Trucking Simulator Games Discussion

[Anyponedrawn]

There is a BIG blog update.

BIG IN IDAHO

[timmelon]

^Lol, the same post was mentioned thrice: one time by me, and two times by you .

Some information about Colorado is also included!

Looks like we will get another unload spot in the plane soon. And I see that they placed a vintage aircraft* there — there is something like Lockheed Constellation standing near the right edge of this screenshot.

*well, one of DC10s from there also can be really old, since FedEx still have a couple of ones made in '72-'73 .

[Grapefoot]

Okay, so I take back anything I said before about the recent ETS 2 expansion.  Last time when I drove into Romania and Bulgaria, I mainly drove through the southern portion which was mostly plains and grassland.

I take back everything.  IT'S A BEAUTIFUL and awesome place to drive.  So many cool areas and the quality of work by SCS is better than most of their ETS 2 work!  But one thing I seemed to have noticed... everything takes longer to drive around in Romania and Bulgaria!  I think it's because of the lack of highways to easily traverse areas.  Lots of smaller roads and tons of curves.

[Silverwing]

^ I forgot the name of the city and don't have access to a map.  But there is a city in the south of Bulgaria bordering Turkey... it's very pretty with this bridge and water.  Also some waterways in Bulgaria are lovely.  I remember one with a ship and some sort of inland port.  When I get home I will look up the names if people are interested.

[timmelon]

^Oh, yeah, the road from Burgas to Constanța, RO (and mostly closed road from Burgas to Turkish border) have a lot of seashore scenes. Even the Container Port in Burgas is worthy to visit not only for cargoes, but also for small bay behind it.
Also, the mountains around the A2 highway to the north from Sofia look nice too:

And the Istanbul itself looks really big:

One of its inner parts (D100) looks like a highway on map, but it’s mostly a wide street with 50 km/h speed limit.

BTW, Travemunde, which was added in 1.33, also have a beach area, with covered chairs on it. I was somewhere around that beacon (right of the mirror on this picture ) in 2016 and watched the departure of Finnlines ferry. Back then I didn’t know it will become my favorite ferry route in ETS2 .

[Silverwing]

Yes!  I didn't remember the names.  I took some pics too.  Also those iconic Travemunde chairs! I remember seeing those and wondering why they were all so unique looking at first.  i had to look it up.  I love how this game makes you learn about interesting places too.

[MasterXtreme]

I will have to drive into Bulgaria more.  So far I've only penetrated Romania a little bit, but deliveries keep pulling me back west!

[RainySunshine]

I should put more time in those regions.  I didn't give them enough of a chance.  I am still exploring all of Italy (I haven't even seen it all yet)!!!

[timmelon]

I should put more time in those regions.

Time is a key word .
Have you seen the full cycle of border inspection while going from Bulgaria to Turkey? It consumes a lot of time, but looks really interesting: at first you are asked to pass weight inspection, then you are directed to big garage with movable X-ray installation (cue the cutscene with its movement), and then they order you to move into another garage, when some people with a dog conduct the final inspection. At other borders (and when you are going from Turkey) the procedure is shorter, but still takes more time then on Russian borders.
And I like two of three RO-BU border points in their concept: it’s not a AZ-NM or AZ-UT, separated by an unseen line on the map — here you have a river, a natural border line . If the SCS will decide to include Moldova, there will be a similar situation — 100% of RO-MD border comes along the river as well.

I am still exploring all of Italy (I haven't even seen it all yet)!!!

While I always start a new profile every new year, I noticed some similarities on map exploration pattern: all three years the least explored area was the Los-Angeles outskirts. For some reason (maybe because it’s a center of pre-1.36 map) I have no iterest of having any deliveries to/from there. The southern Italy have a similar effect to me: most of high-profitable routes are running aside from this part of the map, and the main reason for me to go there is to look at scenery.

[Anyponedrawn]

^ I forgot the name of the city and don't have access to a map.  But there is a city in the south of Bulgaria bordering Turkey... it's very pretty with this bridge and water.  Also some waterways in Bulgaria are lovely.  I remember one with a ship and some sort of inland port.  When I get home I will look up the names if people are interested.

There is a city with a tunnel and you come out to a small bridge over water and see a lovely town on the hillside.  I think this is the town you are talking about.  It is called Veliko Tarnovo.

As for the other town along a waterway, that is the Danube and I believe it is an unmarked town in Romania. Well actually it is the river Cema mouth which flows into the Danube. I think it is Orsova.  It is pretty much spot on in the game including this abandoned tower, which I assume was used by the port at one time. 

[Graymist]

Technical heavy blog post about the new shader/lighting/shadows engine.  Lots of good examples of what it does.

[timmelon]

DAF XF Unity Edition

No new content aside from Unity Edition paintjobs, but SCS has started giveaway of 10000 keys to XF Tuning Pack!

And yes, the questions «why rear fenders still aren’t paintable» are present in comments .

[Anyponedrawn]

And the keys have all been taken already.  That was fast.  Missed out again.

[Silverwing]

I've never been able to get an SCS giveaway. Don't worry.  They go super fast. 

[MasterXtreme]

Hooray, I have that update... but I still probably won't use the schemes.  What ETS 2 and ATS really need are more schemes to color our trucks.  We are so limited.

Imagine an editor that we could move shapes around ourselves and color! Oooh! Like add our trucking company logos and add text.