The New OMSI? - The Bus - First Look
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 24 มี.ค. 2021
- Taking a first look at a new bus simulator called "The Bus". Developed by TML Studios and published by Aerosoft, is this the next generation OMSI?
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I'm glad u are doing another bus simulation again
He not, he won’t even stream them
@@startrek987 fr
Same
I would normally consider raw content like this very boring but there's just something about squirrel that makes his videos so entertaining, so calming, I dont get it but I'm not complaining
In case anyone didn't know, exactly today 6 years ago on April 2, 2015 was the day that Squirrel went full time as a content creator. Congrats Squirrel! 😀😊🥳👏
didn't know that, congrats to him. I think he is one of the best creators on youtube.
Woah 2015 was 6 years ago
@@KennethU Yes, it was!
How old is his baby now 🤔
1:08, guy walks thru bus. Yep that’s realistic! Just like OMSI. 😂
Just as I had hoped for lol!
Its cuz its early access, there are ALOT of bugs rn, but they will be fixed
Well, it's early access. And let's quote the game devs themselves: "There will be bugs - lots of bugs- for real, there will really be many many bugs in the game"
@@crugg but they'll release DLC for it at half the price of the game before they do anything with bugs. Never trust TML 😂👍
@@LIKWID never trust aerosoft*
I actually lived *on* this route for about 10 years, very close to station Beusselstrasse. I know most of that route by heart and I can tell you the modelling is very, very close to reality. The modelling is realistic even down to individual store names. I’m very impressed. 😳😁👍
Just need Yoda to ride the bus now. "EXCUSE ME, MAY I HAVE A TICKET PLEASE"
'Ticket may I have?' you mean?
Only the OG's remember 😂
I laughed
"You wierdo!"
Ticket, may I have?
Wow the attention to detail, the steering wheel vibrates when you start the bus. Thats so cool!
Being a bus driver in Augsburg, Germany, i would really enjoy if the passengers wouldn't interact with me in any way or form.
Oh yeah !! xD
This guy drives bus :-)
Sind bei euch nicht auch die Fahrerkabinen abgesperrt, damit da keiner hinkommt? Und ich habe den Busfahrer immer freundlich gegrüßt wenn ich eingestiegen bin, bin aber schon sehr lange kein Bus mehr gefahren oder ist das bei euch anders als in Berlin?
@@Zonetrooper4444 die Kabinen sind nicht abgesperrt, weil wir normalerweise Tickets verkaufen. Vor diese Corona Geschichte war der Cockpit völlig offen, jetzt haben die Plexiglas Scheiben montiert, damit wir wenigstens ein bisschen Schutz haben. Was die Fahrgäste angeht, die meisten sind anständig, aber es gibt auch viele Idioten. Ich schätze das es in Berlin schlimmer ist als bei uns, aber das macht unsere Situation nicht besser.
@@babyjoxx glücklicher Weise musste ich mich nie mit den Bussen in Mitte rumschlagen und bei uns in Lichtenberg ist eh alles deutlich entspannter, ist auch meiner Meinung einer der schönsten Bezirke von Berlin. Bei uns in den Bussen haben sie noch immer nur die durchsichtigen Planen beim Fahrer, aber was mich am meisten ärgert ist sicherlich das jetzt mehr Leute schwarz fahren, da sie im Bus nicht mehr so häufig kontrolliert werden...
Can you imagine if Omsi 3 came out. Same game, same developers, outstanding graphics and optimized. Maybe some new features like companies or something like that but I think that Omsi 2 is actually just really good the way it is. How amazing would that be?!
Sadly that isn't very likely. The developers went their separate ways a few years ago and abandoned OMSI.
OMSI 3 is never going to happen, the developers of OMSI went their separate ways a few years ago and abandoned OMSI.
If you want another OMSI game, make your own game that resembles OMSI. You need to accept that they abandoned OMSI few years ago.
Ik it won’t happen but it’s a nice idea
OMSI 3 already exist. It's called LOTUS Simulator and it's Early Access 😂
It's from same developers, but everything is completely new. There will be multiple modes: street (bus, trolleybus, etc), rail (tram, trains, U-Bahn, Metro, etc) and planes.
@@t2f2c64 Same developer. Just one. Marcel is doing Lotus. Rüdiger has moved on.
