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SCS has announced the release of American Truck Simulator update 1.5 which comes with a new rescaled world.
For the past few months the development team has been working to rescale the world from 1:35 to 1:20. The 1.5 update also brings a longer day and night cycle and economy rebalancing. Watch this video which demonstrated the rescale
The full patch notes and changes are as follows:
American Truck Simulator Rescaled map main features:
- Scale 1:35 → 1:20 – 1,75x larger map/li>
- Hundreds of miles of new longer roads/li>
- A new city – Santa Maria/li>
- Completely reworked city – Oxnard/li>
- Reworked roadsystem topology:/li>
- New Interstate I-580 and I-80 connections /li>
- I-5 near LA topology corrected/li>
- I-5 Redding topology corrected/li>
- New stretch of CA-101/li>
- Correct interstate junctions – no more same level crossing, freeways exiting on itself, etc/li>
- 28 reworked or new junctions – most notably – Reno, San Francisco, San Diego, L.A./li>
- 6 new custom rest areas – truckstops/li>
- More accurate height profiles – new steeper climbs and descends/li>
- Famous recognizable landscape landmarks: Donner pass, Grapevine, Kumeyaay highway, Picachio peak, Humphreys peak, Cajon pass/li>
American Truck Simulator 1.5 patch notes
Main features
- Map rebuilt in 1:20 scale
- Upgrade Shop and Truck Browser Search Tool/li>
- New chassis options (6×2 & 6×2 Midlift)/li>
Game
- Adjustable interior FOV per truck/li>
- Weigh station UI behavior made more real/li>
- Truck repair/refuel performed by hired driver cost money, included in logs/li>
- Added informational dialog showing when game detects upgrade or downgrade/li>
- Added pounds + short tonnes as weight unit option/li>
- Add possibility to buy driver and co-driver plate in truck dealer/li>
- Online job offer: Replaced refresh button with browse jobs/li>
- Better trailer air pressure simulation/li>
- Low air warning should only be active with running engine/li>
- Parking brake mechanical safeguard on low air added/li>
- Revised rolling resistance computations/li>
- Hired driver use same math for eco skill as player/li>
- Added selector modes to shift layout, correct detection of split shifts (advanced mode)/li>
- Adaptive shifting logic improved/li>
- Mod manager: Added link to load game screen in case game crashed and user has at least one mod activated/li>
- Mod manager: Added possibility of setting profile by name and by user profile pointer/li>
- Mod manager: Added dlc dependency list to mod manifest/li>
- Prevent to AI trucks disappearing in players view/li>
- Tweaked traffic spawn frequencies/li>
MOD
- Changed map parameters (climate_profile, map_data)/li>
- Moddable interior camera zoom parameters. (speed, factor)/li>
- 1 degree rotation on Ctrl + R, 90 degree rotation on Home/li>
- Merged editable sign and sign dialog/li>
- Refresh sign template and its model from content browser/li>
- Added letter-spacing to sign editor/li>
- Store content browser navigation history/li>
- Support for day/nigh effect switching and child hookups for lod_model_hookup_u/li>
- Undo of veg sphere manipulation/li>
