Well its that time of the day again where I upload another online multi-player gaming video from the ets2mp series, this time i have company on the trip, Senor Cabbage ( from gamers paradise ) joined me on this short but fun run, hope you enjoy
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Tuesday 28 October 2014
Thursday 23 October 2014
Euro Truck Simulator 2 First look Daf Euro 6 (Offical SCS Model)
A short video showing the new Daf Euro 6 model from SCS ( which is also available in the public beta via steam )
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Wednesday 22 October 2014
DIG It - A Digger Simulator (Part 2) Motorway Constuction
It is such a shame that the games developer did not do the game as it should have been done, they skipped steps out of the process ( like the rock truck being driven off site to empty which is
fine if the player was in control ).
The playing area on both missions, and sand box modes are tiny, even for the biggest machines in the game.
Some of the game engine needs a lot of tweaking for both the light flares and the way the machines handles the extracted materials
The controls could have been improved, as it is now they can be a little unresponsive and not very easy to control even using a xbox 360 controller as I even tried it with a brand new controller and the controls acted the exact same as with my old controller
fine if the player was in control ).
The playing area on both missions, and sand box modes are tiny, even for the biggest machines in the game.
Some of the game engine needs a lot of tweaking for both the light flares and the way the machines handles the extracted materials
The controls could have been improved, as it is now they can be a little unresponsive and not very easy to control even using a xbox 360 controller as I even tried it with a brand new controller and the controls acted the exact same as with my old controller
Tuesday 21 October 2014
ETS2MP Part 12 (Manchester To Brussels)
Its that time of the week again, where all the TSGmods subscribers wait inline to watch the new multiplayer game video, another hop from the UK to mainland Europe this time to Brussels, and I actually had some company along the way, Senor Cabbage from Utube channel Gamers Paradise joined me as my convoy partner, I was hauling a drilling machine which is urgently needed to continue work on a quarry.
Saturday 18 October 2014
1.14 Update news and Across the desert in American Truck Simulator
Euro Truck Simulator 2 team is working hard on finalizing of ETS2 1.14 Update. Stabilization of this large update had been our focus for several weeks already.
The development team's long-term assignment is very challenging. We are not just "patching" the game with bug fixes two full years after its release. We are committed to bringing you significant improvements every couple of months. That's why we prefer to call new game version releases "updates" rather than "patches."
For every update release, we need to hit a moment in time when we have a stable and as much as possible bug-free combination of game data and source code. Our team may work on 10+ major features in parallel, yet for a given game update we usually decide that just two or three of them are already mature enough for publishing. The rest needs to stay hidden from public eyes until its ready. However, the priorities of finalizing, bug fixing, and polishing of the particular features picked for an update and working on "future stuff" in parallel are quite contradictory and really hard to follow at the same time and within the same asset database and game source code. To release an update, ideally everything should be in "freeze" mode to minimize the danger of introducing new bugs. But "freeze" is the enemy of progress - we cannot stop working on "future stuff" for too long if we want to see good progress on major features or optimizations that often require half a year or more of dedicated time.
We still haven't found an ideal solution to this problem of trying to focus both on short term incremental improvements and on long term "big picture" evolution. It may be frustrating for the dev team at times, and it may also be frustrating for you the players as you have to wait longer for game updates. But we are doing what we can, and we hope that the string of future updates and releases coming from SCS Software's labs will justify a little bit of frustration ;).
So anyway, we feel that we are very close to releasing the public beta of 1.14 update for ETS2! We will do it with the help of Steam back-end just as during the previous public betas. The feedback loop from a public beta is really very useful in the final stages before an official release. We'd rather not promise any particular release dates, but the ambition is "days" rather than "weeks."
In case you have missed the new ETS2 update 1.14 features we had mentioned here on the blog earlier, they include tag-lift truck axles and finally the new DAF Euro 6truck.
Meanwhile, the American Truck Simulator team is never ceasing to work. There is grumbling that we don't pay enough attention to their project on the blog. So let us wrap up the long and heavy rant post with a couple of screenshots of American desert setting from American Truck Simulator to cheer you up on the weekend...
