Spooky scary Euro Trucks
Haul candy, pumpkins, bones
They won't scare your trucker souls
On European roads

http://store.steampowered.com/app/258460/

Spooky scary Euro Trucks
Haul candy, pumpkins, bones
They won't scare your trucker souls
On European roads

http://store.steampowered.com/app/258460/

With an important national holiday coming up for us Czechs next week on October 28th, we have prepared another little DLC pack for Euro Truck Simulator 2. You can find it on Steam here. We have a lot of registrations of the game in our country, looks like we have a good number of fans at home. Thank you guys!

http://store.steampowered.com/app/318511/

With an important national holiday coming up for us Czechs next week on October 28th, we have prepared another little DLC pack for Euro Truck Simulator 2. You can find it on Steam here. We have a lot of registrations of the game in our country, looks like we have a good number of fans at home. Thank you guys!

http://store.steampowered.com/app/318511/

At last, we are happy to announce that we are ready to start public beta test of update 1.14 for Euro Truck Simulator 2.



If you are willing to help, make sure to backup your existing player profile, and feel free to switch to the public_beta branch of Euro Truck Simulator 2 which you will find on Steam. Please use our forum to give us feedback and comments. Although we have tested the update vigorously over several internal builds in the past weeks, practice shows that during an open beta period usually even more problems are discovered and fixed. We strive to make the game updates as polished as possible. Thanks for your support and help!

Here is the short changelog of the 1.14 update. Full update notes can be found in our Steam hub.

• Liftable axles
  
• Speed limit shown on dashboard GPS
  
• Truck browser shows all upgrades and their level requirements
  
• Increased damage for overturned vehicles
  
• Higher penalties for damaged cargo (both xp and money)
  
• Camera rotation based on steering and blinkers
  
• Traffic improvement

• Steam Rich Presence: job information in "View Game Info" in the Steam friends list (example)
  
• Screenshot images contain additional metadata (game state, vehicle, camera)
  
• Upload your World of Trucks profile truck from the in-game Screenshot Manager

• New truck: DAF XF Euro 6
  
• Added three new 6-wheeled chassis for (almost) all trucks
  
• Substantial data fixes in most chassis

• New cargo definition structure
  
• Per-sector weather climate profiles
  
• Goto console command now accepts city names or their fragments (eg "goto aber" teleports camera to Aberdeen)

At last, we are happy to announce that we are ready to start public beta test of update 1.14 for Euro Truck Simulator 2.



If you are willing to help, make sure to backup your existing player profile, and feel free to switch to the public_beta branch of Euro Truck Simulator 2 which you will find on Steam. Please use our forum to give us feedback and comments. Although we have tested the update vigorously over several internal builds in the past weeks, practice shows that during an open beta period usually even more problems are discovered and fixed. We strive to make the game updates as polished as possible. Thanks for your support and help!

Here is the short changelog of the 1.14 update. Full update notes can be found in our Steam hub.

• Liftable axles
  
• Speed limit shown on dashboard GPS
  
• Truck browser shows all upgrades and their level requirements
  
• Increased damage for overturned vehicles
  
• Higher penalties for damaged cargo (both xp and money)
  
• Camera rotation based on steering and blinkers
  
• Traffic improvement

• Steam Rich Presence: job information in "View Game Info" in the Steam friends list (example)
  
• Screenshot images contain additional metadata (game state, vehicle, camera)
  
• Upload your World of Trucks profile truck from the in-game Screenshot Manager

• New truck: DAF XF Euro 6
  
• Added three new 6-wheeled chassis for (almost) all trucks
  
• Substantial data fixes in most chassis

• New cargo definition structure
  
• Per-sector weather climate profiles
  
• Goto console command now accepts city names or their fragments (eg "goto aber" teleports camera to Aberdeen)

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 it's 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 the "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's 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 in the announcements earlier, they include tag-lift truck axles and finally the new DAF Euro 6 truck.

Meanwhile, the American Truck Simulator team is never ceasing to work. There is grumbling that we don't pay enough attention to their project in the announcements. 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...

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 it's 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 the "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's 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 in the announcements earlier, they include tag-lift truck axles and finally the new DAF Euro 6 truck.

Meanwhile, the American Truck Simulator team is never ceasing to work. There is grumbling that we don't pay enough attention to their project in the announcements. 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...

Map production of ETS2 Scandinavia add-on is in the final stages. That's not to say it is completed, there is a lot of testing, tuning, and optimizing ahead of us. You should be aware that with the scale of the add-on, it will take months of polishing before we can consider our work ready for release.



Our map design team is taking great pains to get the feeling of the region right and to make the Scandinavian cities and environments as they are in real life.



Even though our programmers keep improving our tool chain for better efficiency, such detailed environments are harder and take longer to build than what we were used to only 2-3 years ago.





Of course not every part of the map can be made true-to-life based on a real location, but we sprinkle the world with such locations generously. Our hope is that such attention to detail will boost the fun with exploration of the world, especially for our players in Scandinavia who know these places very well.



Meanwhile, the quest to offer dedicated paint liveries for truckers in the countries where our game sells the best continues today, with the release of French Paint Job Pack DLC for Euro Truck Simulator 2 on Steam. Check it out!



http://store.steampowered.com/app/318510/