ATS | Florida to Georgia | Promods & Coast to Coast | American Truck Simulator - Big World 22

In this American Truck Simulator Let's Play career episode, we begin our long haul, longest journey, going from Key West Florida to our ultimate goal, Prudhoe Bay, Alaska.
In this career save, we are exploring the ATS world with map mods, having added in Arizona Rebuild, Reforma Mexico, Coast to Coast, the Great Mid-North Expansion, and ProMods Canada. We are exploring the Caribbean now.
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Stuff I Use to Play
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Bose QuietComfort 45 Headphones: amzn.to/3EN69us
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EVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080
(self-built, more specs coming soon)
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ATS Reforma
ATS Mexico
ATS Promods Canada
ATS Coast to Coast
ATS Caribbean Map
ATS Alaska
#ats #americantrucksimulator #atsalaska
This series is an American Truck Simulator career Let's Play (ATS) playthrough where we start with nothing and attempt to build a trucking empire in Europe.
ATS | Florida to Alaska 1 | Promods & Coast to Coast | American Truck Simulator - Big World 22

[@classicalmusic3979]

I love ChatGPT

[@98Dime]

As both a native Floridian and a former resident of Valdosta, GA, this was really neat to see.

[@ZillaBlitzPC]

This was a fun section of the map. I really enjoyed this one. :)

[@ParkeraNZ]

Nice 1st leg and yeah think the rain is making your truck skid abit especially with the tandems added weight, nice recovery though on the 1st one.

[@ZillaBlitzPC]

Yes, really have to be careful in the rain now. :)

[@ModsOnSteamDeck]

Love your content, so easy to watch and entertaining. You deserve more subs. Keep up the great work!

[@ZillaBlitzPC]

Thanks so much for the kind words! I'd love more subs, slowly but surely growing though. (To be fair, my other channel has more subs, and this one is less than a year old, since I moved all the PC gaming content here.)

[@megatronacepticon]

The random skid is I think a relatively new thing. I was getting it in Scandenvia in ETS2 once coming down the hill with logs in the rain. I think it's the do with wet road physics, if you have a heavy load you can lose traction in the rain if you're not careful or something like that I think seems to be how it works.

[@thecustardprophet8434]

I agree. I've noticed this recently. Not sure if its a we road thing or something else.

[@ZillaBlitzPC]

It's definitely only happening in the rain, and has happened a few times when cornering. But this time it was when I was going totally straight, which was odd. I wonder if I had just nudged the steering wheel as it happened. I don't remember, but I might have been making one of those countless micro-adjustments drivers make to stay in their lanes. In any case, it sure woke me up and created a moment of blistering panic! :)

[@hal8517]

(8 mins in) The NPVs always slow down for curves. The map maker made such a sharp 90 degree curve they had to slow so much that they had to stop for each other.

[@ZillaBlitzPC]

Makes sense, thanks. I wonder if the curve is like that in real life. :)

[@RevanFan]

You can remove ATS Expansion (Formerly Montana Expansion) from that list of mods I recommended. It's still good, but it's going paid on a subscription basis. I only use paid mods if they are a one time payment for permanent ownership.

[@ZillaBlitzPC]

Thanks for the update! Yeah, a subscription model is beyond what I think I'd recommend people go for, for sure. I've removed the files and added a note to the public doc: tinyurl.com/2chqjkvj

[@nickstone3606]

Having been watching your channel since you started, i hope you manage to get to alaska with no fines atall but im gonna guess a ten,lol sorry mate,sorry havent been commenting in a while had a little accident a while back,so been learning to walk again ,all good now,love both ya channels mate always entertaining

[@ZillaBlitzPC]

Ouch! So sorry to hear about the accident! That sounds terrible! Those things can take so long to heal from, but it's amazing over time how we can recover. I hope you are back to 100%, if not now, but very soon. As for the accidents and fines, there will be a new episode out tomorrow and 10 might be very difficult to stay under. :)

[@classicalmusic3979]

12:05 It was raining that is why the truck skidded

[@ZillaBlitzPC]

Yep, it seems to be a thing. :)

[@NerdyNanaSimulations]

I watch 6 hour shows and lives all the time, I just take it in bites like you are this trip...lol. I'll watch about 2-3 hours and then do what I need to do and come back to it later. I am looking forward to seeing what they did with Arkansas.

[@ZillaBlitzPC]

Okay, I will get my people on this and make it be a thing. I think if I start uploading it in March, it will be done in April. :)

[@NerdyNanaSimulations]

Just do a supercut...lol, take your promods episodes and zip them together in one video. I've been thinking about doing that myself. Like 1-10 in one video.@@ZillaBlitzPC

[@ZillaBlitzPC]

Yes, I've been thinking to do that for the ones on the original channel.

[@JollyRoger1718]

As for the accident you have near end of video, you merged from a traveling right lane onto the exit, where there was a vehicle in the exit lane trying to exit and your last trailer side swiped it.

