ATS 1.43 Discussion Thread

[Laqueesha]

Ooh, a new Cali welcome sign. Hopefully that means more Cali rework is coming soon.

On another note, I noticed the game log was super long. When I tried to paste it into pastebin it exceeded the max limit, never had that happen to me before.

[flight50]

Yeah I think at least 1-2 roads could come to California for 1.43. But if not, nothing we can do about it but wait longer. Butttt if we do get something from California, I wonder what would it be. I-80...US-50, did they decide to extend CA-99 to I-5. Did they add CA-20? Or is it reworked US-101 and CA-1. Pretty much still North of I-80.

[arthurcfbr]

I really love the new dumpers trailers. I also noticed that they didn't mention the bottom dumpers trailers but they are ownable too.
Edit. I also found the new wrecker truck and looks it is based on the Kw t600

[flight50]

@arthurcfbr thank you for confirming the belly dumpers being ownable.

[supersobes]

and some new guardrail ends.

They added the Trinity Soft Stop guardrail!

Watch on YouTube

[SCS_Annie]

The SDF font in the interface is clearer and more readable than the previous one, but the license plates are as they were, blurry and poorly readable at close range.

Can you post some screenshots? We will look into it.

[mads1153]

It does say it's initial update to SDF fonts in the blog post, so it will be possible improved later.

[flight50]

Has anyone noticed if distance signs now show numerical numbers vs arrows in Colorado or another state as being as being adjusted?

[howey]

Too me a really good move on making the dump trailers reworked and ownable at this point of time. With the effort they have been putting into the mining and construction industries over the past few maps DLC's it was only convenient to make them ownable before people started getting on their back about it. With many people including myself assuming tankers will be included with Texas it would make the more focused industries more interesting and enjoyable to have trailers and equipment to haul them.

I do agree with Flight too about step deck and possibly curtainsider trailers being added sometime soon in a separate update.

[flight50]

I agree @howey . Texas is still a ways out so making better trailers for existing industries is good. If you and I had our way, more cargo for existing industries would fit right along with things. Now to get a few more cargo options for dumpers, a few more cargoes across the board can utilize these dumpers. From food, to waste to raw materials.

There are several things that would polish off dumpers imho.
1. Sand quarries
2. Limestone quarries
3. Landscaping depot. Soil, compost and boulders
4. bulk seeds, bulk feed, bulk produce, bulk nuts (if we get more types of orchards) peanuts, almonds, pecans just to name a few
5. Demolition dumper. This are much larger round belly trailers used to haul waste, scraps, etc. These would be pretty easily to make. Copy the current round belly and make the walls much taller with some tweaks to the body of the trailer.

low wall round belly dumper
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demolition round belly dumper
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Now to pull off number 5....I think 2 more things need to happen.
1. Bring in the waste industry + waste cargo. The means recycling centers and land fields. There is tons of space in no mans land to make land fields outside of town centers in ATS. Land fields are very remote in real life. More opportunity to go off road.
2. New prefabs. Demolition building sites and road construction demo sites. These can be pretty creative piles of rumble basically.