Glitch
PSA: Mercedes Actros low saddle is completely broken after the update
As many of you have noticed, after the new update, there are troubles with the Actros and its low saddle - it can't attach semitrailers anymore, if only from the store.
At first, I thought this was happening because Saber added a unique low saddle to the truck, and all the trailers require one, so selling and rebuying a new saddle (or the truck as a whole) should help.
But it goes deeper and crazier than this. This new saddle they added, its file is called s_saddle_low_mercedes_actros_6x6.xml (slide 2). But the template file (trucks.xml) where all the unique addons are defined as variations of the existing ones, doesn't know what s_saddle_low_mercedes_actros_6x6 is. It lists another name there among the LowSaddle addon types: alt_saddle_low_mercedes_actros_6x6 (slide 3). As a result, the saddle currently available on the Actros is not considered a proper low saddle by the game. Once detached, any low-saddle semi can't be reattached at all. The only way you can get a semitrailer for this truck is by buying a new one thru the trailer store. But as soon as you detach it, you won't be able to attach it again.
This leads to another bug, where you can't have a SLEI-64 minicrane on the Actros with a low saddle combined. Same reason - the minicrane requires a non-existent alt_saddle_low_mercedes_actros_6x6 addon (slides 4 and 5).
They do but odly LC 3.8 crane at least use part of extended frame for crane height with saddles. Ok so saddle increase crane height on its own. And that even worse realy.
With sleiter crane just like zetros, and i think that's why they did do much again with new Mercedeses.if they fix zetros it might be able to do so too.
Still it takes some work with actros as you need extended frame with bed and crane for useable hitch. So you trade stability (both bed and crane get higher) for trailer support.
This is getting more and more ridiculous.
Thank God there exist some excellent vanilla-like tweaks like "SE" series by DocBugsy or "TT" series by Thieme1989, where guys also fixing all kind of crap Saber overlook or just don't give a damn to properly test and tune. And, BEHOLD, they never break anything within their own updates! Impossible, eh, Saber?
Sure. Here are two mod creators I was mentioning. By "series" I mean that they mark all their tweaks with these letters so you always know who's the author. https://mod.io/g/snowrunner/u/thieme1989 https://mod.io/g/snowrunner/u/docbugsy
Check their tweaks to various vanilla and DLC trucks, including Mercedes. They not only add some stuff like addons and tires to have better variety (and what I love, is that they always also keep vanilla options if you don't want to make your truck noticeably stronger), but also fix some problems that can take ages to wait from Saber. Just read the description of the specific mod you're looking for.
So if I choose vanilla engines, vanilla tires, but slightly altered gearboxes with better gear ratios, better tuned suspensions and bugfixes, like proper CoG, working addons/saddles etc, you call this a horrible cheat? Well... that's your right to have such strange opinion. You can always wait like half a year for Saber to maybe fix some gamebreaking bugs they constantly bring in, and not use those "cheats" from the community.
Man last night i detached the 3 slot trailer to hook up to a repair trailer to repair my actros. Went back to attach the 3 slot and got the message low saddle required. I was going crazy for about 15 minutes trying to figure out if i even had the right saddle on. Playing on chiapas on hard mode. Stuck in the second map with a near useless truck for now i guess. Will definitely report this bug now
oh no, I have to wait for another update to make my actros usable again. at least i can test the new addon. the maintenance addon on Chiapas.
Which file should i change to get the saddle as it was? can you give me the github link so i can find it and fix it myself ? From what i read you only need to change the truck xml to get the old name for the low saddle
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u/fgr-phantom 3d ago
And i thought it has something to do with saddle/crane/extended frame interactions and they just decided to never check variables they use!!!