![]() The initial reception from fans and media highlighted that areas such as the UK appeared to be unrealistic. Part of SCS Software's recent development philosophy for Euro Truck Simulator 2, amongst releasing paid downloadable map packs, is to improve old areas of the map. ![]() There are seven items of map downloadable content (DLC) that expand the game to more countries and locations, and multiple other truck and trailer DLCs.Įxcluding downloadable packs, the base game features Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, north-eastern France, Germany, northern Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, western Poland, Bratislava in Slovakia, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. The base game features 71 cities in twelve countries, over twenty types of cargo and over fifteen fictional European companies. This progression allows the player to take on better-paying jobs. Skill points can be used to unlock deliveries that require different ADR classes, longer distance deliveries, special cargo loads, fragile cargo loads, deliveries that are urgent and eco-driving. A skill point is awarded after each level-up. The player gains experience points after each delivery. The skills of the drivers hired by the player also grow with experience and the player can create a huge fleet of the trucks, each with the option of having their own trailer, and drivers to drive the fleet, in turn, expanding the business across Europe. Money earned in the game can be spent on upgrading or purchasing new customizable trucks and ownable trailers, hiring non-player character drivers to take on deliveries, buying more garages and expanding them to accommodate more trucks and drivers. As the player earns money or takes bank loans, they can eventually afford to buy themselves a truck, acquire a home garage, and start accepting better-paying jobs by using their own truck instead of being a driver for hire with equipment being provided. At first, the player can only take what is known as quick jobs-these jobs involve making hired driver deliveries while employed by a delivery company, with a provided truck and all expenses (fuel, road tolls, ferry crossings) covered. When starting out, players choose their headquarters location in any of the game map's cities. Players will have to spend money on refuelling, toll costs in certain countries, and maintenance costs if damage is incurred. The payload must be delivered to the destination within a given amount of time, and with the least amount of damage to the goods as possible, in order to get the most money and experience points possible. Players drive articulated trucks in an open world rendition of Europe, delivering loads to a designated locations in order to be compensated with money and experience points. There is a UI in the bottom right corner in which the player can view a map with 2 separate UI elements representing the mirrors.Įuro Truck Simulator 2 is a truck driving simulator with business management elements. You can find the expansion on Steam here.Driver's view from a DAF XF during gameplay, crossing the Belgian-Dutch border. There's no hard release date for Road To The Black Sea, but it should be out this year, and likely priced at £13.49/€17.99/$17.99, same as the past few map expansions for Euro Truck Simulator 2. Of course, anything that SCS themselves don't make, their madly industrious mod scene will. Exploring the rest of Greece would be interesting too - again, a great place to look at, but I can't help but want to go there for the food. I'm curious if the next expansion after this (and there is undoubtedly going to be one - it's more inevitable than the heat-death of the universe) is going to continue this route and take us all the way through Turkey and into the middle-east. Still, might have a chance to stop off at Sofia on the way through Bulgaria, and buzz the Ubisoft offices there. It's the next best thing to a massive pan-European road trip, although without the joys of sampling the food along the way. Dense forest roads and mountain paths, all the way down to old rural country lanes through fields, and of course the ever-changing architecture. There's a lot of environmental variety to this new route, which appears to span much of Romania (including cities such as Bucharest), Bulgaria, and down through Trakya (aka Thrace) all the way to Istanbul. The new roads will be open later this year, and you can take a peek at the scenery in the trailer below. While a night-time trip through the Carpathian mountains and an overnight stop in Transylvania may sound thrilling, those dwindling profit margins prove that the world is the only vampire that counts. Next on SCS Software's checklist is the Road To The Black Sea expansion, adding the route to Turkey via Romania and Bulgaria to Euro Truck Sim 2. ![]() Give it another couple years, and Euro Truck Simulator 2 and its American cousin will have mapped most of the roads of the world.
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