I really loved Farming Simulator 22 on PS5 and so far have enjoyed Farming Simulator 25. The graphics are outstanding, and the new AI for fieldwork is incredible. Gone are the days of ignoring fields because they aren’t square! I used to manually do headlands and now that they are automatic and the AI follows the contours of the field is a vast improvement. I love the new types of quests as well. Having said that, however, the AI for driving is absolutely horrible. It was bad in the last version and unbelievably it’s worse in this version. It’s great to have a visually interesting bridge, but when the AI can’t even make a left turn onto it without running into the side It’s very frustrating. When the AI can’t make a basic jog in a road without simply running straight forward into a fence, it’s kind of ridiculous. Having the AI drive a harvester to the next field is an absolute failure every time. Driving straight down the road you have a “blocked by an object“ error every single time. Also, the new method of selecting a destination – something you do constantly while playing the game - is cumbersome and dramatically worse than the last version. You have to click on the vehicle (which I’m already in so it knows what vehicle I want to send anyway) and click “set destination“ in the menu. The worst part is this menu is different whether you are in a leased vehicle or an owned vehicle. And for some reason, the “sell“ option – which will, of course, be the least selected menu item – is placed above the set destination” item, so you have to go past it to get to the “set destination“ option for an owned vehicle. Inevitably you click “sell“ more often because you are used to going down only one menu item with a leased vehicle. This used to simply be the triangle button to choose “set destination“. Hopefully they will bring that back. I honestly don’t mind the bugs, I know there will be some that occur and will get fixed, but the “set destination“ is a programming choice and the AI driving was unfortunately never good to start with so I don’t have high hopes it will be improved anytime soon.
