Patch Notes v1.2.0b1 (Public Test Branch)

Dear community, since we want to make patches available to you directly instead of handing it over to quality assurance before, we have created a separate Steam branch that you can activate on your own. This is so to speak a “branched off version” of the official version. How to activate the “Public Test Version”:

1. Right click on TransRoad: USA in your Steam library.

2. Click “Properties”.

3. Click on the tab “BETAS”.

4. Choose “public_test_version” from the dropdown list.

Steam will now add a download for TransRoad

USA to the download queue. Generally speaking, savegames will not be downwards-compatible. For example, the Public Test Version is v1.0.8b1, and these savegames will not be compatible with the v1.0.7 official version!

New features

• Automatic maintenance is now implemented. Once your HQ is upgraded to level 3 (click on your HQ map marker and then the upgrade in the bottom-right), you can activate nationwide automatic maintenance in any depot. You don’t need a maintenance depot for that. All trucks will maintain themselves once they reach a 2,000 miles threshold.

• Contract deadlines now have a “day + hour” accuracy, meaning they will count down the hours and not just the days. Like this, it does not matter at what time of the day you accept a contract; you won’t loose multiple hours if you accept a contract late in the evening/night.

Contracts & Trucks:

• When a truck waited in the queue for a truckshop maintenance, it was possible to assign a different task to the truck. But it did not leave the maintenance queue, causing the queue not to continue correctly. This could result in trucks waiting endlessly in a truckshop’s maintenance queue.

• When you added contracts to a schedule and then instantly deleted the contract from the schedule, the trailer icon remained in that schedule. Now it disappears and the problem is solved.

• When a Special Contract appears, you can see the individual contracts in the lower right corner. Now you can scroll in this list while the “accept or decline” popup is opened.

• For recurring contracts, a buffer was added to the calculation for needed trucks, since it sometimes showed not enough trucks.

Depots:

• Drivers can now be switched directly inside the depot, instead of having to clear the slot first.

• Depot map markers are now all visible even when zoomed out: Your own depots, depots of the competitors, and depots that are still free to buy. You can toggle them by using the key [G] (directly next to the [F] that lets you cycle through all owned depots).

Other:

• Zooming in and out can now be done on the keyboard with or [+] on the keypad for zooming in, and [o] or [-] on the keypad for zooming out.

• We fixed two cases where the colored lines on the roads that mark the currently hovered or selected route would not vanish.

• There is a new, more detailed explanation now on how to remove or unassign trucks from a contract (namely by dragging it from the truck fleet list or from the map onto a depot). This explanation is in the ingame manual (? button in the top right) in the chapter Schedules, Trucks and Depots. It is furthermore a tooltip on a “info i” icon in the truck info window, and in the truck list of a single accepted contract (click on a contract in your schedule to see that list).

• When clicking on a city map marker, the city info window in