Отзывы

• ricardo

  Aug 8, 2023

  Don't be scammed by this thing, I am sorry guys. We all want a great bus SIMULATOR, this is not that at all. It runs terribly, really, really poorly, the look of the game is strange, lighting horrid, sounds horrid, OMSI is truly better and it is ancient which is super sad but we have given the dev team grace and they don't owe me anything but honestly this thing should be free.
• gamedeal user

  Mar 29, 2021

  I got banned from the Community Hub by a developer mod for this comment about the publisher of this game: [i]"I'd say Aerosoft is the worst publisher I know in Steam. Expensive games and with very basic content, with not much to choose from, and then they release expensive DLCs with just one bus, or things like that. And you can forget about sales as well. Not to mention that they publish games when they're obvously incomplete and full of bugs."[/i] I was answering someone who talked about Aerosoft before and that was my one and only comment, so there's no spam, nothing else behind. The next day I opened Steam and I was banned from the Community Hub of this game. That's reason enough for me to ask for a refund. But I'll elaborate my opinion about the game and about what you can expect: I own Fernbus and Tourist Bus Simulator, with most of the DLC's. Same developer and same publisher. Tourist Bus Simulator is basically Fernbus, but with a few tweaks and on a small island. Well, The Bus is the third time they sell the same game, with a few tweaks and a different map. All of them have the same flaws and a lot of bugs. I understand people are forgiving with The Bus and all the bugs that it has because it's in Early Access and bugs are to be expected. People see a promising game that could be great if it ever gets improved. But bear in mind that Fernbus is almost 5 years old and it still has big issues. Fernbus was promising too, but they never delivered. You will read that they're developing modding tools. Well, they said that about Fernbus in 2017, 2018, 2019,... Today you can repaint buses, that's all. You get very few content for the base game and then they sell expensive DLC's to add a couple of buses more or to expand the map. You can check the price history, and you'll notice that sales are weak as well. Don't expect more than 30% discounts from these publishers. If you can get past the the horrible AI traffic, the unstable FPS, and all the bugs, you'll enjoy The Bus. If you're expecting mod support, bugs fixed or the game to be improved in a meaningful way, I'd say from my experience that you're up for disappointment. It is not great in its current state, and I personally doubt it'll ever get much better. So I'd recommend not to buy this game now, but wait to see if this time they really keep their promises. Chances are they won't.
• gamedeal user

