@@marktucker208 You really get to learn the driving geometry of a big lorry. Specially an overcab one, which is not something you can drive everyday. And maybe the license procurement in my country are bit too easy might also have something to do with it.
It aged badly, but I still love it due to nostalgia lol. Will you be looking at the newer sequels too? Like German Truck Simulator and maybe UK Truck Simulator?
Probably not. I think I am kind of burnt out of trying new SCS trucking games for now, and those seem pretty similar to ETS. But I will be making some videos on other games involving driving in the future, like Jalopy and the Long Drive. I might also make a video on ETS2 map mods, enjoying the Japan one right now.
@@Tymptra maybe try scania truck driving simulator, this game portrqys how early ets2 looked like very well, and also shows how badly the older Scania R trucks need a rework
@@Tymptra I can highly recommend trying out Rig'n'Roll. It was my first driving game and actually still has quite a nice damage model. It is like a mix of a cheap version of GTA and ATS...
"I could feel the touch of a woman receding from possibility." You're a Euro truck simulator 2 player, the possibility of that disappeared a long time ago.
I used to play ETS1 and the 18 WOS games quite a lot before German Truck Simulator came out. The annoying steering was present in all SCS games at the time, but I still loved them regardless. The vanilla game got boring rather quickly, so I started installing map mods (Romania map), real company mods, truck mods and others I can't remember. I remember being amazed at the level of detail of some map mods, even though many of them weren't even as detailed as the original ETS2 base map. There was no such thing as a mod manager or load order, the game would simply load all the .scs files from the mod folder. Good times 😄
I also checked out the original ETS a few months ago out of sheer curiosity to see the origins of ETS2. It was super interesting as a sort of museum exhibit when looking back at how far SCS have come since ETS2 exploded in popularity. But definitely not a great experience outside of that initial fascination lol
I had it back in the day and still remember the reason I uninstalled it. It was a side effect of bying the countries separately in order to be able to drive them... There is a road in Austria that drives thriugh Germany and gets back in Austria after a while. Maybe there was an alternative but that specific one was the shortest route. But I hadn't germany purchased so I crashed on an invisible wall (or it was an impassable customs/toll station right at the border, something like that). I wasn't heading to a german city, the navigation sent me there
Yeah, that jerky wheel is definitely something that won't be missed. It was also a problem on SCS's other game series, the now-dormant '18 Wheels of Steel' series. And the world design in 18 Wheels of Steel is in a similar boat to ETS1. While the parts of the map of ETS2 (Going East, Scandinavia, and the unaltered parts of the base map) may not age well, at least SCS is working to rework the areas, so there's that. Both ETS1 and the 18 Wheels of Steel games will be stuck with it, obviously. I do miss the 18WoS games because childhood, but if I do come back to them, it'll just be for nostalgia reasons. ETS1 is in the same boat to those who played it when they were young. But anyways, great video.
ETS 1 is a charming game, I loved it when it was modern, my OLD computer did not have Pixel Shader 3.0 so I had to play it through a thing called SwiftShader that emulated it to lower DX versions. It ran laggy, but I would drive on for hours in that game lol.
For those like me that came from the 18 wheels of steel series, this was another level, i remember watching youtube videos and be ameazed by the cabin fisics when you move. And the mod community was strong since the beginning.
I've been playing this game for many, many hours. He started in the fall of 2012 and played with short breaks until June 2014. It's just that I had a very ancient computer on which it was impossible to play anything modern at all. The game weighed 130 MB
If you've played SCS's older games such as 18 Wheels of Steel series, you'll know that this is just another game from them. ETS2 was such a big upgrade and a drastic change that you'd be surprised they were made by the same guys.
Remember when i was a kid using keyboard arrow keys to control trucks on 18 Wheels of Steel Convoy, Across America, and Haulin (which was my favorite). Then did the same thing on ETS1. Man how much of an improvement ETS2 was when I first saw it. Love watching old videos of the game cause the lighting, sounds, and other graphics are so nostalgic for me.
I played ETS 1 a lot, along with Bus driver (which remains one of my fav games to this day). But yeah, when you got a taste of ETS2 it's hard to look back
I'm probably in the minority in that I played ets1 way before ets2 was released. I loved it because I was impressed with how the map was huge without loading times. Over ten years later and I'm still a big fan of SCS's games thanks to ETS1. I can imagine though, that playing the original game nowadays would still be a bland experience for me, it's become outdated as heck.
SCS was completely different back then, a much smaller team working for a publisher which wanted a new game from time to time, while SCS CEO spent a good time in the early blog post days saying that rushing to make a product live before it was ready just isn't part of the company's DNA. That is why before ETS2, there were more games in general being put out, while today they are focusing on adding and perfecting their 2 bloodlines which, with time, made the jump in quality between old SCS and current SCS not that surprising. The games from them I played before where 10 WoS Pedal to the Metal, which had a tendency to crash, 10 WoS American Long Haul, which I didn't understood and got many tickets, and Bus Driver, which... was kind of a meme in my mind. Best part were the missions where you transport prisoners, who will praise you for driving stupidly.
