Update Speculation thread

LegThePeg · May 30, 2023

88fiero said: ↑

Found the location, its the quarry.
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Oh nvm

bussin.buses · May 30, 2023

88fiero said: ↑

Found the location, its the quarry.
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I thought that was a military camp?

ITHEPUNISHER · May 30, 2023

Happy 10th anniversary of release, BeamNG.Drive

rw_scorpion · May 30, 2023

Didn’t beamng release in August of 2013? Or are you talking about the steam early access release on the 29th of May, 2015?

bussin.buses · May 30, 2023

rw_scorpion said: ↑

Didn’t beamng release in August of 2013? Or are you talking about the steam early access release on the 29th of May, 2015?
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The first BeamNG YouTube video.

McBeamer94 · May 30, 2023

Oh, just found another name for the new Gambler Pigeon: the Poogeon!

Bakasan · May 30, 2023

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1983 Ibishu Toilet GX

rw_scorpion · May 30, 2023

bussin.buses said: ↑

The first BeamNG YouTube video.
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Ah, my bad
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Ibishu Poo-geon

simsimw · May 30, 2023

Its the 11th birthday lol.

FFIVGUY · May 30, 2023

Bakasan said: ↑

1983 Ibishu Toilet GX
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LOL! I can't stop laughing!! LOL!!

Spython · May 30, 2023

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Ibishu Piguano

Shelbyiris · May 30, 2023

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Ibishu Portageon
we will get porta-potties as load in 0.29

ManfredE3 · May 30, 2023

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Anyways... Here we go.

Color coding:
Green means we can be reasonably certain of it in the next update
Orange means we can expect it in near future and potentially the next update
Red means it's either confirmed to not be coming in the near future whatsoever or in development limbo

Updated 2023/05/30, new items in bold

Release date: 0.28 released on 2023/04/04. If the team can stick to that 3 month update schedule they want going forward then we are looking at early July.

Update 2023/05/24: @Safthof pointed out that the Gambler 500 event lines up with the approx. expected release date for this update. With that in mind it's safe to expect the update around the time of the Gambler 500, which is weekend of July 16th.

Vehicle content:

Mystery Minivan

First teased on 2023/05/16, update speculation thread discussion starts here

This puts the team at 3/4 for filling the top requested vehicle niches lately (Bastion and Scintilla being the other 2 top requests). All that's missing now is a modern American full sized BoF pickup.

With the team only teasing the JBeam we can only discuss so much about the particulars. The general consensus is that this is a mid 2000's Asian vehicle (it has been awhile since we got a proper Asian vehicle, sorry Wigeon...). It could also be American or European, and also could be older. There isn't much to go off of to get a feel for the vehicle size but it seems to be on the larger size, a proper three row MPV.

As far as drivelines go... This seems to have a transmission tunnel, so optional AWD is a safe bet.

Looking at a release date... As a rule of thumb we should assume 9 month development time. I doubt the team really got much done in 2022 on this with how much work went into 0.27. Could the team be aggressive and get this out in 7 months? Maybe. Perhaps that 9 months is out of date as the team has grown and processes improved. If this ends up being a 4 month update then maybe we could see this in the next update. But I wouldn't count on it just yet...

This would tie in really well to the Gambler 500 content (see below) as minivans are a somewhat common base for Gambler builds

Gambler 500 content: On 2023/05/22 the team announced a Gambler 500 themed modding contest in collaboration with the race organizers and Automation. Where this got interesting was on 2023/05/23's Teaser Tuesday post showing two mad scientist builds in collaboration with the Gambler team, including the same Bolide form the modding contest post

Vehicle #1 is a six wheeled Boldie (Or the "Bolidede" as as christened by @DOUGL4S1 )... As cool as a 4x6 AWS Bolide would be, I would think this would be a simple dead axle addition to keep the theme of "simple but crazy" builds that is usually seen in the Gambler 500.

Vehicle #2 is a Covet with the back cut off and replaced with a single giant agricultural wheel. The build is somewhat reminiscent of Adam Anderson's Chevy Steam Roller build. While it theoretically could use a chain drive to be RWD, I would think this would retain the FWD layout for simplicity

There was a comment from the official BeamNG twitter account suggesting Gambler content that somehow relates to the Pigeon. Too vague to place any bets on what this is just yet though.

Update 2023/05/30: Teaser Tuesday post with an off road Pigron carrying a porta-loo. Update Speculation Thread discussion starts here. There isn't all that much to say about this one... Some big chonky off road tires on the Pigeon and the bed has been replaced with a porta-loo, which suggests we will be getting one as a prop.

Getting more into the realm of speculation here... It seems like there is some more content yet to be teased for the Gambler 500 tie in. Being that these are somewhat involved I wouldn't expect too many of them, but maybe a couple more builds. Truck frame swaps are another fairly common build; so maybe the team will drop a random passenger car body onto a D-Series frame. I doubt any would involve a vehicle yet to be remastered due to how involved these are.

