Recent reviews by Ausmanis

My son said he's got a game he thinks I'd be interested in so I watched him play Mudrunner. He has the ability to make hard things look easier than they are and he made Mudrunner look, not easy but at least do-able, and I thought it looks like fun and a challenge so ok I'm in.
At first I found it hard, frustrating, too much for me and almost gave up, but when I got over this and discovered other trucks to use, better ways to do things and I began to understand the maps, I felt a lot more comfortable and confident. And so, unknown to me at the time, my addiction began.
I became competent then more experienced and now I have a truck, the Oshkosh M977, that will take me anywhere I want to go with a trailer and combined value of 8 points per load, so there's just one load to each mill. I fell in love with the brutality of the wilderness and became obsessed with the isolation from humanity, and wanted so much to actually be there, and this is my fantasy;

I live here and this is my job. Whichever map I go to my garage has all the mod cons of home; a fully equipped kitchen and bathroom with electricity, running water, plenty of toilet paper (wouldn't want to run out of that out here) and a big bedroom for my comfortable queen-size bed. I get food and all my supplies dropped in once a week by chopper and I'm here all by myself, all alone, no people, and loving it! I'm totally in awe of my new existence and can't get enough, even when I'm going to sleep at the wheel and running of the road I'll wake up and keep going, even start a new map, because I just don't wanna leave.

Oh, and of course, I also have the best gaming computer and in my spare time when I'm not fighting with the environment and delivering logs, I can play Mudrunner.

I first saw ATS a long time ago when I watched my son playing it but wasn't keen to be a driver here while I was driving for real. Would've been too much, although I was really interested and helped him with turning and reversing and stuff.
I love driving, always have, it's a passion. About a year after I retired I got the urge to keep the passion alive so I started a Steam account and my son gifted ATS to me as an early Christmas present and I've been driving here since Oct 2016.
Got into it big time and became addicted real quick. There's nothing I'd rather do than get in the truck, take a load somewhere and experience the sunrise, sunset and the great scenery. I've done a lot of real life night driving into daylight and when it happens in the game it's so real I yawn and feel that special tiredness you only feel when daylight breaks and you're still behind the wheel, even though it might only be two in the arv at my place. I'm always thinkin about when I'm goin to be drivin next and what I'm gunna do.
It's late at night and I hear, "Are you comin to bed yet?" I say, "I'll just drop this load off and I'll be there." Then a couple of hours later I hear, "When are you comin to bed?" and I say the same thing again and hear, "You said that two hours ago." That's how it is and that's what it does. The best form of addiction I could ever recommend. My personal opinion? ATS - It's a lot better than going to bed!