Support us on Patreon
PayPalEuro Truck Simulator 2 is expanding again, with the Road to the Black Sea expansion that's now been announced for release on December 5.
Quite a big DLC giving you access to travel through and expand your company through Romania, Bulgaria and some of Turkey too with Istanbul. Coming with it are 11 new local company docks and industries, 20 new major cities and many smaller towns and settlements, a bunch of new unique 3D assets, local AI trains, trams, and traffic cars, border crossings with feature-rich border controls and more.
YouTube videos require cookies, you must accept their cookies to view. View cookie preferences.
Direct Link
Direct Link
These truck sim games always fascinate me. I've tried to get some friends into them and they're always puzzled about what the fun is. It's something you have to experience really, so very oddly relaxing and quite engrossing when you have a nice Wheel setup too. Dealing with all the logistics of not just driving and delivering packages yourself, but the business side to it too is thoroughly interesting.
You can pick up ETS2 on Humble Store and Steam.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Some you may have missed, popular articles from the last month:
The comments on this article are closed.
All posts need to follow our rules. For users logged in: please hit the Report Flag icon on any post that breaks the rules or contains illegal / harmful content. Guest readers can email us for any issues.
12 comments
leillo1975 Nov 29, 2019
Too bad that the game still runs on OpenGL they updated the windows version to DirectX 11 but no Vulkan update.
It's a shame that devs choose DX11 as API instead Vulkan. I can't understand that being a multiplatform game (Linux, Windows and Mac) they do this. I'm certainly worried that they have made this decision concerning Linux support.
2 Likes, Who?
My biggest gripe with the graphics is the lack of functioning AA. The game (and ATS too) lets me pick SMAA, but the setting has no effect that I can see. And no matter how much I bump the internal resolution, there's aliasing and moiré effects all over the place.
Despite all this, I love these truck sims to bits. Perfect games to relax with.
Last edited by tuubi on 29 November 2019 at 5:49 pm UTC
Despite all this, I love these truck sims to bits. Perfect games to relax with.
Last edited by tuubi on 29 November 2019 at 5:49 pm UTC
0 Likes
My biggest gripe with the graphics is the lack of functioning AA. The game (and ATS too) lets me pick SMAA, but the setting has no effect that I can see. And no matter how much I bump the internal resolution, there's aliasing and moiré effects all over the place.
I don't know about AMD, but for Nvidia, there's an override setting in the driver settings.
0 Likes
The problem with this "game" is there is no goal. So nothing to do really.For me, the goal is to relax. I get quickly bored with sandboxy games like minecraft/test and terraria, but these truck sims just keep me driving one more job. Especially when I'm not up for anything more demanding. Lots of trucks to drive, places and routes to see, cargoes to haul...
Haven't found anything that works. Almost tempted to try with proton. But only almost. This is just a minor annoyance after all. I guess I should report a bug, seeing as Windows users just got antialiasing enhancements in the latest update.My biggest gripe with the graphics is the lack of functioning AA. The game (and ATS too) lets me pick SMAA, but the setting has no effect that I can see. And no matter how much I bump the internal resolution, there's aliasing and moiré effects all over the place.
I don't know about AMD, but for Nvidia, there's an override setting in the driver settings.
Last edited by tuubi on 29 November 2019 at 8:29 pm UTC
2 Likes, Who?
Micromegas Nov 29, 2019
I'm especially hyped for the next expansions after this one because they have to be Spain and Portugal (or maybe Greece, which would be exciting too because of islands, ferries, mountains?).
I want to finally drive from Gibraltar to the North Cape in one big haul - the equivalent to driving from coast to coast in American Truck Simulator some day in the future, I would say. :D
I want to finally drive from Gibraltar to the North Cape in one big haul - the equivalent to driving from coast to coast in American Truck Simulator some day in the future, I would say. :D
2 Likes, Who?
Too bad that the game still runs on OpenGL they updated the windows version to DirectX 11 but no Vulkan update.
Too bad that the game still runs on OpenGL they updated the windows version to DirectX 11 but no Vulkan update.
It's a shame that devs choose DX11 as API instead Vulkan. I can't understand that being a multiplatform game (Linux, Windows and Mac) they do this. I'm certainly worried that they have made this decision concerning Linux support.
While they didn't say anything about upping the OpenGL version, is very clear to me that something is changing on the Linux version, on ATS, that got the 1.36 update. Performance definitively got a uplift. Is not Vulkan, but they did not forgot Linux, that is for sure.
2 Likes, Who?
My biggest gripe with the graphics is the lack of functioning AA. The game (and ATS too) lets me pick SMAA, but the setting has no effect that I can see. And no matter how much I bump the internal resolution, there's aliasing and moiré effects all over the place.
Despite all this, I love these truck sims to bits. Perfect games to relax with.
These games are notorious for aliasing problems, even on Windows. My solution used to be running the game at 400% scale, at last AMD cards, didn't get a big performance penalty. But since about 1.33 that was not a option anymore, with big performance loss.
The last updates on ATS (1.36) got the SMAA functioning more or less properly, so a combination of 200% scaling and SMAA on high is giving good results to me (on a RX570) so far.
0 Likes
The problem with this "game" is there is no goal. So nothing to do really.The game is amazing, which does not mean it is perfect, far from it. I until resent the developer's decision to not make the trucks get damaged, dirty or even deliver smoke to not "damage" the public image of the licensed truck brands.
It may be that they didn't have a choice on that. All it takes is only one truck manufacturer to say "here is your license, but make our trucks look good, or else", for them to avoid letting the truck receive damage or dirt. It used be exist a mod to create damage, but it ceased do be developed. AFAIK.
And they are not alone on that. Other games like Gran Turismo also did not show damage on cars because some manufacturers like Ferrari didn't allow it.
PS: E ae Patola, lembro de vc dos tempos do BR-Linux.
2 Likes, Who?
The last updates on ATS (1.36) got the SMAA functioning more or less properly, so a combination of 200% scaling and SMAA on high is giving good results to me (on a RX570) so far.I run it at 300% scaling and High SMAA normally. Aliasing is still very visible on anything thin or contrasty (like fence posts, street lights and utility poles, chrome details on your truck), and it doesn't affect the moiré on what I assume are partially transparent textures like chain link fences.
I spent quite a while staring at pixels just now and SMAA in ATS simply doesn't have the effect it has in other games. It basically just smooths out some aliasing that wasn't very visible anyway and gives up on the rest. I think it would benefit greatly from something more advanced, like SMAAT2x, the SMAA + TAA combination AA you can enable in games like Shadow of the Tomb Raider. Or even just TAA. Hell, even a smoother algorithm for the internal resolution downscaling might help a lot.
Last edited by tuubi on 30 November 2019 at 4:05 pm UTC
0 Likes
rustybroomhandle Nov 30, 2019
The problem with this "game" is there is no goal. So nothing to do really.
What? Shoo, shoo. Away, fiend!
1 Likes, Who?
leillo1975 Dec 2, 2019
A comment about ETS2/ATS. As you know , Force Feedback is not present in this game for wheels like DFGT, G27 or G29. Some weeks ago a friend, Berarma, developed a new driver for Logitech Wheels , and using it the feedback is now present in these games (and a lot of others). I leave a message on GoL forum when you can find information about it:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/forum/topic/4159
I hope that this driver will replace the current one on kernel in the future.
Cheers!
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/forum/topic/4159
I hope that this driver will replace the current one on kernel in the future.
Cheers!
2 Likes, Who?
See more from me