I started Maine yesterday. I spent most of the session doing reconnaissance of the Lowlands map. It's huge, but very easy to get around once you figure out how to navigate or avoid the bog just down the hill from the garage. By the end of the session I had all the watchtowers open, all the tasks unlocked, and all but a few corners of the map painted in.
It's also bidding fair to become my favourite map in the game. The contracts are interesting, the scenery is pretty, and there are very few 'death trap' areas. Much of the forested terrain and almost all of the river area is navigable.
Today I started on the contracts, and I've already completed two of the four tasks for restoring the garage: clearing out the spaces for trucks and opening the trailer store. Opening the truck store, giving me the ability to buy trucks here, is low on my list of priorities, but I'm keen to get the repair services done. I'm still not sure if I'll be able to use something on the map for this or if it will require getting to a hard-to-reach warehouse on the second map (Yellowrock).
I have been using the Twinsteer for much of the early work. It must know it's on probation because it's been very well behaved. On the other hand, I'm extremely wary of its lack of stability, so it may be my over careful driving when using it as much as anything else.
I'm going to go get the one Upgrade on the map, which is on an island that may only be reachable by a tall truck, and then I'll have to decide how to proceed.
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