Road Train

ac92 · Postby **ac92** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 10:44 pm

Once again I wanna return to 18 WoS series. Don't know about the others, but 18 WoS Convoy has real trucks, just the names of the companies are changed. For example, you have Frisk Coronado instead of Freightliner Coronado, Forerunner 21C instead of Freightliner Century, or Whiplash 6900 instead of Western Star 6900. All other vehicles in the game are real but I didn't see any "Ford" sign on the Mustang, or on the Transit van, and I didn't see any sign that there are Hummers on the army equipment trailer... Perhaps the game creators didn't want to complicate their lives by using real tredemarks, and all troubles coming out of this...

Postby **Franch88** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 10:55 pm

Uhm, yeah... Thinking about it, the game 18WOS Convoy (the only that I've the complete) has real trucks with fancy names. I remember that the traffic cars are real too.
I've tried also the latest version of 18WOS game series, Haulin': nice graphic.

Could you post the link with that cab&first trailer fused road train
(if it exists, of course, and if you know where to find it)?

To know more about it better send a PM to Richard P., he isn't often on this forum like me.

awalwang · Postby **awalwang** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 2:46 am

I get a feeling sometimes that the original MM2 creators didn't even try to make graphics good...it's up to us.

ac92 · Postby **ac92** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 12:11 pm

There's a tiny little thing that is missed in 18 WoS. The trucks don't get dirty, and haven't damage textures. So even if you have just crossed the USA, passing hundreds of miles, you still can put your shiny truck on your Christmas Tree

awalwang · Postby **awalwang** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 2:25 pm

Hmm...does that remind me of some addon vehicles?

ac92 · Postby **ac92** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 10:46 pm

Yeap... And there's another funny thing... In a game called 18 wheels of steel you can't drive an 18-wheeled truck:-D If it was possible to change a truck during a mission, I would attach the 8-wheeled Whiplash (in the game, in the real world it's Western Star) 6900 to the 10-wheeled double trailer from the quarry mission, but it's not. There aren't any cheats that make this possible, so everything I can do is pull that double trailer with the default 6-wheeled truck and rename the game shortcut in 16 WoS