Completely impossible delivery - does the game cheat?

[dan0812]

Trying to make a delivery and five exits at intersections were closed.

I seem to be going round in a permanent circle with no possible way to complete the delivery?

[Wolfgang]

This is a detour. You have to find an alternative route using the markers in the map to get around the blockade.

You can turn detours off in the gameplay settings by putting the detour slider all the way to the left.

[FlyingWaffle]

In your gameplay settings turn down the chance of detours by the sliders.

[dan0812]

Yes I have had detours in the past, but now I have had five detours in a row at consecutive exits.

Every blocked exit adds several hours to my ETA making it impossible to deliver on time. That's assuming I can ever deliver it because it seems like it is impossible and I will keep getting detoured forever.

I am just going up and down highways, there are no alternative routes available even if I ignored the GPS directions.

I am aware detours can be turned off but that shouldn't be necessary mid-game.

[Vellari]

Originally posted by dan1979:

Every blocked exit adds several hours to my ETA making it impossible to deliver on time. .

Yes, that can definitely happen...as that's what happens in real life too, you miss your deadline.

Completely blocked off delivery point sounds like a bug though. Hard to say without seeing the map.

[BravoTushka]

Originally posted by dan1979:

Yes I have had detours in the past, but now I have had five detours in a row at consecutive exits.

Every blocked exit adds several hours to my ETA making it impossible to deliver on time. That's assuming I can ever deliver it because it seems like it is impossible and I will keep getting detoured forever.

I am just going up and down highways, there are no alternative routes available even if I ignored the GPS directions.

I am aware detours can be turned off but that shouldn't be necessary mid-game.

Check your settings, your slider could be all the way to one side causing these to happen so often

[AyMazingATS]

You will only get 1 detour per route. You just happened to come across one where there are 5 exits blocked because they all lead to the same detour.

The feature is nice however the road network in ATS does not support the feature very well.

[Sandhill]

Originally posted by dan1979:

I am aware detours can be turned off but that shouldn't be necessary mid-game.

True, but unfortunately detours sometimes just don't work well. You just have to live with that fact or adjust their frequency to what suits you...many just set it at never and leave it at that

[Pembroke]

Can you squeeze past the road block? If there's no alternative route then there's no alternative route, so...

If the road block can't be passed and there are no alternative routes so that you truly are stuck then that's a clear legitimate case for using the developer console. You can teleport your truck past the road block and complete the delivery.

(Also, not sure but if you clear AI traffic with the dev console, would that also clear the road blocks?)

[Captain Black]

Originally posted by Pembroke:

Can you squeeze past the road block?

Unless they changed it. You can just drive round them and carry on as normal.

[Carbine M1A1]

Yup just drive past the detour using the side of the road i have done it many times

[Pembroke]

Not always... You can get road blocks on positions where there is not enough room for your truck. For example, the more wider road blocks combined with a narrow ramp that has side railings.

[Max Colby]

You have to manually set a new route usually. THe auto GPS will just run you in circles most of the time.
I just always squeeze past or back up the on ramp.

[dan0812]

Yes, I realise that now after it happened again. I think the first time it was in the dark so I hadn't realised I was just hitting the same road block again and again.

When it happened for the second time there was no other viable route available so I created a save point. I found some road blocks meant I couldn't get my trailer through cleanly but reloading the game generated a fresh road block each time and some have more space to get through.