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Farming Simulator VR

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 patch 1.5

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)

ETS2 gets new Iveco truck

A couple of days after the release of the Greece map expansion DLC it is time for another release for Euro Truck Simulator 2.

This time it is a totally free gift to all ETS2 players in the form of a new IVECO S-Way truck.

Shiny new truck in shiny new landscape.

The new S-Way comes with three engine options: 460 HP, 500 HP, and 580 HP, and while it right now only has the 4×2 chassis option, a 6×2 chassis option has been promised in a future update. The S-Way also joins the earlier released DAF and MAN trucks in the club with advanced camera mirrors option.

Greek Drama and more

Exploring a map for a good map review is not without its share of drama.

Time for some Drama in my life again. But this time it’s not courtesy of Promods’ mod map but the real official thing.
This is definitely not going to make any scratch marks, right?
It’s all in the details. And knowing SCS I bet that phone booth do exist in real life.

Welcome to Greece

Euro Truck Simulator 2: Greece was released December 4, so instead of December darkness it’s time for some Mediterranean sun. A longer review is in the works.

The world from above

I recently got a chance to try out the new Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 and just like its predecessor (which I never played) it is an interesting beast of a game. Difficult, but interesting.

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 released, but not without problems

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 was released November 19, but sadly not without certain teething problems. The ones trying to get started with the game on day one found themselves in permanent queues due to overloaded streaming servers. And since the game is entirely dependent on cloud storage and streaming, only using the player’s computer or consol as a thin client, this meant the game becoming more or less unresponsive.

The game itself, once up and running, do look promising utilizing the same real world map data technique as its predecessor MSFS 2020, now combined with more of a career mode.

ETS2: Greece release date set

The new Greece map DLC for Euro Truck Simulator 2 has now got a release date. It will be available for purchase starting December 4th.