WIP Beta released American Road 1.94

the author got hacked and uploaded a virus in this mod.

 

thank god I didn't download American Road while it had malware in it, I am playing on 0.30 because my computer has only 8GB of RAM, which is not enough for 0.31+ or 0.32+

 

Thanks for posting this. Interesting read.

 

i downloaded the mod sometime after the game update because i did not want to crash my computer since i had so many mods.

 

Not sure if the map is still gonna get updated, but currently on a clean install of the game, the map doesnt render trees properly and they pop out extremely close to the camera. Only found this out because the map looked fine for me but not my friend while we were playing on a beammp server i hosted, despite having identical map files across both our mods folders and the servers. No idea what in my user folder makes the map look normal but when i made a clean user folder and installed the map it looks like this, exactly like my friends did.

 

I'm also having an issue with trees not rendering at a distance.

 

I see many people complaining about this mod that haven't been updated since a while. There's American Road Refresh that's available since near a year, why don't you download this one?

 

Didn't know this existed but I'll check it out now!

 

So is this map safe to download now?

 

Yes it was infected for about a day when it happened, it's completely safe since a year now
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And think about it, if everyone talked about a malware in the map, why would the devs keep the malware available on the repo?

 

This may be a better option anyways, but I'm not sure.
https://www.beamng.com/threads/american-road-refresh.100868/

 

Just curious: does this mod have Malware? because I keep seeing people report that it does, and some say there isn't any malware. So I'm kinda getting mixed signals. I am new to Beamng, so if I'm missing something, let me know

 

As long as there's no exe file in the zip

 

The mod wouldn't be on the repo if the malware is still in it

 

Haha. It’s a bit more complicated than that. The exploit used a vulnerability of the old chromium engine used in BeamNG. No exe needed to do harm. This was fixed by the BeamNG team two versions ago. The repo mod is cleaned as well.

 

Was that the same reason of laggy UI, as it was based on a browser?

 

The UI is still based on web technology if I didn’t miss anything. (Vue and angular) They just improved it I guess.

 

Thank you so much, I really appreciate that.
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Thank you. So I'm assuming whatever is in the repository is safe and has been checked by moderation in Beamng?

 

Vue is based on Lua I think, it's lighter than the old one that uses HTML.
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Yes I think, the more your CPU was utilized, the more it was lagging. I still have this issue with my current one, sometimes I need to pause the game to show the menu or else.
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Yes