updates frequency.

[LazzySeal]

Hi Guys! Updates are obviously a good thing really good thing that ETS2 alive and being worked on, sending hugs and love. But will just leave it here:

If your game interrupts job/progress after update and returns to checkpoint maybe consider pushing several updates together in one day rather than updating it each day several days in a row.

[Wolfgang]

Finish your contract or set the game to only update when you launch it and go offline before that.

[Reese]

Most of the time, it's an update every few weeks at most, and on average every couple months. The exceptions are DLC releases and events, both of which don't happen very often.

[crazy rocker]

Lots of updates r to fix bugs to prevoius updates.
Its only the major updates that can interfere with the jobs u have going. but thats an easy fix dont do the update til u have finished the job ur on.

[Madkine]

This week is a special week as SCS announced in advance.

[Fyrnir]

Originally posted by Madkine:

This week is a special week as SCS announced in advance.

If you're a hardcore fan and follow SCS on social media and other communications then yeah. If you're a new player or someone who plays casually then this is pretty jarring. Why not put a warning in-game? So when players log in they know that their progress will be reset at 09:00 tomorrow real-time, so do shorter contracts?

I know the response to this will be a swarm of "well that's your fault!" and maybe they're right, but for me personally I got back into ETS2 a week ago but I am firmly back out of it after my *third* cancelled 1000km+ contract in a single week.

After some tech advice on the forums about delaying updates and changing steam settings, I managed to work around it and delay my own updates - but if every tiny update affects everyone's global progress negatively then maybe there's a redesign needed there....or at least better planning around updates.

[Lloyd]

Originally posted by Fyrnir:

Originally posted by Madkine:

This week is a special week as SCS announced in advance.

If you're a hardcore fan and follow SCS on social media and other communications then yeah. If you're a new player or someone who plays casually then this is pretty jarring. Why not put a warning in-game? So when players log in they know that their progress will be reset at 09:00 tomorrow real-time, so do shorter contracts?

I know the response to this will be a swarm of "well that's your fault!" and maybe they're right, but for me personally I got back into ETS2 a week ago but I am firmly back out of it after my *third* cancelled 1000km+ contract in a single week.

After some tech advice on the forums about delaying updates and changing steam settings, I managed to work around it and delay my own updates - but if every tiny update affects everyone's global progress negatively then maybe there's a redesign needed there....or at least better planning around updates.

I'm in the same boat as you, I recently got back into the game and it's proving very frustrating to have my progress reset. I'm assuming the latest update does it again which will mean I've now had 3 jobs cancelled while in progress. I might park it for a while and pick it back up when things are less turbulent.

[mojo_musica]

You all know that (potentially) some updates can and will reset your position in the game, yet you do nothing about it. Why? Knowing that something is going to happen and making no plans for it happening seems a bit...casual?
You can set Steam to not update, but ask when you start the game. You can go off-line and delay the download.
You can scan the SCS blogs and announcements on their website for updates due. You can plan your game time to always complete deliveries before closing the game.

SCS do not control the delivery of updates, or patches, that is Steam's responsibility. SCS deliver the update and request the release time and date, but Steam controls the actual implementation of them.
The player position reset is done because the new version does not know where your truck is on the map, it may be somewhere that does not exist any more and you'd be falling into infinity if your truck spawned into a black hole, or trapped in a new building or bridge.

ETS2 and ATS have been like this for many, many years and there is very little chance it is going to change any time soon.

[garrett.thief.69]

Change the Steam settings to not auto update - problem solved.

[LazzySeal]

Originally posted by garrett.thief.69:

Change the Steam settings to not auto update - problem solved.

So did you try it yourself?

I did, when update comes out in steam library there is no button "play" anymore. There is only button "update".

So ok at the last update I thought I will just launch from /bin folder executable itself. But when you launch it it doesn't work and probably crashes and at the same time launch of that game executable triggers steam because it is monitoring it to show status if it launched or not so when it doesn't launch it automatically pushing update into queue and starting it right away.

[garrett.thief.69]

Originally posted by LazzySeal:

So did you try it yourself?

I did, when update comes out in steam library there is no button "play" anymore. There is only button "update".

If that happens, run Steam in offline mode and you can play as normal. When you want to update, put Steam back online.

[LazzySeal]

Originally posted by mojo_musica:

You all know that (potentially) some updates can and will reset your position in the game, yet you do nothing about it. Why? Knowing that something is going to happen and making no plans for it happening seems a bit...casual?
You can set Steam to not update, but ask when you start the game. You can go off-line and delay the download.
You can scan the SCS blogs and announcements on their website for updates due. You can plan your game time to always complete deliveries before closing the game.

SCS do not control the delivery of updates, or patches, that is Steam's responsibility. SCS deliver the update and request the release time and date, but Steam controls the actual implementation of them.
The player position reset is done because the new version does not know where your truck is on the map, it may be somewhere that does not exist any more and you'd be falling into infinity if your truck spawned into a black hole, or trapped in a new building or bridge.

ETS2 and ATS have been like this for many, many years and there is very little chance it is going to change any time soon.

Check Fyrnir comment above.

"SCS do not control the delivery of updates, or patches, that is Steam's responsibility." - I don't think it is true statement. I have some experience with pushing updates in steam and even saw some of them pushed by a press of a button from developer employee. Yes Steam needs to approve and Steam demands release date beforehand. But all of this doesn't stop it from planning release in the same day instead of spreading them through several days in a row.

I don't argue the need of position reset at all. I perfectly understand reasons.

What I'm saying is that if you have plan to release 5 DLCs, maybe review possibility of releasing them all in the same evening instead of spreading it through a week. It may be possible or not, but all you wrote is irrelevant to that proposition and doesn't review it at all.

[YoRHa]

I fully support OP on this one

[Minie1000k]

yo tb estoy de acuerdo con el op. esta semana estoy jugando poco por eso. a mi me gusta hacer viajes largos, y no me da tiempo en una sesion

[󠀡󠀡]

It's possible to go back to the previous version/save and finish your job, then update. So if you see an update in steam and you have a job on, go back to previous version and do not open the game til you did.

[YoRHa]

Originally posted by 󠀡󠀡:

It's possible to go back to the previous version/save and finish your job, then update. So if you see an update in steam and you have a job on, go back to previous version and do not open the game til you did.

You mean through beta participation or what?