![]() ![]() ![]() I’m basically sitting in front of the notebook for 20 to 25 minutes doing absolutely nothing. I don’t think I could imagine threshing a whole field. In the threshing in the tutorial, I was able to hire a helper fairly quickly. Never let it be said that there’s no more money in farming.Īlthough it didn’t take long to spread the manure, I was already starting to get bored. And I get paid royally at almost 3,000 euros. After three minutes I’ve already finished the job. Once again, the controls make it quick and easy. After that, I have to attach a weight to the front and the manure device at the back. High time to test out the controls again. And they’re barely giving me six minutes to do it. I’m supposed to spread manure over the field. Without further instructions on what to do, I head off to another farm and take on some work there. The simulator fulfills any aspirations of getting back to nature Having said that, it’s not as though the farming simulator would do a good job of simulating realistic reckless driving. Fortunately, things step up a gear once I’ve got the pickup truck and can test out the quality of the steering wheel. In fact, that’s one of the things that puts me off simulation games. That’s not the point of the game but I don’t have a great attention span. Once I’ve been through the introductory section, I can do what I want.Īs a «GTA» gamer first and foremost, I instantly go looking for the fastest vehicle possible so I can make the streets and fields unsafe. ![]() That means I don’t have to drive up and down the fields for x hours. ![]() The controls make all of that good fun.Īlso, everything gets done quickly because I can hire people to help finish jobs for me. I then take the harvest to sell to the distributor dig over a field and sew wheat in another. In spite of my surname, I still have no idea what I’m doing so I begin by threshing the field. Thankfully, the game gave me a quick heads-up at the start so I know what I’m supposed to do. Will I live up to my «person of the farm» («der vom Hof») title? In fact, with a surname like «Hofer» you’d think I was born into a farming family. As I’m still very much a beginner I set the difficulty level to «easy». Waning attention spanĪfter watching the tutorial I know what to do and head off for my first day on the farm. Another thing that bugs me slightly is that you need two USB A connections to link up Farmy. To keep the vehicle steady, you need to press the controls from above rather than from in front. But what is cool is that it automatically returns to its starting position – even if it does so with a lot of swerving and lurching. Meanwhile, the steering wheel wobbles when the base is anchored. The flip switches are only dummies and don’t do anything different to the other buttons. The buttons look rather cheap, which is a shame as this finish spoils the overall good impression I had of the hardware. Now the hardware is affixed, you know it’s safe even in the heat of ploughing The game knows what I’m using for the controls. Am I not supposed to use Farmy to control the game? I slap the keys in frustration. Once the tutorial started, it said I should left-click on the mouse to continue. Yeah, I know… I said I think simulators are boring without ever having played this farming simulator game. I’m sure it’ll still work.Īs I’ve never played a farming simulator before, the first thing I do is select the tutorial. I want to play the latest version of the game. The packaging does say: «Works great with Farming Simulator 15 Gold Edition». I test the controls with the «Farming Simulator 17». a steering wheel with an integrated gamepadĪ side panel with various buttons and joystick Getting started.So rather than being stuck inside at the end of June, I decide to take the virtual world out for some fresh air. With this lovely weather we’ve been having, it seems a shame to lock myself away in a gaming cave. We’ve had Farmy lying around the editorial department for a few months now. It’s pretty cumbersome, which is why I’ve taken to calling it «Farmy». What isn’t fun, however, is the name of the input device. My first attempt at driving the «Saitek Heavy Precision Control System for PC» is somehow fun. ![]()
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