Is this game any good? Or wait for FS 19?

[RatBag]

I have FS 17 and with FS19 on the way is this game worth getting is it any good?

1st of all i was looking for lets play of Pure Farming 2018 and videos are 4 to 6 months old no update onrs.. Yet there are FS 17 videos daily so am guessing here PF 2018 is not any good?

What does the game do better than FS 17 and I know you all going to say FD 19 is going t obe better than PF 2018..

I had my eye on this for awhile but other games got in the way :) I like the idea of the story mode though ...

So any thoughts ?

reviews are mixed i see that though

Thabk you

[Moltoy]

I have a update video, but I'll think you should wait for fs19

[RatBag]

Originally posted by Moltoy:

I have a update video, but I'll think you should wait for fs19

Thank you for your reply:)

May I see your video interested to see it :)

Why do you say I should wait for FS 19?

Mind you i have made my mind up to wait for FS 19

[Отец Василий]

for me, the game is very good, only a small number of machines

[wim1234]

wait for fs19, it will have soooo much more content, and after a few also some good mods converted. this game has no modmaps..thats a gamebreaker.

[titou45150]

If FS19 remains a FS17like as giants produced since many years without any innovation except that to integrate all the good ideas of the moders THEN PF18 is and will remain much superior to FS19. But today PF18 is greater than FS17 in term of gameplay and enjoying.

[Moltoy]

Originally posted by wim1234:

wait for fs19, it will have soooo much more content, and after a few also some good mods converted. this game has no modmaps..thats a gamebreaker.

agree, the lack of mods is a turn down for me. gameplay it has a lot of tho

[Moltoy]

Originally posted by Tucker1975:

Originally posted by Moltoy:

I have a update video, but I'll think you should wait for fs19

Thank you for your reply:)

May I see your video interested to see it :)

Why do you say I should wait for FS 19?

Mind you i have made my mind up to wait for FS 19

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-E3n0rvWHRg&t=8s&list=PLl3yM9aFtS6toyjAcCLXnBwNH0w0tGP_i&index=16

[RatBag]

Originally posted by Moltoy:

Originally posted by Tucker1975:

Thank you for your reply:)

May I see your video interested to see it :)

Why do you say I should wait for FS 19?

Mind you i have made my mind up to wait for FS 19

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-E3n0rvWHRg&t=8s&list=PLl3yM9aFtS6toyjAcCLXnBwNH0w0tGP_i&index=16

Nice video thank you for sharing :0 To be fair does look like a good game bit buggy like the green houses though hope FS 19 has them

[Отец Василий]

FS19 people have not left yet so do not say that it will be from PF18. PF18 is a very good game.
ludzie FS19 jeszcze nie wyszedł więc nie mówcie że będzie leszy od PF18. PF18 to jest bardzo dobra gra.

[Joelle]

I think the best way to describe this game is its overall purpose, it is about the activities of farming around the world versus FS17 being more focused on farming machinery alone. The campaign mode is fun for a little while, but I found myself wanting it to end eventually so I could just start farming on my own. The thing is, the whole campaign is its own mode so it directs you for the entire mode until you complete it and pay back the original like 250-275k.

One large downside for me is how much work you do on a particular field compared to FS17 and the time it takes to complete that work. The movement rate of vehicles in this game is disproportionate to the space visually. The impact of that means that your first field will take you over 1.5 hours to Plow, Cultivate, Seed, Fertilize, Harvest and that's with the best gear in the game. Your profit for doing all that from 1 field, about $5k. Doing the same thing on 5-8 fields in FS17 is possible and would yield much greater profits, but of course the scale of the costs are different. To me, it just goes too slow for the tasks.

Worker AI was improved, but still is very poor to FS17. Sometimes it will fail and if it doesn't, it just takes too dang long to complete a field.

I also don't like how the machinery upgrades don't feel significant. Their highest tier upgrade is what should be the starting point for the worst gear and then continue on from there as it still takes so long with the best gear to do the tasks required.

Just my two cents...I picked up the heavy equipment bundle the other day for FS17 and pre--purchased FS19. I usually check in PF18 every so often to see when it will be a true complete game with core mechanics working with player and AI.

https://www.logitechg.com/en-us/product/farm-simulator-game-bundle

[Spaznetz]

Specialt nailed it.

Doing everything yourself is possible when you only have a couple of fields, but when you expand beyond that it isn't doable without AI workers and they just don't function correctly yet.

PF has some interesting ideas and new things. The orchards and the campaign are fun for a bit, but they quickly become stale.

Overall, FS17 is a better game (even with the old complaint that Giants isn't as innovative as the modders on their own games). I don't think that PF will see as much of a modding community as FS does for quite a while. Sure, a few disgruntled modders will jump ship, but there are more developers than ever getting into the farm sim genre and Giants has the most open modding interface. Hell, even a fossil like me can figure out a bit of XML and some LUA scripting and make FS more what I want.

Another item to pay attention to is that Giants FINALLY got Deere licensing. The release of FS19 is liable to see a HUGE influx of new players as the Deere fanboys jump into the game. Maybe that will finally give Giants the cash influx they need to hire some more programmers and get working on implementing new stuff.

[RatBag]

Originally posted by spazboy357:

Specialt nailed it.

Doing everything yourself is possible when you only have a couple of fields, but when you expand beyond that it isn't doable without AI workers and they just don't function correctly yet.

PF has some interesting ideas and new things. The orchards and the campaign are fun for a bit, but they quickly become stale.

Overall, FS17 is a better game (even with the old complaint that Giants isn't as innovative as the modders on their own games). I don't think that PF will see as much of a modding community as FS does for quite a while. Sure, a few disgruntled modders will jump ship, but there are more developers than ever getting into the farm sim genre and Giants has the most open modding interface. Hell, even a fossil like me can figure out a bit of XML and some LUA scripting and make FS more what I want.

Another item to pay attention to is that Giants FINALLY got Deere licensing. The release of FS19 is liable to see a HUGE influx of new players as the Deere fanboys jump into the game. Maybe that will finally give Giants the cash influx they need to hire some more programmers and get working on implementing new stuff.

Great reply thank you ... I am going to wait for FS 19 instead :) Shame about PF 18 as for what i have seen in videos look good i like the greenhouses etc be nice if we could go instead them do watering etc... Hope FS 19 as that kind of thing..

[RatBag]

Thank you to everyone who took the time to reply :) Going to get FS 19 instead

[Joelle]

Here's a great explanation of what is expected for FS19, very exciting things and I cannot wait!

https://www.yesmods.com/farming-simulator-19-confirmed-features/

[tomeczek@1988]

wait for FS 19!!!!