Devblog - A look at your feedback!

Thank your for this honest feedback. I understand your choices and i could enjoy the game  with most of them, but no gearbox is a big NO for me, vehicles feel like  kids toys and too simple for me and  i got the impression the focus was  more on 3rd perspective driving anyway . Glad that i can now refund with a good conscience. 

​I'm surprised that the lack of winch on most vehicles isn't in the main feedbacks. Won't trying to rescue vehicles be a major part of the game?

Severely disappointed about the manual gearbox not being planned. It leaves the driving engagement to be very plain and monotonous. It feels less like playing a construction simulator and more like something soulless.

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Akbalder wrote:

​I'm surprised that the lack of winch on most vehicles isn't in the main feedbacks. Won't trying to rescue vehicles be a major part of the game?

This is something I'm hoping for some news on too - I ended up in a few situations where the lack of winch really was apparent in the demo. 

I get wanting to keep scouts unique, but the scout we have doesn't really have the weight to actually recover any vehicles with the winch. 

One idea I had to keep scouts unique but still give winches to other vehicles is:

- Scouts keep the winch as is, like Snowrunner winches that can go from any point on the vehicle to an object

- Vehicles that logically would have a winch get one, but instead of going from any point on the vehicle to the object they can only go from where the winch physically is on the vehicle. So, a flatbed truck with a ramp might have a winch behind the cab to pull objects onto the ramp, or an offroad truck might have a front mounted winch that can be used in front only.

- All vehicles get the ability to attach a tow rope from any point on the vehicle to an object. A tow rope would be just a non-retractable rope, allowing for vehicles to assist other vehicles but not get themselves unstuck. It could also be used i.e to use an excavator as a makeshift crane by attaching an object via rope to the bucket. 

I really want the fuel to be present the game​

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Khagai wrote:
Therefore, we will not be implementing vehicle damage and manual gearbox systems in RoadCraft.

I'm fine with the automatic gearbox by and large, but please, PLEASE, separate brake and reverse. I just want an analogue brake without having to worry about the vehicle lurching backwards.

Thank you for this dev blog.

Although thank you for explaining the major talking points. 

I do still believe that no fuel/gearbox will back fire. I think many of us are happy to brush off damage not being implemented and although you've made mention of roadcraft isn't snowrunner v2 alot of roadcrafts crowd comes from snowrunner. 

I thoroughly enjoyed the demo but I do wish to urge you guys to maybe even delay a release to implement these things or throw out a survey to the community on how they believe these features should be implemented. I dont want to see this game end up similar to that of Expeditions. 

i hope you guys add excavators and loaders to load dump trucks and such to dig up earth and such I really hope you guys do in the future once you get the game figured out 

I will not gonna repeat all the other things I agree such as (gas, repair, damage),I want to add to this a bit more realism is needed to refill the sand into dump trucks and the asphalt machine. It's not very realistic to fill the dump truck with G and the sand fall from the sky :) :) :) Also, Crane controls are weird sometimes, because I unintentionally move up<->down together with left<->right. The last thing I wanted to mention is the poor performance with AMD but you already know. Please when you optimise do it for all the AMD cards don't abandon old cards like my RX 5700. we already are feeling abandoned by AMD (drivers)

I'am so sad about that i would like to have gearbox and damage system , you also didn't talk about sand/asphalt coming form the sky its not realistik at all. Wheel loader with bucket to refill will be awesome, and concrete truck and concrete pump will add a unique experience.

​I played the demo after MudRunner and was pleasantly surprised by the behavior of cars and trucks and the atmosphere that is present in the game, I just went through all 3 missions in one breath and pre-ordered the game, because I did not have enough.

I think that the demo should be left even after the release of the game, maybe with some improvements. 

I hope in the future the largest machines like the BelAZ-75710 will be available. 

I think for fun we should add a couple of machines with the ability to apply markings or various other drawings on the asphalt. 

I would like to add the ability to raise and lower sections of bridges, in the demo in almost all places where I tried to build a bridge it was impossible to do, for example, climbing a mountain or a bridge across several rivers at once on the 3rd map. 

The weather is some kind of abnormal, it changes very often and essentially has only 2 positions - On the 1st and 3rd maps it is either sunny or raining (Where there is a storm, where there is fog, there may be hail). On the 2nd map it's either sunny or there's a sandstorm (while I was playing there were 4 sandstorms, it's abnormal and annoying, reduce the frequency, in the desert it rains sometimes, although rarely, you can also add heat, when the asphalt starts to shine and distort). 

As for the players' complaints, for example, about the lack of fuel and the demand for realism - I got tired of this topic back in MudRunner, well, a KamAZ dump truck can't drain its entire 350-liter tank in 10 minutes and a couple of kilometers. In off-road conditions, such a tank will be enough for a whole work shift (8 hours)! If you want to add fuel, then do it realistically, let it run out in 4-6 hours of play on one car, if you don't forget to turn it off, this way the wishes will be fulfilled and at the same time it will not tire the players so much.

