I feel like when I first played the game my bus had the usual rattle and squeak you get during movement, but now all I have is engine sounds, indicators and doors. No rattling when driving.
Additionally when going over pot holes or rough road there is no noise or physical response from the vehicle. It just kinda floats.
I'm on series X. Are these bugs? Is it different on PC? Or is this just how it is?
I have been sitting on the fence since Busbound dropped like a wet turd. The complete lack of gameplay beyond bus go vroom and the fact that my wheel nearly vibrated through the wall really annoyed me (xbox series x fyi).
Anyway. The Bus.
Tutorials are absolute aaaaaaaaaass. It'll show me how to rent an office, but not how to operate any of the controls or the ticket machine. Took me a hot minute to figure all of that out.
The visuals are both great and awful. The main issue seems to be moving shadows. Pixelated tree shadows caused by trees moving in the wind is a real problem. Also sometimes at junctions the cross road gets heavily pixelated.
The AI is pretty bad. You cross their lane to turn with plenty of space and they will just run right into your tail as you pass.
Where's the consequences for speeding, red lights and colissions?
No auto centering the view. Trying to adjust visual settings will make the bus react. Changing the graphics settings will reset the cab position.
Wtf is with the blaring music?
GPS is awful.
Didn't tell me to skip time so I went from finishing 20 late to being an hour or so early on the return.
All of that being said. The driving feels brilliant. Nice feedback on the wheel, great braking and acceleration feel, although pothole feedback seems non existent. The economy mode really is good and I love the indepth ticketing system. Having control of cctv gives me great joy as well. The game literally does all the things that BB with it's stupid green thumbs and applauding speed bumps doesn't.
If this lot can make a few adjustments to make it accessible for new players that don't have irl vehicle experience like me, stabilise the graphics and fix the feedback from the road then this could be a real gem. More custom liveries and insides would be good, as would Mercedes getting on board.
TLDR: it's like that slightly crazy partner, but they can actually be fixed.
OK, whats the deal with this map? My Azov arctic floats and doesn't sink but also can't seem to grip the road even with gigantic tyres rated well for mud and offroad. The Boar often struggles to even move from stationary and the front wheels keep spazzing on terrain (they go almost horizontal), massive multi tonne trucks have a middle axle zooming, front crawling and rear going at a normal rate aaaand I've just soft locked myself because "no more cargo left". Alaska and Michigan were amazing. This feels bloody awful.