Australia Truck Simulator

[Billy]

I know the focus is on American Truck Simulator! but have you thought about making an Australia truck simulator? I watched some videos of truck drivers there, I believe you could make a good map with a more challenging scale, in a short time! I speak because it would be easier for the experience that you have! nowadays, think about the trucks you practically already have, if you have a problem with the license you could launch them with fake brands, you would need to model the Australian Trailers, and some new vehicles! I think it would be great to get out of the sameness! of course you would have to do a longer layover, and some challenges like flooding, and trailer unhitching system, for chopped deliveries!

Sorry Any bad English! I'm From Brazil. but I think would be Amazing Australia Truck Simulator By SCS!

[AyMazingATS]

Wrong place to discuss this.

[hackintoshchap]

Austrailia is one of several areas where players have asked SCS about making another game. At present they are busy with existing titles and aim to continue updating both ATS and ETS 2. Console versions of the game may be an upcoming option in expansion of existing titles.

A further region is not on the developers radar at least for the time being.

[ttower]

On top of the above, SCS will not make fake trucks anymore, after rumored legal trouble brewing with Mercedes. A new game would require new licenses. While not impossible, I agree it is not within the realm of current possibilities.

[Rapture]

There is a mod for ATS, Project Straylia that has about 500KM of rural roads and small towns. Australia is interesting not just because of the location but also because of the mix of US and EU style trucks in use there.

[Underscore_101_3]

Agree about the variety of trucks, but I have my doubts about how well it will sell, yes many people ask for it, but looking at the popularity differences between ATS and ETS2, and Australia being almost the size of the US, but nobody living in 90% of it,....

Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland could be interesting the rest of it is just mostly desert.
Wouldn't want to drive from Darwin to Melbourne, or Perth to Sydney.
An Australian Truck Simulator would have to bring something unique, but at least for me nothing tedious, and therefor can't really think of anything :-)

Tried that Truck Driving School for another Austrailan Sim to be released, didn't like that, but we'll see how well that sells if it ever gets released :-)

edit, btw I find Australia a very beautiful country, just not suited for a truck driving game :-)

[Hiro Protagonist]

As usual whenever these threads pop up, I ask people if they want Outback Truckers Simulator, or Australian Truck Simulator, because the two are actually quite different. The vast majority of Australian commercial trucking is B-doubles up and down the east coast and the major east/west cross-country highways. Bundle the west-coast states of ATS together (CA, OR, WA, NV, AR, ID) scale them up by maybe 20%, and have a mix of Euro cab-overs and US conventionals (and a few local specials like the K200) and you've got AuTS East Coast (and fairly representative of the landscape too), covering 80% of the entire country's population. Hell, the population of Greater Sydney alone is larger than Western Australia, South Australia, Tasmania and the Northern Territory combined.

[Wolfgang]

This pretty much tells why they aren’t doing any fake brands for trucks:
https://forum.scssoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=247467
Important is that Natvander, a SCS dev, commented asking if this should be stickied thus indirectly confirming that this was a real possibility too at SCS.

[Nimir-Raj]

Originally posted by Billy:

I believe you could make a good map with a more challenging scale, in a short time!

Australia is almost the same size as the continental United States. There is absolutely no way they could make it in a short time, it would take longer than the US in ATS if they were to increase the scale!

Originally posted by Wolfgang:

Important is that Natvander, a SCS dev,

Except he wasn't a dev when he wrote that. He didn't become a dev for two more years ;)

[Wolfgang]

Originally posted by Nimir-Raj:

Originally posted by Wolfgang:

Important is that Natvander, a SCS dev,

Except he wasn't a dev when he wrote that. He didn't become a dev for two more years ;)

That I did not know. But just out of interest, does this change anything on the context (i.e. no mock-up trucks due to potential lawsuits)?

[Billy]

Originally posted by Hiro Protagonist:

As usual whenever these threads pop up, I ask people if they want Outback Truckers Simulator, or Australian Truck Simulator, because the two are actually quite different. The vast majority of Australian commercial trucking is B-doubles up and down the east coast and the major east/west cross-country highways. Bundle the west-coast states of ATS together (CA, OR, WA, NV, AR, ID) scale them up by maybe 20%, and have a mix of Euro cab-overs and US conventionals (and a few local specials like the K200) and you've got AuTS East Coast (and fairly representative of the landscape too), covering 80% of the entire country's population. Hell, the population of Greater Sydney alone is larger than Western Australia, South Australia, Tasmania and the Northern Territory combined.

I think it would be cool for long distances without tolls, deserted roads and challenges

[Nimir-Raj]

Originally posted by Wolfgang:

That I did not know. But just out of interest, does this change anything on the context (i.e. no mock-up trucks due to potential lawsuits)?

That's very much accurate. Back when they were trying to officially license the old ETS2 trucks one of the companies thought they were taking the P with the fake name and nearly sued them.

This was actually one of the reasons ATS release was delayed almost a year, because of that near miss they decided they had to get all trucks licensed and not risk doing the mock-ups.

The w900 was intended to be the launch truck, but Paccar insisted the new trucks had to take priority. Now obviously I have no idea how long licensing talks took, but they did have to make newer aero models which would have taken about a year by old standards.

That delay is also what lead to the game releasing with day one DLC in Nevada. It was originally intended to be a free add-on a year after release.

[Wolfgang]

Originally posted by Nimir-Raj:

Originally posted by Wolfgang:

That I did not know. But just out of interest, does this change anything on the context (i.e. no mock-up trucks due to potential lawsuits)?

That's very much accurate. Back when they were trying to officially license the old ETS2 trucks one of the companies thought they were taking the P with the fake name and nearly sued them.

This was actually one of the reasons ATS release was delayed almost a year, because of that near miss they decided they had to get all trucks licensed and not risk doing the mock-ups.

The w900 was intended to be the launch truck, but Paccar insisted the new trucks had to take priority. Now obviously I have no idea how long licensing talks took, but they did have to make newer aero models which would have taken about a year by old standards.

That delay is also what lead to the game releasing with day one DLC in Nevada. It was originally intended to be a free add-on a year after release.

Thank you for confirming. I needed a source as to why SCS isn't doing mock-up trucks for any of the games (at least not the ones you drive) due to potential lawsuits and this was the only source I could find that mentioned that and had a dev comment on it. I will change it on my text file accordingly and if you have nothing against it add your quote to it.

[Hiro Protagonist]

Originally posted by Nimir-Raj:

Originally posted by Billy:

I believe you could make a good map with a more challenging scale, in a short time!

Australia is almost the same size as the continental United States. There is absolutely no way they could make it in a short time, it would take longer than the US in ATS if they were to increase the scale!

Whilst the landmass is roughly the same size, over half the country (WA, SA, NT) has a road density outside of the capital cities even sparser than Wyoming (more akin to Alaska with a couple of interstates)

[xBCxRangers]

I'm still waiting on "Alaskan" Truck Simulator. Wonder what ever happened with that.

[hackintoshchap]

Originally posted by xBCxRangers:

I'm still waiting on "Alaskan" Truck Simulator. Wonder what ever happened with that.

They have yet another new Publisher. I did play the demo and while I am not keen on it for a number of reasons it at least deserves a chance in the truck driving game world. It must have been in development for a good five years by now.