We have been working on the recent game update for several months,
spending a ton of time on fixing, testing, and re-testing again and
again. When we released the 1.4.1 patch, we felt pretty confident that
it's in very solid state. In reality, bug reports started coming in
almost immediately.
The game is BIG, and growing bigger. A new feature or a fix for one bug
may often introduce a new problem; such is the nature of big software
projects. We'll need to figure out betters ways to test the releases
thoroughly, but effectively and quickly.
We have been thinking about involving a wider group from our fan
community in testing for quite some time, but now we see that we need to
do more than just ponder it. We need to give it a try.
We are making new builds of the game for testing purposes pretty much
every day. On the way from 1.3.1 to 1.4.x, we have been through 96 major
revisions and testing builds! Over a hundred people had access to the
builds to help us test them, but it is obvious that this is still no
enough eyes, not enough combinations of hardware, not enough variety in
how our testers play the game. So we thought - what if we tried to make
our daily betas publicly visible, for thousands of people to give them a
try? The inspiration basically comes from what Mozilla is doing with
Firefox Nightly Builds.
And here we are, with a quick update of the previous ETS2 update. Experiment time!
Please note that the link below is NOT FOR EVERYBODY. Only download and
apply it if you are ready to volunteer to test a potentially unstable
BETA VERSION of the game. We believe it's bringing fixes for a few
problems discovered in 1.4.1, but so far not enough internal testing was
done to make sure it's stable enough - this very build is intended to
be this test. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK.
- ETS2 BETA patch 1.4.1 to 1.4.3 torrent download only -
We are making it accessible only in the form of a torrent, sorry. We do
not plan for this beta patch to be mirrored by any 3rd party servers, as
we are afraid of seeing our own download servers melt if too many
people were downloading the exe file straight away. It may be a bit of a
hurdle, but advanced computer users can deal with it, and perhaps it's
in fact better to have this little barrier of entry in place. In the
future, if today's experiment proves useful, we need to figure out a
smoother and more convenient way for you to access the daily builds, but
for today, this must suffice.
For reporting problems, the most useful way would be to visit SCS
Message Board, there is a new Forum created just for this problem
Bugs 1.4.3.
Keep in mind that this is not a beta completely open to anybody. It's
only going to work with a genuine and valid Product Key. Also, do not
try to apply it to the Steam edition of the game. Steam users will soon
get access to such experimental daily builds too though, using the
system of Steam beta branches.
Thanks!
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