SnowRunner Season 15 as DIFFICULT as AMUR?

A wicked challenge this way comes, according to an official source. Here is what has been said about the SnowRunner Season 15: Oil & Dirt DLC difficulty level. Plus some other bits and bobs coming to the game.
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[@scootermichigan2278]

WWHHAAAATTT!?!? A snow map for SNOWrunnner! One thing I would like them to fix, trucks going up a small hill without stalling.

[@TheFishRDrowning]

Had the same issue after returning to the game, some trucks just can’t handle auto. Some are just too heavy, try different gear boxes/tires and slap those puppies in high gear/low+ and see what happens

[@HrosoSK]

this was an issue that Nathan Province tested and Vlad Vulcan with NakedDave confirmed. After season 14 when you have FPS above 120 the game cannot handle the physics computations coupled with those frames and the trucks are weaker. If you limit your FPS to 60 in settings this will solve the issue. It is confirmed and documented.

[@Swarm509]

@@HrosoSK That is an old school problem, physics tied to FPS! Good to know though I have a high refresh Nvida Gsync monitor so I was letting it match that, so I'll go lock it to 60 with V-sync.

[@hopeasusisusi9189]

much bigger thing is ficing tarmac not be like ice when you have any sort of speed. Also why rocks are oiled or something as rocks give a lot of grip in real life unlike in snowrunner

[@Riccardo_Mori]

This video is a reminder of just how a breath of fresh air you are among SnowRunner-oriented creators. Sometimes you have to work with little information, but instead of throwing minutes of literal filler into your videos, you keep them short, to the point, and with that topping of lovely British humour. The smile one needs in a dark November afternoon after hours of freelance work. I'm looking forward to a proper snowy map, and curious as to what challenges await us, considering that since Amur we have added to our fleets quite the bunch of powerful heavy trucks. I remember playing Amur when it first released, and back then unlocking the ZiKZ 605R was a true game-changer. When I did a second playthrough of Amur adding a few mod trucks, it didn't feel as hard as the first time - and I wasn't even using OP monstrosities to help me out. The biggest mystery for me remains the link between Canada and penguins… 😉 Cheers and thanks for the update! //Rick

[@cmgtbone]

The sticker menu was a suggestion or idea on the focus forum website. That is great. Next they need grouping menus for tires.

[@Axial_Andrew]

Season 15: Snake Oil & Joe Dirt... Oh Canada 🍁

[@ATribeCalledCars]

Long as there is maple syrup and that potato dish, I will be happy (not together).

[@1carusGG]

I agree, as difficult as AMUR was, it is my absolute favorite map on snowrunner, closely followed by Lake Kovd. Best Snowrunner maps IMO. I just hope that they put some elbow grease on these maps and not just roll out re-used assets or map layouts. Amur for all of its difficulty feels so unique to play and you need to plan everything. Edit: I know that this is a slim possibility but I hope that they add some Russian Origin offroad/heavy trucks to the game soon.

[@ATribeCalledCars]

Me too, this could be the DLC to bring back the veterans. There are other games with ample tarmac, SnowRunner should not be one of them. As you said, hopefully the devs have worked hard on it.

[@patrickh4540]

Agreed as well. Bring it on 👍

[@Maciej.TopStudents]

Hooray! Thanks Ben for the wonderful news! I'm a faithful Snowrunner player, almost 1900 hours on the clock (EGS for the fist year, STEAM since its release on the platform) and I grew a bit anxious about the way the devs follow, which is the gameplay simplification. New seasons haven't been a challenge anymore for quite some time now, the more happy I am to hear the incoming Season 15 is about to turn the tide :)

[@blackacidevll5826]

What sucks is that none of the seasons come with achievements/trophies

[@ATribeCalledCars]

Or level progress beyond 30. Although this is less cool!

[@meyes1098]

If they did, you'd get butthurt messages from the people who already 100% the game, complaining that they have to pay to 100%... Seen it happen multiple times in multiple games.

