Update Speculation thread

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Can Belasco City even be expanded more than what it currently is without putting WCA over the game requirements? The devs did barely manage to make it fit within the requirements.

 

Remove the race track and make that a separate map (suggested by Fera), and maybe move the suburbs to surround the city (suggested by me).

 

The only way to do so is removing the motorsports park and making that a separate map.
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My main issue with WCA is that everything is two meshes for the most part, making modding impossible pretty much. A lot of people hoped that they could use the assets on other maps, but nope.

 

There is plenty of space here:


All that is needed to do, is to import dae of that surrounding terrain to Blender, make some roads, then add buildings etc. You could have new beach area there too, city area could be easily doubled there.

 

We can also add the suburbs there to make it feel more like Los Angeles or San Francisco (assuming the map was inspired by those two cities).

 

The motorsports park doesn't belong in WCUSA. It robs the map of a lot of space, making it look and feel cramped. FPS is lower in WCUSA for most players and spirited driving in a motorsports park is best enjoyed at high FPS.
Let's start a petition to make the motorsports park a separate map and remake the central part of WCUSA!

 

For me south beach looks very much like beach house area, for extra wealthy persons. I think that area would be natural way of expansion for the city, it would remove need of road blocks too as you could loop it to highway from east edge, where you could have road at cliff edge, that would provide nice scenic twisty route to highway from south beach.

Highway would need to be extended a bit, but I think adding a turn near edge of current map would help to hide cutting off the highway at east edge.

I can be wrong about where south is of course, I haven't checked with compass, but looking my aerial shot from earlier post down would be south and up would be north.

That would add nice new city loop and it might feel bit more city then.

 

I think there should be more buildings inspired by Los Angeles IMO, considering the suburbs seems to be less like the ones in San Francisco and more like LA.
Maybe we can have a city hall like the one in LA?

It could be inserted into the unused space of the map.

 

Will the city be expanded though? @fufsgfen pointed out that there is some unused space next to the city, so will that space be used sometime in the future?

 

It won't be used as it is not terrain, it is static object.

However able modder could in theory expand city by modifying that static object and adding buildings etc.

 

Probably not, lots of people complain about its performance already and with the whole city having no LODs to speak of it would be quite a bit worse I imagine.

 

Does anybody know what time & in what time-zone the exporter update will be pushed, already the 13th in Australia land.

 

Probably in ~22h

 

No petition , please. The amount of time that it would take to make those changes would be immense. Better to get new maps than waste time overhauling a pretty much complete one.

@Nadeox1 Probably knows a lot more than we do, and a petition would be a giant hassle for all parties involved.

 

According to automation devs

 

For both games or just automation?

 

Both.

 

https://www.timeanddate.com/countdo...T11&p0=179&msg=BeamNG+0.13&font=cursive&csz=1

New countdown timer, because why not.