Euro Truck Simulator 2 News

Next time you are cooking up a meal and you add a dash of olive oil to your pan, take a quick glance at the back of the bottle, as there is a good chance that it was produced in Iberia! Spain is renowned for producing some of the best olives in the world, which are then used for both for making olive oil and for eating as delicious table olives.



In fact, Spain produces about half the world's total olive oil, of which about 46% is exported, making them the world's leading olive oil producer and exporter. But how did olives become so prevalent and popular?


The first olive trees were brought to Spain over 3,000 years ago by the traveling Phoenicians, the same people who supplied the country with its first grapes! Since then, the Olive industry has boomed with more than 350 million olives being grown each year on 250 different variants of olive trees. 


So it will come as no surprise that truckers in Iberia play an important role in helping export products of olive-oil and equipment for farmers who work on the vineyards across the region.


So whether you are a fan of olives or not, we hope you will take the time to visit and be a part of this world famous industry. We are sure there will be plenty of work available for drivers to deliver this delicate and delicious cargo!


Are you excited for Iberia? Then be sure to add it to your Steam Wishlist! You can also check out our Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook profiles for more exclusive pictures.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1209460/Euro_Truck_Simulator_2__Iberia/

The #OperationGenoaBridge event is a success and we couldn't be more proud of our community! This task was by no means small, yet drivers from around the world united in Euro Truck Simulator 2 to help complete a new state of the art bridge in Italy.



With beacons ablaze and goal in mind, you set out on June 4th to deliver materials, fuel, and construction vehicles back and forth from each of the west and east depots. Just 24 hours after the event started, you had already reached 200,000 deliveries, and 72 hours after that, our community had smashed through the halfway mark of 500,000!

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However, putting together this event was by no means an easy task. From creating cut scenes, special companies for the event to finding a road network solution that allowed everyone to take part; this was one of the more technically challenging events our team has created. We were very happy to learn that you really enjoyed the extra effort and detail that went into this event, especially the cut-scenes and the way the bridge was lit up at night in the colors of the Italian flag.


You also flooded our social media channels with many pictures & videos, with hundreds upon hundreds of posts on Twitter and Instagram with the hashtag #OperationGenoaBridge. It was great to see virtual trucking companies, streamers, and truckers from around the world participate in completing this event. Drivers who took part in TruckersMP were among some of the more patient truckers, where traffic jams of up to 3 hours were reported!


Many drivers even went the extra mile by completing more than the required personal goal. Some individuals even achieved over 100 personal deliveries during the event, incredible! To all of you we say thank you, no matter how large or little your input, you have helped complete and bring the new Genoa bridge into the Euro Truck Simulator 2 world.



While the real-life Genoa Bridge is still set to open in July of this year, we are excited to open its virtual counterpart for truckers in ETS2 to drive on. This new state of the art bridge is self-monitoring using solar power and has a sleek and modern look.



Don't forget to claim your rewards if you achieved your personal goal for this event! You can claim your rewards from WorldOfTrucks.com by going to 'My Page' and then clicking on events. We hope you enjoy wearing your paint-job and hanging accessory with pride as a reminder of this event.



We look forward to seeing your in-game pictures with this newly completed bridge which you can share with us across our social media channels (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter). We'd like to once again thank you, our #BestCommunityEver, for heeding the call to help take part in this special World of Trucks event.

We are always excited to show our community what changes and updates we are working on for the next version of Euro Truck Simulator 2 and American Truck Simulator. Today we want to focus on one of the bigger changes drivers in Europe can expect to see in the upcoming 1.38 update.



Introducing the French city of Lille, an important logistics link for truckers travelling between Belgium and the Netherlands, but not as you may remember it in Euro Truck Simulator 2. Lille has received a major reskin, giving it a fresh and up to date look for 1.38. So what exactly has been changed? Let's take a closer look.



As you can see from these comparison shots, many of the older vegetation models such as trees and wildflowers have been replaced with newer ones, which gives the city a completely new look in terms of natural beauty. Another major change made to Lille is to its roads and junctions; many of the road junctions have been re-worked to be based on more true to life layouts.



Road signs and roads, in general, have also been updated with more accurate, realistic, and detailed textures. While many of the major changes are quite obvious, we will leave it up to you to explore Lille for yourself to spot them all!



We look forward to sharing more with you about what is to come in 1.38. Watch this space and keep an eye on our Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram for the latest news and announcements. 

With the Operation Genoa Bridge event still ongoing and the bridge nearing completion, you may have noticed that Euro Truck Simulator 2 received a small update on Steam earlier today. Don't worry, we did not release the next update behind your back. It was actually a focused, small but important mini-update that deserves explaining.




This 'rebalance package', as we like to call it, contains numerous sound improvements and adjustments. Our SFX team keeps working hard on sound improvements, the sound revolution in the update 1.37, and switch to the FMOD library was a critical junction but not the final destination for them. We received a ton of feedback from our community, and most of these changes come as a response to this input. It is quite possible that you can see further mini-updates in the future, outside of the big "point release" update cycle, as we continue to keep addressing your reports.

Today's update carries a few SFX changes such as:

• Polished sound transitions (e.g. for both loaded and unloaded engine/rpm)
• Several new sound samples for AI vehicles
• Overall re-balanced sounds, and volumes
• And more!

As we said at the beginning of the year, we still have a long journey ahead in bringing better and more realistic sounds to our games in general. We know that with the help of our community, we can achieve our goal. Collectively, we have vast experience across the whole spectrum of vehicles and their specs. Please continue sending us your feedback, particularly with the sounds.

You can also stay up-to-date by subscribing and receiving information and notes about smaller updates on our ETS2 forum,
Steam, as well as our ATS forum and Steam.

Thank you!

There is no time to waste! Our team is continually working on bringing more content for the community to enjoy. In our next update, we will be introducing new jobs for one of our more challenging DLCs, the legendary Special Transport add-on.



We are excited to announce that we will be delivering 3 new routes for drivers to take on in our latest map expansion for Euro Truck Simulator 2, Road to the Black Sea in an upcoming 1.38 update. These routes are:

• Resita to Targu Mures
  Istanbul to Edirne
  Pleven to Sofia

Each journey will come with its own challenges. So make sure to adhere to the GPS advisor and speed limit which have been set-out for you before your departure, as there is no room for mistakes!



For owners of Road to the Black Sea and Special Transport for Euro Truck Simulator 2, this will come as a free update in our next version release. If you don't own either of these DLCs yet, don't panic! Rumors say that Steam's Summer Sales are just around the corner!



https://store.steampowered.com/app/558245/Euro_Truck_Simulator_2__Special_Transport/