Update Speculation thread

Please Teaser Tuesday. I’m starting to get concerned if there isn’t a teaser today since we haven’t got a teaser in over a month

 

Leeloo seems pretty active today so there is hope

 

Guess no teaser today, starting to really believe the may 28th thing.

 

The lack of teasers is so frustrating

 

1 whole month without a teaser, this thread has gone through every single possible idea and we have nothing more, not teasers, not even an April Fools joke, only some slight Steam DB movement (QA stable no longer being even on the public branch) speculators are going out of a job here guys, come on.

More on topic, any date speculation isn't concievable for now, the devs usually fill us with teasers to hype and show how close the update is, the only thing we can agree on is that the devs maybe are improving the testing of the updates, they want to do less and less hotfixes, because the hotfixes cause some issues for the whole team because they diverge the focus.

 

lack of teasers as a punishment due to people repeatedly giving the devs crap about the bastion design

honestly with the lack of teasers i decided id try to dig deeper into the bastion's design elements to try and figure out why the devs made it look the way it does

my leading theory as of now, is that they did not design the bastion from scratch
now you might be wondering 'that is ridiculous they would never steal assets' and thats not what im saying
im saying they designed the bastion off of the bastion

now hold up cause this is not a shitpost but a theory that i might have created while doing concept sketches for a modernized moonhawk

i believe the developers first designed a 1970s muscle precursor to the bastion, then using that 70s concept sketch, outlined a modernized adaption of it in order to give the feeling that its styling choices where weird to anyone who would not be familiar to the styling of the bastion precursors

part of this lies within something i had wondered as a young kid, first seeing the modernized dodge challenger in a movie and thinking 'that car looks kind of weird' and if you had never known it was designed off of the early 70s challenger, you might think the same, it has weird lines, proportions that seem to look like they where placed there against their will. it is odd, clashing with itself in some places due to modern elements fighting stylized design choices made 30 years prior.

where does this fit in with the bastion? well, with the moonhawk's body lines

on the moonhawk, you can see the two very distinct hunches over the wheel wells, these are best outlined with the pinstripe skin, which follows them to a tee
these hunches follow the exact same pattern displayed on the bastion, the front one, first raised prominently, goes on a slow dive down the door, while the rear hunch, starting at the rear, takes a sharp nosedive upon contact with the door

with this design element in place, the devs, unknowingly to us, set up the perfect bastion lore, and gave us an amazing teaser within the official game: what the original bastion looked like

assuming the bastion has stayed true to its charger influence, we can design and interpolate what the original bastion would have looked like, based off of the tradition of carrying over design details such as body curves even if they may not make full visual sense.

While i am not saying 'old bastion for next update comfirned' i am, however, saying that there lies a very real chance this is a vehicle we could see at some point, not even revealed to us, but already given to us through in game lore

 

The largest European conflict since WWII is being fought two countries over, obviously we're not going to be inundated with teasers and new content

 

keep politics out of the thread, also that shouldnt stop the work being done?

 

that would be the yugoslavian civil war that your referring to, but the point still gets across...

even though they are based in germany, which while two contries over, it is still roughly 1200km apart, which is the distance between greece and italy, and last time i checked i dont think any issues over there caused greece to shut down

 

Also a lot of the team is remote anyway https://beamng.gmbh/team/

 

I don't think it should.

You are absolutely right about the character haunches of the Bastion and their relation to the Moonhawk (I was among the first ones who pointed this out ever since the teaser came out on September 28th 2021) but I think they look great on the Bastion. Other than these good looking lines, I can't find any excessive lines on the body, the whole design looks simple and elegant to me. But then again, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
My only gripes are about the absence of a sunroof and the creases of the taillights on their outer sides when looked at the back.

 

Exactly, it sets the stage perfectly for a bastion precursor vehicle to be built, likely with a moonhawk remaster since the two would play into each other nicely, and likely also feature a hefty amount of cross car parts compatability

 

Nah, in Greece we're dealing with worse stuff than that, honestly!
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Yep, the remastering of the Moonhawk can (possibly) expand the variety of the body styles - meaning there's a strong possibility that the Bastion has a predecessor lost somewhere in the time continuum and this makes perfect sense when we think of the actual bases of inspiration for the Moonhawk. Plus, sharing the same structure means the interchangeability of many parts (body panels, front and rear fascia clips, glass panes, interior parts, lights, bumpers, suspension components, powertrains, the fuel tank, even the ladder-type frame itself) is gonna be super easy!

 

exactly! it leads to the perfect chance for the developers to recreate the tograc/vivace type of part sharing but with the moonhawk/bastion

i can only imagine it would come with a huge assortment of new muscle tuner style parts, it might even give us a modern moonhawk entry as well

 

Well IMO Bastion is one of the most Sexy cars in the game. Who dont love a Nice ol V8. Its a sexy old/new thing i love it.

OT i think like last update. I think we will get. Super car. ( most likely ) Covet remaster. And maybe a Moonhawk remaster.

 

a moonhawk remaster would be nice

 

Both ETK 800 and k-series are lacking up to date content. Those should be the priority for car remasters
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BeamNG is lacking a nice luxury sedan and a nice “true” SUV
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Sorry for spamming the thread, but also a Florida map next to the beach would be good. Specifically Miami

 

i mean theres the bastion if that counts, and i agree with the suv part

 

The bastion is more like a muscle car. Similar to a Dodge Charger

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This is 10/10 luxury sedan lol