How do you play?

[Wygos]

I want to play with my kid coop
1. I have seen many posts that coop doesn't work or crashing constantly.
2. How do you go about buying this game? Its a nightmare. To pay 200 euro for a game you don't even own according to steam?
Also looking at mess of these dlcs i have no idea what i need to start basic game. I dont want flashy op cars and colors i want base game but with all the missions and ability to play on HARD in coop.
3. Does second person need to have all dlcs to play in other maps with person who created game?
4. Did they fixed wheel support?

[Jakubi]

1. coops works just fine
2. play base game first and decide for yourself if its worth getting any dlcs
3. idk
4. yes

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Originally posted by Wygos:

I want to play with my kid coop
1. I have seen many posts that coop doesn't work or crashing constantly.
2. How do you go about buying this game? Its a nightmare. To pay 200 euro for a game you don't even own according to steam?
Also looking at mess of these dlcs i have no idea what i need to start basic game. I dont want flashy op cars and colors i want base game but with all the missions and ability to play on HARD in coop.
3. Does second person need to have all dlcs to play in other maps with person who created game?
4. Did they fixed wheel support?

Over 5000 hours in Snowrunner (Epic/Steam/PS)
Over 2000 hours in Coop alone.

1. Coop works just fine, but there are reported issues that can be overcome. We have always been able to play Coop.

2. "play base game first and decide for yourself if its worth getting any dlcs" - I agree!

3. No - The Guest does not have to have same DLCs as Host. Someone with Base Game and No DLC's can join a Host's Game that has DLC(s) and play on the DLC maps of the Host.

4. IDK - I use a PS4 Controller and Mouse and never used a wheel before,

[Rragar]

Originally posted by Wygos:

I want to play with my kid coop
1. I have seen many posts that coop doesn't work or crashing constantly.

I've never had the crashes. There's some issues with the third player usually getting kicked out after a 4th one joins, and there's people who make public matches instead of private, to play solo or just be with 1 friend, and then kick everyone that joins (yes, as stupid as that sounds). Since you just want to play with your kid, do Private hosting and then either invite him via a session code (if you're using crossplay, which is recommended for the code feature) or just have him right click on your name in the steam list to bring up the options, and then join you from there.

Originally posted by Wygos:

Also looking at mess of these dlcs i have no idea what i need to start basic game. I dont want flashy op cars and colors i want base game but with all the missions and ability to play on HARD in coop.

You don't need to buy any of the DLC trucks. All the base game trucks are perfectly viable for getting things done. The ones that you get for free during the tutorial are quite good for doing "endgame" stuff (after upgraded).

[Wygos]

Originally posted by Rragar:

You don't need to buy any of the DLC trucks. All the base game trucks are perfectly viable for getting things done. The ones that you get for free during the tutorial are quite good for doing "endgame" stuff (after upgraded).

I know Hard was introduced later after game release. Do i need some sort of DLC for it? Or is it in basic game?

[BurakZG]

I play Hard mode from the beginning. I never bought any DLC truck.
Start with Basic game only. That is best you could do.

[Alpenwolf]

Originally posted by Wygos:

I want to play with my kid coop
1. I have seen many posts that coop doesn't work or crashing constantly.
2. How do you go about buying this game? Its a nightmare. To pay 200 euro for a game you don't even own according to steam?
Also looking at mess of these dlcs i have no idea what i need to start basic game. I dont want flashy op cars and colors i want base game but with all the missions and ability to play on HARD in coop.
3. Does second person need to have all dlcs to play in other maps with person who created game?
4. Did they fixed wheel support?

I'm not sure if I'd recommend playing hard mode with a kid - depends on its age I guess.
Maybe I'd practise the first region Michigan for a bit and then start over in hard mode.
Hard mode with no previous knowledge is ... ummm ... hard. There's also a so called "New Game +" where you can adjust many aspects and make it more challenging.
A long time in coop progress was only saved for the host. I don't know if that's still the case.
I wouldn't buy any DLCs - just play and have fun and if you made it to its end you can add regions. If I'd be asked for only one DLC to buy I'd choose the tyre set ("Jack of all treads tire set"). There are tons of mod cars (and other things) available for free. I personally chose to use mod trucks to turn SR into a driving game because I like it that way.
wheel support is a mess since the beginning and was never fixed and even if you find your settings they don't get saved. There are some workarounds but it's pretty annoying to say the least.
The rest of your questions I don't know

[german038389]

also, wait for discounts (spring sale is mid march and summer sale is end of june)
as people said, its perfectly fine to start with base game and later pick up season passes for extra maps
as for other DLCs, i only got Mastodon (OP truck, but alternative is Zikz 605R from Amur map) and tires dlc

and as user above said, try normal mode first (cause lot of casual players already complain, that its hard), to atleast learn the game for few hours. later you can start new save on either hard or modify difficulty on New Game+
but i suggest keeping the normal mode save, so you can return there to chill if you just wanna enjoy ride or try something (i personally have 600 hours on normal and i enjoyed every bit of it)

[Rragar]

Originally posted by Wygos:

Originally posted by Rragar:

You don't need to buy any of the DLC trucks. All the base game trucks are perfectly viable for getting things done. The ones that you get for free during the tutorial are quite good for doing "endgame" stuff (after upgraded).