2:02 I've been playing with a mouse and keyboard for 1.5 decades now without issue. If anything a steering wheel and pedals are harder to play with in this game because I can't use the mouse to look around when I'm going through intersections or roundabouts.
2:07 You’re a gigachad just like me. I also play on keyboard and mouse cuz I’m broke. I first got ETS1 in 2021. I played it a lot to get the ‘Professional’ rank. When I first switched to ETS2 my laptop was very old I saw the graphics and almost threw up. Then on my new laptop I got ETS2 1.46 and it runs like butter with ‘OH MY GOD THIS IS SO AMAZING!!!!!!’ graphics.
I did play Euro Truck Simulator quite a bit before ETS2 came out. Back in the days I had a Logitech Driving Force GT steering wheel which worked with the game. But the big jump in steering ratio when passing a certain steering wheel angle was present with the wheel as well! It's an annoying bug that was never fixed. ETS 2 does everything better
i knew this game as Big Rig Europe, and i was obsessed with it i suppose it was my first ever pc game i played it mostly in 2010 thru 2012, until i got into Minecraft and that became my hyperfixation for the following decade but i still love this game, and tbh i think its dealership thing where you go around the showroom and look at the trucks is something this game has over ETS2. I always thought that was way cooler. The first time I bought a SWIFT truck, i was enamored, i loved the green dashboard lighting. It always felt so cozy. I'd listen to Eminem and play "Big Rig" until someone needed the computer for something. ETS2 is by far a better game, but the first one has a special place in my heart
When it comes to older truck sims I really suggest playing Hard Truck 2 King of the Road. It came out in 2001 but it's still fun. Some things there are done even better than in ETS2 imo
correction: The Czech team behind the trucking sims just started out in 2002 with Hardtruck 18 wheels of steels. Euro truck was based on the 18 wheels of steels series which had similar assets. The first 18wos were just three maps in the US, with cut down maps of south california, where the rig was so heavy that you really could not make it over the traffic light at first.
You can say one good thing about ETS1 and also 18WOS: They were the games that started the huge modding scene of ETS2 and ATS, exactly because the fundamental map was so bare minimum. Most of the modders we know today started with these games and then moved with their knowledge to ETS2. And SCS also used the knowledge they gained with the modding community to make the game better. Because in ETS1 you so often had to literally hack the base.scs file (which was really unfun in an age of dual core first generation processors, because it meant uncompiling the whole file and recompiling it) - so they changed the ETS2 API that modders can change stuff like the look of the roads or signs with their mods itself, without need to touch the base.scs
I would say that the way the trucks and gameplay work has been improved so much from ETS to ETS 2. The colour palette is the saddest thing. Lots of dark greens and greys, which do not look attractive at all. My wish is probably not doable until now, but I want a game like the Microsoft Flight Simulator, but for trucks and buses. That would be awesome. The whole world open to explore for us.
Cannot imagine that I used a keyboard on 18wheels PTTM and ETS1, sice I never bouth a wheel, using mouse in ETS2 is much convenient but still it is a game 7 years old, I hoped for new design in "Alaskan road simulator", improvement of graphics is almost none (or maybe evern worse) and there is no way how to use mouse for steering as you are a virtual driver siting in cabin. And with keyboard it is simply unplayable. I give up quickly.
i remember this game being much better than it is because of nostalgia, i remember believing that if i were to rank up, i would unlock the blocked roads :D But i have played the game a year or something ago and i couldn't manage to play it for more than 15 minutes, while ETS 2 i remember playing for a couple of hours.
Man, I remember when I had to resort playing the first Euro Truck Simulator because my laptop couldn't run ETS2 a few years after it came out at a reasonable framerate. I eventually gave in and pulled through 300 hours playing ETS2 at low settings and 50% resolution (iirc) and just accepting the 20 to 35fps average lol. Only relying on a Keyboard and Mouse as well. It was just the fact there was much more to do with ETS2, it was a sacrifice but I made it work. Now I play it at Ultra 400% Scaling along ATS with a full wheel and eye tracking setup. Pretty wild to look back to, which makes it nostalgic for me. I don't personally think the OG ETS is terrible with it's release time, it's just very dated now for what it is. I was familiar with ETS formula as I did grow up with 18 WoS Steel series, they were pretty much setup the same way. (In fact two WoS titles were just essentially the same besides a few roads added.)
I had no problem with older games driving with my g29 wheel it depends on what steering wheel you are using and with which software it is connected. I played different older car racing and simulators all of them where working flawless
Lets be honest tho if ets doesnt exist, neither will ets2 and ats. Ets became the basis of truck sim and ets2 and ats basically expanded and improved alot of the things in the scs software truck sim.
maybe it's just nostalgia, but I really enjoyed the predecessors, especially 18wos. Some features I still miss in ETS2, like managing when and where your drivers go instead of just returning empty every day. It was a thing in 18wos, you had the option to make the schedule for your drivers
I remember playing German Truck Simulator with a mouse a ton before ETS2. I feel like it was an improvement over ETS, but still did not feel right. It was Trucks & Trailers and Scania Driving Simulator that totally revamped the way vehicles and controls feel, ETS2 feels amazing since then. I did switch over to playing with a controller as well (DualShock 4) and I just love relaxing like that after a long week.
