author: Miriam Moszczynska
ETS2 Bug Keeps Irritating the Players; Devs Remain Idle
ETS2 players are fed up with the artificial intelligence. The behavior of drivers on virtual roads can be infuriating, and the developers still have not fixed the bugs present in the game since its release.
Fans of ETS2 have certainly encountered their share of problems on the road, but the game has one that has not been fixed since its release. We are talking about the strange behavior of AI-controlled drivers when the player wants to change lanes.
Maybe I'll let you in, maybe not
As it happens in the case of bugs, below you will find some footage presenting the problematic issue. What is interesting, not only ETS2 players are encountering this problem. The situation is similar in ATS, where the AI could also use some significant improvements.
It is worth noting here that this is not the only problem that players encounter while driving in ETS2. It is also not uncommon for the AI to force priority or cause an accident.
SCS should streamline traffic
Of course, it's not as simple as it sounds. While the community has been throwing around a lot of suggestions in the comments about how AI behavior on the roads could be improved, the last word belongs to SCS anyway.
"Yeah, I know precisely nothing about how a game AI works, but some of these quirks feel like hard-coded 'design decisions', more than anything else. I'm not asking SCS to reinvent the wheel, they just need to get the basics down. Individual driving styles for the NPCs would certainly be nice, but I think for starters, they should tune what they have a little bit so that it works reasonably," wrote j1ggl.
Among the proposals appeared not only advanced solutions, such as designigning individual driving style for drivers. Players also suggested creating one universal system for all truck simulators, for example, with the help of intelligent driver model (IDM).
"Its not an implementation of course, but it describes all the basics to have various cars running on the same roads safely. There's still a lot that can be improved of course, but I think most traffic simulations use this model as a basic starting block," wrote TinyPurringBLAHAJ.
So as you can see, there are quite a few suggestions on how to fix the behavior of AI-controlled drivers. Perhaps IDM would also bring an end to the irrational AI decisions that often lead to a truck driver being fined for breaking the law.