The peeping sound was someone pressing the button to get off the buss at 19:14
Nobody gets off this bus alive!
17:00 Berlin actually doesn't have a phone ticket that uses NFC. What you do have is tickets in an app that provide a QR code for inspection and also aside from normal paper tickets you have this credit card sized NFC card that registers different tickets that you can get on subscription. It's a bit like oyster card but not really.
Maps looks great, went to Berlin once we landed into Tegel and stayed near Alexander Platz, and it was just like this!
Omsi especially Omsi 2 were way above their time, in a good way. Can you imagine how amazing it would be now if it was kept in development. The level of genuine feel from driving physics, sounds, and details are so good!! Yet to see anyone come so close
I used to play omsi with steering wheel, now i drive this bus every day, i would say omsi taught me alot, its very realistic
Technically it is still in development, a complete re-development though. The developer of OMSI is currently developing LOTUS which is in Early Access.
How I can download that game?
@@Zoxi u neee to buy on steam for 26 euros or 31 dollars
@@Solakidede LOTUS is soooo far in the early stages, it would be useless to buy into it currently.
Btw you can have higher values in the FOV by typing the number manually into the box. Only the slider maxes out at 90🙂
This brakes some LODs, at least on Fernbus... Guardrails appears as weird straight lines, some buildings switch detailed models too close to the camera... I stopped using that, unfortunately the experience was not great with higher FOV.
19:47 I believe is where squirrel made his first ever Omsi video that is very poetic
I think that was in Hamburg. Here he is in Berlin.
even though OMSI is getting more and more unstable by the day. no bus sim in the last decade in my opinion has beat it. theyre all too cartoony. Why dont you play OMSI UK Maps?
100% true, wish people would stop calling this the next omsi
@@williamg209two 🚍🚍
Playing OMSI 2 With quite a lot of busses. Just don't add to much maps because that will break it. Winsenburg is my favorite and gives no problems for me.
@@eacustomerservices My pc can handle all the buses and maps fine
OMSI is the best and will always be TheBus has flaws and is nowhere near the quality driving experience you get in OMSI. Also OMSI has loads more bus mods and dlc than any other bus games
that one2one mapping makes all the difference tho.. it looks great and way more believable, very impressed with side of things
They've done a great job on the visuals, didn't see much in the way of asset fatigue (if you ignore the people) - each area looked distinctive and believable. I know Paul you have to take a critical eye on things but I would just hijack a bus and go and do some sightseeing in Berlin! 😂
They should try making procedurally generated pedestrians. Adding and removing accessories, random hair and clothing color, all that stuff.
That would be cool. The old TML pedestrian models look like something from a shovelware simulator.
@@jacob4189TML really suck a making decent looking simulator games. If The Bus was made by SCS, it would've looked better and have better pedestrian models than TML.
Since SCS currently is the only company making Truck Simulators right now.
@@jacob4189 They do look like they bought the models on Turbosquid.
@@test1-hg2ts If TML adds umbrellas and raincoats, not all of them should've umbrellas when raining, that would be too unrealistio.
Not everyone have umbrellas when raining in real life.
@@SewerShark Those models were made in freeware application named "MakeHuman' which makes those awful human models. So TML didn't even model these. They are that lazy.
welcome back Paul. missed your videos. glad your keeping well, stay safe bud 😊
You're right about the accuracy of the scenery. You know it's done well, when you can recognise a part of the city you stayed in for just a couple of days.
Right, as the disclaimer you mentioned says, this is early access and work in progress, which is in my opinion the best time to point out flaws with the game, in hopes that they will be fixed.
Going into more specific things, starting with the positives:
The map is impressive. Very brave move to go with 1:1 scale of a real location and they have nailed it. Big props to that. Also having licensed buses is a big deal for a simulator. The modelling of the buses is very nice as well. Some materials look great, like some pipes, pavements, the road look alright. The building storefronts have a nice parallax effect going on that makes them nice and three dimensional, however it seems to be creating some artifacts. I cant tell exactly, maybe its being taken into account in reflections and gets repeated indefinitely.. something like that.
Now, for the negatives. What jumps out to me immediately is that once again TML has chosen this overly saturated, bloom-y, shiny look for the game, something that I've come to name "The default Unreal Engine 4 look" since I see it on a few games using the engine and it looks terrible.
