Farming Simulator 25 & FarmCon24 - 2024 is exciting for FS fans!!

[@Charlie-mi2du]

I’d like to see an option where you could work or co-operate with other farms like doing work on their farm or buying some silage/hay/straw bales from them or something like that.

[@Scroft]

That sounds like a great idea. And you can see other farmers working in their fields

[@Charlie-mi2du]

@@Scroft would be nice too see and hopefully it would be in a base game uk map!😅😂

[@NathanGraf-p1f]

Interacting with NPC's in general would be pretty cool *adding to your idea*

[@SmileySimian]

What's really needed for a next-gen FS game is more interactivity. Bring some life to the towns. There should be vaterinarians to call and farmer's fairs to enter your animals into, single-player bailing championships, tractor-pulls, parades, npc neighbours to co-op/compete against, upgradable farmhouses, and farmers club/pub for delivery/build/repair/feed supply contracts. This is all doable with Giants' current engine. I'd also love to see major weather disasters, a crop dusting plane, more fruit and berry crops and I want to run into an npc farmer working on their field for once! Unfortunately, with Giants' incremental approach to innovation, we wouldn't see a list like this implemented until FS44.

[@phattbargin]

Oooh I really like that Idea

[@TheModestMama]

Yeessss!!! The social community aspect is most definitely what the game is lacking. Like Stardew Valley meets Sims meets Farming Simulator lol

[@TheModestMama]

I would spend 1000+ hours playing in that world lol

[@SEPK09]

Seaguls whilst ploughing, Flat tyres, Tyre wear, More root crops, better heavier bales.

[@bluebutterfly6394]

Also also being able to harvest maize fully not just the kernels ; sweet corn harvesting 😂

[@Scroft]

I love the idea of Seagulls or birds while doing ground work 👏

[@chriswatkinson93]

I think a campaign/career mode would be great, where you can start as a farm hand and work your way up to like a farm manager and employ your own farm hand and even work up to owning your own farm

[@Scroft]

Yeah, it's be brilliant. Not sure it would be long if they added In a story with voice actors

[@KuliJens]

This comment is in two parts: 1) The thing is that when they make a "career mode", they have to, more or less, hard code and model the whole thing. This means that every time you want a new scenario, they would have to make more, and customers would prefer new models, new voices, new brands, new maps, etc. each time they make a new career so it doesn't come off as a cheap repurposing of what they had laying around. Knowing farm simmers, it would be so hard to implement because lots of people install crazy mods that will make the intended progression redundant, so why should GIANTS put in all that effort to please a fraction of the players, or alternatively GIANTS disables the use of mods in career, which would cause an uproar from most players since you can't use some non-gamebreaking mods like rounder round bales or their favourite tractor mod. 2) Furthermore, you can get 80-90% of the gameplay of such a career already by using mods. In fact, this is the only way I play the game nowadays. Pick a map, install mods from modhub that enable your desires for your new save, and then play however you want. You customize the economy, periodic plowing, liming, weeds, field stones, etc. and set your starting cash, choose your starting equipment, make an excel sheet or other document that contain the overall rules of your new gamemode, etc. I have an Excel sheet that has all the prices of the base-game animals, so that I can't just install a mod and get cows at 1/10th of the price. Maybe I can allow a mod that's slightly cheaper per animal, but it has to have functional or roleplay downsides like being really ugly or not having running water which causes and increased workload. I could go on, but to sum it up, career could be very nice, but I hope it's not a priority since the physics of FS22 need to be overhauled by at least 15 years! Placing buildings or interacting with the ground in real-time is embarrassing. The tractors don't even interact with the ground, it's like driving in minecraft!

[@RamboHackerGaming]

I love your ideas, and my list of items I want in FS25 is similar to yours. To bring back the features of fs19 seasons where the weather affects your crops but more advanced (like not enough rain, requiring irrigation, or too much rain causes flooding, and both can cause crop damage), but it also affects the bales and the ground with mud, puddles, and ice and having an impact on the environment and equipment. Especially your location and climate, which are impacting crop damage. So if the map is in a colder region, and thyou have crops that are more fragile to cold weather, it will have the potential to get damaged by the cold temperatures. Conversely, if in a hot or dry climate, you have to do irrigation because the crop could get too dry, and it may die. And all of that should affect the yield. Also, as you mentioned, a lot more advanced vehicle maintenance and more animals, including different age of animals. Additional crops like alfalfa or even clover, which are common crops for making animal feed, need to be included. But my number one feature request is better physics and better quality textures, with a much more considerable draw distance (for the top-end PCs and next-gen console that will eventually come out).

[@RamboHackerGaming]

Oh, I forgot another one of my top wish items. Take the factory mechanics from Platinum and Premium (rollercoaster, boat, and piano) and allow you to build things like you are doing a homesteading series. You have to get the supplies and build the bridge across the river to your property and do the same to build your home or a barn. Instead of just plopping the building down, let's add it as an option to allow things to be built.

[@Scroft]

Some cracking ideas there Rambo. Love the idea of expanding your farm using items you harvest/produce

[@bubberdeewolfe]

That be nice to build your own barns and your house

[@ottosimcrew]

I love the ideas you guys are talking about, all I would add is the option to purchase crop insurance in case of such weather related hardships.

