Bern-Basel in Neoplan Skyliner - Part 1 (Fernbus Coach Simulator) 

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hi squiral, i actually own an older model of this coach ex oxford tube coach. the reason you are understeering for is that you have your suspension locked in the raised position which is only used for off road use only such as going to glastonby, or places with large uneven access roads to an uneven car parks like at light water valley. the suspension height lock is also used for boarding and alighting ferries as they have such large over hangs compared to lorries. at highway speeds, the suspension should be lowered and firm as with the suspension being too high and soft will effect the handling and make the coach very unstable at high speeds. on my older model. you can raise the suspension where it is softer but it will automatically return to normal ride height at 48km/h and will not raise again until you press it. however if you double press it at a standstill. it will hold the height but should never exceed 30 mph. another reason you may feel as tho you are understeering at speed compared to euro truck, the front steer axle on the coaches are set behind the drivers cab, where as on lorries it is set slightly forward of the drivers cab. it is much more noticable at highway speeds than town speeds as i am a former driver for go north east driving the local services between sunderland and newcastle also driven the go north east coaches on the national express contracts between the north east and london and also a former driver for ramage haulage too. lower the suspension the better the ride and the handling. especially in neoplans or similar double deck coaches where there is only a split (half length) lower deck as most of the passengers be sat upon the top deck with the force of gravity pulling all that weight down so makes the coach top heavy.

Squirrel, responding to your views on the fuel gauge accuracy... These types of coaches do have enormous fuel tanks! Sometimes in the region of between 600-800L. I did a three day battlefields tour through France and Belgium starting from my company depot near Portsmouth and back. Total mileage was in the region of 1700km and my coach only used half of its full tank

You can obviously see where they substituted models to match landmarks as accurately as they could, but it still looks amazing! Luzern is an absolutely beautiful (but expensive) city!

I've been a flixbus driver for about a year, and I must say these coaches are pretty acurate and detailed. My routes mostly were Amsterdam - Berlin via Groningen, Bremen and Hamburg, also Amsterdam - Paris via Bruxxelles. Nice job on making those vids keep it up!!

Thanks Paul for doing another Fernbus vid! It’s been a while, please do some more!!

26:25 That’s a nice bit of water! oblivious to the fact he’s causing a 10000 mile hold up

The passangers are like my dad when i'm driving.

Lucerne is a beautiful town. 100% worth a visit. Go up the mountain via the cable car for amazing walks and there are BBQ pits too.

Monaco di Bavaria is the Italian name for Munich (or München to he locals), so that’s presumably what the oddly mixed German/Italian advert on the side of the bus is for

3:45 i´ve actually been sitting on that upper frontseats on a trip from Braunschweig to Berlin 2 years ago... it´s a nice view indeed :) "Auf geht´s" means "let´s go" in that sense

Wow, they really took some creative liberty in designing the map... It's like they wanted to serve a cliché more than realism. There are not really any mountains between Bern and Luzern, especially going down the Autobahn and there sure as hell is no serpentine pass in between them either. They should maybe have considered adding a destination more to the south where the mountains really are. Those destinations, save for Luzern, are all in the flat region of Switzerland.

Oh. My. God. FERNBUS IS BACK!!!

Like I said. If you ever get to Switzerland. Do a meet and greet. Every time you visit Switzerland in one of your games, you'll tell us how you want to visit it irl^^

Brake Matic is the auto brake system. When cruise control is activated and you go downhill, the brake matic will maintain your speed. It also does other stuff i forgot lol

I would love to see the feature in ets2 where you can actually get out the cockpit and just walk around and look at the detail of your truck :/

Those are the most realistic road sounds I have heard in a game! It even has the high pitch sound when you go over a bridge on a highway!

MY ROOM WAS FULL SILENCE AND THE INTRO SCARED ME SO MUCH

Time for SCS to make a bus simulator. Bus driver was a good sign but the terminals in ETS 2 can lay a nice framework

Great! You're driving in the track for Eurobus who will start coach routes within Switzerland from June. For the moment private bus companies are not allowed to bring passengers from one Swiss city to another (except airports).

