What DLC's are worth buying?

[MANKIND]

Which ones add new maps and which ones add stuff to Michigan and Alaska too.
I want to get some for me and my friend but not sure whats worth it.
Im not interested in vehicle only dlc's as those I can just check for myself if I like the trucks.

[PrestonLK]

Q: Which ones add new maps
A: The ones with "Season" in the name followed by a number.

Q: and which ones add stuff to Michigan and Alaska too.
A: No DLCs add content to base game maps.

[Beast of War]

Yep the season ( number ) DLC add new maps and vehicles which you will have to find in these new DLC maps and unlock.

But the only thing they add to Michigan is vehicles, after you unlocked them in the new DLC maps.

That is the difference with vehicle only DLC, these just appear in your garage ( normal mode ) or are immediately available for sale.

And whats worth it ? Well Michigan and Alaska do not require anything else then what you unlock in these maps, and you will already get a lot of vehicles there, some of which will never be surpassed ( Twinsteer, P16, Caterpillar 745C ) by anything better.

The Russian DLC maps that follow are much more difficult ( you basically should not follow roads and truck track there anymore ) and that is where you will be needing Russian mediums ( you get them with the maps ) as these have tires much more suited for that sort of terrain.

You can make it easier for yourself there with big wheel vehicle DLC or 8x8 with big wheels. Then again, you will also reduce the difficulty level that was intended and may not learn to deal with where to drive as intended, as these big wheels will go over and through anything with far less challenge.

Note that in Michigan and Alaska you already get "big wheel" vehicles such as the ones i mentioned. Use them if you struggle with the few deeper mud pools, river wade through's, marshes and snow there. Learning to go around them or take another route is better though :-))

I think all DLC are "worth it" although the racing DLC is a single map with "useless" vehicles for other maps. If the racing truck would have had an "autonomous scout" battery fed winch it might have passed as a heavy scout. But it has not. I stil use it as such now and then since it has no other purpose.

[Mogges]

Great DLCs, absolutely worth the prize: Kola, Yukon, Wisconsin, Maine, Amur
Crap DLC: Don
More crap: all racing DLCs

[PrestonLK]

Originally posted by Mogges:

Great DLCs, absolutely worth the prize: Kola, Yukon, Wisconsin, Maine, Amur
Crap DLC: Don
More crap: all racing DLCs

I quite enjoyed Don personally, though I can agree the racing DLCs sucked. Tennessee was absolutely atrocious.

[Mogges]

In my eyes Don was over-the-top. You could not drive straight simply 10 m, one obstacle after the other. And all of them on a very tiny map. Not very hard obstacles, all doable, but too many of them and too concentrated.

[Beast of War]

Originally posted by Mogges:

In my eyes Don was over-the-top. You could not drive straight simply 10 m, one obstacle after the other. And all of them on a very tiny map. Not very hard obstacles, all doable, but too many of them and too concentrated.

The one thing that i remember of that map is it was pure luck if your suspension was not severely damaged entering the port entrance. Just for touching the concrete plate - at any speed with smaller wheels - which i thought was over the top.

But maybe that is me being too lazy to ever find out if there was another way to get in the port ( minus the back entry leading to the the Tatra factory )

[McGamblin]

what about the upgrade for the gmc that is on the first dlc map? what about the awd upgrade for the twinsteer on a dlc map? there are upgrades for base game trucks on dlc maps

[MANKIND]

Originally posted by Beast of War:

Yep the season ( number ) DLC add new maps and vehicles which you will have to find in these new DLC maps and unlock.

But the only thing they add to Michigan is vehicles, after you unlocked them in the new DLC maps.

That is the difference with vehicle only DLC, these just appear in your garage ( normal mode ) or are immediately available for sale.

And whats worth it ? Well Michigan and Alaska do not require anything else then what you unlock in these maps, and you will already get a lot of vehicles there, some of which will never be surpassed ( Twinsteer, P16, Caterpillar 745C ) by anything better.

The Russian DLC maps that follow are much more difficult ( you basically should not follow roads and truck track there anymore ) and that is where you will be needing Russian mediums ( you get them with the maps ) as these have tires much more suited for that sort of terrain.

You can make it easier for yourself there with big wheel vehicle DLC or 8x8 with big wheels. Then again, you will also reduce the difficulty level that was intended and may not learn to deal with where to drive as intended, as these big wheels will go over and through anything with far less challenge.

Note that in Michigan and Alaska you already get "big wheel" vehicles such as the ones i mentioned. Use them if you struggle with the few deeper mud pools, river wade through's, marshes and snow there. Learning to go around them or take another route is better though :-))

I think all DLC are "worth it" although the racing DLC is a single map with "useless" vehicles for other maps. If the racing truck would have had an "autonomous scout" battery fed winch it might have passed as a heavy scout. But it has not. I stil use it as such now and then since it has no other purpose.

Thanks for the very detailed info. I wasn't aware of it but it seems Snowrunner is following Eurotruck and same other style of games path, with a lot of content in the form of dlc's coming in probably for years to come, I thought they had already stopped releasing content.

Is there a DLC that focus more on Scout vehicles? Like only with challenges to drive on really though spots? Like hill climbing and driving on rocks and such

[PrestonLK]

Originally posted by Sugar Dry:

Is there a DLC that focus more on Scout vehicles? Like only with challenges to drive on really though spots? Like hill climbing and driving on rocks and such

Nope, unfortunately not. Closest you’ll get to that without mods is the base game’s “trial” maps.

[Mogges]

What about the Kola DLC? Most of the missions are scout missions.

[PrestonLK]

Where they? It's been a long time since I played that region so all I really remember from it is the armored car and plane recovery missions and being very frustrated at all the bridges that couldn't be repaired.

[Mogges]

Yes it was. A lof of: "drive to A, B, C, D, E" visit "this, visit that......" on ice, on hills, all over the map. Not a lot of transport except the armored car and plane recovery.

[Beast of War]

Originally posted by Sugar Dry:

Thanks for the very detailed info. I wasn't aware of it but it seems Snowrunner is following Eurotruck and same other style of games path, with a lot of content in the form of dlc's coming in probably for years to come, I thought they had already stopped releasing content.

Is there a DLC that focus more on Scout vehicles? Like only with challenges to drive on really though spots? Like hill climbing and driving on rocks and such

The Jeep DLC and Land Rover DLC are vehicle only DLC, but it still seems to be what you ask for.

Most players do not like Season 7 very much ( the "racing" single map ) but it sounds like you would enjoy it : there is not only racing but also vehicle control tests with obstacles and other challenges, like driving river stream up. Part of these are meant for or can be driven with scout vehicles and one ( a beetle model scout ) comes with the map.

But when you use scout vehicles and unlock every watch tower in the regular maps / in the entire game you get plenty of scout size off road action. You can even use some of them with a trailer to transport up to 2 slots of cargo. Won't be easy however, just as IRL wheel size matters. Trucks can go where scouts get stuck* Then again scouts can go between trees and on narrow goat paths ( there are several in game ) where trucks get stuck or fall off.

* In the military IRL, driving a short base Land Rover i first noticed that : 10 ton trucks passed me with almost 3 times my speed while i was struggling to keep control of my steering wheel and keep moving in an area with soft fine sand :-)) Larger wheels roll over and through anything much easier, and you will notice this is one of the most important game realities as well.