>>46851I'm a trucker, or I was for a while, like 2 years. I've been all over the continental US - Chicago, Atlanta, Indianapolis, Los Angeles, etc - and I can say that the in-game highways and byways are pretty accurate to real life, which is something I like.
I also like the in-game academy, it teaches you how to do various maneuvers that I honestly believe is more insightful and helpful than a lot of the "trainers" that people have the misfortune of being paired with. my trainer was pretty shit in the sense that he made virtually no effort to teach me jack shit about the trade. I guess he thought me arrogant, but I don't know how I could've come across that way, I was willing to learn. not to wax poetic about my own personal experience, it's just that it's a common talking point among new drivers, that they feel betrayed by their trainers who end up treating them like free labor more than an actual apprentice, and well, this game will most definitely teach you the finer points of maneuvering a 53 foot trailer, in the privacy of your own home, if you already have experience behind the wheel and can translate what you observe in the game into reality.
at any rate, my only criticisms of this simulator is that it's fucking expensive. they should release multiple states packaged together like so for example
<[southwest pack - nevada, arizona, new mexico, utah, colorado, texas]<[northwest pack - washington, oregon, idaho, montana, wyoming]<[midwest pack - oklahoma, kansas, nebraska, the dakotas, missouri, iowa, minnesota, illinois, wisonsin]etc.
instead of selling them to you piecemeal for 10 dollars a pop or whatever. money grubbery right there. aside from that, I wish that they would've added real mountain roads (the grapevine, cabbage hill, fancy gap, monteagle, wolf creek pass, the sandstone highway, etc.) so as to give the player a reason to learn to use the jake/retarder cause this game's roads are flatter than your favorite loli.