I love it 34:51 when the passenger said is your navigation broken and he is still on the road!

I work as a flixbus dispacher, very nice to see this from you:)

Hi Paul, the fuelling of the buses here in Canada is done at the company garage. If it is what we call a line bus run, which is a bus that does intercity routes the driver does not fuel the bus it is done by the maintenance personnel at the company garage at either end of the route or on the return to his starting point depending on the mileage between the two points. The only time a driver fuels the bus on a trip is when the driver is doing a charter trip and will be away from his home terminal for several days. I have done both during my 47 yrs. of being a bus driver. The last 20 yrs. of my career was doing charters across Canada and the United Stares. Richard Littler

Passenger: "Did you just jump a red?" Me: "No i jumped a brown" Passenger: .....

One thing I learn driving ETS and ATS is that, unless you got a big monitor, it is hard to rely on street signs, especially speed limits.

Only just discovered your videos and I just wanted to say there is something SO relaxing about putting on one of your videos when I get off work. Just plopping into bed with dinner, getting unwound from the day, watching you drive something and provide commentary. On another note I would LOVE to try one of these games but they don't seem to have a "beginner mode" to teach you how to use all the buttons and junk. I wish there was a bus one that taught you how to control and use all the buttons and doohickeys first.

Despite these being older videos, the fact I currently have a PC that should easily run most of the sim games squirrel plays. They've become my, what do I want off steam, list lol.

"That's some nice water" *doesn't notice the massive tailbacks behind him*

the kinks in the road actully gives a realistic feeling to the game

It's funny watching this video in the playlist, as a historical account, how your attitude changes from the previous video when you had the 2 CM's from TML and Aerosoft in your stream, to this one...

i love how you say "hey!"

Hi Squirrel. It's not a Bus it's a Coach. And Neoplan and Setra make the nicest ones

i love the fact that you were changing lane without indicating that dosent make me want to scream

The fanfare Is used to warn drivers that a bus is coming round a corner, (every corner) used in the alps, as there are a lot of curves in alp-roads. Its used in Switzerland a lot. I’ve been on one before that had to use it. (It gets annoying when you’re trying to sleep)

Flixbus should pay you :D you're making good advertisement for the company^^

Wow European busses are huge... Greyhounds haven't changed in decades over here.

Finally something to entertain me while I'm sick

I Pray ETS And ATS Have THIS Graphics

29:57 Pretty cool, they modelled the railway and bus terminus brilliantly, just like it is in real life. Easily recognisable.

I've been on a Flixbus irl and for the first time I got delayed about 4hrs due to a flat tyre in Peckham. We were meant to arrive at Brussel Noord (Brussels North) at 22:50 but due to the delay we arrived at 02:00AM (This is ECT not GMT, GMT is the same time but an hour back. The drivers were so cool and let us watch Star Wars EP4 I believe, despite the flat tyre, the ride was fun

It's truly amazing how simulators can get this real!

Kinda funny going from there, the roads are still more realistic than the ones in ETS2. Also the rolling sound and things.

When i was on a FlixBus from Oslo to Gothenburg the toilet didn't have toilet paper and it smelled bad. And the flush button and the help butten(that warns the driver) was right next to eachother

Wow. The rain detail on the ground and also the droplets on the side of the bus is really cool. ETS need shit like that.

Fernbus video? Are you feeling ok buddy? In all seriousness Paul, it's good to see you found the time to play this gem again.

Luzern in real life is absolutely amazing, would recommend it highly

I enjoyed being with your channel

thos busses do have massive fuel tanks. a city bus can run for 30+ hours. the intercity busses can also do about the same.

