We have had a go with the first big DLC pack for Farming Simulator 25 – the NEXAT Pack – and the review of it can now be found here.
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The first DLC for Farming Simulator 25 is released and its focus is on a brand and a machine that maybe not all that many have heard of. The NEXAT Pack gives the virtual farmer an opportunity to try out an all-in-one system which at the very least look, well, a bit different from what we’re used to.
A review of the DLC is in the works.
The official Horsch AgroVation map has now been updated by Giants for Farming Simulator 25.
This somewhat special map is based on Horsch’s real facility in the Czech Republic used for research and testing of their farming equipment and – somewhat to my own surprise – it actually became my favourite Giants’ made official map in Farming Simulator 22. The different field sizes in combination with a nicely done and decorated realistic map is quite satisfying for some reason.
Another returning map from Farming Simulator 22 is the Silverrun Forest map which is available for FS25 since February 26.
Silverrun Forest with its inspiration from the North American Pacific northwest is a map mostly focused on forestry, even if it of course also has some possibilities for agricultural work.
In their State of the Farm communication Giants Software officially confirmed that the much appreciated Precision Farming mod add-on will be available for Farming Simulator 25 and will be released in the second quarter of 2025.
FS25 has now also got patched to version 1.6 which include a multitude of gameplay fixes and finetuning. In addition to that there has also been a slew of new official machinery mods released in the modhub. This time it’s the Albutt f155A Bale Grab, CLAAS ARION (550 – 530) Tractor, CLAAS FL 140 Frontloader, John Deere 6R Series (230 – 250) Tractor, and John Deere 683R Frontloader which have been converted from FS22.
SCS Software has revealed the next US state in their work pipeline for American Truck Simulator and it will be the one state needed to complete the classical Route 66 distance between Chicago and Los Angeles.
So Illinois it is. Or will be, more exactly, since there are some states queued up to be released before this.
The first DLC pack for Farming Simulator 25 has been revealed. The NEXAT Pack contains a pretty unique machine which aims to be the Swiss knife of agricultural farming.
NEXAT is an acronym for “Next Generation Agriculture Technology” and aims to be the world’s first holistic crop production system. Its base is a quite interesting – and big – carrier vehicle which then uses various interchangeable modules for the different tasks.
Included in the NEXAT Pack are twelve machines by seven brands. Included next to the carrier vehicle are the NEXCO harvesting module as well as implement modules from leading agricultural brands for spraying, seeding, fertilizing and more.
The Einböck, Geringhoff and Väderstad brands are old friends for the virtual farmers, while Dammann, Evers Agro and Wienhoff make their debut in Farming Simulator with this pack.
The NEXAT Pack will be released on March 11 for PC and consoles, and it is also included in the Season Pass.
The sequel to the acclaimed medieval realistic adventure game Kingdom Come Deliverance has now been released.
Giants Software keeps expanding the Farming Simulator series. The newest addition is Farming Simulator VR, a game made for use with Meta’s virtual reality headsets.
This standalone Farming Simulator game makes it possible to do virtual farming in a very realistic first-person view.
With the help of one of the Meta Quest VR headsets you can operate authentic agricultural machinery from a number of different manufacturers such as Case IH, Claas, Fendt and John Deere. Machinery that will also be in need of maintentance. Using an electric impact wrench or a power washer the farmer can keep them in perfect condition for the field work.
And if the field work gets boring, you can also grow various crops in greenhouses. Tomatoes, eggplant, strawberries, and other crops can be picked by hand and placed in crates to be sold.
Farming Simulator VR will be available on Meta Quest 2, Meta Quest 3, Meta Quest 3S, and Meta Quest Pro on 28 February 2025.
Farming Simulator 25 has just received a new patch which brings the version up to 1.5. The aim this time has been for better performance on the console versions and fewer crashes overall, with a slew of other improvements thrown in. The complete changelog is as follows:
Changelog for Patch 1.5
Please Note! As with all major updates, you may experience stuttering on the first game launch after updating. Especially when using mods or custom graphics settings due to shaders being recompiled.
New Additions & Improvements
•Increased performance on PS5 Pro by default
•Added performance modes for PS5 and Xbox Series X
•Enabled water reflections on PS5 platforms
•Added shader generation step when loading into a savegame without or mismatching shader cache
•Added small cementFactory
•Added foam to water simulation
Fixes & Changes
•Various technical changes to significantly improve performance
•Various stability improvements to prevent crashes
•Various text / translation adjustments
•Various visual adjustments on several models
•Improved advanced settings do not require a game restart anymore.
•Improved behavior of Go To helper
•Improved collision checks against the ground (less objects falling through / getting stuck in the ground / bouncing mowers)
•Improved generated collisions of cut trees
•Improved color reproduction in HDR mode
•Improved HDR activation does not require a game restart anymore
•Improved quality of AMD FSR 3 rendering
•Improved quality of TAA rendering
•Improved soft shadows casted from various sources
•Improved sugarbeet leaves on the ground
•Improved UI slider behavior with controllers
•Doubled harvest rate of grapes and olives
•Reduced planting costs for grape and olive orchards
•Reduced vehicle paint damage accumulation speed
•Fixed multiplayer sync of ground tire deformation
•Fixed placeable extensions losing connection after reloading a savegame
•Fixed capello diamant8 corn header lowered too far
•Fixed chicken barn small and from Rudolf Hörmann being unable to add custom pasture
•Fixed front axle not being limited on a few tractors when frontloader is attached
•Fixed grain elevator museum interactions and collisions
•Fixed issues with shader cache when it gets corrupted (e.g. crash while saving or some external tool, like Cloud Sync, breaking it)
•Fixed missing collision on husbandries with lely vector
•Fixed momentary hangs when cables on winches are created or removed
•Fixed obsolete great demand on debris cutter and train selling stations
•Fixed placement area’s of 250kW BGA
•Fixed Pöttinger SERVO T 6000 P working behavior
•Fixed sound beep on Hutan Pantai in spring
•Fixed wheels on bomech machinery not being declared as care wheels
•Fixed wild animals behavior with various obstacles
Modding
•Added maxHeight user attribute to splines to limit the vehicles that will use it with GoTo AI
•Adjusted color and material of rearLight30
•Fixed loading of mod vehicle types from vehicle type configs
•Added command descriptions in console
•Improved scrolling behavior within the console while typing is disabled.
•scroll to to top’ (home) and ‘scroll to bottom’ (end) (when typing is not enabled)
•scroll 1 page by holding shift while pressing page up or down (when typing is not enabled)
As promised there now exist a longer review of the newest map expansion DLC for Euro Truck Simulator 2. So welcome to Greece.
