Heartland journeys
Posted: 23 Oct 2017 21:41
Hello there…
I often find myself drifting into the “Share the love” section of this site when hungrily surfing for info on new developments so thought I would also share, especially as I often take screenshots while "travelling" in ETS2. Don’t know why, a habit from previous times with Microsoft Flight Simulator and related forums, maybe.
It seems somewhat likely that nobody is going to care, but this is an introductory post so just some brief waffle: I’ve been playing ETS2 since 2013 and using Promods since 2015. I find even just driving around in the base game pretty enjoyable to be honest (though without mods and the DLCs I'd have probably forgotten it ages ago), and the quality decent especially considering the small team and time/budget constraints that SCS had. However, it isn't really a 2012 game visually... more like 2008 - ish, perhaps, which is probably when SCS started work on German Truck Simulator. Promods take it to a new level but thank you to all developers, you are amazing!!!!!!
Berlin, late September.
One often sees images and videos of spectacular all-new areas like Iceland, but I know a lot has been done by Promods in Germany and other parts of the base map… And indeed, if you look back to the beginning of the SCS blog one can see just how excited people were for the original game, that "vanilla game" that people now pore scorn on ...so thought it might be nice to do something different and "share the love" by giving a bit of attention to those parts of the ETS2 world that one doesn't see so often in screenshots. Also, "building the company" isn't much of a motivating factor any more, and this provides me some motivation to keep playing. And trying to make the best of some of the blander areas is a nice challenge. And of course the new areas will look even better after driving through the old ones. For all these reasons and more I decided to make this screenshot tour of the original base map, though with Promods installed, of course.
SCS did a great job of capturing the utter dullness of driving on the autobahn in Germany (my real-life experience in the south, at least) but ETS2 is supposed to be a game played for fun and so like many people I’ve always avoided Germany if possible in the past. And that's why I'm starting the tour here... to see if it's as bad as I remember, and how much a few great mods can improve it.
So, here we are, leaving spectacular Berlin and the pounding techno at my garage for Flensburg with a cargo of Lamb’s Stomachs or something, sporting a bizarre yellow mechanical tick on the backside.
Once out of the city we hit our first, inevitable German Au-to-bahn and head north. On this tour the focus is going to be the scenery, not the trucks, so I'm going to stick to default paint schemes and the few scs skins I own. Mods used: Just Promods 2.2 (of course) and Grimes’ early autumn mod + Jazzycat’s stuff.
Lubeck is a small scenery fixture rather than a proper ETS2 town but still really nice with all those enclosed beach chairs. Guess the German Baltic seaside can get rather chilly and windy. I hope to discover and "photograph" plenty more places like this in Germany and the rest of the base map regions.
Picturesque…between Lubeck and Kiel, I think.
Another view of the same spot. I'm sure people know it well. With each post we're going to move slowly through the year, finishing off in May/June, probably. I heard that Promods have put a lot of effort into vegetation in different regions, but it only works with SCS's eternal summer. It's unfortunate that by using Grimes' mods the custom veg will be obliterated, but I really like driving in the current season. There should be plenty of time to drive in summer too...
Nearing Flensburg and the Danish border… .
Hope people enjoy viewing the screenshots in this thread... and that I can get to the end of this project without losing interest. Fingers crossed!
Thanks for looking!
Krigl
I often find myself drifting into the “Share the love” section of this site when hungrily surfing for info on new developments so thought I would also share, especially as I often take screenshots while "travelling" in ETS2. Don’t know why, a habit from previous times with Microsoft Flight Simulator and related forums, maybe.
It seems somewhat likely that nobody is going to care, but this is an introductory post so just some brief waffle: I’ve been playing ETS2 since 2013 and using Promods since 2015. I find even just driving around in the base game pretty enjoyable to be honest (though without mods and the DLCs I'd have probably forgotten it ages ago), and the quality decent especially considering the small team and time/budget constraints that SCS had. However, it isn't really a 2012 game visually... more like 2008 - ish, perhaps, which is probably when SCS started work on German Truck Simulator. Promods take it to a new level but thank you to all developers, you are amazing!!!!!!
Berlin, late September.
One often sees images and videos of spectacular all-new areas like Iceland, but I know a lot has been done by Promods in Germany and other parts of the base map… And indeed, if you look back to the beginning of the SCS blog one can see just how excited people were for the original game, that "vanilla game" that people now pore scorn on ...so thought it might be nice to do something different and "share the love" by giving a bit of attention to those parts of the ETS2 world that one doesn't see so often in screenshots. Also, "building the company" isn't much of a motivating factor any more, and this provides me some motivation to keep playing. And trying to make the best of some of the blander areas is a nice challenge. And of course the new areas will look even better after driving through the old ones. For all these reasons and more I decided to make this screenshot tour of the original base map, though with Promods installed, of course.
SCS did a great job of capturing the utter dullness of driving on the autobahn in Germany (my real-life experience in the south, at least) but ETS2 is supposed to be a game played for fun and so like many people I’ve always avoided Germany if possible in the past. And that's why I'm starting the tour here... to see if it's as bad as I remember, and how much a few great mods can improve it.
So, here we are, leaving spectacular Berlin and the pounding techno at my garage for Flensburg with a cargo of Lamb’s Stomachs or something, sporting a bizarre yellow mechanical tick on the backside.
Once out of the city we hit our first, inevitable German Au-to-bahn and head north. On this tour the focus is going to be the scenery, not the trucks, so I'm going to stick to default paint schemes and the few scs skins I own. Mods used: Just Promods 2.2 (of course) and Grimes’ early autumn mod + Jazzycat’s stuff.
Lubeck is a small scenery fixture rather than a proper ETS2 town but still really nice with all those enclosed beach chairs. Guess the German Baltic seaside can get rather chilly and windy. I hope to discover and "photograph" plenty more places like this in Germany and the rest of the base map regions.
Picturesque…between Lubeck and Kiel, I think.
Another view of the same spot. I'm sure people know it well. With each post we're going to move slowly through the year, finishing off in May/June, probably. I heard that Promods have put a lot of effort into vegetation in different regions, but it only works with SCS's eternal summer. It's unfortunate that by using Grimes' mods the custom veg will be obliterated, but I really like driving in the current season. There should be plenty of time to drive in summer too...
Nearing Flensburg and the Danish border… .
Hope people enjoy viewing the screenshots in this thread... and that I can get to the end of this project without losing interest. Fingers crossed!
Thanks for looking!
Krigl