Nostalgic, it was a rainy day in 2011, I downloaded the trial version of the game and was playing it. It was my first truck sim game and I absolutely loved it. It aged so much
I really hate this, the fact that your videos are so good and get alot of views, but only around 10K Subscribers! I subscribed to you rn (bc of that War Thunder video)
I have ETS1 as part of a SCS bundle but never played it in its heyday. When I first got ETS2, I didn't have a wheel yet or even a gamepad to use for my laptop that I had at the time. I did, however, happen to have my dad's older Logitech Extreme 3D Pro Flight Sim Joystick. I haven't tried my G29 with ETS1 yet, and should see what happens with my joystick lol. I used the yaw axis for steering, pitch up for braking, throttle slider for throttle, view hat for looking around, and all the miscellaneous buttons for other stuff. Once you get use to the way the yaw is springed, it actually works pretty well lol.
I remember when I played it, but I only got the demo, which was more frustrating. I think you only can go to 3 cities with the demo. I spent hours and hours
5:15 ooh god, the achievements. I remember it was hard AF. trying to deliver an trailer without a scratch. and AI was derpy AF in the game. random brakes on the highway ... I became so paranoid. I was saving the game every mile I've did ...
I have been playing with computers since the ZX81 [1981] with 1 KB of memory. My hardware today is relatively old, so 10 and 15-year-old "retro" games work for me. Cheap too. Come back in 10 years and ETS3 [or whatever is next] will make ETS2 look basic. In your 50's, you will think kids have it easy. Nobody's fault. That's just how time and evolution work. I have fond memories of ETS. For ETS2, I edit the controls.sii and mod the physics.sii files. And mod the engines and gears. It's a programming side-quest that adds an extra dimension to the game. 😉
Not gonna lie, when it comes to handling, the trucks here drive like a cart, which are so slippery even if you only move the steering wheel slightly. 😁😁😁
I've been playing SCS' trucking games for around 20 years, it's a series of continuous advancement, pretty much each better than the previous ones. ETS was amazing for its time, leaps and bound better than anything else that came before (not to mention the first one that enabled you to play with European trucks rather than just American ones). But then ETS2 came out, and did everything better. Except for one thing, we had to wait for the DLC's to drive the whole of Europe. As for the driving, it works just fine with older steering wheels.
a player with almost 3k hours in the cracked + steam version of ets 2, I stat play scs game since 18wos, it's a shame ets1, gts and ukts have slippery physics, but the prism3d engine on those game still is the root of ets2, they still look similar to ets2 like the ai cars, road systm, etc. when I was in primary school, ets1 has amazing graphics to me, not so many games have a view distance and clarity like ets1 back in days
You need "combined" wheel and pedals for ETS, i.e. it needs to be defined as a joystick in Windows with X- being left, X+ being right, Y- brake and Y+ throttle. Back in the WinXP days there were programs that would let you create a virtual joystick for old DOS games, I don't know if something similar exists for Win10/11.
Me, my brother and my 2 sisters used to play this on my mam's old laptop at around 2014 it was really fun at the time and we didn't really know of the second one and the laptop probably wouldn't run it, but we really enjoyed playing it.
I come from DCS so funnily enough my driving setup is a keyboard for some binds, mouse for steering even though I don't yet have the best settings for the sensitivity but it's alright, and I use the toe brakes of my rudder pedals as gas and brake, as well as TRACKIR 5 for looking around :D I'd use e.g. promods for the europe map but... paying so much money to buy all the map DLCs just to be able to use mods is just ridiculous, even with the discount
I bought ETS simply because I thought it might help me adjust to driving on the right side of the road back in 2018. I played it for three minutes and never touched it again until January of this year. I loved it. The driving wheel was nuts, but I loved it all the same. There was something about seeing the Eiffel Tower when driving into Paris which did it for me. It got a bit samey after a month though. Then I invested in ETS2 and now I have no life.
As someone who played since the first Hard Truck and 18 Wheels of Steel games, Euro Truck Simulator was a huge leap and seeing this video now is so funny.
ETS1 is where I started, sure, i didnt play much of it, but it was a good launching pad for my interest in driving. I have sunk quite a few hours into both ETS2 and ATS, and I'm glad to see SCS constantly oroviding updated and patches to keep them in line with modern expectations from a game, instead of getting all "sequilitis" on us and breaking down free upgrades into whole new gakes you have to purchase each time an engine upgrade occurs (Looking at you TSW 1-3)
I agree, as much as continually releasing DLC can seem kinda scummy, you do need to look at ETS2 and ATS as sort of "live service" games. They are being continuously worked on and updated, so they need to make money somehow. Ultimately this is better than making us buy a new game every few years, as you can get the DLC pretty cheap on sale and they are optional.
