[SCS Blog] BIG Announcement

[SCS Blog]

Today, we'd like to provide you with a quite detailed look at a project that has been underway for well over a year - our upcoming Special Transport DLC for Euro Truck Simulator 2.

We have hinted at its existence in last year's New Year Wishes video, at that point we actually thought that we would be ready to release it in only a few months. Obviously, the project needed more time to mature. So we kept on working; you may have noticed that a few months ago a screenshot was revealed in a report from Gamescom 2017 private presentation. Recently several curious visitors were allowed to try it at Warsaw Games Week 2017 and then we've allowed local TV to come to try and record it as a little teaser.

Ultimately, a cross-disciplinary team has poured an incredible amount of time into this project, and today we are finally revealing it in full glory.

But first, a photo...

Some time ago, a couple of our colleagues were invited to become a part of a convoy for oversized transport of a huge metal tank to the city of Mělník, Czech Republic. This rare two-day experience had one goal - to gather as much data and info as possible about the whole transport and how things like this are done. Why? Because we know that our community is obsessed with realism and authenticity, you guys are always pushing us to make things more real, and want to avoid making naive mistakes. A lot our fans are very vocal about getting something new and more challenging to test your skills. We felt that it's time to try and satisfy some of this hunger!

A lot of time has passed, and now as you can see in the video below, we are testing one of these Special Transport jobs on our motion seat in the office. What's going on there? It's quite big, right? And what are those cars with flashing beacons? Are they perhaps escort vehicles?

Yes, they are. Yes, the cargo is big, it's huge. And yes, the escort vehicles can affect the traffic. There will be two of these, one escorting the player in front of him/her and one in the back. Their purpose is clear, to assist the driver to get the cargo from the start to the finish line of each special transport job. But that's not all.

Let's review what this DLC is all about: 

• 11 New Special Cargoes (up to 70 tons, 6 m width, 5+ m height and 20+ m length)
• 4 New Trailers
• 17 Unique Routes with the Special Transport Jobs (12 Base Map, 2 Scandinavia, 2 Going East!, 1 Vive la France !). This list will grow over time.
• A combination of over 80 Special Transport Jobs
• Escort Vehicles with a custom AI like clearing the path, stopping traffic, giving advice, pushing opposing vehicles to the side etc.
• Special intros and cutscenes related to the cargoes, missions or places along the routes
• New Models, characters, and animations of people around the scene
• Pedestrians, journalists or transport co-workers along the routes recognizing day, night or bad weather
• Possibility to Fail the "Mission" if you do not adhere to strict regulations
• New Checkpoints System to keep your progress in a special transport job safe
• New Warning Beacons Animations
• New Achievements
• Higher XP and Money Profit for successful completion of this type of jobs

There is more, but we think that's enough for now. Better do some preparing, because this is going to be the biggest challenge for you and your mighty diesel beast so far!

We are not yet ready to promise a particular release date, but the wait should not be too long anymore. We are super busy finalizing, bug-testing, and releasing a lot of stuff that we want to get into your hands before the end of the year, but we hope that you will have a chance to deliver Special Cargo in Euro Truck Simulator 2 still this side of Christmas.

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[Alles_FME]

Realy good DLC cant wait until it comes out

[caff!!!]

love how at the end they manage to hit the side barriers because the trailers still turn out 5 miles wide on the slightest touch

[Mirrland]

This will certainly be interesting on Multiplayer 

[HamitCanKilic]

^RIP Calais-Duisburg road 

[Mirrland]

^ Very true on the off-chance that they'll be allowed on that road

[Elysia ELF]

Save editing instant  > 150 Tons

[Smalley]

And when you thought the C-D madness would of ended. Nope, SCS has provided much bigger things which could make C-D road pretty much apocalyptic. 

 

:facepalm: 

[[ST-LH] Calbert]

Can't see it ever working on multiplayer myself.

[Mirrland]

Fingers crossed that there will be a dedicated server or similar, I'd hate to see a DLC neglected from Multiplayer entirely.

[[ST-LH] Calbert]

^ I can't seeing it put in because of the way SCS has described how it'll work. Unique routes, AI escort Vehicles, Pedestrians, Journalists around the scene, possible failures(which they haven't described), special intros and cut scenes for each job.. Can't see it happening with the multiplayer mod myself.

 

[caff!!!]

I can see it working with say, save edited trailers, but even then I question if it will be put in for just being absurdly large in general

[antrax737]

I just really hope we will be able to drive those on EU2. If not SCS kinda wasted more then a year imo.

[ScaniaFan89]

I don't think it will be added, i was watching how close the ai were driving past & that's ai not players....theres so many reasons for this not to be added! If it does get added expect it to take months

[Alex [ITA]]

Wait a minute SCS... I have already paid for the Heavy Cargo Pack DLC and this is another Heavy Cargo DLC? Why didn't you just updated the "old" Heavy Cargo Pack?

Meh...

