Region difficulty

[Errollitos]

Hey, recentlly I started all over after doing everything 100 % and I wondered how would people rank the maps difficulty-wise. I thought it might be a fun thing to do and share, make a poll of sorts and then do the results hence this post. I do not take into consideration the trucks you get from the zones nor the upgrades etc, just the maps, how difficult is it to traverse and finish all the tasks / contracts. Feel free to join in and share your thoughts :-)

1. Amur (top difficulty)
2. Kola
3. Zherbai Qiarries
4. Yukon
5. Maine (I remember it tough maybe because I did not have any good trucks yet?)
6. Don
7. Scandinavia
8. Wisconsin
9. Austria
10. North Carolina
11. Taymyr
12. Ontario
13. Belozersk Glades
14. British Columbia
15. Alaska
16. Tennessee
17. Michigan

[Kosevich]

Originally posted by Errollitos:

Hey, recentlly I started all over after doing everything 100 % and I wondered how would people rank the maps difficulty-wise. I thought it might be a fun thing to do and share, make a poll of sorts and then do the results hence this post. I do not take into consideration the trucks you get from the zones nor the upgrades etc, just the maps, how difficult is it to traverse and finish all the tasks / contracts. Feel free to join in and share your thoughts :-)

1. Amur (top difficulty)
2. Kola
3. Zherbai Qiarries
4. Yukon
5. Maine (I remember it tough maybe because I did not have any good trucks yet?)
6. Don
7. Scandinavia
8. Wisconsin
9. Austria
10. North Carolina
11. Taymyr
12. Ontario
13. Belozersk Glades
14. British Columbia
15. Alaska
16. Tennessee
17. Michigan

In general i agree.
However for me Zherbai Qiarries was not so rough, thre is lots of shortcuts, especially incide Qiarries that makes it alot easier.
Maine and Don was deffinitely the test of your driving skills. You need to be VERY alerted on every turn.

1. Amur (top difficulty)
2. Kola
3. Yukon
4. Maine (I remember it tough maybe because I did not have any good trucks yet?)
5. Don
6. Zherbai Qiarries
7. Scandinavia
8. Wisconsin
9. Austria
10. North Carolina
11. Ontario
12. British Columbia
13. Taymyr
14. Alaska
15. Tennessee
16. Michigan
17. Belozersk Glades

[Beast of War]

I don not perceive difficulty but a measure how annoying or frustrating the map is set up to be.

The first several DLC regions had artificial "traps" that make you fail such as 1 way flexing obstacles hooking into your vehicle or trailer, roots ( visible or even non visible under water or under mud ) hooking into your vehicle or trailer, sideways angled roads that make you roll over or slide off ( ice ) or ice road climbs without any strip of traction surface next to them via a guard rail in the way. And a few irrecoverable sinkholes deliberately without winch points.

All meant to force you off the road, or take another ( longer or less obvious ) route. Once you get that and find other solid surfaces ( dark blue ice for example ) and routes ( often visible on the map as open area's or a passing in rocks without a road ) to drive on the game is again easy.

Nowadays DLC maps are more about selecting the right tire type for the surface the route you take offers most of, and hence less frustrating or annoying. But they can be selecting the wrong tire type or wheel size. ( vehicles with small wheels are more difficult to use off the road )

[Nite69]

I would put tennessee further up, there was a few missions that were a pain in the butt to get done, and also the rocks on that particular map are very easy tire slicers

[RedHaze1911]

Scandinavia is that high up? Whats hard about it?

[Kosevich]

Originally posted by RedHaze1911:

Scandinavia is that high up? Whats hard about it?

There is snow and high saddle cargo delivery on top of the mountain, + pretty interesting cargo unlocks and craft + low amount of fuel on second map.
It's not hard in general as it was first map actually fine doable with highway trucks, but definitely tricky in comparison with other maps in the list.

[Kal]

I found the starting area to be confusing and gave up on the game entirely. Did they ever redo that area for a better training level?

