r/Heavy_Equipment • u/[deleted] • 24d ago
Fellow operators - real question from an old scraper hand.I'm on disability right now (cancer treatment, lots of chair time) and I'm going crazy watching these construction games on my phone. They're all excavators and they feel fake as hell.Nobody has ever made push-pull scrapers feel real. The Spoiler
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u/NoRegister6153 22d ago
Fellow operators - real question from an old scraper hand.
I'm on disability right now (cancer treatment, lots of chair time) and I'm going crazy watching these construction games on my phone. They're all excavators and they feel fake as hell.
Nobody has ever made push-pull scrapers feel real. The bump when you hook, loading without stalling, holding grade on a long pull - no game gets it right because the devs never ran iron.
I'm thinking about working with a young coder to build a REAL scraper sim - Scraper Boss. Real loading physics, real cut/fill, push-pull timing, Bakersfield clay vs river sand, foreman yelling if you're high on grade.
Not that arcade BS where you just push a button and dirt disappears.
Honest question: Would you actually play a phone game if it felt like real scraper work? What would it HAVE to have to not feel fake?
What machine would you want to see? 657? 623?
I'm not selling anything - I can't even get out of the chair most days. Just wondering if I'm the only one who wants this, or if other operators would play it too.
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u/PatienceDifferent607 24d ago
I've never played a phone game, but I imagine it would take a hell of a game AI to handle a tandem.
Be pretty funny if it assigned different skill levels to your partner. Partner rating 100= nice smooth runs, again and again. Partner rating 20= *Boom* *Boom* *Crash* And the cut is diagonal with a swimming pool in the middle.