Trucking Simulator Games Discussion

[MasterXtreme]

Nice job, Raine.  Check your WoT account to get the prizes you earned.

[Anyponedrawn]

Nice job, Raine.  I completed it as well.   Stuck up my meadowlark badge of honor on my truck's interior.

[Anyponedrawn]

Using the Midjourney Ai, I tried to make some trucking photos... The first one didn't make any sense, lol.



So I tried to be a bit more descriptive.



Okay... not bad.  I see some recognizable shapes now.

Then I tried again, but this time I included the term "industrial."  Got the best results yet.  Some pretty futuristic cool looking stuff too.



Then I got sidetracked and somehow made some weird futuristic train locomotives, lol.

[timmelon]

The nature looks beautiful!

[Anyponedrawn]

I thought so too!   The program can make some stuff really well.

[timmelon]

Seems like we’ll get a new Volvo

Well, not very soon, since they say the project is on early stage, and even the WIP screenshots are not ready to be shown. So, all we can see today is a «filming the K-On!! opening»-like video . I am still very happy to see that: the post-2018 Volvo VNL looks great, and it’s not an another Cascadia family member .
We already have two new trucks for ATS this year, so, something tells me the next new vehicle made by SCS will be the European one.

[Rainberry]

Those are pretty cool Ai images, @Anyponedrawn.  Thanks for sharing.

[RainySunshine]

Nice stuff, APD.  Some actually look pretty good and those locomotives are very cool.

Volvo VNL for the win!!!

So what truck do you think is a possible prospect for ETS2?

[timmelon]

So what truck do you think is a possible prospect for ETS2?

I expect to see the new GUY TGX this fall. It’s already being produced for two years, so it’s time .
The 2020 versions of Volvo FH and Mercedes Actros can be added as a set of new tuning options (just like Renault T Evo), but MAN TGX 2020 is completely new, so it deserves to appear in the game first .

[Silverwing]

The DUDE TGX.  What is something I don't think will ever come?  A new IVECO. 

[timmelon]

The DUDE TGX.

I don’t know about how the owners can play with their truck’s logo today, but, for some reason, older MAN had dots between the letters, also, the MAN dealer from Rotterdam have sold their trucks under the name of RAM (hello, Dodge ), and the Romanian MAN-friendly manufacturer has actually made the trucks named ROMAN.

The first KAMAZ logo was very easy to modify, so the owners could replace the letters with different ones, making another five-letter words like ZAKAZ, KAZAK and so on. The trucks for not-USSR countries always had the Latin Z at the end, but Mongolia preferred the Cyrillic one, because they liked KAMA-Three name more than KAMA-Two .

What is something I don't think will ever come?  A new IVECO. 

I think the adding of iVeco S-Way to the game is more likely than remodelling of the oldest Stralis .

[RainySunshine]

I don't even know if IVECO is on speaking terms with SCS anymore.

I would be moving letters around on those trucks ALL THE TIME.

[Rainberry]

Is there any major European truck brands not yet in the game? 

[Grapefoot]

Is there any major European truck brands not yet in the game?

For the most part, all the major mainland European brands are there.  The only brands not included are major localized brands.  For example, country A has a big brand of trucks not included in the game, because they aren't really sold out of country A.

The biggest two not included would be Ford and Volkswagen. They offer vehicles. 

Ford F-MAX.


Ford Cargo.


Volkswagen Tractor.

[timmelon]

Well, brands like SISU and GINAF are true European and pretty well-known but very, very far from major ones. VW Constellation is made only for South-American market under MAN license, also, Ford F-max, which is highly appreciated in various reviews, is being produced in Turkey for Europeans, so... it’s not true European as well.
For this moment, we can say that EU and US both have 7,5 major truck manufacturers, and in both cases the 0,5 part belongs to Ford (I can’t deny that F350s and F550s are real trucks ).