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Guides and news for Euro Truck Simulator 2 and American Truck Simulator, which share one engine and one mod format. Install mods in the right load order, understand the version warning, run map mods with their DLC requirements, find a truck mod in the dealer, set traffic density, back up profiles, and use the Steam Workshop without surprises. The news follows SCS Software’s updates and announcements, from the 1.62 open beta to the Coaches DLC, with what each one means for mods. For modders there is an overview of SCS’s official tools.
Euro Truck Simulator 2 and ATS
How SCS's official tools fit together, what an SCS mod is made of from manifest.sii to def, materials and FMOD banks, a typical accessory workflow, developer mode, the material system changes, and publishing.
Euro Truck Simulator 2 and ATS
Workshop items land in the same Mod Manager as manual mods. Where Steam keeps them, why updates arrive unasked, what a removed item does to a profile, the duplicate-copy trap, betas, Convoy and clean unsubscribing.
Euro Truck Simulator 2 and ATS
The truck games use the Workshop, BeamNG its Repository, FS25 ModHub, GTA V and Assetto Corsa nothing official. What official channels do well, what they do badly, why mod sites exist, and how to mix them safely.
Euro Truck Simulator 2 and ATS
Fifteen Halloween deliveries including three to and three from Castle Brackenhelm, a 1.3 million community goal, the Witches' House, and three cabin items. Until 1 November, 23:59 UTC. What map mods and the beta mean for it.
Euro Truck Simulator 2 and ATS
Bus stations, landmark trips with opening hours, a G-force indicator and passenger satisfaction: what SCS has shown of the Coaches DLC since April, what it has not said, and how it is likely to reshape the bus mod scene.
Euro Truck Simulator 2 and ATS
Same engine, same format, different world. Category by category: trucks, trailers, traffic, paint jobs, sounds, graphics, maps and UI, how to tell a mod's game from its page or its zip, and what happens if you get it wrong.
Euro Truck Simulator 2 and ATS
A paint job is an image on one truck's UV layout plus a definition. Where it shows up, standalone versus replacement, remastered trucks that scramble old skins, resolution and size, and real-brand liveries.
Euro Truck Simulator 2 and ATS
g_console and g_developer in config.cfg, then the tilde key. Traffic density, time of day, a frame counter, time scale, a live log, text-format saves, and what the console cannot do.
Euro Truck Simulator 2 and ATS
The official Convoy mode runs any mods if all eight players match them exactly; TruckersMP runs hundreds of players with cosmetic mods only and lags behind game updates. Two profiles solve it.
Euro Truck Simulator 2 and ATS
Where profiles live, how to back one up in ten seconds, what happens to trucks, jobs and garages when a mod goes missing, why a beta save may not open on the old version, and a scratch-profile habit.
Euro Truck Simulator 2 and ATS
Version 1.37 replaced the audio system and silenced a decade of sound mods. What a modern pack contains, engine packs versus environment packs, load order, version sensitivity and a fair listening test.
Euro Truck Simulator 2 and ATS
Density and variety are separate levers. How g_traffic works, why a 500-car pack does not add cars until you raise it, where filter mods go in the list, and what costs CPU versus video memory.
