Driving Trainz VS Driving a Truck
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captainkman
You are reading this.
I've got UK Truck Simulator and I concur that without a proper steering wheel and pedal set, driving in the Truck Simulator series is somewhat difficult.
Kieran.
Kieran.
captainkman
You are reading this.
He was talking about Euro Truck Simulator in comparison to Trainz.
Please re-read the original statement:
"One thing I've decided. Driving a Train in TRAINZ is much easier than driving a Truck in Euro Truck Simulator 2."
Kieran.
By the way, I'd be challenged to drive a stick-shift, let alone a lorry. I've only handled a car twice before!
It's pretty similar. If we're doing apples to apples (controllers), then having a steering wheel for ETS2 and a Raildriver for TS12 would be fair. A lot of people seem to think driving trains is much easier than handling a road vehicle because of their simple forwards-backwards concept and this is probably true for shorter and/or slower trains such as metros with EP brakes and semi-permanent drawbars.
Longer and heavier trains require much more skill not just in handling but also anticipating the route and train behavior. Not to say this makes trucking a walk in the park; here you're more concerned about the environment around you than the truck itself. Is this douche in a Mustang going to cut me off and hit the brakes? Is that woman going to pull out in front of me? Is that kid standing in my trailer's turning circle? And so on.
I love both professions and would spend two lifetimes experiencing both if I could.
Longer and heavier trains require much more skill not just in handling but also anticipating the route and train behavior. Not to say this makes trucking a walk in the park; here you're more concerned about the environment around you than the truck itself. Is this douche in a Mustang going to cut me off and hit the brakes? Is that woman going to pull out in front of me? Is that kid standing in my trailer's turning circle? And so on.
I love both professions and would spend two lifetimes experiencing both if I could.
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amigacooke
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Driving a train is so much more difficult. Keeping it balanced on those two narrow strips of metal is a nightmare!
This is an interesting view and very true from what I've found out from various truck (lorry) drivers. In my old job in logistics, I'd have various delivery trucks come in during the day from all over the US, Mexico, and Canada. Some of the guys were also rail fans, and one guy even had TS2006 at the time and had once worked for the TP&W in another lifetime. He said that driving a truck was a bit touchy to put it mildly. He then said there was nothing worse than being on the constant guard when in traffic with people thinking nothing of cutting his truck off because it's a truck and got in their way. He said the other drivers have no concept of velocity, mass, and stopping distances once an object got into motion.
Now that was on the highway... Making deliveries is another issue especially when navigating around tight parking spaces and backing into loading docks. We had a newbie driver once slam right into our building and wrecked the loading dock door! He came in a bit too fast and crooked too. The product was delivered anyway, undamaged, and then his supervisor came along and they left together. I never saw this driver again so I can only imagine what happened to him.
John
never ever ever play euro truck after playing raceroom or nfs....
even with a wheel things just won't end well.
i am still split though. while you don't have to steer a train, you have to know the route for proper braking(still suck at that). overshooting a stop with a train while trying to brake is bout as easy as backing the truck and trailer into the loading dock. once ya get it your golden, just getting to that point sucks.
would be kinda fun if trainz and euro truck had a blended multiplayer mode. but we all know how well trainz 'netcode' is at times heh.
even with a wheel things just won't end well.
i am still split though. while you don't have to steer a train, you have to know the route for proper braking(still suck at that). overshooting a stop with a train while trying to brake is bout as easy as backing the truck and trailer into the loading dock. once ya get it your golden, just getting to that point sucks.
would be kinda fun if trainz and euro truck had a blended multiplayer mode. but we all know how well trainz 'netcode' is at times heh.
I have Euro truck.....
It would be easy if the AI traffic as improved.
90% of the time my cargo is damaged because of a dumb AI car smashing into my trailer
But driving train is much harder. You get trained to drive a car..... you don't get trained to drive a 100 ton locomotive when your 16 years old
It would be easy if the AI traffic as improved.
90% of the time my cargo is damaged because of a dumb AI car smashing into my trailer
But driving train is much harder. You get trained to drive a car..... you don't get trained to drive a 100 ton locomotive when your 16 years old
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