  Apr 4, 2021

  PLEASE NOTE: The game currently is in Early Access and my review is based on the current state the game is in. I WILL UPDATE this review once big changes are implemented or the game releases! -> BETA UPDATE 1.2, Changes marked with "/" ---{Graphics}--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☑ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ Paint.exe -> The quality of the textures of the two Scania models is actually REALLY NICE and VERY detailled. You can even see the leather pattern on the steering wheel! The problem is the world itself. The buildings look flattened and a bit "printed". They don't have any details (other than maybe a store name and a picture of the store). This make it look a bit unreal and I hope they optimize this in the future. / As for the beta Update 1.2, the buildings start to be more detailed. What improved the most I think would be the light reflections, I played the game after the update with rainy weather and the light from other cars reflected really nice in the windshield of the bus and on the street. The raining animation is also very detailed and looks a lot more realistic! ---{Gameplay}--- ☐ Very good ☐ Good ☑ It‘s just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Starring at walls is better ☐ Just don‘t -> I think this is self-explaining: Well, you are driving a bus. Thats it! The bus itself is somehow limited at it's features, you f.e can't change the destination displayed on the outside or on the inside or can't pull down the sun visor (atleast in Early Access!). / For the beta Update 1.2, the game has still limited features and other than the driving mode you are left with the editor. For the future, they teaser stuff like carrier mode and such, but I think they will come when the game goes out of Early Access. ---{Audio}--- ☐ Eargasm ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ Earrape -> I have to say it: The audio is AWESOME. At least for the bus. While driving, you hear a quiet hum from the motor, which is nice. Every feature has it's own sound, and they did not copy sounds a lot. I personally think the door sounds by far the best! After you closed them, the seals do like a little squiik, it is so satisfying!!! / The audio did not change, in my opinion. ---{Audience}--- ☐ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☑ Human -> Hmm, I think it would be a little too complicated for small children, but overall I don't think they are the target audience anyway :D / Did not change for the beta, obviously :D ---{PC Requirements}--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☐ Potato ☐ Decent ☐ Fast ☑ Top Notch (☑) Ask NASA if they have a spare computer -> Let me explain this one: If you turn the graphics down by a lot, yea, then you can maybe play it on mom's old computer. The graphic use is INTENSE. For the minimum requirements it wants you to have a GTX950 MINIMUM, and for the recommended requirements it wants you to have a RTX2060. Like Aerosoft and TML, what do ya think??? We aint got money like dat! I use my GTX960 and the game runs fine on low settings, but already struggles if I turn up the side mirror quality. I hope this will get optimized a bit better in the future! / Unfortunatly, the game still has big issues concerning the performance. It is a must-have to turn on V-Sync, otherwise you get stutters and frame overlays which are terrible to look at. With V-Sync enabled, I get less stutter, but while loading I have 17 FPS. I turned motion blur off, but it seems that it is still enabled in a weird way (btw, I upgraded to a GTX980 and reinstalled the game). ---{Difficulty}--- ☐ Just press A ☐ Easy ☑ Significant brain usage ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls -> Self-explaining, I guess. Once you know how to drive, you know how to drive, / Yes, experience did not change. ---{Grind}--- ☐ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☑ Isnt necessary to progress ☐ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You‘ll need a second live for grinding -Not neccessary at all. The game currently only supports the Free to Play mode and doesn't come with a career mode. It says tho that this will be added in the near future. / Beta update 1.2, more options haven't been added yet. ---{Game Time}--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☐ Average ☑ Long ☐ To infinity and beyond -> There are currently only two routes available. This will change in the future; I am very sure. / Beta Update 1.2, experience did not change yet. ---{Price}--- ☐ It’s free! ☑ ☑☑ Worth the price ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{Bugs}--- ☐ Never heard of ☑ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ Cyberpunk ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs -> I can't really vote on this, because it obviously has bugs (otherwise it would not be Early Access, LOL). It even warns you when you start the game, which is nice! / Beta Update 1.2 fixes indeed a lot of stuff, and for the most part I actually haven't seen any bugs other than one or two having to do with steering in a while.
• gamedeal user

  Sep 5, 2022

  ---{ Graphics }--- This game looks really good if you have it on max settings. Only issue is the performance, with some areas of the map being more laggy than others. ☐ You forget what reality is ☑ Beautiful ☐ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- You drive a bus through a 1:1 scale of Berlin. There is a few buses to choose from and 4 routes. More user generated routes in the same map can be found in the workshop. The game is soon to have modding tools, and this may introduce new user-generated maps. ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- The audio of everything inside the bus is perfect, from the sound of the doors opening to the sound of the road. Audio outside the bus can get very loud in contrast to everything else though ☐ Eargasm ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☑ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☐ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- I have a 1050ti and at medium settings I can run at 30fps max. The game is playable in this state but don't expect good framerates with worse gpus. ☐ Check if you can run paint ☐ Potato ☐ Decent ☑ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☑ Easy ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☑ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☐ Isn't necessary to progress ☐ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☑ No Story ☐ Some lore ☐ Average ☐ Good ☐ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- Game itself has no end, although you may get bored doing similar routes again and again. ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☐ Average ☐ Long ☑ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- £21.95 for an early access game with not all of it's features available yet is slightly pricey. Wait for a sale or til more features are available ☐ It's free! ☐ Worth the price ☑ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- Small minor bugs are common through out the game. ☐ Never heard of ☑ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☑ 7 ☐ 8 ☐ 9 ☐ 10
• gamedeal user

