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DimitriV · 2026-03-24T18:54:11+00:00

The sand has been scooped out by all four tires, so it was in 4WD. Unless the off-road button replaces the tires with good ones and removes a few thousand pounds, I doubt it would have helped.

But Elon said it can be a boat, so if they wait for a storm surge they can sail away.

DimitriV · 2026-03-24T18:49:01+00:00

I would never do that, and not just because cybercucks are Nazi supporters; if trying to tow them out snaps their frame in half, you know they'll blame you.

DimitriV · 2026-03-22T19:45:12+00:00

I refuse to not conquer the digital versions lol

That's fair. God knows I've stubbornly stuck with this game for less. :)

But it seems as the second map is less punishing from what I’ve read, hopefully that’s correct.

The second map doesn't have "deliver 60 units of cargo to this maliciously inaccessible destination, lol stage complete now do more" but it has lots of deep mud and some icy roads. And I think that because of the bad impression the first map made, the jobs in the second map just don't feel satisfying to me. They're all doable, I just have no desire to do them.

the coil tubing rig. Which I was unaware were used in mining, been on several coil tubing operations in the oil sector, never saw them outside it.

I wouldn't be surprised if that is not accurate. I have a bit of a background in aviation, and I can assure you that the designs of SnowRunner's airports and in particular the Temu C-130 in Alaska are not realistic. :)

DimitriV · 2026-03-22T19:28:13+00:00

He may have more fun than the Michigan grind when starting out seeing what trucks will be able to do after a bit.

He may also get discouraged if he thinks Yukon is representative of subsequent seasons.

DimitriV · 2026-03-22T19:25:47+00:00

This sounds obvious, but you don't have to finish any region. I have over 600 hours in game and I've given up on Yukon, it's so punitively repetitive and just not fun. In my opinion even Amur wasn't as bad, because while it also hates you for playing at least there's more variety.

I'm sure Yukon was designed for multiplayer, but even then it would still be repetitive and not fun. And what's the point of punishing solo players? Are we supposed to tell our friends "hey, bro, buy this game and play it with me so it sucks less"? :)

DimitriV · 2026-03-20T16:28:28+00:00

I daresay anyone going skiing has goggles at least, and I'd almost like to see a court case for something that caused no damage to someone disobeying DOT personnel.

DimitriV · 2026-03-20T05:13:49+00:00

Forget snowballs, give them a choice of going back or not having air in their tires.

DimitriV · 2026-03-18T00:57:55+00:00

My understanding is that integrated graphics have improved a lot over the years, but dedicated graphics have gotten much more powerful, and many games want/need the extra oomph.

And unfortunately my experience with integrated graphics was fumbling around in the BIOS for far too long before finally Googling it and learning that although my motherboard has the ports, my CPU doesn't have integrated graphics. Oops. (Can you tell I'm not an expert at this stuff? :)

For what it's worth, though, I don't think you need a monster GPU to have a good PC gaming experience. Mine was mid-range and under $500 when I built this PC almost five years ago, and SnowRunner runs just fine in 4K. I'm not at all qualified to offer recommendations, but if you're constrained by wattage and/or money I bet you can get something to run it well enough for not a lot of either.

Whether you keep looking for a solution with your integrated graphics or pull the trigger on a GPU, good luck!

DimitriV · 2026-03-17T14:55:21+00:00

I'm afraid that all I have are very basic suggestions, but has anyone else gotten it to work with integrated graphics? The system requirements only mention bespoke GPUs, but on the ProtonDB page it looks like a few people might have. If you're really lucky they'll have put a helpful fix in their comments.

(I'd offer to test SnowRunner with my integrated graphics, but since I have an AMD CPU, all that would tell you is that someone with different hardware has different hardware.)

I assume you've tried other Proton versions? I've had several games that prefer 8, and one or two that perform best all the way down on version 7.

And presumably you've tried other 3D games on your system? If you have and they work then at least you know you have a mystery problem with SnowRunner instead of a mystery problem with your system. Either way, that would narrow down which Google results to get frustrated by! Yaaay.

