Hero image: Euro Truck Simulator 2, UK Rework (work in progress). Image: SCS Software
Hundreds Of New Buildings For Euro Truck Simulator 2’s Britain
SCS Software has given players a closer look at the buildings being made for the UK Rework in Euro Truck Simulator 2. The post went up on Steam at 3am AEDT on Sunday, by our conversion.
The studio says its teams have created hundreds of new assets, “over 370 of them”, for the project. They cover the towns, villages and cities drivers will pass through once the rework arrives.
The list leans on the everyday. It includes terraced and semi-detached houses, modern housing developments and Tudor-style architecture.
There are also high street shops, restaurants and commercial buildings. The studio adds that “no British town would be complete without its local pub!”
The work starts with research. SCS says its research department works with the map designers to pick the buildings and styles most common in each area.
One senior map designer has also drawn on their own experience of living in England, according to the post, to find the details that make British towns feel familiar.
The studio says the job has not been simple. The UK has a distinctive architectural identity, which makes reusing existing assets “particularly difficult.”
Styles change from one town to the next, too. Its artists have had to make some buildings flexible enough to sit in both the red brick towns of England and the stone ones of Scotland.
The post stresses that the UK Rework is still work in progress. The buildings shown are only part of what the teams have made so far.
Euro Truck Simulator 2 was the 13th most-played game on Steam’s chart on Sunday afternoon, up from 33rd the week before.
No release date has been given. SCS says the rework “will arrive as a free update for all owners of Euro Truck Simulator 2 in the future.”
Source: SCS Software (Steam) – Project UK Rework: New Assets to Build the World With, SCS Software – Project UK Rework