As promised, we have created a little video - actually two of them - of the best performance(s) in the competition.
The feature of the game to show re-plays of other players driving in the game challenges is a unfortunately not as widely used as we had hoped. Our estimates are that less than 20% of customers who have purchased the game took the time to register on the official website, so they are not only unable to take part in the competitions, but also are not even able to visually check out the best results and learn something from them. We are thinking of changing this feature of the game when we update it again, so that even people playing the unregistered or unactivated game in demo mode can see those recordings. We thought about whether to include this feature for every player during the initial game's release, but we feared that the initial piracy spike experienced by any game would cause so much traffic to our results database that we would be effectively suffering from a DDoS-like problem.
Seeing how close the results were, we are ready to give a free copy of ETS2 not just to the best 3 participants of the competition, but to include the first FOUR places :-).
So again congratulations to Rou10, Astoria711, easynote, and nemesis99 - you are going to get an e-mail from us later today (or early tomorrow at the latest) officially confirming your prize.
The feature of the game to show re-plays of other players driving in the game challenges is a unfortunately not as widely used as we had hoped. Our estimates are that less than 20% of customers who have purchased the game took the time to register on the official website, so they are not only unable to take part in the competitions, but also are not even able to visually check out the best results and learn something from them. We are thinking of changing this feature of the game when we update it again, so that even people playing the unregistered or unactivated game in demo mode can see those recordings. We thought about whether to include this feature for every player during the initial game's release, but we feared that the initial piracy spike experienced by any game would cause so much traffic to our results database that we would be effectively suffering from a DDoS-like problem.
Seeing how close the results were, we are ready to give a free copy of ETS2 not just to the best 3 participants of the competition, but to include the first FOUR places :-).
So again congratulations to Rou10, Astoria711, easynote, and nemesis99 - you are going to get an e-mail from us later today (or early tomorrow at the latest) officially confirming your prize.
Yeah. There's nothing said about that. So, if it will be as usual, quite a lot of time to wait.
ReplyDeleteThanks for a great game !! :)
ReplyDeleteBrilliant stuff! Makes it look so easy.
ReplyDeleteThe next patch with the extension of the free driving map will be ready when it's ready - we are about to start beta-testing it now, so hopefully things go smoothly and we can release it soon.
ReplyDeleteWOW this will be a fantastic surprise for nemesis99!
ReplyDeleteCool SCS thay make it so easy one thing SCS please make the truck windows open.
ReplyDeleteYeah i hope they do it would be a shame if they diddnt.
DeleteSCS please please let us open the windows on the trucks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! +1
DeleteI hear there planning to utilise unused fan herders on motherboards, so you can rig up a 120mm case fan on your desktop, so when you open the window when moving the fan will start to blow on your face in proportion to forward speed and how open the window is.
DeleteBut then it could just be something I made up to highlight how pointless “opening” a window would be given you can already put your virtual head outside to look backwards! so -1 from me
It's a little detail that adds to the immersion, simply. No harm in it, but it is probably easier said than done as the truck model would need to be made with this in mind (or modified to allow it). Then coding so the sound can get louder from outside, of course. Not impossible but a bit of extra work -- in the end possibly pointless apart from immersion, as I said. Nothing against it from me, but it is low priority.
DeleteI think it would bring more function to the truck and it would add realistic.
Deletehaha b101uk you just made me lmao with your comment... im with you though its pointless , if they put this in the game they may as well add working heaters for when it gets a bit cold.... :)
DeletePointless feature, just wasting SCS's time.
DeleteI can open windows in my Bus in OMSI Bus Simulator.
DeleteBut I actualy never ever doing it. I think its waist of time to implant that. Then I would rather could swith on or off my cabin light. U see, we all what this and that. It's not easy today.
Its the best idea ever electric windows on the truck it might be a small feuture but it makes all the differance. +1
DeleteI wouldn't mind that feature, plus they already have most of what they need for it, when you put your head outside the sound goes up already, so just a matter of doing that incrementally as THE or A glass shader is modifed on the window instead of the texture they're probably currently using for it. Probably takes a whole weekend to implement for one guy...mainly because of the shader bit.
DeleteFour free copies? Nice :)
ReplyDeletehmm.. it seems that he touch other's truck side mirror.. at 0:51
ReplyDeleteComparison video is very interesting for me. :)
ReplyDeleteThanks for a great game, SCS!!
Well done Astoria711 it shows that people can do it without cheating.
