American Truck Simulator On Linux

[phoronix]

Phoronix: American Truck Simulator On Linux

Another year, another simulation game from S.C.S Software. I should preface this article by saying I am not usually a fan of simulation game-- whether they be truck, plane, bus, or anything else. That being said... I might be a convert after this...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=American-Truck-Simulator

[kneekoo]

That game on Intel graphics? Wow! I have Intel HD 530 so that's really good to know.

What were your settings?

[Ericg]

That game on Intel graphics? Wow! I have Intel HD 530 so that's really good to know.

To be fair.. I'm on Skylake with 2133mhz RAM. So, that's quite a bit more powerful than your HD 530.

With that build however, the game auto-configured me for Medium quality.

[uid313]

Can you honk at girls, yell nasty things, drive drunk, text while driving, and visit strip clubs? :P

[Ericg]

Can you honk at girls, yell nasty things, drive drunk, text while driving, and visit strip clubs? :P

I didn't get far enough in the game to try lol. You are forced to do jobs until you get your own place, once you have your own place you can do 'free roam' and just drive around. But getting your own truck is like $100,000, and each job only pays like $1000-2000

[finalzone]

I didn't get far enough in the game to try lol. You are forced to do jobs until you get your own place, once you have your own place you can do 'free roam' and just drive around. But getting your own truck is like $100,000, and each job only pays like $1000-2000

You can also loan to get a truck if you want assuming the same gameplay is identical to Euro Truck Simulator 2.

[Daktyl198]

I've owned ETS 2 for a while and it's definitely a little different from other sim games. It's surprisingly relaxing, honestly... at least when you get the hang of the controls and aren't swearing as your cash flow goes down the drain from truck damage.

[finalzone]

in addition, Truck Simulator series are known to be mod friendly. SCS even release a tool set for Blender.

http://blog.scssoft.com/2015/02/scs-blender-tools-first-step.html

[soulsource]

I've been playing ETS2 for a while, and have found that without a steering wheel the game is only reasonably playable with mouse-steering, as keyboard controls hardly allow to drive curves without crashing, and gamepad steering is too slow for quick turns.
It takes a few minutes to get used to mouse steering, but once one has the hang of it, it's extremely precise.

[Ardje]

I've been playing ETS2 for a while, and have found that without a steering wheel the game is only reasonably playable with mouse-steering, as keyboard controls hardly allow to drive curves without crashing, and gamepad steering is too slow for quick turns.
It takes a few minutes to get used to mouse steering, but once one has the hang of it, it's extremely precise.

Steering is indeed ftw... But my wheel is too big. And I do not really like these kind of games, but ETS2 at least kept me driving for a while.
I would want to have a working Steam Controller in a way that I can look or steer in an easy way.
Or rift DK2 support for linux...