Oversized Cargo and Escort Cars DLC

[Nimir-Raj]

I am genuinely surprised no one else has posted this yet. It's been on the SCS forum for a while. But here we go, Oversized DLC sneak peak from Gamescom 2017 booth.

https://twitter.com/John_Barth/status/900355632708104192

[pieperjohanns]

It was posted but deleted.

[Dave]

So it's another separate trailer DLC only with larger loads with the escort cars included or all of that's going to be included with the oversized cargo DLC that currently exists?

[loonitun]

the chaser car isnt a problem, i would like to have a car infront or a few to stop traffik from crossing roads into me, and or something to make them not stop RIGTH up at the stopline, preventing you from turning sharp corners.

[Nimir-Raj]

Originally posted by loonitun:

t i would like to have a car infront

Don't worry there's one of them too.

https://www.facebook.com/PCGuruMagazin/photos/pcb.1517027108340171/1517026445006904/?type=3

[loonitun]

hrm interessting, would like to know how they will make it work, if that car is following the GPS route, or if you ( kinda control it ) or how they make it so it knows where i am going to go. ( ea what if i make a left where the route will have me go right and so forth.

[Dave]

Originally posted by loonitun:

hrm interessting, would like to know how they will make it work, if that car is following the GPS route, or if you ( kinda control it ) or how they make it so it knows where i am going to go. ( ea what if i make a left where the route will have me go right and so forth.

That's what I'm curious about now as well. How are these escort cars going to know what you're going to do next? I like to take breaks after a couple hundred miles, sometimes they're maybe 5 or 10 minute breaks or I'll take 30 minutes (dependent on distance) before driving again. I might even drive straight from sender to recipient without stopping.

Unless they introduce some way of, I don't know, 'communicating' with the escort to let them know you're going to pull into fuel station to refuel or if you're going to stop at a truckstop then press a key or however it would work (if it even does work like this) to let them know you're ready to leave which would have them return to their positions.

[racdavies]

Originally posted by Dave:

So it's another separate trailer DLC only with larger loads with the escort cars included or all of that's going to be included with the oversized cargo DLC that currently exists?

Cant see it happening unless toll routes are blocked

[Dave]

Originally posted by racdavies:

Originally posted by Dave:

So it's another separate trailer DLC only with larger loads with the escort cars included or all of that's going to be included with the oversized cargo DLC that currently exists?

Cant see it happening unless toll routes are blocked

I suppose they could code it in a way where only open road routes are taken and toll roads are avoided in order to avoid the issue of toll roads or at least parts of a motorway are used then taking the exits before tolls come up, unless they somehow figured out a way to make it work with tolls.

I also noticed the DLC that I thought it could be included with is actually called Heavy Haul DLC there isn't actually a DLC (yet?) that's called 'Oversized cargo DLC' so it looks like this would be a separate DLC altogether.

[Only Me]

Originally posted by Dave:

Originally posted by racdavies:

Cant see it happening unless toll routes are blocked

I suppose they could code it in a way where only open road routes are taken and toll roads are avoided in order to avoid the issue of toll roads or at least parts of a motorway are used then taking the exits before tolls come up, unless they somehow figured out a way to make it work with tolls.

I also noticed the DLC that I thought it could be included with is actually called Heavy Haul DLC there isn't actually a DLC (yet?) that's called 'Oversized cargo DLC' so it looks like this would be a separate DLC altogether.

In some American tolls in my area they have side access along the far edge for large highway service vehicles. Perhaps they can go back and add in these side bars as a quick fix for the issue, perhaps with some mechanic to prevent using these under normal circumstances

[Gazer75]

Originally posted by pieperjohanns:

It was posted but deleted.

Someone deleted my post on this apparently. No idea why...

[Nativedavid33]

I want cars that escort oversize cargo so badly, it's one of the biggest elements of real life trucking, and would love for it to be implemented in the game.

[Supernovae]

Originally posted by dwcuyle:

I want cars that escort oversize cargo so badly, it's one of the biggest elements of real life trucking, and would love for it to be implemented in the game.

Looks like it will be.

[Alkaroy]

It's an odd dlc in my opinion... but who gives three ♥♥♥♥♥, right?

[Supernovae]

Everyone was begging for escort vehicals with the HC DLC, so it does make some sense that SCS would fulfill their requests.

[Nimir-Raj]

The code for escort vehicles was in the binary long before we got the HC DLC. But there's nothing in the HC DLC that requires one so there just wasn't any legitimate reason to release them sooner than the Oversized DLC.