Ball Express"!

From the Roman roads of Italy and southern France, to the muddy mountain trails of Burma and the South Pacific, and back again to the nightmare of Operation Market-Garden... you'll never get rich, digging a ditch: you're in the Army now!

RED BALL EXPRESS -- drive like your life depends on it.

(Ho Chi Mihn Trail DLC coming soon.)


Product not actually available or planned, so far as I know. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

[JudgeDredd]

^ I don't get it   ???

[JasonPratt]

^ Surely there would be a market for a WW2-themed Euro Truck Simulator, where instead of contracting for profits (although maybe that was part of the experience in places...?), the player hauls food, medicine, ammo, guns, headquarter/staff equipment, small artillery, etc. on famous supply routes. There would be less sandboxing, naturally, but a significantly greater risk of being shot at, bombed, arty'd, mined, etc.; and the scenery and road conditions could vary greatly.

Aside from the Red Ball Express, which helped keep the retreating Germans on their heels after the Normandy breakout, preventing them from rallying sufficiently at various possible locations, I can think of several other even more dangerous logistic routes used by both the Axis and the Allies (although I'm more familiar with the Allies in this regard for some reason).


Note: for some random reason my mind replaced "Express" with "One" in my pitch (probably due to route numbers, Red Ball One, Red Ball Two ,etc.) Sorry. Will fix promptly. I assume that was what was causing confusion.

[JudgeDredd]

Well - the reference did throw me - but I was also wondering about the feasibility as I think I know what you mean.

A risk of being mined, bombed, shot at etc isn't much fun if you can't do anything about it would be my first thought.

I'm not sure - I don't know enough about the logistics in WWII to know whether such a game would be feasible and even if so - whether it would be playable.

[JasonPratt]

From the perspective of the driver it might be simpler than ETS2: you're expected to haul A from X to Z, maybe haul something back. (Maybe drive your truck to the staging area first.)

In some scenarios you might be allowed a choice of routes, but usually the computer would be assigning the routes (with changes made on the fly according to weather or battle conditions), acting as the logistics officers. Or the game might allow multiple "characters" (somewhat like in a strategic air power simulator, or train sim) where at one level the player is the officer in charge of routing logistics, and at another level the player is a character driving the routes.

True, it would suck not to be able to do much more than dodge a little (without running off the road too far!), but the tension level could be quite high in a "Wages of Fear"/"Sorcerer" way. (A story about mercenary truckers hauling sweaty dynamite over terrible terrain in South America.) Or in an "Ice Road Truckers" way -- being shot at is a semi-random environmental hazard like having to deal with a sleet storm. Plus the hazards would change depending on the scenario being played.


It just occurred to me that a different version of the same game would involve hauling troops (and maybe small arty pieces), not merely between logistic points, but into battle. And now we're looking at the evolution of the armored personnel carrier, which often did have defensive (and even offensive) weaponry.

[son_of_montfort]

Before we talk hypotheticals, I would like to have DLC that lets me drive through all of France!  :)

[Longdan]

You never, ever want to drive in Paris.  It is vehicular attempted murder writ large.
They don't need hand guns they have Peugeots
I still have nightmares.  In the countryside it can be most pleasant.
But they should have a DLC for French Drunk Driving Checkstop.  Closest thing I have seen to the Third Reich.
Submachineguns, dogs , everything.
I guess in a country where everybody drinks the whole day long they've gotta do something.
No Euro driving sim would be worth its salt if it didn't have happy Euro drivers pissing by the side
of the road waving cheerfully at you as you drive by.

[ArizonaTank]

Okay, I'm just going to throw this out here...

Red Ball Express -- from the makers of Euro Truck Simulator 2. A moving target in the greatest war of world history,

I love a good loggy game....I'm in.

[Staggerwing]

"Wages of Fear"/"Sorcerer" way. (A story about mercenary truckers hauling sweaty dynamite over terrible terrain in South America.)

Great movies! Both the original French version and the later 'Sorcerer' with Roy Scheider are nail-biters. The soundtrack to 'Sorcerer' was awesome as well.

[son_of_montfort]

You never, ever want to drive in Paris.  It is vehicular attempted murder writ large.
They don't need hand guns they have Peugeots
I still have nightmares.  In the countryside it can be most pleasant.
But they should have a DLC for French Drunk Driving Checkstop.  Closest thing I have seen to the Third Reich.
Submachineguns, dogs , everything.
I guess in a country where everybody drinks the whole day long they've gotta do something.
No Euro driving sim would be worth its salt if it didn't have happy Euro drivers pissing by the side
of the road waving cheerfully at you as you drive by.

You don't have to tell me, I've tried to cross the Etoile on foot! Also, the traffic in Marseille was not any better.

[republic]

I can't figure out how to use a roundabout properly lol  I suppose I need to watch a youtube video or read a UK drivers ed book.

[CptHowdy]

on sale at gamersgate right now. 50% off!

[WallysWorld]

So I bought this game on the weekend from GG and I can't stop playing it! Downloaded a bunch of terrific mods and the game is highly addictive. The scenery is excellent and the trucks pretty much drive like real life.

SCS Software really hit it right with this edition.

[JudgeDredd]

I did exactly the same on purchasing - but as with all games I moved on.

But I do go back to it fairly often and bearing in mind you are only really driving from A to B, it's really quite addictive and grabs you.

It is a good sim.