Hey everyone,
The latest update for Truck Driver: The American Dream is now available on Steam! Patch #5 introduces significant improvements to AI traffic, truck handling, visuals, audio, and overall gameplay, alongside over 30 bug fixes and quality-of-life enhancements. It also adds support for five new languages, with even more features planned for future updates.
Updates & Additions
- Updated AI traffic behavior at traffic lights. Vehicles now accelerate from a standstill almost twice as fast after the light turns green.
- Rebalanced the number of AI vehicles waiting at traffic light intersections. Large traffic queues are now less common, while the system remains dynamic—depending on the situation, you may still encounter anywhere from 1–2 to 5–7 vehicles at the same intersection.
- Improved AI turning behavior at intersections. In the previous build, vehicles could spend too much time recalculating when and where to move. This process is now much smoother and faster.
- Additional handling and steering adjustments for several trucks.
- Added tire-on-asphalt sound effects when driving in dry weather (no rain or snow). The effect is most noticeable with the engine turned off but can also be heard while driving.
- Added a subtle ambient cabin soundscape. With the engine turned off, you'll now hear the atmosphere of a small enclosed space, along with occasional environmental sounds from outside.
- Rebalanced emissive lighting throughout the game, reducing visual artifacts caused by emissive surfaces.
- Updated the rain-on-cabin-roof audio system. Rain now uses two separate sound profiles (light and heavy rain) with seamless transitions between them.
- Updated the highest-quality shadow settings (Virtual Shadow Maps). VSM settings are now individually optimized for each graphics preset: Low, Medium, High, and Epic.
- Updated numerous LODs throughout the game, significantly reducing the chance of seeing low-polygon models at close range.
- Further rebalanced voice audio for the first 11 chapters. This process will continue in future updates.
- Additional draw distance improvements in selected areas of the game. These improvements are visible on High and Epic graphics settings only.
- Implemented Danish, Swedish, Hungarian, Ukrainian, and Czech language support.
- Updated multiple UI widgets.
Bug Fixes
- Numerous localization fixes across multiple languages.
- Over 30 bug fixes and quality-of-life improvements across localization, navigation, audio, visuals, controls, and more.
Still to Come
- Keyboard key rebinding.
- Support for MOZA steering wheels.