[@justinlynch3]

Yeah MudRunner had it where DLC's (American Wilds) gave new trophies for players to get. It was awesome! Something I really miss in SnowRunner DLC's.

[@blackacidevll5826]

@@justinlynch3 indeed

[@AnotherNormalYorkshireman]

I agree with this. Missed opportunity for sure

[@Hallowedwanderer]

I just started playing the Kola Peninsula’s content and so far I am loving it. I tried the Maine content before, but nothing beats “them Northern Lights”… long live Snowrunner!

[@trovalds]

Snow and punishment back on Snowrunner? HELL YEAH! Maybe finally I forget about the "Farming tedious simulator" days.

[@BuHuHuu]

HELL YES! Finally a difficult region again! And with Snow to boost! My spirits are high up and fired! As a german I would really like to finally see some or one vehicle of Mercedes in the game! That would really be awesome.

[@Zoiyya]

FINALLY difficult seasons again! Also finally a season that has a lot of snow!

[@ATribeCalledCars]

Time to build a snowman.

[@TheRandom1631]

So people coming about Snowrunner being too hard and now people are complaining about the game being too easy. *O K*

[@ATribeCalledCars]

@TheRandom1631 Maybe each group wasn't the fame people.

[@Chrismasterski]

Can't wait. I've been having a blast on my first playthrough of Amur

[@WayofTheFish92]

finally a full snow region....as much pain as Amur and Kola caused me, they're the most memorable regions to date

[@Ezdine_G8261]

Next year for april there needs to be a moon dlc, canonically we stacked all of the trucks together and made it to the moon

[@PeteDriver530]

Kola was hard (for me) as I was still learning the game, and didn't have a lot of the trucks yet. I expected it to be like Alaska, but Alaska had actual roads... no, you have to drive ON the ice (good luck), and the path between the two maps was just awful. Imandra had even worse "paths", a bridge we should've been able to fix, and THAT DAMN TREE!! the airplane recovery mission had me so frustrated I didn't play for 3 months. and then there was Amur... weeks of grinding slowly through thick snow and sliding on icy roads, constantly getting vehicles stuck on rocks or sketchy water crossings, hours of playing but accomplishing very little. when the truck that was recovering the rocket trailer got stuck in the town and ran out of fuel, I just never went back. Amur is the only season I haven't finished. currently I am just short of 1900 hours in the game, so yes I enjoy playing it and yes I'm looking forward to the new season. But there's a big difference between a game being challenging and a game being so difficult it's not fun.

[@builttobeat2741]

I'm very excited to see it

[@iseeu721]

Personally I would like an Ice Road Trucker-esque DLC mission, long ice-snow roads with a risk of falling through the cracks at any given moment to deliver mass amounts of cargo to a place normally undrivable without this recent ice.

[@VCN01]

Good. I hope it will be really tough

[@knightofthenight3420]

The region might be set in the Northwestern Territories due to its history of mining and the oil industry. Also, one of the confirmed trucks will be based on TB800, a Swiss, V12 61-ton heavy tractor truck built pull 2 cargos 2 times its weight.

[@alvinmjensen]

It is Mercedes that makes the Unimog, so it is not impossible that it will be the one that comes in the DLC.

[@beavis4play]

if this is true - i'm excited and i'll definitely pick it up.

[@Don_Mag]

Exactly. Snowrunner needs more challenging regions. Now we have solid trucks and much more experience. Regions should be more difficult and have fewer garages to be a challenge, not a cake walk.

[@maxburner3500]

What annoys me is that for challenges you must either use the Tatarin or the Vorons/Taigas nowadays if you want the gold (barely). Back in the first 3 maps, you could use any scout or pretty much any truck and still get gold, as far as you had the skills. I want challenges that will let me use any scout or truck, and it will be down to my skills, not the vehicle. On the original 3 maps, some challenges have you going through a narrow, windy road, towards the top of a mountain. Only small scouts can go through here, as you got a very narrow road to go through, with trees and hills on the sides. Others, you have to deliver a scout trailer through some woodlands where only scouts can go through. Those were better than the "go in straight line through heavy snow/mud quick with no skill required" type of challenges we've got nowadays and are clearly aimed at the OP trucks. I hope they get more creative and fix that, because most of the scouts are obsolete: Only Tatarin and F-750 are worth driving.

