A single field can take hours to get through with just a couple of actions, and there are dozens to get to grips with on the map.įortunately there’s the option to hire an AI character to do the job – just start off with what needs doing and hit a button to let them take over. It’s not over there though because certain yields will leave residue to be baled and cleaned up before the next batch can be planted. Once the crop’s grown it’s time to get in the biggest, baddest machines and harvest the s*%! out of it. The cultivator then gets swapped for a sower which may need specialised types depending on the crop, then a fertiliser and possibly a weed killing run before letting time do its thing. Taking a stock tractor, the first action is to cultivate a field – essentially ploughing it by dragging a mass of churning metal across it to break the soil up. It turns out that there’s about 100 different pieces of kit (slight exaggeration, but only slight) needed to take a field from barren to fruitful and most of them have only one purpose. Lying at the heart of Farming Simulator 19 is the core belief that the player just wants to drive up and down a field in something big whilst having a physical impact on the environment. That said, the key selling point of Farming Simulator 19 (and previous) is the variety of licensed machinery on display and what’s available to scamper across the fields in and for those without any notion of what’s needed to run an efficient and productive operation, it’s a bit of an eye opener.
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Do the jobs on hand, recognise the harvests that offer the highest return, upgrade equipment to make things faster and more efficient, rake the money in, re-invest into better gear and a more diverse portfolio – there’s a lot of depth on offer rather than the initial impression it gives in the tutorial where it teaches the basics of driving a tractor. It’s an open world sandbox that lets the player take charge of managing crops, animals and trade within the limits of the map. It isn’t a tongue-in-cheek pastiche or port of a mobile social game.
This is going to sound obvious, but the game is exactly what the title says. In its latest instalment of the surprisingly successful series, Farming Simulator 19 continues to bring the thrills and spills of cultivation and harvesting to the masses… but could it keep me engrossed?
However, if I’d ever had a hankering to don wellies and a chequered shirt and leap behind the wheel of immense machinery, I can at least now do it virtually. Even through my youth with regular visits to an Uncle and Aunt who ran a dairy farm hasn’t given me the greatest insight into the world of crop rotation and animal husbandry, only that cows are noisy and smelly, and the food was always hearty. We just accept that it happens and food and materials make their way from where they’re grown and eventually land in some form on our supermarket shelves. I don’t know a great deal about farming, I don’t suppose that many of us really do.
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