Excavator Simulator VR

nice!

For someone's senior school project, it's pretty impressive. For a game that's not free, it's terrible. I see a lot of reviews complaining they can't get out of the seat adjustment screen where you start. It's weird but you click the back arrow on the top left of the screen. I also saw a complaint about not being able to switch between SAE and ISO controls- you can, it's on the gear icon settings menu. I've used various excavators and want to get more fluid at the controls, so I tried this. Unfortunately, at least on Oculus Rift S, there is no deadzone in the controls so all the controls are constantly wandering around a little. This is the real killer for me, you're always making micro adjustments to stop some motion (and all you can succeed in is reducing it). If you could use a gamepad, or even the sticks on the VR controllers instead of grabbing sticks in VR, this game would be good training. Honestly don't care that there's no game beyond the dig tutorial as that's all I wanted to do anyway, but the digging is so bad it's just not worth using. Other things that suck: - if you dig a hole and drop one scoop of dirt on the ground (well spread out), don't expect to be able to drive over it. It will just spin. - if you try to climb a gentle hill to practice digging from atop a pile, it won't climb. You can't use your bucket to pull you up like IRL either. - if you try to dig too much dirt, it doesn't really stall or skid like a real machine, it sort of jumps around. Bad physics and made me nauseous. - no sound as a ton of others said (it was a senior project, so I get it and honestly didn't care anyway as I was trying to use it as a trainer) I asked Steam for a refund on this one.

Planning to hire a micro digger to dig up my own garden so figured this would be a good starting point to learn basic controls. I think it does the job OK. Lack of ability to use physical joysticks lets it down, you need to be able to feel when they're centred. Also I'm not bothered by the lack of levels as a lot of reviewers are - this is literally a sandbox, don't expect too much for £3.99. I should also mention the developer appears to have completely abandoned the game as of 2021 so don't expect any updates.

I actually used this as a training tool.. I am renting a mini ex. for the weekend and wanted to gain some seat time prior. This was better than nothing, however this is getting a thumbs down for some misleading info on the store page. 1. There is no dedicated "sandbox mode". The only way to actually dig freely is through the "Dig Tutorial" 2. The store page states "operate a giant 90 tonne excavator in either ISO or SAE control patterns" however there is no option to change, you are stuck in SAE. 3. There is no sounds. 4. There should be an option to use the thumbsticks rather than grab the grips, the grips are a bit wonky because there is no return to home to stop unwanted movement. Overall for $5.00 it served its purpose, I am fluent enough with the controls to confidently operate my machine this weekend. However I would not recommend to anyone buying this expecting to have any amount of fun or entertainment.

Are you planning on updating or expanding the game. I work in an open pit sand mine. I would be grateful if you could add hual trucks to the sim and have them to drive off screen and dump their load when full. It would simulate the real world more closely.

THIS GAME SUCKS NUTS AS A REAL LIFE EXCAVATOR DRIVER!!!

I go change my binding setting for activate MrJohnweez binding in steam vr and work well with my hp reverb..Good game with a good potential !

As a operator myself (pipleline, Cat 349) I bought this out of pure curiosity never seeing anything like it. I was not disappointed. Especially at the price. Understanding that the game is very much so in development is key. But the shear possibilities are endless. The controls are true to pattern, Sandbox digging. I enjoy it My thoughts on what could be fixed or changed: 1. collision with bucket and material, its very goofy sometimes. material bugging out of the bucket or just sliding out as if there is no weight or texture to it. As well as the bucket reacting with the ground. The response time needs to be quicker when it comes to the material changing. That causes the bucket to grab the ground and send you for a ride (Not fun in VR) -the ground reaction comes into play when digging like an operator not just putting the bucket to the ground and curling 2. speed of machine: The machines looks to be about a 100,000lbs-140,000lbs machine but its stick and boom speed act more like a 200,000lbs machine even if this was adjustable that'd be great. 3. Menu freezing. Sometimes the menu works sometimes it doesn't 4. My biggest Issue: The tracks. This has to be fixed ASAP. You get stuck on everything and anything. The track speed is to fast for that big of a machine and the tracks shouldn't feel like your on ice. -and please add the ability to use the joysticks or something to track instead of having to reach for the sticks. We never actually use the sticks we always use the foot pedals.

I can not recommend this game, there is no sound, you get stuck in the ground easily, there is only about 10 minutes of gameplay, the digging is not very optimized, also dirt randomly falls out the side of my bucket when swinging the excavator, the one good thing I have to say about it right now, is the joystick feel pretty good! I will test this game after every update and update this review if the game improves. Update, the cpu usage seems to have been fixed, I uninstalled and reinstalled the game and that fixed it! Still at this point will not recommend as there is only a few minutes of gameplay, and there is still no sound

unable to play as game starts with the adjust seat position and head centre, however no amount of button pushing A or any button can i leave the seat adjustment menu. only thing that works is button B centre view