1.40 Development Update

[Digital]

Greetings!

We understand there is a lot of anticipation towards our multiplayer support for version 1.40, and with it, comes lots of questions. Therefore, we are happy to announce our Development Update 1.40, which will hopefully, answer your questions and concerns.

With American Truck Simulator 1.40 releasing on the 23rd of March, and Euro Truck Simulator 2 1.40 releasing on the 24th of March, our community have been anxiously awaiting TruckersMP's multiplayer support of the latest versions for three weeks.

Although our support is not yet ready, we wanted to be clear on our current progress, and answer some popular questions from the community.

Of course, if there are additional questions you would like to ask, you are welcome to post them on our forum topic. We will monitor the topic over the next few days and answer them as soon as possible.

So, without further delay, it's time to answer the most popular questions about the update!

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When is multiplayer support for 1.40 expected to release?

A lot of effort has gone into porting the multiplayer modification already, but there is still a substantial amount of work to do. We are currently anticipating a release towards the end of April. This estimate can be extended if there are any setbacks during the process.

Why do these updates take so long?

Although a lot of the porting process has been automated over the years, there is still a lot of work to do manually.

Additionally, although the TruckersMP Team consists of over 230 members, it's only our two Game Developers that have the knowledge, skills, and tools to prepare the port from 1.39 to 1.40. In addition to them working on the update, they have personal commitments in the real world.

To support them as much as possible, the whole team will be participating in test builds during the porting process.

If you're curious about the process our Game Developers have to port our multiplayer modification to support the latest versions, check out mwl4's breakdown in our previous Development Update topic, here: 1.38 Development Update | Forum Post.

How can I stay up-to-date with information about 1.40 multiplayer support?

We will ensure you are informed by keeping our social media channels and information regularly updated.

You can check them out below:

TruckersMP News | Development Announcements (forums) | Discord | Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

I already updated to 1.40, how can I play on the multiplayer servers?

As multiplayer does not support 1.40 yet, you will need to downgrade your game version.

We have provided a guide on how to downgrade your games to 1.39 here: How to downgrade

You can also view our video guide on how to downgrade, here: How To: Downgrade Your Game.

Will ProMods ETS2 v2.55 and ATS v1.0.1 be supported?

It is estimated that ProMods ETS2 v2.55 and ATS v1.0.1 will be supported shortly after our initial compatibility update for 1.40. Therefore, the ProMods multiplayer servers will be temporarily unavailable when the 1.40 compatibility support is initially released.

This is likely to only take a few additional days to support, whilst we make the necessary preparations.

Will 'Iberia' DLC be supported?

The new Iberia DLC will be supported, including No Collision Zone support in appropriate locations.

Will the World of Trucks 'Cruising Iberia' event be supported?

If the event has not already concluded, it will be supported when we release multiplayer compatibility for 1.40.

It's worth noting that the event will conclude on Tuesday the 11th of May at 23:59 UTC.

Has the new lighting system affected the multiplayer porting process?

No, the updated lighting system introduced in 1.40 has not affected multiplayer in a substantial way. There are, however, some minor issues with our Scout vehicle's headlights/beacons, which will be resolved for our update.

Are there any FMOD-related issues affecting the multiplayer porting process?

No! Since client version 0.2.3.1.0, issues related to the FMOD sound engine have been resolved. This will continue to be functioning correctly in multiplayer, in 1.40.

Will the Renault T 2021 be supported?

Yes, the Renault T 2021 will be supported, including full synchronisation, and CB Radio.

Will the Spring Graphics/Weather modification be supported in 1.40?

Yes. The Spring Graphics/Weather modification by Grimes has already been updated for 1.40 and will be supported in multiplayer. Our Knowledge Base article (How to install the Spring Mod?) will be updated to reflect the latest version, when our 1.40 compatibility support has been released.

Why are you focusing on creating official events, instead of working on the new version?

Although the TruckersMP Team consists of over 230 staff, each person has an area of the project to focus on. As such, official events are created by the Event Management and Event Team. They collectively spend thousands of hours to provide the community with fresh and exciting events.

However, the multiplayer port to 1.40 is an effort our two Game Developer's focus on. Presently, only mwl4 and ShawnCZek work on the game client, as they possess the knowledge, skills, and tools to prepare the port from 1.39 to 1.40

Why are you still focusing on the Alternating Vehicles project, instead of preparing 1.40 support?

Similar to our official events, we have staff working in our Add-On Management and Add-On Team, dedicated to preparing the vehicles every two weeks. This project does not affect the Game Development's progress on porting multiplayer to 1.40 in any way.

Why are new DLCs, such as paint jobs, supported within a few days, but major game versions take weeks/months?

Our Game Developers have spent a lot of time creating systems to automate a lot of the porting process. Fortunately, the majority of the work required to implement the latest DLCs is now automated, with manual work kept to a minimum.

