Too much for the casual player, but awesome for people who want to get a little glimpse of what it's like to drive a busĪfter a while a lot of things will be easier and experience will help you once you know all the buttons, functions, routes/lines and codes, but it will always be the best commercial driving sim there is for some years to come and a challenge if you take it seriously. It's maneuvering 12m or 18m machines through narrow streets (or whatever lenght and road you gotta deal with) It's doing everything all by yourself mostly without shortcuts It's learning the basics of how a bus works (where almost any bus has different characteristics despite things like VDV), The thing is people aren't used to long, steep climbs of the learning curve They buy it and then think, crikey, what have I done? Then they go on Steam forum pages and moan about it.
#BUS SIMULATOR OMSI 2 MANUALS#
Many people slate and hate on Omsi and it really annoys me! I believe those people really don't have the attention spans, tolerence and patience to read PFD manuals and study the Sim with it's real timetables, and learning all the buttons and switches in the buses.
It doesn't really deserve the word 'Simulator' in it. Drive a bus and take passengers where they need to go in in-depth sim. It’s the price you pay for not getting your games from a big multinational money-maker – you have to wait for actually passionate people to do the work the way they want to and ensure that the final product matches their vision.Originally posted by stringbean6:Omsi is STILL, and will AWAYS, be the best Bus Simulator on the market until LOTUS arrives on the scene in my opinion.īus Simulator 18 looks pretty but that's all because of it's UE4 that it's built on. GO Bus Virtual is an international virtual bus company. If you fancy yourself as a bus driver, OMSI: The Bus Simulator is the game for you. OMSI 2 is supposedly coming out in the fourth quarter of this year (now, theoretically), but since its development team has limited resources at its disposal, don’t get angry and aggravated if that turns into Q1 2014… The new articulated bus is the highlight of this so-called sequel, though the game’s (two private) developers should be aware that once the capability has been implemented, the modding community behind it (there is one, and it’s surprisingly active) will fix the vehicle diversity issue right away.
If you’re not familiar with it, the setting for the game is 1980s – early 1990s Berlin, where you get to drive painstaking recreations of the real models in service at the time, and operate each and every function of the bus yourself – each and every button on the dashboard is clickable, though you can map important and frequently used functions to the keyboard. It’s not a new game as the two would have you believe, but it does pack a lot of new features, including, but not limited to, support and accurate simulation of articulated buses, something that was not possible before, with the way the physics engine was set up (modders tried to find workarounds, but it never quite worked).Īside from bus articulation, the coding behind the game engine has been streamlined, the graphics (ever so) slightly improved and there are new lines and a new bus to choose from. Thus, it’s with great anticipation that we tell you about OMSI 2, the first major official updated it’s getting since its 2012 release. I’ve been playing OMSI, the bus simulator, since it came out, and I’ve really grown to like it, and its unique approach to accurately simulating the task of driving a double decker bus on what sometimes are impossibly narrow side streets or cul-de-sacs that are just the right size to turn around, but no bigger.