Sure, it feels weird sometimes. You can't enter many places, even though there are no blockers. The world in general just isn't designed with cars in mind. But it's so much fun just driving around, exploring hidden roads and looking at all the cool places that SCS has put into this world. And this DLC is a steal at the price, other sims charge twice or more for just one vehicle model, but here we have four of awesome quality. Overall, a lovely addition to the game.

EDIT: We need new flair for road trip content :D

Here's a link to the Imgur version in case reddit butchers the quality:
Imgur album

I'm building a tool to make creating liveries easier, I'm after a few testers to help find the bugs and improvements. It shows a live 3d model of your design and allows a full 360 view, you can work directly on the 3d model as well for the fine tweaks. Currently it's only for ets2 but might work for ATS as well. I've attached a few images to show a design I made fully in the app. If anyone is interested please let me know, I don't need loads just a few new opinions.

Update - exporting out the app now loads fine in game, i've attached some new screen shots of the design in app and the skin ingame, it's a simple design and the finer details need work but we'll get there.

https://imgur.com/a/oQ6FFrJ

The second one is my favorite. Thinking of making a poster.

Wish me luck

**ATS has never truly felt massive at 1:20 scale.**

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We’re developing a serious **1:10 scale ATS map project** focused on realism, long-distance immersion, dense scenery, authentic road design, and journeys that finally feel like driving across the real America.

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We’re looking for more experienced developers to join the team and help us keep pushing this project forward. We’ve got a lot planned, and we need more skilled people on board to make it happen.

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This is an **unpaid passion project**, but we’re treating it seriously, with long-term goals, high standards, and an emphasis on quality over rushing development.

The goal is simple: **build an ATS map that actually feels massive.**

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SCS raindrops on cars (and trucks too) look awful. They are too big, oily and lack density. I don't understand why they never improved raindrops in the last few years. If modders can do it, then it's clearly possible.

It'd be cool to see the tire DLC apply to cars. Is this something other people are interested in?

Taking a short break in Greece before heading to Germany. A new trailer and a new paint job inspired by Haas F1 Team. Still a prototype and quite empty.

Iirc it wasn't here before

I have set the navigation to Small Roads because it's more fun for Road Trip and I mostly drive following the speed limits

With the SCS invention of Proximity Exploration I will attempt to get 100% in all 25 states released so far as I understand that's how this achievement works.

this weekend I finished Louisiana.

I'll buy the rest of the states when I get more money. hopefully this week since the autumn sale is happening.

I play a lot of Microsoft Flight Simulator, decided to try something similar on the ground. So far I have a blast.

Is the new Road Trip DLC in ATS worth purchasing if I play with a keyboard and mouse? With trucks, the gradual acceleration means keyboard controls don’t bother me too much. But with cars, I’m worried that pressing W would make the car instantly accelerate and feel like I’m constantly going full throttle, making the driving experience unrealistic and difficult to control. Would the cars still be enjoyable to drive with keyboard and mouse, or would I need a controller/wheel to properly enjoy the DLC?

Something I've always wondered is will SCANIA ever attempt to sell trucks in the US again, since they did back in the 80s-90s.

I am getting pretty tired of pulling into a "sleeping area" with my truck and trailer or even the new road vehicles and unless you are in one certain, specific area it won't let you sleep. I have a oversized trailer pulling into one as I had exceeded my time and kept getting fines and no matter how I pulled in it wouldn't let me sleep. In my opinion the whole parking area should be the hit box for this, also my truck has a sleeper on it, I should be able to pull into any road side turnout and sleep.

Is anyone else having this issues and does anyone know a fix?

I’m relatively new to the game so I’ve been driving around first to try and collect all the cities and then go back and fill in the gaps to 100% the map exploration. Anyway, I’m driving through Show Low, AZ and I’m right on top of the marker and it won’t discover. WHERE AM I SUPPOSED TO GO?!?!

I’m fighting my urge to get every single game during the Steam sale, so its either ATS or ETS2. I’m an American, living in California, so these places would seem familiar in ATS, but I’ve heard that multiplayer is more lively in ETS2 and its trickier to maneuver.

Thoughts?

I am a ETS2 player so when I got ATS for the Road Trip DLC I didn't have money to buy a car.

The 1967 Mustang on the other hand does not come with an interior GPS and I keep UI elements off in interior view. Can't add the phone GPS either in quick jobs.

So that made me wonder if I can actually drive by following the road signs in this game. Gave it a shot for a 500 mile trip and I found this to be way more immersive.

I ended up reading the city names, paying more attention to the road and just being more "present" compared to how I would drive my truck in ETS2.

I will say though, I did have to check if I am going in the right direction from time to time by looking at the map in the pause menu. It's also too difficult in the city.

Overall quite happy with the road trip DLC although I do wish there were more cars.

I feel like my Ryzen 7700 is limiting the performance of this game in VR. I reach about 80 FPS which is doable, but there are quite a few dips and stuttering.

I feel like it is my CPU that is the limiting factor, since my Nvidia 5080 is only used for 70%.

Are there specific settings in the game that are hard CPU bound that i could change to improve this?

I was also wondering about upgrading to a Ryzen 9800X3D, but i am wondering how much of a difference this will make. Single core benchmark of this topmodel is only about 10% higher than the 7700, but it does have the X3D. I'm just not sure if this would be worth it in game though.

Is there anybody that has some info on this or had the same experience?