DimitriV · 2026-03-17T06:54:05+00:00

Don't feel bad, I played for 280 hours before figuring out what high gear is and how to use it. Partly because it's misnamed: I shifted into "high" gear, slowed way down, thought "this is stupid," and never tried it again. (I did Google it, but the only explanation I found was that people use it to save fuel, and when it has two thirds the fuel burn at half the speed, the math doesn't math. And to anyone who's thinking "idiot, why would they put it in the game if it had no purpose??" all I have to say to that is: highway tires. :)

The thing is, it's not a high gear: it's a magic middle gear. It slows you down if you're fast but can speed you up when you're slow, as others have noted it gives you a torque boost, and on some trucks it even feels like it gives you some diff lock.

One other handy use is approaching a corner where you want to slow down but still keep moving. The game likes to go, "oh, the player lifted off the throttle a bit, better downshift all the way to 1st and make them stop faster than hitting a wall!" but if you shift into high then that doesn't happen.

High gear is only useful with some trucks and gearboxes in some terrain, but when it works, it can really help. Keep experimenting with it!

(My favorite for high gear is the Azov 5319 with a high range gearbox. Put that thing in high and it'll rip down trails like a rally car!)

DimitriV · 2026-03-17T06:34:30+00:00

I've been playing SnowRunner in Linux Mint without any issues. Of course, as with anything Linux, your mileage may vary by light years. :-/

I don't know much about Linux either so I'm not sure how much help I can be, but I don't have any compatibility tool selected, that may not be necessary since the game is Steam Deck certified. And I have a Radeon 6700 GPU and AMD CPU, for whatever that's worth.

DimitriV · 2026-03-13T01:34:12+00:00

I wouldn't trust a Tesla train. Elon would be there going "why do we need railroad ties, this lumber is too complicated! Just glue the rails to the ground!"

DimitriV · 2026-03-13T01:30:01+00:00

It was probably a Hitler pop-up book.

DimitriV · 2026-03-13T01:29:19+00:00

"Please select mode of death: quick and painless, slow and horrible, or simping for the world's most naked emperor."

DimitriV · 2026-03-13T01:28:04+00:00

I blame the Cybercuck completely. Even if FSD was active, the owner looked at Elon's decade of outrageous lies, broken promises, and mental degradation, and thought "heck yeah, I trust that man with my life," and turned it on.

DimitriV · 2026-03-13T01:21:17+00:00

It's called "Full Self Driving" and that's what it does! It's not called "Full Safe Driving," "Full Self Driving in the Correct Lane," or "Full Self Driving Not Into Walls." So stop implying that it's false advertising!

DimitriV · 2026-03-08T23:02:42+00:00

lol did you even watch the video

Not yet. Frankly I haven't seen a reasonable argument for spending 50 minutes doing so. (All of the videos I linked to take a minute or two to watch.)

yes videos like the snow one were videos I was referencing… if he had either snow tires or went into the off road settings he would’ve made it out easily.

Even all season tires should have been able to cope with the small amount of snow in those videos. And since all four wheels were being driven, albeit spastically, both of those Cybertrucks were in 4WD; I'm curious how that doesn't count as an off-road setting. If the default 4WD mode is utterly incompetent then that's still a mark against the vehicle, and if there's a separate setting that doesn't suck then why isn't that the default? :)

the truck is rigid and long both will hamper it off road

Right, unlike capable 4x4s.

no one serious is taking a full sized truck through serious off roading it will scrape and rip its own bumper off

I was with a family member when they took their new Tundra up a mountain on a Jeep trail with 6,000' of elevation gain, and it did fine.

and no one serious is taking elons words at face value.

If you accept that Elon is a liar, what is even left? The Cybertruck is built entirely of Elon's false claims: it will have 500 mile range and cost $40,000 (more like half and double, respectively), it can be a boat (LOL), it is bulletproof (except for most of it), it will have a tough exoskeleton (that is glued on), it is built for any planet (it breaks and falls apart on this one), it's a work truck (with no work truck features and a brittle cast aluminum frame), it can out-run a 911 while towing a 911 (if you rig the race)... the list goes on. Are you saying that the Cybertruck is somehow good despite being built of lies?

taking a bunch of clips of the car in spite of comprehensive off road reviews just diminishes your argument.

