Snowrunner Season 9 review The Good, The Bad & Missed Opportunities

Things that I might've missed/mistakes and other updates will be updated in this comment:
- Mistake-1: I mentioned 6 Free trucks on map. It's actually 9, there're 3 free scouts as well which I forgot to mention (Hummer, scout 800, CAT TH)
-With the release of Mastodon DLC in late may of 2023, The bugs mentioned in video are fixed according to patch notes.

I remember I pulled of the heavy cargo mission in Michigan black river to factory with fleetstar in all terrain tires without raised suspension through ridiculous mud and highcentered my truck as well as cargo in woods near the logging are.
I managed to complete the mission somehow, but god fucking damn it was a journey full of frustration for 1 stupid hour 🤣

Yeah, burning stumps just killing my scouts... (ng+ 5x damage)

Not fixing imperial is a solid decision. The world needs uniformity.

Same problem was with spintires before . They lost creativity and game stopped in blind point then they buy it renewed put some fresh efforts to the game and now it is this what eas happened to other developers

The water booms you fill up so u have more access to water

You know what would be interesting in the next season of Snowrunner? A location that isn't in the USA, Canada, or post-Soviet states. Maybe even some non-US non-Soviet trucks too!

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Ya. The water boom missions could have been much better utilized. The booms link together towers. Making it so you "could" save hauling distance, but don't seem positioned to actually provide that benefit. Also, it's very hard to tell which booms are connected.

I love what they’re doing with these new easier maps filling them with free vehicles it makes it much more viable for new saves to be taken in different direction

Also water will disapear from trailers when you change the truck pulling the trailer all in all it feals like this map just was never finished and pushed out way to early

I didn't play this season yet, so what I'm going to say is only based on this and some other videos.

When I heard about a firefighting theme I didn't expect we'd do the actual firefighting, but I did expect to at least see the fire. To see firefighters at a fireline and moving that fireline further every time you deliver them water, giving you access to another section of the map. Instead we have contracts that make no visible difference and we have to deliver huge amounts of cargo on the same route. Which the devs have been doing quite a lot and it was never fun.

I disagree on the water contracts on old maps. When logging was added, devs also added logging contracts to old maps, but they were just boring and felt like an afterthought. Especially compared to the natural logging contracts on newer maps.

Even the regions are uninspired. When players got tired of the America-or-Russia approach, instead of anything remotely new we got Technically-not-america and Technically-not-russia. And in case of Belozersk I'm pretty sure they only rebranded it as "central Asia" to avoid controversy related to the war in Ukraine.

Add to that some issues and player requests that have been present since the launch of the base game and Snowrunner just starts to feel like the devs are trying to milk a dead cow.

I think a good addition would be firefighting missions, ideas for firefighting missions in the future: help contain small spot fires, extinguish smaller remaining fires such as building fires and soak down areas that haven’t been burnt to prevent more fires.

I agree that problem with different units is shame but in this time when everyone wants to fly to universe and be the best is shame to use imperial units... Look for definition of these units-they make you sense... Even in NASA and bigger companies they use metric system. It is only on time when the world becomes fully of idiots like in Idiocracy movie... :(

Dlc is probably pretty good as users have said, but... im just wondering how the zikzs got thru import laws and fees.😂 cuz ontario doesn't like its imports 😂

Is it posible to run this on 4gb ram with minimum graphics?💀

I HATE the burnt trees stopping the trucks. 😡

Hope devs watch this video.

The water booms being useless also boggled my mind. Most of them quite literally have pipes and pumps going to nearby water sources.

And the water disappearing from trailers quickly became the bane of my existence. When it's more convenient to switch between maps because the water tower is closer that way, that's just sad.

Нужно больше строительства,и онлайн!

Моды тащут игру.

three words for a missed opportunity, "fire fighting mechanics" the basis is already there with crane operation, just stick a hose on the end of it and boom, you're fighting fires

I think adding farming contracts to older maps too would've been really fun too.

May I ask the name of the mod you were using for your water tanks?

I am still not able to play season 9 because everytime I log in start a game two minutes later it crashes what's up with that saber

I know it s been said a million times but they need to stop nerfing the American trucks with the lack of mud tires. It' s not realistic at all and based on nothing. I get the feeling there is a Dev, or dev's, at Saber that is Russian and thinks Russian trucks are the best and should always be shown that way in the game. That s why the best trucks with the most power and mud tires are always the Russian ones.