10:41 - I appreciate the attempt at baking ambient occlusion into SOME of the textures but, please TML 3D modelers, increase your sampling and your pixel margin. I can see the black lines along UV seams all over the window and that trim piece on the side, as well as the grainy look of low resolution AO maps. As for the rest of the bus, I cannot see any baked AO. Yes, Unreal Engine can do real time AO but you can tell it does not look anywhere near as good as properly baked on.
While we're on the same timestamp, your materials need work. A lot of it. The whole dashboard and consoles look like they are made from one single type of non-reflective, smooth plastic. You have enough reference to model the interior very accurately, which is commendable, at least take some time to match how the materials look as well.
2:14 - Again, please reconsider your lighting and/or materials. I can tell there's some sort of global illumination/radiosity going on but it happens to an extreme degree. You can see the paint from the cars influencing the ground underneath them, making them look like they have some sort of underglow neon. Consider adding some fake ground shadows under the cars to stop them looking like they are floating too. Old trick but its still used.
12:48 - While screen space reflections are pretty convenient, consider using a static cubemap for your buildings or at least something that does not take into account the player's bus, since we can see the wipers creating artifacts on the windows behind them, right side.
13:45 - Again, the lack of ambient occlusion is painfully obvious in places like tunnels, where it should be darker. Squirrel is running this on a 3090 he said? Basically maxed out and the real time AO only kicks in about 10 meters infront of him and only on some objects.
But yeah, I could complain and nitpick about a lot of things but I tried to only mention stuff that could be better and it isnt from a technical standpoint, instead of artistic choice. I really hope this game improves and becomes a worthy OSMI replacement, since that is quite dated now.
TML Studios are just terrible at making good looking games, especially on Unreal Engine 4.
Why can't bus simulators with Unreal Engine 4 looks terrible? I guess because Epic Games forced TML Studios and only wants Fortnite to look good, which it isn't
the devs probably aren't going to see your feedback here
@@automation7295 Epic cannot enforce such a thing on others. If you look up games using Unreal 4 you'll find everything from photorealistic looks to anime/npr style games.
@@John514s So you're saying that TML just cannot make their games look good. If so, then I agree.
TML should really ditch Unreal 4 because of "The default Unreal Engine 4 look" of their games. Good thing SCS didn't went for Unreal 4 in 1.40, also that would also never happen.
You didn’t address the question on everyone’s mind... how well modeled is the window squeak when you slide it open?
I do live in Berlin, take the bus regularly (though not the TXL line), but damn, that feels as accurate as it can get. TXL as an airport doesnt exist anymore though (its near enough that i could hear the planes flying over here, so i recognize a lot of the stuff in that game).
I lived in Berlin for a few years, and took that Tegel - Alex bus fairly often, it's mapped pretty damn accurately!
I can't help myself, but I find the game just way too bright
yea i was thinking the same.
there have been bus sims, nothing to really knock our socks off lately. The game title "the bus" - i don't feel, that is going to really grab people either. I'll keep an eye on it, but as Paul says, maybe it's too early access right now
agreed
The lighting is something that has gone back and forth with their other bus games to, you have to credit them for listening to their customers though. One thing you might not be aware of is that they are, as mentioned by Squirrel, using the unreal engine, and this actually allows you to do a lot of settings that often aren't included in the games settings from the menu, there are lots to find on the internet to tweak the Unreal settings, do a serch for Unreal .ini settings and go ahead experimenting, you won't break the install as these are simple text files with parameters, so just back up those files first.
i using reshade for color correction, color saturation and gamma... works fine
Omsi 2 is so nostalgic, i remember when it was so popular in 2012
Agreed
@Patrice Bateman Same same same
omsi still does has an active community, especially the British modding community which just started these recent years
It still fame and it has still a huge community, because the developers invested their soul and innovation in that game. OMSI 2 is not a 0815 simulation, like other simulations.
Very well thought-out review. You brought up some points that others haven't mentioned, like the timeline for the phased updates
So glad to see another Squirrel video!!!!!!!!!
The improved map scale is definitely a good selling-point for this one! Nice vid 👍 I would love for some classic/older busses in this...
Great preview thankyou. I'm not at all into bus sims but this looks fantastic.
love your vids man, keep it up!
