Update Speculation thread

French brand perhaps because liaison

 

might as well be canadian

 

I hope it is

 

Im happy and I also discovered SALT isnt flamable and its very stable and you dont need that much "PPE". Salt mines are interesting. They can literally break things apart and lower them by via crane elevator and then reassemble them in the salt mine literally. Im impressed. Salt is a natural fire suppressant. And. Due to its properties its actually ok to breath air down there. Especially compared to coal mines. This ENTIRE update has helped me become more educated about heavy equipment and salt mines and safety.
I might be a tad off topic and correct me if im wrong but the ppe is about the same as a hospital right? Its definitely FAR less than nuclear plants for SURE.

 

But its a marble mine…..

 

I like salt :3

 

Good point

 

Its probably Marble but i wonder if it could be salt

 

Its too square

 

A mine with underground lit caves would be pretty cool

How so?

 

A dev confirmed on Discord that its marble.

 

I love the underground features in Utah/WCUSA, but an underground mine would require a completely different set of equipment than the stuff we're getting. Still, I'd take it though

 

Holy effin' cannoli! That guy sure knows how to handle the fork!

Imagine we get a marble block as a prop! The heaviest the steel coil can get is about 60 tons! This thing could straight up make the steel coil quake with fear!

 

We are getting one!

 

it could be italy but there is some marble quarries out on the east coast of the usa
that would somewhat make sense for the new mine

 

They are known to be deadly as well, but that is also caused by the narrow roads with steep drops.

I wonder how well a T-Series copes with that. Maybe we get a marble upfit?
But I guess that is rather unlikely with their main feature being a winch.

 

My brother, did you not see the pair of giant marble blocks?

 

Once again, I'm a bit late, but I'll still speculate. The newest teaser just confirmed that yes, it is a dump truck as well as some other things to talk about. There's now a marble prop coming to 0.38 as well as apparently a new quarry. Some people have said it's either on Italy or it's a new map. In my opinion, I think it'll be an Italy expansion since Italy really didn't get major enhancements or barely any new things in 2019. Also, the Ibishu Miramar seems to have a new safety car config, which I can guess it could be a Miramar refresh Phase 2 or just a random new config.

 

I don't think we'd get a whole new map just for a quarry. I can't personally make anything out, but someone's said the foliage looks like that of Italy, so I'll go with that. Honestly, I'm happy that it's not just West Coast getting expanded for once. One thing to note is that the Miramar does not have official EUDM configs, but that may be an irrelevant detail.

 

Leaving aside the potential loader for a moment (I refuse to get really excited about that until we see some form of in-game image of said loader itself and not just its implied presence like in the bus-carrying video), let's talk about the colour of the truck.

It's hard to tell in the video given the lighting, but the truck appears to be orange, or a very orangey yellow. The box shape itself suggests something produced between circa 1968 (though it would have been very advanced for the time) and the present day (though haul truck boxes are trending towards smoother styles without external ridges, which would make it somewhat of a dated product).

Now, I do find myself wondering if the heavy equipment is going to be colourable. Most heavy equipment manufacturers treat their paint colour as an essential part of their branding - and given the expense involved in repainting something that big with the special, extra-thick heavy-duty equipment paint, it's rare or uncommon for a machine to be special-ordered in another colour, or custom-repainted later. At best there might be an option for some smaller equipment to be painted white to match municipal truck fleets, or a modern rental or construction company painting everything in their business colours as a marketing exercise, but there aren't a lot of them out there.

So typically, equipment colour can tell you a lot about where and who it comes from.

Yellow is of course the traditional colour, pioneered in the 1930s by Caterpillar (fun fact: before 'safety yellow' was introduced, most Caterpillar products were painted black or gray), and it would spread out in different shades to Case, John Deere, and a group of smaller, now-defunct manufacturers. Of the lot, only Caterpillar and WABCO has ever made haul trucks of this nature and approximate era - and both were primarily painted yellow, though there were/are at least a handful of WABCO trucks in a similar size to the BeamNG truck painted in white. Today, the last American rigid haul truck standing in this space (with articulated dump trucks creeping up on the market for smaller haul trucks) might be the Caterpillar 773.

Yellow is also common for European firms - with Volvo being the obvious answer, even if they only began production of rigid haul trucks in 2018 (they're the historical leader in the A.D.T. space, so if we do ever get a swedish heavy equipment maker in BeamNG, that's what I want out of them). German firm Liebherr is an odd one, swinging between their distinctive brand-specific yellow-with-white-cab look (and it's worth noting that the only equipment we've got in the game right now - the static excavator prop - uses that look) and plain white. The Liebherr T 264 is about the size and shape we're looking at in the video.

Bright green was more common for American companies that were attached to truck-making or auto-manufacturing companies, with Terex and Euclid were both tied into GM, and both painted their trucks green. (Both would change over time though, with Terex eventually painting in a white/gray scheme and Euclid defaulting to yellow). The Terex 3311 would be right in the ballpark for the size of truck we're looking at here. Mack was a bit of an outlier when they were making haul trucks between the '50s and (I think) the early '80s - painting to fit the customer. Survivors appear in orange and red most frequently.

Japan follows no set rules. Hitachi paints their haul trucks almost exclusively orange with gray details (good grief - can you imagine if the BeamNG haul truck turns out to be Hirochi-branded? We'd have the Sunburst, the SBR4, the Musicficta, and this thing.). Kobelco, which started out painting equipment a unique teal, now paints its equipment yellow. Komatsu has apparently always been yellow, but seems to have painted at least one haul truck white.