Recent reviews by [c2h4]n

Orange watch goes brrrrrr!!~~~

It's awesome now

Your killing has been observed be forces unknown

Factory must grow

cars go brrrrr when snow

I expected a rally game to be about actually testing my skill against complex and difficult tracks.
Turns out, this game is about selecting the less frustrating car and driving thru mediocre tracks, battling the actual physics of the game.
To add insult to injury, the performance is trash, UI/UX is nonexistant and the soundtrack is exactly what you will never want for your racing game - mindnumbing repetitive retrowave slop.
Please, save your money and your time and avoid this game.

It could be a positive one, but the more i played the lower the score dropped.
First and foremost, the game is not bad. it has huge potential of being fun engaging expirience. but devs clearly didn't know ♥♥♥♥ when developing the game and now the damage can't be undone.
You can't just develop an asymmetric player-driven pvp wargame and hope that people won't alt, cheese, grief and do whatever they want.
Fun and deep building mechanics? nope, sorry, alt and griefing protection. find 5 people to flag and use crafted explosive to demolish (getting weapon locked in process).
Specialized vehicles and logistics loop? nah, ♥♥♥♥ you. your haulers and flatbeds will be stolen. resource mines blocked or milked dry on cd.
Instead of adding new vehicles there must be a whole 3-to-6 months cycle of bugfixing and QoL improvements.
Clan-centric design philosophy must be gone. Grind must be lowered. New players get stuck in a logi hell for a reason (and the reason is bad incremental system design).

Decline in player numbers clearly shows that current state of meta is stale and people get burnt out easily, doing the same boring chores over and over and over...

as a bonus negative point: the amount of russians and chinese is absurd. make separate server for them and general atmosphere and toxicity will improve drastically both on able and charlie.

was a nice promising project. turned to be raw mediocre trash

70+ hours in, still waiting for simulation to occur.
If we toss the atmosphere aside, ETS2 is a very mediocre driving game.
Poor optimization, ugly and outdated models.
Very limited car parts selection, that are also gated behind very slow and boring "level" progression.
Traffic AI is not even bad, it's nonexistent. NPC cars are ignorant to player's vehicle and overall traffic situation.
Collision mechanics are awfull, damage simulation is even worse - not really sure how it is called "simulation' when you can't even get a flat tire, jfc.
No hunger meter (probably for the best). Tireness is just a glorified time limit for non-stop driving.
Company managment is laughable and primitive, not even sure if it's at any rate profitable without mods.
Missions have modifiers, but they are just all the same, except oversized cargo.
Oh boy, oversized cargo missions. They're bad, awful and bugged.
As for bugs - tons of them. Most are minor. Some are pretty bad (like collision bugs with terrain, blockposts not working, gates ignoring player vehicle, etc).

Wish steam had Neutral vote, but ETS2 has so few positive moments I just can't force myself to give it an upvote.

It's like RS but with big personalized story.
Waiting for mod support or playable female protag.