[@TheRandom1631]

That's honestly so true. The first 3 regions of Snowrunner felt like even the worst vehicles could bring a smile to everybody, a cozy trip along the offroad routes in the late 1900s, But when the dlcs came along, and more regions were added, it began to lose its charm, slowly turning into a sluggish boring mess. Heck, even the timeline is messed up, introducing mid 1900s vehicles in one dlcs and then introducing a 2020s vehicle in the next dlc? Is this some kind of "old but gold" shenanigans where we're using outdated trucks in the modern era? Bloody hell.

[@chris71smaland]

Yes, finally ice road trucking is back.

[@KnightOwlSC]

Tree stumps that get in the way is stupid as it it makes the limitations of the game WAY too obvious. In the real world you'd just get out of the truck, grab your chainsaw and get rid of it.

[@ATribeCalledCars]

Chainsaw Simulator side quest please.

[@gavinturner3521]

As hard as Amur was it was so rewarding to finally fire off the missile. No other DLC has come close since. Pls ask Mr Esorokin for a haunting soundtrack like Kola & Amandra.

[@dennisbruin388]

When you said the difficulty is between amur and kola well my head started the deathwistle

[@J.A.P_8950]

Can we all finally agree that the sky and landscapes of ALL SR MAPS would look so much better if they saber interactive would bring back AUTO HDR & Native HDR10 for all consoles/PC

[@jaysee1982]

What do you mean "bring back"? Auto HDR seems working for me on PC. Am I missing something?

[@J.A.P_8950]

@jaysee1982 I guess it's only available for PC now. Once they did the next gen update auto HDR was taken from consoles.

[@DecPlays_]

Penguins reside in the southern hemisphere only. The rig in the screenshot looks like a semi-submerisble platform (normally used for drilling in deep water). Having run Amur in Hard mode, at the time, yes, it was hard. However, difficulty is somewhat subjective especially now as the Year 2, 3 and 4 passes have brough some very large powerful trucks. When Amur came around, the best truck suited for it was locked behind a few hours of hard work but now you can rock up there with a Mastodon, FEMM, PLAD, Atom and the Kenworth 963 to name a few. The latter of which trivialises Imandra. Artificial difficulty has always played a part in the snowy regions with the much hated "blue snow" but hopefully the new region is not just slogging through that. Difficulty can come downto just selecting an inappropriate vehicle for the mission. Overall I wonder how much the developers inter-mix "difficulty" and "time taken" when describing the difficulty of a region. Definitely looking forward to a new challenge (and potential Mercedes trucks) and hoping that the difficulty isn't from "dodgy" terrain designed to fully impede you...blue snow

[@ATribeCalledCars]

That is why I mention the Great Auk and also the bird that looks similar from Cape Parry, as seen briefly in the video. As for difficulty, it is a difficult balance to get right because, as you say, there are numerous ways to implement it. Those annoying tree stumps were memorable but not sure I loved the method!

[@DecPlays_]

@ATribeCalledCars Tighter road tracks limit your vehicle size which would be a decent way to increase difficulty I think but it is a hard one. A question on stream I'm asked a lot apart from "what's the best truck" is "what's your favourite region" and it's always Amur. I enjoyed how methodical it was especially around Chernokamensk. We don't go to NAI anymore to quote Half Life2

[@hammond2600]

Amur was a pain in the ass. Far too many inconveniently placed tree stumps and the vanilla trucks didn't stand a chance with that terrain. Fortunately, we have better trucks now.

[@twofox7001]

After all this time my wish would be to have missing upgrades for old trucks like AWD and lifts for some OG American trucks. 🙏

[@williamulrey4552]

Finally I've been ready for Amur part two since I completed amur lol. No but seriously I'm super excited

[@ATribeCalledCars]

Me too, could be a winner. I didn't love the most recent expansions, if honest. Though to be fair we have been playing for four years plus now. Inevitable decline.