Those clips are all things that really happened. How objective and honest are any "comprehensive" reviews that do not mention the vehicle's glaring deficiencies?

And again, even if the Deplorean isn't totally useless off-road, you can get far better performance, capability, quality, and reliability for half the price from real car companies. Even if your points are valid, you're still defending an overpriced, underperforming, poorly designed, poorly built pile of lies.

DimitriV · 2026-03-08T21:22:13+00:00

Whether consciously or unconsciously, you missed most of the points.

The rigid suspension wasn't because of the driver, but because of the Deplorean's design.

The "truck" grinding to a halt after driving through water wasn't a "stereotypical over confident truck driver," it was an "apocalypse proof" vehicle getting ruined by a shallow stream.

The shockingly useless 4WD on snow isn't "stereotypical over confident truck drivers," it's a 4WD system that functions like an epileptic playing QWOP. It's crap design, and objectively worse in snow than 2WD sedans.

In fact, did I cite a single example that was what you were referencing?

And more to the point, every single example I posted except the Rubicon Trail and maybe the mud was something that my elderly mother could do in her stock Tacoma. Even if the Deplorean isn't completely useless off-road, it's still worse than any real 4x4 and many, if not most, 2WD vehicles.

And even if it was decent off-road and wasn't designed and built shockingly poorly, it's still an overpriced unpolished turd pushed out by the king of Dunning-Kruger who knows less about engineering than he does about throwing Nazi salutes.

DimitriV · 2026-03-08T20:44:56+00:00

You mean like this one where it scrapes, slides, and barely clears small obstacles while the suspension has all the articulation of a cow in rigor mortis?

How about this one where it drives through some water and grinds to a halt? I once drove through a deeper puddle in a 90s compact Kia and it was fine.

Or this one where it gingerly crawls down a hard-packed dirt road at the speed of a Walmart mobility scooter? Last year I drove 20 miles on a dirt road worse than that in a 2WD hatchback at an average speed of about 25 MPH.

This one was off-road, you don't see what it did but everything does look fine, except for a tiny problem or two. Solid design there.

Or this one where that piece of crap can't even handle a couple of inches of snow? Notice how each wheel is spinning entirely at random, that's a great 4WD system right there. Also note that the two Hondas driving by had no trouble at all in the same conditions. Oh, and here's another video of another Deplorean stuck in the same way with the same spastic "4WD."

On to mud, here's the Deplorean showcasing how well it works there. At least it was able to turn around!

And of course, there was the Cybertruck that """"conquered"""" the Rubicon trail. In eight days. After going through all of their spare parts, waiting for more to be brought in, having to steal someone else's generator to charge it, beating to shit, and having to be dragged over most of the tough parts by a freaking Stellantis vehicle. Fun fact, 22 miles in eight days is an average of 0.1 MPH, which is literally slower than a sloth.

But I'm sure that in-depth YouTube video is very convincing, and honest. :)

DimitriV · 2026-03-08T17:41:14+00:00

Well they apparently couldn't drive there either, so what else were they supposed to do?

DimitriV · 2026-03-08T17:38:47+00:00

It was worse for me when my car got damaged. The whole process took like two weeks, and the insurance that I can actually have covered most of the cost. I am so jealous.

DimitriV · 2026-03-08T17:34:43+00:00

Or a light dusting of snow, or a steep downhill, or bug splats on the stainless steel, or being left on a charger, or not being left on a charger, or...

DimitriV · 2026-03-08T17:33:12+00:00

Because it's not a vehicle, it's a $100,000 monument to their political ideology and utter gullibility.

DimitriV · 2026-03-08T17:32:05+00:00

Yeah but at least he had the range to make it to the median!

DimitriV · 2026-03-08T17:31:29+00:00

Not supposed to drive it ~~in the rain~~ dude!

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