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Farming Simulator VR

February 1, 2025

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

January 31, 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)

ETS2 gets new Iveco truck

ETS2 gets new Iveco truck

December 12, 2024

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.

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 released, but not without problems

November 21, 2024

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

November 20, 2024

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.

Farming Simulator 25 is released

November 13, 2024

Yesterday Giants Software released their latest iteration of Farming Simulator. The new Farming Simulator 25 builds upon the earlier versions in the series and has on top of a selection of the assets which were added through the DLCs to FS22 also a slew of entirely new things.

And of course a real review of the game here is in the works. (Edit: The review can now be found here.)

Planet Coaster 2 launches

November 6, 2024

Frontier’s sequel to their first Planet Coaster game is today released to the world. Just like in its predecessor, the goal is to construct the best – and profitable – park possible.

The spiritual successor to the old Rollercoaster Tycoon games as well as Planet Coaster, Planet Coaster 2 provides the player with the tools to make a detailed theme park filled with rides, food venues, and other attractions.

Farming Simulator 25 garage trailer

November 5, 2024

No, not that kind of trailer. The other, video thing kind. Although there’s at least one trailer to be seen in the trailer.

Farming Simulator 25 will be released November 12.

Railroad Corporation 2 in early access

October 23, 2024

A new game in the “construct railroads” genre got released October 21 in early access and it looks promising.

As the name implies, this game is about planning, running, and hopefully expand your railroad company with a start in 1870.

We have got our hands on a copy, so a review is coming soon.

Railroad Corporation 2 – offical early access launch trailer.
Space Engineers: Contact on October 14

Space Engineers: Contact on October 14

October 12, 2024

The newest DLC and accompanying update to the space construction game Space Engineers has now got October 14 as its launch date.

As the name suggests, this DLC’s focus is on making space a bit more populated. This means there are new Global Encounters as well as Planetary Encounters to expect. Also a whole brand new faction in the form of The Factorum. Makers of a competely new technology.

This new tech consists of a number of new types of blocks such as Prototech Components, Prototech Assembler and a Prototech Refinery, to only name a few. And what’s really new with all this Prototech stuff is that it’s obtainable only from encounters.

As usual, parts of the new content will be added as a free update while the new blocks will be for DLC owners only to build. As per the usual Keen Software policy there will be no need for all the participants in a multiplayer game to own the DLC, only the host.