Beyond the Baltic Sea discussion thread

[Sametbey2]

In ETS2, I took my first double trailer from Norway to the United Kingdom.

[Some newbie driver]

Not with a job generated by normal game job schedulers for sure. Doubles can travel only in Scandinavian countries, Germany and Netherlands.

Problem can happen that you have a trip between Germany and Finland (for example) with a double truck and the GPS doesn't take into consideration your trailer; suggesting a road through Poland and Baltic countries; where those trailers aren't allowed. To be legal, the trip should be done taking some ferry at the German coast to suitable ports in Scandinavia.

That happened at least when Doubles start to be allowed in Germany and Netherlands in the game. I don't know if SCS fixed that later.

[OrionXIII]

I think it still does, at least from South-Germany to Finland routes. I wonder though if the Russian border control lets me pass, might check on the weekend.

[IvanKuz]

I found something very peculiar in Lithuania, and I haven't found any mention of this on the forum...

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To my knowledge, these are the only two signs in vanilla ETS2 that have marked distances to cities. They are located on a road to a remote dead-end town with just a single company, so very few people might notice them.
And they aren't even new - you can find ETS2 gameplay videos on YouTube from 2019 and see that these distances are already there.

Is this an Easter egg? An experiment? Why only these two?
@natvander @Vøytek I don't really know who does signs for ETS2, but maybe you can shed some light on this?

[mackintosh]

Curious. In all this time I never noticed them. Can't remember when was the last time I'd been in that area though. Maybe it just didn't ocurr to me at the time.

[IvanKuz]

Yeah, it's a very obscure place. I think this was my second time ever I got a job to Mažeikiai.

[Some newbie driver]

I've not been there in ages... But for sure didn't noticed it when I was there.

[Truckdrivr]

drove in that area last weekend, didnt pay enough attention i guess because i didnt notice. would be nice if it was broaded out, it makes good immersion. also btw the 1.40/1.41 upgrade with graphics/lighting has really made this DLC shine, really great work SCS did here.

[oldmanclippy]

I was very skeptical of distance numbers on those signs when they were introduced to California and Wyoming in ATS but now I really want them to add them in the rest of the country. ETS2 should follow suit where appropriate.

[IvanKuz]

These signs are the opposite of those in ATS, they use distances from their real-life equivalents as opposed to correct in-game distances.