[@vaudevillian7]

Would love to see tulips / tulip bulbs as a crop - great for a proper Dutch polder map and loads of interesting machinery for it

[@wafflehatjoe420]

id rather them skip a release and spend that time developing a new game engine. the current engine isn't capable of anything more than what we have. the CoD culture of buying the same game over and over again as a reskin needs to stay in CoD

[@Scroft]

I agree, but it will have been 3 years since we got fs22. So, there is plenty of time to make a new game. COD is like every year and I completely agree 👍

[@FarmLapse]

They already skipped a year now, fs22 came out in 2021. I think and hope they took this extra time to create some huge changes

[@wafflehatjoe420]

@@FarmLapse November 21 2021... So pretty well 2022 since after the release they probably took most of December off for christmas. So they havn't really taken any "extra", the same amount of time so far. the trend has been 3 years between versions. 19 came out nov-19-18. so it would suggest nov this year for "25"

[@FarmLapse]

@@wafflehatjoe420 the main games were released every 2 years, not 3 years. The only exception was from 19 to 22

[@CaseMac-of1xg]

Farm sim used to come out every 2 years GIANTS is running late

[@themunter4488]

On console - being able to choose the re-set/spawn point for equipment. A basic "follow me" capability.

[@IG10705]

They should have gave us that option. GTAV online has that feature and that was way back in 2014.

[@thesnake1661]

I would love to see a upgrade in animal loading, i do livestock loading in real life and would love to do in in fs to, that you can select every animal in your barn that you would like in your trailer and then put it in your trailer and close the gates behind them. I know it would be a lot of work but will bring me a lot of joy in this game

[@Massey-Lee]

There has never been a British map as base game all them lists are spot on

[@AnnaMaria-zm8cv]

If they do, they should have option for left or right hand driving (on every map tbh). I always turn traffic off myself because I get traffic anxiety from the drivers in the game lol. But I think its for UK people also not convenient to have right hand driving maps as well. Some will think its charm of a foreign map.

[@kanelowster]

all i wish for is two things, one is the ability to be able to choose to see your hands on the wheel on in cab view or not, and the other is an ets2 style rain where the wipers actually function and wash the rain away off your windscreen

[@Orsa1305]

I have a few: 1: animals that are no ghosts :) and react to players/verhicels. 2: people walking react to weather, it is so immersion braking to see people in shirts in the snow. 3: Tier tracks in the snow (i still feel this a bug). 4: movable mirrors, so the are actually useful. 5: be able to sit on benches/chairs 6: (forgot the most important one) Be able to assign an area for animals, something like draw custom field in Autodrive. thanks for the video :)

[@stuartwebb3533]

Hi there Scroft! Those ideas would be great! Many more excellent ideas in the comments as well! I've been playing this game since fs13, and really enjoy the way it has developed over the years. Growing up on a farm really puts it in your blood as a way of life! I echo your maintenance suggestion as a real addition, the one thing I would add to your list is seeing other farmers working in fields that you dont own during single player games.

[@incubatork]

To me Farming Simulator is more of an Arcade game than actual Simulator, I think its due to the compatibility with PlayStation and the other console platforms. I agree with you on all the counts, I would rather have it split into PC only and a console only version. The Modders have kept the game alive for so many years, longer than I can remember, So many of the mods should be in the base game. A tractor from standstill to 53kmh in game takes only a couple of seconds, less than a Porsche in real life, its not really realistic. I agree with you on the ground conditions too, mud runner and snow runner though extreme gets it far better, we have no casual breakdowns or wear on things and no damage when you hit a tree or wall. Animals too, how many people have driven down a country lane and not seen a pheasant or a rabbit/Hare, also seagulls when your ploughing. Artificial insemination like Hoff Bergmann has and you have to pay for, there is so much in that map true to real farming that Giants could implement also lots they left out from FS19.

[@neilharbott8394]

For animals, I'd like to see the ability to add pasture. Kind of an extension to building hedges/fences that we currently have, enclose an area, define it as a pasture, and allow animals to graze (reducing how much extra food you need to give them). You could allow animals to transfer between pastures, to allow the pastures time to recover. And finally have the sheds as separate buildings, which add function to the animals you have (slurry, manure, milking, sheering, etc). For weather, there could be crop affecting conditions: drought, excessive rain, heavy (crop damaging) storms, pests, diseases, etc. Have more crop care options, add irrigation, pesticides, drainage, etc, which would mitigate the effect on crops like we currently have with weeds.

[@Ichuanam]

Absaloutly, animal grazing in fields is my top wish

[@MichaelSmith-lb4kv]

Wow, a long but very interesting list, would be nice if wishes came true, all we can do tho is wait and see. Someone at Giants just watched your video Scroft, and thought, „bloody hell, he’s been working for George too long „ 😂 joke aside, really good thoughts or wishes you have.👍🚜 greetings from Germany 🇩🇪

[@Flux_7_7_7_7]

A lot of people are worried about too much complexity with things like autodrive and courseplay, but honestly, if you just hide the complicated stuff under a menu icon you can still do courseplay basics without scaring new players. Hell, new players aren't hiring that many workers anyway.

