ETS2 Drivable Buses

[metalangel]

The final US manufacturer is now in ATS: Freightliner, and with them, the Cascadia (2nd generation). This is far and away the most popular truck on the road IRL.



Also added to ATS is a new DLC with some decorative items for your cab to make it feel more like home:





Like the steering wheels and hubs, it lets you personalize your truck, and also works as a nice tip jar for the developers.

[haverfordwest]

I haven't played ETS2 or ATS for weeks, buddy.

[metalangel]

Oh? There's a lot going on right now. There's a tribute event to the classic Hard Truck series, there's the Colorado release event, and rumours are going there'll be the annual Christmas event, too. Plus the new Cascadia, plus the cab accessories...

Plus, very big news: the Iberia DLC for ETS2 is delayed, because they are completely reworking the lighting system for the game engine:

https://blog.scssoft.com/2020/11/the-good-news-and-mixed-news.html

[NorthernWarrior]

Must admit I haven't touched either for weeks or indeed months either. I got disillusioned with ETS2 and the constant battle between official updates and waiting for ProMods to be fixed. Driving without those roads in the far north just wasn't anywhere near as fun. Then there were the awful sound changes which wrecked the engine audio worse than a DTG loco(!). ATS, well I just tired of driving up and down freeways most of the time. I see there is a ProMods for Canada but I CBA to go through the same hassle every few weeks as with the European one.

[metalangel]

It's even worse making the mods, Vern... every serious update, I have to extract the .def files, transcribe my mod's values across, test it, package it up in the extremely specific way the SCS Workshop Uploader wants, put it on the Workshop, put an .scs version on Sharemods for the forum users...

The Steam forum is filled with people having technical issues because of mods. Like, 75% of the posts are people who've installed a modded truck or modded economy or modded trailer or modded engine part and then something changes and it breaks their game or corrupts their save file. While I'd love to try stuff like the K-100 or the Argosy, the fact that some mods leave a permanent footprint in your profile puts me off.

Likewise the Promods for Canada. They've done an absolutely incredible job capturing the most beautiful part of the Wet Coast, but no way am I going to risk it.

(this may sound like the entitled demands of the adolescents on said forum, but SCS might consider contracting to Promods to let them build Canada, officially)

[NorthernWarrior]

I can see how it's a major problem, not just for the end users. When I suggested on the SCS forum that ProMods and SCS should work co-operatively together, though, I basically got shouted down.

[NorthernWarrior]

Anyone still playing this? Mike?
Or has interest waned a bit?
last time I fired it up the sounds were still awful and SCS don't seem in a rush to fix the audio.

[metalangel]

Real life has meant I don't really play anything at all, apart from a quick jump onto an OpenTTD game I started. I missed last year's COVID event and am going to miss this one, too. From what I can see, a lot of people are very excited for the new lighting system.

[haverfordwest]

Anyone still playing this? Mike?
Or has interest waned a bit?
last time I fired it up the sounds were still awful and SCS don't seem in a rush to fix the audio.

Yes Vern, running the 1.40 beta. I only play on the Grand Utopia map mod now, as it is 1:1 scale.

Which i find more satisfying than the default 1:19 scale.

GU is soon to impliment a bus service update, in collaberation with DBus World......................................

Added a first urban bus line to Utopia: U1 line. It will have 23 stops and connect Grand Utopia airport to Gerzat.
When publishing the update I'll tell you in more detail about the DBus World mod and how it works that will allow you to play bus driver (especially bus) through Grand Utopia

Mike.

[NorthernWarrior]

Sounds great!

[haverfordwest]

It's a great map mod without the bus mod Vern. But obviously being able to do a bus timetable, will be the icing on the cake.

Developer of the map also accepts donations to have villages and cities named. Neyland village has been added in latest version.

Johnston city will come sometime, as a city obviously takes more work. Weird driving into Neyland, on a french themed map mod.

Mike.

[ex-railwayman]

Mike, have you seen the broad guage railway assets and routes now in the UKTS library for TS2021 by any chance? Sorry to go off topic on here, seeing your name suddenly reminded me......

Cheerz. Steve.

[NorthernWarrior]

Appears the Grand Utopia site is offline - returns a 503 error.

[haverfordwest]

🚧 Problems on the website 🚧
The website is no longer accessible because of a bandwidth limit reached. (Clearly, there are too many of you going to the site 🥰).
The situation may last a few days because I'm looking to change the host to have a bandwidth limit package.


Direct download link, Vern. Latest version 1.10 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1O7n...JXSOdVdsu/view

Steve, yes i have buddy thank you. Nice to see the BG track available, but not much else at the moment.

Mike.

[RailRoadEngineer]

Have you guys seen ETS2 1.4 Beta lighting?