We published a new update for Fernbus Coach Simulator today which contains several improvements and additions. We finally implemented a mouse steering option and a steering camera which can be enabled or disabled in the options. We also implemented our first set of modding with repaints. You're able to select a new repaint based on the old branding design by MeinFernbus Flixbus and we also offer templates for creating own repaints on our forums. License plates can be created too when selecting your ride. Have fun!

• White placeholder cube removed
  
• Headlight, fog light and long distance light updated
  
• Font size of current speed in display increased
  
• Steering camera implemented. The camera turns with the steering of the coach. Strength is configureable in the game settings menu.
  
• Look left/right keys turns the camera now instead of immediately switching it
  
• Camera centers automatically while driving (deactivatable in game settings)
  
• Raining into the back of the Lions Coach C fixed
  
• Repainting functionality added to the coaches
  
• Old "MeinFernbus Flixbus" design added as repaint, changable in the "Customize" menu
  
• License Plate added to the coach, changable in the "Customize" menu

• Congestion at crossroad will now be detected to avoid blocking
  
• Braking behaviour updated
  
• Some materials of cars were changed

• Intro Video starts immediately at game start while loading. After Loading it is skippable
  
• Values in game settings menu are now displayed as 0-100 ranges instead of 0-1 ranges
  
• Back functionality is now triggered by escape key in most menus
  
• Menu music starts at finishing a route now too
  
• Additional information added to the navigation HUD: Current speed, current time, next stop, departure/arrival time
  
• Small design improvements in main menu

• Mouse steering added. Middle mouse button will activate it
  
• Preparations were added for auto configuration of input devices. Currently the database for devices is empty. Every time the inputs are applied in the menu a configuration file is written to disk. This file contains all informations for connected devices. You can find this file in "C:\Users\<your username>\AppData\Local\Fernbus\Settings\Devices". If you want you can send us this file to update the database.

• Reflective street signs will now be illuminated by the coach
  
• Some materials fixed
  
• Lighting of "Kölner Dom" fixed

• A blendscreen was added when using timelaps or resetting the vehicle location
  
• "Continue" the route is now only available when starting at the current station
  
• The probability of events was increased

We published a new update for Fernbus Coach Simulator today which contains several improvements and additions. We finally implemented a mouse steering option and a steering camera which can be enabled or disabled in the options. We also implemented our first set of modding with repaints. You're able to select a new repaint based on the old branding design by MeinFernbus Flixbus and we also offer templates for creating own repaints on our forums. License plates can be created too when selecting your ride. Have fun!

• White placeholder cube removed
  
• Headlight, fog light and long distance light updated
  
• Font size of current speed in display increased
  
• Steering camera implemented. The camera turns with the steering of the coach. Strength is configureable in the game settings menu.
  
• Look left/right keys turns the camera now instead of immediately switching it
  
• Camera centers automatically while driving (deactivatable in game settings)
  
• Raining into the back of the Lions Coach C fixed
  
• Repainting functionality added to the coaches
  
• Old "MeinFernbus Flixbus" design added as repaint, changable in the "Customize" menu
  
• License Plate added to the coach, changable in the "Customize" menu

• Congestion at crossroad will now be detected to avoid blocking
  
• Braking behaviour updated
  
• Some materials of cars were changed

• Intro Video starts immediately at game start while loading. After Loading it is skippable
  
• Values in game settings menu are now displayed as 0-100 ranges instead of 0-1 ranges
  
• Back functionality is now triggered by escape key in most menus
  
• Menu music starts at finishing a route now too
  
• Additional information added to the navigation HUD: Current speed, current time, next stop, departure/arrival time
  
• Small design improvements in main menu

• Mouse steering added. Middle mouse button will activate it
  
• Preparations were added for auto configuration of input devices. Currently the database for devices is empty. Every time the inputs are applied in the menu a configuration file is written to disk. This file contains all informations for connected devices. You can find this file in "C:\Users\<your username>\AppData\Local\Fernbus\Settings\Devices". If you want you can send us this file to update the database.

• Reflective street signs will now be illuminated by the coach
  
• Some materials fixed
  
• Lighting of "Kölner Dom" fixed

• A blendscreen was added when using timelaps or resetting the vehicle location
  
• "Continue" the route is now only available when starting at the current station
  
• The probability of events was increased

Dear Steam Community,

since the Fernbus Coach Simulator release last Thursday the TML team has busy day and night addressing the unfortunately occurred problems. The information and crash dumps you’ve posted have been a tremendous help in tracking down and fixing these issues. Many thanks for your support! We’re glad to now release the first big patch, and hope that it improves the playing experience for all of you. It’s been a huge amount of work for our small team and we appreciate your patience and understanding.

