Buy your second (and third, if you can afford it) trucks and put them there. Once you’ve moved, sell your starting garage. Low fuel prices and lots of close-by cities to trade with.īuy a garage in a good hub city and move there. By the time you can afford your first garage, you’re going to want to move. Unless you’ve played before, wherever you chose to put your home garage chances are you’re going to end up hating the location. These will dramatically reduce your damage when you inevitably cut a corner too sharp, get sideswiped in a roundabout, whatever. You’ll have to open the light menu (default F4) and check the blocks for aux/roof lights to enable them.Īlso get side skirts and a bull bar. Unnecessary but helpful upgrades – Put a light bar on the roof with a couple aux lights, but bear in mind they only work when your high beams are on. Allison 6 speed ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ are garbage, don’t waste your time. Grab a transmission with retarder equipped for the cruise tip above.
Upgrade your engine as they become available, also your tires. Necessary upgrades – Money early game is tight. Once you get the later engine upgrades it’s incredibly satisfying passing the trucks that are struggling up hills. Trust me, it’s worth saving up the little bit of extra money when you’re not crawling up hills, or when you’re driving stop-and-go in the cities. Get a Volvo or one of the other trucks that starts with good baseline HP. The cheapest Iveco truck is severely lacking. Watch the upper left corner to see how much time you’re saving. You can also avoid 60 km speed limit country roads in Germany and manually choose to travel on the autobahn instead. The little time it takes won’t make you run late on the long jobs. Open your world map once you’ve picked up a job and drop pins (waypoints) in towns right near your route that you haven’t explored yet to unlock the truck dealerships and recruiters there. One additional tip on efficiency: On long trips you can and probably should edit your route. And remember, € / £ / $ per km is what you’re after, don’t just grab the highest total payout. If there are no high paying jobs, just grab a short distance job to a nearby city and try again there. This will list ONLY jobs originating in that city. Never travel empty – When you go to job selection, click on the dot on the map for the city you’re in. For the really long jobs you’ll have time to sleep 2 or 3 times and have time to spare for checking out new towns along your route. Most jobs will allot you enough time to sleep once, especially after you put a few points in the long distance skill, which you’ll want to do early on. Hit F6 to see exactly how much longer you have before you get sleepy Start looking for a place to park after the first yawn, no sooner. Every time you rest it’s going to burn 8 hours, even if you’re not that tired yet. Sleep efficiency – There is no such thing as a partial rest.
Running with cruise control it’s easy to get in the zone and miss a speed limit sign. Watch the speed limit signs though, especially in areas where speed cameras are common.
Building on that, set your cruise tolerance to zero, turn on auto retarder. I played about 10 hours without it and I can’t even guess how many speeding violations I got or how many times out of fear of getting them I travelled under the speed limit costing me time. If you find yourself braking mid turn to wait for your steering to catch up, this is a must.Ĭruise control – Use it. Matter of taste, but the default steering is just too slow for cornering at speed. This allows you to slap your look stick left and right to scan intersections quickly without accidentally ending up staring at the floor or roof of your cab. Increase your up/down look deadzone significantly. Set your triggers to acceleration and braking. I use an Xbox One controller and these settings help out a lot. This guide is focused more at newer players, but hopefully even folks that have been playing for a while will get something out of it. Stuff that I’ve found out through experimentation to enhance the ETS 2 experience. Euro Truck Simulator 2 General hints and tipsĪfter about 150+ hours in-game I’ve decided to share some wisdom.