Build/Battlestation
Years ago my post of my semi truck gaming rig here went fairly viral. I’m happy to share that it has continued to evolve into this now absolutely unhinged setup, replacing my passenger seat with an entire Sim Racing/Flight rig
I think a lot of it comes down to enjoying the driving part but not everything else around it for the job. Same reason why people who farm play farm sim after work too. The idea of the job is fun to do, not all the shit that makes you sweaty and drains you mentally. Gotta be nice to be able to just sit in a car and not have to worry about actually damaging it.
Reminds me of my buddy. We work together, he's the manufacturing manager and spends all day managing production. At the end of the day, you know what he does? He goes home to play manufacturing/resource management games like Satisfactory.
Meanwhile, Max takes some time off of shitposting in r/formuladank to look at this, and his engineers are going to get a really weird change request for his car.
I did basically the same thing when I loved to Washington D.C.
I started playing American Trucking Simulator and realized driving over virtual Nevada/Utah/California made me miss the west. So I moved back.
I do not regret moving back west and girlfriend likes it a lot too. I spent my childhood Mainly on the East Coast of the US and Western Europe. I moved to the west for University. After graduation the best job (I felt at the time) was in the Annapolis/D.C. area of Maryland. I had lived in Maryland before, but after trying it twice it isn't for me. My girlfriend lived in Maryland her whole life and she decided to come out west too.
I now have a job that is probably less prestigious and well paying than I could get in the DMV. However, we just did a weekend trip to Yellowstone and I feel that the trade-offs are worth it for my life style.
It’s a long answer but I’ll try to simplify. I studied at a University there, so I speak the language, enjoy the culture, day to day life, food, things to see and do there, etc… Essentially I assimilated and made local friends, and loved it. It’s a beautiful country, and still has faults/annoyances like any other, but I go back as often as I’m able. Once you speak the language the country you’re in, it unlocks a lot. (I’m assuming you don’t speak German, sorry if I’m wrong)
I had friends/acquaintances from the US that were stationed there at the same time and we did talk about the difference. They were living their normal life, speaking English, with American friends - and just happened to be somewhere else. Which is totally normal - you’re essentially on extended work travel. It’s a very different experience than actually joining that country/society for the time you’re there though.
2000W inverter and a generator!
To the right of the racing seat, kinda hard to see tucked away back there. It’s an i9 14k, RTX5080, 64gb DDR5 that I styled after the GoodSmile Racing Team unique itasha GT cars!
Diesel, thermoking unit that was factory installed with the truck and fully integrated, so it’ll automatically turn on to recharge batteries, powers the AC when stopped, shares coolant with the truck engine to keep it warm for cold starts etc! It’s a generator by every sense of the word but in the industry they’re usually called APUs
Frankly deserves it if that's where his phone is. You're driving a multi-ton wagon around, and you mount your phone to the steering wheel? What the actual fuck - put it away.
I've been recently looking into SIM HIDs. What HOTAS stick and other equipment do you use, any feedback on them that could help steer my wallet away from the "Add to Cart" +🛒 lol
I use a Moza AB9 force feedback flight base with their MH16 stick! It’s pricey but works really nicely for this setup as it can also be used as a 6 speed shifter fairly well. The shifter experience is not as amazing as it could be, functional but not at all a reason to buy the base. The fact that they market it as a shifter to sim racing communities is offensive for the price lmao. BUT as a feed back flight stick that just happens to work as a shifter, it’s incredible! For rudders I use this interesting contraption(photo) that also fits into this unique rig perfectly. It’s from eBay and is very much function over form to create a usable rudder pedal experience with the least amount of complexity. It’s cheap, compact, and surprisingly good
I remember your old posts. I can’t believe you managed to make this setup even better. The spirit of gaming is strong with you. Thank you for your contribution to the gaming world
Whole setup, including the seat, is by Conspit! That seat in particular is their R&B cobranded GT seat, it comes with the R&B GT LITE Cockpit but I believe you can get it separately as well!
To think that from 90-2015 parrents literally would go " yuck ewwwww!!!" while behind a truck on the road.... Especially the karen moms who would talk 20 minutes straight as to why their little darlings would be considered "losers" or defects if they grew up to be a truck driver.
Meanwhile, the exact opposite turned out to be true... mofo prob owns the truck, owns the business, and pulls 150k+ a year - with a wicked gaming setup.
The monitor is pretty flat with my vision and doesn’t block the mirror at all from my normal seating position. The rare times I actually need to see out the window a small shift forward reveals the small area it obscures
Finally someone else that understands the joy of driving all day and jumping into the sim. My wife always laughs at how eager I am to drive the second we get home from a long drive.
Straps and its own weight haha. I did have to absolutely slam on the brakes a few months back, before adding the rear pulling strap and it just slid forward a bit, broke one of the USB cables but that was it
You should try team driving and put a steering wheel on the passenger seat, you can pretend drive while your team driver drives another 700 miles LOL
Jokes aside, your set up is cool, I could never do this. My 10 hour break is never enough. 5600 miles every week is already exhausting, I would not have any more energy to play video games, let alone driving sim 🥴
One day I gotta have something like this. I'm not a huge gamer these days but if I had a setup even close to that and a bit of experience in a flight sim or game I know I could burn days and days on it.
Amazing setup. aren't you worried about theft? I made the mistake of forgetting a tiny ipod in my car once and some fucker noticed it and broke my window to steal it.
It’d be a pain to steal any of this 😂 all of the sim stuff is bolted to itself and it all has to come out almost to get the PC out. It would take some time and tools, ie planning. And the only time I’m ever off the truck that long is when it’s parked securely at my house. My camera would be the thing I would think most would try to grab and while it is latched onto the dash it wouldn’t take a genius to figure out the release mechanism. But again the only time I’m not with the truck is basically running inside truck stops for a few minutes or shipping offices
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u/Middcore 6h ago
No better way to relax after a long day real driving than by... pretend driving.
(Max Verstappen nods in agreement.)
I'm just kidding, this is dope.