Luna

"Soon - There is no specific release date I can tell you at this moment." is probably my most written sentences of the last four weeks. Whether it was in #guest-chat on our Discord, in my DMs on forum and Discord, on Twitter, on Facebook or on Instagram.

I can totally understand that people want to play on ATS and ETS2 1.37 because we all want it.

Yes, usually updates don't take one month but usually updates don't include a new truck, a new sound engine and do not happen while a global pandemic is affecting our lives.

Some people totally understand that and post comments like this:

But such messages are rare. Mostly I saw such things:

Sometimes I just feel helpless because all I can say is that we are working on the update. I can't tell anyone a specific date but actually, this is good. Other known community projects and even large companies always announce specific release days but then have to move it to another date which makes their community more sad.

The problem I see is that there are so many people that don't know or don't want to downgrade their game because a) the new version is much cooler or b) they think it's dangerous to downgrade or c) it's not allowed to downgrade.

And now I am here thinking if we should make a "How to downgrade" video explaining the little risks and downsides but the huge advantages of downgrading or if we shouldn't do it because there will always be people complaining and we actively promote downgrading already.

We have 200 team members but only two people work on the client because it is not that easy. Community projects like HGVMP or IFMP tried to create their own multiplayer but no other project released an actual client yet for the past eight years.

TruckersMP is free, we do not anyone to pay us. We make money with Patreon, yes, but nobody is actually an employee. As some of you know, mwl4, our main client dev, has a real life job as developer. Do people think that just because of Corona all big companies close down entirely? I have no experience but I bet that it is not easier to work from home on project when you usually work as dev in a real bureau.

We know that the 1.37 update won't be released in May which means all events this month including Real Operations will happen on 1.36.
I would like to ask everyone who is still reading this to wait patiently and allow us to work as usual even though you guys know this already. One day, all this will be over and we can celebrate ingame with opening our windows until the next big game update releases.

Thank you for reading my little mental breakdown and thank you for your patience!