Illinois Discussion Thread

[flight50]

it does make me wonder how well Chicago is going to run in terms of performance seeing as we're going to be going through the downtown area of Chicago

In a perfect world, what should happen is SCS release the engine update before Illinois releases and we get multi core, DX12 and whatever else to increase performance. Otherwise I have to agree that Chicago's skyline could struggle to even maintain 30fps.

[1948LJMack]

I googled about any transit activity that will be going on once the DLC is activated is that is that we will get to see some MetroLink activity on the Illinois side of the river, as the trains would be at street level and some parts of the routes would at least be crossing the highway. Also in Chicago, no doubt would see glimpses of the El. Chicago's Blue line runs in the median of I-290, then after it cruses through downtown, then at Ellen, the Blue Line becomes elevated and parallels Milwaukee Street, then at Kimball, it runs in the median of I-90.

[1948LJMack]

Also, the ATS/Google maps combo looks splendid.

[Runoff_975]

Yes, the engine update should be a much better priority in the works. Chicago is massive and I'd wager we'd see multicore first.

[HRTrucking]

Wihen the DLC releases and I drive in Chicago. When I hear a police siren I'll be thinking it's Hank Voight or someone else from Chicago P.D. series

I'll happily do that at 20fps . Police station from the series is close to the map that's drawn . Former 7th District Police Station on Google maps.

[Bedavd]

I went through and put all the orphan blog photos into boxes in the Gulf of Mexico. Looks like there are tons of unfound locations from the IL introduction blog that we might be able to locate given our better idea of the road network!

[oldmanclippy]

I went through and put all the orphan blog photos into boxes in the Gulf of Mexico. Looks like there are tons of unfound locations from the IL introduction blog that we might be able to locate given our better idea of the road network!

I believe the Introduction 2-11 blog pic 13 is here: viewtopic.php?p=2019827#p2019827 There's a decent candidate for pic 14 as well in that post, however pic 14 might not be depicting a precise real life location.

Apart from that, might have to wait until we see another blog pic with one of those water towers maybe. I haven't had luck identifying them yet.

[rbsanford]

Really, the pictures from the intro post are so nondescript that I don't think we'll be able to place them until we actually can explore the state ourselves. It would also be next to impossible to identify a town from a nameless water tower with a standard design; pretty much every prairie town has one (it's part of the Prairie Skyline, the three tallest buildings of any prairie town: the water tower, the grain elevator, and the church). I don't have much confidence that we'll be able to place these.

[oldmanclippy]

We can make some guesses though:

The water towers in pic 4 and pic 8 seem similar and look like this one in Rushville, and the road curvature looks like it could match up with US-24 north and west of Rushville looking back at Rushville (respectively); that would be my guess for those, but it's very much inconclusive. The water tower in those pics could also be a placeholder asset.

Then if we assume they didn't go too crazy on placing red hot air balloons, that could possibly place pic 5 on US-67 near Rushville as well. However, that's a pretty big leap in logic, and I also wasn't able to identify a real life apple orchard as seen in pic 5.

Pics 1/2/3 of the introduction blog should be really easy to find: it's a dual carriageway freeway split by a unique Jersey Barrier median structure side by side with a 2-lane road as a bridge, with corn and a bridge overhead and the 2-lane road curving away before the overhead bridge, and to top it all off there's some sort of depot in the middle of all that. I've just struck out finding it so far. I had to stop looking for it because it's just driving me nuts. Such a unique location yet so hard for me to find for some reason

[1948LJMack]

For the Lower Wacker Drive district, are they going to combine that all into one great big delivery destination just like Terastore in Missouri? If they are and since the Lower Wacker Drive is really a series of service tunnels, I wouldn't mind call it The Tunnel, or The Basement. That is because even with a handful of docks they might put into the game, there are some warehouse people that would take the goods that have arrived and deliver them to their final destination via service corridors.