[@mr_kamaMG]

If FS25 has dynamic ground conditions, I will be happy. That is my number 1 wish. It is insane that the weather has no effect whatsoever on the ground conditions. Insane.

[@brenttonks4249]

The ground plane must of been on volcanic soils whereby after 100mm of rainfall you can drive a fully loaded semi across it 😂😂

[@ELXatrix]

big thing for me would be the ability to create my own pens for the animals...not plob down a building with some green area. we can do fences so add a snap point to the building and build your own pasture where the animals can walk around. why even have grass in pens if they dont eat it themself? i know there are mods but that should be something that those animals can get themself. if you got too many you need to move them to a new place or feed them extra but a few starter sheeps or cows should be able to feed themself for a wile on a pasture, maybe they gain less weight or produce less if not feed the good stuff wich currently is also broken. why cant cows just be grass feed? at least enough to get healthy and start reproducing, maybe they dont give much extra milk... a bit more realistic sell points...not sure where your small local diner stores the 300tons of potatoes i drop there...maybe they pay a higher price but only take a limited amount. have a more constant high price for those and sell some every month or store it and sell it at bulk to the grain elevator or factorys if the price is good. would also be cool to see the other land owners work on there fields not just plob harvest is done, plob its now cultivated...well that would mean some improvement to the ai and helper wich still cant figure out he cant drive throue that wall to turn around...why cant he see the tree and avoid it?

[@simfellow]

Good list, Scroft! I agree with most items! UK Map in basegame is not so important for me, as the mod UK maps are so good. I prefer that Giants focusses on the 'game structure and main features' and enables the modders to add things. Like what you mention with maintenance, animals, dynamic weather.... The modders will add more spare parts, more types of animals, more types of weather for specific area's, road textures, etc. Weather should have effect on the crop health and yield, in my opinion. Combined with pests and random 'events'.

[@vaudevillian7]

Having grown up in a windmill next to a farm I'd love a working mill with animated interior - would probably be a bit intensive on lower end systems though

[@BendaCatClaas]

Courseplay and Autodrive implementation for sure, FS22 was better for the base game AI, but these 2 mods show how much better it can be. Maps, UK and Australia, don't forget about us Aussies Generations of Vehicles - it so you can set the date to 1980 and you only had access to pre-1980 vehicles so as you play more vehicles unlock. Crop withering - On/off option FS19 Seasons for Sure.

[@sebastianstyrnol6275]

Regarding weather, I would love to have weather have a bigger influence on yields. Like you have each crop have a certain demand for soil moisture, which gets replenished by precipitation during the year. This will also give you need for irrigation systems. Furthermore I would love to have equipment options have a bigger influence, like different tyres having different traction and soil compaction.

[@vaudevillian7]

Working parlours are the biggest thing I want to see, and yes to all of the 'farm life' stuff

[@brenttonks4249]

Totally agree, GEA, DeLaval, Waikato and Boumatic style Rotory and herringbone parlours along with moving animals from pastures the holding yards for milking would be cool. It’s probably not possible but it would be next level if it can be done!

[@Bootneck-RMC]

Love the ideas that you've come up with Scroft as they sort of align with my own thoughts but, I would like them to go much further with regards to Graphics/Physics as my biggest bugbear is the way that the animals will walk through walls and fences. I also wish they would sort out things like trees and grass growing through new buildings that you put up and I hate seeing the snow and rain inside buildings and vehicles.

[@SpotterSky]

Hi Scroft Thanks for this inspiring video! My wish list looks like this: 1. More activity with the animals! 2. Option to make your own seed! 3. Greater quantity of manure from the animals, so it is possible to fertilize larger areas on the field! 4. Better options for storing root vegetables! 5. More hands-on in general throughout the game! All of this should be available in the base game

[@TheElderOneChannel]

Great ideas Scroft .. I definitely like to see Driving physics specially with hills need to be improved, Flat tyres Breakdowns clutch slipping etc , Animals improvements health of animals like ill cow needs vet or some sort of medical care giving , Irish/UK style map in base game , Brands specially Ford , Dynamic Npc s ,Weather, Ground, GE needs major improvements , Multiplayer syncing should be handled by Client joining not everyone on server , I'll stop now my wish list for FS25 is huge

[@dejkirkby1]

I like a lot of your ideas, Scroft. They'd definitely improve and enhance gameplay. For me, a solid career mode would be great. Starting from nothing and building your way up as part of an ongoing story. I'd also like to have the ability to sell the farms/farm yards as a going concern.The way I like to play is on Start From Scratch, build a small farm, make it profitable and upgrade to a larger yard with more space for sheds, equipment, etc. But when I upgrade, I have to sell all the placeables before I can sell the land. That's not realistic. Lastly, I'd like dynamic pricing for plots of land or the ability to make an offer rather than a set price. A field that has just been harvested should could less than a field with crops ready to collect.