Hopefully we will get some non-super-build content as well... Sawzalled fenders with cheap lift kits and off road tires are pretty much the standard build type so hopefully we will be seeing lots of sawzalled fenders for the roster coming up.

SBR remaster: While there's no proper sign of a remaster coming up, @McBeamer94 and @dart have been going back and forth about some new intercoolers for the SBR's engine that are in the files. In order to actually use these the SBR's body would need some changes, which suggests this is possibly next on the list of upcoming remasters. Alternatively, this could be intended only for swapping it into different vehicles, but that seems like a waste of perfectly good intercoolers to me.

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Moonhawk remaster: Again, no proper sign of a remaster but many speculate that her remaster is next due to the fact that for whatever reason they have been drip-feeding content to the Moonhwak but not other vehicles.

Grand Marshall remaster: It was remastered but not to the same scope that current remasters cover, so sooner or later the team should be returning to this one

Gavril T-Series remaster: A lot of people have been suggesting this will be coming up as it got the hydraulic updates and was omitted from the 0.28 openable door improvements. While the new hydraulics is probably just a case of new content with limited applications currently, the lack of openable doors is strange.

Other remasters: The following vehicles have yet to be fully remastered and have not been mentioned above: Burnside '53 Special, ETK I-Series, Gavril Barstow, Hirochi Sunburst, Ibishu 200BX, Ibishu Hopper, Ibishu Miramar, Ibishu Pessima mod.1988, Wentward DT40L

See this post for some speculation from @CaptainZoll discussing potential heavy equipment additions

Map content:

Maybe a cliff map remaster? Nothing else to say here really...

Physics & such:

Ropeables: TDev mentioned that ropes/ties are WIP and winches are on his short term wish list. Not only would that be important for cargo and off road gameplay, but it would also allow for more types of vehicles (Cranes, wreckers, hook & chain tow trucks, etc....).

@LucasBE has a post discussing some bits related to ropeables

See this post for some speculation from @CaptainZoll with a pic of a winch already modelled for the Wydra

Airbags: Airbags were tested but declared not currently feasible

Improved Aerodynamics: TDev was going to come back to this question during his Q&A but never did

Tire Thermals; Mud/Scratches: Things in these directions will be coming soon.

ABS Updates: Vehicle electronics are one of those things that are pretty much always WIP and a potential to see in an update; but on 2022/10/21 Diamondback posted some big ABS improvements with the note that he is working on an overall ABS overhaul.

Additional post here

Shift logic: On 2024/04/10 Diamondback showed off concept for shift logic updates.

Shoutout to @CaptainZoll for reminding me to put this here

Update 2023/05/28: Another related post on this

Gameplay:

Walking mode; Triggers; Career Mode Sneak Peak; AI/Traffic updates; Mission System; Steam Achievements; and UI changes have all been WIP in recent updates and this will most likely continue for the foreseeable future

@LucasBE has a post discussing some bits related to career mode and the like

Everything Else:

Misc: TDev's long term wish list includes deformable terrain, "huge" maps, and more. He hopes that they will finally get on that 3 month update cycle they've been mentioning but unable to stick to.

Torquescript: Ongoing effort to remove TorqueScript

We did see some progress towards this in 0.27

Driver Model: Feasibility of a driver model was being investigated

Pedestrians: Same for pedestrians, which were deemed not currently feasible but still on the long term wish list.

Additional post on this topic

Sounds: Expect a post from TDK about what they have been working on at some point. Perhaps related to audio ray tracing, which will potentially improve cabin noises and allow for some other cool stuff.

Additional post here.

Update: See this comment from @FFIVGUY.

Unused engine sounds: 4 cylinder that kinda sounds like a rotary/wankel from @dart and i3, i6 diesel, and V8 courtesy of @LucasBE

Update: 0.27 did use the new V8 sound, the others remain unused

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Updated this post with more information on new shift logic and the Porta-Pigeon teaser. New items now in bold

23Terrabytes · May 30, 2023

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Name this config! (wrong answers only) in Update Speculation pls #TeaserTuesday #gambler500

Stool Pigeon

DOUGL4S1 · May 30, 2023

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I never thought I'd want a PVC pipe snorkel so much

Crazy originality
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PVC rollcage when?

le beam · May 30, 2023

Considering that the Ibishu Sewage Delivery thing is the only new thing in this weeks teaser, perhaps last weeks teaser showed that both the Gambler 500 Covet and Bolidide are in-game. That would be sick, but I also hope that the minivan gets in-game this update, considering its the community's most wanted vehicle.

moses72 · May 30, 2023

the portapigeon

youwerelucky · May 30, 2023

Ibishu Cagadero

D-Serious · May 30, 2023

Ibishu- Shitsu
Ibishu- Dung-Dove

Koichiro Iketani · May 30, 2023

Ibishu Etron... no wait, Audi took that already

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