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Euro and Ground Truck Simulators' stunning lighting update is Here

(Image credit: SCS Software)

Update 1.40 has arrived for both Euro Truck Simulator 2 and American Motortruck Simulator, bringing a total lighting overhaul to the two continental truckers.

Announced last week, the update completely reworks the way headlights and sunbeams illuminate your traveling trips. To facilitate this, the developer has besides past to great lengths to reconstruct the game's textures and models.

Naturally, PC Gamer's resident trucker Andy Kelly has at peace tooshie the wheel to provide some lovely snaps of American Truck Sim's highways.

Raining in the USA — (Project mention: SCS Software, Andy Kelly)

Evenings and night-time deliveries now get properly dark. I'm particularly fond of how the sunset dapples against the bonnet of the taxicab here.

Trucking at sunset. — (Image credit entry: SCS Software system)

The new lighting works best in severe weather conditions, adding a flush of drama that's always been kinda absent from the truck 'em ups. But flush the most boring, cloud-covered day in Euro Truck Simulator 2's (now rather dated-looking) Scots carriageways is given a tear down of depth that was previously missing.

Chop-chop hopping in for a trip to Aberdeen nearly made Pine Tree State ill at my Personal computer, so information technology moldiness be doing something decently.

Trucking up to Aberdeen — (Image credit: SCS Software)

Darn 1.40 went live for both American Truck Simulator and Euro Truck Simulator 2 yesterday. The last mentioned comes with more than just lighting, too, bringing with information technology a reworked High German landscape and new French locations near the Iberian peninsula. Some games are currently 75 percent off connected Steamer—not too worn for one of the topper open-world games on PC.

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