Shilka
Hardcore
First of all, to all of those unfamiliar with the series and already starting to chuckle at the topic title, do not make the mistake to put this title amongst tunneling simulator, garbagetruck simulator, streetcleaning simulator and other sub-par titles.
Farming simulator truely deserves the simulator title, and already proved so in the past. Farming simulator 2013 sold over 2 million copies in the past, and has done so because of it's rather extensive simulation of agricultural life, or better said, work.
And working is exactly what you'll be doing in this game, you'll sow and reap crops, mow grass, feed livestock and process, sell your proceedings, and more. And not in a shallow way. The game is rather in depth, where you can store harvests, sell harvests directly, to several buyers, with dynamic prices, or use them for further processing into fodder, or preparing it for biogas instalation, or use it for replanting.
To do all this you'll have over 100 pieces of equipment available.
First of all a wide array of vehicles, including; tractors, harvesters, loaders, transports, mowers, self propelled sprayers, self propelled feeders and more.
And then you'll have a world of attachments to use to, including; tippers, trailers, potato harvesters, beet harvesters, cultivators, plows, sowing machines, fertilizer spreaders, sprayers, manure spreaders, slurry tanks, mowers, windrowers, tedders, loading wagons, balers, bale transporters, feeding technology equipment (mixers), and a plurality of small attachments like weights, water and fuel tanks, header trailer and all sorts of shovels, forks, grips and cutterheads.
The game is played on a large open world map, complete with villages and several agricultural and other companies where you can sell your proceedings. As you make money you'll be saving up for buying additional equipment and more fields and animals. You'll have a full day and night cycle and weather influencing your activities and AI traffic on the roads to take into account. There also is a solid multiplayer mode, so your friends can help you out on your farm.
This time around the new installment has received some noticable updates that are really worth mentioning;
[video=youtube;z_8POY6gHeM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_8POY6gHeM[/video]
I must admit I already preordered the game on steam (10% discount), so I hope to be giving you more info when I get my hands on the game
Farming simulator 15 is set to release October 30 2014.
System Requirements
Farming simulator truely deserves the simulator title, and already proved so in the past. Farming simulator 2013 sold over 2 million copies in the past, and has done so because of it's rather extensive simulation of agricultural life, or better said, work.
And working is exactly what you'll be doing in this game, you'll sow and reap crops, mow grass, feed livestock and process, sell your proceedings, and more. And not in a shallow way. The game is rather in depth, where you can store harvests, sell harvests directly, to several buyers, with dynamic prices, or use them for further processing into fodder, or preparing it for biogas instalation, or use it for replanting.
To do all this you'll have over 100 pieces of equipment available.
First of all a wide array of vehicles, including; tractors, harvesters, loaders, transports, mowers, self propelled sprayers, self propelled feeders and more.
And then you'll have a world of attachments to use to, including; tippers, trailers, potato harvesters, beet harvesters, cultivators, plows, sowing machines, fertilizer spreaders, sprayers, manure spreaders, slurry tanks, mowers, windrowers, tedders, loading wagons, balers, bale transporters, feeding technology equipment (mixers), and a plurality of small attachments like weights, water and fuel tanks, header trailer and all sorts of shovels, forks, grips and cutterheads.
The game is played on a large open world map, complete with villages and several agricultural and other companies where you can sell your proceedings. As you make money you'll be saving up for buying additional equipment and more fields and animals. You'll have a full day and night cycle and weather influencing your activities and AI traffic on the roads to take into account. There also is a solid multiplayer mode, so your friends can help you out on your farm.
So what's new in Farming Simulator 2015?
This time around the new installment has received some noticable updates that are really worth mentioning;
- A new game engine: And I must admit, this was about time as the old one wasn't the best optimized game engine ever. "The game engine in Farming Simulator 15 has been totally revamped, and the game can now display visual effects and graphic rendering that are way ahead of the previous version, in particular using PBR (physical-based rendering) that for example, provides a photo-realistic rendering of the vehicles."
- Better physics: Where in FS2013 bale handling was much like trying to stack large ice cubes on the moon, the physics in the game should now be noticably better. Well I'm ready to test this out myself!
- Dirt: This time around your vehicles and attachments will get dirty, and you'll have a high pressure cleaner available to manually clean them, if you want to.
- More players in MP: this time you'll be able to have 16 players in a multiplayer game
- Additional functionality on vehicles: these include (partly) working dasboard instruments (speed and fuel), indicators. I'm hoping for working mirrors too, and appearantly the modding tools already available show good hope for that.
- Of course a bunch of new vehicles and equipment: including 20 additional licensed brands, a pick up truck, an MAN truck for hauling specialized trailers and more.
- LOGGING!: Yep that deserves some capital letters. Logging has been added, and wow, it looks good. You can now cut trees with a harvester, or do it manually with a chainsaw and then either sell the logs, or shred them to wood chips.
[video=youtube;z_8POY6gHeM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_8POY6gHeM[/video]
I must admit I already preordered the game on steam (10% discount), so I hope to be giving you more info when I get my hands on the game
Farming simulator 15 is set to release October 30 2014.
System Requirements
- MINIMUM:
- OS: Microsoft Windows Vista, Windows 7 or Windows 8
- Processor: 2.0 GHz Intel or equal AMD-Processor
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: 512 MB OF VIDEO MEMORY ATI RADEON HD 2600/NVIDIA GEFORCE 8600 OR HIGHER
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Hard Drive: 3 GB available space
