Digging deeper into ETS2 1.11 update

Today we have another dose of info and images from the upcoming Euro Truck Simulator 2 version 1.11 update for you.

There are several additional features simulation fans may enjoy:

Tempomat (Cruise control) received an additional mapping. Now it is possible to map the keys/buttons on the controller of your choice to increase or decrease speed, in addition to just having enable/disable hotkey. This should make cruise control act closer to what the real thing does.

We have also achieved more realistic timing for the air brake sound. Retarder indicator is lit during automatic retarder usage, and you can now configure the maximum steering angle in game options.

With the Seat Adjuster feature, we have paid more attention to side mirrors. While moving your head in the cabin, the side mirrors are now adjusting their perspective of the world rendering. It took us a while to work this out, but in the end effort had paid off with the realistic mirror perception. This should be even more noticeable to the lucky few who are using head tracking gear like TrackIR, or with head-tracking enabled virtual reality sets.

In additional little touch - now you can sell a garage or relocate your headquarters to another city.

Even more about the next BIG update

Let's continue previewing even more items that you can expect to experience in the upcoming Euro Truck Simulator 2 update to ver. 1.11. This update is under extensive testing now, and no, we still don't have a release date to announce, other than when it's done.

Today's post will be illustrated with images captured while testing deliveries around some of the new map areas: close to the city Klagenfurt am Wörthersee and the border between Italy and Austria.

As with all previous updates lumping together several months of continual development, the new update will touch pretty much every aspect of the game: physics, AI, simulation, and gameplay refinements.

Speaking of physics: We have added support for sway bar simulation. Refining the composition of truck suspension has given us more control over truck and trailer stability. We have also recalculated the center of gravity of all cargoes, achieving more individual behavior of the whole rig depending on what is being transported. Now if you apply too much vigor during cornering, flipping the trailer is a more likely possibility, especially for particular loads. At the same time, we still need to keep in mind that the game must be playable for people without a truck driver's license and experience, so it's about finding the right balance between providing simulation fidelity and giving the player assistance during driving.

There was also some work done to improve collisions of player's truck and AI vehicles, or situations when the truck is scrubbing the railing or other surface - vehicles now have more realistic inertia post-crash. Finally, we have re-created all scratch and crash sounds in the game. Remember our Demolition day?

On topic of sounds, while we have much more ambitious plans to improve our sound system in a considerable way in the future, we have finally listened to your feedback concerning imbalance between interior and exterior sounds, and provided a stop gap solution. For this update, where needed, we have altered and equalized the sound volume of in-cabin engine sounds and external engine sounds for all trucks.

More about the next BIG update

In a recent blog post we have shown you a few things which are coming with the next major Euro Truck Simulator 2 update, including three new cities and the Seat Adjustment feature.

Venice driving 

Another feature is worth mentioning - displaying current road speed limit in Route Advisor, similar as it's available in common car GPS devices. Our Route Advisor tries to be even smarter about it - it will show *truck specific* speed limits - our game is about trucks after all. So limits for normal cars must be in some places capped by the country's truck speed maximum allowed. This feature is optional, so you can track speed limits on your own if you prefer, and hide speed limit Route Advisor icon in game options.

                                         
There were also some changes in the game user interface. The UI received a facelift to clean up its look a bit and make it fresher. This is for example what the game's "desktop" UI hub will look like:

During testing we took some more images of the new areas. We'll be showing them all over a series of blog posts. Let us start with the approach to Venice and some shots from inside the city:

New Competition

It has been some time since we had a tsgmods competition so I thought it was a good time as any, and to celebrate the release of the Alpha of the Euro Truck Simulator 2 multiplayer mod, the prize for this competition is for not only a legit unlock code for Euro Truck Simulator 2, but also includes the Going East Download Content, and can be either registered in steam or in the standard windows versions of the game.

To enter you must be a member/staff of the forums, click here to go to the competition thread on the forums.

 How To Enter:

This is not our normal competition so thought we would make it a little different, to enter this competition all you need to do is submit 3 pictures of real trucks.

Rules:

• Only members/staff of the forums can enter.
  
• Each member is only allowed to enter a maximum of 3 screenshots.
  
• All entered screenshots have to be in .jpg format, any other picture formats will be removed by a member of staff without warning and the entry will then be voided until the problem is fixed.
  
• All entries have to be added to the thread by Midnight 30th June 2014. Any entries after this date/time will be voided and removed from the competition.
  
• The winner will be choosen by a public poll, that all members can vote on, which will be started the day after the competition entries are closed ( 1st July 2014 ), and will run to 2 days after the closing date to give all entrants and members a chance to vote
  
• Pictures have to be taken by the person who enters the competition ( so no using other peoples pictures please ).

Prizes:

• 1st:Euro Truck Simulator 2 unlock Code & Going East Download Content
• 2nd:Euro Truck Simulator 2 Unlock Code
• 3rd:Going East Unlock Code

ETSMP Report Road Blocked By SaNeY__ (762)

Well another installment of the idiots on the multiplayer mod for euro truck simulator 2, I record every trip from now on, so far tonight ( while playing ) i have been rammed 3 times, and had this motorway blocked ( I can not understand why they do it, or how they can be parked up like this for so long if my truck is idle for more than about 5mins, i lose connection with the game for being idle, this SaNeY__ person was parked here for a lot longer than that, I did the usual thing F7 to go to the nearest town, which then put be back in the same place when I tried to continue on my journey to the UK, I got stuck behind this idiot, along with another 20+ players, in the end we all had to do a 360 and drive down the wrong side of the motorway and back up the other side and then drive on the wrong side until we came to the next junction ( I apologize to anybody seeing me do this but was left with little choice )

Being Rammed By Lans178rus

This is the 2nd time I have been rammed in Rotterdam, MrNT rammed me head on ( he was going on the wrong side of the road towards the Europort ), but I did not record that at the time, I had to F7 to a local upgrade shop to repair my truck ( cost me €167 thousand euro's ), I repaired my truck and shrugged it off, picked up my next load headed to Italy, had a funny feeling it was going to happen again, so decided to record the trip to catch anybody doing it, Lans178rus was parked at the side of the motorway on the hard should, I passed him with the limiter on doing 90kmph, he pulled off ( without the limiter on ), and caught up with me, then rammed me on purpose which can be clearly seen in the video

 
 After checking the footage a lot I have come to the conclusion that the 2nd truck was a part of a tag team, they also have a very very similar names 2nd driver called oNe178rus first driver called Lans178rus

Lans178rus deliberatly rammed me off the road ( from the left side ), oNe178rus was speeding up behind me to catch up, now I am unsure if he would have hit me anyway if my truck had missed him, as I originally said I will leave you make up your own minds about the 2nd truck, but I am a little more than miffed as why they do this, it ruins the game for everybody else, and themselfs, not to mention if they get their steam accounts banned from the mp wouldnt they have to rebuy the game to do it again, as you can only use a cd key once for a account or am I missing some thing.

This post is not ment to put other multi-player players off it is for information only so you can watch out for these players and others like them, this has only happened to me a total of 3 times ( twice within mins of each other )