American Truck Simulator 1.33 Download
Ozie Melzer
Long Combination Vehicles challenge the driver's skills by driving them on roads, maneuvering them and parking them on the hardest difficulty. These types of trailers were announced on May 5, 2017[1], and were added in update 1.28.[2][3] In update 1.33, Turnpike trailers were added to the game and were available only in Nevada[4][5] prior to the release of the Utah and Idaho DLCs.
The table below shows all the accessible states in American Truck Simulator, where LCV is allowed or not, and what trailers can be taken in. If you fail to obey the restriction, you will get an Illegal Trailer ticket at a weigh station.
There are exceptions to the restrictions above, such as a road briefly passing through a restricted state where you won't get ticketed, or a road running through a National Park where all commercial trucking is prohibited.
After an open beta, Update 1.33 for American Truck Simulator has been released to all players. While loaded with tweaks, including the addition of detours along routes, the latest patch's most exciting add is something players have requested for a long time: the ability to shuffle music. Finally, your own personal radio station is possible. And no, you don't need to include "Convoy" on the playlist.
In previous versions of American Truck Simulator it was possible to pump your own jams into the truck cab by "tuning" the music player to a music folder of your choice. There's just one problem: the music player will simply play the files in order. Point it to your music library and you'll have to survive all of Abba before ever getting to the ultimate driving music: Bjrk (just kidding, everyone knows the correct answer is doom metal). Anyway, that sucked, so players started sharing kludgy workarounds, like randomly renaming every file in the music directory before booting up American Truck Simulator.
Those turnpike double trailers are tricky, allowing for up to 100 feet of cargo. Beyond the new Oregon route and a lot of quality-of-play tweaks, the most substantial changes are Detours and the ability to create custom configuration templates, which you'll have waiting for you at the Truck Dealer.
With Detours, a new feature similar to random events, players will be forced to improvise when, from time to time, they find the road blocked ahead of them, forcing you to remap your route on the fly. "The goal of this feature is to introduce a bit of uncertainty into planning of your routes," SCS Software said in the Open Beta description. "The world in our games tends to be very predictable, while in reality the truck driver cannot take everything for granted."
While American Truck Simulator was originally released in 2016 with California and Nevada routes (rendered at 1:20 scale), the game has been expanding ever since. After free Arizona DLC, additional DLC have added New Mexico and Oregon.
For some American or Euro Truck Simulatorettes, as I've decided we pretend long-distance haulage fans should call ourselves, news of a new type of vehicle or trailer is reason to celebrate. For me, the most excited I've ever been about American Truck Sim patch notes is the declaration that they've just made rain better.
ATS has long owned my heart, but I'm ashamed to say I've only just been able to visit its latest state DLC, Oregon, due to the small but extremely loud new lifeform that steals 99% of my attention. Today's patch 1.33 - which applies to any edition of ATS, i.e. some, none or all the DLC to date - was the excuse I needed to fire it up in work time.
I'm happy to say, my dream of forests has been realised. I'm chomping at the bit for ATS to reach Washington state, in order that I can play out assorted Twin Peaks roadtrip fantasies, but in the meantime neighbouring Oregon would seem to share some topography with it. Long, quiet roads, lined by trees or the sinister silhouettes of enormous electricity pylons- not the vintage, cheesier Twin Peaks tropes, no, but more than a touch of Lynch, including the eerier outerlands of The Return. I swear I saw sights I recognised from that immortal final episode and its 430 mile journey. With the right soundtrack, ah yes, I can recreate the distinction sensation of one's soul being flayed by a freeway.
A tiny thing, inconsequential, almost. But I noticed it right away. In that I noticed raindrops on my windscreen, whereas previously I was only really conscious of rain as something external to my truck. Sure, it landed on the windscreen, but it was a bit 'overlay obvious special effect here' whereas now it's more convincingly water-y.
These raindrops drive right into the heart of why ATS, this outwardly tedious thing for fans of engines and commerce (I have no interest in either), weaves a spell on me, and many others like me. Atmosphere. A sense of being somewhere else - and the more that place feels tangible, the more enraptured I am. Raindrops on windscreens? Beautiful, sad, meaningless, magical.
For those immune to the patter of tiny lens distortion effects, patch 1.33's a pretty chunky one in other respects. Headline feature is detours, in which you might now been directed down a different route if one of ATS's random accidents clogs up too many lanes on the road you're on. It's a lovely and true-to-life idea, though I can't help but feel that ATS needs many more roads than it currently has (the scale of the game's world is impressive, but its density perhaps less so) for this to really sing. Once all the states are there and connected, though...
We also get very welcome quality of life additions, including being able to save templates for your customised trucks and trailers, rather than go through the whole parts'n'paint-choosing rigmarole every time you want to buy another one, and - hurrah! - Steam Cloud support. Excellent news for those of us who play on more than one PC.
The Oregon DLC specifically has had the rather scenic OR-140 road added, which helps to fill in some of the gaps. I hope there'll be more little additions like that over time - I'm already extremely worried that the Washington state DLC, whenever it happens, won't let me drive through Snoqualmie and see those famous falls..
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