[@Snowy1-11]

I hope so

[@acenda-r2d2]

Well, wouldn't mind bringing out all the big guns beast mode trucks for a good run!

[@tandoky4690]

Considering the only penguins that live in the Northern Hemisphere, are in the Galápagos, probably not going to be Canada. Which also means it isn’t the Aurora Borealis, but rather the Aurora Australis.

[@benrobsonhullphotography]

Patagonia. No penguins up north.

[@gtp_vexd3507]

Enjoy it while it lasts sports fans.... this is the last one. I think. Or is there one more after this? Either way.... thanks Ben for all your coverage over the years, and sarcasm. 👍🏽

[@ATribeCalledCars]

You're more than welcome. I suspect my sarcasm will continue in whatever comes next!

[@GromoslavPL]

The question is whether the map will be intelligently designed or we will again have to deal with absurd and unrealistic wilderness like in the case of Kola and Amur. Will the creators design the region so that we get intelligent but difficult transport, or will it just look comical?

[@TheRandom1631]

Fr slapping 20 feet deep mud everywhere and being forced to deliver 150 pieces of cargo to a small house on top of the highest mountain where the roads leading to it are 4 feet wide is what the devs see as a challenging yet "realistic" region.

[@GromoslavPL]

@@TheRandom1631 Exactly! These are the absurdities I'm talking about ;)

[@clutch44444]

If they actually do this I might have a reason to come back to this game

[@maxkeins]

As if the birds are not penguins, but guillemots.))

[@ATribeCalledCars]

Yes, they are not penguins but a distant relative if my research is right. Maybe Cape Parry, as shown briefly in the video.

[@donatello7931]

Amur was and still is the best dlc saber released

[@brookek3116]

Are we sure that those are the Aurora Borealis and not Aurora Australis? I'm not sure if location has been confirmed yet but if not maybe this could be Tierra del Fuego, a region indeed home to plentiful oil and gas. One reason I think this is that the Season 15 truck wrap had penguins - something only found in the Southern Hemisphere I might also just be wrong here and I'm only halfway through the video at time of writing so you might also discuss this later

[@ATribeCalledCars]

You're right, good theory! But the maple leaf suggests Canada and the birds are not penguins but look similar, I mention in the video and briefly show a photo. Unless it's not a maple leaf, after all...

[@maximusspqr]

I'd like to be able to customize the auto-winch logic. It almost never picks the right attachment point unless there is only one straight ahead of you.

[@reneedewitt6021]

Finally, some hard content of lost interest sense Tennessee-what was that

[@stevenmacintyre5912]

No, I am in fact, not tired of easy maps. No map should be as hard as Amur. Amur shouldn't be that hard! Lol I was hoping for a mid difficulty map in Alberta, Canada that had a mixture of fall and winter landscapes... Or winter and Spring.

[@kopol7714]

Amur always stay on the top

[@DeenanTheKemon1]

I liked Austria quite a bit 🤷‍♂️ Still looking forward to Season 15 though. You excited about RoadCraft??

[@modelmickey]

Penguins are native to Antarctica by the way, long, long, way from Canada.

[@ATribeCalledCars]

Yeah my original theory is about a distant cousin and the image that sneaks in with the words Cape Parry in this video show another bird that is similar and native to Northern Canada.

[@chiconico.]

Surprisingly, penguins are also found in Africa.

[@insanitywolfy5082]

The truck could be a unimog if they have joined forces with Mercedes

[@jordanbutler8828]

Wonder if we’ll get a bug fix for audio on the Switch before then?

[@firestegosaurus999]

I hope season 15 will be the second Amur

[@Trasmor]

I want to see something new. There are a lot of different types of maps that can be added to the game. Jungle, shore, river delta, desert, archipelago, and many, many more. I have a feeling that there is a lack of something 'new' to do in snowrunner.

