Update Speculation thread

In terms of map layout it is. While it's very unpolished compared to JRI it's amongst the oldest maps and the least changed from the initial release.

 

i would imagine that like SI or italy, JRI is going to get LOD mesh islands surrounding it, so it'll be part of an archipelago of sorts.

 

Well you forget that this beam, anything is physically possible so... BeamNG.Dinosaurs anyone ?

 

I'd imagine and hope that JRI would be a great off-roading map, and exploring map (that is if more WWII items get added in like plane wrecks, sunk submarines, shipwrecks, etc). I'm going to guess that JRI will come out alongside the Wendover since we haven't heard that much development progress on the Wendover lately with only having a teased photo of it in W.I.P, and JRI is still having concept photos drawn of what it could look like. I personally wouldn't be surprised if the map is released in 0.22 or later.

 

I realized that I completely forgot to update my spreadsheet about updates time span, so here it is ! I didn't counted the time spans that are below 100 days as they made the average time a bit too low to be accurate.

 

JRI's lore is pretty fascinating, looks like a island in Japanese occupation during the Second World War even maybe before, then either invaded or regained by the Americans during what it seems like '44. After the war, it looks like it's been industrialized and is partly made into a research island too, then slowly being abandoned maybe due to low profits. And because of the island's tropical nature, it's been made to be a tourist island, full of animals and beaches, destroyed structures do still remain, becoming popular sights for tourists.

 

the American were definitely there. the Marston Mat runway is pretty good evidence of that.

 

What’s the marston mat runway? Is that BeamNG lore or did I miss history class?

 

looks more like Vietnam to me

 

Both.

Marston mat is the material that the US forces used for temporary runways in WWII and Vietnam. Refer to the JRI runway that the drag race scenario is on.

 

A system of steel planking used extensively by U.S. forces during the second world war, primarily to quickly construct aircraft runways in remote locations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marston_Mat

 

Nitpicking, but also Vietnam.

 

I thought 0.20 was released on August 6 and 0.19 was released in april

 

you just misread my spreadsheet (I must admit it's not very clear ), for the "date of update" you must read the second version number of the "version" column (for example : 06 August 2020 is for 0,20), and the "Time passed" column is for the amount of days between the 0,19 update and 0,20

 

Oh now I get it. Thanks for clarifying

 

Man this does sure feel dead

 

this thread lives off of the teasers and progress pics the devs give us, recently we havent got many

 

With the Dev team being so quiet Career mode must be releasing in the next update...

 

Id say they realised they shot out too many pics at once and they realized they don't have anything anymore :]

 

Thats a very big assumption, they are perhaps releasing something big what with all the quietness and going to surprise us with something nice (Moonhawk remaster anyone ?) but career mode is probably a massive amount of work that they'll surely drop even the slightest hint of it being in the works, so far we've gotten nothing at all over past few years apart from the fact that they want to do it, i could be wrong though but without single word being spilt over its existence is very unlikely