Beyond the Baltic Sea - Community Videos

The Beyond the Baltic Sea map expansion for Euro Truck Simulator 2, the latest and so far largest DLC we've developed, has been out for almost a week, and we're extremely happy and honored that it's been welcomed by our games' fanbase so well.

We would like to share with you some of the videos created by members of the truck sim community, reviewing the new map DLC.

Squirrel's Review

Daggerwin's First Look

Clumsy's First Look - Entering Finland

Nordrheintvplay's video (German language)

Burning-Gamers.de (German language)

Mark Armstrong Gaming's First Look

Darwen's Creative Video

ArturPL's Video (Polish language)

There are dozens and dozens more, the newest member of our ETS2 family is getting a lot of attention on Youtube and Twitch. If you want to see more videos, there are more links appearing in the search results all the time: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=ets2+beyond+the+baltic+sea.

Meanwhile, we are working on a small patch for the game and the DLC, to address several fortunately relatively minor glitches reported by the players in the past few days. We hope to get it to you in a couple of days.

Beyond the Baltic Sea released!

We celebrated another important day for SCS Software  - the release of Euro Truck Simulator 2's large map expansion Beyond the Baltic Sea.

Beyond the Baltic Sea was published 06:00PM UTC on Thursday, November 29, 2018

To shorten the wait before release, we held a broadcast of a live-stream from our just-established studio in SCS Software's office. It's was the first experiment with streaming by ourselves, it was a bit improvised. You can see on the screenshot how it looked just a few hours before the start! We made a couple of interviews with people from the development team, answered some of the questions that may come our way, and of course, we played the new DLC live most of the time. You can watch the recorded stream on our Youtube channel.

As mentioned in the previous blog post, we also published three new national paint job packs bound with this expansion. It means that the players in Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia will get an option to get and use their own unique graphics packs from now.

Typically, country-specific paint jobs are purchased by the players from the given country. But we know that there are some players out there who like to collect every DLC related to our game. So we have prepared a special sweetened offer lumping together the new map DLC with the paint job packs of all the countries in it, including Finland and Russia which have been available for some time already. You may consider checking out Baltic bundle first before clicking any other purchase button on the Steam Store.

Baltic National Colors

With the release of Beyond the Baltic Sea just around the corner, we are excited for you to explore three new countries that have not yet been featured in Euro Truck Simulator 2. Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia are proud independent countries, home to many communities and industries, and we know that our truck sims have many eager fans there, too. Together with the upcoming map expansion, we have prepared national paint job packs for each of the three countries.

These new paint job sets will contain traditional thematic graphics including the national flag and/or the coat of arms and other national motifs of these countries.

The paint job packs will become available at the same moment we release Beyond the Baltic Sea. We're also preparing a special Steam bundle with an interesting discount covering all the countries featured in the map expansion. We wanted to give you this advanced information ahead of tomorrow's release of Beyond the Baltic Sea, as the big star "stealing the show" will be the map expansion itself.

Beyond the Baltic Sea releasing on November 29

The release of the Beyond the Baltic Sea map expansion is knocking on the hood! The results of the latest testing are in and are so positive that we can establish a firm release date. We can't wait for you to cross the border and to explore the countries of the Baltic Sea. We thank you for your continued patience and support of this eagerly awaited expansion.

We are happy to announce that the latest addition to Euro Truck Simulator 2

'Beyond the Baltic Sea' DLC will be released on Steam on November 29th, 2018!

Today we're presenting Beyond the Baltic Sea main features list for the first time. We hope that a summary of the upcoming expansion will leave you with no doubt in your mind that this is a very content-rich DLC.

• Over 13 thousand kilometers of new in-game roads
• Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia to explore
• Southern Finland containing major cities and industry
• Russian territory including Saint Petersburg and Kaliningrad
• 24 new major cities and many smaller towns
• Characteristic Baltic architecture
• Famous landmarks and recognizable places
• Brand new unique 3D-assets
• Lush climate accordant vegetation
• Local AI trains, trams, and traffic cars
• Over 30 new local company docks and industries
• Finland-only High Capacity Transport (a tractor and two long trailers)
• Baltic-region achievements to unlock

You may start seeing reviews, videos, and streams appearing online early this weekend. We have allowed the media, trusted content creators and members of our senior volunteer tester group to show video footage and other visual material from the DLC today at 22:59 UTC.

