Recent reviews by vassilevb

Useless cosmetic 5hit behind paywalls is something I can live with (although it's undeniably a scummy practice that shouldn't be legal). However, this game's actual content is cut and sold in small portions, costing around 6-9 EUR each. No sane consumer should ever accept this kind of corporate shamelessness. It is time to REBEL against the company with one of the most hypocritical names in the history of corporations. SaaS should be illegal. DRM should be illegal. Capitalism should be illegal. Corporations shouldn't have more rights than humans.

"It has to start somewhere, it has to start sometime. What better place than here, what better time than now?" / 1o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LNzH495CQI

Useless cosmetic 5hit behind paywalls is something I can live with (although it's undeniably a scummy practice that shouldn't be legal). However, this game's actual content is cut and sold in small portions, costing around 6-9 EUR each. No sane consumer should ever accept this kind of corporate shamelessness. It is time to REBEL against the company with one of the most hypocritical names in the history of corporations. SaaS should be illegal. DRM should be illegal. Capitalism should be illegal. Corporations shouldn't have more rights than humans.

"It has to start somewhere, it has to start sometime. What better place than here, what better time than now?" / 1o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LNzH495CQI

Useless cosmetic 5hit behind paywalls is something I can live with (although it's undeniably a scummy practice that shouldn't be legal). However, this game's actual content is cut and sold in small portions, costing around 6-9 EUR each. No sane consumer should ever accept this kind of corporate shamelessness. It is time to REBEL against the company with one of the most hypocritical names in the history of corporations. SaaS should be illegal. DRM should be illegal. Capitalism should be illegal. Corporations shouldn't have more rights than humans.

"It has to start somewhere, it has to start sometime. What better place than here, what better time than now?" / 1o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LNzH495CQI

Useless cosmetic 5hit behind paywalls is something I can live with (although it's undeniably a scummy practice that shouldn't be legal). However, this game's actual content is cut and sold in small portions, costing around 6-9 EUR each. No sane consumer should ever accept this kind of corporate shamelessness. It is time to REBEL against the company with one of the most hypocritical names in the history of corporations. SaaS should be illegal. DRM should be illegal. Capitalism should be illegal. Corporations shouldn't have more rights than humans.

"It has to start somewhere, it has to start sometime. What better place than here, what better time than now?" / 1o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LNzH495CQI

Useless cosmetic 5hit behind paywalls is something I can live with (although it's undeniably a scummy practice that shouldn't be legal). However, this game's actual content is cut and sold in small portions, costing around 6-9 EUR each. No sane consumer should ever accept this kind of corporate shamelessness. It is time to REBEL against the company with one of the most hypocritical names in the history of corporations. SaaS should be illegal. DRM should be illegal. Capitalism should be illegal. Corporations shouldn't have more rights than humans.

"It has to start somewhere, it has to start sometime. What better place than here, what better time than now?" / 1o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LNzH495CQI

Useless cosmetic 5hit behind paywalls is something I can live with (although it's undeniably a scummy practice that shouldn't be legal). However, this game's actual content is cut and sold in small portions, costing around 6-9 EUR each. No sane consumer should ever accept this kind of corporate shamelessness. It is time to REBEL against the company with one of the most hypocritical names in the history of corporations. SaaS should be illegal. DRM should be illegal. Capitalism should be illegal. Corporations shouldn't have more rights than humans.

"It has to start somewhere, it has to start sometime. What better place than here, what better time than now?" / 1o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LNzH495CQI

Useless cosmetic 5hit behind paywalls is something I can live with (although it's undeniably a scummy practice that shouldn't be legal). However, this game's actual content is cut and sold in small portions, costing around 6-9 EUR each. No sane consumer should ever accept this kind of corporate shamelessness. It is time to REBEL against the company with one of the most hypocritical names in the history of corporations. SaaS should be illegal. DRM should be illegal. Capitalism should be illegal. Corporations shouldn't have more rights than humans.

"It has to start somewhere, it has to start sometime. What better place than here, what better time than now?" / 1o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LNzH495CQI

You get:
— 3 mediocre missions. The oil rig achievement is exceptionally RNG-based and, thus, frustrating.
— A few new lethal weapons whose use is not encouraged by the game's very own ranking system, rendering them redundant, a.k.a. "Imma use this when I get bored with playing the game as intended and then Imma do some memes and "funny" mayhem videos for my majestic non-existent YT career".
— Useless cosmetics.

Save your money and don't even buy the "base game", which is quite overpriced in the first place:
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/id/vassilevb/recommended/1144200

You get:
— 3 mediocre missions. The dorms achievement is exceptionally RNG-based and, thus, frustrating.
— A few new lethal small caliber weapons whose use is not encouraged by the game's very own ranking system, rendering them redundant, a.k.a. "Imma use this when I get bored with playing the game as intended and then Imma do some memes and "funny" mayhem videos for my majestic non-existent YT career".
— Useless cosmetics.

Save your money and don't even buy the "base game", which is quite overpriced in the first place:
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/id/vassilevb/recommended/1144200

It's cool, but it's not very realistic (technical inaccuracies, oversimplifications, lack of physical behaviours of certain things, rudimentary driving, tycoon/management game mechanics (a lot of old cars are reworked/renovated and sold at a loss — ask my IRL car mechanic friend), etc.). Still, relatively useful for IRL car mechanic noobs.

It's moddable, which is awesome. Still, there are weird limitations, e.g. a Fiat 126p mod (very old car, the last one was produced in 1991) has an OBD port (which is nonsense). I very much doubt that this is done by the modder non-deliberately, which means that there are some modding limitations that necessitate introducing nonsensical stuff, which isn't cool for games with the word "simulator" in their title.

Another thing that isn't cool is that there are some cars that are NOT reintroduced from older versions of the "game" (e.g. CMS2015). A significant example for me is the Fiat 126 (I wanted to own a 126p when I was in highschool 17 years ago). The weirder thing is that it isn't even licensed (named "Youngtimer"):
https://steamhost.cn/app/361820/Car_Mechanic_Simulator_2015__Youngtimer/
Thus, if you want to play with a vanilla 126, you need CMS2015, which is sad.

I recently purchased CMS2021 with almost all the DLCs (still haven't tried it), but I'll probably skip on upcoming versions.

While not as complex and offering much less freedom, it still has the Kerbal Space Program vibe I've been chasing for years.

P.S.
The intro cinematic (more precisely, the movement of the humans) reminded me the game cinematic technology of Diablo 2 (2000).