[Qrazy]

Originally posted by Kal:

I found the starting area to be confusing and gave up on the game entirely. Did they ever redo that area for a better training level?

Nope

[Demark]

The most difficult cards are the ones that are boring! Amur is the most interesting!It took 100% more than a month of solo play! for me, the most boring is Arable land

[Errollitos]

Originally posted by RedHaze1911:

Scandinavia is that high up? Whats hard about it?

Well, it was for me when I compared the zones. It might not be for you, that's why I wanted people to post their lists or rankings, at the end I would somewhat do an average and see how the zones would fare, thought it would be fun to see. So far only few posted full rankings / list.

[Beast of War]

Originally posted by Kal:

I found the starting area to be confusing and gave up on the game entirely. Did they ever redo that area for a better training level?

The challenge at the start of the base game comes from not immediately having access to larger wheels and Off Road or Mud tires. You need both for the most optimal dirt, mud or snow performance.

Being forced to drive on "slicks" and smaller wheels makes any kind of mud very difficult, but this has a function : the game tries to tell you avoiding mud is always preferable. This remains true for the entirety of the game : while you can go through mud or snow with larger wheels and better tires later, it always slows you down and you would be better off finding another route , driver over firmer surfaces or find a way to go around the mud or snow.

And in the base game you need to find and recover heavy trucks like the P16, Twinsteer and C 745 from other maps in the base game that can pull the many recovery mission vehicles from marshes and deep mud. The mediums are not suitable due to a lack of weight, wheel pressure and traction. The heavy ones can pull free vehicles with their stock tires and wheels. If you insist doing the rescue missions, or large special trailer pulling missions with the mediums the game becomes difficult as well, while it does not have to be.

[Kal]

It wasn't the driving around part. I could do that. Got good with a wench. It was the quests/missions structure. Couldn't get to needed items. It was a few years ago so I don't remember the details. I do remember my frustration level just trying to complete basic quests. Just walked away. Uninstalled.

[SlowClick]

Another way to rate the difficulty would be to consider how difficult the maps appear to be when doing them in order and for the first time. In this case I would put Michigan very high on the list, because there are so many challenges for the player - the game mechanics, menu systems, how missions work etc on top of route finding and managing the driving.
Next in difficulty was Kola, mainly because of the difficulty in finding safe routes, even though the missions and tasks try to teach you this.

[Beast of War]

Originally posted by SlowClick:

Another way to rate the difficulty would be to consider how difficult the maps appear to be when doing them in order and for the first time. In this case I would put Michigan very high on the list,

I can agree with this, as replaying Michigan with literally years of Snowrunner experience on hard settings proved rather difficult because of the "slick" tires that make any surface but asphalt or dry dirt a nightmare to drive on, and also making it difficult to get the heavy trucks from the other maps very early in game.

Of course when you can reach and grab the P16 all base game traction problems are over. But new players do not know this....but even with this knowledge getting to the P16 on "slicks" is the stuff of testing determination and resolve ( Drummond Island has 2 river crossings with the bridges still out ) too :-))

[Nite69]

Originally posted by Beast of War:

Originally posted by SlowClick:

Another way to rate the difficulty would be to consider how difficult the maps appear to be when doing them in order and for the first time. In this case I would put Michigan very high on the list,

I can agree with this, as replaying Michigan with literally years of Snowrunner experience on hard settings proved rather difficult because of the "slick" tires that make any surface but asphalt or dry dirt a nightmare to drive on, and also making it difficult to get the heavy trucks from the other maps very early in game.

Of course when you can reach and grab the P16 all base game traction problems are over. But new players do not know this....but even with this knowledge getting to the P16 on "slicks" is the stuff of testing determination and resolve ( Drummond Island has 2 river crossings with the bridges still out ) too :-))

I always recommend the Tayga 6436 to new players sincei its so close to the first russia garage, You can get to it sooner then the P16, the Tayga 6436 only needs fuel and repair which can be done on a few scout car runs, or if the player has season 8 they can grab the 6436 from Rail yard on the first map which has a really nice concrete road leading to it and ready to drive