Scania Truck Driving Simulator is now on Steam!

As you may remember, Scania TDS has been Greenlit on Steam back in October of last year already. We would like to express big thanks to everyone who supported us by voting for the game! Today, the game finally becomes available on Steam. We have been so busy working on improvements for ETS2 and ATS that none of programmers managed to find the time for preparing the game for Steam distribution until now.

If you already own the retail version of Scania TDS and want to have it in your Steam library, you don't need to purchase it again of course. All you need to do is to activate your retail key on Steam - read this Steam Support article to see how to do it.

We are really happy that millions of Steam users will get a chance to try our game. For many of you this game is an old story by now, but we would appreciate if you could still help us - share screenshots on Steam, write a review, make videos and put them in the Steam game hub, join discussions. We are keen to see your contributions. The better the game is accepted during its re-launch in digital distribution, the more resources SCS can invest back into further development of our truck simulators.

We took the opportunity to update the game with new content, too - all Scania TDS customers can download a new update to version 1.6  It includes 2 additional Dangerous Drives levels: "Power Plant Repair" and "Commercial Shooting", and 1 additional Competition level: "Bonus 4." This update is already included in the Steam version. Retail update is on the update page.

You may also be aware that this game has been developed in close cooperation with Scania to promote their Scania Driver Competitions - to quote their press release, "the world’s largest truck driving and training event."
   

By chance, the release of the game update coincides with the start of a new round of Scania Driver Competitions - "The Scania Driver Competitions 2014 will be the sixth edition of the international event since it began back in 2003. The 2014 competition hopes to attract more than 85,000 truck drivers from 40 countries." Scania has a a funny viral YouTube clip promoting the start of the competitions:

 

By chance, the release of the game update coincides with the start of a new round of Scania Driver Competitions - "The Scania Driver Competitions 2014 will be the sixth edition of the international event since it began back in 2003. The 2014 competition hopes to attract more than 85,000 truck drivers from 40 countries." Scania has a a funny viral YouTube clip promoting the start of the competitions:

Sound Recording Session – Scania Recovery Truck

SCS Updated the Offical SCS Blog on Monday, February 24, 2014

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We hear you loud and clear - yes indeed, we are taking longer with the 1.9 ETS2 update than we anticipated. Sorry about that. Things have been looking very good for some time already, we are almost there, but we always find out from the beta testing feedback that a tweak is needed here or there. Rather than rushing the patch out, we prefer to tune it until we are happy, you know that this is the way we prefer to work. This upcoming update is of course not the end of the road - we have quite a roadmap of improvements for the game still planned for 2014 and beyond!

To prove that we are still around, here is a little video from a sound recording event we performed over a week ago already, finally we managed to cut it into a cool YouTube movie...

                                                                                 

Aother Skin Request Almost Completed

As many of you know I do not turn down a request very often, more so from members of the TSGmods.com forums, well I had completed most of the other requests that I had in the queue, and offered to do a skin for a new member of the forums by the name of Trucker Girl, I found out later that her dad was a trucker in the USA and had recently passed away, anyway she asked me to do a skin of the Scottish haulage giant Ferguson Transport Ltd ( Spean Bridge ), I have added a small note to the rear of the trucks cab in honour of her Dads passing.

Here is a screenshot of the rear of the trucks cab showing the message.

Here is a picture of the real life truck

And below is my version ( just wish the front grill of the SCS model of the FH was paintable like in the real life version )

The trailer needs to be finished now, but it is not far off, the rear doors are the main problem as I can not seem to find a picture that shows the correct livery for their curtain side trailer, does anybody have a link to a picture showing the correct livery for the rear of the trailer?.......if you do please post a comment and include the link, as this might even be a rare treat and be made a public release.

M@x

Charity Auction

TSGmods.com have been trying to think of ways to help other less fortunate than us, we came up with the idea of holding a auction, the auction will involve people donating £1, where their name will be added to a charity trailer ( all money raised will go to a charity, which will be decided by a poll on the forums, if you think you would be interested in this idea, or a possible donation, you can discuss it on the forums with other members just click here to go to the forum thread