What are your best and essential mods you use?

[Overlord]

Looking for some inspiration. I have the basic knowledge so I use few mods for headlights, traffic ai, traffic density, mirror fov, small dead end barriers, some visual mods for better rain and fog etc.
One of the most favourite mods for me is probably the realistic companies and realistic gas stations with billboards. It trully makes the game more realistic to me when I see real companies and real trailers.
If you should recommend your 3 best top mods you use - what that would be? Looking mostly for mods related with trucks (freeware models, better interiors, some general mods usable in each truck for example lights/navigation).
Thank you and Merry Christmas to all.

[🦊 Hermit]

Only big mod I use is Promods map. It's fantastic for expanding and refining the base game map, adding in a lot of new places to explore and improving areas which are looking very dated.

Aside from that, this beacon mod, because I hate the look and design of the game's vanilla beacon offerings:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=917995706

I did have some truck mods (mainly old US trucks), but they were left behind by game updates and I couldn't be bothered tracking them down off of the Workshop every time the game released a new version.

[Underscore_101_3]

For truck mods i really like XBS' Daf trucks, but his others are nice as well, most of them need updating though, but I often play the game with them.
A link to his website will be removed so you need to Google for it.

A no barrier and crosses mod is also a must have for me, the crosses can be turned off in game nowadays btw, but then you can still run into a barrier.
To do this you need to look for the profile config file and look for this line:
uset g_show_game_blockers "0" and change 0 to 1 or 1 to 0

And last, but not least (you may already be using something like this) a mod that changes the SCS ai trailer liveries to real companies, though they are getting better from SCS, most of them are still an eyesore imho.

Mods that i often use to give the trucks a bit more bling:
Obelihnio's Hella Rallye 3000:
https://forum.scssoft.com/viewtopic.php?f=175&t=246408
Braakie's Interior Emblems (he also has an addon for it):
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=956083331
Real Tires by Galimim (he also has one for trailers):
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=645501409

And of course sound mods from Kriechbaum (scs forum).

[pieperjohanns]

Kriechbaum's engine sound for my truck:
https://forum.scssoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=159192

Game is unplayable for me with the default SCS sounds.

[Overlord]

Originally posted by pieperjohanns:

Kriechbaum's engine sound for my truck:
https://forum.scssoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=159192

Game is unplayable for me with the default SCS sounds.

I found his pack for ATS. There is a lot of engines but this one for SCS are two Volvo engines only. There is no pack for ets right?

[Silverbiker]

Promods, All of Jazzycats traffic mods, CSI traffic mod for PM, Kreichbaums Volvo sound mod, real fuel prices, Really Real Companies. Cant play without them.
I have 70+ mods so really too many to mention. Maybe not essential but make game better for me.

[pieperjohanns]

Originally posted by Overlord:

I found his pack for ATS. There is a lot of engines but this one for SCS are two Volvo engines only. There is no pack for ets right?

I think there is no pack for ETS, but if you check the forum there are several threads by him for different truck brands. Just pick the correct one for your truck. You can only drive one truck at a time anyway.

[north]

wheel hands mod. i find it really irritating that the devs dont bother adding this in the best, most popular trucking game of all time

[MaestroII]

Jazzycat's / TrafficManiac AI traffic Packs. These make the traffic on the road a lot more realistic. You can download them on this website: https://ets2.lt/en/category/ai-traffic/
Once extracted, place them in the mods folder.: Documents\Euro Truck Simulator 2\mod

[Silverbiker]

Link to Kreichbuams Volvo sound mod:
https://forum.scssoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=159192

[Nicko]

1. Scania DC13 & DC16 Engine Sounds Realistic (I love Scania but the default sounds are...)
2. True Mirror FOV (eventually mirrors can be used without suoer vision)
3. Compact Navigator (A good alternative to GPS info if you don't want the hud in the middle)

I don't care much about realistic physics and realistic companies as I drive with Keybord and nothing can be more unrealistic than that. The cities are also far from being realistic so I don;t care about realistic companies either.