However, major game versions, such as 1.40, still require a lot of manual work. New game versions introduce hundreds, sometimes even thousands of changes to the game code. All of these changes need to be reflected in the multiplayer code and updated accordingly. Although a lot of this process is automated, a large portion of these code changes need to be manually analysed and addressed, which takes hundreds of hours.

The game servers have been unstable recently, what's going on?

Our DevOps team are aware of the ongoing server stability issues in the past few weeks and are continuing to investigate. Unfortunately, as explained in a recent Status update, the datacentre some of our game servers were located suffered a fire, which resulted in a lot of interruption to our European game servers.

Although our servers are now back at full capacity, there remain some stability issues that are out of our control.

We are in contact with our server provider and are actively looking into solutions to resolve the issues.

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This concludes our development update for 1.40 multiplayer compatibility.

Although there are still a few days to go, we are all very excited to see you online in 1.40, and cannot wait to wave to you as we pass along the roads of Iberia. Our appreciation goes out to everyone showing support to the team - your words of encouragement are what keep us going!

Your patience and understanding are appreciated! Thank you.

-TruckersMP Team

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[xGustav]

 

I'm looking forward to update. 

[James]

Looking forward to this! 

[adrianus_TMP_[NLD]]

I'm looking forward to update. good job guy's

[roach.]

Looking forward to drive in Iberia, poggers

[Geology Rocks]

This is looking good

[PinkNub_]

I can not wait for new update! This is looking so amazing  

 

 

[Jollynx]

I can't wait for that's update!

[Guest]

We look forward to this. I hope it will be with us as soon as possible.

[Niuro]

Nice! Finally some information. It wasn't hard, was it? And yet again you bring a moderate amount of uncertains and missed oportunities. Let's see:

 

"... although the TruckersMP Team consists of over 230 members, it's only our two Game Developers that have the knowledge..." - Why don't you invite more people to help those 2 with the proper knowedge and training? This game is world wide popular. Is it that hard to find IT entusiasts? 

 

"Has the new lighting system affected the multiplayer porting process?
No, the updated lighting system introduced in 1.40 has not affected multiplayer in a substantial way. There are, however, some minor issues with our Scout vehicle's headlights/beacons, which will be resolved for our update." - If lighting is no problem to do, why not update to 1.40 and do Iberia and Scout after that? The cars are a menace/buggy anyway and most players don't even drive them. In other words - it won't be a big miss to turn them off for a while. 

 

"Why are you focusing on creating official events, instead of working on the new version?" - why indeed... There are no lasting benefits or good memories from participating in these anyway.

 

Sorry for my English, I'm not native to it.

 

 

[HomerSimpson16]

Will there ever be a time when the Dev's will not be able to update to a new version in the future?

 

Also. Maybe is there are players who do updating as a full time job, is it worth hiring players to help port over to new versions if there are any who like that sort of thing?

[StateCA [NL]]

Thanks for the update! Can't wait for the 1.40 support

[Charles_AreA [UAE]]

Thanks for the Information and I'm looking forward to update.

[Owen.]

 

26 minutes ago, Борислав said:

Nice! Finally some information. It wasn't hard, was it? And yet again you bring a moderate amount of uncertains and missed oportunities. Let's see:

 

"... although the TruckersMP Team consists of over 230 members, it's only our two Game Developers that have the knowledge..." - Why don't you invite more people to help those 2 with the proper knowedge and training? This game is world wide popular. Is it that hard to find IT entusiasts? 

 

"Has the new lighting system affected the multiplayer porting process?
No, the updated lighting system introduced in 1.40 has not affected multiplayer in a substantial way. There are, however, some minor issues with our Scout vehicle's headlights/beacons, which will be resolved for our update." - If lighting is no problem to do, why not update to 1.40 and do Iberia and Scout after that? The cars are a menace/buggy anyway and most players don't even drive them. In other words - it won't be a big miss to turn them off for a while. 

 

"Why are you focusing on creating official events, instead of working on the new version?" - why indeed... There are no lasting benefits or good memories from participating in these anyway.

 

Sorry for my English, I'm not native to it.

 

 

Hey there, 
 

The information provided does indeed include uncertainties, we cannot provide a 100% accurate answer because if there are unforeseen problems in development then we do not want to lie to you, we are fully transparent and honest that we do not know for sure - we have given the answers to the questions we do know and this does provide a lot of clarity on the issue.

 

I just wanted to shed some light on some of the comments that you have made. Firstly, if it was so simple to get more game developers - I assure you, we would. However, people with the ability and knowledge to help out our current developers are limited, particularly those who are willing to do it for free. I know you might say, "why don't you use the money from Patron?", but I would direct you to the average salary in a corporate job for someone with this knowledge - they are making a lot of money and it would be unreasonable for them to stop doing that to work for TruckersMP, for free. An IT enthusiast is completely different to someone with the knowledge we need; if we wanted to "train" someone for it, then it would take even longer to get these updates out. 