[@RisingReap]

@A Tribe Called Cars what in your opinion are the best 3 trucks and 1/2 scounts in the game. ooh and nice vids:D love the content

[@ATribeCalledCars]

Thank you! To be honest, any of the recent super trucks such as the FEMM 37-AT and Atom are hard to beat. I also love the Azov 73210 and DAN 96320. As for scouts, the Ford F750 is a great support vehicle and for sheer exploration range the new EarthRoamers are mighty. I think the "best" always depends on the exact task and map but anything powerful with a reasonable range, trailer support and sheer cargo carrying potential will serve you well. The Tayga King is still epic too.

[@RisingReap]

@@ATribeCalledCars talking about tayga king first tayga or the newer B version:D.?

[@ATribeCalledCars]

@RisingReap Always the original!

[@RisingReap]

@@ATribeCalledCars ooh 1 more xd:D becaus i like your opinion, what about a log truck and cargo/heavy/cargo same trucks or?

[@brandontoler2382]

Season 13 and 14 are challenging if u use non top tier trucks =)

[@Philliben1991]

The only penguins in Canada are in zoos. 🤣

[@ATribeCalledCars]

Indeed, which is why I mention two breeds like them (great auk and another that lives on an island north of the top of Canada).

[@Elchupa_Nebrea]

Im falling behind. Im still on 12! It has been a difficult summer and fall for me. Maybe I can catch up in the next few weeks

[@shalindelta7]

I'm on season 2

[@davidregal6831]

Whoever is responsible for designing Maine and making the design choice to have the only way to open access to the left hand side of the first island only unlockable from the SIDE that you CAN'T REASONABLY GET TO without doing some janky bullshit a very merry needles in your corneas. Tedious=/=hard=/=challenging=/=fun. Difficult can be fun, but only when done correctly, I hope they get that.

[@Yourmoosehead]

I thought it would somewhere like Alberta (AKA: Canada's Texas of the north lol)

[@Gibbonium]

Camera orientation is a dealbreaker, can't see where I'm driving with it pointed at the rear axle

[@NikoLuz-f3e]

it be nice if they added mercedes unimog

[@Kamikaze20-y7q]

My Tribemaster, is it normal that sometimes terrain moves wierdly when I drive in SnowRunner? I mean the “shadows” on lite mud

[@ATribeCalledCars]

It's a bug, been like that for a while unfortunately. I try to ignore it!

[@Kamikaze20-y7q]

Aww, it is very annoying, but on the other hand it reassures me😮‍💨 Keep it up and on trucking!! P.S I don’t want to be repetitive but… how could I say you my name on SnowRunner, for that very famous co-op?

[@ATribeCalledCars]

@Kamikaze20-y7q I don't usually play co-op but if I ever do I'll let you know! Usually I'm just too busy with keeping the lights on

[@Kamikaze20-y7q]

@@ATribeCalledCars Understand you! I am still trying to understand the co-op world and I’m even trying to get to my old rank in SnowRunner becouse with the new pc configuration I started from rank 1 and I’m in Michigan with e the CK1500, the Fleastar, the GMC and the anniversary pack CAT and the other (I don’t actually remember their names), but if you’ll want to do a co-op I’m here around, searching for tıps and other. Keep growing and on trucking!!🔥😉

[@chiconico.]

So we're getting a skin for a truck that will be unusable on the new map.

[@geejay5602]

Bro i just wanna get it done. I don’t want hard roads like mud 😫they should add all cement road

[@ATribeCalledCars]

I've had enough cement lol

[@trailseekersrc3708]

0:40 what truck is this?

[@TheAssassin69]

Above Antarctic

[@ercoupe197]

I think it's the ice breaker or something don't quote me on it tho

[@Victor-lj3lf]

Hey, nice video ! at the start u are using a Azov Antartic that is not articulated right ? if yes can u give me the name of the mod ? im looking for a non articulated version of this truck, but with everything else being vanilla and not overpowered.

[@M3PH11]

penguins are all native to antarctica and the surrounding region with the exception 3 species which is reside in south africa and namibia. so i'm going for bad geography

[@ATribeCalledCars]

Unless it's the Great Auk or the similar bird native to Cape Parry in Northern Canada. I suspect the latter but we shall see.

