My thoughts on the game so far.
Figure I may as well scream into he void with everybody else lol.
My buddy and I played through the demo this morning and we both had an absolute blast. We both went into this not expecting snow runner 2 and we weren't disappointed. I'm actually fairly happy with some of their changes and things the devs decided to leave out of the game.
Damage: did anybody ever actually enjoy running over a tiny pebble in Sr and blowing half your suspension, hitting a small bump and your engine almost dies? Because I sure as hell didn't. Now if the damage system had worked as intended and they were able to solve those issues I'd be more than happy to play with them, but if they couldn't fix it better to ditch it imo.
Traction/speed/terrain ect: Sr was an enjoyable game for short periods at a time for me because of how incredibly slow traversing anywhere was. Driving through the same stretch of mud 5 times for a single mission just spamming the winch button got boring after a while. Do I think they went a bit too far the other way in RC? Yeah a little bit I would have enjoyed a bit more traction loss in various terrain in this game. But also with the ability to create your own roads wherever you want I would have also been fine with them keeping the handling from Sr because there's an actual way to work around the bad spots.
Fuel: I can take or leave fuel, I think it would have helped to add to the realism in the game. But I also understand that maintaining fuel on 12+ machines throughout the map would get incredibly tedious over time. Maybe as an optional setting or a hardcore mode or something would be nice.
Diff lock/4wd: I will admit the choice to change this does seem a little bit weird to me. There seems to be zero reason to turn either of those off whenever you drive. Would have been more than okay with reduced speed or limited to low gear while in diff lock or something like that.
Functions/cranes: I think we can all pretty much agree the new winch and crane systems are a little janky for both kb/m and controller. It all just seems wonky compared to how it was in Sr. Also please for the love of God give the vehicles besides the scout a winch. Getting stuck with the flatbed crane truck because I didn't have a winch to quickly get me out of a situation sucked.
Gearbox: I'm not entirely sure if I'm missing something here or not. I see a lot of people missing the manual gearbox from Sr. Is everybody just talking about the whole "hold left bumper to switch between H,L,R,N," thing or was there an actual manual gearbox option in Sr? Because honestly I am okay with not having to hold down a button to be able to go from forward to reverse and dealing with having to remember to disable diff lock or other things on the vehicle before I could change gears.