Update Speculation thread

So it means nothing... kinda frimiliar

 

not really. His post had a bit more... detail and interesting observations.

 

We just got development seek peek6!!!!#

 

That was more than 10 days ago....

 

As we know, the original AB badge and hood is no longer on the Piccolina. When one of the devs said there are more AB cars coming, could this mean that that good picture was of another Autobello?

 

no, i mean it's possible, but very unlikely that they would be making two vehicles at once...

 

Or, another model year from the one we've seen.

Judging by some outdated elements (optics, suicide doors), model pictured is very likely an early model.

 

Yeah, 10 days ago....

 

It had a production run of 16 years, so there was probably a facelift.

 

Curiously, this one doesn't contain any of the "bonus" screenshots that we've had in previous sneak peeks. We've seen everything in the sneak peek before.

I was kind of hoping for a picture of an early-model and late-model AB...

 

Pff, I can definitely see the D-series having a diesel in it.

 

The D-series is not a light truck - it is based on, and sized similarly to, the Chevrolet Silverado, a truck available with various diesel engines. If anything, it needs multiple diesel engines. Perhaps an inline-6, a V8 available with or without a turbo, and a two-stroke Detroit-style V8 for the heavy-duty models.

 

DSPs are just for people who don't read the microblogs.

Don't use them as guidelines for update release dates.

 

There's even the red note still there under the DSPs, which says that it doesn't tell when a update will release.

 

As much as I absolutely love 2 stroke diesels, I don't think they would be worth it in beam simply because they'd never be able to track one down to properly record the sound. Heck, the sound is pretty much the best feature of those old motors.

Even so, it would be cool to have the thing run away if you overheated the turbo too much lol. It would certainly be an interesting way to have it break down.

 

I've seen developers say things along the lines of:

I'm actually not certain if I agree with Gabester on this one though. Extra variants of existing in-game cars aren't really desired by the community because they would drive differently, they're desired by the community because they look different and add more archetypes to the game. They also reflect the real-life manufacturing techniques of platform and component sharing, and in doing so increase the realism of the game as it is today while also laying the groundwork for career mode in the future. After all, components shared across multiple vehicles are a vital part of rebuilding a beat-up car on a budget. Anybody who's ever looked for a part in the junkyard can tell you it often comes from another vehicle in the same "family".

Those alternate bodystyles and shared components (like the long-rumored Legran Wagon, the plans to share an engine between Bruckell and Soliad, or the already complete ETK 800 and K series) would go a long way towards increasing vehicle diversity and easing that oversaturation while conserving development resources.*

Now, bringing the discussion back around to the Piccolina, I feel that the suggested van variant would be a particularly good choice for the following reasons:

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1. It would introduce an entirely new archetype: the cabover van.
2. It would immediately double the number of aircooled vehicles in the game.
3. It would provide a new service vehicle: the Italian Taxi**, along with accompanying gameplay potential
4. It would increase the number of rear-engine vehicles in the game from 3 to 4. (for reference, there are 21 front-engine vehicles, with the Bolide and Pigeon in the mid-engine category)
5. It would provide a third Italian vehicle in preparation for the upcoming Italy map.

*This statement was made under the assumption that Gabester was referring to alternate unibodies requiring "much more in-depth [development] work" than alternate bodies for body-on-frame vehicles, and not asserting that alternate unibodies require more work than developing completely new vehicles from scratch.

**The Fiat 600 Multipla was popular for taxi usage

Edit - Since this was moved from the Autobello Piccolina discussion thread … I guess that means that one of the developers read it at least... so I'm satisfied that this has been noticed.
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Ich kann nicht Deutsch. Ich benutze Übersetzung. Das wird wahrscheinlich dumm klingen. schieb Sauerkraut in meinen arsch.

I doubt a official Legran Wagon will ever be a thing, due to focusing resources.

Basically all vehicles have been made into a multitude of different body styles by the modding community, and everytime a new vehicle comes out, different high quality edits will come out.

Making things like wagons, sedan/coupe or van variants isn't really worth the effort, as the modding community already delivers on this.

 

OwO what's this

(Not really update speculation, sorry if this counts as off-topic but it's the only place where I can think of where I can post this.)

 

They probably have a deleted post log, and it's not applied for the whole forums though.

 

You can manage/delete your own posts in the Developer Section and its subforums.