Quick Job gave me an impossible setup.

[Nerezza]

I made a fresh profile to start an unmodded run, so I could get a feel for the latest changes in the game. Fresh out of the tutorial, my first Quick Job ended 2 minutes after it started, like this: http://steamcommunity.com/id/nerezza/screenshot/93849443077005924

I tried going up the hill in the low gears using sequential shifter, but the truck just slid backwards until it jammed up against the shack there. Once caught against the shack, it was literally going nowhere. If a quick job starts in a quarry, the truck should have enough horsepower to get out of the quarry.

[Ant Ra]

Maybe a help, maybe not.
Unload the trailer with T and try to escape with your solo truck from this mess. After that maybe you are able to come back to push the trailer in somewhat better situation and take it back with T.

Slowly to not damage truck and trailer ^^

[Klaas]

Manual transmission FTW.

[Nimir-Raj]

Originally posted by Klaas:

Manual transmission FTW.

That.

[Marvin]

Originally posted by Surrounded Alone Moh1336:

Originally posted by Klaas:

Manual transmission FTW.

That.

Possibly a stupid question, but how would manual transmission improve the situation over sequential?
I thought sequential gave you the same gears, just numbered differently. (i.e. 1, 2, 3, 4,... instead of 1L, 1H, 2L, 2H,...)

[Nimir-Raj]

Manual allows you to pick a gear and stay in it. The other options are all reliant on the game being able to pick the right gear. Which it can't.

Part of the problem is that the game will constantly switch up and down gears based on revs, in the quarry this is worse because of the steep hills. In manual, you know you're going to need a low gear, so you simply start off going up in a lower gear. Where as auto will just switch up when you hit x revs.

Changing gear on a hill, regardless of up/down gear, will slow you down while you shift through neutral and this loss of momentum is what causes the truck in game to end up sliding backwards or stalling.

It also helps, when using a midlift, if you raise the axle as it puts all the weight on the drive axle and thus more grip.

To summerise: Getting out of the quarry = being able to maintain a certain gear without an autobox getting in the way. If you're on a keyboard, there is a key in the settings that allows you to switch between manual and auto on the fly. I used to use it before I got a wheel.

[chksix]

A major PIA is the inability to lock the diffs. I once got hung up on a incline where all my driving wheels were disabled due to one of them spinning in free air. Had to wait until the truck slowly glided backwards by itself to get out of that mess. It was in one of the small tight quarries around France.

[MacGregor]

Learn how to drive then complain about devs. Stock iveco with 25t cargo is nothing to get out from quarry. even on auto gearbox. If have sequential stick to 2, 3 gear and push it to the top. LOL

[play3r_93]

Originally posted by Marvin:

Originally posted by Surrounded Alone Moh1336:

That.

Possibly a stupid question, but how would manual transmission improve the situation over sequential?
I thought sequential gave you the same gears, just numbered differently. (i.e. 1, 2, 3, 4,... instead of 1L, 1H, 2L, 2H,...)

^ Exactly. The only advantage of a manual is that you can select any gear (i.e. go from 1 straight to 11). Sequential will give you the same gears just that you have to go through the 'sequence' of gears (i.e. you can still change gears and hold a particular gear just like manual, however you will have to shift through each gear from 1 before getting to 11)

Edit:

Originally posted by macgregor129:

Learn how to drive then complain about devs. Stock iveco with 25t cargo is nothing to get out from quarry. even on auto gearbox. If have sequential stick to 2, 3 gear and push it to the top. LOL

Just as suggested above try gain some momentum and stick it into 2nd or 3rd (1st will probably be too easy to fall out of the max torque range)

[Marvin]

Originally posted by Surrounded Alone Moh1336:

Manual allows you to pick a gear and stay in it. The other options are all reliant on the game being able to pick the right gear. Which it can't.

Hate to say it, but you're wrong there. Automatic does select your gear for you, sure. And it's likely to do a bad job at that.
But Sequential (Which Nerezza mentioned using) means you have to shift up and down manually, only with keys or buttons instead of a stick. Of course, that means skipping gears can only be achieved by being quick on the key or button, but that's a different matter.

Originally posted by Surrounded Alone Moh1336:

It also helps, when using a midlift, if you raise the axle as it puts all the weight on the drive axle and thus more grip.

That's good to know. Sounds like the point where 'Automatic drop of liftable axles' should be deactivated in the settings.

[Dave]

Manual gears, nuff said. Aye, fair play with seqs. you can have the best of both worlds but with manual you're in control at every moment.

That load's what.. 22 or 25t isn't it?

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=834818567

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=834818488

No problem, just have to use as much momentum as ye can get/keep and manual gears.