Here we are, driving over new roads somewhere in the Nordics. Maybe you want to take a small peek, too?

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Every time we set to work on a new world expansion, production logic would dictate that we should restrain ourselves to good-enough quality and just get the job done. After all, there are hundreds of thousands of players out there who always want more, and as fast as possible. There is definitely a very vocal part of the fan community showing lots of impatience with us.

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Yet every single time, the desire to improve upon our previous work is stronger. The art and design team's push to raise the bar puts the pressure on the programming team, too. There is always the priority to improve our tool-chain, to improve the way we build the world, and not to lose performance even if we populate the world with richer content...

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Our goals for the upcoming major world expansion is more efficient rendering, more impressive and true-to-life environments...

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As before releasing Euro Truck Simulator 2, and before releasing Going East!, our bet is that our fans and customers are going to reward our ambition to ever improve. Even if it means that it's quite hard to get a reasonable estimate on when the work is going to be finished, as our grumbling publishing partners would attest! ;)

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Here we are, driving over new roads somewhere in the Nordics. Maybe you want to take a small peek, too?



Every time we set to work on a new world expansion, production logic would dictate that we should restrain ourselves to good-enough quality and just get the job done. After all, there are hundreds of thousands of players out there who always want more, and as fast as possible. There is definitely a very vocal part of the fan community showing lots of impatience with us.



Yet every single time, the desire to improve upon our previous work is stronger. The art and design team's push to raise the bar puts the pressure on the programming team, too. There is always the priority to improve our tool-chain, to improve the way we build the world, and not to lose performance even if we populate the world with richer content...



Our goals for the upcoming major world expansion is more efficient rendering, more impressive and true-to-life environments...



As before releasing Euro Truck Simulator 2, and before releasing Going East!, our bet is that our fans and customers are going to reward our ambition to ever improve. Even if it means that it's quite hard to get a reasonable estimate on when the work is going to be finished, as our grumbling publishing partners would attest! ;)

A few months ago, SCS Software donated a bunch of Euro Truck Simulator 2 keys to Gaming For Good. This is a site created by Athene, a prominent professional YouTuber and gamer, a part of his quest to make the world a better place. All donations on the site go to Save the Children charity. We just received a link to a very touching personal thank you from him...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9BONk5-o4c

A few months ago, SCS Software donated a bunch of Euro Truck Simulator 2 keys to Gaming For Good. This is a site created by Athene, a prominent professional YouTuber and gamer, a part of his quest to make the world a better place. All donations on the site go to Save the Children charity. We just received a link to a very touching personal thank you from him...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9BONk5-o4c

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Today we would like to announce the release of a new set of paint designs. It is expanding on our previous experiments with new truck paint effects we had offered as a free DLC for all World of Trucks users. (In case you haven't grabbed it yet, you can always find your activation key on your personal World of Trucks page!)

Flip Paint Designs DLC contains 11 customizable truck paint designs. Here are only a few examples of the wealth of customization possibilities:

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You can check all 11 paint designs now on its store page. We hope you'll like them!


The rules this time are pretty simple and no modding skills are necessary to participate. We hope more of you would be glad to join in.

1. Using the choice of 19 designs: previous Metallic Paint Jobs DLC (which is free for World of Trucks users) and the just revealed Flip Paints Designs DLC, you are required to create an interesting looking color variant and present your chosen truck as best as you can. All paint jobs are customizable within the game so immediately after getting the DLCs, you are ready to shoot some photos!
   
2. Upload your creation(s) from the game to World of Trucks.
   
3. Then send us a link to your image detail. Like this: https://worldoftrucks.com/en/image_detail.php?id=000000000000040E
   
4. Email to send your best shots at: flippaintdesigns[at]scssoft.com (use @ instead of [at]). Please DO NOT ATTACH THE SCREENSHOTS - sending just links to World of Trucks gallery images is the right way to let us know about your creation.
   
5. Email subject: Flip Paint Designs
   
6. The competition will end on 30th June 2014.

P.S. In case you are an advanced modder and able to create your own design to show off the new Flip Paint, we sure would welcome such creations as well.

What we will be rating:

• Interesting color variation of the designs
  
• Having great composition of your truck will surely enhance the impression. Having truck shot on an interesting location or setting sure will give you additional notice points. Use it to your advantage.

