Our big plans for future

The main goal for now is to prepare Bus Driver Simulator 2019 for upcoming release (which is planned for the end of 2019). Firstly it includes fixing bugs and adding something you've asked for, like driver in 3rd person mode. Patches that were released this summer were mostly dedicated to minor improvements. We always have a choice between bugfixing and adding new content. We think that now polishing the game for release is more important. Some players don't understand that fixing a bug takes plenty of time and can be as difficult as adding a new bus, for example.

We thought that we should add something bigger than just bugfixes before release, so now we're working on expansion of Cologne and introducing it into Free Mode. Why Cologne instead of Serpukhov, you may ask? Well, there are a lot of reasons. First of all, we have promised to add it to Free Mode for a lot of time, but current map size is too small (we need 5 different routes at least). Secondly, it will be very difficult to expand Serpukhov further because the map itself is very large. We need to solve this either by partitioning the map or by implementing dynamic loading (we've been thinking about it a lot and we will present our solution sooner or later). The third major reason is our audience. Less than 50% of players are from Russia and CIS, so we're ready to develop not only our domestic content. We're really pleased to make games about country where we live and share of post-soviet content is very big, but we're not going to fixate on it.

Finally, some of you ask us: when you release the game, does it mean that everything is over? The answer is very short: No. In addition to news about Bus Driver Simulator 2019, we're preparing some very exciting news, which you will hopefully like!