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[–] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 35 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Just give me a destruction derby mode please.

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I just want rush hour traffic after being awake for three days in heavy stimulants mode.

[–] Num10ck@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

you might like enviro-bear, the bear driving simulator for ios.

[–] Droechai@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago

It's also on windows

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 10 points 1 week ago

Why not just play Wreckfest?

[–] weegee90@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

"Welcome to Destruction Junction!"

[–] duchess@feddit.org 25 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Casual driving without pressure or violence? They can’t be the first, can they?

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Definitely not. Test Drive Unlimited 2 leaps to mind, which while it certainly had racing events and racing related content in it, you could also just drive around doing nothing in particular as much as you wanted.

There are several other racing oriented games that nevertheless had open worlds and you're never actually forced to race anybody in any of them, albeit usually at the expense of sacrificing any game progression and thus having a rather limited vehicle selection. Need For Speed Underground 2 and Forza Horizon, for instance.

[–] PurpleTentacle@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

The same is true for almost any open world game with vehicles. Casually driving a car in GTA while obeying the traffic rules has been a thing from the very beginning.

This still feels different somehow, though.

[–] Lifekraft@jlai.lu 1 points 1 week ago

Snowrunner is a little bit about that too.

[–] frazw@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Will it stimulate the downturn in shipping demand by making it harder to get work as the USA pushes itself and the rest of the world into recession.

[–] Elevator7009@lemmy.zip 25 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Watch Lemmy turn one of the few apolitical posts about something American into something political in 3… 2… 1…

Politics is important but sometimes I just want to play a video game without someone turning the conversation to politics when that wasn't the topic at hand at all. I'm super angry about all the things my country is doing now too, but I also sometimes want to enjoy what I have left instead of being constantly stressed about it and bringing up the horrors happening at every opportunity—especially with just a comment about if a truck driving sim that seems to be mostly just about driving will suddenly implement something political and unpleasant (when we know they probably will not, that's not the vibe they are going for) and no links to taking action. (Here are a few, albeit aimed at Americans.

On the other hand, people have to vent sometimes and I guess I need to build up tolerance and a thicker skin to that, even when it shows up in a place marked Games and not US Politics.

[–] Lifekraft@jlai.lu 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I get what you say but in this case the comment was still kind of funny in a satyrical way.

[–] Elevator7009@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Eh, to each their own, to me it wasn't funny at all. Not in a this is offensive way, I can appreciate dark humor, but the impression I personally came away with was "annoying snarky comment" and less "incisive, witty, funny and topical joke". Of course, my impression is probably extremely colored by my feeling it was just barely on-topic and a conversation hijack away from American Truck Simulator to American Politics, but I also have seen American politics comments that I found funny and this wasn't one of them. Glad you enjoyed at least, as well as the other people who upvoted, nice to see people getting value out of it where I couldn't.

[–] jumjummy@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No, that’s a DLC. Second most popular one behind “driving while being a minority”. With that DLC you get pulled over and harassed randomly.

[–] 3dmvr@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

yeah other countries arent xenophobic at all they love minorities, as a minority im glad I live in california, I dont hear great things about elsewhere, family from europe are always suprised by the diversity

[–] nevetsg@aussie.zone 13 points 1 week ago

To keep the Smokey's distracted whilst you run bootleg beer across state lines?

[–] Omega_Jimes@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 week ago

I look forward to a virtual road trip my 86 Hyundai Pony.

[–] ogmios@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago

Oh great. Nothing is safe from the Trans Am agenda.

[–] Tim_Bisley@piefed.social 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Would be nice if euro truck sim got this.

[–] Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Isn't it already doable with mods tho? Just get a car mod? Right?

[–] shiroininja@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

I’ve played both games for years. There were mod, but half of them are shitty or don’t work. One I tried just gave me black textures. Unless there’s some paid marketplace I don’t know about, the mod options for drivable cars are shitty.

[–] alanjaow@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I was disappointed when I saw that there are few roads in the game (my expectations were far too high). I was hoping for, idk, 70% of roads? Really, some sort of driving game using google maps data would be pretty awesome, if a nightmare to process all the images. Hmm, data storage would be an issue too... streaming would be too slow (I think).

[–] REDACTED@infosec.pub 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Seriously, I've been dreaming about world-scale videogame (world generates as you explore based on every useful satellite data we have) where you can just drive around.

Flight simulator comes close, but it's flying.

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And I believe it pulls the information real time from Microsoft servers

[–] EarMaster@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

It does, but mostly because we're talking about an enormous amount of data. The number being advertised is 2 Petabyte...

[–] EarMaster@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I wouldn't be to sure if Microsoft is working on something like this. What they did with Flight Simulator was pretty spectacular...

[–] thesohoriots@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Nothing like taking out the ‘93 Mercury Sable for a drive.

[–] Kardore@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

Several of the teasers showed off a WIP Crown Vic. As a truck driver IRL that owns a Mercury Grand Marquis, it feels like this update is made just for me!

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Man I love this game. That be kick ass. I still want them to add the ability to eat food. All those fast food and gas stations and can't eat.

[–] MECHAGODZILLA2@midwest.social 4 points 1 week ago

Wow I do not need yet another hobby but I know a couple dudes who will go nuts for this with their rigs.

[–] fyzzlefry@retrolemmy.com 4 points 1 week ago

I want a Scion XB

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

So, according to popular gospel it's really a penis size simulator!

[–] tover153@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This plus Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana and I can finally recreate Smoky and the Bandit 1!

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago
[–] callouscomic@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

This game works wonderfully on Steam Deck.