DeleteAnd what do you mean about that ? :)
DeleteWho should cheat in this competition ??
Im just saying if there are any cheaters but congratulations anyway.
DeleteAh okay :) Thanks..
DeleteThank's for your answer.
ReplyDeleteCongrats, winners!
ReplyDeleteHoly crap! I'm incompetent IDIOT, and I don't deserve to be beta-tester of ANYTHING, maybe of M1A1 or T-84!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations, boys!
I had to give Leave The Port a shot too.. Took me 4:50,13 and I also managed to hit pretty much everything there was to hit in the process. Especially the owner of the Volvo XC90 will be quite unpleased, haha! Fortunately there is no replay available.
ReplyDeleteGood job, Congratulations!!!
ReplyDeleteI'm gonna bring the topic of Weather effects here:
ReplyDeleteSCS, maybe you could make weather effects more realistic?
Please don't leave the thunderstorms like they were in Scania Truck Driving Simulator. In real life, thunder isn't like that. After lightning, the rumble takes a long time to reach the ears of the player. In STDS, you hear it instantly.
The rumble should also last longer.
Also, bring back the horn from German Truck Simulator. Hehe.
b101uk replied to me too, a bit more professional.
Thanks if you guys do this, it'll help with the realism.
The delay between lightning and rumbling depends on how far away the actual storm is. Maybe the game assumes it's always directly overhead.
DeleteBut I think the whole weather cycle should change a bit slower because I doubt the game is supposed to take place in the Scottish highlands. If I play, say couple of hours I've experienced pretty much every possible weather scenario at least seven times. Although at one occasion the rain lasted almost an hour and I already thought the game had gone crazy.
I think that the world of STDS is from Södertälje, Sweden. Many Scanias are made there and SCS team visited the city months ago. I looked from Google Maps for Scania factory and found also Scania Democentre. Try satellite view on southern Södertälje and you can find it! :)
DeleteOh, and about the weather; Rain seems to affect my fps pretty much, but the new rain effect looks very good. Anoyone else noticed water "pools" on some streets after rain? I think that the reason to change weather fast is realism. Why realism? Because it would take too much time to make weather between sunny and rainy weather look realistic. I mean that team has to do what they can in limited time. They do what is most important and they can adjust the weather more if they have time.
Well, you can also try that awesome 3D street view thing. And I wouldn't say it looks like the city in the game, because it actually shouldn't. Or I didn't find that bit you were talking about.
DeleteReliase date in Norway?
ReplyDeleteOMG
ReplyDeleteYou chaps rolled those trucks round those bends, that was peddle to the metal right from the start to the finish.
Congrats all
Molie
And lay out the game to jump in the ETS-2, if not difficult?
ReplyDeleteCongrats :)
ReplyDeletewhat a needlees game!!!!!!!! Finish ETS2!!! befor the next update to STDS!!!
ReplyDeleteCOME ONE, SCS HAS SAID A FEW(MANY) TIMES ALREADY THAT 2 TEAMS ARE WORKING THERE. 1 FOR STDS AND 1 FOR ETS2. NONE OF THOSE CAN DELAY THE OTHER
DeleteAfter they finish the new map,maybe the STDS team should join the ETS2 team and help them to make ETS2.
DeleteMaybe they will....
DeleteHelp i cant go out from mission Leave the Port Help , i play on Keyboard+Mouse pls help :D
ReplyDeletethe only advice i can give is to buy a wheel.. it really helps if you want to drive.. no offense :D
DeleteFroze my account online. Why?
ReplyDeleteDidn't even had time to downlaod the patch, so I couldn't perform in the competition, but anyway, congrats to the winners ;)
ReplyDeleteCongratulations to all four of you! (c:
ReplyDeleteNice with the comparison video, you can see where who is ahead and not...
I hope that in ETS2 will be long highways, and take real time to reach the towns . I don't mind driving hours , but longest destination is half hr, thats funny.. put 2 more gigabite in the game , don't be shy.. :P
ReplyDeleteThe map is about 10x bigger than the original ETS 1
DeleteWell done! :)
DeleteSame scale as in GTS.
Deleteand please put build-in WEB(streaming) radios to the game, I listening the same cd-s in my car, I don't want those in the game too.. I would like to listen NEWS , english if possible, while driving. I can not manually add web radios, coz not playing. Thanks. PS: In Scania there should be other types of trucks AI driving, not only scania does exist. Even if its their game. Hugz.
