ATS 1.39 Speculation Thread

[plykkegaard]

A nice dream which turned into a nightmare with ghosts everywhere

[Mechanic_Wolf]

Phantom 309

[supersobes]

Self parking AI is so annoying, one is parked and big queue is behind it waiting

This is one of the things that I dislike about the AI parking in ATS. They only use a few spots in each lot, so they all wait for those few spots to be clear before they move. If the player parks in one of the spots that the AI uses, they just sit behind the player's truck and honk until the player moves even though there are several other empty spots in the parking lot. The same thing happens in the fuel island too. The AI will sit behind the player and honk until they are done fueling even though the other fuel lanes are clear.

[plykkegaard]

Abother proof that the AI acts like some not so intelligent RL drivers

[akima]

This dream ends when your friends are driving a mod truck, a mod trailer, both or even a custom paintjob and your local game doesn't have those assets. :)

They handle this in the initial 1.39 launch of multiplayer by only allowing multiplayer for vanilla profiles or profiles which only have mods from a white list of mods that they have deemed compatible. Due to time constraints the list is small and focuses only on popular mods.

For a later version of multiplayer they improve the situation to support all mods which only change skins. However they never add or plan to add support for third party map mods or other types of mods which would cause possible synchronization issues. They no longer use white listing at this point. Instead the game automatically detects what aspects of the game the mod changes so that they can mark the mod as "multiplayer compatible" or not; something they found easy to do, due to the very static nature of their modding system (IE the lack of true scripting support).

[flight50]

@akima what are your reference sources to make these claims. Not to mention, 1.39 is not even out yet so how could they even test me?

[bryntrollian]

I still wonder how these guys even come up with such wild theories all the time.

[flight50]

Lol. Ikr. If a source is provided cool. But I know SCS typically doesn’t leak stuff in advance like that. If they do, its on the blogs or a teaser on here. That post is like a premonition or something.

[Blackspots]

This is one of the things that I dislike about the AI parking in ATS. They only use a few spots in each lot, so they all wait for those few spots to be clear before they move. If the player parks in one of the spots that the AI uses, they just sit behind the player's truck and honk until the player moves even though there are several other empty spots in the parking lot. The same thing happens in the fuel island too. The AI will sit behind the player and honk until they are done fueling even though the other fuel lanes are clear.

That's only because that's where the AI path leads. The AI paths are essentially rails, and the AI in this game does not have any actual freedom of movement.

[Knightrider]

I would love dirt to be implemented in the near Future.