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The year 2020 has been a roller coaster for all of us due to the world situation. Although, that has not stopped us from continuous work.

In our client, we have supported 9 different game versions for Euro Truck Simulator 2 and 10 for American Truck Simulator. Both games have received support for three major versions. Additionally, one major external engine started powering TruckersMP as well; FMOD. The support is still not perfect, nevertheless, it does not cause any game crashes. And of course, no new additional content for the games has been forgotten.
However, making support for new content or game versions are not the only things we are doing. In the past year, we have released tons of features such as the dynamic speed limit, support for ProMods Canada, a new system of permissions for staff members, or hiding the oversize cargo offers from the job market. We have also brought back spectating other players (only for staff members), featured a system of maximum amount of accessories and hookups, created an automatic system for synchronizing all possible accessories in-game, boosted our partnership with TruckersFM through new chat commands and a new UI radio box with real-time information, and improved the experience for players with a Razer Chroma keyboard. And that is just a shortlist of all of that!
As we are creating a modification for existing games, we must make sure that every change to the game core is working and does not cause any crashes. Although, sometimes new bugs are introduced in our client by an accident as well. We have not been ignoring this and thus, the list of all fixes in this year is enormous. As an example, take a look at the 0.2.2.6.7 version! Either way, honorable mentions might be fixing the generation of the rain probability, using AltGr in combination with other keys, or the crash caused by using the hq_screenshot command.

Discord has not been left out either. Both Discord bots (Botdottir and Botranktir) have received an overhaul thanks to which we could make them accessible for anybody! A few weeks later, Botdottir became verified by Discord. This verified bot is now proudly overseeing our official Discord guild with over 140,000 members. That is twice more than a year ago!

But not only our Discord guild has reached such amazing numbers. This year we have broken the record of concurrent players. Because on 4th April, 17,524 truckers were exploring the map at the same time. That is just incredible...

Either way, we are expecting the year 2021 to be better than this one. Some of exciting features are already on their way!