Hate IC in FS17 - Can we have it without the spacebar!!

[WakaHaka]

I hate the way that IC has been implemented in Farming Simulator and looking to see if there's a way to get it more like normal simulator games such as flight and truck simulators. It just seems such a Windows Vista way of doing something. For those that just want to hit "Enter" thats perfectly fine but for the die hards among us like myself I want to be able to "fire up the tractor" and use most of the buttons to perform farming operations.

I don't see this in any other simulator games I've played so why is this "Backward approach" still with us?

[Junior]

go into settings and change it to your liking

[WakaHaka]

Originally posted by Junior:

go into settings and change it to your liking

Without the spacebar or any key pressed to activate is what is meant here. Not changing the key to activate. I want it to be constantly activated like X-plane, Areofly FS2, Prepar3D, ETS2, Train simulator ...

[k. benton]

the IC is for mod there no vehicle in fs17 with IC. only some mod have IC.

[WakaHaka]

Annoying, without adding a better IC it's just driving around in the "Same tractor" :(

[k. benton]

what the name of the tractor?

[jules.stmp537]

Both ETS2 and FS have done really well in bringing these obscure niche games to a wider audience and it has taken literally decades. SCS that created the truck sims is over 20 years old. GIANTS for the farming simulator series is I think 15 years old.

If it had been left to a major AAA studio then I think it is very unlikely that either of these game/sims would ever have happened.

Even in the Flight sim market, there was only one sim for a very long time and Microsoft abandoned that market - fairly typical of Microsoft but a subject for another day. The flight sim had one huge advantage over the more casual PC sim market and that is just enough flight simmers have lots of money for their hobby.

Both ETS2 and FS had to appeal to a wider and more casual market but also because it has been really niche, it also meant these game studios had to be committed for a very long time and with a small but dedicated user base.

Just imagine if either GIANTS or SCS had the money that Rockstar can spend on GTA, or even something like Elite Dangerous, I think a farming or truck (or sadly missing from your list a good bus sim) would be amazing. Maybe one day...

[WakaHaka]

Even in bus sims you don't have to press a key to activate the bus dashboard to then press another key. You just mouseover it and press it :). Farming Simulator has been around for nearly10 years and as an ex software engineer it would have been easy to add in a general purpose key value binding to their Giants Editor, similar to how their vehicle lights work.

The tractors are modelled on real tractors and with real physics of land and seasons with mods. The Fiat Agri even has a tractor enter animation (Shift+Enter). The Interactive Control that does exist is great but with the "Activate" key intrusion feels like it's fudged in because to serve a need of users that Giants aren't listening to.

Perhaps I'm just expecting a simulation game to be on par with existing simulator games. After all don't you learn by example.

[WakaHaka]

Originally posted by S.M.T.C Legend 27:

what the name of the tractor?

All tractors :)