Devs, did you consult with a Road Construction Company?

[Snake]

Or even watch a YT video on Road Construction? 30 years ago when I was building Homes and Roads to those homes, We would NEVER use a front end loader as a road grader we would use a ROAD GRADER.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuCK715qCdI

Just asking, for a friend.
Games awesome, when it runs, it should have been in early access for a year.

[Maerdoch]

The vertical controls are inverted for all the machines and they run the "grader" (Loader) with the blade a mile in the air for high range or for any reverse travel... You can't backblade at all which realistically is the only way you'll accomplish anything close to a finished grade with a loader... They also don't do sand compaction or a layer of gravel before the asphalt... It's all awkward, clunky and objectively wrong.

The game does scratch an itch but it's not the right one. It feels like playing Surgeon Simulator or something that's so awkward that it's ironically good... Like you can succeed DESPITE how janky it is and that's satisfying in it's own right but as a road building simulator it misses on all the marks.

[Jumunji]

Originally posted by Maerdoch:

The vertical controls are inverted for all the machines and they run the "grader" (Loader) with the blade a mile in the air for high range or for any reverse travel... You can't backblade at all which realistically is the only way you'll accomplish anything close to a finished grade with a loader... They also don't do sand compaction or a layer of gravel before the asphalt... It's all awkward, clunky and objectively wrong.

The game does scratch an itch but it's not the right one. It feels like playing Surgeon Simulator or something that's so awkward that it's ironically good... Like you can succeed DESPITE how janky it is and that's satisfying in it's own right but as a road building simulator it misses on all the marks.

try out of ore mate its a mining game but the road building is sooooo much better than this

[Fenix]

I work for a construction company, that does water, sewer, and drainage.
We don't use Grader, on the road, only in large development sites.
We rip out a section of road,
make a trench for the pipe,
install the pipe,
bury the pipe with dirt or sand,
smooth the dirt/sand with the Loader bucket or skid steer bucket,
roll it with a Regular or trench roller, sometimes use a jumping jack tamp to compress it
put rocks, call crush and run, down, repeat the smoothing with the loader or skid steer bucket, and rolling, and tamping it.
Put down a Base layer of Asphalt, slightly higher that it needs to be.
when the job is done, we mill the road, and pave the road,

What we do in game it's much different than my company's way of doing it.... at least replacing what we rip out.
Just it would be done with a bucket, and the road would be flatten with with a tamp and trench/regular roller, and rocks would be the top layer before paving it.

[Plagen]

To be fair, most of the roads we make are pretty ♥♥♥♥. They're probably just temporary roads to get the infrastructure restored in the area and will be rebuilt later. Especially since they're all basically single lane roads too.

[Marlowe-33]

Originally posted by Jumunji:

Originally posted by Maerdoch:

The vertical controls are inverted for all the machines and they run the "grader" (Loader) with the blade a mile in the air for high range or for any reverse travel... You can't backblade at all which realistically is the only way you'll accomplish anything close to a finished grade with a loader... They also don't do sand compaction or a layer of gravel before the asphalt... It's all awkward, clunky and objectively wrong.

The game does scratch an itch but it's not the right one. It feels like playing Surgeon Simulator or something that's so awkward that it's ironically good... Like you can succeed DESPITE how janky it is and that's satisfying in it's own right but as a road building simulator it misses on all the marks.

try out of ore mate its a mining game but the road building is sooooo much better than this

Amazing , i never even heard of that game Out of Ore it looks ok.

[MJY]

would be fun to use a grater, western one where the blade is in the middle of the vehicle and u can rotate it, prob Europe got that also , not sure, but would be nice to get it to do 2 x wide roads

[Jumunji]

Originally posted by Marlowe-33:

Originally posted by Jumunji:

try out of ore mate its a mining game but the road building is sooooo much better than this

Amazing , i never even heard of that game Out of Ore it looks ok.

it is super fun heap of people on their discord looking for players too

[Jumunji]

Originally posted by Marlowe-33:

Originally posted by Jumunji:

try out of ore mate its a mining game but the road building is sooooo much better than this

Amazing , i never even heard of that game Out of Ore it looks ok.

https://discord.gg/qjm3MNB8
their discord if you wanna check it out

[Freeloader Fred]

it's a game...don't take it so seriously. The only thing thats annoying regarding the front loader is how the marching stance is the only stance that turns off low gear which puts the blade high up in the air for traversal which is wrong. Other then that who cares if its "realistic" to real life? its a video game.

[Greeno]

Yeah wish they had a real dozer and grader!
This game does make me wonder if maybe a future map they'll introduce a snow plow truck and that sort of disaster recover... hmmmm. The sand does plow off finished roads so similar mechanic perhaps.