Important Notice For Our Modding Community

Due to the appearance of mods with sets of our World of Trucks event rewards and Steam inventory items - we feel the need to clarify our policy.

Seeing countless mods for our games is great and we're happy that so many talented people are investing their time in adjusting, improving or creating new content - but there are limits of what is and isn't fine. Simply copying our content, without making any meaningful changes (and without making the mod DLC dependable in case of DLC content) absolutely isn't. Steam inventory item modifications are not either. These items are meant as, and should stay so, something special that not everyone has, while also being a part of Valve's Steam market.

This restriction isn't meant to harm our great modding community, it's strictly to protect the value of said items. Every single one of them has to be obtained as a reward for time invested into our many WoTr events, or eventually bought from someone who earned them that way.

So far we've banned a few of those mods, and some of the authors were warned. From now on, we will take these mods as a direct violation of property rights and we will react accordingly.

We've set up a topic for questions about this - if there are any - on our forum. We won't reply on questions regarding this restriction anywhere else.

Due to the informative nature of this post, comments have been disabled.

ETS2 Teasing

Recently we released a short video showing A Road To Somewhere New... a first real taste of what major map expansion will be arriving next in Euro Truck Simulator 2.

The response we saw from the community was outstanding and many of you started to guess and create speculation of where these new roads are located. Today, we are excited to share a new gallery of more screenshots from these locations. 

Which countries can be explored? Where will the roads lead? Only time will tell...

On The Road: Peterborough Truckfest

With the start of the traveling season drawing closer for our SCS On The Road crew, it is time for us to start making preparations to travel to the first stop on our calendar with our famous SCS Sim Trailer.

After last-years sunshine filled visit, we are very excited to be returning to the legendary Peterborough Truckfest, which takes place on the 5th & 6th of May 2019 at the East of England Showgrounds. You can expect a day filled with music, entertainment, live shows, thousands of beautifully detailed trucks and of course, our custom trailer equipped with our 4D Motion Truck Simulators.

Whether you are new to the truck-sim scene or a hardcore fan, our team are looking forward to meeting you. Our experienced SCS On The Road members Nemiro, Mr. Cenda and founding father Pavel Šebor will be attending, as well as our resident British expert Alex and community guest George to give us a helping hand at our sim trailer.

We are also excited to hear that many other notable community members are planning on visiting too! Such as Squirrel, known for his famous Sunday Night Trucking live streams on Twitch, Presenters from the popular radio station Truckers.FM and many other members of virtual trucking companies and communities. So make sure to stop by our SCS trailer to say hello, and you may even be lucky enough to walk away with a piece of ETS2 or ATS merchandise to take home.

We also plan on creating a group photo on both days, along with a short video that we would love for you our community to be a part of. So make sure to let us know through our social media channels or in the blog comments down below if you are attending!

And if this stop is just out of reach of your travels, be sure to check out our current plans for the On The Road crew, we may be visiting near you very soon! We look forward to seeing you there.

Update 1.35 Closed Beta Testing

There is still a lot of work ahead of us to finalize Update 1.35, but we are happy to report that we have hit an important internal milestone. As of this week, the updates to both American Truck Simulator and Euro Truck Simulator 2 are in Closed Beta testing.

Our internal testers have been working super hard on testing and re-testing the new game features, but now it's time for more eyes to see them. A proven inner circle of loyal friends from our fan community has been invited to download a private preview build of 1.35. Sharing the progress on the games with the outside world is a big step for us. The first stage of Closed Beta should pave the way for the second stage a couple of weeks later - a larger group of testers will join us providing yet more feedback on the second beta iteration. Fingers crossed, this will ultimately give us the confidence to launch into Open Beta, giving everybody a chance to test-drive the new version.

It's April Fools' Day today, but we did not want to shock you with some sort of unbelievable story. Instead, we chose to make a little light-hearted video as a tribute to the hard work of our testers and to celebrate the moment of the start of the Closed Beta. We would like to express our sincere thanks to the fan community and the volunteer testers groups. Have fun guys and gals! As for the public test, tentatively we plan to start it about a month from now, you can look forward to a series of posts announcing the key new features in the coming weeks.

Farming in Washington State

From bustling cities to evergreen forests, Washington is a diverse state that is home to many significant industries including one of its largest, Agriculture. Each one of the around 40,000 farms require constant attention to keep running; they depend on truck drivers to deliver their materials, machinery and most importantly their produce to export across America and beyond.

The upcoming Washington State map expansion will feature many farm industries that will not only include growing just crops, but also those that specialise in other produce such as pumpkins, tomatoes and other fruits and vegetables.

Just as important as the produce grown are the farmyards themselves, which can vary from large companies with many acres of fields, to small country family farms. Essential to their operations are the structures which occupy the land such as greenhouses, silos, and most importantly, shelter for the livestock. On your travels, you may even come across farm animals such as pigs, sheep or even large buffaloes known for roaming and grazing, or just enjoying the sunshine.

We can't wait for you to explore these farms amongst many other industries! In the meantime, why not add Washington State to your Steam Wishlist?

Trailer News Part 1: American Truck Simulator

We are working hard on the new Update 1.35 for both Euro Truck Simulator 2 and American Truck Simulator. It's shaping up to be one of the biggest updates ever. We plan for an extensive open beta period, but there is still a lot of internal testing and tweaking left to do before we reach that stage. A series of upcoming blog posts will focus on key new features and new content.

