Update Speculation thread

So, yesterday, we got a new record for peak overall concurrent playercount - 32,184 players, which is 1,535 more peak players than we had after 0.35. That's almost as big of an increase in overall peak players as 0.25 (Scintilla, 1,560) and 0.11 (WCA, 1,585), and puts it in 9th overall for raw playercount increase. It's also more than the following updates:

-0.35 (Sunburst remaster, 756)
-0.34 (Nine, 852)
-0.32 (BX remaster/T-Series Part 2, 1,052)
-0.29 (Lansdale/Gambler, 303)
-0.26 (Covet remaster, 262)
-0.24/0.24.1 (H-Series/'96 Pessima/Bolide remasters and Bastion and ETK DEC remaster, 679)
-0.22 (LeGran remaster and Wendover, 824)
-0.21 (D-Series remaster part 2, 1,305)
-0.18/0.18.3 (D/H/Roamer remasters part 1 and Hopper crawler, 613)
-0.17/0.17.1 (GM remaster, Bluebuck, traffic, 784)

0.15 (Italy/Piccolina) had only a little over half the player increase over the previous month (898), and was 300 players short of 0.11's performance. Considering how little new vehicle and map content there is in 0.37, it's astounding how well it's done. I wasn't aware that the BeamNG playerbase was this attracted to balls, but it would make sense. (It likely also helps that 0.37 revamped core gameplay mechanics, like the UI.)

I'm not sure how much this matters overall, but considering how much the vehicle direction shifted post-0.19 (FCV, 2,130, 6th biggest peak increase), I wouldn't be surprised if we got more attention to props in the coming updates. I sure hope that's the case - it would be nice to get more props and remasters for older props, like the large crusher.

 

This might be the realest thing anyone's ever said about this game's player base

 

Has anyone solved this already? cant seem to find any reference of it here since the updates release

 

We also got some of the vehicular torture devices remastered, and, well...the new limo sure is grand in one dimension, if you know what I mean. Obviously, Bea (from the Sunburst Itasha skin) needs to become a prop for 0.38 to break 0.27's peak overall player increase record (4,618 players).

It's an old teaser - the letters spell "Pigeon solos all", which...ended up not meaning anything, but I wouldn't mind a hillclimb Pigeon or Wigeon. It would be quite funny.

 

What is it?

 

Put it in the “.38 wishlist” thread as well but:
Cops set up spike strips with roadblocks during police pursuits.

Those cops are definitely popping their own tires though with their current…level of intelligence

 

Well, that aged quickly.
Beamng was truly: We gotta pump these numbers up

 

It'd be much less of a waste of tax dollars than putting an entire Grand Marshal in front of a road and hoping the fleeing car is blind.

 

To be fair, Sundays usually are peak play time, so it does make sense that the record was broken again. And now 0.37's jumped to 7th.

I don't think we'll get a second weekend of record-breaking - usually, the peaks go back down to ~25K. The last major shift in average peaks was from 0.33, when the average peaks went from ~20K to the current level. Honestly, the MD-Series was a colossal success for the devs - it's mostly a parts-bin vehicle, but it's made them so much money (and probably continues to make them money, since it now has a school bus). I'm surprised that the MD-Series doesn't get more attention.

 

Yeah I remember trying to block a fleeing vehicle. I saw the Sunburst and said to myself "surely he's not gonna ram into me at full speed". And then he rammed into me at full speed.

 

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Just found a little leak I guess.

In the Simplified Traffic model for the Pessima there's a taxi ad carrier, and the Pessima doesn't currently have a taxi config. This means we may get more traffic configs in the future!

 

Pessima remaster confirmed

 

The pessima already has a taxi config in the game, just not on the simplified traffic

 

I think it means we will finally have the last few vehicles and configs not in the game yet. (MD series, hopper, and SBR4, all other vehicles are too old for the traffic or to unique.

 

I was thinking that we may get a remaster of an exsiting map or a rather big adition to an exsting map in the next updates. My reason is that we didnt get new map content in the last two updates and because of that the "Map team" (if there even is one) could focus on bigger projects.

 

We NEED new map stuff aside from the WCUSA stuff

 

As much as I agree, I do know that West Coast is getting all the attention because of career mode.

 

Yeah, and I do like seeing it get attention. But work to one of the other maps or a whole new map is very much needed.