[@justinlynch3]

I don't mind a hard region but like I said to someone else. maybe Nathan, why does it have to be snow = hard? Why can't we get an easy going snowing region like Alaska and a super hard summer region? That's how the base game was, Taymir, a summer map, was the hardest map. But then in the DLC's snow maps switch over to being exclusively difficult. Honest the trope of snow = hard summer = easy is played out. Swap it around, mix it up. Give me a summer map full of super death mud, steep inclines, and steep angles that try to tip you over. And give me a new snow reign that's a lot more casual like Alaska.

[@TheFishRDrowning]

@@justinlynch3 the summer map you just described is Yukon. Albeit some snow it has a LOT of all of that. The feeling that Amur gives and not knowing if you’ll end up stuck and needing to call in actual backup because you ran out of gas and money is unlike any other. It is called SNOWrunner after all, I’m sure other regions or mudrunner has plenty of what you’re looking for.

[@ConfusedRaccoon]

Penguins? So south pole? Tip of Argentina maybe? Still waiting for Expeditions tech to be ported backwards, like they said they would.

[@VCN01]

They really said that? What they meant? Have you a source? I'm interested

[@ConfusedRaccoon]

@VCN01 oh god. This was just before the game launched or something when they showed reeling out and deployable anchors/bridges. I believe they said "we'll bring any advances back into snowrunner..." I think it was a forum post or a steam post where they were answering a Q&A.

[@CD-oj6ic]

I wanna get a UNIMOG as new Truck!

[@bearsjunky33hof]

15 seasons and still no wheel and pedal support 😢😢 but mudrunner supports my wheelbase just fine smh

[@ATribeCalledCars]

Which wheel?

[@bearsjunky33hof]

@ATribeCalledCars simucube pro 2

[@Andrea-B-65-UK]

Penguins = South & nowhere near Canada. Whereas Polar Bears = North & nowhere near Antarctica Hands up all those who skipped geography lessons

[@ATribeCalledCars]

Yeah exactly, must be another bird as I mention in the video. Great auk or the one that lives in northern Canada (I've forgotten the area name but I mentioned it to someone else, not had coffee yet lol)

[@Andrea-B-65-UK]

@@ATribeCalledCars Or it's the bird brained Devs not having a Scooby Doo about geography

[@yeetmcgeet9998]

tbh we kinda needed this

[@ATribeCalledCars]

Yes x 1,000,000,000. I miss the brutal challenge stuff.

[@Nderak]

amur was one of the bossest seasons of SR ever

[@Coltfun45]

What is the truck at 3:34?

[@markrowe8824]

Azov 64131

[@Coltfun45]

@ thank you for telling me

[@ОлегДанильченко-ю3х]

I wait new Amur

[@ATribeCalledCars]

Maybe this is it...

[@Nderak]

can we get the unimog

[@ATribeCalledCars]

I've asked Santa.

[@andrewsimm633]

Question will it be all snow

[@ATribeCalledCars]

Good question and one I can't yet answer.

[@arob9981]

To answer your title question. MY GOD, I HOPE NOT lol

[@EvanMoon]

My sources tell me that season 15 has snow and trucks

[@igors_lv]

Will see. Very not impressed by year 4 so far. Maybe hard map with snow will convince me to drop another 25 eur on a yearly expansion. Maybe

[@darshans6321]

Naah I'm not believing it until I see it cuz the Devs are too scared to add difficult regions

[@antcommander1367]

so either Unimog or Zetros in mersu pack

[@ATribeCalledCars]

Could well be!

[@banenamuffin9842]

I would love Saber to implement these two ideas in future seasons: 1. Gabrage trucks and relevant tasks. 2. Map with normal roads, so highway truck can finaly shine)

[@jamiem3318]

Does anyone wanna play ? Been looking for ppl none of my friends like it ):

[@niknam.]

😂😂😂😂😂 WHO PLAY AT THIS NOW ?!!!!!!

[@r0cket_penguin]

Nice engish