ATS 1.48 speculation thread

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I'm thinking it's beating a scaled dead horse's bones... it's been dead for so long it's decomposed away to nothing man. LOL

This is true!

There are some roads at the existing scale that don't seem to be accessible that connect to another part of the map that is accessible. It would be nice if those roads were able to be traversed. Before the nay-sayers jump in, I understand parts of the map on the corners are drop off points, but when a road connects from A to B (want to say I was in Montana/Bozeman area) with a road that was blocked on one side and the other, but when I got to the far side, I could see a straight line road that would have connected the two points (I could actually SEE MY DELIVERY POINT in the distance some mile or so away (game miles not real miles). Roads like that.... yeah, they should be accessible.

There are small towns where the road down the middle of the town has barriers at every cross street, but there's a second and third road on each side of it lined with buildings. If the player were to get lost for example, they'd either have to make a uturn in the middle of the road, or go completely out of town to find a wide spot. Makes no sense to me. Honestly, scenery towns make no sense to me, but that's another story.

And I get that every single depot and complex can't be a delivery point, but some of the artistic skill and design that goes into these visual only places.... maaaan. Yeah. I get that too. The cattle/livestock industry could have been WILDY fleshed out if they'd made even a quarter of the ranches I drive by in Texas deliverable.

Oh, yeah: the decorative farms are (in most cases) far better than the incredibly stale deliverable ones we have. Car dealers, too. I love some of the deco ones.

And in general, about 3/4 of all deliverable facilities are reused per state. We're going to be delivering to the same Steeler in New York that we delivered to in Oregon, with everything laid out exactly the same.

[McFly]

With the new VNL having Cab suspension (and seemingly slightly different physics overall?) here's to hoping we'll get that as a feature for all trucks with 1.48

That plus actuall sliding tandems or at least more positions as apparently hinted at near the end of the VNL Video on SCS's YouTube channel

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Sliding fifth wheels, too, please!

[flight50]

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[McFly]

Yes I've seen those. Guess it's quite a lot of work to implement and would require them to revisit every truck. But they seem to be working on it, so maybe at least a few trucks will get updates with 1.48

Someone else mentioned somewhere that they might go from newest truck and work their way down to the older ones, possibly skipping the original trucks altogether. Would be a plausible way to handle this i think.

[flight50]

Yes I stated to start with the newest trucks first and go backwards skipping the first 5 trucks. Only time will tell but they'd definitely have to revisit every truck to make it all happen. Thing is, they can't do it on one and not the others imo. At least not the high quality trucks which is the Lonestar that came in 2018 and newer.

[AntonioMart]

Probably licensed FlowBelow kits for all trucks as it was with JOST fifth wheel in ETS when the SCS got a license and on most trucks the fifth wheels were replaced.

[JoeAlex23]

Yes I stated to start with the newest trucks first and go backwards skipping the first 5 trucks. Only time will tell but they'd definitely have to revisit every truck to make it all happen. Thing is, they can't do it on one and not the others imo. At least not the high quality trucks which is the Lonestar that came in 2018 and newer.

I think you meant the first 4 trucks (T680, 579, 389 and old VNL), the W900 can't be included in that list anymore

[flight50]

^Yesss, lmao. I did forget about the reworked W900 already and that's the only truck I use, doah. But even the W900 would have to be revisited like Wolfi said in another thread. The W900 was not made to have the new VNL suspension. Considering its the previous new truck, I wouldn't be surprised if its already in the works.

[JoeAlex23]

Actually it's quite easy to add it to the reworked W900, i already did it as a personal mod just to see how it works, as long as the hood is separated from the cabin and the chassis is not that hard, Wolfi said the Anthem, 49X, 57X and Cascadia will need some extra work, but as far as i can see, the Internationals, the reworked W900 and the 5700XE can have it with an easy update.