Update Speculation thread

Wow, hadn't noticed the bus stops up until I read your comment! So, we guess this island was a part of the Marshall plan, maybe? It's amazing what we learn every day!

 

Roamer only has them with barn doors. Gm only has them on the front bumper.

 

GM just has in the front as well.
I don't think they are in the parts menu, at least not anymore if they was.

 

Already mentioned the reason for that if you didn't see.

 

Never realized until now lol, but thanks.

 

please take the "german legislation speculation" to the general automotive thread, lads.

but to get to something on topic, what if the japanese town mesh is intended for JRI?

what if they intend to have different "states" for the maps in career mode, with various extra objects placed in, somewhat like how scenarios can already load in some static meshes?

this could allow for JRI to start out as a truly abandoned island when you first arrive in the career, with all the roads overgrown, no upkept buildings etc, and you're there to help rebuild the place, by clearing roads, making industrial buildings operational, then building/rebuilding the small town, then perhaps opening the place to rally races and operating tourist buses, somewhat like the objectives in SnowRunner.
with some more development, such a mechanic could be used for something like snowy or flooded variants of maps.

there's no real evidence to suggest they have such a game mechanic planned, I'm just considering the possibility of it.

 

Based on my research I have come to the conclusion that:
PBR in some form is going to be out in the next few updates
A career-esque mode or campaign with buying/selling vehicles soon
Vulkan rendering coming at the same or very close to same time as PBR

 

What is PBR?

 

Physically based rendering, more specifically stuff like clear-coat car paint.

 

Ah, thanks

 

Citations pls

 

More specifically it enables materials to have realistic reflective and refractive properties

 

Yay better paint.. because the options right now just let you make it chrome-not Chrome.

 

sometimes the devs need to sacrifice a big part of the mods if they want to make evolve their game... I don't like this idea that they should restrain their development just to keep the most old mods in a working state, if the modders cannot bother themselve to update their mod it's their problem.

 

yes
Thanks @HadACoolName for my 450th agree

 

you always have to leave mods out of this, you have to see it from the vanilla perspective.

 

The game would look like those screenshots with reshade enabled -if not better- and will probably work better since it would be a native implementation. The lack of PBR is what keeps this game from looking like GTA V, as lighting was greatly improved last year.

 

The walking mode will eventually get a crosshair, presumably so it's easier to interact with vehicle triggers. Deep in the files, I found an unused crosshair image.