The development team's long-term assignment is very challenging. We are not just "patching" the game with bug fixes two full years after its release. We are committed to bringing you significant improvements every couple of months. That's why we prefer to call new game version releases "updates" rather than "patches."
For every update release, we need to hit a moment in time when we have a stable and as much as possible bug-free combination of game data and source code. Our team may work on 10+ major features in parallel, yet for a given game update we usually decide that just two or three of them are already mature enough for publishing. The rest needs to stay hidden from public eyes until its ready. However, the priorities of finalizing, bug fixing, and polishing of the particular features picked for an update and working on "future stuff" in parallel are quite contradictory and really hard to follow at the same time and within the same asset database and game source code. To release an update, ideally everything should be in "freeze" mode to minimize the danger of introducing new bugs. But "freeze" is the enemy of progress - we cannot stop working on "future stuff" for too long if we want to see good progress on major features or optimizations that often require half a year or more of dedicated time.
We still haven't found an ideal solution to this problem of trying to focus both on short term incremental improvements and on long term "big picture" evolution. It may be frustrating for the dev team at times, and it may also be frustrating for you the players as you have to wait longer for game updates. But we are doing what we can, and we hope that the string of future updates and releases coming from SCS Software's labs will justify a little bit of frustration ;).
So anyway, we feel that we are very close to releasing the public beta of 1.14 update for ETS2! We will do it with the help of Steam back-end just as during the previous public betas. The feedback loop from a public beta is really very useful in the final stages before an official release. We'd rather not promise any particular release dates, but the ambition is "days" rather than "weeks."
In case you have missed the new ETS2 update 1.14 features we had mentioned here on the blog earlier, they include tag-lift truck axles and finally the new DAF Euro 6truck.
Meanwhile, the American Truck Simulator team is never ceasing to work. There is grumbling that we don't pay enough attention to their project on the blog. So let us wrap up the long and heavy rant post with a couple of screenshots of American desert setting from American Truck Simulator to cheer you up on the weekend...
Wednesday 15 October 2014
DIG IT - A Digger Simulator
Hours after release of Dig it, I was playing it, when it comes to 'big boys toys' I'm normally first in line, knowing nothing at all about this game, and as it was on offer in steam ( for £12.74 )
So I had little expectations for this game, after being disapointed with the last version of Excavtor Simulator I was ready to be disapointed, but I was surprised, the game has full support for xbox 360 controllers, which means you can actually use 2 thumbsticks to control the excavator which works pretty well.
The controls can be a bit sticky ( shall we say ) but I am unsure if this is down to my controller or the actual game.
I have done around 5-6 game missions, in under an hour, so the long term gameplay is not looking to good, oh do i head you shouting at the screen saying theres a sandbox mode in the game, well you are correct there is, but its next to useless, as the plot of land the sand box gives you ( even the largest sandbox ) is tiny, even for the biggest machines in the game there is not much room to manover.
Some of the excators wont even pick up the dirt, in sandbox mode, I tried out the largest of these excavators and it point blanke refused to pick up any dirt, and on the rare time it did it might have been a small bucket full.....but not having tried the same machine on a mission it could be just down to the sandbox mode.
Well I hope you people have enjoyed the short video, it is not very long, But it should give you an idea what the game is like.
On the whole the game looks amazing and I would give it a score of 6.5/10
Homepage: http://www.diggersim.com/index-en.html
Steam Page: http://store.steampowered.com/app/311910/
So I had little expectations for this game, after being disapointed with the last version of Excavtor Simulator I was ready to be disapointed, but I was surprised, the game has full support for xbox 360 controllers, which means you can actually use 2 thumbsticks to control the excavator which works pretty well.
The controls can be a bit sticky ( shall we say ) but I am unsure if this is down to my controller or the actual game.
I have done around 5-6 game missions, in under an hour, so the long term gameplay is not looking to good, oh do i head you shouting at the screen saying theres a sandbox mode in the game, well you are correct there is, but its next to useless, as the plot of land the sand box gives you ( even the largest sandbox ) is tiny, even for the biggest machines in the game there is not much room to manover.
