Trucking Simulator Games Discussion

[Silverwing]

^ If you find it, please let me know.  I would love to see that. 

[timmelon]

I had a look at their YT channel, and the video is already there! (the truck we talked about appears at 54:00)

It was uploaded just a couple hours ago.

[Grapefoot]

We never got the MAN TGX they promised earlier in the year.

In the Christmas stream (I think) they said they had delays due to references.  Once it's on YT we can share it.

It is now online!

Lol!  Alex in the Santa outfit seemed so weird, lol.  That beard was unnaturally smooth.

[timmelon]

Without the grass textures, this location looks even more interesting .

[RainySunshine]

^ Is that Colorado?

[timmelon]

I like the direction of your thoughts .

The picture is from Switzerland, but the grassless (due to being WIP) terrain gives this location some American vibes.

[Anyponedrawn]

I got to watch the whole stream and besides what everyone has pointed out here, they also revealed the first teaser video of Kansas!  They said they are working on Oklahoma and "Project Sunflower" which is Kansas.  As well, there is a Texas 2.0 update coming with hundreds of miles of new roads to be added with Oklahoma as well as Northeast Texas.

[timmelon]

Of course, that is funny to see the release of the smallest map DLC right after the biggest map DLC. Although, the list of DLCs for ATS is much much shorter than for ETS, so I think there is not a problem to release all next states separately... maybe, with exceptions like tiny northeast states or the states with common names .

Also, I hope those smooth sausage-like gas tanks (judging from the screenshots, we will finally be able to paint them like in ETS) will be as much profitable as liquid fuel trailers. Just one three-hour ride with a Feldbinder tank gave me a huge pile of money!

I see, the names of this manufacturer’s products are little less human .

[Soda]

Finished the WoT Christmas event!

When companies name products these long lists and numbers, I never understand it and it confuses me.  I also am more likely to forget it.  For example... this car is named bz4x and this car is named Corvette.  I am going to remember the one with an actual name way more then one that is a random assortment of numbers and letters.  German cars tend to love to confuse me with just having a long list of numbers and letters and it seems their trailer companies apply the same methods.

[timmelon]

As I remember, Harley-Davidson also likes various abbreviations .

[Soda]

UGH!  I don't know a single motorcycle name to be honest.

[timmelon]

The common joke says that Yamaha R1 is well-known sportbike mostly due to its simple name.
As for truck manufacturers... well, most of European ones at least try to have some system in their naming, although Iveco still has a tradition to give non-indicative names, Renault has seemingly got rid of this tradition, and Mercedes continues to invent new names starting on A.

[MasterXtreme]

Watching the stream and yikes you guys are missing so much.

So yes, on top of everything posted above, they will also be redoing old MAN and Volvo vehicles and remodeling them to the current standard.    In the same stream!  I think we're going to keep finding things in this stream. 

[timmelon]

...they will also be redoing old MAN and Volvo vehicles and remodeling them to the current standard.

As I remember, it was stated as the reason why MAN TGX 2020 is not going to be released very soon .

I wish every stream will have some kind of official summary post, mentioning all statements which were done. People who watch these streams parallel with doing something else on their PC can and will miss a lot of information .

It’s cool they are making the exterior of current Volvo FH from scratch instead of just changing the headlights of their existing model from 2012 . Although, the quality of older Volvos... and even older Renaults is more or less tolerable, if compare with MAN TGX 2010 and first Iveco Stralis — these two trucks deserve to get a second life (like DAF 105 five years ago) first.

[RainySunshine]

I wish they had summaries too, but it's up to us to find and report it I guess.  In reference to the Switzerland photo posted above, (I watched the stream finally) they mentioned they have 10 people working on rebuilding parts of ETS2 right now.  Pavel said they large teams on ATS and ETS2 right now, with ATS still the larger group.  But he mentioned for ETS2, that it might be awhile before they ever tackle remaking the British Isles.  They are focusing on smaller country updates in ETS2 witch what can be assumed newer hired staff.  But hey, at least he mentioned the British Isles finally.  So we know that won't come for awhile.  He said at the current rate (jokingly) it would take the current ETS2 crew ten years to finish the British Isles.  He said the ETS2 team is making good progress, but everything is going slower than he had hoped. 

So all that is pretty good info.  It's also interesting to hear a bit of frustration from Pavel in terms of the speed at which things are going on ETS2.  The delay with the trucks and the speed at which the reworks and DLC's are coming.  I don't recall ever hearing him be a bit frustrated.