  Mar 21, 2023

  ---{ Graphics }--- ☑ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☐ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☑ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☐ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☐ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☐ Potato ☐ Decent ☐ Fast ☑ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☑ Easy ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☑ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☐ Isn't necessary to progress ☐ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☑ No Story ☐ Some lore ☐ Average ☐ Good ☐ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☐ Average ☐ Long ☑ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☐ Worth the price ☑ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☐ Never heard of ☐ Minor bugs ☑ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☑ 7 ☐ 8 ☐ 9 ☐ 10 This is a fantastic game considering it's in early access. I just can't wait until its full release where there's economy mode and multiplayer.
• gamedeal user

  Apr 18, 2022

  ---{ Graphics }--- ☑ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☐ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ Very good ☐ Good ☑ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☑ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☐ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☐ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☐ Potato ☐ Decent ☐ Fast ☑ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☑ Easy ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☑ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☐ Isn't necessary to progress ☐ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☑ No Story ☐ Some lore ☐ Average ☐ Good ☐ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☐ Average ☐ Long ☑ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☑ Worth the price ☐ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☐ Never heard of ☑ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☐ 7 ☑ 8 ☐ 9 ☐ 10
• gamedeal user

  Jul 10, 2023

  10.07.2023 Today Release 25.03.2021 What has happened in two years? Well, we got a bit of QOL updates and a few routes. The game is fun! But only for a couple of hours, and then your initial hype will fall off. Once that happens, you will only start it up to choose OMSI. Yes, Omsi is still better! I love the game and want it to become what the plan was. We need PERFORMANCE and not any other cities like Hamburg when it's a BVG sim. I have a high-end PC and average 29 FPS. Well, given the status of the game, I would refund if I could. It is a shame, honestly, since the game could become the best in its genre I feel like I was milked out of my money, and now I just have to deal with it. Not nice… Leaves a bad taste... Once more, please give us PERFORMANCE FIX BEFORE anything else I can not recommend it at this point.
• gamedeal user

  Apr 6, 2021

  The Bus is all about being a city bus driver in Berlin. Made by the same company behind Fernbus (which is about being a coach driver in Europe) and Tourist Bus Simulator, (TBS) it's currently in very early access/alpha. This is a mixed bag that might be described as the good, the bad and the ugly. THE GOOD 1. The bus models are nice. There are only two at the moment and they're very similar to each other but more will be added (possibly as paid DLC, mind you). 2. The 1:1 rendering of Berlin is a key part of the game and nicely done as far as it goes (more on that below). We only have one line accessible at the moment, so it's far from the whole city available at present, but this is the type of detailed large-scale city rendering that something like ETS2 or even Fernbus would benefit from hugely. 3. The sounds are generally good, quite plausible. 4. The driving physics I find quite pleasant. These are basically the same as Fernbus/TBS, so if you have played those, you know what you're in for. Not to everyone's taste and you'll see some complaints about them, but I find it a lot more drivable than ETS2, for example. 5. The weather effects remain nice; this is also a Fernbus development that has been carried over. 6. In spite of being early access, it's quite stable already; I'm not getting game-breaking bugs. It's still very limited in what you can do, but that will obviously change over time. THE BAD 1. The AI is very poor. I genuninely don't understand why developers find this hard, and in racing games AI is generally fine, but in non-racing driving games (ETS, TBS, Fernbus, OMSI, Bus Simulator etc.) it's invariably lousy and this is no exception. I honestly don't really expect that to improve with development, but I hope I'm wrong. As it is, not only will things jump in front of you or just plain crash into you, but the AI driving is totall unrealistic, e.g. cars coming instantly to a perfect stop, lorries going round corners at full speed etc.. Quite ridiculous and immersion-breaking. 2. The passengers are a joke. The vast majority get on the bus without any interaction. Occasionally one will hand over some money for a ticket. There is no passenger audio whatsoever - they never speak or make a sound - they vanish from their standing position in the bus and magically reappear in a seat and graphically they look like something from 1998. Honestly, the Bus Simulator series - which is mocked by advocates of Fernbus and this game I might add - does this WAY better. Again, this is totally immersion-breaking. 3. The visual rendering of Berlin could be a LOT better. The developers insist upon using basically a pained window technique for buildings to imitate the interiors - or at most two painted layers - which does not look at all credible, does not scale well and gives it a slightly inadvertent cartoonish look. The graphics are powered by Unreal Engine 4, which does not help. THE UGLY 1. The bottom line here is that this is being sold as a next-generation bus simulator. THIS IS SIMPLY NOT TRUE. This might more accurately be called "Fernbus Berlin", beacuse that's basically what it is. Same general bus model, same sounds, same road graphics, same building graphics, same passenger graphics, same driving physics, same game engine. Fernbus was released in 2014, which might explain why a lot of this looks and feels dated and substandard. CONCLUSION This is a real missed opportunity. Instead of getting a NEXT generation bus simulator, we get a LAST generation bus simulator, which is basically the same engine being used for a THIRD game now. If you're expecting a step up from Fernbus, sorry, you will be disappointed. The cars are probably the only thing here which look like they've had a graphical polish, that's pretty much it. While stable and solid, there is nothing new here, nothing remarkable and most notable existing serious problems with AI, passenger rendering and building rendering are simply ignored. Ultimately, a city bus simulator which has poor passengers, poor building rendering and poor AI traffic fails as a bus simulator. The developers don't seem to understand that creating a nice bus and sticking it in a 1:1 part of Berlin is not enough - the bus operates with passengers, driving through a builtup environment and carrying passenegers. If you can't get any of those elements right, then you're missing the point of a bus simulator. I cannot recommend this now, and unless there is a radical mindshift at TML Studios, I can't imagine recommending it at any future point either. I feel this game is being mis-sold. It is NOT a next generation bus simulator; don't let the marketing fool you.
• gamedeal user

