![]() The release date is unknown, but the announcement mentioned “a few months after the release of Idaho, towards the end of the year.” This is great news! If SCS has done their homework, then I-70 should be an absolute joy to drive from Utah through Colorado and over the high mountain passes. From their announcement on 26 March, SCS Software has been working on the Colorado DLC at full-capacity in parallel with the Idaho DLC. ![]() Just a few days ago, SCS Software announced that the US State of Colorado would be the next DLC to release for American Truck Simulator. I certainly hope you’re enjoying the Texas DLC for American Truck Simulator as much as I am. Well it’s time to pick up another load and make my way down towards Houston. But of course if you want more, then for now check out the Coast-to-Coast mod. But let’s face it, at the pace SCS is releasing state DLC’s, we’re still a VERY long time away from seeing the entire lower 48 in the map. As compared with the development time a large state like Texas required, we should see OK and KS coming much quicker. These next few states will all tie in nicely with the existing states to the west and provide some excellent driving opportunities. I’m sure we’ll then see Kansas, followed by Nebraska as we make our way further north into the Dakotas. So what’s next for American Truck Simulator? As we know, SCS will be moving north from Texas with Oklahoma being the next planned DLC release. Texas is large enough that you can do some great runs up, down or across the state. But of course, I do understand the way ATS is scaled down and with that said it’s all OK.Īll-in-all, I’m very pleased with the Texas DLC and since release I’ve been spending much of my time exploring the Lone Star State in all her glory. Neither Temple or Belton are recognized by ATS, but as soon as you pass the junction of I-35 and I-14, the skyline of Austin immediately comes into view and in the real world, this distance is about 50 miles. This interchange is actually in a town called Belton. As I rolled south out of Waco you quickly come to the interchange of I-14/190. Now I lived many years in the Central Texas area and I have family still living just north of Austin. The only slight disappointment was just how quickly the Austin skyline comes into view. Once reaching Texas, my route took me through Dumas to Amarillo, then southeast to Ft Worth on US 287 where I picked up I-35W then on to Austin passing first through Waco. But once I reached the Texas state line just before Dalhart it all became a very pleasing experience. Of course the first several hundred miles were in Colorado and New Mexico which I had explored many times before. My wife and I had previously driven this route about a month ago to go and see my dad, so I was looking forward to experiencing it in ATS. It had been a few months since I had spent time playing ATS, but my truck was in Denver and I decided I would accept a job from Denver to Austin. ![]() I still have family and many friends living in Texas and I knew SCS Software would do a great job with the map DLC. While I had experienced driving in Texas with ATS with the Coast-to-Coast map mod, I had really been looking forward to the Texas DLC as Texas is my birth state and where I lived for about half my life. The ATS map began to grow as new states were released as DLC with New Mexico (Nov 2017), Oregon (Oct 2018, Washington (June 2019), Utah (Nov 2019), Idaho (July 2020), Colorado (Nov 2020), Wyoming (Sept 2021), Montana (Aug 2022) and of course finally Texas released on 15 November 2022.Īs you can see from the DLC release dates I mentioned in the second paragraph, the Texas DLC has been a long time coming. I enjoyed the experiences of driving a semi-truck up and down California, Nevada and eventually Arizona when that free DLC released in June 2016. So when I heard the news that SCS Software would be releasing American Truck Simulator I was extremely excited.ĪTS debuted in February 2016 and it was an immediate purchase for me. Sometime around 2015 I branched over to Farming Simulator and my first experience with a trucking simulator was ETS2 sometime in late 2015. ![]() As many of my long-time readers will know, for many years the only simulation base gaming I did was flight sim. The highly anticipated, much desired (especially by me) Texas DLC for American Truck Simulator is finally available.
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