Campaigns/Missions & Other SPOILER Questions.

[flapane]

WARNING, SPOILER INSIDE

Hi there,
at a certain point I get a call from *a mate* (I don't remember his name) asking me to rescue his girl waiting in a Motel near Oxnard.
After I pick up her, I get chased by two guys with a gun and if I try to escape, my truck explodes (with a couple of gun bullets only, let alone their weird sound effect? LOL) and the game ends.
What should I do? Of course I WON'T restart the whole story from scratch just because it's not clear what should one do, in this case I'll sell it ASAP.

Thanks in advance.

p.s
I don't know if this is the RIGHT thread, so sorry for double-posting.

[USA Trucker]

Originally Posted by flapane

Hi there,
at a certain point I get a call from *a mate* (I don't remember his name) asking me to rescue his girl waiting in a Motel near Oxnard.
After I pick up her, I get chased by two guys with a gun and if I try to escape, my truck explodes (with a couple of gun bullets only, let alone their weird sound effect? LOL) and the game ends.
What should I do? Of course I WON'T restart the whole story from scratch just because it's not clear what should one do, in this case I'll sell it ASAP.

Thanks in advance.

p.s
I don't know if this is the RIGHT thread, so sorry for double-posting.

Hello, and welcome to the forum.

Please don't make duplicate postings, and don't discuss "Story-Lines & Side Missions" outside of the "SPOILER ALERT" threads. The forum is easily readable with stickies. View them before you post. Not after-wards.

The answer to your question is Here. Look at the 3rd video walk-through.

[flapane]

Hi.
thanks for your answer, I realized that this was the right thread too late.

Anyway, unfortunately the truck explodes about 10 seconds after the cutscene, and I can barely arrive at 50MPH before exploding, while in the video I see that the truck can arrive at 80MPH. It's unbelievable...
It seems that my truck needs more juice, but the game AI SHOULD know that and shouldn't show me this mission, because I have NO chance to escape but I still don't know it!
What should I do? any way to edit the savegame, any game trainer that gives you "unlimited life" meanwhile you try to escape?

[USA Trucker]

Originally Posted by flapane

Hi.
thanks for your answer, I tought that SPOILER ALERT stood for: "watch out, if you read this thread you'll read some storyline-related issues".

Yes, that's exactly right. It's also for people requesting assistance for a mission too.

Anyway, unfortunately the truck explodes about 10 seconds after the cut scene, and I can barely arrive at 50MPH before explode, while in the video I see that the truck can arrive at 80MPH.
It seems that my truck needs more juice, but the game AI SHOULD know it and shouldn't show me this mission, because I have NO chance to escape.
What should I do?

Before you take on missions such as this one, you need some basic truck up-grades. A better engine is certainly a must. In this particular mission you need to have your foot on the gas during the cut-scene. This way your truck is already at about 50 mph when the cut-scene ends. Just keep it on the floor, and you should have no problem. The AI doesn't know your truck or if it's up-graded. These missions are triggered regardless of your trucks performance.

[flapane]

It happened to save just after the cutscene because I had to shut down the PC, and usually cutscenes don't let you do anything, so I couldn't know that I could push the foot on the gas pedal.

Any way to let at least the whole cut scene to repeat from the beginning?

edit:
Anyway the cutscene ends where the truck is already at 43MPH, so it shouldn't be that bad.

[USA Trucker]

Originally Posted by flapane

It happened to save just after the cutscene because I had to shut down the PC, and usually cutscenes don't let you do anything, so I couldn't know that I could push the foot on the gas pedal.

Any way to let at least the whole cut scene to repeat from the beginning?

This is just a trick I learned after exploding a half dozen times myself. If your foot is not on the gas when the cut-scene ends, you'll be starting at a stand-still, and will surely die, unless of course you have the booster.

[flapane]

You should agree with me that the fact that the game is not triggered by the player's truck's power, and the fact that you must push your foot on the pedal gas in the cutscenes (that are meant to be WATCHED only) are lame.
It may happen to save for whatever reason in whatever point of the game (in this case I HAD to save just after the cutscene because I had to shut down the pc), but this shouldn't mean that the player must be up with no chances to recover to the beginning of the cutscene, or the last mission or whatever, just like in EVERY OTHER GAME (Splinter cell comes to my mind).
Now I really don't know what to do but getting rid of the game...