I remember as a kid I really wanted my mum to get me ETS. However when I put in the CD and booted it up. It looked nothing like the RUclips video. I then told my mum that its really different and she got me ETS2 on CD! I played with ETS2 on CD for a very long time up until I think 2017 I decided to get the steam version. By the way. Since I have played ETS since I was a kid. I never played with any controller or fancy steering wheel. I have actually mastered the keyboard and mouse.
I remember when I played ETS 1, I was a small kid and I had a glitch that made everything blue and white. Just imagine that the game was black and white but instead of black it was light blue. I still played it lmao.
Imagine if he plays the old 18 Wheels of Steel games (aka ETS' predecessors). He has no idea how much of an improvement ETS1 was over those, and even that was enough to immerse us back in the day. I remember playing Hard Truck: 18 WoS back in 2002, thinking it was one of the best simulations ever made, while in reality it's a buggy mess, not even remotelly realistic, but at the time, there was nothing like it.
I played this game with the post ussr mod and I really liked it, and it was 10 or 9 years ago, and then I found out about the Scania Truck Driving Simulator game, after some time about ETS 2, and then I downloaded RusMap map mods and Southern Region in 2015, downloaded Scania and Setra bus mods with a passenger mod and played on these maps, now I play ets 2 with RusMap, Southern Region, Volga Map, SibirMap maps, and recently I started adding a map of Kazakhstan to the assembly , I used to play it too, but the Promods team is doing a cool rework of the map of Kazakhstan
You should try German Truck Simulator. It is much, much better, closer to ETS2 in many aspects, but actually being more advanced in some, like getting hired in companies until you buy your own truck, and not that weird ETS2 system in which you choose a load and a truck every time until you get your own truck.
ETS was imo just a case study for ETS2/ATS. I remember having a lot of fun with it though despite even then the control problems were obvious. I would defintely get ETS2 and ATS if you are a new truck simmer. But a word of warning... it has DLC... great DLC.... so you probably are not done with just buying the games... you WILL eventually crack and buy the rest as well.
There are those of us who would call mouse and keyboard a sin, and there are those of us who would go so far as to use a keyboard with a pointer nibbin.
ETS2 w keyboard control is how I get my HGV license without going to drive school. So credit to the SCS for the probably best keyboard control ever.
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@@marktucker208 You really get to learn the driving geometry of a big lorry. Specially an overcab one, which is not something you can drive everyday.
And maybe the license procurement in my country are bit too easy might also have something to do with it.
mmmm hepatitis g virus, so torque
Same
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It aged badly, but I still love it due to nostalgia lol. Will you be looking at the newer sequels too? Like German Truck Simulator and maybe UK Truck Simulator?
Probably not. I think I am kind of burnt out of trying new SCS trucking games for now, and those seem pretty similar to ETS. But I will be making some videos on other games involving driving in the future, like Jalopy and the Long Drive. I might also make a video on ETS2 map mods, enjoying the Japan one right now.
@@Tymptra maybe try scania truck driving simulator, this game portrqys how early ets2 looked like very well, and also shows how badly the older Scania R trucks need a rework
@@Tymptra I can highly recommend trying out Rig'n'Roll. It was my first driving game and actually still has quite a nice damage model. It is like a mix of a cheap version of GTA and ATS...
@@Tymptra You could try some of the older SCS games, Steam and GOG both have them.
SCS did not release a single new game since 2016 🙈
"I could feel the touch of a woman receding from possibility." You're a Euro truck simulator 2 player, the possibility of that disappeared a long time ago.
oh no a osu player seems mad :(
Idk I play ETS2 and I have a whole wife, but that’s probably because I also play ATS
@@Sir_Austin_T_GeeI mean, she should be whole, right?
I used to play ETS1 and the 18 WOS games quite a lot before German Truck Simulator came out. The annoying steering was present in all SCS games at the time, but I still loved them regardless. The vanilla game got boring rather quickly, so I started installing map mods (Romania map), real company mods, truck mods and others I can't remember. I remember being amazed at the level of detail of some map mods, even though many of them weren't even as detailed as the original ETS2 base map. There was no such thing as a mod manager or load order, the game would simply load all the .scs files from the mod folder. Good times 😄
i was 7 year old i never got mods to work... when i did manage to install it, it was all buggy and that scared the F out of me... idk why
I also checked out the original ETS a few months ago out of sheer curiosity to see the origins of ETS2. It was super interesting as a sort of museum exhibit when looking back at how far SCS have come since ETS2 exploded in popularity. But definitely not a great experience outside of that initial fascination lol
I had it back in the day and still remember the reason I uninstalled it. It was a side effect of bying the countries separately in order to be able to drive them... There is a road in Austria that drives thriugh Germany and gets back in Austria after a while. Maybe there was an alternative but that specific one was the shortest route. But I hadn't germany purchased so I crashed on an invisible wall (or it was an impassable customs/toll station right at the border, something like that). I wasn't heading to a german city, the navigation sent me there
Yeah, that jerky wheel is definitely something that won't be missed. It was also a problem on SCS's other game series, the now-dormant '18 Wheels of Steel' series.
And the world design in 18 Wheels of Steel is in a similar boat to ETS1. While the parts of the map of ETS2 (Going East, Scandinavia, and the unaltered parts of the base map) may not age well, at least SCS is working to rework the areas, so there's that. Both ETS1 and the 18 Wheels of Steel games will be stuck with it, obviously.
