About the new addon!13.10.2014
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Dear customers! Perhaps on our Facebook page you may have noticed new screenshots from the large new addon, which we are preparing to release. Today we're ready to lift the veil of mystery about the new addon and tell you about some features coming within it.
Here are some of the most important and major innovations:
● New location! There will be the first district of a brand new virtual city.
● New autodrome! It will be used for new special defensive driving exercises.
● New sounds! For car wheels skidding and sliding effects.
● Random dangerous situations! There will be generation of such events as: pedestrians sudden run over the road, traffic cars driving on the opposite lane, etc.
● New exercises! There will be new special defensive driving exercises.
- Full changelog of version 1.4.0 - (click to show/hide)
General new features and improvements:
● New location! Added the first district of a brand new virtual city:
- more than 20 of highly detailed courtyards;
- 3 major transport interchanges;
- 3 large car parks;
- 8 new landscape textures.
● New autodrome! It's used for new special defensive (extreme) driving exercises.
● New sounds! For car wheels skidding and sliding effects.
● Random dangerous situations! There will be generation of such events as: pedestrians sudden run over the road, traffic cars driving on the opposite lane, etc.
● New exercises! Added new special defensive (extreme) driving exercises:
- snake with an offset;
- snake with overall gate;
- snake both forward and reverse;
- turn-8;
- emergency acceleration, emergency braking;
- straight limited corridor;
- pendulum between limiters;
- limited circular corridor;
- reversed tunnel gate.
● Mirrors adjusting! Added an option of adjusting the mirrors.
Physics modernization:
● More realistic drifts and turns.
● Improved the calculation method of braking, including with the ABS.
● Added a window displaying information on the braking distance. For practicing different techniques to achieve optimal braking skill and braking distance.
Changes in the system of rules and traffic control:
● Improved behavior of AI traffic cars and rules' control system at narrowing of the carriageway.
● Added checking of using a turn-signal when stopping.
● Added checking of stopping in wrong places. You can not stop:
- in the area of signs prohibiting stopping/parking;
- at pedestrian crossings and closer than 5 meters in front of them;
- in tunnels;
- on bridges;
- at railway crossings;
- on the motorway.
● Added checking of reversing in wrong places. You can not move in reverse:
- at pedestrian crossings;
- in tunnels;
- on bridges;
- at railway crossings;
- on the motorway.
● Added checking of U-turning in wrong places. You can not turn around:
- at pedestrian crossings;
- in tunnels;
- on bridges;
- at railway crossings;
And some new screenshots from the virtual city:
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