Recent reviews by sascha.pascal

Muss man im Jahr 2025 noch viel zu ETS2 sagen?

Also dass das Spiel flüssig auf so gut wie jedem Rechner läuft, da selbst mit den Engine Upgrades, die SCS im Laufe der Jahre gemacht hat, das Spiel halt immer noch mit Technik von 2013 läuft, empfinde ich als sehr positiv.

Genauso auch, dass obwohl dieses Spiel bereits seit 12 Jahren auf dem Markt ist, SCS nicht etwa wie andere Anbieter einfach ein ETS3 herausbringt, für das man dann wieder alle Karten neu kaufen darf, sondern sie einen Teil der Einnahmen durch die DLCs dafür verwenden, alte Teile der Karte zu aktualisieren, wie jetzt die UK Karte, die noch vom alten UK Truck Simulator stammt. Da kauft man dann gerne auch immer die neuen Karten, um das Spiel weiter zu unterstützen (und wer neu einsteigen will, der kann das wenn eine neue Karte herauskommt oder zu den üblichen Rabattwochen sogar recht günstig, so dass neue Spieler nicht pleite werden, nur weil sie von Island in die Türkei fahren wollen.)

Das Besondere an diesem Spiel ist aber, dass die Macher sich wirklich Mühe dabei geben, trotz der Einschränkungen der Kartengröße (denn niemand würde europaweites LKW-Spiel zocken wollen, wenn er für eine Fahrt von Hamburg nach München wirklich 12 Stunden bräuchte) es schaffen, die Städte so gut zu designen, dass man wirklich das Gefühl hat: "Die Kreuzung kenn ich" (leider, liebes SCS, habt ihr bei der Kreuzung an der mein Studentenheim steht das Gebäude in der falschen Farbe, das Gebäude ist blau, nicht eigelb. Aber gut, dafür waren Freunde von mir erstaunt, dass sogar die Lagerhalle im Spiel ist, in der sie ihre Sachen gelagert haben). Bei anderen Simulatoren kann man froh sein wenn man erahnen kann, wo man gerade ist.

Welche weiteren Features das Game bietet? Viele. Ihr wollt euer favorite Waifu als Beifahrerin - gibt es als Mod. Ihr wollt süsse Kuscheltiere, Sticker von euren bereits besuchten Orten? Gibt es als DLC, als Mod und sogar als Geschenke für geschaffte Events. (Tipp an SCS: Nachdem es seit 2020 viele neue Spieler gibt, wäre es doch nicht falsch, wenn es irgendwann Wiederholungen der Events für die gibt, die noch nicht ihre Awards haben - und vielleicht dann Extraawards für diejenigen, die es doppelt gemacht haben.) Ihr wollt LKWs, die wirklich so reagieren - zum Guten als auch zum Schlechten - wie ihre echten Pendants? Ist möglich. Ihr wollt für euren echten C-Schein lernen: Es gibt sogar eine Fahrschule - und mittlerweile werben sogar echte Logistikfirmen im Spiel, um den Fahrermangel im realen Truck-Business loszuwerden.

Darum Tipp: Kauft euch das Spiel, wenn es im Angebot ist und die Karten, die euch gefallen (es gibt bestimmte Kombinationen, wer z.b. Griechenland kaufen will, muss sich nur Italien oder den Westbalkan dazu kaufen, um ohne Schnell-Reise nach Athen zu kommen) und genießt es, mit dem LKW, bald auch Bus und womöglich auch irgendwann Auto die Teile von Europa anzuschauen, die ihr bisher noch nicht IRL sehen konntet, oder die Orte wieder zu entdecken, wo ihr schon einmal Urlaub gemacht habt.

I have asked for a refund for this game, because it's a real bad game, even after the "great update", that deleted any achievement by anybody in the game.

Yes, you can hunt or grow chickens or pigs - but in reality it's mostly a waste of time, because they give you so few money, that you cannot even earn good stable etc.

The forced tutorial is in reality not teaching you anything - only where the shops are and how to use the automatic saw, But it is still forced and you are even forced to destroy your old grandmas house, instead of for example repairing it. Rebuild is not possible, only the rebuild of some stupid preparated bad looking houses. Oh and no, you don't "build" them, you just grind wood, buy metal and cement and then the house is magically there - even in the former version is was better, where you at least built the walls before the house magically appears.

This game is obviously not EA but only a alpha status game that the company pushed into EA to gain money.

The game is in an early stage, so there are many details that are still missing - but often you just need a Mod to get your wishes, like when you don't want to only have one trolley bus, the modders can provide you with several busses from all areas. The same with buildings etc.

The Game itself is like a mixture out of the Settlers, Sim City/Cities Skylinies and Transport Tycoon. You really have to do ALL the stuff. It's not like Sim City, where you tell them: "here is your residential area, build your hut", but you have to decide which house goes where. So you can be much more realistic than in typical building games - you can build a village or a mega city (when your PC is able to handle the people) in your design.

Also it's like the Settlers - yes, you can play it easy by just buying contractors from the outside world to build your buildings. But when you want to have it the hard way, you can also start by building a small construction office by money and ONE hut (both are available as mods) and then you build your city up from the ground. My city at the moment is planned for over 20.000 people - but most is yellow, as I'm still in the building up phase - and I even haven't started to plan out the real capital of my small socialistic "paradise".

Also it's like transport tycoon and industry tycoon on heavy mode: You are not only building the factories - you also have to provide them with truck lines that feed them. And feed the people. And the people need public transport to get to the job. And so on.

But as the game is in an early stage, it also has still many problems:

1. Your people are stupid as they can be. Even when you have 100% of them given university training, they are still not intelligent enough to go into the most important parts of your town first, like electricity production, mines, heating plants (russian winter is really dangerous in this game, you can lose a well running city in one month without heating). You need to assign at least one house exclusively to your most important plants like heating plant, electricity plant etc. so that they will work. You can import resources etc - but when you have nobody working in the factory, your stuck of coal will do nothing.

2. Build first your houses - with space where you want to have the road - and then the road, electricity lines etc - It's with most houses and factories quite impossible to build them when you have build your transportation grid first. Also because of the realism - you will not have neatly fitting buildings and roads - curves need space, as well as you can't use any point on a road to attach a new pathway.

3. Be aware of the bare minimum your comrades need: Electricity, Heating (most important in winter), food, clothes (Americano Jeans are a workers dream it seems), a church or a bar (if you prefer to have your people being drunk or christian) and a Kindergarten, schools and some kind of entertainment are most important - you give it to them, they will love you, even when they have to live in small huts. Well, better than the Gulag (but you could also build one :D)

4. If you want to have anything liberal in this game, like democracy, rights for minorities, etc - you will not love this game. This is a realistic socialism simulator game! Not a "how I think socialism should be" game. When you want fancy houses with caribbean vibes and humour - there is another franchise of building game existing, where you can play dictator in tropical paradise. And yes, I put it into "negative" as a warning for those, who might otherwise be annoyed that their woke dreams cannot become reality in mother sowjet russia. Although I'm glad, that I cannot build prisons for political imprisonment. I don't need it too realistic.

So in the end, when you want to play an early access game that really takes time and effort to play, but gifts you with nice looking socialistic prefab cities (I never said pretty), where you want to microorganize everything and try to survive russia winter - this is a game for you.

When you want to have your fancy, easy to play city builder, where all people are happy - play another game. There is a reason that there are walls implemented in this game ;)