Baltic Ports

The Baltic Sea connects the countries of the upcoming Beyond the Baltic Sea map expansion for Euro Truck Simulator 2, it is even the basis for the name of the DLC. Seaports are a key part of freight and logistics of the region. They also play an important role in our ETS2 world expansion.

Two new ports have a specific role. They are located outside the territory of the newly added countries, but they are appearing in the game as part of Update 1.33, you can already check them out in the Open Beta. Kapellskär is located in Sweden and Travemünde is in Germany. These new ferry ports will provide links with the new region even for players who do not own the Going East! map expansion.

Postcards from Finland

Finland is one of the many new countries featured in the upcoming DLC 'Beyond the Baltic Sea'. You will be able to drive through the more populated southern areas, where you can explore Finland's largest cities, industrial centers and where most of the Finnish population live. At this time, Finland is one of the most northern areas you can drive in the world of Euro Truck Simulator 2.

Some of you may know that when it comes to trucking in Finland, the HCT will be an important part of your experience. High Capacity Transport is currently one of the less common types of freight transport found within European countries. The most interesting types of HCT found consists of a truck, a semitrailer dolly, and a semitrailer. We hope that these new pieces of information about upcoming content will make you even more excited. We can't wait for you to cross the border to explore the Beyond the Baltic Sea expansion and see what lies ahead!

Towns and Cities

The countries which surround the Baltic Sea feature many beautiful coastlines, forests, and mountains. They are also home to many different species of wildlife such as whales, deer, and wolves, but these are not the only living creatures to inhabit these countries. Over 85 million people live around the Baltic Sea, who all come from many different backgrounds, cultures, and nationalities. In this blog post, we want to focus on the cities, towns, and villages that inhabit the countries in the upcoming DLC.

There will be many brand new cities to drive in 'Beyond The Baltic Sea'. You could choose to explore a large bustling metropolis or visit a small historical village. Each one of them has been hand crafted from scratch and feature many famous landmarks, historic monuments and much more! We hope that when you do cross the border, you will slow down a little to see the details which have been created by our talented team. We have seen and heard how excited the community is for this upcoming map expansion, and so we are especially excited to share these new preview images with you!

FOR GAMES Expo this week

This week, October 25-28, the FOR GAMES annual expo takes place in Prague, our hometown. Our On the Road team will be there with our Sim Trailer, and we would like to invite you to meet us!

We'll be showing the recently released Oregon DLC for American Truck Simulator, but you will also be able to get a good look at the upcoming stuff - the Special Transport DLC for ATS, and Beyond the Baltic Sea DLC for Euro Truck Simulator 2.

It's always great to come to a gaming show full of enthusiastic players and fans. The gaming show in Prague is not as big as last week's PGA 2018, so the waiting lines will not be that long hopefully. It was a very busy but super cool weekend we had in Poznań, check out this short video report...

Last but not least - we are hiring! SCS Software is in growth mode, we need more artists, designers, coders, tweakers, testers... This event is a great opportunity to chat with our team in an informal environment and learn what it takes to join us!

Saint Petersburg - Western Diameter

A lot of work has been invested into St. Petersburg and specifically also into Western High-Speed Diameter in the upcoming Beyond the Baltic Sea map expansion. We have shown you a few screenshots already, but today we'd like to show you even more.

So we sat behind the steering wheel and made a video for you. Here is the Western Diameter through the eyes of a Euro Truck Simulator 2 truck driver!

SCS On The Road: ETRC Grand Finale in Jarama

We would like to invite our fans from Spain to meet us on racetrack Circuito del Jarama during the grand finale of the FIA ETRC 2018 truck racing season. See you this weekend!

Our On The Road team has a super busy time now. They have just arrived back to the office from Le Mans to celebrate the release of ATS Oregon map expansion on Thursday. But they won't stay in Prague for long - they need to hurry to catch a plane again to Madrid on Friday. So many exciting things happening in such a short time span!

We are looking forward to meeting all the visitors interested in our games and especially the hardcore truck sim players. We'll be in Jarama in full glory with our Sim Trailer, including the pair of 4D motion seats and our cache of merchandise reserved for the most loyal fans ;).

Great times ahead! Just like we had during our stay at Le Mans. We have a little photo diary from Le Mans for you below...