American Truck Simulator

~Mike~ · 4 Feb 2016 at 16:16

Still slogging it out to get enough money for my first truck, trying not to take out a loan! The fuzz keep giving me these fines which isn't helping.

Nice touch with the tumbleweed going across the road.

squerble said:
Actually, this changed in a recent update of ETS2 the quality of the truck now somewhat affects the efficiency of the driver. I'll presume this also made it into ATS. Let me see if I can find the details of it.

Edit: It's actually the latest update (1.22.2). See update logs:

Thanks for pointing that out as I had missed it.

~Mike~ · 4 Feb 2016 at 21:06

~Mike~ · 6 Feb 2016 at 11:25

sgavan said:
I would love a mod where the view direction is linked to the wheel, similar to project cars virtual helmet, looked but can't find one.

Have you tried the steering camera rotation setting? Look in Gameplay options.

~Mike~ · 6 Feb 2016 at 11:27

Mods

If you post links to good mods I will add them to the OP.

~Mike~ · 6 Feb 2016 at 12:48

^ ETS2 thread is here

~Mike~ · 7 Feb 2016 at 10:33

digitalx said:
http://i.imgur.com/CSfcy8y.jpg

Got the Piva weather mod installed. Quite heafty at 300MB but looks very nice so far.

There we go: http://atsmods.lt/piva-weather-mod-for-ats/

Added to the OP.

~Mike~ · 7 Feb 2016 at 10:34

larryddd said:
hi how do you buy a peterbuild truck as the only ones for sale are the kenworth,do you have to travel to the towns like reno and bakersfield,as I have been to those towns and am still unable to buy a perterbuild.thanks

You need to 'discover' a Peterbuild truck dealer before you can buy one. There is a list of dealership locations in the OP.

On the map you will see a ? same for the Recruitment Agencies.

See here http://i.imgur.com/LleeaAY.jpg

~Mike~ · 8 Feb 2016 at 10:57

There's a link to Squirrel's mod spreadsheet in the OP.

~Mike~ · 8 Feb 2016 at 11:04

digitalx said:
Sweet thanks, hadn't read it for a while haha.

No worries, I will keep it updated and if there are any good mods you think should be added let me know.

~Mike~ said:
If you post links to good mods I will add them to the OP.

~Mike~ · 8 Feb 2016 at 13:37

Added Longer Yellow Lights to the mods list in the OP.

~Mike~ · 9 Feb 2016 at 08:49

weeble said:
Some subtle lighting mods I use, which I don't think have been mentioned before:
True lights
HDR fix
Colour correction

Added to OP.

~Mike~ · 9 Feb 2016 at 14:48

Pressing 'I' will cycle through the dashboard display, in some trucks it will display the set cruise control speed.

~Mike~ · 9 Feb 2016 at 17:19

Kenworth W900 is almost here

The iconic Kenworth W900 truck model should be added to the American Truck Simulator line-up in a few short days; it will be a part of the first small game update that we are finishing now.

This is actually the very first truck we have started creating for the game over two years ago, it has been in an almost-finished state for a long time. We were sure that this classic vehicle would be received very positively by our fans. However, unbeknown to us, it did not turn out to be the best choice for the first vehicle to approach Kenworth with during initial licensing discussions. Truck manufacturers tend to be very careful about their image, and Kenworth, as the pioneer in aerodynamics in cabin design with their T680, had a rather different idea of the ideal truck to have in our game at the moment of release. So it was back to work for us to finish the other truck first before we could hope for the licensing deal to be successfully signed.

Meanwhile, we also owe you news concerning the state of Steampunk DLC. We are gifting it now to loyal Steam followers of American Truck Simulator as promised. Our "robot" code has been processing the gifts for a few days already actually, we are however throttled by some technical issues. So far, we have managed to add the DLC to the Steam library of 53,000 players, there is still some 110,000 more DLCs to issue currently. Please have patience with us, the DLC content will automatically appear in your game shortly. As the execution on our side was not as swift as we had hoped, we are not yet limiting your chances to earn the DLC for free. Anybody following the game on Steam until and as of today will still qualify to receive it. You don't have to worry also if your game was a store pre-order and the box is yet to arrive; so long as you follow the game in time, the DLC will be added to it even if you activate the game a week or two from now.

http://blog.scssoft.com/2016/02/kenworth-w900-is-almost-here.html

Pictures

~Mike~ · 9 Feb 2016 at 20:05

https://www.worldoftrucks.com/en/im...0000018A8E2&back=online_profile.php?id=107669

~Mike~ · 13 Feb 2016 at 17:47

Very nice Josh

~Mike~ · 14 Feb 2016 at 09:04

balanceballs said:
Any tips on how to park? I have worked out that the trailer moves in the opposite direction to my steering but still find myself unable to get parked up, unless I choose to just drive straight in - which is usually quite easy.

Some of the videos on youtube make it look really simple. In reality, it's really difficult!

Did you watch Squirrel's Trucking School How to Reverse a Truck video?

There is a link in the OP to the series.

~Mike~ · 15 Feb 2016 at 08:56

The AI has always been a bit ......... in the early days of ETS2 it was terrible! SCS have made improvements but there are still areas where it goes a bit wrong.

What really annoys me is when a car overtakes you sometimes it will then pulls over in front of you and brakes!

I've now got up to 98% of the map discovered and not used any 'assistance'. Just selecting the right jobs and some free roaming. To get the last few bits might require some 'assistance'.

@balanceballs Keep practicing the reversing and you will get the hang of it.

~Mike~ · 15 Feb 2016 at 17:32

Get to Drive Kenworth W900 Now!

http://blog.scssoft.com/2016/02/get-to-drive-kenworth-w900-now.html

We are happy to announce that the legendary Kenworth W900 truck is now a part of American Truck Simulator. The truck is a free DLC - the game will be updated automatically through Steam. Please check out the little movie that we have made to celebrate this event

There are also several notable changes coming with this game update, let us preview them for you:

Since ATS release, we have heard plenty of complaints regarding relative large fines in the game. Perhaps our tester group is so much experienced already; playing our games for years, that they did not bring it to our attention that this would be a problem especially for new players. We erred here on the side of trying to make this element of the game too close to reality, catering to the veteran fans who want it tough.

On second thought, it's not really a good idea to intimidate people coming fresh to the game with crippling fines. Fines are now considerably lower in the early stages of the game, they grow larger only as the player's skill/level grows.

We have also made the detection code for speeding more forgiving, giving the player more time to adjust to a new speed limit. We definitely do not want to make players feel like the game is unfair!

More changes in this area are in the pipeline, our map team is hard at work adding more speed limit signs to proper places to explicitly zone the limits. There are also changes to the AI code that are tied to yet more map tweaks, which should further limit the problems with being rammed by overly stupid AI cars and on top of it getting penalized for it. But we will only be able to push out the changes in the map alongside the next major game update, so please have patience with us.

Finally, we have also improved the detection of 'turn on red' feature in the game. For drivers in Europe, it may be a surprise that in the US it's legally allowed to turn right at red traffic light, unless explicitly prohibited. So in the game, if you properly use your indicator to signal that you are turning right, no red light penalty is applied just as expected.