West Balkans Expansion Discussion

[Adriatic Sea Team]

I would like to see at least two blogs per month but I think that we will get the blog more frequently after the 10th anniversary.@oldmanclippy Yeah the DLC is most probably coming out in April or May. I'm a bit curious about the country paint jobs pack, there will probably be eight paint jobs in a bundle. Also, there might be a map DLC bundle with the Black Sea and West Balkans to have a complete Balkan peninsula.

Told you, see you next week.

[Trucker Nik]

The Balkan blog will be either tomorrow or next week for sure

[Adriatic Sea Team]

Let's guess the title of tomorrow's blog, West Balkans - Slovenia.

[Shiva]

Ain't those closer to release, or do I remember wrong?

[oldmanclippy]

Here's the first five post-announcement blogs for each DLC. Patterns aren't guarantees of course but it's interesting to see how things have played out in the past:

Heart of Russia:
Nature
Guess where we are
Villages
Churches
Food Mill Industry

Iberia:
Eco-Regions
Deserts
Ports
Car Industry
Olives

Road to the Black Sea:
Romania
Bulgaria
Turkey
Border Crossings
Villages

Beyond the Baltic Sea:
Border Control Prefabs
New Industries
New Industries 2
Countryside and Nature
Baltic Landmarks

So I think an industry, landscape, or border crossing blog is possible. Country blogs aren't out of the question depending on their progress.

[Adriatic Sea Team]

@Shiva Nope, West Balkans is still pretty far away from release. @oldmanclippy I think it would be similar to East Balkans and Baltic Sea, each country will be represented, border crossings and landscape for sure.

So this is my prediction of blog titles.

West Balkans:

Each country has its own blog - (SLO, HR, BIH, SRB, MNE, NMK, AL, RKS)
Adriatic Coastline
Mountains and Canons
Highways
Country roads
Steel industry
Plains and Fields
Rivers

Some of these blogs might mention the cities that are important for each topic, they might also mention the border crossings because there is a lot of them, not just in the inner territory of DLC but also with connection DLC to Going East and East Balkans. For example, Croatia and Serbia have connections with Hungary, Serbia has a connection with Bulgaria and Romania, and North Macedonia has a connection with Bulgaria. I almost forgot those ferry connections between Italy, Croatia, Montenegro, and Albania.

[Shiva]

Those blogs possible Adriatic Sea Team.

[Adriatic Sea Team]

At this point, I would actually be surprised to see any Balkan blog before next month.

[OzembuchVRICI]

It's interesting that Montana and Texas got their microsites and the West Balkans did not(maybe it's too soon, but still).

[Adriatic Sea Team]

West Balkans is the most naturally diverse and rich DLC so far, as we said earlier, they could tease us with making a microsite with future blog titles but I don't think that will happen. We are still in a very quiet phase of showing DLC content, Texas is currently slowing West Balkan's blogs, this is the first and last big expansion of ATS and most awaited so they need to milk it as long as they can. Also, West Balkans is the last expansion with so many different countries, so they need to prepare it for future milking.