My take on FIA European Truck Racing Championship

[MaximB]

I love trucks, love to play ETS2 and ATS and always wanted to try racing those rigs,
so I had to buy this game and it's not a bad game.
I like the driving part, the graphics is not bad, and the sounds are good.
I'm not a pro racer so I didn't find this game too easy (yet).

As I understand it, the fans of such games love trucks, they care much less about the drivers.
Well, it least that's me.
And when we have a list of drivers in "quick race", that I don't really care about, and info about them (why do I care he has experience of 20 years driving, if I have experience of a few hours driving? and I'm the one who will drive as him).
With "ctrl" you can change to truck view, which is good - however there is very little info about the trucks.
Except their visual appearance we get nothing, what this truck is good at? what it's acceleration rate? handling? ...
Sure,m you can tweak those things before the race, but what is the point if all trucks can behave the same and the only difference is the visual model?
We need to know the differences between each truck.
There are even many drivers driving the very same model, and at least I, don't care much about the drivers - I do care about the trucks.
I would love to have more trucks, many models are duplicated, and some major truck brands are missing.

So this thing is a major let down for me.

Also a big let down, is the forced long "tutorial" you must complete if you want to start a "career" in the game.
Tutorials are nice in every game, but they shouldn't be forced.

Also if I could control the views with the mouse, it would be good (like in ETS2\ATS).

Apart from this, the driving part is fun.

Would love to hear some comments, specially from the devs.

[n.chiri]

I was excited when this game was announced, as truck racing is pretty much a departure from the norm in simracing. You have plenty of coverage for things like F1 and GT3, but trucks are defintely not common. I can only think of Automobilista as the only decent sim that has them.

However, this did not end up being a very good game. There are so many things wrong with it, like not being able to save progress between sessions within a single race (a common issue in racing games today) or even save your progress on a custom championship (you can in career). You cannot disable the ghost in qualy. The woman talking to you all the time through radio is annoying and you cannot disable her completely (you can mute her, but her speech is always present on the screen). You can only have 12 drivers on every race, when real ETRC races can have up to 24 drivers or more. One of the tracks is fictional because they couldn't license a real one.

The premise is great, and the trucks are kind of fun to drive, taking care of the brake cooling which is something you don't have in Automobilista. But I feel the devs cut so many corners with this game. I don't have sales figures, but I strongly believe this flopped hard and we won't be seeing any future updates to this game, let alone a sequel.

[JB™]

Just got this as part of Humble Bundle. Wanted to get this a while ago and was waiting for a sale. I'm sure I'll get my money's worth. It also came with the Indianapolis DLC.

[PJ Dunham]

Trucks drive like, crap , so many settings not optimisted , why in 2020 the steering wheel ratio cant match mine is beyond me.
Trucks look good, tracks look good but more time should of been spent on the bit that works for drivers.
Rieza have truck racing done better, so id recommend jumping on Automoblista 2 or if its still on steam Formula Truck 2013. if physics and what you do with your wheel translate in game matters to you