See below for the patch notes:

Coaches

• Rain drops appear on the windscreen of the Lion's Coach
  
• Air Condition shows the correct temperasture after loading a savegame
  
• Sound of the doors is played correctly
  
• Sound of rain drops on the coaches roof added
  
• Announcement can now be deactivted at any time
  
• Engine ca no more be deactivated in Arcade-Mode

Passengers

• Passenger Voices added
  
• Subtitles fixed (Font color, Order and Flickering)
  
• Passengers comments appear pormptly
  
• Passenger comments (too slow) albeit maintaining speed limit of 60 km/h fixed

Menues

• Difficulty "Simple" (control mode) renamed "Arcade"
  
• Control Mode Dialogue added (Arcade or Realistic)
  
• Routen Editor: "Custom" renamed "Career"
  
• Game Mode Dialogue added (Career or Freeplay)
  
• FOV (Field of View) adjustability is reduced to inbetween 60° and 90°
  
• Main Menu background music added
  
• Loading Screen background image added
  
• Main Menu background images added
  
• Main Menu design slightly changed
  
• Two coaches in Menues fixed
  
• Added image for unlocked Cities in Route Editor
  
• Audio volumes fixed

Navigation

• Speed limits in Navigation fixed
  
• Speed limits and Distances in Freeplay disabled
  
• Navigation of the following Cities have been fixed: Konstanz, Augsburg, Saarbrücken, Halle
  
• Navigation starting from Depot fixed
  
• Speed limits for Frankfurt Airport, Berlin ZOB, Köln ZOB, München ZOB, Hamburg ZOB, Halle ZOB fixed

Languages

• Localisation fixed (English, German)

Inputs

• Simplification of Axis-Adjustment via presets (Standard, Standard 0-1, Inverterted, Inverterted 1-0)
  
• When adding a new Axis a preview helps with Adjustments
  
• Invalid (None) Inputs removed from Standard controls

Tooltips

• Tooltips updated
  
• Tooltip "Follow the navigation to..." will show up at Bus Stops and Offroad from now on

Profile

• Profile Setup updated
  
• Reseting a Profile will now show the Unlocks correctly

Statistics

• Driven kilometers will now show correctly

Graphics

• Some LODs (Levels of Detail) updated

Audio

• Certain Sound volumes updated

Dear Steam Community,

since the Fernbus Coach Simulator release last Thursday the TML team has busy day and night addressing the unfortunately occurred problems. The information and crash dumps you’ve posted have been a tremendous help in tracking down and fixing these issues. Many thanks for your support! We’re glad to now release the first big patch, and hope that it improves the playing experience for all of you. It’s been a huge amount of work for our small team and we appreciate your patience and understanding.

See below for the patch notes:

Coaches

• Rain drops appear on the windscreen of the Lion's Coach
  
• Air Condition shows the correct temperasture after loading a savegame
  
• Sound of the doors is played correctly
  
• Sound of rain drops on the coaches roof added
  
• Announcement can now be deactivted at any time
  
• Engine ca no more be deactivated in Arcade-Mode

Passengers

• Passenger Voices added
  
• Subtitles fixed (Font color, Order and Flickering)
  
• Passengers comments appear pormptly
  
• Passenger comments (too slow) albeit maintaining speed limit of 60 km/h fixed

Menues

• Difficulty "Simple" (control mode) renamed "Arcade"
  
• Control Mode Dialogue added (Arcade or Realistic)
  
• Routen Editor: "Custom" renamed "Career"
  
• Game Mode Dialogue added (Career or Freeplay)
  
• FOV (Field of View) adjustability is reduced to inbetween 60° and 90°
  
• Main Menu background music added
  
• Loading Screen background image added
  
• Main Menu background images added
  
• Main Menu design slightly changed
  
• Two coaches in Menues fixed
  
• Added image for unlocked Cities in Route Editor
  
• Audio volumes fixed

Navigation

• Speed limits in Navigation fixed
  
• Speed limits and Distances in Freeplay disabled
  
• Navigation of the following Cities have been fixed: Konstanz, Augsburg, Saarbrücken, Halle
  
• Navigation starting from Depot fixed
  
• Speed limits for Frankfurt Airport, Berlin ZOB, Köln ZOB, München ZOB, Hamburg ZOB, Halle ZOB fixed