2:45 I love how he talks about the amazing graphics, then we see a hovering flower pot 😂😂😂

National Express 'Rapide' coaches (a concept taken from Trathens of Plymouth) in the 1980s had galleys / Kitchenettes on them. Nothing new then. I travelled on them a lot visiting my Dad travelling from Devon to London several times a year. The videos hardly ever worked, mind you!

new competitor the mossbus is on the horizon, slated for release some time before dinosaurs appear

Hi Squirrel u did super job with this bus simulator,love the bus,i enjoy

The story about the burger train had me crying with laughter lol

Hey squrrel can u please keep doing these fern bus videos because I have missed this series and I am very very great full that u brung fern bus back so thank you

Went on one of these in peru.... Was the single most fucking scary thing i have EVER done in my life. Imagine 4000m up and the driver cuts every single corner over double lines then flings the thing back out of the road of oncoming traffic.... This video bought back those memories and i wished the drivers drove like you hahahaha

Love this game play on this game. Definitely do more.

Squirrel think about this, SCS builds a coach sim Eventually the coach sim and truck sim become one.

Love the rain textures.

I got so excited when I saw this! Thank you!

another great vid squirrel, haven't played fernbus myself for awhile, hope you will play it more.

The fanfare is if someone is in the way the driver plays it as a warning! Trust me, happens a lot at my school!

Hi there! I just watched this episode again, and when Squirrel left Luzern, he wanted to press 'start ride' , but he pressed 'take a brake' . lol.😂😂 (somehow I couldn't set the time.....)

In ETS2 there is a cloverleaf on the M2 between London and Dover.

I just laughed at when he hit the horn button because when my mom turns on the cruise control in the Volvo it hits the horn!

Just an FYI: in Switzerland you need to have your lights on at all times! :)

Finally! Squirrel make a fernbus videos again! Pls make more of this. Pls put fernbus back to this channel. And if u make another one, pls make a long journey and use the longest bus. Neoplan is not the big bus anymore. There is bigger i forgot the name of the bus

I'm getting this game it looks good graphics

Im loving Tourist Bus simulator comes out Dec 6th...watched some videos on here ....its awesome its got so many things to do in game....driving buses, management, buying apartments and decorating them (house flipper style) drive cars....I am definitely going to buy it....have you seen it yet, no doubt you have....Im sure you will love it too :) I always enjoy watching your videos, tutorials etc....always very entertaining :) As always great video, keep up the great work :) have a great day and happy gaming :) magz :)

Good to see Fernbus back. Always liked it somehow, despite it being nowhere near finished when they released it. From what I can tell the framerates got better and the AI is A LOT better than it used to be. It has gone from ridiculous and almost game breaking to just very bad. I'm pretty sure there are also a lot more AI car and truck models + a lot more passenger models. Probably at least twice as much as there used to be, but still nowhere near enough. Twins everywhere... And the AI vehicle models are also not good enough imho. There was another map dlc (free), adding the baltic sea island of Usedom. Might be worth checking out in future videos (although it's pretty far away, right on the other side of the map on the German border with Poland).

There's 3/4 of a cloverleaf on the A3 near New Malden.

Squirrel !! You should definetly go to Luzern..I think that they have Europe's biggest transport museum !! And also Geneva is beautiful !

Yes thank for fern bus please do more squril

Monaco is actually Munich (in Italian).

Road signals are all wrong in Switzerland, lol. There are no 90 Limit signs, and 70 limits are rare and never on highways, so should be 120, 100, 80 mainly.

Awesome! Great video Hope i see. Some more of this game

I'm impressed with the AI. so smooth

I want to see the bus in real life champ!

Another bus driving game in development is "Bus World". Takes place in south China and Russia, but you are driving those tiny busses :D. Still not released, maybe going early access soon.

Squirrel you make wonderful videos. I really enjoy watching your videos. Keep them coming.

Love every videos .....please make more....hoping to reach 1 million plus subs....

lol going in a incoming lane at full speed twice crazy

All of the passengers are Hyacinth Bucket...

You can open the windows on the Neoplan by using the F6 key and close them using the F5 key.

Even more new driving videos on the channel: Good news!

