Diff Lock in Automatic

[eCapter]

Hello,

well title is question. Its so damn annoying that I have to change gear with that clunky mechanic to use diff lock and even more that I honestly have to switch to R to reverse WITH W while using diff lock.
I understnad that some people with wheel want realism but I use keyboard or xbox crontroller and that is so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ annoying that I honestly might quit the game because of it.
Also when I use AUTOMATIC I want AUTOMATIC....
So can I change that somehow with some setting I didnt find or a mod?

[McKillem]

No.

[Vimpster]

I use a controller and I have never found it to be the least bit annoying. It is both realistic and has gameplay value to make that restriction.

[Ixia Irisborne]

When using keyboard and mouse, try using the arrow keys instead of the mouse to move the gear selector. It's much easier, I've found.

[Ebyl]

You can also assign gears to keys when using a keyboard. The numberpad works great for that.

[eCapter]

that are some good hints, thanks. I think its hilarious that they force that. Especially that in A i reverse with S and with diff lock they force realism to reverse with W....that combination is nonesense. You can limit gears for diff lock in A too

[Rragar]

Originally posted by eCapter:

Hello,

well title is question. Its so damn annoying that I have to change gear with that clunky mechanic to use diff lock and even more that I honestly have to switch to R to reverse WITH W while using diff lock.
I understnad that some people with wheel want realism but I use keyboard or xbox crontroller and that is so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ annoying that I honestly might quit the game because of it.
Also when I use AUTOMATIC I want AUTOMATIC....
So can I change that somehow with some setting I didnt find or a mod?

If you want to use diff locks in automatic, get a truck with always-on diff locks. There's quite a few available like these, I think there's options for them in every truck class except Highway, and maybe also except Heavy Duty (can't quite remember right now). Lots of always-on diff lock trucks are russian, so I'd start there... they also usually steer rather poorly, look for the american ones if you want better steering and fuel economy.

For the record, though, it's also generally a bad idea to do automatic with diff locks, btw.

This is because the situations where a diff lock is a boon and not a hindrance, you'll want to do them either with any low gear stage (for precision and/or to prevent digging yourself into a trench) or the high gear stage (so you can do fast offroading while both preventing downshifting and also preventing torque loss from excessive upshifting).

Always-on diff lock vehicles also have bad steering since you can't get the steering wheel on the outside of a turn to rotate faster to compensate for the longer perimeter it must cover in the same time as the wheel on the inside.

I honestly don't see any reasons to use Automatic unless you're driving on a paved road or a decent dirt road, and diff locks while you're doing that are really not good. Try driving a Loadstar in Automatic on a straight road, and you'll see what I mean. Especially if you set it up with a Highrunner/Freerunner/Highway transmission, you'll sometimes want to switch to Neutral gear to allow for asynchronous wheel rotation speeds to maintain control at high speeds.

So if you don't want to risk flipping/wrecking your trucks while driving them in Auto on roads with always-on diff locks, you'll either want all-terrain tires or to drive slowly.

[TonyP75]

I really enjoy playing this game with an Xbox controller. Changing gears and switching diff lock as well as awd on and off is a breeze. I can even do it while accelerating.

[fresh_k0_lesh]

Num7 - low+
Num1 - low-
Num4 - low
Num8 - high
Num5 - auto
Num2 - reverse
Num6 - neutral

[Kosevich]

Originally posted by fresh_k0_lesh:

Num7 - low+
Num1 - low-
Num4 - low
Num8 - high
Num5 - auto
Num2 - reverse
Num6 - neutral

Lol, you just need third hand to use this hot keys
1 - first person camera
2 - low+
3 - auto
4 - high
5 - reverse
Other gears practically never uses (if needed you can manually switch).
In this case left hand is for driving and gear change, while right hand is on mouse for observation nearby obstacles (playing in 3rd person mode).

[Beast of War]

Originally posted by Rragar:

Always-on diff lock vehicles also have bad steering since you can't get the steering wheel on the outside of a turn to rotate faster to compensate for the longer perimeter it must cover in the same time as the wheel on the inside.

I often noticed a far wider turn radius with the diff lock ( partly ) engaged in my real (AWD/4x4) car but never really noticed n game. Up until i tried to turn with the new 3 axle tractor on the first field in the new DLC.

With the 6 normal mud tires ( not the double ones ) it struggles to pull the implement in the soft field so i switched diff lock on. Turning with that on produces an unworkable huge turning radius. I switched diff lock off and it immediately became much shorter.

So a huge turning radius can be a downside of permanent diff locked vehicles. Some do have multiple steering axles to compensate for it though.

[Realmonster]

yeah, its pretty dumb and not realistic at all.

[Bror_Margith]

Just modify the xml files of your desired truck, navigate to your steam folder, steamapps, common, snowrunner, preload, paks, initial. You can open the initial.pak with winrar for example. Open it then open the classes folder, after that look for the trucks folder, scroll down to the desired truck look for the xml files not the folders. Open the file with preferebly notepad ++.press ctrl F search for diff you will find a line that says difflock something. Then you just change the value from example "none" or "installed" to "Always" save the changed file and check back on the rar and it will say that files got changed in the rar file and if you want to save them just press yes and you are done. Start the game and glhf

[eCapter]

thats very interesting, thanks. But somehow my folder structure looks different. i have ... preload - paks - client. In client is a initial file but it contains no "classes".
Its weird because someone jsut told me that in "paks" are the 3d models of the trucks, but in my paks is nothinbg but client. Do you maybe know why? Got the folder structure maybe changed recently to prevent such things?