[@summerfarmestates]

would be good to have a realistic land rent as well so you could rent extra land

[@lukagovorko3248]

Lot of great ideas scroft, fs 19 seasons were great and coming to fs22 i was let down. Also with the realistic mods only being on pc for fs22 was big let down. I also hope they can improve the overall look and physics of the game. Oh and also with your dynamic weather and the physics with the rain and snow it can hit the cab glass and the wipers actually wipe it off and it don't just glitch through the cab. And also more moving buttons in the cab that you could interact with. But Hopefully they can implement the communitys ideas in the future games.

[@mrgusse]

don't agree with no.5 sure there are no UK map base game, but the amount of UKmaps on modhub is insane.....

[@dangoodhead1587]

I think the idea of VR could be big. We have the hardware now to do this as headsets have come a long way since fs22 was released. Perhaps this is also the version they move to unreal engine for game. It would be a big change for the mods, but the graphics would be amazing.

[@MrBuyerman]

Animal illness and vet care. There's loads that modders have done, Giants need to step up.

[@LeeArdisgolfmark51.9tdi]

More realistic animal like they can be moved around yards and fields pipe system more uk brands

[@ohiofarmer1]

I agree with most of your list. I think the option, especially with old equipment, to choose it used and the level of used. I don't know any starting farmers that start with all new equipment. Also more older equipment base game. Keep up the great work sir

[@dustinowens264]

I would like to see irrigation type system. Whether it is flood irrigation, sprinklers, pivots, etc. Having to actually water crops and tend them.

[@magixsparx]

Magix ideas. I'd like to see better financials and farm business management. We should be able to see how much each vehicle and tool has cost over time, including maintenance and this could link to your idea of better maintenance costs etc. Each line on the finance screen should be broken down so you can see how much you have made from each crop type and we should be able to see historical information. Regarding the farm business management, this would include more detailed/realistic loans, external financial factors, trading between other farms (career and multiplayer), price fluctuations on animals etc. This will enhance the "farm life" aspects that you've mentioned. Keep up the amazing work Scroft 👍

[@ohiofarmer1]

Also, I forgot to mention, a minimum of 10 items on the used equipment list but maybe up to 20 or something

[@vaudevillian7]

Mod search at the start is something I've wanted for a long time too - and some sort of categorisation if possible

[@barrygrant9428]

All good ideas would love to see the animal seasons being able to lamb and clip at the season

[@neutchain7838]

Not sure if you guys are familiar with a now dead game ( sadly died during development ) its called "Professional Farmer:Cattle and Crops". It was a really promising game with more emphasis on the simulation part. It had proper ground physics ( kinda like snowrunner ) and depending on the weather you were diggin axle deep in the mud or just driving on top of it. The soil had layers and it simulated the compaction of the soil, and it depended on that what kind of preparation you had to do for the next crop. Also highly dependent on your soil type so its like precision farming but more in-depth. It simulated proper fertilization of the soil again, depending of the crops you were going to plant and you had to mix your fertilizer to achieve the required NPK ( nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P) and potassium (K) ) levels for your crop. You had a calculator on your computer in the house to calculate how much fertilizer is needed on your field and you could set the flow rate ( liquid ) or the spread rate ( solid ) on your equipment. You could rent fields, it had a perfectly working guidance steering system implemented ( very intuitive controls ), a very detailed and extended tutorial. It simulated moisture for crops during harvest even for grass. You mowed the grass and it had 3 layers ( upper, middle and lower ) layers with different moisture levels so you had to turn them over ( giving you a reason to use tedders ) to dry them out but you also had to time it to make sure you cut it when you had a few sunny days ahead because if it rained on it was over. And the biggest QoL I could imagine for FS. The UI was amazing. Everything had a keystroke ofc but you had a radial menu from where you could access every function of the tractor and implements. You had like 3-4 main pages for the Tractor itself ( start/stop, lights, drivetrain, windows, ) then you flicked over to the implement and another 2-3 pages depending on the coplexity, like height and flow settings for sprayers, markers, sow rate, fertilization options, fold/unfold, for planeters, etc... You also had a 0-9 quickbar on the bottom and you could assign any funcion from the radial wheel to a button there for easy access ( raise/lower implements, turn on/off, rotate plow, etc... ) That thing was amazing, you didnt had to memorize every single keystroke for every implement/function of the game, you could just press the middle mouse and it was all there. Pretty solid design worked really well and it made life really easy. I was devastated when that game died. It was shaping up to be a nice competition for FS ( which is always a good thing ) and it was more focused on the simulation part which i liked a lot. Any aspect of that game ( especially the radial menu design or the ground simulation ) appearing in FS would make me really happy. :)

[@pcplayermalc]

Pallets and bales NEED help! I don't think weight is the issue, although you have probably found a work-around by increasing the weight. For me it's friction that's the issue. Giants did a great job with tree/log physics with the Silverrun DLC, and as they are pushing productions more, now, I think pallets need some looking at.

[@biggy12uk93]

Interactive control on all vehicles, bonnet opening, doors, panels etc, ic for the controls at the rear of the tractors raising and lowering hitch etc. definitely, would be nice to have right hand drive vehicles or the option at the shop to choose left or right. Multiple shops tractor dealerships, truck trailer dealerships, agricultural stores . Helpers walking around the farm so it doesn't feel as lonely(like the old contractor mod) Definitely maintenance as Scroft said. Be able to buy the service parts and keep them in stock physically. Also interaction with shop staff and helpers with dialogue.