Hi Squirrel could you play MY Summer Car there has been a few updates that some of us could really enjoy it and keep up the goodvid and thank you for doing another Fernbus its been a while

They don't do walking people because of your first answer. It's frame heavy. Especially if you give NPCs advanced commands so its not just the same NPC walking backwards and forwards in straight lines. Think of all the commands and operations required to get an NPC acting legit in a world space. You then multiply the amount of calculations required to make that happen for every NPC you add. Take the point in the video where you mentioned the no people bit (about half an hour in). You were driving through a dense urban city area. In such an area in real life, during the time of day it was in-game, you can expect 100-200+ people walking within eyesight from any given point. So lets say you have 200 commands every few seconds to keep an NPC looking cool. To render them all in the city, you don't have 200 commands being processed and handled every few seconds. You have 40,000 commands every few seconds as you have 200 cool looking NPCs. You can lower it a bit by getting a group of NPC's to huddle together and walk together so you can program them as one but when animated, the NPC's will be identical and do the same things at the same time. Any more than 4 or 5 people in a group though and you'd spot them so the NPC groups would still have to have individual acting NPC's around them to make them blend in. Either way, it'd kill all but the most expensive and up-to-date CPU's and as a game developer, you don't make loads of money from selling loads of games by building a very high-tec graphics heavy game that only 1% of the gaming community can run. You have to consider the gaming peasants like me who can't afford to sell both their kidneys for better equipment. Thus, there's no NPC's in this game just walking around. Also why the NPC's on train simulator look crap. Minimal commands and animations to keep the frames from tanking. :D

I don't have good pc to play these games, so thank you to let me enjoying watching you ;)

This game looks genuinely good, but what I think is missing in the audio department is the slight squeaking and rattling sound as you travel along the road. it's only natural to have things rattling when driving cause it's a bus. There are a lot of parts that rub against each other, and I think thats is whats missing. The interior noise of the bus is just too quiet.

I watch your squirrel+ channel and watching the record from the live stream of this was fun ^^

it look so real life

That moment when I'm eating a cheese burger from Mcdonalds and Paul starts talking about the "burger train".. 🤣

How to turn on the radio? Easy....just start your Spotify select you albums....and go back into the game!

Oh now I can, now I only need help with the controls and shoe where the bus is going AND show the way to the destination.

Could the turn issue be that your infront of the axel that’s doing the turning?

Actually most buses have understeer. This is because the front wheels are behind you, while in a (semi) truck they are right beneath you or in front of you in a long nose truck. Most city buses have the wheels close to the driver, while long range have them a further back. I believe that in 2015/2016 I once saw a blog post of SCS that they we're working on a coach addon. The map even has already bus stations in it. But I believed that their main problem was that especially in the base and east map cities are only a very small group of streets, so not very suitable for coach buses. As SCS has a very long standing relationship with Scania I don't think licensing would be an issue. They could simply start with the Scania K-series buses. I recently started taking lessons for the 'D' (European bus rating with a maximum of 8 passengers in a non-commercial setting - otherwise I would also need the 'Code 95' certification) license. I only need the license to be able to test drive the bus after we extended the default board computer with fleet management capabilities. This include track & trace, but also certain driver advisories (best rest stop option, best speed to maintain the time table, baggage tracking of passengers (bags get a tag much like with airlines, so the driver can make sure passengers only take their own baggage) and some other features).. I still find Omsi 2 the best bus simulator at this point. The graphics weren't that good, but the buses were pretty realistic to drive and operate.

I like how you talked about toilets on ur burger train for a full 5 minutes 😂😂

Thanks again for featuring this, I hope TML do pull out all the stops for The Bus, as we've not seen any more screens. However hopefully they will allow modding for The Bus

If LOTUS simulator comes out, are we going to see a first look gameplay video or not?

The speed seems similar to ETS2 that really grinds my gears when it just changes

I'm giving it a go now, must say graphics wise this reminds me so much of the first Watch Dogs, even the handling of the driving is similar. ATS & ETS/ETS2 are by far the best so far for driving physics.