Update Speculation thread

Woah, amazing work.

 

The Utah parking lots were there since 1.18.3 or 4.

 

It certainly looks like it!
When traveling between maps, I wonder if any work is being done to optimize map loading times.
That would help keep the immersion going without having to wait for a minute on a loading screen for WCUSA.

At least the vehicles will spawn faster which is super nice
https://www.beamng.com/threads/vehicle-loading-changes.70676/

 

I imagine having the game on anything other than an M.2 NVME SSD nowadays doesn't help with load times either (30 seconds to get into WCUSA)

 

I have BeamNG on a 5000 rpm hard drive and wcusa loads in like 8 seconds.

 

map loading isn't entirely about data storage speeds
your other hardware like cpu and gpu also play a big part when it renders the map

my steam library is on a slow hdd as well, and my loading times are pretty good

 

I didn't mean to imply that my loading times were exactly 60 seconds long haha
I have a Samsung 970 Evo and it takes 28 seconds for WCUSA.
I'm just curious if any software optimizations could be employed to improve transitions between maps. (Though it's not at all necessary.)

What do you do? Wax your computer? Also is your "250GB Boot Drive" your hard drive? Why don't you put the game and your operating system on your "3TB SSD"?

No doubt. I think most of the loading time is moving all the texture files and other graphical assets to your GPU's VRAM.

Regardless the load times for the maps are fine.
Since the development team has been working on optimizing vehicle spawning—I was wondering if similar improvements could be done to boost the load times of the environments as well, or if that is too much trouble for what it's worth.

 

yeah the hard drive is my boot drive. beamng.drive is on there because i clicked it by accident when i installed it and i don't feel like transferring files.

also windows is on there because i don't care how long it takes to start. its only a few seconds anyways.

 

Well on my PC everything is on a 1GB drive

 

gif of an H series by Nade. the noise on it is either some sort of new postFX, or it's been deliberately added to conceal details.
EDIT: wait, didn't gifs not previously autoplay on here? maybe he's just showing off a forum software update.

 

It’s more than likely just from compression

 

Why would they make a prerunner if there is no Baja truck?
I don't think anyone knows what a prerunner ACTUALLY IS.

 

Maybe because they are fun to drive and the game is called "drive"

 

Just looked up what it was. It doesn’t make sense, I agree. I mean more of a baja truck.

Also, it seems like they aren’t modified as severely as Baja trucks. I would say it actually probably would be a prerunner, as I doubt the devs would remake a tube frame, a plastic body, etc. With a prerunner you can chuck some offroady bits on nigh on any truck and you have a prerunner, while the same can’t be said about a full fledged baja truck.

 

A prerunner would make sense because a prerunner doesn't require a dedicated chassis and could reuse some of the components from the D-series.

Also I don't see why you can't just make a Baja/prerunner simply by just editing the suspension and tires a bit.

 

You don't really have a strong point there. Remember when we had the T series semi but no trailer? It's like that. If you are going to have one, you need to have the other!

 

After looking it up, you do have a point about the prerunner. It'd be a little like having a pace car, but no race cars (not a direct comparison, of course). But as others have mentioned, the devs are unlikely to build a whole new, purpose-built vehicle, and having an awkward prerunner with no corresponding baja vehicles is to my mind better than having neither.

Also, the T-series was always nice to have around. Not a truly purposeful vehicle prior to the trailers, but still good for destruction, roleplay, and a functional example for any modders making heavy vehicles.

 

I reiterate: We are talking about adding a vehicle that would be fun to drive in a videogame about driving. It isn't complicated. There's absolutely no reason to have a trophy truck just to introduce a prerunner.

Why have a bus when we don't have pedestrians? There's no need for public transport. Hell, why have any cars at all? There's no reason to transport anything, which is the whole point of the automobile.

Why have fuel efficient economy cars? We don't pay for gas in game. Why have base model cars? There's no economy in game. Why have rally cars without a codriver? Why have stock cars without pace cars? We had drag cars long before a drag strip, why was that? We still don't have a proper drift circuit, or a classic race track, so why have drift cars and vintage race cars? Why have the D-Series when there's no pickup things to do. Why have the Roamer when there's no familys to drive around. Why an abulance without pedestrians, or the fire chief Roamer without fires, or police cars withot a justoce system? Or cars without drivers? Or the work trucks without work to do? It's not like you'll be installing internet, so why is BeamCom a thing? Or Tasti-Cola, you can't drink it. Why have anything at all? If you are going to have one, you need the other!

And the T-Series was great fun without trailers. It's not like adding a trailer suddenly made it what it is. We had great fun with it before. Just like people have fun with the prerunner mod without having a friend mod in a trophy truck to drive behind them. Judging by how popular the LKS is, there's clearly a demand from people who won't get hung up on the semantics of off road racing trucks.

 

I really hope the next update will bring the FCV's powertrain improvements to other vehicles.