[@ZillaBlitzPC]

Yeah, those tandems are long. :)

[@hal8517]

1300 miles; 26 hours drive time (according to me)

[@JollyRoger1718]

When i had my game hooked up and was playing this game, how i ran things is after i got the biggest loan and got a truck with the sleeper, i would run the longest runs possible which paid crazy amounts of money which helped me pay off the loan really fast, once had cash saved up i would buy another truck and hire a driver. Once you pay off your loan the money you make its all yours to spend and expand the company, not having to give it back to the bank with interest, from there your company will grow like crazy. My trucks i kept them simple, i had the cat engines, midroof sleep, side chicken lights, 6x4 chassis, 13 speed transmission, and it was all 389 peterbilt. So i didn’t spend that much on buying the trucks.

[@ZillaBlitzPC]

That sounds like a great strategy for growing fast. I did the opposite in my first main career. I kept buy all the things for my own truck and never had enough money to add trucks to the company. :)

[@classicalmusic3979]

This has to be the longest episode ever

[@or2ak]

16 minutes? LOL

[@ZillaBlitzPC]

I suspect he's commenting about the idea of a full, 6-hour video of the journey. I think Classical Music has watched every episode, so he knows that 16 minutes isn't long for this. :)

[@shannonspear8751]

In the wet and you take your foot off the gas your trailers inertia can start pushing from behind and your tyres can lose traction due to the engine breaking and especially in the rain you can loose control like you experienced. 😢

[@ZillaBlitzPC]

Yes, I can see how that makes sense, but it seemed like such an unusual place for that to happen, at least in the game. I don't think it was the result of me taking my foot off the gas so much as just making a micro-adjustment on the steering wheel.

[@Xeno2246]

The cruise control can drop for multiple reasons, either adaptive cruise control is on, you are on an incline or you are accidentally hitting your brakes. Edit: I suggest pressing I on your keyboard until it tells you what your cruise control speed is. If it keeps turning off you may have a problem with your brake pedals

[@ZillaBlitzPC]

I'm going to check the auto-braking. I think that might be causing the problem. Could definitely be the adaptive cruise control too, for sure.

[@Xeno2246]

@@ZillaBlitzPC What I would suggest is before taking apart the pedals, set a little deadzone in the settings for ETS 2 and see if it still happens. If I remember correctly you have the G27 from logitech and its been a common problem for the pedals that logitech make

[@ZillaBlitzPC]

Ah, yes, that's a good idea. I have the G920 wheel, but I'll take a look at the dead zone as option 2. I think I'm going to fiddle with auto-braking first, see what happens and go from there.@@Xeno2246

[@HissyCat]

I was going to keep track of your fines, but i don't have that many fingers.

[@ZillaBlitzPC]

I'm hoping I can keep it under 10, but starting with a tandem trailer isn't the smartest way to keep the fines down.

[@HissyCat]

@@ZillaBlitzPC btw, fun watch. =)

[@samcattell1150]

Haha getting a bit of road rage with the truck at the lights. Channeling your inner "Duel" trucker 😂. Bet you still haven't watched that movie. You're missing out... A 6-8 hour marathon episode would be quite cool. Something to have playing in the background while doing other things.

[@ZillaBlitzPC]

Haha! Yes, Duel is still on my "Media to Consume" list. Haven't watched it yet. I do have a couple of days off next week, maybe I can squeeze it in then. :)

[@samcattell1150]

You need to, it's a classic and one of Spirlbergs earliest works. Will give you a whole new perspective on trucking. Just don't try to emulate what you see in the film 😂

[@pterrok5495]

Replayed your crash fine, did NOT see a car in either mirror. So, maybe earlier a car had gotten on your bumper and was drafting, and hit you when you slowed like that to get on the off ramp.

[@ZillaBlitzPC]

Someone spotted a car in the lane to the right, near the back end of the second trailer. I haven't looked that closely at it and it was dark, so hard to see. :)

[@Xeno2246]

Okay, so I will begin by guessing you will get around 9 fines throughout the entire journey. I would also love to watch a full, long drive. It was something I was going to suggest but it would probably take forever to upload/edit

[@ZillaBlitzPC]

I don't think it'll take too long to edit but it will probably take me a month to upload. I think I'll give it a try. It'll probably be a six-hour video, I'd guess.

[@HissyCat]

Daddy, are we there yet?

[@ZillaBlitzPC]

Do you need to go the bathroom again? Youjust went at the last rest stop five minutes ago.

[@HissyCat]

@@ZillaBlitzPC lol

[@ergoox]

7 fines, 3 crashes.

[@ZillaBlitzPC]

So far 1 fine 1 crash. :)

[@KallumEsslemont-rn3jm]

can you show us the maps after you have finished the run

[@ZillaBlitzPC]

Good idea, yes, I'll try to do that more often. Thanks! :)

[@kimreinikainen]

How about making some part of the video speed up? This way the video don't get that long but still able to see the views. Tbh those skids was a bit extreme. It is feature in the game but not too realistic. Looked more like skiding on ice

[@ZillaBlitzPC]

Yeah, speeding up the video could work. I might just post a full, 6-hour video of the whole thing though. Just for kicks. :)

[@kimreinikainen]

@@ZillaBlitzPC get your kicks, on route 66

[@danielpyxlcool1294]

can you post the order/ mods you have?

[@ZillaBlitzPC]

Yes, I'll create a Google Doc with the mods and links in it. I should probably create a video just for the mods in this series.

[@classicalmusic3979]

What made you do this

[@ZillaBlitzPC]

My dog made me do this. :)