Thanks to the valuable feedback from our community, we've continued improving Truck Driver: The American Dream. Patch #5 delivers major enhancements to AI traffic, driving experience, graphics, audio, and localization, plus dozens of bug fixes and quality-of-life improvements. Check out the full patch notes below.

Updates & Additions

• Updated AI traffic behavior at traffic lights. Vehicles now accelerate from a standstill almost twice as fast after the light turns green.

• Rebalanced the number of AI vehicles waiting at traffic light intersections. Large traffic queues are now less common, while the system remains dynamic—depending on the situation, you may still encounter anywhere from 1–2 to 5–7 vehicles at the same intersection.

• Improved AI turning behavior at intersections. In the previous build, vehicles could spend too much time recalculating when and where to move. This process is now much smoother and faster.

• Additional handling and steering adjustments for several trucks.

• Added tire-on-asphalt sound effects when driving in dry weather (no rain or snow). The effect is most noticeable with the engine turned off but can also be heard while driving.

• Added a subtle ambient cabin soundscape. With the engine turned off, you'll now hear the atmosphere of a small enclosed space, along with occasional environmental sounds from outside.

• Rebalanced emissive lighting throughout the game, reducing visual artifacts caused by emissive surfaces.

• Updated the rain-on-cabin-roof audio system. Rain now uses two separate sound profiles (light and heavy rain) with seamless transitions between them.

• Updated the highest-quality shadow settings (Virtual Shadow Maps). VSM settings are now individually optimized for each graphics preset: Low, Medium, High, and Epic.

• Updated numerous LODs throughout the game, significantly reducing the chance of seeing low-polygon models at close range.

• Further rebalanced voice audio for the first 11 chapters. This process will continue in future updates.

• Additional draw distance improvements in selected areas of the game. These improvements are visible on High and Epic graphics settings only.

• Implemented Danish, Swedish, Hungarian, Ukrainian, and Czech language support.

• Updated multiple UI widgets.

Bug Fixes

• Numerous localization fixes across multiple languages.

• Over 30 bug fixes and quality-of-life improvements across localization, navigation, audio, visuals, controls, and more.

Still to Come

• Keyboard key rebinding.

• Support for MOZA steering wheels.

We appreciate your support! Happy trucking!

Truckers, a new update has arrived!

Patch #4, \[Version 1.0.0.0] brings improvements across AI traffic, truck handling, audio, visuals, and overall gameplay, along with new language support and more than 50 bug fixes.

Updates & Additions

• All vehicles will now slow down when you overtake them. In previous versions, there were cases where the vehicle being overtaken would actually accelerate instead.

• Further improvements to how AI traffic behaves at intersections. We are continuing to fine-tune this system.

• Audio updates: The in-cabin truck audio profile has been reworked to better simulate how sounds are heard inside a real truck cabin. Plus, while the source engine sounds remain the same, they have been retuned with updated pitch, low-pass filtering, volume, and frequency adjustments to deliver a deeper and more powerful engine sound.

• The default volume for both Engine and Voice Over audio is now set to 50. We recommend trying the game with the default audio settings before making adjustments.

• Further updates to truck handling and driving behavior, including steering, hill climbing (with and without trailers), acceleration, and more.

• Added over 150 artificial light sources (various types of lamps and lights) throughout the game world.

• Improved draw distance when using the High and Epic graphics presets. This applies to both distant landscape mountains and smaller environmental assets such as benches, poles, chairs, and more.

• Added Thai and Turkish language support.

• AI traffic will now always use headlights during the evening, as well as during rain, snow, and fog.

• Construction cranes are now animated only during daytime working hours.

Bug Fixes

• Over 50 bug fixes and quality-of-life improvements across localization, navigation, audio, visuals, controls, and more.

Thank you for your continued support, and keep on trucking!