[@ranwolfFARM]

I'm looking forward for FS25. My only wish is they put a cat in the game. Every farm I have ever seen has cats. They keep the mice and rats away. My farm had 14 cats.

[@dazash56]

Hi Scroft, With regards to the mobile phone idea I like that. It would be nice to get a text through from a "local" farmer asking you to feed their animals or tend their fields. Perhaps you are delivering your grain or travelling between areas and you happen across an overturned tractor and trailer and a spillage on the road blocking your way so you have to clean it up. On your phone you could text other players in a multiplayer game and order feed or bales etc from them for a fee. This is fantasy but I work for a company that collects samples like Milk, T.B, Trichinella, Gamma samples, brain stem samples, avain flu, fallen from sheep. You probably Saw us on clarksons farm season 2 collecting Jeremy's badger. Farmers can't sell there meat or milk or anything without having to send off these types of samples first. I love what I do, I'm not directly tied to the agri industry but we do a lot of abbatoirs and places like the animal plant and health organisation. That might be a nice realistic addition to the farm hand. Like a T.B outbreak on George's or Keith's farm where they have to slaughter the cattle. Thanks for sharing your hopes for FS. Stay safe man.

[@paulhepden2536]

Hello my number one wish is that the game is stable. I have the pc and ps5 versions and have had problems with both. To the point that I have had to totally uninstall and reinstall to get the game working. I imagine that it will only get worse the more they add to the game. I hope that we don’t need a pc with nasa specs to run it. At times I have even gone back to playing fs19 .

[@neilharbott8394]

One thing I'd note with calendar/seasons - many of us have probably seen a Daggerwin hay making venture, where he'll cut the grass on one day, but leave it until the next to ted and bale, "because it's realistic". Our gaming calendar is not a 1-to-1 with the real world. If you're playing with 1-day/month season, then a real farmer would mow, ted, bale and store easily within a single month - he'd probably get multiple fields done in that time, which is something us gamers don't often consider. My current playthrough is a 4 day/month rate, which would work out at 1 game day = 1 real world week, so I'd still get all my hay done in a single game day! I think the Rain-Pain Mod tries to respect this discrepancy, by making fields stay wet after rain for a number of hours = days/month setting you play with - though it doesn't consider whether you got 1hr light shower vs a 5hr heavy rain event! but it is a step towards more realism.

[@AndrewCronin-r8j]

I love all your ideas and videos keep up the good work

[@semiruu]

Two big things come to mind that I would like to see in the next game, "options" to toggle on and off. Like a lot of role-play things you mentioned, more in depth simulation things they might add, but still leave them to be optional so everyone can customise their own saves, i.e. stones on the field are already optional. I know that one could argue mods act like it, you have them or you dont but it would be nice to have more options in game developed by Giants. The other thing is to be able to choose from different ready made farms, be it that they will have to be in different locations of the game or one starter farm location but you can choose your preferred type of farm right there.

[@edwardkay]

Yeah! Vehicle maintenance would be eeally awesome. You could still be able to use the tractor with bald tires but if you were ploighing the wheels would just spin. Same with engine maintenance maybe you could still use it for one vehicle hour but it wiuld perform worse and use more fuel but if you use it longer than one hour after it needing major repairs then maybe you wiuld damage it and only be able to replace the engine rather than repair. Great video and ideas though!!

[@Scroft]

That would be cool!

[@shaunbingham3667]

An improvement to general handling of pallets and bales would be a very welcome addition

[@summerfarmestates]

some great ideas there my top 10 wants would be 1 more crops ie peas and there vinners cauliflower ect and the harvesing rigs 2 when useing trailed potato harvesters you actually have workers on them when unfolded 3 better ground textures not as boggy as mud runner but simula type of ground 4 weather affecting crops IE wheat ect lays flat if it gets too much rain 5 better animals so you get young 6 with you tractor repairs tyres wearing maybe even punctures now and then 7 again with you have to keep your farmer fed we all need food 8 better seasons as you say 9 IC as standered with ability to turn off if you dont use it or full on vr 10 not only weeds growing but having to spray for blackfly ect

[@MrLisborg]

I would like to see that U can make pastures with the fence system. Just click and drag the way U want it. Would like to see Bison.

[@widgetman2487]

The mod maps and mod features I use the most are guides to what I would like to see. Hof Bergmann, Azura, La Coronella Pro, Italia, Waldstetten, Frontier, to name a few. Maps that pushed the innovation in immersion, productions, economics and mechanics of the game beyond planting and harvesting. So many mods that push the innovation of the game like Terra Farm, Lumberjack, Courseplay and Autodrive, SimDashboard. All should be used as guides to how the game could be developed to grow beyond the basic farming platform. These should be used to guide the devs in how the game api can be developed to let the modding community stretch their wings further for the benefit of all of us.

[@ashleydeacon3988]

I can't wait for the next one no matter what they do but they all sound like good ideas

[@Cristi-Neagu019]

Yeah, it was Realismus Modding who introduced seasons and geo, and with that the games (17,19) greatly changed.