Rewards:

• Editor's Pick. We will be picking and posting the best images at World of Trucks Editor's Pick section as soon as they'll start arriving.
  
• Fame: being there would allow others fellow truckers to admire your creations
  
• You will get an achievement! Every lucky player who managed to get into Editor's Pick gets an achievement (yes, here is a little announcement right there!) We do plan to enable achievements eventually and being in Editor's Picks is going to be one of the hardest of them. So this competition is a good opportunity to raise the chances to get spotted. :)
  
• 5 best creations will get a Steam key for the Collector's Edition of Euro Truck Simulator 2: This key unlocks not just ETS2, but also several additional DLCs and older games published by SCS Software. It would make a great present to a friend you want to introduce to truck simulators!

We are looking forward to seeing your creations!

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Today we would like to announce the release of a new set of paint designs. It is expanding on our previous experiments with new truck paint effects we had offered as a free DLC for all World of Trucks users. (In case you haven't grabbed it yet, you can always find your activation key on your personal World of Trucks page!)

Flip Paint Designs DLC contains 11 customizable truck paint designs. Here are only a few examples of the wealth of customization possibilities:











You can check all 11 paint designs now on its store page. We hope you'll like them!


The rules this time are pretty simple and no modding skills are necessary to participate. We hope more of you would be glad to join in.

1. Using the choice of 19 designs: previous Metallic Paint Jobs DLC (which is free for World of Trucks users) and the just revealed Flip Paints Designs DLC, you are required to create an interesting looking color variant and present your chosen truck as best as you can. All paint jobs are customizable within the game so immediately after getting the DLCs, you are ready to shoot some photos!
   
2. Upload your creation(s) from the game to World of Trucks.
   
3. Then send us a link to your image detail. Like this: https://worldoftrucks.com/en/image_detail.php?id=000000000000040E
   
4. Email to send your best shots at: flippaintdesigns[at]scssoft.com (use @ instead of [at]). Please DO NOT ATTACH THE SCREENSHOTS - sending just links to World of Trucks gallery images is the right way to let us know about your creation.
   
5. Email subject: Flip Paint Designs
   
6. The competition will end on 30th June 2014.

P.S. In case you are an advanced modder and able to create your own design to show off the new Flip Paint, we sure would welcome such creations as well.

What we will be rating:

• Interesting color variation of the designs
  
• Having great composition of your truck will surely enhance the impression. Having truck shot on an interesting location or setting sure will give you additional notice points. Use it to your advantage.

Rewards:

• Editor's Pick. We will be picking and posting the best images at World of Trucks Editor's Pick section as soon as they'll start arriving.
  
• Fame: being there would allow others fellow truckers to admire your creations
  
• You will get an achievement! Every lucky player who managed to get into Editor's Pick gets an achievement (yes, here is a little announcement right there!) We do plan to enable achievements eventually and being in Editor's Picks is going to be one of the hardest of them. So this competition is a good opportunity to raise the chances to get spotted. :)
  
• 5 best creations will get a Steam key for the Collector's Edition of Euro Truck Simulator 2: This key unlocks not just ETS2, but also several additional DLCs and older games published by SCS Software. It would make a great present to a friend you want to introduce to truck simulators!

We are looking forward to seeing your creations!

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Today we are releasing a bunch of new paint job DLCs with United Kingdom flags.

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It is partly an experiment into this type of content, to see if it catches on with players and should be pursued for more countries. Would you like to see something similar created for your country as well? It is also a result of discussions with our UK retail publishing partner; something to spice up the contents of a new boxed re-release of Euro Truck Simulator 2 coming to UK store shelves at the end of this week.

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Nurturing the retail market is still strategic for us, even in the world of digital distribution becoming more and more dominant. The irony is that this new UK box will actually contain Steam-only activation codes - this is where the industry is going, with the UK market at the forefront of the trend.

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Our release slate recently has been focused quite a lot on the cosmetics side, but don't despair! We have a ton of deeper, more interesting features and content in development for Euro Truck Simulator 2, we just need time to finish and polish it for new game updates and expansions.

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Today we are releasing a bunch of new paint job DLCs with United Kingdom flags.



