Update Speculation thread

If beamng does updates similar to some previous production stuff I have done, they probably had the videos planned around the time they knew what was going be in 0.23. A month if not more before it is even released. Usually the 'update showoffs' is practically a job for someone, gathering what is expected to be in the next one and writing up what should be shown off when and stuff like that.

 

I had to

 

This does make a lot of sense. just because the devs don't mention or show something doesn't mean they aren't working on it. I wonder what the remastered vehicle that's coming in this Update? As I doubt the pigeon is coming as it looks like the Widgeon might be paired with it and it isn't ready by the looks of it.


For all we know Rockstar games is working on GTA 6 but obviously it being a big project is why it's taking so long (around 8 years since GTA V came out), yet they haven't really talked or shown anything except community speculation.

 

Oops I thought the blue car was Bluebuck, novice mistake at 8000+ hours on the clock. Anyway the biggest difference to me is the car windows that look much thicker and car-windowy than before. What even is this thin air stuff that we have now?

 

When I'm doing conversions from other games, windows indeed is area that is somewhat annoying, if PBR improves that, then I'm all in.

Although we all have been hyped of something, then we get said something and it does not feel so big, but when we have not been hyped of something and we get said something, then it feels much bigger.

So conclusion is, hype is bad for shock and awe effect of new release

 

Okay, thank you - sorry about that

 

In the teaser video, it was mentioned that clearcoat would be rendered, which makes me wonder if peeling clearcoat would be rendered too. After all, the “old paint” skins for the remastered LeGran and the Wendover have peeling clearcoat, something absent from most vehicles- and maybe something added in anticipation of PBR??

 

You mean a probe based system for cubemaps combined with a high roughness cutoff, i don't see it. Beamng needs a way faster renderer before they implement stuff like dynamic global illumination or global dynamic reflections. I imagine it's easier to rebuild the renderer from ground up to support Ray tracing effects than adapting the current one to faked methods that are outdated even today.

 

peeled clear coat would be just connected to roughness so it's less reflective

 

are we talking about a video with a traffic light?

 

Yeah but it was deleted.

 

update coming this month?

 

Don't ask this question, devs won't answer but someone else will, saying no, it doesn't make sense probably end of 2022, no because steam wasn't updated 22 times like always a week before an update or it doesn't make sense to update on Friday (it was updated on Friday many times) but no and so on just to make me sad

 

about the video with traffic lights, in it bots just go to green and slow down to red

 

We don't know, usually the summer update come in August so that might be the same for this one.

 

why then was the update shown so early?

 

The PBR teaser is not repertoried on youtube and was shown on twitter with the hashtag teaser tuesday, wich means it don't give any indications on when the update will come. As for the traffic light video it seems like it was leaked unintentionnaly.

 

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Given all the information that we have I'd assume that the update is coming next week or the week after. Due to the amount of major changes to the game, and thus potential bugs, I believe that it would probably come earlier in the week due to needing time to make hotfixes.

 

That is an optimistic possibility