This makes me more confident about me having wishlisted this on steam
Excellent vid, Squirrel - very fair and pragmatic first look. This is exactly what both we, the potential buyers, and the developers need. Well done 👍
Squirrel: plays The Bus
TH-cam: yes, you're clearly playing ETS2
Me: Clearly everyone at TH-cam are stupid.
That’s not set by TH-cam, Squirrel has set that by mistake (maybe The Bus wasn’t an option at the time).
@@Lukeo But it's still TH-cam that adds these options. TH-cam is still stupid for not adding The Bus as an option on time.
cant wait for one day to have a city like this in fernbus, so at the start and end of your journey you have a realistic 1:1 city to drive through
Oh my gosh I only asked yesterday. Thanks man awesome video buddy. Love your bus sim vids, the best 👍🏼 wow it looks epic too your new rig is amazing.
I think this game has great potential myself, idk about everyone else. I like the little details (even in early access) such as the wheel shaking around when you started the bus lol
What's the short CityWide bus doing there? BVG don't have the SoloBus version, only the GN14! I'm guessing they got nothing but a license from Scania and nobody else. It would be more accurate to have the CityWide GN14 and the Citaro C2 articulated version on the line.
Another halfway made TML game that will not get rid of the bugs before being abandoned for another half-made game again
so true!
Sounds like what UIG farming simulator games used to be like
digging the realistic look!
This is really interesting. I really enjoyed your coverage with omsi 2, so I’m equally interested to see more regarding this game. I’m very excited to see ‘live weather’ as this feature was a fantastic experience with fsx.
Bought this and driving about picking passengers up to "19" by Paul Hardcastle on the in-game radio...Lovely stuff.
In regards to multi-player, in Seattle at least, often times busses stack two or three deep on the same tour, so that could be fun.
Is there any chance you will ever continue playing My Summer Car? I really miss the unique mix of yourself, the Finnish patience simulator and all the shenanigans you get into!
Thanks.
Hopefully squirrel gets back to it with my Winter Car coming soon
Yea I would like him to continue the series again, I miss it
Honestly! That series really made my evenings! Simply because Squirrel was just having fun!
Hope he continuers to give us good random games content again.
I've been waiting for you to do it squirrel
Living in Berlin i´m impressed how accurate that bus line is. Really impresssive! Lets see how this Sim tunes out. Looks promessing at the least.
So I was gifted this game by someone in my community I have to agree with everything you have said, some things that was not covered by you is that triple screen support does not work fully you turn it on head to your bus but you then can not turn the ticket machine on and then subsequently you can not use the any menu buttons to get back to the start, so your only option is alt f4 and start all over again. I'm a bus driver in real life and think this game shows so much potential I just hope they fix everything all the bugs with it
Great to see a new bus sim
Great video man! Any my summer car videos on the horizon? Also great bus sim. Also bring back the full channel intro that u had in 2017 my summer car videos i think.
Can't wait to see you make more videos in Simulation
The control options are same issue as fernbus too. Tested 2 days ago.
When SCS Software officially add buses into ETS and ATS it'll be a game changer !
Then it won’t be much of a trucking game I would suggest that SCS made a new game that would be made for buses.
@@motorcitygorgees9905 The intent was to most likely make it, it's own dlc for ETS2 or either use the ETS2 map for a standalone game. They actually at one point with ETS2 development were adding in bus station prefabs with the expectation that they would use them for "Euro Coach Simulator" or something like that. It was never going to be a city bus game. It would have been more simulator to Fernbus because it would really have been about driving intercity coaches rather than city busses.
At this point I don't know that we'll ever see that product come to fruition. Also as far as I'm aware there was only ever plans for "ECS" and so far no plans whatsoever for an ATS version.
Nice to see!
Hey Paul, big fan of your channel, you are the reason I got into some sim games and have been enjoying them. Can you go into more detail about the control setup? I got "the Bus" but when attempting to connect my Logitech wheel had some trouble. Keep doing what you are doing! I enjoy your content a lot.
Need something like this for VR. That would be incredible
i love how i got the ad for the game when I was watching this
Live weather!? Yay!
the sound design and graphics look so good
Probably the best simulation of Berlin I've seen yet, there is even trash lying around and the traffic is vicious. (and they got a lot of licenses it seems, pretty nice for realism)
People buying tickets at the bus drivers is pretty much in the past, it's fully automated today, so I hope they will reflect that in the future.