I do miss the 18WoS games because childhood, but if I do come back to them, it'll just be for nostalgia reasons. ETS1 is in the same boat to those who played it when they were young.
But anyways, great video.
ETS 1 is a charming game, I loved it when it was modern, my OLD computer did not have Pixel Shader 3.0 so I had to play it through a thing called SwiftShader that emulated it to lower DX versions.
It ran laggy, but I would drive on for hours in that game lol.
For those like me that came from the 18 wheels of steel series, this was another level, i remember watching youtube videos and be ameazed by the cabin fisics when you move. And the mod community was strong since the beginning.
I've been playing this game for many, many hours. He started in the fall of 2012 and played with short breaks until June 2014. It's just that I had a very ancient computer on which it was impossible to play anything modern at all. The game weighed 130 MB
This game has a special place in my heart
If you've played SCS's older games such as 18 Wheels of Steel series, you'll know that this is just another game from them.
ETS2 was such a big upgrade and a drastic change that you'd be surprised they were made by the same guys.
Remember when i was a kid using keyboard arrow keys to control trucks on 18 Wheels of Steel Convoy, Across America, and Haulin (which was my favorite). Then did the same thing on ETS1. Man how much of an improvement ETS2 was when I first saw it. Love watching old videos of the game cause the lighting, sounds, and other graphics are so nostalgic for me.
I played ETS 1 a lot, along with Bus driver (which remains one of my fav games to this day). But yeah, when you got a taste of ETS2 it's hard to look back
I'm probably in the minority in that I played ets1 way before ets2 was released. I loved it because I was impressed with how the map was huge without loading times. Over ten years later and I'm still a big fan of SCS's games thanks to ETS1. I can imagine though, that playing the original game nowadays would still be a bland experience for me, it's become outdated as heck.
I played 18 Wheels Of Steel Accross America way before ETS1 ^^
You unlocked some good memories of me playing this game as a kid, with a keyboard and a crappy computer. I loved ETS
SCS was completely different back then, a much smaller team working for a publisher which wanted a new game from time to time, while SCS CEO spent a good time in the early blog post days saying that rushing to make a product live before it was ready just isn't part of the company's DNA. That is why before ETS2, there were more games in general being put out, while today they are focusing on adding and perfecting their 2 bloodlines which, with time, made the jump in quality between old SCS and current SCS not that surprising.
The games from them I played before where 10 WoS Pedal to the Metal, which had a tendency to crash, 10 WoS American Long Haul, which I didn't understood and got many tickets, and Bus Driver, which... was kind of a meme in my mind. Best part were the missions where you transport prisoners, who will praise you for driving stupidly.
2:02 I've been playing with a mouse and keyboard for 1.5 decades now without issue. If anything a steering wheel and pedals are harder to play with in this game because I can't use the mouse to look around when I'm going through intersections or roundabouts.
2:07
You’re a gigachad just like me. I also play on keyboard and mouse cuz I’m broke. I first got ETS1 in 2021. I played it a lot to get the ‘Professional’ rank.
When I first switched to ETS2 my laptop was very old I saw the graphics and almost threw up. Then on my new laptop I got ETS2 1.46 and it runs like butter with ‘OH MY GOD THIS IS SO AMAZING!!!!!!’ graphics.
I did play Euro Truck Simulator quite a bit before ETS2 came out. Back in the days I had a Logitech Driving Force GT steering wheel which worked with the game.
But the big jump in steering ratio when passing a certain steering wheel angle was present with the wheel as well! It's an annoying bug that was never fixed.
ETS 2 does everything better
In a way, I'm glad lots of other people ran in into the same issue. Some part of me was worried I might have gotten settings wrong or something.
Aay that's the same steering wheel I have now!
i knew this game as Big Rig Europe, and i was obsessed with it
i suppose it was my first ever pc game
i played it mostly in 2010 thru 2012, until i got into Minecraft and that became my hyperfixation for the following decade
but i still love this game, and tbh i think its dealership thing where you go around the showroom and look at the trucks is something this game has over ETS2. I always thought that was way cooler.
The first time I bought a SWIFT truck, i was enamored, i loved the green dashboard lighting. It always felt so cozy. I'd listen to Eminem and play "Big Rig" until someone needed the computer for something.
ETS2 is by far a better game, but the first one has a special place in my heart
ETS1 will forever have a place in my heart for being able to run sufficiently on my teenage era shitbook with integrated graphics
I want to play old SCS games because they were part of my childhood but i can't go back, the physics in those games feels weird after playing ETS2
I have over 1.6k hours on ets2 playing with a keyboard (i got a wheel now tho)
I used a keyboard before I got a controller as well ;)
@@Tymptra I had a controller as well I just like keyboard better ofc wheel is best but that is a recent addition for me
@@BatteryAcid777 same! I only got my wheel a couple months ago!
i just use mouse in most games, takes a lot of time to get used to tho
@@damanchur604 yeah mouse in ETS2 is scuffed AF IMO
ETS1 is the bets version of ETS2. I remember when I played I felt really satisfied! Nothing similar existed at the time.
