Can somebody help me with online play?

[Doc Brown]

Just got the game, and I am loving it! Just found online play but I can't join anything cuz of all this mod stuff I know nothing about, can anyone help? I'd love to play with other people right now, havin a few drinks and would love to bs while driving/playing. Also can you talk on cb with voice, or is it just text chat communication?

[AyMazingATS]

Mods are not required for Convoy.

You can talk on the CB. It is push to talk and the key to use is X.

[Doc Brown]

nice, how do I join convoy then? It is greyed out to join and always says there is an error cuz my mods aren't compatible to the game I'm joining?

[Underscore_101_3]

tmk, without mods you can only join servers that play vanilla, if you want to join a server that uses mods, again tmk you need the same mods, of the same version in the same load order.

edit: Should add that I don't play Convoy so I'm not 100% sure if that is still correct.

[Doc Brown]

ok so i need to download the mods the server is running i wanna join, everyone seems to have the same mods, maybe i need them too.

[AyMazingATS]

As you are a new player I highly suggest for the time that you avoid using mods.

Mods can be a royal pain to troubleshoot especially when you start crashing.

[Doc Brown]

yeah brand new just bought it an hour ago

[Doc Brown]

online sounds delightful right now though but everyone is using mods

[Underscore_101_3]

Using mods is always with some risk, though experience helps a lot.

However you can create multiple profiles, so you could create (a) profile(s) specifically for Convoy and keep a vanilla profile for game progress.

[Doc Brown]

I've modded games before just not this one

[ttower]

Originally posted by Geena Davis Rules:

I've modded games before just not this one

This game is slightly unique in the modding scene. The game gets frequent updates which break mods all the time, so maintaining them is not a passive task. I know games like Farming Simulator, you can download a mod and it will probably work forever. That doesnt happen in ATS.

As for the Convoys, there are Vanilla (no mod) convoys available, or you can start your own.

[Nelle]

Just wants to add few bits.

• Mods don't necessarily break at every update depending on what they mod. I use some mods like an UI tweak mod and a gps voice pack. Some of them never got updated last few years and I had no problem continue playing the game when it updated.
  
• For convoy, if they have some mods but also have "Optional Mods" enabled, you can join the lobby without having to match every single mod they use, given that all of their mods are properly marked as "optional".
  Some of their mods or your mods they don't have may make things weird, and I don't think there's an easy way to tell if a mod is okay to be optional at the moment.
  For example, if you have a mod that changes look of some AI vehicles, other players in the same lobby may start seeing a transparent green cube on the road when you are near them.
  A mod that replaces the interior of trucks is one of the types that won't make it weird to other players, but ones that do the exterior of trucks will do.
  I believe if a mod changes the thing that only you will see it's safe to be optional. But there's just no way to tell at the moment.

[twitch878]

Add me I play vanilla ats convoy