ReplyDeleteYou just gave me an idea of putting additional cd-drive to my computer listening some cd-s while driving. Only problem is that I have no cd's to listen ;)
DeleteThere were screen with radio streams from ETS2. Btw, better add it manually, it's very simple. Just open a m3u file with text editor and get an IP from there.
DeleteThanks.. Good thing I was remembering from the 18 wheels of steel series how to add songs (have to convert them to OGG format and 128 kb/s maximum rate) coz otherwise this info not discoverable for a newbie. I will try later add web radio. Cheers.
DeleteMp3 works, too. Some songs don't, but it does. If you need some help with radio streams, just ask. One guy helped me to get it working and I'll try to do the same.
DeleteCongrats to winners and runners-up, a free copy of ETS2 after a weekend of semi stress free time-trials can never be a bad thing.
ReplyDeleteAs for the best times replay feature, wouldn’t a preview be better for the unactivated/demo version, and maybe a reminder for unregistered ?
Surly adding a full features like that would attract hackers & crackers alike – if there’s enough demand that is.
Congratulations, winners!
ReplyDelete((((((((((The new extensions of the new map Scania Truck Driving Simulator will come out in 2013, Euro Truck Simulator 2 for 2014.)))))))))))
ReplyDeleteand your 18th birthday in 2018 :)
DeleteHahahaha nice one Anonymous ;)
Deletecome on, 1 team of SCS is working on STDS and ANOTHER one is working on ETS2
DeleteAnd yet you're very nice I would add one more years for the extension of the map of Scania truck simulator such as these are finished we told them we even then I'm willing to take their time but there are limits to the stupidity here is shit
ReplyDeletePS: those grieving a google translation
Good, SCS have made it clear now. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteGot to admit, the winners really deserve to win, very skillful and well controlled.
ReplyDeleteLong time as usual? Like scs said they're only human, you have to understand that things take time. Things are done only when it's done.
ReplyDeleteSome people in here has to go to the shop and buy some patiance..
Can you be sure that scores are clean? Movement and reactions looks too clean. Looks like somekind of "bot" have been used :D
ReplyDeletePractise tend to do this. I know when I first started playing and tested the early dangerous drives it took many minutes and enough collisions to give zero points. Now I swoop through them at fairly high speed and with no collisions, as if it was the obvious and easy thing to do.
DeleteSame with simply reversing the trailer, the more you do it the more natural it becomes. Soon it is nothing you even really think about. (c:
Beside, with a wheel/controller you get no "wobbly wheel" effect, so if you know where you want to place the truck you just, well, do it.
TruckerGal
DeleteYou know You're right !!!
Today young people don't know the word Patience.
ReplyDeleteThey also think that they can demand everything for nothing. Wow I know I'm old, but they should have tried the 90'ties and computer games.
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ReplyDeleteOh the joys of R Tape Loading Error’s using C15 cassettes.
ReplyDeleteI guess the driver of the grey truck parked at 00:51 won't be very pleased when he returns from his meal and finds his right mirror smashed. Serves him well, though, for his stupid parking... =)
ReplyDeleteGreat driving by you all, way over my skills!
@b121uk: ROFLMAO...I remember that!!
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ReplyDeleteWatch out, we've got a badass called anonymous over here!
DeleteCongratulations to the winners.
ReplyDelete@Michael I was not using a cracked version I can post a picture of the box if you like.
ReplyDeleteI would never illegally downland a game from any developer especially not a small company like SCS Software
Usually I am not that impatient, but... maybe some ETS2 news, SCS?
ReplyDeleteThese guys are good! I had such a problem just backing out of the parking lot. They make it look easier. Oh well, maybe a little practice will help. Congrats to these excellent drivers!
ReplyDeleteI think that ETS2 mention the possibility of getting off the publishing vehicle was one of the characteristics that would have the game. Until the video provided by SCS no softwere or ETS2 demonstrated.
ReplyDelete(((((((((THIS WILL BRING THE POSSIBILITY OF GAME OR NOT.))))))))
Gratz winners!!!
ReplyDelete"Modding: Speed limiter limit can be changed in game data."
ReplyDeleteкак это можно сделать ?
HELP PLEASE!!
ReplyDeleteI downloaded the new update and then I deleted it again because I hade put it in the wrong place on the computer and now I cant find the update again... Where is it?
http://www.scaniadrivergame.com/en/update.php
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Thanks!