Update Speculation thread

What’s that one old ETK truck mod?

 

You mean the ETK 4000/6000 mod? That's awesome but it's quite a bit larger than the teased truck we just saw.

 

I could see the new engines this bus brings being used in the I-Series. Maybe we could get a pre-facelift I-Series that’s closer to a w123, so 2 liter diesel engines like the om615 or 3.0 ones like the om617 inline 5 could be used more broadly. But that’s just my diesel-Mercedes-owning self dreaming. I think both the unimog and the w123 used 4 cyl carbureted gas engines too

 

This car for me is mix of Mercedes 508D with Volkswagen T3.And with new D-Series, Etk remaster and maybe maybe new map. December update is going to be greatest.

But still retro sport seats, maybe we will see some old era sport car

 

We're going to also need a "rushed technical" themed mod, the kind of thing you would see hurriedly built from scraps by the common folk of a small country to fend off a theoretically much more powerful invader - and win! And for that, we will need a farmer-spec base model.

Oh, and a HL2 beta-style assimilated Combine APC would be cool

 

A 4-cyl diesel, displacing 2 liters, is a good candidate for being kept throughout the production run of the I-Series, but I think the 5-cyl could be part of the pre-facelifted model (1985 - 1989), with an I6 diesel replacing it in the facelifted ones (1990 - 1993). Supposing that the diesel I5 displaces 3 liters, the big pistons produce some vibrations so the diesel I6, having the same displacement as the I5, can replace the I5 for refinement reasons. Plus, the ETK I6 diesel already exists in its modern form in the brand, so a lineage must be created to link it with the past.

 

Among a slew of other things, this thing could be good for a cash-in-transit variant.

 

Ok guys here is my hot take:

We have been given so far a:
Trophy truck configuration for unnamed pickup truck
ETK bodykits
Hot and Dry map teaser
Eurovan with heavy offroad modifications

call me crazy i think we are getting a map situated in Kazakhstan (a country known for being dry, with hot summers and cold winters) with a long open desert portion for dune hopping, shitty ex-soviet infrastructure, with the new eastern-euro passenger van, ETK's built for offroading, and a new offroad oriented pickup

 

That's the dream, but I don't know if many of you have noticed yet, the van has RHD wipers. It even looks like a Steyr-Puch Haflinger that got proper bodywork, and sure enough:



Australia, it seems.

 

I think 3 maps are possible: Texas or other sunny and dry state State, Spain map and Japan map

 

Thailand, South Africa, India, and Kenya all have RHD aswell, and a eastern euro transport van would probably be more at home there than Australia, leading me to believe it could simply have configs based around countries like these

 

I mean it could? have multiple configs, it wouldn't be unprecedented now that we have both LHD and RHD Covets (please please PLEASE give us RHD wipers for the Covet!!!). Somehow I doubt they'll bother, doesn't really matter as much for a primarily off-road vehicle. It risks being at the same time one of the most fun and most confused vehicles in BeamNG unless there is in fact an LHD model.

 

I don't think they would go with Texas simply because there is already a Texas map in game
Japan has a naturally wet climate, especially with monsoon season, so it doesn't exactly fir the 'dry and hot' narritive
Finally Spain is geographically and characteristically rather similar to Italy through architecture, road design, etc, so I'm not fully sure they would go down that route

 

Texas map in the game is small, and if you spawn car after the fence. you have a "very long" drive to water

Like 10 min in straight line

 

I was just trying to think of a lore-friendly name
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I’ve done that in 0.22 lol

 

Just got home and saw the teaser. Beam Unimog? Now *that's* out of left field.

 

The new vehicle looks like a Wentward to me.

 

since some people were saying it looks like a volvo c300 something, (twitter comments) i think it could be that swedish brand (jagyll or something) which isnt in use in game currently

 

that front grille is is absolutely ETK with the notch in the top centre, I'd presume this will share the ETK I's engines, along with new diesel counterparts.
I wonder if they're planning on modifying the ETK I's grille to match this and the others, since it's an unusually plain front end.

In other discussion, I wonder if the production years are going to span into the years of the 800/K?
first gen VW LTs were built until 1995, but steyr pinzgauers were built until 2007, mercedes varios were built up until 2013, and unimogs are of course still in production.
If they do plan to extend the model years, and they decide to put the modern engines in it, It'd be cool if it also got the rumoured V8 planned for the K series for some stupid track racing version, or even a weird pseudo-luxury version like later mercedes gelandewagens.

 

LHD and RHD wipers can be inside the slot for the windshield