[@TimmyTheSnail]

Courseplay/auto drive is a must tbh. Especially for a console player like myself. I remember watching videos of FS 13 on PC where a combine was on an AI worker and it was going around the headlands and that was down to the auto combine mod or something like that, so the fact we don’t have it in the base game is pretty crazy tbh. Also I want to be able to drive a forage harvester whilst a tractor and trailer drives along side ME. I’m fed up of having to be the one driving the tractor as the worker goes up and down in straight lines in the harvester and getting stuck at each end, or having to attach a trailer to the back of the forage harvester which is unrealistic, just so I can drive the forager

[@mattmccluer7625]

Farm life 100%! I have always thought Farm sim is great with crops and animals, but it does miss so much of being a farming simulator. Working on machinery by hand, manual labor jobs, ect. It would add so much depth!

[@simfellow]

The difficult thing is, that people have different requirements. A lot overlaps, but your list is focussed on 'realism', while i've seen others focus more on the casual gameplay side (fun, fast, easy). My main thought is that the game should have two main 'modes' (or presets) that the player can choose: Simple or Realistic. In the realistic side, you can change a lot of presets on the style you want to play. Like weather settings, maintenance complexity, animal system complexity, economy complexity, etc.... That way, Giants can suit the game for all players. Let's just hope that they can add a lot of changes that modders can build on.

[@steelpenpirate]

Just add a realistic repair option that adds all the stuff you talked about, but also adds a repair time to it. Changing oil is a few hours, while an engine might take a few weeks.

[@Scroft]

Definitely would add to the realism of the game!

[@Farmerh01]

For me is animals .. need a huge reworking … so more in-depth like milking Palour and pasture land and moving them around . And baby animals

[@waynesmith2698]

list things i would like in next game. 1 uk map in base game 2 better workers plus cause play in base game. 3 when it rain ground gets wet when it rains. also water logged fields when do much rain and fields flood. in winter any water on ground turns to ice when cold. 4 mud on road when working on field when wet. 5 when harvest time if been raining harvest fields when mouisture is right if do wet have it come up on screen crop is to wet to harvest. 6 more crops in base game such as field beans rye lineseed also onions. 7 new brands such as ford scania plus renaut in game i would like to see in fs 25. 8 better vehcle maintrence 9 emercecey pack in base game. 10 more animals in base game like bird scarers when the birds eat seed was planted when field been seed if dont put them down 11 more sugarbeat equipment and potatoe equipment in base game. 12 more seed drills in base game and rollers.

[@SummitSprint]

the most expected feature for me is being able to make cheese from sheep and also introduce goats and buffalo and the other birds and also introduce the option to hire permanent or seasonal employees. and for hard level to be able to procure the materials for whenever building the shed or other buildings and do it in stages

[@HanshotONLY]

A realistic, begin from zero, real life prices iron man mode. Use the crop prices from the stock market from the previous year or a "medium" yeilding year with a +/- for bumper crops and allows for bad years too. Use real life equipment cost, both new and for repairs. Make breakdowns random and have service calls with appropriate fees. Watching vids with people starting from scratch on episode 1, then 5 episodes later, into full sized tractors via lumber is a little frustrating,. Use real prices on lumber. Make leasing a tougher choice just by making pricing more realistic. Simply adjust pricing for the hardcore crowd. And disable, even with mods, the ability to add money. Give the banking system a revamp to accomdate credit score and use that for your money needs, same as real life. There are a hundred ways to use money at realistic levels to make the game a true simulator.

[@farmerwillieb]

The only downloaded side to the extra tractor options like tyre repairs, oil changes etc. Modders could have much more to add which could lead to a bigger waiting time for testing. One thing I'd like to see on console is the ability to be able to manually attach equipment to the tractor, hoses etc.

[@mtadventures5006]

Peanuts and watermelons are very prevalent in my area. Those would be nice. Also, small backyard gardens for the pantry (inventory) to consume in the game would be a good addition to your idea.

[@henkdefauw]

You have good ideas Scroft, i have two that i like on fs25. 1: I would like that the trains make a loop again on every map, and that you can choose wich wagons you pull! 2: And a 3th person option for console

[@dazash56]

I would also love dynamic ground and weather. Like terrain deformation, flooding, extreme heat conditions, real dirt physics, splashes from driving through water. Foggy conditions like morning mist. Dampness in bales and crops if it was cold The night before, having to do soil samples when harvesting. Maybe charged a fee for drying if the crop is wet. Having to pay workers a realistic wage. Being able to hire a farm hand so to speak that perhaps a friend could control or A.I more dog breeds and UK wildlife like badgers mice hedgehogs owls. The ability to create a wilding project. A build mode that allows you to custom build your own sheds or a house, kind of like the boat or rollercoaster project on silverrun. Being able to move objects like sheds houses bunkers etc without having to destroy them and re-buy them again. More landscaping textures like cobblestone or more wall and fence options. 360 degree placement and place anywhere as standard for consoles and Pc.

[@dereksmith6126]

You have some excellent ideas Scroft. I'd like to see Unreal Engine type graphics. As you mentioned with VR, great for playing, but for the viewer, 3rd person viewing is always the way to go. If you think back to Emmerdale Farm, you would never expect to watch that in 1st person view.

