Game vs the real world

[Kentucky Fried Chicken]

Hi

I'm wondering how realistic this game is vs the real world.Is it really THAT much realistiv taht you can use this game as practise for driving lesson? Since this is a simulator, then it should be similar to the real world, but I find it sometimes hard to be convinced. Like, the warnings on the road aren't placed in perfekt distance and I do get fine even though that my truck hits a iron thingy and flips around. Not saying that it would be possible in the real world to flip around just like I did in the game but just wondering how real is this game to the real world?

[Vellari]

Not for traffic laws and regulations, but backing up a trailer definitely.

Crash physics isn't realistic at all in this, all you get is flip overs.

[Angus]

The feeling is so real if you get the wheel to play the game. I think the driver view is so real too. For the control, it is simplified to increase fun of the game.

I think it is not good to act as practice for driving lesson. However, if you are a driver of private car or van or truck, you will find the feeling of the game is really real especially parking (neither the truck control, nor the world scenes).

[Kentucky Fried Chicken]

Yeah, I use the joystick as an controller for the game. Going to buy a wheel soon. Does anyone know which game are closer to reality when it comes to traffic laws and regulations?

Btw, thanks for the answer! :)

[Stephen777]

I use the G27. I will say its close to real, they did a good job on the clutch and gears. (recommend getting the G series with shifter and 3 pedal setup) But in the end, no matter how many monitors you have and equipment. Sitting up 9 feet from the ground and getting jerked around as you jam and cram through the gears, its not possible to sim it, only experience it.
If some of the people making posts on here would accept that, they would enjoy the game alot more.
I enjoy the game alot, just wish it was in the US where I new the laws and the common road layouts.

[Rickenbacker]

It's realistic-ish. The physics are pretty good, and the environments are good, except for the strange freeway lanes that suddently turn into off-ramps and the occasional sign being in totally the wrong spot. The traffic simulation is mostly decent, with a few odd moments.

In all, it's a game that recreates the feel of driving a long haul truck very well. It's not an actual simulator by a longshot, nor is it intended to be.

[room217au]

In a real truck you can feel the trailer. Force feedback wheels are great, but in reality, you feel the trailer in your back and your butt. I think the mechanics (pardon the pun) of driving a semi trailer are reasonably good in this game if you have a wheel kit with shifter.
Older trucks though, don't display what gear you're in. You have to remember, but there are visual aids; range levers up or down, split buttons up or down, etc. Watch yer cogs.
But the really big thing that's missing from this game, is time. Driving a truck is relatively easy once you get used to the extremities of the vehicle and how it carries itself, but to do a 1200km run in this game is nothing like 1200 actual kilometres. There's an art to that.

[Vellari]

Originally posted by room217au:

But the really big thing that's missing from this game, is time. Driving a truck is relatively easy once you get used to the extremities of the vehicle and how it carries itself, but to do a 1200km run in this game is nothing like 1200 actual kilometres. There's an art to that.

Indeed, but who the heck would play the game with real-time? (not to mention scaling the map to actual distances, game would be....huge). A trip, from lets say Scotland to Poland, would take a better part of a week for a single haul...

[Stephen777]

Originally posted by room217au:

In a real truck you can feel the trailer. Force feedback wheels are great, but in reality, you feel the trailer in your back and your butt. I think the mechanics (pardon the pun) of driving a semi trailer are reasonably good in this game if you have a wheel kit with shifter.
Older trucks though, don't display what gear you're in. You have to remember, but there are visual aids; range levers up or down, split buttons up or down, etc. Watch yer cogs.
But the really big thing that's missing from this game, is time. Driving a truck is relatively easy once you get used to the extremities of the vehicle and how it carries itself, but to do a 1200km run in this game is nothing like 1200 actual kilometres. There's an art to that.

I detailed an Old Peterbilt 379(I believe), went to pull it around the shop after doing several newer automatic volvo's, holly crap. Wiplash was an understatement. Was also a crash course on a older double-clutching system.

[room217au]

You folks are lucky there's no "horseshoe" or "round-the-corner" 'boxes in this game. LOL

[cuqeen]

Hi Kentucky, i guess you were never the driver of any real life car (not only a truck) to ask such questions. This game is very arcade, maybe the backwards parking feature is somewhat useful to future real life truckers. By the way, the feedback and feeling of a gaming wheel is very average, still feels very arcade, floating boat trucks. I prefer playing with keyboard, feels more natural for this type of games.

[Motorhomegirl14 [UK]]

Originally posted by McLaren:

The traffic in the game is WORST than female drivers IRL :):)

No Disrespect to you McLaren but I find that in real life it is Men as well as Women that are bad drivers , especially in cars and being a real life Class 1 ARTIC Truck Driver, I see it everyday when I am on the Road, so maybe you should re-think your comment about Women Drivers, it's not just Women Drivers that are bad, My personal experience tells me, it's all Drivers of all ages and sexes, please don't get offended by my comment.

[Kentucky Fried Chicken]

Thanks people yet again!

I do understand that this game is far away from the real world but still one of the more realistic game. So if we jump to the conclusion, by playing this game, you are just wasting away your time by learning the traffic laws and regulations?

PS: cuqeen, I do have driven several cars and had a real driver license for about 9 months now

[room217au]

Originally posted by Vellari:

Indeed, but who the heck would play the game with real-time? (not to mention scaling the map to actual distances, game would be....huge). A trip, from lets say Scotland to Poland, would take a better part of a week for a single haul...

Exactly. It's a game. No more, no less.
I dunno about Scotland to Poland? But Sydney - Perth in Australia is 4000km. That takes 56 hours (including 12hr mandatory stop half way). Bear in mind that travel times in ETS2 are calculated at 62.5kmh

[Nasder]

I took my Swedish CE (Truck + heavy trailer) license after playing ETS2 quite a bit. Did it help me? Very little.

The only thing ETS2 did help me with was not underestimating the space you need when driving a vehicle of that size. I drove with a different kind of trailer, so all the reversing in ETS2 didn't help me one bit.

Swedish laws and regulations (I can't speak for other nations laws and such) is something ETS2 won't help with. But since you need a B license (normal car) to take a C license, you already know majority of the traffic laws already. And the rest of it is things ETS2 don't touch (or do so poorly it won't help): load, securing load, driving and resting hours.

[JAGIELSKI]

How about city layout then? E.g. say you're going to some city soon but never been there and don't know road layout. Can you use ETS to learn layout of that city (if it's in the game) so you can easily get around there when you'lll go here in real world?