When it comes to older truck sims I really suggest playing Hard Truck 2 King of the Road. It came out in 2001 but it's still fun. Some things there are done even better than in ETS2 imo
yes ! probably the most underrated truck game . if you get past the bugs its a masterpeace
ARIA 🤟
@@ali32bit42 And the best thing is that you can actually escape from the police, and not get a ticket via Bluetooth like in ETS
@@Peterkragger the same studio has made rig n roll as a sequel. but sadly the sim community hated it
I grew up with ETS1 and I still genuinly enjoy the game. While yes, ETS2 is the better game, I adore ETS1 for it's simplicity.
correction: The Czech team behind the trucking sims just started out in 2002 with Hardtruck 18 wheels of steels. Euro truck was based on the 18 wheels of steels series which had similar assets. The first 18wos were just three maps in the US, with cut down maps of south california, where the rig was so heavy that you really could not make it over the traffic light at first.
my first time playing it was in 2010 when i got a hand me down laptop and had the knowlegde of pirated games
Man, thanks to Euro Truck Simulator 1 I knew that I really liked those kind of games.
Me who stared with 18 wheels of steel american long haul
You can say one good thing about ETS1 and also 18WOS: They were the games that started the huge modding scene of ETS2 and ATS, exactly because the fundamental map was so bare minimum. Most of the modders we know today started with these games and then moved with their knowledge to ETS2. And SCS also used the knowledge they gained with the modding community to make the game better. Because in ETS1 you so often had to literally hack the base.scs file (which was really unfun in an age of dual core first generation processors, because it meant uncompiling the whole file and recompiling it) - so they changed the ETS2 API that modders can change stuff like the look of the roads or signs with their mods itself, without need to touch the base.scs
wow that's a really cool piece of info, thank you for sharing that!!!!!
I would say that the way the trucks and gameplay work has been improved so much from ETS to ETS 2.
The colour palette is the saddest thing. Lots of dark greens and greys, which do not look attractive at all.
My wish is probably not doable until now, but I want a game like the Microsoft Flight Simulator, but for trucks and buses. That would be awesome. The whole world open to explore for us.
I have to say that the Volvo cabin & dashboard looks more realistic than the one in ets2.... The gauges even have the right shape!
Cannot imagine that I used a keyboard on 18wheels PTTM and ETS1, sice I never bouth a wheel, using mouse in ETS2 is much convenient but still it is a game 7 years old, I hoped for new design in "Alaskan road simulator", improvement of graphics is almost none (or maybe evern worse) and there is no way how to use mouse for steering as you are a virtual driver siting in cabin. And with keyboard it is simply unplayable. I give up quickly.
i remember this game being much better than it is because of nostalgia, i remember believing that if i were to rank up, i would unlock the blocked roads :D But i have played the game a year or something ago and i couldn't manage to play it for more than 15 minutes, while ETS 2 i remember playing for a couple of hours.
Man, I remember when I had to resort playing the first Euro Truck Simulator because my laptop couldn't run ETS2 a few years after it came out at a reasonable framerate. I eventually gave in and pulled through 300 hours playing ETS2 at low settings and 50% resolution (iirc) and just accepting the 20 to 35fps average lol. Only relying on a Keyboard and Mouse as well.
It was just the fact there was much more to do with ETS2, it was a sacrifice but I made it work. Now I play it at Ultra 400% Scaling along ATS with a full wheel and eye tracking setup. Pretty wild to look back to, which makes it nostalgic for me.
I don't personally think the OG ETS is terrible with it's release time, it's just very dated now for what it is. I was familiar with ETS formula as I did grow up with 18 WoS Steel series, they were pretty much setup the same way. (In fact two WoS titles were just essentially the same besides a few roads added.)
I don't know if OSU is anymore virginity inducing than playing Euro Truck ngl
I had no problem with older games driving with my g29 wheel it depends on what steering wheel you are using and with which software it is connected. I played different older car racing and simulators all of them where working flawless
4:37 ..."with no real unique architecture..."
One of the most iconic building of Milano appears in the background...
Lets be honest tho if ets doesnt exist, neither will ets2 and ats. Ets became the basis of truck sim and ets2 and ats basically expanded and improved alot of the things in the scs software truck sim.
maybe it's just nostalgia, but I really enjoyed the predecessors, especially 18wos. Some features I still miss in ETS2, like managing when and where your drivers go instead of just returning empty every day. It was a thing in 18wos, you had the option to make the schedule for your drivers
I remember playing German Truck Simulator with a mouse a ton before ETS2. I feel like it was an improvement over ETS, but still did not feel right.
It was Trucks & Trailers and Scania Driving Simulator that totally revamped the way vehicles and controls feel, ETS2 feels amazing since then.
I did switch over to playing with a controller as well (DualShock 4) and I just love relaxing like that after a long week.
