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by Trenero » 07 Sep 2025 16:32
Don't hype to much about Roads Kings because seeing past Saber games is probably not gonna be ATS competitor, it probably will compete more with Alaskan road truckers or Truck world Australia.
I've played some of their past games Mudrunner, Snowrunner, Dakar Desert Rally(same studio as the one of Road Kings) or Roadcraft, and all of those have the same sins.
Saber promised too much and then underlivered, the games launched with optimization problems lots of bugs and missing features or undeveloped features, with the time some games ended with the features working more or less properly or with features similar to the promised ones, others like Dakar desert rally were silently dropped with still a lot of game breaking bugs on it that will remain probably untill the end of the time.
Driving physics on those games are on the arcade side, with funny things like asphalt being the most dangerous surface to drive on because it feels like drive on glass or ice, and trailers physics acting weird when you back up, they have a long way to have a realistic driving physics on roads.
Seeing the previous game maps i don't expect Road Kings having "streeview accurate" maps like ATS, i've expect them to be losely inspired on Florida/Georgia, and probably some assets out of place here and there are gonna end on the map like for example some European assets on USA maps, also i don't expect them to be a big continuous map like ATS they are probably gonna be smaller maps, conected by portals(tunnels or menus) like the other games, if i've remeber correctly in the past with Snowrunner they said that with Unreal they have limitations on how big they can do the maps.
I expect the maps being the same size as the ones on Dakar desert rally that i think if they are not the biggest they feel bigger than Snowrunner or Roadcraft.
Game for sure is gonna requiere high end hardware to run and optimization is gonna be an issue even on consoles and it gonna take them lot of time to have it more or less optimized and without many gamebreaking bugs, and some updates can bring back past bugs.
Base game probably will include some trucks, but seing Saber history the rest probably will come as be paid DLCs including 1 or 2 trucks on each pack, maybe map expansions will also have one truck on it, lets see.
They have licensed trucks (old and new)on Snowrunner from International, Western Star, Mack(You can see Macks on roadcraft trailers), Kenworth, Freightliner,GM... so i think those trucks will probably end also on Roadcraft
And don't expect Saber to keeping their word, for example when they launched Snowrunner in the Epic store page for the season pass they stated that the season pass give you access to all the dlcs launched that year, a few months later they erased that line from the store and they cutted one vehicle from the first season(map) releasing that as paid DLC, and then continued cutting the amount of vehicles included on each season(map) first one launching with 3 instead of the 4 intended, and later seasons cuting the number from 3 to 2 vehicles included only, maps also end up being smaller with only one season per pass with bigger maps, and they hidded some of the upgrades for base game trucks behind the paywall of newer seasons.
Saber is heavily driven by profits if Road Craft don't give them as much revenue has they think they will probably quietly drop it.
Maybe Saber is wrongly assuming that those things are copyrighted, or they're just not interested in realism.
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