On The Road - Truck Simulator News

• Repaints are encrypted now making it harder to steal and reupload your work
  
• Messagebox warning you that you are in offline mode added

Internal console (new! Enable/disable with alt gr key)

• internal console added with two prompts
  - „reset_AI“ respawn ai vehicles
  - „settime h“ eg.: settime 12 = 12am

• reworked spawner for optimization (details in Optimizations section

• new company (roadhouse) at A19
  
• Changelog Window in main menu added
  
• GPS device shows only the current route and not all of them

• Fixed the CPU spikes caused by the BlockLOD system
  
• Switched font texture settings to prevent Font.CacheFontForText CPU spikes
  
• Switched all debugging informations and windows to EditorOnly to remove corresponding CPU spikes
  
• AI vehicle spawner pools vehicles to reduce allocation garbage
  
• The following changes apply to all areas of the map:
  - Removed unneccessary collisions from buildings
  - Removed build in tree colliders and added simple capsule colliders where neccessary
  - Removed unneccessary scripts from scenes
  - Removed unused tree prefabs from terrains
  - Bush row collisions replaced with fast and simple boxcollisions
  - Traffic lights splitted into technical and visual part and later one integrated into BlockLOD system

Finished updating all eastern sectors
Roadhouse added to A19

• Reworked post processing

• Fixed a bug that could prevent unlocking employees
  
• Fixed the not unlocking vehicles unless you switch to the overview menu first
  
• Fixed missing collision of carparks
  
• Fixed wrong Api Compatability Level
  
• Fixed several minor issues in Berlin
  
• Moved benches in several cities to their correct render layer (increases performance)
  
• Fixed advanced direction signs at cloverleaf Schwerin
  
• Fixed missing collider of one market stand type
  
• Fixed the not loading default repaint when there is no savegame at first start

• Updated russian and polish locas (community based)

• Company Overview window unlocked featuring mails, editing driver name and portrait, company name and logo and short cuts to other menus like motor vehicles, trailers, employees
  
• Added E-Mail System and a consultant guiding you through the steps of expanding your company
  
• Show Trigger option added to the Gameplay options menu allowing to show or hide triggers for companies and petrolstations

• Updated more sectors east of the line Kiel/Hamburg/Hanover

• Updated Ambient Occlusion 3rd party solution to version 2.0 featuring a slight speed up and more stability while achieving better results

• Fixed wrong terrain settings causing a performance drops in several regions
  
• Fixed dissapearing trees A1 Cross Kamen
  
• Fixed dissapearing trees A7 near Bispingen
  
• Fixed undetailed grass A20 near cross Lubeck
  
• Fixed dissapearing coaches on B404 near petrolstation
  
• Fixed dissapearing cars at lane change on A7 south of Bispingen

• Updated polish and chinese locas (community based)

• Finished Dortmund
  
• Added a country road from Dortmund to Duisburg added
  
• Dortmund Nordwest unbarred and A45 to Dortmund-Hafen added
  
• Several minor changes
  
• Updated more sectors east of the line Kiel/Hamburg/Hanover

• Added portrait image to driver selection dropdown in the logistics menu
  
• Driver portrait and information added to the hire driver message box

• Removed several debug messages
  
• Fixed several performance issues near Dortmund

• added drivers and route planning for drivers
  
• increased range for steer- and releasespeed for keyboard and gamepad inputs
  
• equal player position markers for Worldmap and GPS device
  
• Semis without a trailer are marked red in the vehicle list

• Added A1 from Bremen to Dortmund-Unna
  
• Added A44 from Dortmund to Unna East
  
• Added Unna with one new company and a new petrol station
  
• Several minor changes
  
• Updated more sectors east of the line Kiel/Hamburg/Hanover
  
• Updated cross Kamen

• Reworked several economy related messageboxes

• fixed a bug where it was impossible to buy trailers under certain circumstances
  
• fixed offset between emissive elements and traffic lights in Bremen at big northern crossing
  
• Fixed several lanterns on street in Berlin

Gameplay

increased GPS device FOV

Map

• Updated more sectors east of the line Kiel/Hamburg/Hanover
  
• Several minor fixes
  
• Updated cross Kamen

Optimizations

• massively reduced the amount of calculations for the route planning

Fixes

• shortened sliders in Graphics menu to give more room to the settings names
  
• fixed the text overflow of the version number in the ingame menu
  
• fixed the noticeable height offset of the GPS routes
  
• fixed the unprecise player position in GPS device