WIP Beta released Garfield Heights 0.741

For some reason, that's reminding me of Fall River in a way. It used to be a town well known for textile manufacturing, but as decades passed, the business started to faze out more and more until the business was no more (especially with Southern competition and later, the Great Depression). Also, ironically, Fall River was considered the most dangerous city in Massachusetts (from a recent list), and another one of the cities in the list is Detroit, which has the neighborhood Viaduct Town was based off.

 

will there be 1 last update to finish the map?

 

Maybe, maybe not. The plan is: I'll try to get as much done as possible until mid-late October, and then release with whatever I can polish in that time. Needless to say, there is a chance I won't get everything done by that point, so I may have to relegate last-minute content (some buildings, backgrounds, small details, etc) to later updates and patches.

 

Garfield approves!

 

I like! Keep up the good work!

 

This map is the best quality map I know, sad to see its still wip.
I suggest we could get more roads with potholes? Great to see that.

 

Off topic:
I've seen so much about this "Ivan." As far as people's signature goes. Who's that?
On topic:
Wouldn't it be funny if there was a small easter egg/ reference to Garfield the cat in the city. Like his house or a figure of John somewhere hidden.

 

Ivan is a Russian who steals other peoples mods and reuploads them to non-official sites.

 

Thanks.

 

Huh. Interesting...

That's a great idea.

 

Again, Off Topic
What FPS do you get. Looking at your specs, you're no where closer to a gaming computer than a banana is to being a car. What are your settings at? My god.
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not to be rude or anything...

 

Oh... yeah.
I don't have the money to save up for a gaming laptop right now. I do manage to skimp by with 10-15 FPS with my lovely 128Mb dedicated VRAM and 2Gb shared... It's a business laptop, so I know it's a potato PC for Beamng, but I REALLY wanted the game back in 2016. If I had the money right now, I would be running higher frames. For my settings... well, the are at low with no shadows and I get about 20 FPS on gridmap, and a cringworthy ~13FPS on WCUSA. Normally I keep it on lowest and get up to 45 FPS on gridmap and 25 on WCUSA. Don't worry, people ask me this question a lot IRL. Although I've been a proud 340+ hr Beamng player!

 

Just concerned that you were not getting the best you could. Again off topic. I'll just start a convo I got something to ask you anyways.

 

You should if you want turn collision off (if you haven’t done that already) it will help you a lot if you play with 1 car only and increase FPS

 

*This might just be my first ever bump. If not, on purpose*

I really loved this map a while ago. Even if you're busy (I think, you have staff status) what's been going on with Garfield Heights?

 

Technically a bump, but it's still an active thread, so, y'know. Whatever.

Sadly, though, I'll have to admit I'm nowhere near done with the map. I was hoping to be within ~10 working hours of completion, but I'm even further off than that. Partly due to working on official content, partly due to my own laziness.

I will still be releasing a version later on this week complete with the changes made thus far, as I don't want a repeat of last year where I just didn't release anything. Just... curb your enthusiasm, as it ain't all that pretty.

 

Us BeamNG folks are thankful for whatever we get bud.
Don't sweat it, glad you made the team any-who, and work comes 1st. That's what pays the bills.

 

Im happy with whatever you give me! This is one of the best mod maps. I hope to see more potholes
I dont mind maybe waiting a few months for a good update rather than a rushed one.

 

You know that I have stayed with this map for a long time almost since the begging. I got it a few days after the first release but had watched it since the release. I have even checked in on it. I don’t care what kind of update I get, or when I get it. I will stay with this map no matter what. Just keep up the great staff work and work on this map when you can and the one thing I ask is that you post to the thread every once in a while giving progress reports and letting us know it’s not dead.

 

Whelp, I've just submitted the newest version to the repo. It'll probably take a good couple of days for approval, so I've updated the .zip link in the first post.* Included is the groundbreaking—if only groundbreaking—of Duquesne Square, the map's newest and final district. I've also revamped most of the curbs and many of the roads using WCU assets and methods.

Again, sorry about how barebones everything is. Maybe someday I'll get off my lazy butt and make this stuff happen. Oh, and to those of you who don't mind a little mystery: there's been something going on with the water tower. You might wanna check it out...

*Since it hasn't gone through approval yet, I'd recommend saving a backup of your current version.