Imagine driving down the street and as you get ready to turn, all of the traffic just stops as if you’re in a weird sci-fi film. It breaks the immersion down to a pulp, leaving the game with an extremely fake feeling. Pedestrians and cars in traffic are some of the most underdeveloped that I’ve seen in a game in so long. It also doesn’t help that hit detection and NPC drivers are a total joke. The controls at times just felt too stiff or totally off. I will say that the driving itself could be a bit better though. It’s a lot to focus on all while making sure that you’re keeping your riders safe. There’s so much that goes into being a bus driver and it really gave me an even further sense of respect for the ones who do this for a living. While sitting in the driver’s seat, you have a whole dashboard of buttons and controls that seems pretty overwhelming at first but rewarding as I came to become more comfortable with them.īesides operating these monstrous vehicles you also need to sell customers tickets, control obnoxious passengers, and make sure that your bus is accessible for all riders. Even office stuff or grabbing lunch would’ve been interesting to do.ĭriving the actual buses is by far the single best reason why I continued playing as most of the game while offering good ideas, just came to be pretty lackluster. I would’ve liked to see more of the other parts of the job that bus drivers do. I think that the devs went the easy route as there just isn’t much to do aside from driving routes and picking people up. This entry of the series actually gives players an open world to drive around which in theory could serve as a nice playground but falls short on most fronts. It’s pretty cool to see your buses driving routes that you had set up for them and that’s something I really didn’t think I’d actually say. In order to make money and purchase more buses, you’ll run your own company and set up new routes, upgrade bus stops, and take further actions to improve the overall experience for your customers. You can also upgrade your buses visually with new interiors, paint jobs, and even ads. There are a lot of variations between them to offer different choices that actually do have an impact on driving. They aren’t just limited to the regular ones you’d see driving on every street either. Hopefully, this feature will be enabled on other platforms as well.As far as gameplay goes, Bus Sim 21 offers a fleet of buses spanning multiple brands, with each having its own set of stats. In its current state, it can only be accessed in Big Picture Mode or on Valve’s portable gaming console. The developers have added support for Steam on-screen keyboard. There’s also some good news for PC users and proud owners of the Steam Deck. This is great if you do not want Bus Simulator 21 hogging up all of your bandwidth.Īdditionally, you’ll now see a red or orange icon at the bottom of the screen to tell you if your ping is higher than the optimal limit. This simply allows you to create profiles where you can impose bandwidth limits for the game. Whether you want to put something quirky or fun on the license plate is entirely up to you. Well, that is actually one of the many new features in Update 2.16.Ĭustomizable license plates are now available in the bus customization menu. That said, you probably wanted to put your own custom license plate on the bus for quite some time now. Bus Simulator 21 is all about giving you the experience of being a bus driver in the busy streets of America and Europe.
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