Some of the excators wont even pick up the dirt, in sandbox mode, I tried out the largest of these excavators and it point blanke refused to pick up any dirt, and on the rare time it did it might have been a small bucket full.....but not having tried the same machine on a mission it could be just down to the sandbox mode.
Well I hope you people have enjoyed the short video, it is not very long, But it should give you an idea what the game is like.
On the whole the game looks amazing and I would give it a score of 6.5/10
Homepage: http://www.diggersim.com/index-en.html
Steam Page: http://store.steampowered.com/app/311910/
Thursday 9 October 2014
Excavator Simulator Part 2 'Dig Big' Hole
Another installment of the Excavator simulator gameplay, this time just for the fun of it I dig a big hole, for no other reason that it was fun, and I needed the practice
Wednesday 8 October 2014
ETS2 New Feature Lift Axles
A short video showing a new feature being tested for Euro Truck Simulator 2, lift axles, both mid life and tag axles are implemented for most truck models, this video only shows the Volvo FH, with both the mid and tag axles working, with air sounds
Monday 6 October 2014
ETS2MP Part 10 ( Paris To Brno )
Well another day and another virtual truck trip, a nice tramp along the continent from France to Germany, Brno to be exact, I dont like France that much as there are way to many tolls, you get upto speed, stick the cruise control on, and next thing you got to slow down again, to pay another tolls
Its time to check your personal World of Trucks page! It’s been updated!
In our ongoing effort to enhance our World of Trucks service we have just launched World of Trucks Achievements.
At first it may sound like nothing too special is going on, World of Trucks is still only a place for game screenshots and not much more. However, for us it marks a day of very important service code base integration that is getting built exclusively for World of Trucks.
In case you haven’t registered yet, any genuine retail or digital key as well as registration via Steam link will work (but only once!).
Stay tuned for more news about World of Trucks evolution. With future updates, it should become clearer that our ambition is way beyond the current feature set – gameplay to be delivered through and inside World of Trucks!
Saturday 4 October 2014
ETS2MP Part 9 Manchester To Southampton
Another multi-player ets2 video, a short hop from Manchester to Southampton, to deliver a broken down tractor back to the repair shop
Friday 3 October 2014
Euro Truck Simulator 2 retail edition update 1.13 is ready
The recently released update 1.13 for ETS2 is now available for retail users on theETS2 update page.
The main feature of this update is support for Steam achievements. Achievements aren't available in the retail version, so if you want to add this bit of additional challenge to the game, you will need to activate your retail key on Steam. We've published instructions on how to do it on the World of Trucks site.
The main feature of this update is support for Steam achievements. Achievements aren't available in the retail version, so if you want to add this bit of additional challenge to the game, you will need to activate your retail key on Steam. We've published instructions on how to do it on the World of Trucks site.
Thursday 2 October 2014
Hard at work on ETS2 1.14 now
We have quite a task ahead of us now to finalize the testing of update
1.14 for Euro Truck Simulator 2. The big star of the update will of
course be the new Euro 6 DAF XF truck tractor!
We may have been a bit over-optimistic in our estimates for 1.14 release date in our earlier blog posts, but finally we are entering the wider testing stage. We will only release the update when we deem it solid enough, but the wait should be worth it - some pretty neat things are coming. A hint of one of the new features is in the screenshot below:
We may have been a bit over-optimistic in our estimates for 1.14 release date in our earlier blog posts, but finally we are entering the wider testing stage. We will only release the update when we deem it solid enough, but the wait should be worth it - some pretty neat things are coming. A hint of one of the new features is in the screenshot below:
We have some new help too - a new member of SCS Software's team. Our
company has been growing slowly but steadily over the past year (and
experiencing some growing pains in the process we must admit), and we
are very happy with all the new guys and girls coming on board. Usually
we don't publicize new hires, but in this case it may be interesting to
make an exception. Some of you may recognize the nickname of 50keda from
ETS2 moding community. We are proud to welcome 50keda to our company
now as a full-time employee!
Wednesday 1 October 2014
New ETS2 Paint Jobs Pack: Germany
To celebrate the upcoming German Unity Day on October 3rd (it's been 24 years, can you believe it?), we are introducing a new Steam DLC for Euro Truck Simulator 2 -German Paint Jobs Pack.
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