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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)

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.)

The three maps coming with FS25

November 8, 2024

All three maps which will be available in Farming Simulator 25 now have their separate intro videos.

In order of novelty the first one is the East Asian-inspired Hutan Pantai, which of course will be the perfect map to try out both the new rice crops as well as the new water buffalo livestock.

The second map is the American Riverbend Springs map. Even if maybe not as well-known, there are parts of the US where rice cultivation is possible and this map naturally is depicting one such area.

The third map is the Polish-inspired Zielonka map from the DLC for Farming Simulator 22, now updated to a Farming Simulator 25 map. While maybe not the most natural map to try out the rice on, it will be very good for testing out the new vegetable crops like spinach. Or the goats.

All the maps will of course make use of all the new things coming in Farming Simulator 25, such as the new weather effects, ground deformation, a built-in GPS, and more.

Farming Simulator 25 will be released on 12 November but can already be pre-ordered if you want to start as soon as you can on the 12th.

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.

Perfect place to park

Perfect place to park

September 22, 2024

No, no super-strength mod was involved. This was accomplished with only an unloading bale wagon and a slightly low roof overhang.

The map is the Terralife Paligney mod map in case anyone wonders.

Farming Simulator – now with real weather

Farming Simulator – now with real weather

August 21, 2024

There’s a new batch of news from Giants Software regarding their upcoming Farming Simulator 25.

The highlights this time? Cute baby animals and challenging weather.

This new gameplay trailer clearly shows off some of the in my mind quite big improvements in the new Farming Simulator.

Getting several stages of animal growth visualized is a nice addition to the animal handling and – hopefully – also hints of other changes in this department. Plus did I mention they are severely cute?

The other big addition is in my opinion even bigger though. According to Giants, there will now be a possibility – or maybe the correct word to use is risk – for both tornadoes and hail storms. Both of which may damage both crops, trees and maybe even buildings. But don’t worry. If you for some reason don’t want such challenges in your quiet, chill farmlife, they will be able to toggle off.

FS25 news at FarmCon

July 4, 2024

The yearly FarmCon is happening in Germany and that also means that we get some new information on Giants’ upcoming Farming Simulator 25. This includes a nearly half-hour long video which shows the first actual gameplay footage.

Included is the first look on how rice is cultivated and harvested, and in that process we also get to see an rice planter from the Japanese brand Iseki. Since rice is now a thing I suspect that brand will feature more prominently in FS25 than it ever did in Farming Simulator 22.

Farming Simulator 25 announced

Farming Simulator 25 announced

June 25, 2024

Giants Software today announced that Farming Simulator 25 will be released on November 12 this year for PC, Mac, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S.

The new version of the now classic game series will for the first time include a map, crops, and machinery suitable for East Asian farming. In other words it is time to plant and grow rice paddies.

In addition there will also in the base game be one American and one Central European map, over 20 different crops, animals – including buffalos – as well as new production chains and constructions.

The game engine itself has also got an overhaul and is now on version 10, which among other things means improved graphics and physics, providing effects like distance fog, enhanced shadows, dynamic weather effects, ground deformation, and more.

Farming Simulator 25 is already available for pre-order as standard and collector’s editions in select web stores, including Giants’ own store. Official release date is November 12, 2024.