Btw the movement speed of the driver is insane, it must be an Olympic sprinter
The triplets that boarded has a eerie feel
I'm still waiting for the release of Bus Sim 21!
Different developer
It needs a lot yet (definitely needs support for ALL kinds of mods) but it looks promising
That map looks incredible to be fair. Probably need that 2000-3000 series GPU to run it well, but damn it does look like Germany and full of life.
It has the potential, that's for sure.
You can bind to buttons on your wheel, it just pops up saying that you already got something bound to that (which you know you don't) just hit accept and it will let you keep both binds.
Hi, Love the vids!!!!
SCS software must make a new bus simulator game. That would be dope ❤️
Hey squirrel, you can map buttons to your wheel. When you map a button just press the accept button even though it say it will conflict. I have and it works, i have a fanatec dd1 and heusinkveld pedals. I have wipers, horn, indicators all mapped to my wheel without any problem, even though it shows up in red it all works fine.
Wow the graphics look amazing
1:07 dude literally went through the bus, but at least they disclaimed about bugs.
Looking pretty good by far.
The sound design is really good.
Oh squirrel they did new Berlin brt dlc for omsi 2 also London dlc
Good video mate ngl
Hmmm, looks like the bus is floating, not in contact with the road, I wonder if they will eventually get the "realistic" feel of OMSI 2, be great to have that feel in a modern bus "sim"
These simulation games (not just this one) really could do with raytracing support
You should do some train simulator videos with the class 142
nice video mate i was itching to buy this game but i think i will wait abit intill its more stable
My main thing with any sim is does it feel good is there detail in the wheel,
Yh i noticed some stuttering
A 1:1 city map. That's a first for me. Great job.
I think light in general looks great, except the glowing people of course.
Full controller support means being able to play the game strictly with a controller. Right now you can steer, gas, and break with a controller but you need the mouse and keyboard for many functions. For example, in Bus Sim 18 you can do everything with the controller.
I like all bus simulators out there (I even develop my own haha). The quality details of cities in TML games are impressive. Fernbus, Tourist Bus and now this one... It's not common seeing bus simulators with so realistic and well done cities. Even in older projects that had worse AIs and physics, the map quality was still great back then (like BCCS).
For physics and sounds probably OMSI will still be the best for many years, we can't have everything on the same game, it's too hard to develop hehe. Lotus also promise a lot but it's too far from a finished product.
I really hope they release a mod system for The Bus, with mods games stay alive for many years, even after the end of support. This could keep it "forever".
Dang the graphics on this game are so good!
Was browsing through Steam and stumbled upon "The Bus". Thought, I wonder if Squirrel has had a look at this. Of course he has.
Right now I'm waiting for Bus Simulator 21 to come out - looks pretty promising right now.
I will never understand why they don't listen to the community. We all said we need better physics. This game just looks like Putting in everything from FernbusSimulator into a new map and thats it
A really good review on the simulation. Worth listening to you even to save your money or the aggro of refund lol. Great video squirrel 😉
I sometimes like to "travel" on Google Maps, and there was a period about 4 years ago when I explored Berlin. And I recognized a lot of not so famous places (e. g. Beusselstraße at 19:30, it just surfaced from my memory immediately). So mapping is very impressive. A huge improvement from OMSI (2).
Greetings from Saint Petersburg, Russia
24:09 finally, a multiplayer game for people with social anxiety! “oh there's Jeff! Ok, see you in an hour.” 😊
At about 13.00 while the wipers are on and the bus is stationary, you can see the wiper going up and down in the reflection on the large window outside the bus to the right of the screen.
Looks fantastic, hopefully they'll make it the best game it can be
*Is the steering that accurate...like as moving the steering wheel a full 180 degrees to make a small turn*
HIS BACK?!?!?!!!
I’ve watched all ur omzi videos lol there all 5 years ago
Welcome home Squirrel, please do some streams like this, you used to stream simulators.
That wiper noise is going to drive me nuts!
I followed this route in google earth streetview as he progressed, and it looks pretty accurate, buildings, streets, vegetation etc. even most shops. This could be very good when game is finished :-)
You've been to the airport, but obviously never on a berlin bus. They won't tap phones on a thing because that's not a thing in Berlin. I did notice one thing straight away though when i played first time. The game is in early access, and the route used is Berlin TXL - Alexanderplatz. Berlin TXL has been closed for months.