I lowkey didn't expect osu to be mentioned lmao
Nostalgic, it was a rainy day in 2011, I downloaded the trial version of the game and was playing it. It was my first truck sim game and I absolutely loved it. It aged so much
I really hate this, the fact that your videos are so good and get alot of views, but only around 10K Subscribers! I subscribed to you rn (bc of that War Thunder video)
Every little bit helps! Glad you enjoy my content! In a bit of a lull due to irl stuff right now but I am planning more projects :)
@@Tymptra Exited to see them! Keep going!
Remember playing this on my old laptop when i was a kid, quite nostalgic!
I have ETS1 as part of a SCS bundle but never played it in its heyday. When I first got ETS2, I didn't have a wheel yet or even a gamepad to use for my laptop that I had at the time. I did, however, happen to have my dad's older Logitech Extreme 3D Pro Flight Sim Joystick. I haven't tried my G29 with ETS1 yet, and should see what happens with my joystick lol. I used the yaw axis for steering, pitch up for braking, throttle slider for throttle, view hat for looking around, and all the miscellaneous buttons for other stuff. Once you get use to the way the yaw is springed, it actually works pretty well lol.
I remember when I played it, but I only got the demo, which was more frustrating. I think you only can go to 3 cities with the demo. I spent hours and hours
5:15 ooh god, the achievements. I remember it was hard AF. trying to deliver an trailer without a scratch. and AI was derpy AF in the game. random brakes on the highway ... I became so paranoid. I was saving the game every mile I've did ...
I have been playing with computers since the ZX81 [1981] with 1 KB of memory. My hardware today is relatively old, so 10 and 15-year-old "retro" games work for me. Cheap too. Come back in 10 years and ETS3 [or whatever is next] will make ETS2 look basic. In your 50's, you will think kids have it easy. Nobody's fault. That's just how time and evolution work. I have fond memories of ETS. For ETS2, I edit the controls.sii and mod the physics.sii files. And mod the engines and gears. It's a programming side-quest that adds an extra dimension to the game. 😉
Not gonna lie, when it comes to handling, the trucks here drive like a cart, which are so slippery even if you only move the steering wheel slightly. 😁😁😁
I know absolutely nothing about Euro Truck, but I'm here. Also, the memes were on point xD.
Happy to have you along for the ride 😎
I've been playing SCS' trucking games for around 20 years, it's a series of continuous advancement, pretty much each better than the previous ones. ETS was amazing for its time, leaps and bound better than anything else that came before (not to mention the first one that enabled you to play with European trucks rather than just American ones). But then ETS2 came out, and did everything better. Except for one thing, we had to wait for the DLC's to drive the whole of Europe.
As for the driving, it works just fine with older steering wheels.
I played the UK truck simulator before I got ETS2, it was ok but SCS had no licensing for the trucks so they all had weird names.
In the UK Truck Simulator, only MAN was licensed
@@mertcalc3259 Yeah MAN was the only one at first. Then in ETS2 most of them got licensed other than Mercedes which was still Majestic for a bit.
Paul Allen’s card is American Truck Simulator
ETS1 vanilla was pain in the neck even back in the day. I remember putting ton of carefully selected mods to get it somewhat decent.
a player with almost 3k hours in the cracked + steam version of ets 2, I stat play scs game since 18wos, it's a shame ets1, gts and ukts have slippery physics, but the prism3d engine on those game still is the root of ets2, they still look similar to ets2 like the ai cars, road systm, etc. when I was in primary school, ets1 has amazing graphics to me, not so many games have a view distance and clarity like ets1 back in days
I was exactly the same. Thought the game was and looked amazing when i was a kid
Been on the road since ets1, GTS and UKTS 🙌
Anyone else gunna question why the scania had no steering wheel 5:57
You need "combined" wheel and pedals for ETS, i.e. it needs to be defined as a joystick in Windows with X- being left, X+ being right, Y- brake and Y+ throttle. Back in the WinXP days there were programs that would let you create a virtual joystick for old DOS games, I don't know if something similar exists for Win10/11.
holds a soft spot for most people, i played 18 WOS constantly as a kid to the point its literally a core memory i didnt have to unlock
Me, my brother and my 2 sisters used to play this on my mam's old laptop at around 2014 it was really fun at the time and we didn't really know of the second one and the laptop probably wouldn't run it, but we really enjoyed playing it.
I come from DCS so funnily enough my driving setup is a keyboard for some binds, mouse for steering even though I don't yet have the best settings for the sensitivity but it's alright, and I use the toe brakes of my rudder pedals as gas and brake, as well as TRACKIR 5 for looking around :D
I'd use e.g. promods for the europe map but... paying so much money to buy all the map DLCs just to be able to use mods is just ridiculous, even with the discount
I Wish that there where some elements of 18wheels extreme trucker in ATS/ETS
Ets compared to ets-2 or ats it kinda looks like the nowadays phone trucking games
ET2 flooding the search results when researching things for ETS is extremely relatable lmao.
Me and my mates were lowkey hooked on on the first ETS back in 2010. Laptop couldnt run the second one so I was stuck
I bought ETS simply because I thought it might help me adjust to driving on the right side of the road back in 2018. I played it for three minutes and never touched it again until January of this year. I loved it. The driving wheel was nuts, but I loved it all the same. There was something about seeing the Eiffel Tower when driving into Paris which did it for me. It got a bit samey after a month though. Then I invested in ETS2 and now I have no life.