I know Hard was introduced later after game release. Do i need some sort of DLC for it? Or is it in basic game?

No DLC required, it's built into the base game.

[Vimpster]

Originally posted by BurakZG:

I play Hard mode from the beginning. I never bought any DLC truck.
Start with Basic game only. That is best you could do.

On Steam it may have been available from the beginning, but the game came out a year earlier on Epic Launcher and hard mode came well after the release. Another big game feature that only came out on like season 3 I think, was logging. There was no logging in the game before than, but they retroactively added logging to the base game regions and prior DLC regions.

[Rragar]

Originally posted by Alpenwolf:

I'm not sure if I'd recommend playing hard mode with a kid - depends on its age I guess.
Maybe I'd practise the first region Michigan for a bit and then start over in hard mode.
Hard mode with no previous knowledge is ... ummm ... hard.

There's adults who can't figure out Hard Mode, and some of those adults even invent stupid excuses to not use your recommendations after you've discussed the problem with them (ridiculously stupid things like "I don't like winches cause I wouldn't get off my truck IRL to do this, so I won't use them" [this one made me laugh real good]).

Unless you're dealing with someone who is still in extremely early cognitive development stages, I'd say it's more about the type of person than the age range. If the child shows interest in the activity, you just have to make sure you help the child understand the full nature of the challenge/problem to solve, and help the child build a solution framework for the given situation. Same deal when adults try to solve complex problems in environments/contexts that are entirely new to them.

[Vimpster]

Originally posted by Rragar:

There's adults who can't figure out Hard Mode, and some of those adults even invent stupid excuses to not use your recommendations after you've discussed the problem with them (ridiculously stupid things like "I don't like winches cause I wouldn't get off my truck IRL to do this, so I won't use them" [this one made me laugh real good]).

Unless you're dealing with someone who is still in extremely early cognitive development stages, I'd say it's more about the type of person than the age range. If the child shows interest in the activity, you just have to make sure you help the child understand the full nature of the challenge/problem to solve, and help the child build a solution framework for the given situation. Same deal when adults try to solve complex problems in environments/contexts that are entirely new to them.

What is wrong with self imposed challenges that can't be found in hard mode? Although I am not overstrict with it I too try to use the winch as little as possible. I also refuse to recover vehicles with the recover button. I did that even before they added hard mode.

[Beast of War]

Hard mode does not make the terrain any different, nor does it do anything to the trucks.

So the only difference is economy, how much Cr you make and have to spend. Difficult it is only when you do not understand how to reduce fuel consumption ( vehicle and engine selection mostly ) and follow routes with solid surfaces ( which does the same as struggling consumes vast amounts of fuel )

And it limits the selection of vehicles you can bring to another map, so you will have to be more considerate with what to buy or bring.

[BurakZG]

I play on Hard Mode from the beginning. After finishing all missions in MudRunner I thought, I'm good enough ;-)
To be honest I never pay attention to fuel economy. The amounts you can loose/save by changing gears or using different trucks is not worth the effort.
What works for me, is avoid mistakes. Recovery of truck, manual or automatic, is going to cost you a lot. Second, plan missions in opportunistic way. After every mission I see where I am and what is the next mission I can do with minimum effort. Often it is better to take a bigger truck (if it's available) and not getting stuck somewhere, than taking smaller, but having to recover it somewhere on the way.

[deckerdave1973]

IF you don't use maprunner to find your materials, the hardest and most frustrating part of hard mode is that you can't skip time. Most of my incidents happen at night. Buying DLC trucks kind of sucks, but it is hard mode afterall.

In multiplayer, I normally play with one other guy and it is MOSTLY bug free, but I have found 3 guys using cranes in a close proximity is a recipe of disaster. Same with moving through gateways. We always make sure that the other side is clear before travelling through.

I have a decent wheel setup, and have got it to work in the past, but for me this is a controller on the couch game. Hopefully your controller has trigger locks for the throttle

[Beast of War]

Originally posted by BurakZG:

To be honest I never pay attention to fuel economy. The amounts you can loose/save by changing gears or using different trucks is not worth the effort.

It does make a difference if you want to have DLC trucks or trucks you won't find in the maps as you need to buy them for Cr.

When playing multiplayer you can get ample Cr but playing solo and not selling the vehicles you found it may take a long time to purchase a single DLC or ingame store truck. It will be considerable faster when you do pay attention to fuel usage :-)))

But what you say is true, making mistakes costs even more fuel.