Update Speculation thread

electric & hydrogen conversion.

 

Conversion of what?

 

I'm still a little disappointed that the background heavy equipment doesn't have any manufacturer's branding - they just look sort of odd without it, and it wouldn't hurt to have some logos waiting in the wings if/when we do get some operable machinery.


I'm kind of wondering if those lights are going to come on if the time is set to night hours.

 

I can't remember a old quote and I'm too lazy to find it but it went something like this.
Currently all light sources are brighter then the sun so until this is changed- fixed all base game street lights will not work.

 

Was green the base colour used in Hirochi Raceway assets before these new pictures came out, because that is a lot of mint-green from what I see in these new ones?

 

I don't know if this has been discussed before, but I found these in the Jungle Rock Island folder. AFAIK they aren't used in any scenarios or parts of the map.

 

What happens if you open them up?

 

This is what animal_diff.dds looks like when opened. Seems like it's they're are supposed to be cardboard cutouts.



I'm not sure what this is in the lower left corner, it looks somewhat industrial.

 

Wasn't this from the unreleased JRI bus scenario?

 

That's what I was thinking. They wouldn't really make that much sense anywhere else (as they're cutouts).

 

This was also in the same folder. I don't remember seeing this anywhere on the map, but I might be mistaken...

 

I think this boat is where you end the Pessima port driving scenario.

 

Is dynamic water simulation coming? The ECUSA instagram video may be hinting at it.

 

not in the near future, since water isn't exactly integral to a game built around road-going vehicles... but i could be wrong!

(those are a series of particles and water textures placed just so to look like a river/waterfall, not actual physics in play.)

 

Before there was any port on JRI, that boat used to floating just off shore where the port is now.

 

the devs know people will 100% go to check out that waterfall, so i pray that they make the wet rocks more slick than the dry ones. many hoppers will crawl those rocks and i hope at least some realism surrounding the water (besides the wonderful aesthetics) will be present.

 

What do you guys think the ETA on the update is? I’m guessing it’s coming pretty soon, within the next few days. There’s not been much activity teaser-wise as far as I know, but according to @_Tanco ‘s nifty graph, (I believe he made it) the next update should be on July 17 using average wait times between updates. This combined with the message on the repo warning of slow mod approval in the next few days leads me to believe we’re darn close.

Edit: found said nifty spreadsheet indeed created by @_Tanco:

 

I'm still expecting at earliest mid August, probably late August. Aside from ECUSA, we haven't seen all that many teasers for anything. One Bluebuck teaser where we saw a frame and in the distance some body work, one batch of Hirochi Raceway photos. That's about it.

I'm sure we will see the rest of the older vehicles get the revisions, we might see the Bubu if it's short on content at release.

 

I don't think the Bluebuck is coming in the next update. We've seen quite a few teasers for the updated maps, but ONE for the Bluebuck. With our ETA saying this week, I don't feel like the Bluebuck could possibly be ready yet.

 

afaik there has been no teasers for the Bluebuck, at least not clear enough for it to even be a teaser.