Do you use route advisor?

[GTHell]

I find myself to be distracted by that feature and my experience is not relaxing or should I say Zen at all.

Wonder if you can navigate the entire game base on just street sign.

[wullack]

Of course you can. Just memorize the main cities on your route and switch the advisor off.

You'd still have the route printed out on your map, so if you get lost or want to make sure to take the right exit just press "M" and you're up to date.

If your truck has a built-in advisor just hit the "i" key until the screen goes black.

[Rookie-31st]

Like in real life, when driving on unfamiliar streets it's always less distracting to use voice navigation and GPS route. Once you know the road, it is not necessary.

[MirkoC407]

Truck installed GPS or in mod trucks without I use a portable satnav on a suction cup arm attached to the windscreen. Find them helpful and not distracting at all. The F5 popup window route advisor however is very much so and I only use it for "reading" like at weigh stations or loading bays (have a manhole cover mod so there is nothing to turn green or giving other visible indication if I'm in position).

[Fearagen]

I use it but never trust it half the time since it likes to take me on exits that will just lure me to a city that eventually leads out onto the same highway I was on. Kind of like using google maps for trucking, never fully trust it.

[Asigion]

What you call Zen I call stupor, I am notorious for relaxing so much that I keep missing turn offs so when voice navigation was added to the game it was one of the best additions to the game for me. I use the Waze mod in the workshop and find her very pleasant and extremely helpful but alas I still have those periods of absolute tranquillity where I get lost in time and even with her assistance I also get lost with my directions.

I was recently playing the wonderful Project Japan map for ETS2 and I thought it would be good to have a truck which suited the map so I got the Fuso Super Great and I also thought having a Japanese voice navigation would be more immersive so I checked out a few and decided on this one. It has 15 different ones. This of course is the one for ATS which I am also using now but there is the version for ETS2 which was the one I used for the Project Japan map.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2175096704&searchtext=japanese+voice+navigation

I don't speak a word of Japanese other than hello and thank you but using it i found I was no longer missing turn offs. The voice navigation I chose was one which has a bit of a chime before she gives her directions. I found the chime to be the thing which gained my attention. It doesn't matter that I don't understand what she says after the chime because that chime makes me look at my GPS.

In real life I have never used a gps or voice navigation and never lose concentration when I am driving but in the game I do.

If you can drive to your destinations in the game without using a gps or a voice navigaton then you have much more awareness than me. I would find that like driving in real life and I never relax when I drive in real life.

[Underscore_101_3]

This reminds me of a question i got on one of the theory exams for my truck drivers license (it was three subjects here back then), anyhoo the examiner asked how i would find out how to get somewhere when i don't have a map, and i replied "ask someone" (assuming i was near and just couldn't find the location), so he then says incorrect, i was suposed to answer using a gps, then i replied that it's a form of map :-) (gps systems were just coming up around that time, at least affordable ones and certainly weren't built in from factory)
Anyways, i passed.

Irl i prefer an old fashioned map, or road book, have a look when i start and if needed when i'm nearing the location, i find in the end you learn a route easier that way instead of following the satnav all the time.
In game though, i prefer using the satnav with voice, once on the highway could probably do without, but i would still not be recognizing things well enough to know where i am.

[Sandhill]

Originally posted by GTHell:

I find myself to be distracted by that feature and my experience is not relaxing or should I say Zen at all.

Wonder if you can navigate the entire game base on just street sign.

I use RA at times as it is the best solution at times. 99% of the time I have it turned off and only open it for the purposes that I find it useful for.
As the in game roads do not much resemble real life maps, a paper atlas is not much help,
As HopAlong Cassidy said in response #1, once you have memorized the in game streets for a city even GPS is not necessary, but I mostly rely on GPS always

[Spark Sunbright]

Yes, you can navigate the world just by reading the street signs, but I can't imagine that being "relaxing" or "zen" in any way: You would need to be hyper-alert at all times.

Personally, I find all floating UI items (mirrors, RA tablet) to be grating on my relaxation, but the GPS built into the dash isn't distracting so long as I keep the voice nav OFF.

[room217au]

I use Hemil's (now Wik412's) Route Adviser Mod. Shows one line of text and icons at the top of the screen. That's it. You can display or hide the smaller map, but I just use the in-dash gps display with voice nav off.

[reuhaul]

I use "hemels route advisor mod (sisl edit)" in both ATS & ETS2, it puts all the information along the bottom of the screen and a small map bottom centre, so its not right in your sight line when looking through the windscreen and i personally do not find it distracting.

[dbwhip42]

Originally posted by Willy.J.K:

What you call Zen I call stupor, I am notorious for relaxing so much that I keep missing turn offs so when voice navigation was added to the game it was one of the best additions to the game for me. I use the Waze mod in the workshop and find her very pleasant and extremely helpful

Once Upon A Time I was told that cockpit warnings switched to voice, then to female voice because pilots were missing visual cues. The female voice (Btchn Betty) was adopted because pilots (being male) responded to a female voice but not so much to a male voice. "Pull Up! Pull Up! Pull Up! in a female voice got a response. And your stupor comment is why I did not go for pilot training. I knew I'd be the guy saying "hey whats that goat doing up here in a cloud" kind of thing.

[Finn]

Originally posted by GTHell:

I find myself to be distracted by that feature and my experience is not relaxing or should I say Zen at all.

Wonder if you can navigate the entire game base on just street sign.

Thats the way i do it XD

[tdjpack]

Pre trip planning with pen paper and map. Before GPS used Rand McNally truck atlas, checked route, wrote main landmarks and route numbers. then came GPS/

[Asigion]

Originally posted by Finn:

Originally posted by GTHell:

I find myself to be distracted by that feature and my experience is not relaxing or should I say Zen at all.

Wonder if you can navigate the entire game base on just street sign.

Thats the way i do it XD

Is it Zen?

[Asigion]

Originally posted by dbwhip42:

Once Upon A Time I was told that cockpit warnings switched to voice, then to female voice because pilots were missing visual cues. The female voice (Btchn Betty) was adopted because pilots (being male) responded to a female voice but not so much to a male voice. "Pull Up! Pull Up! Pull Up! in a female voice got a response. And your stupor comment is why I did not go for pilot training. I knew I'd be the guy saying "hey whats that goat doing up here in a cloud" kind of thing.

That is interesting and thank you for that information. I had never thought about pilots before, it must take a great deal of effort for them to maintain their concentration. I will be thinking of that next time I take a plane trip, thank you for that! :)