Update Speculation thread

I will certainly hope so have faith brother!

 

My take will still stay for the 3rd of August
because 8th birthday of BeamNG.drive, and this update will be one of the most important ones for sure

 

I dont care about the Widgeon at all its just nothing i want in the game so for me the PBR Update is hot, hot, hot. Im pretty shure it will come standalone since the devs have stated often enough to polish the tech step by step and releasing it seems a good and viable move to me it looks finished sooo..
My hopes are up as i for the first time dont care for the new vehicle at all.

 

For those of you who are wondering, here are some pictures of the Zero model itself.

 

an interesting thing about it is that the windows are set up to be transparent from the inside

 

It's likely for optimization, being one less face/texture to render.

 

I think they just didn't do it because usually the model only shows from the outside if the inside isn't done :man_shrugging:

 

What if the PBR teaser is teasing a dryvan and trailer remaster.

 

thanks!

 

PBR seems good to go.
No point in holdin´ it back!

 

what if the Gridmap trailer (with the bolide) teased the PBR 1 or 2 months ago

 

it didn't

 

ok, just asked....btw thanks ;D

 

Not really speculation, but all this talk about JRI made me realize that I say "dry rock island" in my head when I read JRI.

Back to speculation, the talk about the abandoned plane made me wonder if or when any vehicle types besides cars and trucks will be added to the vanilla game. A plane or boat seems the most likely, specifically one that would be able to haul cars. Multiple maps have either boat landings or a runway, so the way those vehicles would interact with the map is already present. Extra vehicle types would allow for a nice introduction scene to a map for a career mode (sorta like the GTA 4 opening), and could also help make maps that are islands fully realized, with ways for items to be imported and exported, especially if you are able to buy, and presumably custom order, cars from dealerships.

 

I don't have a quote for this, but I believe developers have said in the past that Beam is going to focus on land vehicles, and that's it. Who knows, though.

 

Considering that we have air and water physics, it may be a possibility in the future for implementation of planes and boats.. but for now it's probably gonna be cars, maps and optimization

 

9 years?

 

Well 9 years since the game was being developed, but 8 years that it's been released to the public to play.

 

Update time lottery guess would be Wed and Thu 14-15 UTC Possibly August unless they move to 4 updates a year.

However it is kinda pointless to guess as it will come when it's enough stable.

T3D version release post, this was obviously after cryengine version, but it has been a while since this one too:
http://www.garagegames.com/community/blog/view/22383/1