[@ThisIsTheWay_7]

i miss seasons, it was so nice and realistic.

[@davidvanmol5199]

Shame Giants screwed up seasons. Instead they focused on non farming crap like productions or placeables.

[@fredashay]

I would love to see a really large map (think Minecraft) that is multiplayer where a new player joins the server and starts with, say $2-3 million, and can buy up to 10 acres of raw land (just plain land that's not already farmland) that's not already owned by another player. He has to build a house and a barn and a tractor and other equipment. Because it's raw land, he can lay out his homestead and barnyard any way he wants it. If he doesn't play after 6 months, his land goes back to raw land and becomes available to purchase for new players.

[@jeremylackey3477]

The fact that there's a search feature in the modhub section before you even load a game should make it reasonable to add search/filtering at the beginning of the session. Also, I'd love to see some way of "quick adding" mods to current game. Just so you don't have to exit to main menu and restart the map to check a box.

[@3verland]

What I'd like to see is Giants think outside the box...Where like in MS Flight Simulator you could un-dock (pop out) a control screen from inside the vehicle to a 2nd monitor (touch screen), then you could have access to controls, etc. Kind like Sim Dashboard, but having it built into the base game would be better. Flight Simulator has been like this for years.

[@Scroft]

Definitely I can’t wait to see what they add!

[@timbodman6733]

These top ten ideas are and would be fantastic to put into FS25 but I don’t think for me personally giants don’t listen to there farming community as much as they should and go on there own ideas unfortunately 🚜🐄

[@1JGabe]

Seeing other farmers working their fields would be nice too. Single player play throughs always feel so.....empty. i wanna look out during harvest time and see combines working on the neighboring farms. Stuff like that could add some real immersion to the game. Driving to the sale point and having to wait on Johnny from across town to empty his trailer. And speaking of sale points. Give an option to negotiate pricing for certain things

[@walshamp]

Would have loved to have been going to Lamma this year but I'm stuck on a high priority project at work (AKA Faffing). Hopefully get the chance to meet you next year.

[@Agri-Life09]

my one dream is just a settings page where you have every possible setting so you can make it as realistic as you like and there could be a roleplay/survival/story mode

[@AnnaMaria-zm8cv]

They should group animals more together in the animal tab. Its just a too long scroll if you got big farms. I have a 5000 chicken coop and the scroll is endless because they cant group chicken of same age together. There should be subgroups per breed, a dropdown menu or something where you can select age or gender. Then we dont have to scroll through all animals we dont need to look at. It would also be nice if they highlight animals that reached max profit (price and no longer producing) and you can quick select to have them sold or put in animal trailer. Now it goes one by one, with my 5000 chicken its a nightmare to sort them out. I know there are mods doing this for you but I never know which animals it takes out.

[@WMW-82]

A proper milking palor would be a good feature, getting the girls in and then running and placing the pumps on the uders having like a swing over palor or a large auto milking carrousel type. Another a good little feature would be something like a sheepdog and more freedom to use feilds instead of pens, so you can manage grazing in feilds and move cattle around the map so its more realistic cattle farming. I think that would be good 😂

[@skinnmann90]

Love your list Scroft, I would like to have an option for cows where if you want to milk by hand you could, the wildlife in game running around and birds effect crops having an option to turn it off or on would help

[@jonathanmaybury5698]

I believe that virtual reality (VR) would be an excellent option for farming simulators. In my opinion, it's unnecessary to include mechanics in this type of game since there are already other games that focus on that aspect. However, perhaps one day, a farm mechanic simulator could be developed where players could switch between the two games. The prices for each game could be linked in some way. The animals in the game could be improved, especially the physics. For example, all animals should have collisions, and players should be able to send a herd of cattle down a farm track into a new field to graze. The dog could also be more realistic and have instincts to herd sheep and cattle. One thing that could be improved is button uniformity, where certain buttons can only do specific things with objects that fit a particular category, and this should always be adhered to by every model maker. Most farms have geese, so they should be included in the farming simulator by now, but they're not. As for dynamic ground, I'm afraid they might make a mess of this and have it too difficult every time it rains, ruining the game. British built-in maps are not necessary since their maps are often not very good, and we are fortunate to have the best map makers in this game. I don't understand why Giants, the developers, can't see what is needed from the popular mods that already exist. Perhaps they are too focused on developing for both PCs and consoles and have got themselves stuck in a right mess At the end of the day. whatever we get, the mod makers will have to put right anyway. They always have done. They always will...

[@BAQIRBRO-d4g]

Farming Simulator❤🎉😮 (FS24)❤❤🎉😢😊

[@robertcooper3273]

#1 Chooseing what farm to start on, on new farmer #2 more animal's and more realistic feeding #3 larger base game maps like 8× not just a little bigger #4 better AI workers #5 feed goes bad if stored out in feild This is probably my top 5

[@joopslim3105]

Here are my 2 cents: - End partnership with Giants. They've done a great job but that engine is out of time. With a proper game engine this game has a lot more potential. - Sound improvement. When hauling a trailer or something it needs that metal ratteling and cluncking. And squeaking of the seat when on bumpy ground. - More "problems". A flat tire, an oilhose that pops or a combine fire. - Money. Lease you own land to other farmers (multiplayer or ingame farmers) for some quick money. Or a prize for the cow who has giving the most milk over a year. - Factories. Option to do it the other way around. Give order to factory to come to farm and load up grain, sugarbeet, milk or whatever they need and take it to factory. And at last (maybe I'm pushing it to far now 😅) shotguns. Just to shoot some ducks, fazants or deere to make your own food.

