Update Speculation thread

I might be stupid but can anyone point out the new stuff in this post made by stoat on the development media thread.

Thanks

 

Greenhouse is more rounded, part of the bed is different, probably signifies the D-Series frame update is complete.

 

Gavril Round-Series.



Gavril Round-Series.

 

still waiting on the tow bed and 1980s D-series

 

Also probably that we can see it with the halloween update? Like they did with the Marshal...

 

I would not be surprised if we see 0.17.2.0 tomorrow alongside a Halloween event.

 

I would be, because the devs said they wont do such events anymore.
Maybe it was only for the achievements but either way i doubt we are gonna see something for Halloween.
You can still download the halloween stuff they released tho. its available on the repo.
https://www.beamng.com/resources/halloween-2018.6335/

 

The events are time locked. I'm saying that they will probably re-enable the event on Halloween.

 

I hope they change the stuff this year because if it is the same as last one it will be very boring
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Looking at the halloween_event.zip I can notice the old previews of EC USA so we can expect an update I suppose?

 

Nah you can mess around with the files and still get the achievement somehow. its not really time locked. (at least i think so, think i saw a post about this)

I actually forgot about the map updates.

It would be interesting to see an updated version of the halloween stuff. but from what ive been seeing, ecusa still has the same roads everywhere so technically this should still work, no?

 

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That profile pic counts as an official haloween event as far as I'm concerned

 

So if there is no seasonal event, are we getting an update tomorrow?
Or do we have to wait until Christmas?

 

I suspect that, if I am correct to assume that career mode will be released in some form this year based on developer posts, 0.18 will be massive and will likely take longer than average to develop, thus I would not be surprised if it releases as late as December.

 

Anyone noticed when this came in? I think it was with 0.17 but cant verify. I could swear that ive seen something similar in the latest pre-releases of Torque3D 4.0 (yes its far from the same and all that but still uses the same shaders so). T3d 4.0 is meant to have PBR up and running 100% so thatd be nice. Still alot to read into that folder but theres some reason for it to exist. Might be a boring one too though lol but one can always hope.

 

I had noticed that too, but never thought anything of it. I do believe that came out with 0.17 though.

 

I hope we get a completely stupid and useless clue just as a response to this.

 

If Gabester didnt have such high excellence standards, we would have all the old Gavrils from Rigs of Rods.

Someone is going to be dissapointed by the car they are adding. I hope its either an american car, or some bubble era japanese car. (Eunos Cosmo, please)

 

I will be dissappinted if it is anything other than that car sized plate of pasta Linuz posted on the last page.

 

Trust me, I've googled the heck out of this thing, but reliable info on this thing in non-Cyrillic text is as rare as left-handed muffler wrenches. The first article I ever encountered of it showed pictures of the prototype at the auto show where it was released, and IIRC originally claimed it as a prototype only. Information seems to have been slowly trickling over into English, and I keep finding new pictures of it (the one in my post above was new to me - but it came off of the Russian Wikipedia page which I can't understand at all). There seems to be enough new information out there to confirm a small production run starting in 1964, and that it was built on the GAZ-21 Volga frame, but sources contradict each other on just about everything else. Maybe I ought to start a thread about this thing under "Offtopic - Automotive".

Believe it or not, there's a Brickrigs mod for this thing that cropped up back in March. The description for that claims the body was fiberglass, but I don't know how true that is.

I'll admit to basing the observation on thick steel largely on the theory that the soviet government heavily encouraged the construction of steel mills to support other heavy industries (I'll admit to not fully knowing where I picked up that theory), which resulted in a steel surplus. For what it's worth, the sixth five-year plan supposedly called for increasing steel production by one-and-a-half times, but all other pieces of information seem to suggest that there was no such steel surplus (even the sixth-five year plan supposedly never really came to fruition).

As for squareness of bodies, on further research, it appears that I got my timeline mixed up. I was attributing cars built in the mid-sixties to the mid-fifties, and similarly cars built in the mid-eighties to the mid-seventies. I retract my statement about Russian cars being squarer than other cars built elsewhere in the same time period, but I do maintain that the most iconic Russian cars are square.