0.34 Discussion Thread

updating the headlights is really an amazing thing, but with the ignition off, you can't turn on the alarm and stop lights, although in reality, In fact from this, the headlights may still be on

 

I see the car lights are disabled in replays now. Is it planned to implement this again, when the flickering light bug is fixed (from earlier updates) ?

 

The headlights of traffic cars seem to be illuminating the interior and are visible in the rear view mirror on the H-series with cargo box upfit.

 

Lightbarless vehicles stop traffic cars.

So this is what I have observed, when I have a vehicle with lightbar, I press defined button on my steering wheel and traffic vehicles come to a stop.
Now I replace my vehicle with one that has no lightbar, but still when I press defined button to activate lightbar traffic comes to a halt even there are no lightbar or lightbar effects.



MD60 cargo box variant gains damage automatically.

When I spawn MD60 truck with cargo box config, rear part of vehicle damage app does show some damage, without even crashing to inanimate objects.
This is somewhat undesirable in career mode as value of my prized MD60 cargo box variant gets lower because of this damage, which is not possible to be avoided.

 

DON'T MIGRATE YOUR DATA!!! Clear some space before you do this. if you do ALL SAVE DATA WILL BE DELETED. That happened to me twice and both times I did it anyway I lost all of my save data (configs, stats etc.).

 

Overall good update but I don't l ike the look and some functional changes of the new vehicle config UI.

visual problems (purely opinion based)
-too busy, boxes around buttons add visual clutter
-white fade at left side makes text annoying to read and adds visual clutter
-different things are a bunch of slightly different colors for no apparent reason
-overall doesn't fit with rest of UI (I personally prefer the simplistic look)

functional problems (not bugs)
-game doesn't remember if "more options" and "live updates" have been toggled
-other things can clicked while a dropdown is open, before you were able to close dropdowns by simply clicking anywhere else
-button to clear text field in save/load menu is no longer present

other
-paint slots being different submenus is annyoing

suggestion
-as a temporary fix/to make people like me happy: simply make the game remember if you clicked the "to old UI" button and maybe keep the old UI style as an option going forward (if possible and not too much of a burden)

 

Not sure if its just me, but painting terrain in the latest update is very laggy, the fps itself is good but the tool is very slow.
My map is 8kmx8km so its pretty abysmal, but i've also noticed it's very laggy in WCUSA.

 

Same. I also wish this and hazards worked with the ignition fully off, as they do irl.

 

(Referring to vehicle configs ui)
1: the style
2: the functionality.

I think the older style looks better but that is debatable (The new main menu though is a 10/10), what is barely debatable however is the new UI's search is worse. You used to be able to type in "Race" and get all parts with "race" in the name, now you end up with Cross member brace and 1 or 2 other things if your lucky. It no longer looks for part categories AND part names, now it only looks for part categories, and that is very annoying when you make configs a lot.

 

I've been driving 30 minutes on WCUSA in downtown and another 30 on hottest vanilla map Johnson Valley back and forth in sedan and I didn't managed to overheat the engine (I only managed overheat the breaks on WCUSA). It runs quite hot but it doesn't overheats. Unless you mean excessive driving, hammering the throttle doing burnouts and going sideways in turns, then of course you will overheat almost 100 years old car.

 

I think we need a steering wheel remaster, where it adds PBR materials to all of the steering wheels and adds new ones.

I thought that always happened when you used a config without a lightbar?

 

This can be done in all modern cars, but not always in older ones.

 

i miss being able to search a trim name and be able to switch over to that vehicle trim as all the parts that make it would show up

 

I do agree with other peoples around here that the old UI feels somewhat more comfortable to the eyes :
First of all, i would say the colors are too contrasted, and the font aswell as the arrows are too thick, making for just a bit more cumbersome reading.
As a result, i find it is less obvious which parts is a subpart of which, and if a part has subparts in it. In summary, the relation between parts is harder to distinguish.
(Also there is some personnal preferences as i have been acquainted to this old font since 2018, and i like the professionnal vibe it gives to BeamNG )

 

ANd the paint selector is weird, i liked it when you could see everything at once, without having to click on different tabs

 

Many THANKS to the beam team for the new lightbars and patterns!!!!
i just got to play it right now, its super good! Thank you for adding the rear flashers for the roamer too!
(those are things i often requested in the forums, and im super happy that my requests have been heard! huge thank you again!!!)

 

At first, thank for the good update. I like the new vintage car and sorry for my english.

I also have a problem with the new ui. The old ui is better readable for me. Especially with ui apps in background, it´s difficult to read with the new ui.
The new ui has to much transparency, against the older ui. Through the white stripe on the left side the effect is stronger. I need no stripe and no transparency !
Besides i find the parts better with the old ui, the structure is clearer.

 

idk if anyone's pointed it out but the side marker lights on the Grand Marshal aren't working after 0.34, they just act like turn signals now.

The I-Series doesn't have marker lights either although that'll probably be fixed in a remaster at some point

 

Played earlier today and the game worked like normal (great update!). I launched the game not too long ago, but it crashed. Attempting to play the game now leads to this error (I exclusively play in Vulkan):


I have tried clearing cache, (safe mode leads to the same error), clean install, and verifying game files (both through the launcher and steam), but nothing works.
Playing in the direct11 (or what its called) works but it runs way worse than it did prior to the error appearing (from ~50-60 fps to 1-2fps).