Stuck on a snowy road in iceland.

[Kjarbarey]

Stops the truck from accellerating out of control when going downhill, the cruise control uses it. Also gentler on the truck than using the wheel brakes when carrying a 7 to 25 T trailer at 90 Km/h.

[Moh1336]

Ah I got confused with engine & exhaust brake. So the engine brake is the retarder.

I have the retarder mapped separately as I don't use the joint wheel & retarder brake option. I tend to use the retarder for slowing down, and just use the regular brakes to come to a complete stop.

[jdenm8]

Adaptive Transmission makes the snowy roads worse if anything. Sequential is really the only way to do it. It'd be nice if the physics were fixed.

I play with a 360 Pad as well, though my bindings are somewhat different.

A: Parking Brake (I abuse the heck out of this, I use it virtually whenever I stop)
B: Air Horns
X: Headlights (High Beam)
Y: Wipers (Cycle)
LT: Pneumatic Brake
RT: Throttle
LB: Exhaust Brake
RB: Cruise Control Set/Stop
D-Pad Up: Shift Up
D-Pad Down: Shift Down
D-Pad Left: Left Indicator
D-Pad Right: Right Indicator
Left Analogue: Steering
Left Analogue Click: Standard Horn
Right Analogue: POV
Right Analogue Click: Headlights (Cycle)
Start: Map
Select: Cabin View

I've got the other Cruise Control buttons mapped to the keyboard's Cursor Keys which are generally convenient enough. I rarely use the Retarder, it requires more buttons than I can spare and the Exhaust Brake is generally sufficient. Retarder use is pretty rare here in Australia. In contrast, hearing the thumping of an exhaust brake on a Cummins engine is very common - Even the Volvo FH was available with a Cummins engine from the factory here.

[plykkegaard]

In game ... retarder does not switch off cruise control, exhaust brake does - assuming your are using automatic

Physics is fine, in DK you have trucks "parked" all over the place when condition is a bit slippery
Using 6x4 and manuel it's slow but doable on the snowy roads of Iceland

[jdenm8]

The retarder turns off the Cruise Control when it's invoked manually, just like the other two types of brake.

[plykkegaard]

Ahh thanks, automatic retarder functions as described

[mbman212]

Auto retarder is activated only, when your speed exceeds the set limit from Gameplay settings (for Adaptive Cruise Control). Also, auto retarder keeps CC on and does not deactivate it.

[Fr8i]

Hello,

if some of you folks still stuck on icy or snowy roads, you could use the snow road patch for "Russian Open Spaces". You´ll find it here:

http://forum.scssoft.com/viewtopic.php? ... 94#p347794

Download (original link):

http://promods.net/sm_forward.html?lnk=/b47k5tglqb5y/snow_road.rar.html

Admittedly this patch removes the snow animation (it turns into brown snow slush animation), but you won´t stuck on snowy roads again, especially for player with simple automatic gear in game. There are two versions for 50 km/h and 80km/h.

best regards

[Moh1336]

The latest update now includes the ability to switch gearbox options on the fly with key binding. That will help somewhat.

[plykkegaard]

Just like IRL