Here’s an actual Tatra truck doing a SnowRunner stunt.
I’ve been using the Tatra trucks more after repairing their factory in Don. In real life they are from the Czech Republic.
(I haven’t played SnowRunner at all in about a week, though, thanks to UFO 50.)
Maine has proven to be as much of a slog as I’d heard, so I’ve been taking it slowly. I’ve come across some of the (apparently many) Stephen King story references, and fortunately they are fairly subtle.
I’ve been alternating between Maine and Austria because I couldn’t resist seeing the new area. It seems like another good one so far, and it includes some new scouts that have built-in radar. There’s also farming, which has been in the game for a while but is something I’ve never tried.
Here I am delivering some bricks to a castle.
It’s annoying that if you join someone’s multiplayer game you have to redo all the same tasks later, so I’m only about half done with michigan because I’ve been splitting my time between working on my save and helping my friend.
I’ve never manually packed logs and I’m confused at how you would. When a bundle falls off your truck it becomes like three individual logs.
No wonder cellulose is always such a pain to handle with a crane.
Unless you’re one of those people who insist on always manually loading everything (or to recover from a spill), I think the only reason you’d do this is to take advantage of a sort of exploit. For example, if you need two loads of logs you can manually load six of them into a long sideboard trailer and then put three of them into each of two log trailers when you reach the destination. I don’t think this is usually worth the effort and of course it kind of breaks the immersion of the game.
Yesterday I discovered that you can unlock a second Tayga truck in Maine and became determined to do it. Took a lot of work, but I managed to do it (while listening to a very good audiobook). By that time it was very late at night so I haven’t had a chance to actually use the new truck yet but I’m looking forward to seeing what it can do. It can equip those huge Bandit tires (hopefully with a little more stability), not to mention a crane, bed, and trailer all at the same time.
The only exploits I do are overloading trucks by stacking cargo and using cranes to hold it in place. But that feels fine and normal because there is no OSHA or state police in Snow Runner.
now it makes twice in a row i’ve clicked this thread and assumed the posts were about our shared material reality and not the virtual world of video gaming
dito, only gravity or fear shall reign in my need for … containers, steel or wood (logs) 
I’m getting close to finishing Maine. After you complete the primary contracts, they spring a bunch of logging missions on you.
I saved a video of the final part of one logging trip, which shows the Tayga 6455B (my favorite truck at the moment) being helpful and also illustrates the way the final stretch of a logging mission is often kind of an ordeal (of my own making in part, I’m sure).
Before the part in this video, my logging truck spent a while trying to find a path through a thick forest and eventually had to back all the way out and try a different spot (the one you see in the video).
This isn’t the most difficult of the Maine logging missions. A video of the final parts of that one would have been much longer and more boring than this one. It involved a logging crane and individual logs repeatedly rolling down a mountain.
Done with Maine. I think this area is second only to Kola in its difficulty, of those I’ve tried. Funny how in the final stages you’ve refined the best routes and found the real shortcuts, knowledge you’re unlikely to ever use again. But I suppose a lot of things in life are like that.
This was my anticlimactic final delivery, by the Tayga 6455B.
Mod to add the Boring company boring machine.
Thinking about Snowrunner while watching Play Dirty. They spend like 20 fuckin minutes on this winching process. Andre de Toth rules.
Mod where you can drive the logs.
Kola Peninsula is no joke, eh?
Mod where you are a squirrel but you still have to transport nuts and stuff
