Update Speculation thread

Thank you for the warm welcome.

 

When we do eventually get the forum remaster, I hope they change the domain to beamng.drive

 

beamng.tech already has a custom domain too.

 

"Applicant Google has applied for the .drive domain. As this is a private application, this domain will not be initially available for public registration"

sad jazz music plays

 

What about beamngdri.ve? It’s not the same, but is similar and also currently available.

 

Well, at least the domain isn't being squatted by a malicious site preying on people clicking on an autoformatted hyperlink in a YouTube comment. Then again, I don't think that kind of squatting has been a thing since the late 2000s (goggle.com and utube.com, anyone?).

 

Back in the early 00s, my mom thought she could type in something she wanted to buy in the address bar, add .com, and be able to buy it. It worked sometimes, and then she wanted to buy goggles for us children. She went to the site and got digital herpes.

 

utube.com is actually a real website, not a fraud. It's the website of the "Universal Tube and Rollform Equipment" company and it got known worldwide back in 2006 by all those who heard "YouTube.com" for the first time and thought it started with the letter "U"! ;-P

Now, back to speculation: I bet the Covet will also get km/h gauges and EU-Spec bumpers (with wider slots for the European license plates) and head-/taillights.

 

I hope it does, I'm kinda tired of seeing those all-red taillights

 

I'm not tired at all of this fact about the Covet (after all, I've said numerous times in this site that I like USDM details because, along with American cars, I don't see them all that often where I live ) but this car fits equally perfectly in the framework of requirements of the European market, so why not?

 

Lets also set the record straight, utube.com is not typo-squatting. It was registered almost a decade before YouTube. If anything, YouTube is the typo-squatter.

 

So what are the betting odds on next major update bringing tire temp and wear?

 

Although tire temp and wear are fundamental, I'm not really sure about their introduction in this upcoming update. They seem to require quite a bit of resource.

 

Titanium is indeed heavier, but it's also much stronger, so you can achieve the same properties of an aluminum part with a lighter titanium one.

 

Fair enough, everyone has their own taste so i can't argue with that
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I see, i knew there had to be something i was missing, thanks for pointing that out

 

Even though JRI has been remastered and has PBR materials, I can't help but think that the map is still not quite ready for career mode. It's missing many things that one would expect for said mode, such as garages, car dealers, gas stations, and other places to go that aren't abandoned. Its location is still really unclear as while it has Hawaii plates, the map doesn't resemble Hawaii one bit, it has road signs on the left, Imperial Japanese fortifications/vehicles (which were never present in Hawaii) and basically nothing else that points at Hawaii besides said plates. After more research, I feel like JRI could be turned into one of two locations:

1. Southern Japan - I've talked about this setting at length before, it could make sense given everything on the map that we've currently seen plus the unused concept for a Japanese village on the island.
   
2. Taiwan/Republic of China - Hutch mentioned Taiwan as one of the inspirations for Jungle Rock Island back in 2015. Taiwan could be a reasonable option as well as it also has similar landscapes in places, and was also occupied by the Imperial Japanese who built fortifications and airfields on the island, but it drives on the right. Another benefit of Taiwan as a setting would be that it would save the Japan setting for later, possibly for a more dedicated Japanese map, not to mention Taiwan appears in few if any video games so it would be a very unique setting.

Hopefully one day we'll see more development on JRI, as it's a beautiful map with an amazing layout, sadly hampered by its lack of development and completely abandoned state which we already have enough of in Beam as it is.

 

Having at least one gas station in JRI is important, especially when we think it's a remote island. Car dealers and garages are too much I think, because the nature of this map is to be exactly what we see it here.

 

Well, a couple of abandoned garages wouldn't look out of place, especially in areas like the port or airport

 

Now that I think of it, yes, a large, abandoned, multistorey garage in the Port area would be very useful since, naturally, the Port is where motorcycles, cars and cargo vehicles arrive with the boat and also because the Port area is large enough to fit such a building. Plus there could be many people who want to park their cars there because they're not interested in the multitude of dirt roads and, also, some delicate cargo could be placed in this garage, where the containers don't fit.
I don't feel the Airport needs a garage because it has a very special feeling and because the morphology of the area isn't ideal (the Airport is high off the ground and the overall rise of the hill is tall and narrow).

 

From what i see on JRI it strikes me as one of those islands that missed out on the tourist boom of the 50s and 60s when hawaii was becoming very much connected to the mainland united states through the means of air travel, hence the airport there being relatively small, and the port area being moreso developed, my guess is that the island began to try and make up what it lost in tourism through the construction of the resort, which obviously was never finished, likely either due to bankruptcy or complications with building, as natives to hawaii are infamously opposed to tourist and tourism on their islands, which is why its strongly advised never to leave your resort.

As for the abandonment, it most likely came from the sheer amount of development that never was resolved, with the neverending lines of buildings that just didnt have purposes anymore, like the resort and the airstrip, the traffic at the port would have slowed, leading to further decline in economic growth on the island, forcing most everyone to either leave the island or reside in dilapidated houses.

With all the imperial fortifications it seems like it would end up becoming some random territory in the pacific that the US would keep around simply for local influence, like Guam. so i wouldnt be suprised if the island was remodelled in a way to make it more of a Guam-style island with some sort of active militairy base, and not just a littering of abandoned industrial areas