Mud

[OOWAR!!]

With seasons I now expect more rain in the cooler months so more mud. But when it pees down the mud washes off machines even when ploughing a field.
Shouldn't it be sticking, clogging up, and ruining your day?

Lights. Let me turn them on when I wish.

[ErwinR55]

maybe in FS2025

[Slivicon]

Some people have commented that perhaps since Focus Home Interactive is now involved with Spintires ( http://www.focus-home.com/games/spintires:-mudrunner coming out end of this month), that there might be some conversation about the mud elements in spintires and whether they could come to a future version of FS Personally, I would be surprised that any of the technologies between the two games were compatible, but who knows

[Earnest Pea]

The problem with Spintires style mud in FS, according to Giants, is that it doesn't work very well for multiplayer. All the ground deforming would have to be synced across all the clients in a multiplayer game. Thats a lot of added data flying around and likely a lot of lag.

[thumbwiz]

Although I don't play Spintires, I thought it had multiplayer. If true, and if Giants is blaming multiplayer for the lack of mud in FS, perhaps the developers need some training.

[quintto]

Although I don't play Spintires, I thought it had multiplayer. If true, and if Giants is blaming multiplayer for the lack of mud in FS, perhaps the developers need some training.

it has multiplayer but the mud deformations don't sync between players

[Slivicon]

Spintires also does not have the "synchronizing players please wait" in multiplayer, so maybe spintires dev is on to something about synchronization in multiplayer

[Earnest Pea]

... or maybe they just aren't worried about it. It seems less important in a game like Spintires compared to FS.

[hpmc13]

I've mucked around a bit with Spintires (Ha! See what I did there?) and the mud/terrain is really amazing. I would love to see it, or some variation if it, in FS. From the little bit that I've played, it seems to me that in Spintires your range of view is very limited; you can't look across the entire map from a top of a hill for instance (correct me on that if I am wrong) whereas in FS you can see everything on the map from the right vantage point. I would think that this would slow the game down significantly if the engine also had to keep track of ruts and so forth. If two hundred bales and a few tractors bring it to its knees, imagine adding in the terrain effects.

Alternately, Spintires may run on a completely different engine that could handle all of these things. Maybe it's not a question of adding Spintires' effects to FS, but adding FS to Spintires.

[Peter Griffin]

Alternately, Spintires may run on a completely different engine that could handle all of these things. Maybe it's not a question of adding Spintires' effects to FS, but adding FS to Spintires.

It does. From what I've heard it's a custom engine built for that game. The new one mud runner does anyways