Update Speculation thread

I wish this forum had the Comic Sans MS font

 

Wait, font change is real or you guys messing with us? 0_o

I have been messed with...

 

I will say, I don't think thats happening at all lol. Would be controversial and could be traumatic (unless you Turbo Dismount it I guess, but it would not fit the tone of the game imo). Thats also probably why we're never getting bikes imo. They need a player character to even work correctly.

 

no, that's usually if your wifi is slow or something (in my experience)
if they really were updating the forums, you would see a big "This site is under maintenance" or something

 

You guys only now telling me I coulda been typing in Verdana this whole time???

 

Yeah, I agree. Even though this would be the first year that I could reasonably expect the devs to miss the December period, I doubt they would want to. Of the top 15 most popular updates, six of them (0.34, 0.21, 0.11, 0.31, 0.27, and 0.38) are winter updates. The latter three are all in the top-five. And the only winter update to not increase the peak playercount was 0.15. Winter updates also tend to raise the average by a significant margin - and for much longer than updates in other periods. 0.38 maintained monthly peaks above 0.37's peak (32,320) for five months - and maintained at least 1,000 more average players every month.

Meanwhile, 0.39's daily peaks have gone back down to 30K or below just 15 days after its 47K peak. And it now has an average player count that's barely any higher than 0.38 in December (21,194 vs. 20,838). (January 2026 had an even higher average player count, at 21,524 players.) So, yeah, I do think we'll get a December update, simply because it's their most profitable update period by far.

Right, all of that makes sense. I made a post in the Covet thread about why the MR Turbo Covet was likely chosen over a 5-door or a sedan or any number of other versions. TL;DR: It's a significantly different vehicle to drive without needing to have the cabin altered. That's probably also why the devs have gotten big into trucks in the past four years. They can have huge numbers of frames with few new cabins, and there's a lot more gameplay potential with these trucks than there is in another '80s FWD sedan or '90s FR sports coupe.

Yeah, it was most likely to tie in with the eclipse (and since the devs' office is in Germany, the ETK map was used to represent it). I'm not sure if the ETK map will actually get an expansion (as cool as that would be - I would know). The devs have only properly expanded a map once (Gridmap, from 1x1 to 2x2) - the other "expansions" were either filling in space (Derby, Hirochi, ECA, Italy) or building on top of empty land (WCA, new Industrial (the old Port used to have a huge amount of empty space behind it)). The ETK map has some empty land in it, but that's mostly mountains.

It would make sense to me for the devs to make the ETK map larger, to tie in with the Euro semi. And it easily could be larger - there's already the mountains that can be built around, and two main roads to make longer. And recently, the devs have been doing updates to maps other than WCA recently (see: HR's dragstrip in 0.35, Italy's quarry in 0.38), so there is precedent for it. But I could easily see the devs thinking that they don't need to bother with ETK when Italy exists (and a new map is in development).

I think the biggest issue is that we know barely anything about what the map devs do outside of WCA. Whereas new vehicles and remasters are released almost every update, we haven't had a map remaster in more than three years. Most of the current maps get little more than foliage changes or new bus stops every once in a while.

 

Its weird they'd post something like that and its not any sort of teaser, they've never done that and I don't understand the point, besides it referring to the recent eclipse

 

They are flexing with how complex the new sky model is, that's it

 

marketing is everything

 

I would like a 4 doors with a bed and a gooseneck attach, to have a competitor of the Gavril D-series

 

They've done some random posts before, like the wallpapers. I think they were just doing a fun little marketing thing. Which is a good way to show off the last update and keep people talking

 

How to use MD series with gooseneck when goosneck trailer is too low?

 

use the node grabber and pull the gooseneck onto the hitch

 

You can adjust trailer hitch height in the trailer tuning menu

 

Teaser

 

2 minutes ago is crazy work

 

I guess the PS5 release is coming more sooner than we expect (that's just assuming, I'm probably wrong)...

 

Or you can ajust the trailer's height with the buttons on the front side of the trailer. With two buttons on the right of the panel control, you can ajust the height with the buttons Up and Down ; Down will extend the height of the trailer.
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I think it will come on PS5 the same date of the 0.40. It's a little strange to have a teaser on sunday.

 

What does this teaser mean? That the ps5 version is working? Or that its close to relase, which I highly doubt.

 

I’m still confused on why it’s a teaser, yet it doesn’t really tease anything. It just shows a picture taken on the PS5 version.