 

These issues with the scout car will be resolved whilst we have the opportunity to solve them, there are a considerable amount of players who enjoy the Scout and it would be unfair for us to delay further updates and not include a DLC just for issues which are being worked on. These things have to be updated eventually and it's a lot easier to do it all together rather than separately. The cars are as much as a 'menace' as trucks because collisions are caused equally between them. It will be quite a large loss for the community if they are removed as a lot of people enjoy driving them sensibly. 

 

If you have not had lasting and good memories from these then I am sorry to hear that but many people, including myself do. Furthermore, official events have nothing to do with the update, it can take such little time to prepare official event assets and put on them on the servers, which is a huge amount less than it would take to update to 1.40. Even beyond that, these events are set up coordinated and managed by the Event Management and their team so this is not preventing work on 1.40.

 

Whilst I can appreciate your frustrations I thought that I'd shed some light on these issues and ensure you are aware of why these things are happening. If you have any further questions then I am at your disposal!

 

Kind regards, 
Owen.

[Justice Man]

I believe this update will be excellent 

[LetiFreshi]

1 hour ago, Борислав said:

"... although the TruckersMP Team consists of over 230 members, it's only our two Game Developers that have the knowledge..." - Why don't you invite more people to help those 2 with the proper knowedge and training? This game is world wide popular. Is it that hard to find IT entusiasts?

I assume it's not as easy as you may think it is. Although ETS2 might be a popular game, coding isn't something easy, especially when it's about changing certain game versions.
Getting new developers that actually have the skills and experience in what is necessary to get TruckersMP to support version 1.40 as fast as possible, is hard I can assure you. 

People that do have these abilities are rare to find, and if you do, they probably want to be paid for their time offered into coding. 
You cannot just open a recruitment and call it "Developer recruitment" - Show us what you can. Too many people would apply that know nothing or little about what is requiered to code TruckersMP to version 1.40. 
And thus making things even more complicated.
 

1 hour ago, Борислав said:

"Why are you focusing on creating official events, instead of working on the new version?" - why indeed... There are no lasting benefits or good memories from participating in these anyway.

Regarding this, if you had read the post carefully, you would have also noticed that "Official Events" and "Game Progress" are two things that have absolutely nothing in common.
There is Event Staff including Event Managers that manage and create these Events. Game developers have nothing to do with what you have stated.

"Although the TruckersMP Team consists of over 230 staff, each person has an area of the project to focus on. As such, official events are created by the Event Management and Event Team."

Owen summarized everything pretty well too but was faster than me in submitting his comment.

[TruckersLife]

Wow That's great news finally i was waiting for update. Thanks to the team who are doing hard work for us. We are really appreciate the work.

[[AlphA] MgDalvin]

Thanks for letting us know, I hope it will be quick.

[Red Hot Pepper]

 

hmm I hope there will be no problem and it will be with us as soon as possible.

[Poyraz]

Thanks for information. I'm looking forward to update  

[Blaze Wolf]

53 minutes ago, Борислав said:

Nice! Finally some information. It wasn't hard, was it? And yet again you bring a moderate amount of uncertains and missed oportunities. Let's see:

 

"... although the TruckersMP Team consists of over 230 members, it's only our two Game Developers that have the knowledge..." - Why don't you invite more people to help those 2 with the proper knowedge and training? This game is world wide popular. Is it that hard to find IT entusiasts? 

 

"Has the new lighting system affected the multiplayer porting process?
No, the updated lighting system introduced in 1.40 has not affected multiplayer in a substantial way. There are, however, some minor issues with our Scout vehicle's headlights/beacons, which will be resolved for our update." - If lighting is no problem to do, why not update to 1.40 and do Iberia and Scout after that? The cars are a menace/buggy anyway and most players don't even drive them. In other words - it won't be a big miss to turn them off for a while. 

 

"Why are you focusing on creating official events, instead of working on the new version?" - why indeed... There are no lasting benefits or good memories from participating in these anyway.

 

Sorry for my English, I'm not native to it.

 

 

To answer your questions, 1. yes it is. Or at least, it's hard to find those interested in something like this. 2. I'm pretty sure a lot of mods use them so yes it would be. 3. Doesn't matter, they're part of a different team entirely.

[3quertY12]

Nice to see some information about the 1.40 update. That's a good idea to make threads for it and can't wait for the 1.40 update to be ported.

Will we get additional information later on when the update itself will be in the next phase of being playable?

[Rescue193uk]

Thank you for the update   Keep up the amazing work

[DJ-SAAB]

Two who have the knowledge and skills of coding. It is strong of them to try to keep TMP updated willingly and spend that time for us. Not always easy to try to speed up. Without them, we would have played on an old update or no TMP at all.

 

We should be grateful to be able to play on TMP even on older versions. Remember that!

[Unnamed User]

Thank you for giving us some info. I hope you will make it before #TMP7