Update Speculation thread

Deleted member 445491 · Jul 22, 2021

I know this is mod, but its in official documentation. Maybe minivan is coming?
https://documentation.beamng.com/modding/materials/materials_1.5/switching-from-015/

ryakra · Jul 22, 2021

eggward said: ↑

to be fair, we're in that grey area after a new update hit and there's nothing to speculate with, and when that happens, EVERYONE loses the plot fast
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True, if only someone posted something to speculate on! oh wait, I did and everyone ignored it because of the bolide background!
ryakra said: ↑
Hi there update speculation.
Code:
"dir":"/career/missions/wcusa_food_delivery/",
"zones":{},
"name":"food.sites.json",
"description":"Description of theses Sites. Contains Locations and Zones."
Make of that what you will
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ktheminecraftfan · Jul 23, 2021

ryakra said: ↑

True, if only someone posted something to speculate on! oh wait, I did and everyone ignored it because of the bolide background!
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Guessing it's gonna use elements from the Pizza delivery scenario in Italy. Makes sense for alot of scenarios to be test beds for career gameplay. I wish there were more campaigns as we haven't had one since the Wentward update.

tdev · Jul 23, 2021

So, to manage expectations:
The next update will take longer (earliest mid Nov) as we want to work on bigger things that do not fit into the 3 month update cycle.
We spend a lot of time to prepare and test the releases (i.e. 1-2 weeks feature freezes) and after the releases (1-4 weeks/hotfixes). Due to that we are planning to skip the next update and focus on implementing better automated testing to be able to release less buggy updates among a lot of cool other things

Hope you can understand that we want to deliver a quality product and not something rushed.

Thanks for being an awesome community!

esesel · Jul 23, 2021

Great news the last two updates where only days apart in my mind, makes me feel old

atv_123 · Jul 23, 2021

tdev said: ↑

So, to manage expectations:
The next update will take longer (earliest mid Nov) as we want to work on bigger things that do not fit into the 3 month update cycle.
We spend a lot of time to prepare and test the releases (i.e. 1-2 weeks feature freezes) and after the releases (1-4 weeks/hotfixes). Due to that we are planning to skip the next update and focus on implementing better automated testing to be able to release less buggy updates among a lot of cool other things

Hope you can understand that we want to deliver a quality product and not something rushed.

Thanks for being an awesome community!
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Even with the longer cycle, I still don't think the community would be disappointed in the slightest, especially once they learn what's just around the corner.

Blue Bird Gaming · Jul 23, 2021

atv_123 said: ↑

especially once they learn what's just around the corner.
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Sus

SKB · Jul 23, 2021

atv_123 said: ↑

Even with the longer cycle, I still don't think the community would be disappointed in the slightest, especially once they learn what's just around the corner.
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Tyre temps hype?

Agent_Y · Jul 23, 2021

tdev said: ↑

So, to manage expectations:
The next update will take longer (earliest mid Nov) as we want to work on bigger things that do not fit into the 3 month update cycle.
We spend a lot of time to prepare and test the releases (i.e. 1-2 weeks feature freezes) and after the releases (1-4 weeks/hotfixes). Due to that we are planning to skip the next update and focus on implementing better automated testing to be able to release less buggy updates among a lot of cool other things

Hope you can understand that we want to deliver a quality product and not something rushed.

Thanks for being an awesome community!
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The last 2 major updates were too close to each other imo, I couldn't even finish a mod before the next update messed with my mods, so this is good news for me.

Scotti100 · Jul 23, 2021

Cool

united. · Jul 24, 2021

tdev said: ↑

So, to manage expectations:
The next update will take longer (earliest mid Nov) as we want to work on bigger things that do not fit into the 3 month update cycle.
We spend a lot of time to prepare and test the releases (i.e. 1-2 weeks feature freezes) and after the releases (1-4 weeks/hotfixes). Due to that we are planning to skip the next update and focus on implementing better automated testing to be able to release less buggy updates among a lot of cool other things

Hope you can understand that we want to deliver a quality product and not something rushed.

Thanks for being an awesome community!
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so this might stop cars from getting stuck to each other and other bugs in the game that has always been a problem?

Agent_Y · Jul 24, 2021

united. said: ↑

so this might stop cars from getting stuck to each other and other bugs in the game that has always been a problem?
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Fixing the cars getting stuck requires implementing edge collisions which is extremely complex for softbody physics, especially in terms of Jbeam, I doubt it will happen so soon.

Acrain7 · Jul 24, 2021

tdev said: ↑

So, to manage expectations:
The next update will take longer (earliest mid Nov) as we want to work on bigger things that do not fit into the 3 month update cycle.
We spend a lot of time to prepare and test the releases (i.e. 1-2 weeks feature freezes) and after the releases (1-4 weeks/hotfixes). Due to that we are planning to skip the next update and focus on implementing better automated testing to be able to release less buggy updates among a lot of cool other things

Hope you can understand that we want to deliver a quality product and not something rushed.

Thanks for being an awesome community!
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Once again, I could not be more impressed with the level of communication that you, and everyone else on the Dev team, present us with, it makes it such a joy to be a part of this community.

I could not be happier with the previous updates thus far, and am sure that whatever secrets you've got hidden behind closed doors will make any delay worthwhile.

Artistterrymartin · Jul 24, 2021

I speculate dirt accumulation is coming. Only because I read it in the game docs under texture creation as being implemented at some point. If its not already been said already in a thread. It seems like the next logical step to bring a new level of realism that will work great with the new PBR materials.

Ground displacement is a wish list item, but would love to see it too.

More plastic debris particles from higher impacts and more shattering of side windows also comes to mind, but a wish list item.

Just my few speculations

galaxynote2 · Jul 24, 2021

Artistterrymartin said: ↑

I speculate dirt accumulation is coming. Only because I read it in the game docs under texture creation as being implemented at some point. If its not already been said already in a thread. It seems like the next logical step to bring a new level of realism that will work great with the new PBR materials.

Ground displacement is a wish list item, but would love to see it too.

More plastic debris particles from higher impacts and more shattering of side windows also comes to mind, but a wish list item.

Just my few speculations
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I also think some sort of dirt system will be added eventually, judging by how dirty the D-Series windshield is.

youngboicam · Jul 25, 2021

i just hope we get some better weather instead of 2d water. XD

Artistterrymartin · Jul 25, 2021

galaxynote2 said: ↑

I also think some sort of dirt system will be added eventually, judging by how dirty the D-Series windshield is.
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I could not quickly find where I had read it. It may have been in the help in the editor where it talked about textures. I did not see it when just looking for it again. The dirt accumulation.

Subarishi_Motors · Jul 25, 2021

Barstow remaster?

united. · Jul 25, 2021

windshield can fall off and break like irl (and maybe fall out ) idk it would be cool but hard to do :/

ghs129 · Jul 25, 2021

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