American Truck Simulator Gameplay
Complete Walkthrough
American Truck Simulator is a truck driving simulator with business management elements. A beginning player will be directed to found a truck driving business and select a home city from which to operate that business. Upon selection of the home city, the player will own the pre-placed truck garage located in that city, which will operate as the player’s home base.
During gameplay, the player will select from a menu of currently available goods delivery routes to drive one of several models of trailer-hooked truck and deliver the selected load to a designated location within a fixed amount of time. By making such deliveries, the player earns money for the player’s company and experience points for the player themself. By delivering the selected cargo to its designation within the allotted time and with the least damage to the goods, the player will maximize the amount of money and experience points earned. Late deliveries or deliveries with damage will result in the player earning reduced cash and experience points. The amount of money and experience points earned are commensurate to the length of the delivery in distance traveled and type of goods being transported.
A beginning player will own a garage, but no trucks or trailers. The player will begin by completing “quick jobs,” which are goods deliveries that utilize an in-game company’s trucks and trailers. Once the player has earned enough money, they may then begin purchasing one or more trucks, but they may continue making “quick job” deliveries if desired. After purchasing a truck, the player may elect to use the purchased truck for deliveries, or go back to performing quick job deliveries.
As the player completes deliveries, they will unlock skills by spending experience points to purchase particular skills upgrades. These upgrade categories include fuel efficiency, route delivery distance, carrying heavy cargo, carrying dangerous goods, carrying fragile cargoes, or making urgent deliveries. The money earned by the player’s company will automatically be used to pay back any company loans they obtains for their company or to pay any fines incurred in the course of their gameplay. The money is also needed to pay for fuel and maintenance on any vehicles or trailers owned by the player’s company. When performing quick job deliveries using an in-game company’s truck, repairs and other costs are paid by that in-game company and not from the funds of the player’s company. The player may also use the company’s money to purchase additional trucks and trailers which are held in designated slots in the garage.
The player may use company funds to hire NPC drivers (and pay their associated expenses), who are placed in additional driver slots in the garage. Once the player has earned sufficient money, the player may also purchase garages in other cities and hire NPC drivers to drive from those garages, as well. The longer an NPC driver is employed by the company, the more experience points they will earn, thus increasing the amount of money that driver earns from each delivery. Much like the player’s experience points, the player may direct the focus of each hired driver’s experience points, thereby ensuring that particular hired drivers become experts in particular skill areas, such as hauling dangerous goods or performing long-haul deliveries. Company money may be used to upgrade garages, which will allow the garages to hold additional trucks, trailers, and NPC drivers, as well as place a reduced-cost fueling station at the garage. The company money may be used to upgrade the company’s trucks and trailers, specifically by upgrading their associated aesthetic, mechanical, and structural upgrades.
While driving routes, the game will direct the player to stop at designated weigh stations to determine the weight of the cargo before being permitted to proceed (though the game may occasionally allow the driver to bypass such station). When crossing the border into the state of California (currently only in the northern part of the state), the player is similarly obliged to stop at California Border Protection Stations to have their vehicle inspected. Avoiding a weigh station or border protection station will result the player being fined.
The game is set in a condensed 1:20-scaled version of the entire Western Contiguous and part of the South Central and Midwestern regions in the United States, expanded periodically by the developer through downloadable content. It currently features depictions of the U.S. states of California, Nevada, and Arizona, with New Mexico, Oregon, Washington, Utah, Idaho, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska available as DLCs.[5] The game features 204 visitable cities, including most state capitals and major cities, as well as many thousands of miles worth of in-game roads. Currently, the player may travel as far north as Bellingham, Washington, as far south as Brownsville, Texas, as far west as Eureka, California, and as far east as Beaumont, Texas, assuming the player has all the states available to them. SCS have stated that most future map expansions, if not all, will be at additional cost.
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ATS | Getting Started! | American Truck Simulator Career | Episode 1 - First Drive - Starting
ATS | Roswell New Mexico | American Truck Simulator Career | Episode 2
ATS | New Mexico Trivia Night | American Truck Simulator Career | Episode 3
ATS | Buying Our First Truck | American Truck Simulator Career | Episode 4 - (Tutorial)
ATS | New Mexico State Trivia - Round 2 | American Truck Simulator Career | Episode 5
ATS | Forest Shortcut Achievement | American Truck Simulator Career | Episode 6
ATS | Idaho Spuds Event | American Truck Simulator Career | Episode 7
ATS | More Idaho Spuds Event | American Truck Simulator Career | Episode 8
ATS | Idaho State Trivia Episode | American Truck Simulator Career | Episode 9 - Idaho Spuds Event
ATS | Idaho Spuds Complete! | American Truck Simulator Career | Episode 10
ATS | Buying a Garage! | American Truck Simulator Career | Episode 11
ATS | Tandem Trucking! | American Truck Simulator Career | Episode 12
ATS | Over the Top Achievement | American Truck Simulator Career | Episode 13
ATS | All Terrain Crane - Whoops | American Truck Simulator Career | Episode 14
ATS | Level 10 Mack Truck Upgrades & Heavy Cargo | American Truck Simulator Career | Episode 15
ATS | Bulldozers to Utah | American Truck Simulator Career | Episode 16
ATS | Wyoming First Look | American Truck Simulator Career | Episode 17 - Wyoming DLC
ATS | Devils Tower Wyoming Trivia | American Truck Simulator Career | Episode 18 - Wyoming DLC
ATS | Wyoming State Trivia | American Truck Simulator Career | Episode 19 - Wyoming DLC
ATS | Wyoming Population 1 Achievement | American Truck Simulator Career | Episode 20 - Wyoming DLC
ATS | Cruising Wyoming Event! | American Truck Simulator Career | Episode 21 - Wyoming DLC
ATS | Cruising Wyoming Complete! | American Truck Simulator Career | Episode 22 - Wyoming DLC
ATS | Wyoming Livestock Live Cattle | American Truck Simulator Career | Episode 23 - Buffalo Bill
ATS | New Volvo Construction Equipment DLC | American Truck Simulator Career | Episode 24
ATS | Along the Snake River Achievement Part 2 | American Truck Simulator Career | Episode 25
ATS | Articulated Trailer Long Haul | American Truck Simulator Career | Episode 26
ATS | High Five 600-mile Perfect Delivery Achievement | American Truck Simulator Career | Episode 27
ATS | Steering Wheel Rollout Event | American Truck Simulator Career | Episode 28 - Thrustmaster
ATS | Steering Wheel Rollout Complete! | American Truck Simulator Career | Episode 29 - Thrustmaster
ATS | Home Sweet Home Achievement | American Truck Simulator Career | Episode 30 - Special Transport
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