Cabin Accessories DLC available now!

We are happy to announce that our brand new Cabin Accessories DLC is available now on Steam.

Accessories is a thematic departure from our usual map and paintjob DLCs. We hope you'll enjoy it, let us know if we are on the right track creating such new content for you.

Along the launch of Cabin Accessories DLC, after a short beta, the 1.21 Update is available as well. This update aims to update the game code for the DLC in order to fully support accessories physics simulation, but it also includes a ton of small fixes across the project.

To recap the update changes:

VEHICLES

• Improved reflections in the cabin interior
• Fixed spider paintjob from Halloween DLC missing for some variants of DAF Euro 6 cabin
• Adjusted external interior for Actros 2009

CONTROLS

• Added automatically generated Range-Splitter layout for H-Shifter
• Improved compatibility with G29 force-feedback

SOUND

• Improved sounds of tires and suspension
• Improved sounds for manipulating blinker and brake sticks
• Reduced volume of interior stick noises

MISC

• Workaround for missing geometry on low-end Intel GPUs on OSX
• Fixed possible use of incorrect files after switching between profiles with different set of mods
• Corrected vegetation sometimes appearing at wrong places in the map
• The hud mirror switching key (F2) now enumerates all combinations: both off, only far on, both on, only near on
• Improved road collisions

Cabin Accessories Coming

We are about to launch open beta of another Euro Truck Simulator 2 game update - version 1.21. This is mostly maintenance release, with hundreds upon hundreds of touch ups of the map, improvements in road and terrain collision detection, AI code optimizations and improvements, some tweaks to physics, UI, sounds, and more.

This update also paves the way for a new DLC - Cabin Accessories. It's a collection of practical as well as totally impractical things with which you can decorate the interior of your truck cabin. Showing you the video below is better than trying to describe it in words; all the accessories are physics-enabled...


Update changes are:
VEHICLES

• Improved reflections in the interior
• Fixed spider paintjob from Halloween DLC missing for some variants of DAF Euro 6 cabin
• Adjusted external interior for Actros 2009

CONTROLS

• Added automatically generated Range-Splitter layout for H-Shifter
• Improved compatibility with G29 force-feedback

SOUND

• Improved sounds of tires and suspension
• Improved sounds for manipulating blinker and brake sticks
• Reduced volume of interior stick noises

MISC

• Workaround for missing geometry on low-end Intel GPUs on OSX
• Fixed possible use of incorrect files after switching between profiles with different set of mods
• Corrected vegetation sometimes appearing at wrong places in the map
• The hud mirror switching key (F2) now enumerates all combinations: both off, only far on, both on, only near on
• Improved road collisions

You can find the beta in the public_beta branch on Steam. (Steam client -> LIBRARY -> right click on Euro Truck Simulator 2 -> Properties -> Betas tab -> public_beta - 1.21 public beta)

National Truck Driver Appreciation Week

Our fans have kindly reminded us that this week, American Trucking Associations, the largest national trade association for the trucking industry in the USA, is commemorating National Truck Driver Appreciation Week.

These eye-opening figures from an ATA's press release are worth quoting here: "There are over 3.4 million professional truck drivers delivering our everyday needs nationwide. These professional men and women log more than 169 billion miles each year."

The numbers are staggering, but it's only "just" the United States. All around the globe there are millions more truck drivers who all deserve appreciation for their hard work. Without trucks and their drivers, our modern world would be simply impossible. Too often we see that people fail to recognize and appreciate this fact and concentrate instead on some of the negatives that transporting goods and supplies by trucks may bring unfortunately, while so little attention is paid to its critical importance for our everyday lives.

We would like to join the celebration and show you a couple of truck paintjobs that are going to be a part of the initial release of American Truck Simulator.

Five Years and Counting

Today marks the fifth anniversary of our blog. Those five years were a very exciting time for us; the success of Euro Truck Simulator 2 has absolutely exceeded our expectations. It would not be possible without the support of our loyal fans, thank you guys and girls!

However, we are still just warming up for bigger things to come!

With the release of the starter edition of American Truck Simulator, we'll finally set our foot on the new continent to attract new fans. We are crossing our fingers for at least moderate success with the game's release - to earn additional resources to keep growing the SCS Software team. We would like to accelerate the pace of development considerably, and I am sure you would appreciate it too.

Meanwhile, work continues on World of Trucks. It may not be visible yet as the website is currently focusing mostly on presenting cool screenshots, but the grand plan for it is to make it a destination providing deep gameplay features for both ETS2 and ATS - features that would not be possible to pull off in the context of our current single-player games ;).

We have made the commitment to continue supporting and expanding the universe of Euro Truck Simulator 2 for many years after its release, and there are many cool features and great new content in development for the game. See below for a glimpse of what is coming soon...

ETS2 Update 1.20 is live now!

As of now ETS2 1.20 update is live. We would like to thank all participants of the open beta for helping us polish this release.

A quick recap of the three main features of this update:

• GPS route customization
• Geographically correct sun position 
• Image Spotlight (community feature)

Plus a ton of other tweaks and fixes we listed in our previous blog post.

Steam version of the game should be updated automatically unless you have opted out of automatic updates, the legacy retail/digital edition of the game can be updated through our Updater tool.

We hope that you will enjoy the new features! Keep on trucking - many cool things are planned for update 1.21 and beyond!