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: Björk (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.
No more. Music shuffling is an included feature in Update 1.33. The other changes are described in a video from the development team at SCS Software.
American Truck Simulator received new game update 1.32 which brought many new features. The most prominent of them is Trailer ownership. For detailed info check our dedicated Blog post.
'American Truck Simulator' Patch Notes: Update 1.33
- Turnpike double trailers (Nevada only)
- Detours
- New road: OR-140 (Oregon DLC required)
- Steam Cloud-based profiles
- Reusable truck and trailer configuration templates
- Physics updates to suspension, damping, braking and cogs
- Better rain drop behavior on glass
- Country and state name localization settings
- A code for people with blinking lights issues (g_disable_beacon)
- New customizable options
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.'
To activate the 1.33 patch to American Truck Simulator, opt out of beta branches and Steam will automatically update the game. Mods might be finicky for a while as mod teams adjust to the new update.
American Truck Simulator 1.3 Torrent
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.