Languages

• Localisation fixed (English, German)

Inputs

• Simplification of Axis-Adjustment via presets (Standard, Standard 0-1, Inverterted, Inverterted 1-0)
  
• When adding a new Axis a preview helps with Adjustments
  
• Invalid (None) Inputs removed from Standard controls

Tooltips

• Tooltips updated
  
• Tooltip "Follow the navigation to..." will show up at Bus Stops and Offroad from now on

Profile

• Profile Setup updated
  
• Reseting a Profile will now show the Unlocks correctly

Statistics

• Driven kilometers will now show correctly

Graphics

• Some LODs (Levels of Detail) updated

Audio

• Certain Sound volumes updated

We've just released a Hotfix which should solve the following issues:


Some users had crashes, if certain input devices were connected or had been emulated via drivers. Those users should now be able to run the game.


The AI vehicles should stop correctly at red traffic lights.

We've just released a Hotfix which should solve the following issues:


Some users had crashes, if certain input devices were connected or had been emulated via drivers. Those users should now be able to run the game.


The AI vehicles should stop correctly at red traffic lights.

Dear Steam community,

some players have told us that they cannot start the Fernbus Coach Simulator, have problems with background applications or AI traffic behaving not as expected. We are constantly working on fixing those problems and will release updates shortly, next week at latest, that fix these critical issues. Following that, we will improve and extend hardware support, e.g. regarding controllers and TrackIR. The bug fixes are top priority, though.

Underneath you find a feature list that unfortunately didn't make it yet into the game. As soon as the critical fixes are done we will focus all our resscources on the following features (not sorted chronologically) that will be added to the game with several updates in the coming days and weeks.weeks.

• Ingame languages: Danish, Dutch, French, Greek, Hungarian, Polish, Russian, Slowakian, Spanish, Turkish
  
• Music in main menu
  
• Radio stream in bus
  
• Signs to be lighted with spotlights
  
• Sound files for passengers
  
• Force Feedback
  
• TrackIR
  
• New passenger and pedestrian AI
  
• Repaint functionality
  
• AI buses at bus stops/stations and on the roads
  
• Highscores (online comparison with rankings of other users)
  
• City of Kassel
  
• More detailes navigation system: Autobahn and rural roads can be individually set for more detailed route creation
  
• Navigation in free ride from one point to the other
  
• Mouse steering
  
• Controller (Gamepad) support
  
• Import and export of created routes
  
• Modding Level Editor
  
• Deco for driver's seat

We ask for your understanding and thank you very much for your patience.

Aerosoft

Dear Steam community,

some players have told us that they cannot start the Fernbus Coach Simulator, have problems with background applications or AI traffic behaving not as expected. We are constantly working on fixing those problems and will release updates shortly, next week at latest, that fix these critical issues. Following that, we will improve and extend hardware support, e.g. regarding controllers and TrackIR. The bug fixes are top priority, though.

Underneath you find a feature list that unfortunately didn't make it yet into the game. As soon as the critical fixes are done we will focus all our resscources on the following features (not sorted chronologically) that will be added to the game with several updates in the coming days and weeks.weeks.

• Ingame languages: Danish, Dutch, French, Greek, Hungarian, Polish, Russian, Slowakian, Spanish, Turkish
  
• Music in main menu
  
• Radio stream in bus
  
• Signs to be lighted with spotlights
  
• Sound files for passengers
  
• Force Feedback
  
• TrackIR
  
• New passenger and pedestrian AI
  
• Repaint functionality
  
• AI buses at bus stops/stations and on the roads
  
• Highscores (online comparison with rankings of other users)
  
• City of Kassel
  
• More detailes navigation system: Autobahn and rural roads can be individually set for more detailed route creation
  
• Navigation in free ride from one point to the other
  
• Mouse steering
  
• Controller (Gamepad) support
  
• Import and export of created routes
  
• Modding Level Editor
  
• Deco for driver's seat

We ask for your understanding and thank you very much for your patience.

Aerosoft

We’re proud to release the Fernbus Coach Simulator by TML-Studios, a high-end simulation product on the Unreal Engine 4. Accurate in every detail while giving the gamer the chance to explore around 20.000 km of the German route network of FlixBus and more than 40 recreated cities. The time factor is 1:10, keeping the scheduled routes interesting while the streaming is really smooth thanks to TML. Drive through fantastic landscapes to your destination and enjoy the great level of detail of the interior and exterior of the buses. Get into action and become a bus driver!

Thank you for your support,
Aerosoft