It is partly an experiment into this type of content, to see if it catches on with players and should be pursued for more countries. Would you like to see something similar created for your country as well? It is also a result of discussions with our UK retail publishing partner; something to spice up the contents of a new boxed re-release of Euro Truck Simulator 2 coming to UK store shelves at the end of this week.



Nurturing the retail market is still strategic for us, even in the world of digital distribution becoming more and more dominant. The irony is that this new UK box will actually contain Steam-only activation codes - this is where the industry is going, with the UK market at the forefront of the trend.



Our release slate recently has been focused quite a lot on the cosmetics side, but don't despair! We have a ton of deeper, more interesting features and content in development for Euro Truck Simulator 2, we just need time to finish and polish it for new game updates and expansions.

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Update 1.10 for Euro Truck Simulator 2 is focused on improving the range of truck paint effects. The game is getting new custom paint options now that allow you to tune the trucks to take on very cool metallic paint look.

The standard game interface allows to mix the color components of the metallic paint, but in fact the technology allows for quite a bit more tricks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSZn9KhUA9E

We have bundled a sampling of such tricks into a new Steam mini-DLC for the game. The Metallic Paint Jobs DLC can be yours for free, all you need to do is to (1) become a registered member of World of Trucks, and (2) use the code you will get there on Steam.

We are aware that this will once again be viewed by non-Steam game players as controversial, but we really have no alternate delivery and update method for mini-DLCs available.

Steam makes it so much easier for game developers to support their games long-term, and to concentrate on just on game development itself rather than on distribution and related support issues. We are seriously considering shifting all updates and expansions to Steam infrastructure over time, most likely in 6-12 months timeframe. But we are not quite so far, the 1.10 update is hitting Steam now, but you can be sure that it will be also available for retail copy of the game in a couple of days.

We hope that the free Metallics DLC will indicate that with Steam we are striving to provide you with better service from us in the future. We do not plan to leave anybody behind; all genuine Product Keys we have ever issued for Euro Truck Simulator 2 can activate the game on Steam.

Here is the 1.10 update change-log:

Code

• Support for metallic paint jobs
  
• Fixed possible rare hang or crash
  
• Physics parameters of the fifth wheel are configurable in physics.sii

Data

• Updated accessories to support paint jobs
  
• Corrected speed limits in Austria, Belgium and Germany
  
• Tweaked prices and unlock levels of some accessories
  
• Fixed acceleration of traffic
  
• Tweaked accessories of traffic trucks (badges, mirrors and sunshields)
  
• Fixed various bugs in truck and trailer models

Update 1.10 for Euro Truck Simulator 2 is focused on improving the range of truck paint effects. The game is getting new custom paint options now that allow you to tune the trucks to take on very cool metallic paint look.

The standard game interface allows to mix the color components of the metallic paint, but in fact the technology allows for quite a bit more tricks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSZn9KhUA9E

We have bundled a sampling of such tricks into a new Steam mini-DLC for the game. The Metallic Paint Jobs DLC can be yours for free, all you need to do is to (1) become a registered member of World of Trucks, and (2) use the code you will get there on Steam.

We are aware that this will once again be viewed by non-Steam game players as controversial, but we really have no alternate delivery and update method for mini-DLCs available.

Steam makes it so much easier for game developers to support their games long-term, and to concentrate on just on game development itself rather than on distribution and related support issues. We are seriously considering shifting all updates and expansions to Steam infrastructure over time, most likely in 6-12 months timeframe. But we are not quite so far, the 1.10 update is hitting Steam now, but you can be sure that it will be also available for retail copy of the game in a couple of days.

We hope that the free Metallics DLC will indicate that with Steam we are striving to provide you with better service from us in the future. We do not plan to leave anybody behind; all genuine Product Keys we have ever issued for Euro Truck Simulator 2 can activate the game on Steam.

Here is the 1.10 update change-log:

Code

• Support for metallic paint jobs
  
• Fixed possible rare hang or crash
  
• Physics parameters of the fifth wheel are configurable in physics.sii

Data

• Updated accessories to support paint jobs
  
• Corrected speed limits in Austria, Belgium and Germany
  
• Tweaked prices and unlock levels of some accessories
  
• Fixed acceleration of traffic
  
• Tweaked accessories of traffic trucks (badges, mirrors and sunshields)
  
• Fixed various bugs in truck and trailer models