Paradox has a new bundle offer for new players looking to get started with Crusader Kings III. The new Crusader Kings III: Starter Edition package includes, in addition to the base game, the DLCs Tours and Tournaments, Friends and Foes, Garments of the Holy Roman Empire, Elegance of the Empire, and Fashion of the Abbasid Court.
At the same time as the new package is launched, the old starter package called the Royal Edition will disappear from the stores.
The first add-on pack for Cities: Skylines II has now been released. The Beach Properties Asset Pack adds new items for those high-value (hopefully) waterfront properties.
Buyers of the DLC will get access to the following:
Waterfront Zone: A new residential zoning option dedicated to waterfront buildings allows you to redefine your city’s coastline.
Beach Properties: Each theme adds growable residential buildings waiting to populate your new waterfront zone, from luxurious waterfront mansions to charming beachside cottages.
Signature Waterfront Buildings: Tailored to fit into European or North American architectural themes, these signature buildings are crafted to highlight your city’s beachfront.
Beach Properties features 70 new assets, including:
Beach Properties is also available as part of the Expansion Pass: Waterfronts, which is included in the Ultimate Edition.
Patch 2.0.2.4 for Medieval Dynasty has been released and with that came an additional message from the developers that it will be the last patch done for a while since they currently will be focusing their efforts on bringing The Oxbow map update to PS5, Xbox Series X/S and other platforms.
Would you like to model a tractor for the game or create a map according to your own preferences, but don’t know how? Then dive into the Farming Simulator Modding Tutorials 5.0. They provide important information for you to get started with your own mod.
In 15 videos, you will learn the basics of how to build your own mods and incorporate your ideas into Farming Simulator 22. The tutorials include:
With the Modder’s Guide you will learn how to plan mods, which beginner’s mistakes you should avoid and how to make it into the ModHub. You can find a digital booklet to download in the GIANTS Developer Network (GDN).
Mod for a good cause! Creativity should be honored, and we reward your mods! The exact reward depends on the ratings, the number of downloads in the ModHub and the type of your mod. And it gets even better: If you donate your profits, we will double the amount! You can choose where profits go: German Animal Welfare Association, German Cancer Aid, World Hunger Aid, Doctors Without Borders, SOS Children’s Village, Red Cross, WWF, or UNICEF.
Got more questions? In the GDN, you will find all the software you need to create your mods. In addition to further tutorials, you can exchange ideas with like-minded people and experts on the forums. Or subscribe to our modding newsletter and stay up to date!
It’s time for the annual Euro Truck Simulator 2 and American Truck Simulator Valentines event again. This time your personal goal requires 14 finished deliveries of Valentines Presents cargo in order to qualify for the World of Trucks Achievement and get a nice little cabin item.
The formal rules are as follows:
Using External Contracts, with a World of Trucks-connected profile in Euro Truck Simulator 2, American Truck Simulator or both, the community goal is to achieve 600,000 deliveries of Valentine Presents cargo, from any city in any trucking territory.
When a player completes 14 deliveries of Valentine Presents cargo across any trucking territories in either game, it will complete their personal goal.
Rewards
In order to qualify for any community reward, you must complete at least your personal goal in Euro Truck Simulator 2, American Truck Simulator or both. Each reward will be a Steam inventory item for both Euro Truck Simulator 2 and American Truck Simulator. Once completed, claim your reward in the Events page on your World of Trucks profile.
The event will be concluded on Sunday the 18th of February at 23:59 UTC.
There has been a new free update to Farming Simulator 22. It is the Straw Harvest DLC made by Creative Mesh and which had it’s premier in Farming Simulator 17 that now exist also for the latest game in the series. So once again there is the possibility for a pellet industry and new ways to make use of the straw from the fields.
With the free Straw Harvest Pack, we get new powerful machinery from manufacturers Krone and Bressel und Lade. One of the machine highlights is the world’s first mobile pellet harvester – the Krone Premos 5000, which produces pellets by collecting straw and hay swaths from the field. Alternatively, it can be operated stationary with an additional bale shredder. Also included are two balers, the Krone BiG Pack 1290 HDP II and Comprima V180 XC alongside other machines for handling bales and pallets.
To add another layer to the gameplay, a versatile and configurable industry hall allows for storage and processing. While produced pellets can be sold, used for animal bedding, or fed to animals, the industry hall allows more possibilities through configurations – it can be used as an empty hall for parking vehicles as well as storing bales and pallets, or there could be added a hall crane to easier move bulk material, bales, and pallets. Adding an automatic palletizer, the pellets can be processed yet another step and sold at an even higher profit.
Straw Harvest can be downloaded directly in Farming Simulator 22 via the in-game ModHub and is as stated an entirely free DLC.
The much anticipated – it recently revealed that it is on 2 million wishlists on Steam – medieval town-and-fief-builder Manor Lords will launch on April 26. From what I’ve seen and glimpsed this far from the developer’s twitter and Steam, this one-single-dev game looks very promising. In particular for us who loved Banished.
It is Christmas time again, which means it is also time for the annual tradition of hauling Christmas gifts in Euro Truck Simulator 2 and American Truck Simulator.
This year SCS Software has freshened up the tradition a bit by adding a whole new dimension to it. Literally another dimension. Because this time good are to be transported to and from Santa’s Winterland itself by the means of traversing through one of the many dimensional portals strategically put up on rest stops, refueling points and the likes.
The Winterland itself is as the name hints a very wintery place indeed with lots of snow and Christmas feeling. Also watch out, the roads are not only looking snowy – they make for snow driving when it comes to road grip too.
As usual goods deliveries made in ETS2 and ATS add up together, so if you have both games you don’t have to do all the work twice in order to get the achievements and rewards for both.
Medieval Dynasty’s update and transformation into a co-op multiplayer game is just around the corner, and after trying out the beta, it looks very promising. With a new map, opportunities to design your player character, and a new background story with new possibilities, new vistas open up.
The cooperative game mode allows up to four players to play simultaneously. However, the new Oxbow map must then be used. The older map remains in the game but is almost now considered a separate version of the game as it was before the update. Now it’s no big loss because the scenery in Oxbow is at least as beautiful and interesting as the old map ever was. And even if you intend to play single-player, in practice Oxbow applies if you want to be able to customize your character, or play a female character.
With the fact that player characters can now be of both sexes, the possibility for two players to create a joint family is also opened up. Unlike when only one party to the marriage is a player character and where the other NPC partner is always the one who stays home with the child for the first two years, a family consisting of two player characters will both be free to pursue other activities. The child then stays at home in his cradle instead.
Medieval Dynasty in its new Oxbow version is clearly a step forward for the game and I haven’t found any major flaws to complain about. The game seems to flow well. So for those who are looking for a calm and slow medieval existence in a graphically beautiful environment, Medieval Dynasty is now more appealing than ever.
Medieval Dynasty in multiplayer is available from 19.00 CET on December 7.
Giants have released the big Premium Expansion for Farming Simulator 22.
The main features is the addition of three new crops – carrots, red beets and parsnips-, new machinery and the new Zielonka map.
Update: There is now a review of the expansion which you can read here.
