Why can't I seems to drive off-road?

[MaximB]

I try to go off road where there is no barrier and the off-road is flat, but the truck always gets stuck and all I can do is to reverse...
I know it's not an off-road game, but at least make a barrier or something, not an invisible wall.

[Willow Rivers]

It is not made to be a off road game. If you want off road try Spintires.

[Andy]

As Willow said above if you want off-road driving then this is very much not the game for you

[Jackrabbit_V6/ RSProduxx]

you don´t wanna know how often my driving school instructor shouted at me to not get off the road the slightest bit, because i would sink into the mud... you simploy don´t leave the road with a truck, period. this game is about driving cargo trucks in their natural environment, and that is pavement, gravel at worst case... also, it´s not about "flat", it´s about solid ground...

you have your barrier...that´s the edge of the road, everything else is on your own risk...

[Rev Counter]

I can't think how awful a barrier like a fence everywhere would look!!

[pieperjohanns]

Originally posted by Jackrabbit_V6:

you simploy don´t leave the road with a truck, period.

This.

In some parts of Northern Germany (and probably elsewhere too) your truck is doomed if you touch the grass near the road with your wheels. It will sink into the ground, sometimes even fall over.

[MOMO & YUNA]

The game developer try to make the game as light as possible for your computer to process. So they try to avoid putting unnecessary things into the game for the frame rate sake. So next time before you want to have more objects or accessible areas, please do think about the frame rate.

[Nimir-Raj]

SCS don't want to overprotect people like they're babies, much of the time they leave things like that assuming people have enough sense not to go there in the first place.

[Beltane]

Uhm... you mean off-road like grass op? Or you mean off-road like gravel roads like those arround quarries?

If its the first, well - see the other comments. Plenty of vids on youtube where not so clever truckers tried out what happens. Don't be that guy ;))

If its the latter, a more detailed description of you problem would help.

[Jackrabbit_V6/ RSProduxx]

he obviously was talking about the first, i´m pretty sure :)

"invisible wall" probably means he went off the road for more than a few dozen meters and hit the "end of the world" :)

been there, done that :D

and just to make it complete, @OP

the game is strictly designed around the roads, loading zones and the like...as mentioned, things that a cargo trucker would normally use... everything else (with a very few exceptions like some backstreets in new french towns) is just background scenery and per design not meant to be driven in... after all, as you mention yourself, it´s not an offroad- or exploration game in that sense :)



and as Mohegan says, SCS don´t want to annoy us with more artificial barriers than necessary...people complain enough about the "virtual" road barriers as is :)

[Beltane]

Originally posted by Jackrabbit_V6:

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Yea guessed he meant the first one, but thats me again trying to be polite ^^

Anyways OP - if you like not so usual roads, try RusMap and especially ROS (Russian Open Spaces). Be aware though, if you don't know what you are doing you will get stuck on some of the roads there as well. Here two examples of what you can expect to see there:

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=871467793

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=875090356

[MaximB]

Thanks,
It's not really the off-road I meant, but it's cool nonetheless.
For the RusMap I need ProMods with all the expansions?