Star Trucker

Keep on truckin.

cool game relaxing yet captivating i love it

[h3]TL;DR:[/h3] Game is good if you wanna do something while listening to music. If you are familiar with trucker games, it's basically the same drive from point A to B and repeat with a side of "bullet hell" as you try to drive as fast as you can through an asteroid/rock filed without taking damage. There's.. a story I guess.. bleh. and the game will get repetitive. But, enjoyed most of my time in it while I finished 100% of the achievements. Edit: Forgot to add, played on "recommended" difficulty and with a controller. [hr][/hr] [h3]Main Review[/h3] So if you come here expecting a trucking game, that's what you will get. Drive from A to B, pick up contracts, there's an xp/progression system and a story. Personally I found the story moderately annoying. The characters were unlikable to me and the objectives were usually terrible (looking at you, [spoiler]billboard[/spoiler]). Also they don't give you anything at all for rewards, worthless. Stock up on cash and other items before thinking about starting the story line. You are obligated to do them for useful truck upgrades, zone unlocks and for achievements. Aside from that, they just felt like a pain unfortunately. "Kindly requesting your rig for a weigh in." *crazed stare* How about you kindly step on a Lego instead? Several, actually. >:( Man that message during the [spoiler]reactor[/spoiler] quest annoyed me. Maybe if I had a "shorten dialogue" option, it might make it less bad. "weight check" and than silence. Or "security check" and then silence. Better yet: complete silence! Including the chatter at the weight bay. A UI pop up maybe. Why can the security drones interrupt story lines? >:( Also the weight waypoint should show up immediately.. not having to wait for Rosso to shut up. (Hot tip: 70 hours too late I realized "oh wait! forgot there's a dialogue volume slider." Setting that to 0% drastically improved the game. I didn't have any other story missions at this point anyways.) Also already annoyed by the fact that I have to physically go to 2 or 3 different locations just to check my achievement progress (paint jobs/plates etc). But then there's two that I was completely blind to on progress. the [spoiler]25k in fines[/spoiler] and the [spoiler]50k contraband[/spoiler]. So that was fun.... not. (btw the [spoiler]contraband[/spoiler] one is not very clear.. [spoiler]you can sell the items wherever they are accepted/not listed as restricted and it counts. Can also buy form a store and sell that.)[/spoiler] Also rank 50 is such a waste of time... Salt in the wound: you can't even customize the color of the paint it unlocks. Game is over by level 34 or so. There rest is padding. But again, if you just want something to work towards while you listen to your own music, then this could use up many of your hours. Will I ever replay it? Nope. Unrelated side note: This game has so many "physical" buttons/switches/interactions that it feels like it was made for VR yet... that's not a thing. Nor has anyone figured out how to mod it to VR sadly. [hr][/hr] [h3]Bugs:[/h3] - Had an asteroid destroy me when jumping from haze way to spark city. I read it was a common issue so haze way became no way for me since. (Probably avoid Gamma valley to tanktown too..) - [spoiler]Sour fireworks[/spoiler], works fine but there's a lot tasks named incorrectly. - Salvage beacons can spawn inside structures - You can grab a UDC/Battery behind closed panels and crates. - If you pick up some trailers, pause for a while and then come back, your cargo tends to implode and destroy itself. -600% I've seen. Not sure how to trigger it but usually have noticed it with multi trailer and pausing while in motion. - Is it intended that I need to turn off the main engines to keep my rig from drifting while sitting still in the cab or going outside? I feel like drive assist "on" should keep me in place, no? - Not super important but I think the "Complete Borrow side jobs" achievement triggered early. When [spoiler]collecting the third trailer[/spoiler]. - the "pick up" objective in the final quest did not check. But didn't stop me from continuing. - I started a job once in Edgeburgh and the cargo was already damaged 88% trailer 97% glassware. not sure how that happened. Even reloaded save to before accepting job. - Accept a contract (then undock maybe), pause and walk away. Don't know how long. But if you do it for long enough, when you go to pick up the cargo, you will not be able to. Save and load fixes it. - Not a bug but would have been nice if [spoiler]the other two rigs disconnected and went towards a jump gate or something after slowing down the reactor instead of just saying there.[/spoiler]. - Also... you can't accept multiple contracts and carry a combination of multi trailers. But... you can do it for one specific story mission? what gives? - Not sure if bug but when a character calls you to tell you there's new story mission available, it should NOT override your current haul/job focus. That's very annoying. - Not sure if bug. I passed by hell's pocket (bad idea) while collecting cones after being done with everything. [spoiler]The special cargo you drop. there still has the objective marker and you can even still pick it up.[/spoiler]