In today's post, we want to focus on new types of trailers and loads coming to American Truck Simulator with Update 1.35. The new additions will be very handy in the Pacific Northwest!

Chip van trailers are coming to service the woodworking industry especially in Oregon and in our upcoming Washington state map expansion. They will be available with three body variants: van, moving floor, and iconic belly van. Chip van trailers are ownable and will be available to haul from the freight market.  We also plan to use them to transport other suitable loads in other industries and states.

Driving towards Washington State, you will have a chance to meet a piggyback truck transport consisting of Kenworth T680s. The new Kenworth truck manufacturing plant special prefab will produce plenty of trucks to deliver to truck dealers all around the game world. This new unique structure deserves its own topic in the near future, so we'll come back to it again.

B-double trailers are another highly requested type of trailer we've created for this update. You will find them on the roads of Oregon and Washington where they are legal. By combining different types of trailers, a huge number of possible B-double combinations is possible. They are spectacular to look at, but towing them will be a new challenge for all our drivers.

Some final words? Perhaps: "Skeletal Container Carrier!"

The players of ETS2 can look forward to an upcoming blog post concentrating on new trailer additions for their game, too!

One Truck Family Event

Let us invite you to join latest World of Trucks event!

The new season of the FIA European Truck Racing Championship (FIA ETRC) is coming. Out in the real world, we plan to be a part of the roadshow again, and we are looking forward to meeting our fans in the flesh again on the racing circuits of the 2019 calendar.

We also want to do something cool in our virtual world. Last year, we asked our community to help us deliver racing components in the "Start Your Engines" event. Thousands of participants passed the event requirements and claimed their rightfully earned rewards.

Today we’re coming back to you with a new task.  Let's imagine such a scenario; before the 2019 season, the teams have a long list of places to go, such as shows and public events to show off their fast and agile beasts. They also need to travel between their home bases, testing circuits, workshops, and any other places where preparations prior to the season can take place. These racing trucks aren't road-legal and we’re going to need your help transporting them to the various destinations!

For the duration of the event, we have placed the racing beauties into Euro Truck Simulator 2 as a very special kind of cargo for you, and now they are ready to start their journey. Utilizing a special FIA ETRC trailer carrying the teams' racing trucks, let's show the world that no matter the size, number of axles, engine, type of use or even brand, all trucks can unite when it's needed.

This spirit perfectly aligns with the new #OneTruckFamily campaign initiated by the FIA ETRC to unite all types of truck drivers, regardless if on the race track, on the road or in a virtual environment.

Hop into your truck and set the course to some of the starting destinations listed below. Don't forget to show off your creative screenshots of this event under the #OneTruckFamily hashtag on your Twitter, Instagram or Facebook profiles! Tag FIA ETRC (Twitter, Instagram, Facebook), our official channels and share your participation with us!

Let's take a look at the rules and rewards of this event!

Rules

Using External Contracts on World of Trucks-connected profile, complete deliveries with all 10 ETRC cargo trailers. For an additional reward, complete a delivery to at least 5 different destinations.

Cargo trailers to deliver:

• from Prague: Buggyra Racing - Adam Lacko + Oliver Janes
• from Mannheim: Team Hahn Racing - Jochen Hahn
• from Stuttgart: Team Schwabentruck - Stephanie Halm
• from Munich: Truck Sport Lutz Bernau - Antonio Albacete
• from Berlin: Reboconort Truck Racing Team - Eduardo Rodrigues
• from Bremen: SL Trucksport - Sascha Lenz
• from Cologne: Team Reinert Racing - René Reinert
• from Bratislava: Tankpool 24 Racing - Norbert Kiss
• from Frankfurt am Main: Don't Touch Racing - André Kursim
• from Amsterdam: EK Truck Race - Erwin Kleinnagelvoort

Destination schedule:

Note: The delivery destination change every three days at 07:00 UTC. See the teams destinations schedule on World of Trucks or follow our social media pages: Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

Rewards

For the delivery of all 10 ETRC cargo trailers you will receive:

• World of Trucks achievement
• ETRC Cap interior accessory 

In addition to the above, if you also complete delivery to at least 5 different destinations you will receive:

• Special World of Trucks achievement 
• Interior accessory of 1:50 truck model of one of three ETRC 2018 racing trucks (random drop)
• ETRC Mug interior accessory
• Beautiful racing-inspired paint-job

Note: All rewards are tradable and marketable Steam Inventory items.

A Road to Somewhere New...

Our Euro Truck Simulator 2 map team has been busy building a new major map expansion for quite a while already. Research and pre-production have actually started over half a year before the Beyond the Baltic Sea DLC was released.

A huge amount of work is still ahead of us to complete the work, but we think the time has come to start teasing you with the very first visual clue. Don't worry, in a matter of a few weeks, we want to announce the new map DLC officially, and the teasing should turn into regular project progression reveals and updates. There is so much cool new stuff to show you, we are really looking forward to sharing it with you!

Washington: Logging cliff road

Servicing the logging industry (together with farming industry) will be an important aspect of the in-game economy for the upcoming Washington map expansion. If you are looking for a more challenging drive, you will not only come across beautiful open roads but also winding and dusty ones leading through the thick forests of Washington State. The most interesting example of this is the logging cliff road used to transport tons of logs and wood chips as well as to haul heavy logging machinery.

Our map designers also have a new tool and process for scenic background creations available. This will help us create an even more immersive environment in our games. We used them extensively while creating this hill-side road. You can see the results in this fantastic panoramic screenshot gallery.