  Jun 15, 2022

  My two hour review, but it was enough to see how this game is doing being in early access. I will start by saying, this game is a great step forward. I've been looking for a bus simulator for ages and I've yet found it, until yesterday when I decided to buy this game. I own: Omsi2, Bus Simulator 18, Fernbus , Bus Driving Sim 22, and they don't cut it one bit. Out of that bunch, Fernbus is the best one, but it just didn't scratch my itch enough. I decided to buy this game yesterday, and the game is such an improvement from Fernbus and so easy to setup I actually enjoyed it. The graphics are phenomenal. I will say this, it doesn't matter what PC you have (you can have the best graphics card in the world) the best processor, a crazy amount of ram, and this game will refuse to run properly. The game is not well optimized. BUT, it's playable. I'd say I get around mid 30's to upper 40's fps in medium to high settings. I only noticed one big fps drop, but it was like for 5 seconds, other than that, the game ran fairly well. The map is quite big, and it dives you into Berlin. The graphics are so beautiful you actually feel you're nothing more but a tourist. Routes are fairly long, and we only have a handful of buses for now. The game is still in early access. Same with the city, I am sure more cities will be implemented later on. Same with economy (have your own bus company and drivers) and multiplayer. My biggest pet peeves with this game, is the AI. The AI in this game are straight up maniacs. As funny as that may sound, you can be having the drive of your life and just enjoying the gameplay, and all of a sudden, an out of nowhere driver, will cut you off (you being in the bus lane) and will crash into you. The AI in this game don't joke around, they're straight up suicidal. Another annoyance that I have with these games (Fernbus and The Bus) since they're both made by the same devs, is that every passenger looks the same (haha) it makes me feel a little uncomfortable, as if I'm transporting lab clones or something...haha a little more variety on passengers wouldn't harm. It gets a little annoying seeing the same passengers on every bus stop and on every corner of the city. All in all, it's a great fun game. A big step forward in the Bus Simulator world ...finally Pros Phenomenal graphics Fun gameplay Best bus simulator out there Road map is quite promising Cons Bad optimization (but playable) Horrible AI NPCs are all a bunch of clones no variety
• gamedeal user

  Sep 8, 2021

  YES, but: You can see and feel that they really, really want to make a great bus sim. It isn't yet, but maybe it will. I recommend because maybe if we bus fans support them, the game will become what it deserves. Maybe. It's little bit of gamble.