The Bus News

The VDL Citea LLE is available now for free in The Bus!

We hope you enjoy the new content and wish you some happy holidays :)

Update 2.4 of The Bus is here!

Look forward to adapted drive behaviour of eCitybus, fixed driver window sounds, fixed traffic lights, Christmas decoration as well as performance improvements.


Following, you will find a detailed list with all the changes.

Changelog 0.20.66917 EA

• Map converted to World Partition
  
• Fixed traffic lights
  
• Added Christmas Decoration
  
• Fixed eCityBus Driver Window sound
  
• Adapted drive behavior of eCitybus
  
• Fixed cashier buttons wrong when driver door is open
  
• Fixed spawning of AI vehicles at many places
  
• Fixed several invisible collisions
  
• Prevent Reset from moving bus onto train tracks
  
• Added shadow fading
  
• Setting visibility to low, now turns off HLOD’s
  
• Level Art Fixes
  
• Performance Optimizations
  

Changelog 0.20.71617 EA Hotfix

• Fixed map loading too late
  
• Fixed stop request sound for vdl citea
  
• Fixed rear lights on vdl citea 127
  
• Fixed repaints not applying correctly on vdl citea 127
  
• Fixed navigation starting at wrong stop
  
• Fixed Atron showing wrong delay
  
• Fixed bus matrix showing wrong text
  
• Updated Repaint Templates citea
  
• Citea Controller controls
  
• Added option to disable subtitles
  
• Fixed mod priorities getting shuffled at startup
  
• Added hint for door getting blocked by wheel
  
• Ticket price may show as ??? until the ticket is selected
  
• Upcoming map areas now get preloaded
  
• Level Art Fixes
  
• Performance Optimizations
  

The first time ever since its release, The Bus is on sale this year with a 20% discount as part of the Steam Winter Sale.


Buy now and give yourself a Christmas present😇:
🎁https://store.steampowered.com/app/491540/The_Bus/

Give it up for the first “The Bus” Modding Contest!

Since there are already countless great mods from you in the Steam Workshop, we have decided to organize an official modding contest!

From now until March 31, 2024 at 9:00 PM CET, you have time to upload your The Bus mods to the Steam Workshop with the #TheBusModdingContest. Repaints do not count as mods. For the sake of fairness, only mods uploaded during the modding contest period and tagged with the corresponding hashtag will count.

For modding newbies, we have the first part of our new The Bus modding tutorial video series (in German) for you today to coincide with the start of the modding contest!

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From April 1, 2024, you will then be able vote for your favorite mods for one week.

The top 3 winners will be announced on April 9th.
The prizes for the winners are the following:

1st place: Thrustmaster T248 steering wheel, The Bus hoodie, 50€ Steam voucher
2nd place: The Bus hoodie, The Bus Thermosbecher, 50€ Steam voucher
3rd place: The Bus hoodie, 50€ Steam voucher

It's worth taking part! We wish you lots of fun and are already looking forward to your submissions.

Update 2.4 of the Early Access of The Bus is now available as BETA for testing.

This beta adds multiple improvements and bug-fixes to The Bus.

For the full detailed list of changes, please, see the changelog below.

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Please create backup copies of your savegame files before switching to the EA BETA Update. Savegames may not be compatible with the new version of the game.

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ATTENTION: This is a BETA update. Technical problems, instability of the game as well as bugs during gameplay can be possible.

How to install the beta version of the update?

Quite easily:

1. In your Library, you click with the right mouse button on the entry of the "The Bus"
   
2. In the drop-menu, you click on the entry "Properties"
   
3. In the window "The Bus - Properties" you select the tab "BETAS"
   
4. In the field "Select the beta you would like to opt into:" select the entry "beta-beta"
   
5. Now you can close the window and the beta version of the update should download right away
   
6. After downloading the update you can start The Bus via the "PLAY" button
   
7. In the main menu should now be the corresponding version number of the beta version of the update and you can test the update
   

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Changelog 0.20.65615 EA Beta

• Map converted to World Partition
  
• Fixed traffic lights
  
• Added Christmas Decoration
  
• Fixed eCityBus Driver Window sound
  
• Adapted drive behavior of eCitybus
  
• Fixed cashier buttons wrong when driver door is open
  
• Fixed spawning of AI vehicles at many places
  
• Fixed several invisible collisions
  
• Level Art Fixes
  
• Performance Optimizations
  

Changelog 0.20.65953 EA Beta

• Fixed all stops displayed on navigation
  
• Fixed navigation at line 100 & 245
  
• Prevent Reset from moving bus onto train tracks
  
• Fixed Passenger Stop Request
  
• Fixed broken menu overlay
  
• Fixed missing grass across the map
  
• Added shadow fading
  
• Fixed Atron showing 24h delay
  
• Level Art Fixes
  
• Performance Optimizations**
  

Changelog 0.20.66246 EA Beta

• Fixed crash related to shadow fading
  
• Fixed Passengers spawning below the Ground
  
• Fixed indicator lever not updating in some cases
  
• Fixed kneeling not working at start
  
• Level Art Fixes
  
• Performance Optimizations**
  

Changelog 0.20.66646 EA Beta

• Fixed passengers not entering when half door is blocked in ecitybus
  
• Fixed Radio not playing
  
• Fixed Suspension in scania citywide
  
• Fixed Navigation sometimes not working
  
• Fixed atron delay incorrect time
  
• Level Art Fixes
  
• Performance Optimizations
  

Changelog 0.20.66917 EA Beta

• Fixed different currencies not appearing in some places
  
• Setting visibility to low, now turns off HLOD’s
  
• Increase Retarder force
  
• Level Art Fixes
  
• Performance Optimizations
  

Changelog 0.20.71046 EA Hotfix Beta

• Fixed map loading too late
  
• Fixed stop request sound for vdl citea
  
• Fixed rear lights on vdl citea
  
• Fixed repaints not applying correctly on vdl citea
  
• Fixed navigation starting at wrong stop
  
• Fixed Atron showing wrong delay
  
• Fixed bus matrix showing wrong text
  
• Updated Repaint Templates Citea
  
• Citea controller controls
  
• Added option to disable subtitles
  
• Level Art Fixes
  
• Performance Optimizations**
  

Changelog 0.20.71270 EA Hotfix Beta

• Ticket price may show as ??? until the ticket is selected
  
• Fixed citea horn button movement*
  
• Fixed scania interior collision*
  
• Upcoming map areas now get preloaded
  
• Added new Traffic Chaos Events
  
• Fixed skipping of stops
  
• Level Art Fixes
  
• Performance Optimizations**
  

Changelog 0.20.71617 EA Hotfix Beta

• Fixed indicator lever being attached to driver door VDL*
  
• Fixed parts of traffic chaos events appearing on the map*
  
• Fixed mod priorities getting shuffled at startup
  
• Added hint for door getting blocked by wheel
  
• Fixed flickering street patches*
  
• Fixed Citea Vehicle ID being cut off*
  
• Level art fixes
  
• Performance optimizations
  

* Only occurred during the BETA test of this update

** Please, be aware that the impact of performance optimisations varies from system to system due to hardware configurations, installed software, and other programs running in the background