As someone who played since the first Hard Truck and 18 Wheels of Steel games, Euro Truck Simulator was a huge leap and seeing this video now is so funny.
ETS1 is where I started, sure, i didnt play much of it, but it was a good launching pad for my interest in driving.
I have sunk quite a few hours into both ETS2 and ATS, and I'm glad to see SCS constantly oroviding updated and patches to keep them in line with modern expectations from a game, instead of getting all "sequilitis" on us and breaking down free upgrades into whole new gakes you have to purchase each time an engine upgrade occurs (Looking at you TSW 1-3)
I agree, as much as continually releasing DLC can seem kinda scummy, you do need to look at ETS2 and ATS as sort of "live service" games. They are being continuously worked on and updated, so they need to make money somehow. Ultimately this is better than making us buy a new game every few years, as you can get the DLC pretty cheap on sale and they are optional.
I grew up in this game. It lagged like hell on my old laptop but I loved it and always will
Well, war thunder at the end was absolutely unexpected (Even more was unexcpected the fact that it was not an ad)
I remember as a kid I really wanted my mum to get me ETS. However when I put in the CD and booted it up. It looked nothing like the RUclips video. I then told my mum that its really different and she got me ETS2 on CD! I played with ETS2 on CD for a very long time up until I think 2017 I decided to get the steam version.
By the way. Since I have played ETS since I was a kid. I never played with any controller or fancy steering wheel. I have actually mastered the keyboard and mouse.
Test Drive III was my first simulation driving game, back in the early nineties. I'm old.
Omg, i read 223K subs, but not 2.23K. Great video, keep up your good work, man. :)
I came to ETS in about 2009 or so, and I was coming from 18WoS: Across America. It was a massive upgrade...mostly.
I have 3000 hours on ETS, first game i bought for PC
I played using keyboard and I watched DVD's while playing Childhood man..
I remember when I played ETS 1, I was a small kid and I had a glitch that made everything blue and white. Just imagine that the game was black and white but instead of black it was light blue. I still played it lmao.
Imagine if he plays the old 18 Wheels of Steel games (aka ETS' predecessors). He has no idea how much of an improvement ETS1 was over those, and even that was enough to immerse us back in the day. I remember playing Hard Truck: 18 WoS back in 2002, thinking it was one of the best simulations ever made, while in reality it's a buggy mess, not even remotelly realistic, but at the time, there was nothing like it.
"The ultimate sin, mouse and keyboard"
Me, who uses the arrow keys to turn: XD
This game was my childhood, so nostalgic
I played this game with the post ussr mod and I really liked it, and it was 10 or 9 years ago, and then I found out about the Scania Truck Driving Simulator game, after some time about ETS 2, and then I downloaded RusMap map mods and Southern Region in 2015, downloaded Scania and Setra bus mods with a passenger mod and played on these maps, now I play ets 2 with RusMap, Southern Region, Volga Map, SibirMap maps, and recently I started adding a map of Kazakhstan to the assembly , I used to play it too, but the Promods team is doing a cool rework of the map of Kazakhstan
Got this game for free with ETS2 a few years back, but I've never actually tried this one. Seems I've not missed anything at all.
i remember playing this when ets2 wasnt released yet
i was blown away by this game back then, and then ets2 released and i was blown away again
as a player of ats and ets2 your right
I still have ETS 1 on a CD disc! 1 Year after i bought ETS 2 i decided to check it out, and well...
Not much have changed since then
You should try German Truck Simulator. It is much, much better, closer to ETS2 in many aspects, but actually being more advanced in some, like getting hired in companies until you buy your own truck, and not that weird ETS2 system in which you choose a load and a truck every time until you get your own truck.
4:47 tbf they nailed Barcelona
7:04
Did not expect that pretty funny.
well my first truck simulator was the 18 wheels of steel series and then euro truck simulator 2
i even rung the bell. you post a battlebit video. ill like it and share. happy gaming.
May I tell you something? Haulin was a lot better, which was relesed in 2006.
ETS was imo just a case study for ETS2/ATS. I remember having a lot of fun with it though despite even then the control problems were obvious.
I would defintely get ETS2 and ATS if you are a new truck simmer. But a word of warning... it has DLC... great DLC.... so you probably are not done with just buying the games... you WILL eventually crack and buy the rest as well.
There are those of us who would call mouse and keyboard a sin, and there are those of us who would go so far as to use a keyboard with a pointer nibbin.
I used to play ETS 2 with a keyboard before I got a wheel I can relate to the pain
its not my first driving simulator but, it was the first one that makes me drive within the laws.
Old days,and now im playing ETS2 1.30 and ATS 1.30,still those were nostalgic times
Everything works smoothly on my computer. Settings can be confusing. I'm using a fanatic steering wheel and everything moves nice and correctly.
iirc i use my mouse to control the steering, LMB to gas, RMB to brake, scroll wheel to change gear, rest is keyboard....