[@NightOwlGames]

i forget which old game it was but there used to be an A:I milk truck that come to the farm to collect milk dont know why its not there now.

[@Foreverhellbent]

I am from Australia wouldn't mind having an option to change way traffic runs on road (right/left hand drive), signs and stuff aswell maybe some vehicles that is more aus based.

[@JamieAyling]

Custom animal fields .. so you can assign any animal to any field that will graze. And the option to move them between fields without a animal trailer.

[@phoenixsui]

More automation would be cool. like collecting grass and bales by helpers and general ki improvments. Ki helpers and traffic are so stupid sometimes ;D. Every map has some points where the ki just cant make it past on normal roads where i wonder did they even test the ki driving there? More forestry would be cool with improved log handling. It feels like the tool dont have the grip on the logs they should have. Beeing able to snowplow all roads not only own land. Maybe with a contract to plow certain areas. Helpers beeing able to empty harvesters etc. Courseplay of course. KI is also to stupid ofthen times to use pulled equipment thats not fix attached to the tractor. Where they get stuck in turns. Colors of gras and stuff on base game maps are weird in my opinion. There is so much white in the colors.

[@davidmurray3542]

Farmer's Dynasty tried to do the realistic farming sim crossed with life sim but didn't quite get it right; if Farmer's Dynasty 2 addresses the issues then it might put some pressure on the Farming Simulator series.

[@WMW-82]

I like the farm life idea on expert mode you could include paperwork adding some regulations you have to follow and illness of stock with having to call vet even calving ect it would be brilliant

[@maidenminnesota1]

I don't like playing the speculation game, but I think they could implement a lot of the mods we have available to us, like baby animals and weather that actually does something more than just a visual element. For example, the ground doesn't actually get wet when it rains. Still, I'd be happy if they just freaking toned down the ROAR of the wind! Good grief, it's like you're in a constant tornado or hurricane with the wind sounds in the game!

[@iainparamor1482]

Yes yes yes to proper grass work, affected by rain and sun! Heck 19 seasons even had wind which sped up hay drying! Even with Maize plus on, 22 grass work is not the same because theres no incentive to care about the weather

[@justinhall4085]

24:30 a few bottled water and sausages thrown into a truck bed and lost somewhere along the way to work. my summer car x FS25.

[@littlemissbrooks3708]

amen we need to be able to hand milk our cows...great video.

[@benjaminhusby1766]

It would be really cool if they added digging with excavators, Like sculpting in build mode, but instead you do it with an excavator

[@Thecobra85]

I like some of your ideas, something I'd like to see in fs25 is hunting and fishing I know that would probably not happen because they'd have to change the ratings but I know alot of farmers hunt and fish you can even sell the stuff that you hunt and fish for.

[@jonathanmaybury5698]

Anything that will kill their E rating will NOT be allowed.

[@Thecobra85]

@@jonathanmaybury5698 yes I know that's why I said it probably won't happen

[@hwfm1390]

That sounds rubbish mate

[@cinostruth3974]

Would love to see better maintenance on vehicles but all for it to apply to buildings and fences round your field also the ability to make grass fields also grazing pastures for animals also be cool if animals could breed past the capacity limit which in turn slowly starts to affect yeild food consumption and animal health, would love to see more root crop as well as stuff like lettuce and other leafy salad item to be able to plant in a field and add with production to be made Would also love the ability to be able to loan fields and barns out to be able to produce more yield so you can get fields quicker also don't have every field available to buy all at the same time and have the price of field fluctuate occurring to the time of year/what growing in there also a map to see terrain height . Just a few off the top of my head

[@CurtisDavis89]

1) Better landscaping more detail less flawed, and ways to use more equipment to landscape not always just the landscape window or options for creating custom landscapes to fit role-play style games. 2) Co-op allows each player to have their own gameplay and equipment without every player having to have the exact same equipment etc. 3) More towing and recovery options without super strength 4) More breed options for all platforms if we moved only the newer console platforms that have similar capabilities as pc and have male and female animals, and animal sizes like babies all the way up to adults too visual they start off in smaller pens and move up to larger pens as they get bigger. This leads to better animal transport or being able to transfer animals from one pen on your farm to another without a trailer just like you would move them around without necessarily using a trailer. 5) better tree clean up when cutting down trees and clearing branches from them. Better ways to measure length with a chainsaw pc and console.

[@levimiller909]

Love you for thinking of us console nerds on ai restrictions. Hope they drop last gen on the next game.

[@Defdagamer]

I would like to see. That you can pick the worker for AI and the more work they do the better they get, but they get more expensive by the hour. Also needed to hook up machines to stuff. Also maybe add a thing were you maybe have a family and they end up helping out on the farm. This coming from a counsel player

[@mandfleblancgaming5137]

Snow accumulating more would be awesome