And this in MP will be quite impossible I think... Let's do some maths:

(2 Escort vehicles) x (number of trucks in Calais-Duisburg) + (Distance between your truck and the escort vehicle) + (Distance between your truck and another player truck) = (Escort vehicles flying everywhere) + (Players with "YOU FAILED THE TRANSPORT nub" text on the screen)

Quite a mess I think... We just have to wait what devs will do and hope for the best!

[Guest]

↑↑↑  This is the problem.. Multiplayer is becoming its save edit this, save edit that. why not play the game with default trucks ,trailers and colors?  Tmp is becoming too relaxing on rules for example: triples have jobs that are only in Nevada ,but the only place i see them is Arizona sitting at the service center...When i try to take double out of  Scandinavia i get kicked.This should happen also when triples and rm doubles are taken out of Nevada.

[Bull [NL]]

They say: 17 Unique Routes with the Special Transport Jobs (12 Base Map, 2 Scandinavia, 2 Going East!, 1 Vive la France !). This list will grow over time.

If i understand correctly you can not drive on all roads on the map, maybe this is good for MP also then.

[[ST-LH] Calbert]

37 minutes ago, antrax737 said:

I just really hope we will be able to drive those on EU2. If not SCS kinda wasted more then a year imo.

 

Hardly a waste of SCS Software's time, because the game was never designed to be played as a multiplayer game.

[antrax737]

41 minutes ago, [ST-LH] Cal said:

 

Hardly a waste of SCS Software's time, because the game was never designed to be played as a multiplayer game.

But right now the only reason we dont have ets3 or ets4 is multiplayer, i wouldnt be playing ets2 if there would be only SP, it gets boring, ai is repetitive humans not so much.

What i want to say, the only reason people still play this game is multiplayer, so if SCS makes a dlc and it doesnt get onto MP, people wont buy so many DLCs and scs will lose money/time on it, I highly doubt SCS would fail like that but what do you know, 3/4 of MP are racers and 3/4 of the rules are there because of racers, so TMP could just say no just because of racers and thats it. I know I can deliever such kind of cargo anywhere racers or no racers. This will be up to TMP, im sure SCS would help them if they'd have a problem with any DLC.

 

Sry for a long post, working friday afternoon is super boring.

[Guest]

I agree i will only play on mp. SP is like watching paint dry,but alot of people will buy this dlc for sp only..Right this minute according to steam there is 22,374 playing ets2  vs 6300 on mp

[antrax737]

4 minutes ago, Graywolf-Ky said:

I agree i will only play on mp. SP is like watching paint dry,but alot of people will buy this dlc for sp only..Right this minute according to steam there is 22,374 playing ets2  vs 6300 on mp

Yea i dont get these numbers. Imagine MP with all these players, f****** awesome. I find it weird that so many people play SP. 

[[S.PLH]Warrior]

7 minutes ago, Graywolf-Ky said:

I agree i will only play on mp. SP is like watching paint dry,but alot of people will buy this dlc for sp only..Right this minute according to steam there is 22,374 playing ets2  vs 6300 on mp

 

probably playing SP due being perm banned  on a more serious note looking forward to this, looks very cool

[[ST-LH] Calbert]

2 hours ago, antrax737 said:

But right now the only reason we dont have ets3 or ets4 is multiplayer, i wouldnt be playing ets2 if there would be only SP, it gets boring, ai is repetitive humans not so much.

What i want to say, the only reason people still play this game is multiplayer, so if SCS makes a dlc and it doesnt get onto MP, people wont buy so many DLCs and scs will lose money/time on it, I highly doubt SCS would fail like that but what do you know, 3/4 of MP are racers and 3/4 of the rules are there because of racers, so TMP could just say no just because of racers and thats it. I know I can deliever such kind of cargo anywhere racers or no racers. This will be up to TMP, im sure SCS would help them if they'd have a problem with any DLC.

 

Sry for a long post, working friday afternoon is super boring.

 

The reason we don't have an ETS3 or 4, is because there is still life in ETS2, otherwise the developers wouldn't keep bring out content for it. They'd have made a new game by now. They don't just keep a game running because a few thousand people that play their game go on the MP mod. ETS2 was never designed with multiplayer in mind, hence why the road layouts don't completely match up with how they are in the real world or why garage yards or depots for the various warehouses in the game are only just big enough for one truck to be in.

 

There's more to Euro Truck Simulator 2 than the multiplayer mod. I love playing the game on ProMods, because the world is so much more beautiful to drive in than the vanilla ETS2 world. I love modding my trucks to have different paint schemes or different accessories inside and outside of the cabin.

[TimyKingMy]

Cant wait till it's available! Only i don't see myself driving with this in multiplayer, just because not everyone will have the dlc, and escort vehicles flying everywhere :'). Let's see how it works out!  

 

 

 

 

[Leon Baker]

Another great DLC from SCS but I'm not sure that it can be supported in MP