I have since some month back following DLC on wish list.

Euro Truck Simulator 2 - Heart of Russia Which will come soon.

Markus

This video isn't about ETS 2

I put it here since this thread is about truck simulator.

Talking about taking American Truck Simulator to the extreme :o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxrhAhl2zEc

Markus

:yeah:

Is he still driving a truck or is that already a locomotive? :D

That's what Neal wanted to play some years ago, but they did not let him, so he had to bite the soar apple and drive the real thing.

I have Euro Truck Sim 2 with all the DLC that they've released so far. Same with American Truck Sim. I keep them up to date when new DLC is released.

Right now, I'm waiting for Fanatec to get back up to speed so that I can buy a new wheel and pedals. My old Fanatec Porsche GT3 RSR v2 has finally outlived its usefulness. I have a Thrustmaster Ferrari wheel as an emergency backup, but the truck sims don't like it much.

I like to load the music player in game with the nine original albums that Frank Sinatra recorded with Nelson Riddle. Cruising across Europe in VR while listening to Frank is a great relaxation tool.

:Kaleun_Salute:

Same here has all the DLC to ETS2 and ATS.

If money wasn't an issue I would most likely have made same set-up as he has. I still say it's taking the game into the extreme-I like it nevertheless.

Markus

This sim shines in VR. Across all Europe, I often tune in to London Smooth Radio, or run Dido, Rumer, Swing Out Sisters and the likes.

Forgot to mentioned something related to these two truck sims.

Some days ago I had a talk with the computer guy in our neighbour town.

We talked about monitor and steering wheels.

He said that 49 inch curved monitor seems to be popular among those who play this type of game.

Markus

^ Costs more than a G2 Reverb VR set.

The cheapest price for this G2 Reverb VR is 5835 Danish Kroner=770-780 Euro

The cheapest price for a 49 inch monitor is 5990 Danish Kroner=795-800 Euro.

So it's not that much difference in price-Not here it ain't

Thinking-What is best ? VR or a curved monitor ?

Markus

In Germany the gap is around between 100 and 250 Euros.


Anyway, for that price range, a driving player is better off with a VR set. However, a monitor has usability beyond VR.

After I had posted my comment I made a search where I used the same word
"curved monitor or VR)

and I found this

"VR is cool but you can't do it for long time unless you want to mess up your brain. Triple screen is the right compromise. Curved is the choice ..."

"100%. VR doesn't give you peripheral vision, and that is a huge disadvantage in wheel to wheel racing. VR is very cool, but triples for me all day"

Is this correct ? I haven't used a VR

Markus

I find VR to be superb for anything with a cockpit (race cars, airplanes, etc.) or in circumstances where you'd like to have the full impact of your surroundings, i.e., scenery and environment.

I play a lot of NASA sims, space sims, and Mars mission speculative sims, and prefer VR for these if available. I also like VR when I'm racing, or flying fixed wing aircraft. It works great for ETS2 and ATS as well, and really gives you a sense of being there, in the truck.

There is one thing for which I consider VR mandatory. That is flying helicopter simulations. I have full helicopter controls, cyclic, collective, anti-torque pedals, and because of the need for some semblance of depth perception when flying a helicopter, VR (and helicopter controls) are essential. I can set a chopper down light as a feather, with precise alignment every time on the deck of a small ship in my favorite helicopter sims. Trying to do it with a normal desktop (short) joystick and a monitor is haphazard and usually frustrating.

For other titles, I use a big, curved monitor. It lacks the totally immersive sensation of VR, and for titles that benefit from it, I much prefer VR. There is no greater immersive involvement for a game. You feel like you're there.

But for strategy games and things of that sort, the curved monitor works fine. As for VR being hard to take for long periods, I don't find that to be so. Neither have I ever felt sick from it.

Oh, and one more thing. I also consider VR essential when I ride rollercoasters in my rollercoaster sim. Most people whom I have lured into trying it claim that they can't take it. I've got some vicious rollercoasters. But I love it. It really gives you that, "Whoops! I think I left my stomach back there!" feeling.

Thank you for your answer.

The first I gonna buy is a Steering wheel and pedal.

Don't know if I'm gonna buy one with three pedals and add a shifter to the system or continue with automatic gearshift as I do know.

Markus

Lot of relgiopn in these things. Many praqise their fetishes. So do I. VR for me every time. Brain gets trained. Peripheral vision can be handled. But immersion and stereoscopic 3D eye vision no screen setup whatever can give you, can top.


I want the maximising of the illusion to be there to be in it, to sit in that cockpit. VR leaves screens in the dust, in these regards, even more so since we are beyond the low resolutions of the first generation headsets. And already that was a screen killer!


Just be wise what you play in VR...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYOUx559xbQ
I tried a mod in that that added certain attractions from fairs. I used VR for one certain hellish machine, kind of a rotating device in all three dimensions/axis while being swung around. And back then my brain was not yet full adapted to this new thing, VR.


I was ill, almost vomitted and felt like we all felt the very first time when we really got very very drunk from just trying out how it feels to be so drunk that you want to vomit for the rest of your life and you are sure your life is over. Thats how I felt afterwards, plus extreme dizziness. It stayed so for 6-8 hours. It would have been absolutely impossible for me to drive, to walk in a straight line (I fell over even from crawling), or to just be in town. I crawled on the carpet on all four, and when I laid still I felt like a ball getting rolled all over the field. It was a horrible experience. To top it: these effects set in not before several minutes after I put the mask down.

Extreme, yes, and unlikley to happen to everybody, but I was not fully adapted to it yet back then. Today I am, I can drive or fly for hours and feel nothing annoying anymore, only sweat if I forgot to switch on the ventilator. So, the brain adapts over time. I tried that hell machine again late last year. It was still not pleasant, but the extreme experiences did not repeat.

The coaster rides however are great to try in high res VR! Great stuff to scare the hell out of your girlfriend or watch her flic-flacking through the room and not being able to help it. :D Or to get rid of her fast and efficient, forever. LOL

Some days ago I noticed that there was two new States in ATS

Texas and Montana.

Oklahoma and Kansas coming soon.

In a couple of years the Entire USA will be covered.

Markus