I'm just glad they didn't add water missions to earlier maps. I finished those! I really don't need more water hauling in my life.

Ya animation for fires at warehouses and such is non existant. No 3 slot on derry.

You missed a issue I play on PS4 and I'm getting error out

Biggest issue is xbox and crossplatform with xbox. We literally cant play the game on xbox without spending hour or more for successful connect. And friend from pc can easy join but disconects in few minutes

Fucking. Lazy. Sorokin. Just get omey for nothing + bugs, while modders without any salary do lot more better truck, maps and other stuff. Just useless sorokin and his tram

They could still modify some of this stuff, no? Unless it falls under the classic "no updates on consoles" curse.
P. S. And it is also about time they did some content additions for free, instead of yet another DLC.

the opportunities the devs missed are sad, but the fact they still haven't fixed the major bugs that have been there since day one is ridiculous

I also had a few crashes of the game on my PS5.
I think although this season took extremely long to finally get rolled out, it still seems like this was rushed.
On the other hand I must say, that I wouldn't want to maintain the codebase. It has dynamically grown into a monster it wasn't designed to be at the beginning. Now try to imagine you need to test all platforms with all possible combinations of installed or not installed DLCs, skins, season passes. A real nightmare! And even if they do utilize automatic testing frameworks, it just adds to the development effort, as they too have to be designed, coded and maintained with every patch and update.

As such, developing updates takes ever longer and the underlying engine would really need an overhaul. Especially as some of the fundamental problems need to be fixed, which would require modifying the game engine.

I would also wish, that Saber Interactive would concentrate more on new gameplay features rather than expanding upon the old. This can be done by the avid community.

My final verdict is, that I really like the new season, but totally agree upon the points raised in this video. Let's hope, that Saber Interactive watches the latest news on the Unreal Engine 5.2 and the demo with the truck/lorry. They could have physics problems outsourced to the engine and concentrate on gameplay functionality and creating tools for the community to more easily develop their own content.
E.g. what about a map editor built inside the Snowrunner game? How about dying options for changing colours of trailers and maybe even their wheels? What about manual gear shift, the possibility to permanently remove obstacles like rocks, even out pits, fix and even extend damaged roads, dig tunnels? This could be done in Unreal Engine AND it supports VR aswell aa development for multiple platforms out of the box. The automatic hinting system of the new Unreal editor as well as automatically generating maps would also free up capacity of the development team, so they could focus on other elements of the game development.

Now don't get me wrong: Using a licensed game engine for your game can become costly. On the other hand I see so many companies making the same mistake over and over again: reinventing the wheel because they THINK it saves them money.
But if you have to develop and maintain your own game engine, this can be a daunting task at best for AAA games. You may also lack the know-how to develop a good engine and therefore the game cannot unfold its full potential.

What mods do you use?

Idk if others share this opinion but i‘d like another military themed map like Kola, the devs missed alot opportunities there as it was mostly exploring.
There for example could be some more challenging missions, like recovering an destroyed tank or something and it would also be an good connection to adding tracked vehicles

The biggest „fuck you“ saber throws in our face is that in the game files there even is a model for an water tank on the cat

They need to bring back the heavy stuff

Totaly agree with u

Their destroying their game

I don’t comment often but you did a great job here fun watch all the way through! Keep up the good work!

not even just when switching maps does this happen
if you re log, then its gone
grrrr

I can't wait for more maps like Kola peninsula or Amur. This phase just feels like Michigan 2.0

Thanks for this. You are the only one that doesn't close your eyes to the bugs and improvements and bring them to attention. Another point that I would add is; we are playing SnowRunner, and there is no more Snow in the game for the third season in a row. The game is at the point that we can feel it is being squished, and they are running out of creativity and extending it artificially. The contracts have been repetitive since Season 8, and they missed an opportunity to add a fire spray to extinguish the fire, at least in cut-scenes.

Man, this really makes me want to do the Ontario map. In time. My one disagreement would be on the adding DLC missions to previous maps. I get adding the maximum amount of content, but I find it a little aggravating when I've completed a region and moved onto the next, and then a DLC drops, and the previous region goes from complete to like 85%, and now I gotta take a bunch of trucks BACK there just to do one cargo's worth of tasks. I still haven't done the log missions on Kola yet, even though I completed Kola like 2 seasons before logs came out. I just don't want to go back there.

Was praying you'd bring up the water booms. So dumb what is the point?

What is the mod map you use to test vehicles

switch to liters then the water booms work