Some people talk about incorrect physics, as evidence they cite the 2nd mission, where they get into a 30-ton truck with a crane and start simply pushing empty containers, pipes and an empty water tower, and do not understand why it is so easy for them. Hello guys, your difference in weight is more than tenfold, that's how it should be! Get on a scout and try to move them and you will understand everything. A bulldozer similar to the BelAZ-7823 can generally weigh up to 50 tons. Therefore, I would like to see the characteristics of the equipment in digital form, and not just in the form of an incomprehensible strip.

I agree with the disappointment of players about the lack of damage, then the players would not be clearing roads with a bare bumper, or cutting the road by jumping from cliffs and would be more careful with the equipment. 

If it is difficult to implement this physically, maybe add a simple health bar with a decrease in engine power with a small reserve. 

The absence of drivers, darkened cabins and lack of reflection in the mirrors were obviously done to optimize the game, but the lack of reflection when viewed from the cabin, with such a prevalence of RTX, is a fail. 

I don't think the lack of a full-fledged gearbox is important, people think that it will give them additional immersion, but as soon as it is implemented, they will get tired of switching back and forth every 5 seconds from first to second gear and will return to the automatic transmission or abandon the game( 

The same goes for simplifying the loading of sand, while the maps are limited, people do not understand that when building a road away from the crater, they will simply get tired of hauling this sand back and forth 10-20 times on one road of 100-200 meters. I would even recommend pouring more sand into the dump truck, with a mound, to reduce the necessary trips for sand.

​From the first moment I turned on the demo and I knew there would be nothing interesting about the implementation of fuel consumption.

I find it strange not to have it. However, gameplay in Roadcraft shows that there is no interesting reason to add it.

Just add a fuel gauge and a button, fill it up like with sand in the demo and problem solved.

Controlling the crane is strange, but only at first and probably only for someone who has played snowrunner before.

After a while it becomes very intuitive and above all faster! Definitely faster than in previous games in the series.

Leave it as it is. Just add the possibility of changing the keys here and there and everyone will adjust it to themselves.

Performance on AMD CPUs and GPUs probably needs optimization, especially if you see room for improvement yourself.

But for God's sake the demo worked fine. And I played on 7800X3D with 7900XT.

In a time when huge companies can't seem to release a full game that just works from day one! This demo was a nice breath of fresh air.

The lack of vehicle damage is weak.

On the one hand, I understand why it wouldn't be there. But on the other hand, it should be there and that's it.

The lack of immersive features, such as engine switch on/off switch, headlights, 3D model for the driver.

The game shouldn't come out without such basic things. And that's it. As simple as that.

One of the biggest things that worries me about the upcoming release of the game.

Is that I have a feeling that we won't have full vehicle customization.

And that would be a disaster for me and probably many people like me.

Full vehicle customization is an integral part of the fun of the game and the sense of progression.

I don't think the game should come out without that option. 

And let's get this straight. I've already bought the game. The DEAL is done.

Now I just want to make sure you understand how necessary this component is.

Apart from everything above, the game looks fantastic, interesting and above all diverse.

The new graphics and use of the new engine are phenomenal. The physics and appearance of the water just SUPERB. There is something to admire.

I have the impression that there were some problems with disappearing sound in the demo, but I assume that there will be no such problem in the full release.

Give us a lot of interesting vehicles to drive, the possibility of their full modification, interesting missions and you have an awesome game.

Thank you.

After 30 hours of gameplay i'm still logging in and finding myself building roads another 5 hours later :) i have to say, i have had a lot more fun than i did on snowrunner.

The points people asking for fuel and manual gearbox's are getting a bit tiring and narrow minded, the game is made for the majority and i have to agree with the devs that the fuel consumption adds nothing to the enjoyment of this game, in fact it was a pet peeve of mine on snowrunner, as the game was 25% about heading back to a gas station making mission progress a real boring slug. Also on snowrunner i always had gearbox in Auto, also i dont think it adds anything to have manual mode, consider that nearly every real truck (esp in europe) in real life is auto. A possible way to please the people who really think that fuel consumption adds some "realism" to the game is to just set up remote fuel bunkers around the map especially at areas where building is happening, as thats how it works in real life, a building site has storage tanks on site to refill, can you imagine just having to run out of fuel dumping sand then recovering to garage for full fuel and just driving to the building site again (hardly realism)

Notes: good and bad

vehicle physics (esp at speed) BIG IMPROVEMENT from snowrunner

Water physics are the best i have seen in a any game

the missing damage doesnt bother me at all, damage was hardly an important factor for the most part in snowrunner anyway

building bridges and then deleting them removes big zones of sand at each end, and also trying to build the sand up to the edge of bridges is awkward as the sand falls into an invisible hole, this could do with being refined.

the building is a lot of fun, but the bridge placement is pretty awkward and doesnt let you build a bridge in most places unless its an obvious location like a break in the highway for example, then you really need to dump truck to be the main provider of the road network where the game doesnt let you build a bridge, then if the main game has sand refill zones too small then that becomes either a problem or just boring having to keep going back to refill, so im totally fine with how the sand refill works tbh, i wonder if anybody who actually wants to keep going back to a specific refill spot for sand has even built anything significant in the demo yet. Although i did see another post that did ask "why are we building on sand" and that it should be aggregate or something, this may need looking at.

i have pre ordered, really looking forward to the full game release.