SkyTurnsRed
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How hard is it to set up a G27?
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American Truck Simulator gets a release date: February 3rd, 2016
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Zepp Twofist
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Very easy. Game supports it natively, and binding the buttons is done exactly the same as binding keyboard keys. There is also a plugin that improves force feedback ( http://forum.scssoft.com/viewtopic.php?f=109&t=49772 ) that hopefully will work/be adapted to ATS.
SkyTurnsRed
Banned
Excellent. What's a good ETS2 set up, binding wise, for the buttons?
old manatee
Banned
I can't wait for Amero Truck. It's one of the few series that captures the joy of driving, as opposed to racing.
Mengy
wishes it were bannable to say mean things about Marvel
That's actually an excellent point that I've never truly realized until you just said it: the joy of driving versus racing. Maybe that's one of the reasons why this game is so appealing to me, because I love to drive.
It's not driving, it's trucking.
You know what he meant, and he's right.
C0zm1c isn't being serious, that phrase was the official tagline in the first trailer.
Heh, "trailer"
Mengy
wishes it were bannable to say mean things about Marvel
Honestly, although I'm leaning towards this title for the OT next week...
American Truck Simulator |OT| All This Freedom Gave Me A Semi
...the tag line tag line from that initial teaser wouldn't make for a bad OT title either:
American Truck Simulator |OT| It's not driving, it's Trucking
To anyone using an xbox or Steam controller for ETS2: how did you configure it in-game?
I have started to setup bindings a couple of times, but somehow I feel like I'm reinventing the wheel, and missing an option that just gives you some useful defaults.
There is even a dev-approved config for the Steam controller, but I don't know which in-game profile to use it with. None of the buttons even seem to start the engine.
I have started to setup bindings a couple of times, but somehow I feel like I'm reinventing the wheel, and missing an option that just gives you some useful defaults.
There is even a dev-approved config for the Steam controller, but I don't know which in-game profile to use it with. None of the buttons even seem to start the engine.
TheJollyCorner
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Rhomega Beta
Member
I use a 360 controller.
A=Headlights
B=Windshield wipers
X=Camera 5 (over your left shoulder)
Y=Camera 1
LB=Look left
RB=Look right
Start=Pause
Back=Map
Thanks. How do you start the engine? When you take any of the default options, none of the buttons will actually get the thing moving. I know I could add a mapping, but I must be missing something if none of the defaults have a button for it.
LT Snoshado
Member
Why does this game look so exciting to me...? I've always had a slight bit of interest in truck simulators but never had the urge to play one like I do with ATS.
If I pick this up, I'll have yet another excuse to purchase a steering wheel for my PC. Hmm...
If I pick this up, I'll have yet another excuse to purchase a steering wheel for my PC. Hmm...
Rhomega Beta
Member
Just pushing up on the left stick will do it.
Huh. Weird. Sure I tried that. Guess I'll try again - cheers.
Rhomega Beta
Member
After checking in the game itself, i was wrong, and I use E to start the engine.
Mengy
wishes it were bannable to say mean things about Marvel
It's a strange game, in that it's both relaxing and yet engaging. You can just drive around sightseeing the great scenery or you can drive jobs to earn money to buy yourself more trucks, bling them out, acquire garages, hire drivers to work for you, build up a trucking empire that earns you plenty of money to buy and bling even more trucks however you want. All of that is great, but the driving itself is uniquely interesting. And factor in that great internet radio and well it all adds up to a really neat, addicting, and yet casual simulator game.
While it plays just fine with a gamepad, yeah the game will make you want a wheel more than ever. Euro Truck is the game that finally pushed me to spend the dough on a G27, and I don't regret a penny of it now.
And ATS will most likely be even better than ETS2, lol.
I'm a bit late... but they also have those two tall buildings that you see when you get off the Bay Bridge in San Francisco. It's pretty updated.
Zepp Twofist
Member
There is an option in gameplay options to toggle if pushing the accelerator will start the truck. It's called automatic engine start or something.
SMOK3Y
Generous Member
Weĺl UK/Euro mainly use lorries though?
$20 and then a whole bunch of DLC over time, haha.
I have to wonder how high (if even at all) on the Steam top sellers list ATS would be if it had a price so you can actually buy it right now.
Seems like you're losing potential hype buildup and general visibility to the public by not allowing people to get their purchase in early less than a week out.
Seems like you're losing potential hype buildup and general visibility to the public by not allowing people to get their purchase in early less than a week out.
GifGafIsTheBestGaf
Member
American Truck Simulator OT 18 Speeds and twin stick you say? Does it come in automatic?
sorry for the bad joke
diablos991
Can’t stump the diablos
Any word on Oculus Rift VR support?
Zepp Twofist
Member
I would be surprised if you couldn't just copy the controls-file from your ets2 profile to your ats profile
Same thing.
You can't, amazingly, even between ets2 save files and I have no clue why.
The engine did support earlier VR stuff, but no clue on the customer version has support or not
Zepp Twofist
Member
You can between ETS2 profiles. I've done it a bunch of times. After creating the new profile, it's just a matter of copying the controls.sii from the folder of the old profile to the new (profiles are located in My Documents/Euro Truck Simulator 2/profiles)
edit:
Also, another trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqhBad4V9bw
Zepp Twofist
Member
Sorry for double post, but regarding VR support:
Their VR dev posted this on the official forums yesterday:
As far as I know they are using the latest SDK. I don't know if that will be compatible with CV1, but I can't imagine that they wouldn't update to sdk 1.0 when it is ready.
Their VR dev posted this on the official forums yesterday:
As far as I know they are using the latest SDK. I don't know if that will be compatible with CV1, but I can't imagine that they wouldn't update to sdk 1.0 when it is ready.
Probably one of the first games I'm going to try (after Eve: Valkyrie, for the wow-factor) when I get my Rift.
In April
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Mengy
wishes it were bannable to say mean things about Marvel
That's actually not bad, I like it a lot to be honest. I've narrowed the OT down to three choices now, all of them are good IMHO:
American Truck Simulator |OT| All This Freedom Gave Me A Semi
American Truck Simulator |OT| It's not driving, it's Trucking
American Truck Simulator |OT| Get the truck out of Europe!
Maybe I'll just roll a dragon dice to pick one randomly, lol.
Zepp Twofist
Member
I'm leaning towards the bolded one. Seems like it would get the most attention, and I am never down on a well crafted penis joke.
Baron von Loathsome
Member
American Truck Simulator |OT| Truckin' Like the Doo-Dah Man
Official Launch Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu32OisFgWI
Like the trailer said at the end:
American Truck Simulator |OT| It's Not Driving, It's Trucking
Edit: I was too late.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu32OisFgWI
Like the trailer said at the end:
American Truck Simulator |OT| It's Not Driving, It's Trucking
Edit: I was too late.
GifGafIsTheBestGaf
Member
pre-ordered the game, i hope when they expand the game they make it possible to travel across all states also they add those extreme dangerous jobs i watched on discovery channel
Rhomega Beta
Member
I'm going to go with "It's Not Driving, it's Trucking" since it is the tagline in the trailer.
It's the one I like the least precisely because of that. Its a personal preference thing, but when an OT sounds or looks to much like a PR piece it creeps me out a bit.