Based in Czech Republic, the growing company of SCS Software announce that Beyond the Baltic Sea will be the biggest official map expansion ever made for Euro Truck Simulator 2. It will be available to all virtual truckers on November 29th, and will cover the three Baltic states of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, and also south of Finland and parts of Russia including St Petersbourg city.
Finally, American Truck Simulator receives a new and officially licenced truck : the Volvo VNL. Of course, it’s a free update for all drivers. The developers at SCS Software release also a new DLC expansion : Special Transport, including a set of 11 extra size cargoes to deliver (90 missions, Custom AI escort & police vehicles). More info at their blog : http://blog.scssoft.com/.
If you have addons of Mex High Flight, you can download GSX Level2 profiles ready for use with their Mexican airport of MMMZ Mazatlán International Airport. More airports will be prepared for GSX 2 later. Download here.
FSFX Packages releases their 747 Immersion package for the PMDG 747
Note that is exclusively designed for P3D4, or you’ll have some memory troubles in FSX / P3D v3. Flight1 and iFly made a new pack of high definition textures for the 737NG virtual cockpit, it’s a free download.
As promised, PMDG released last night their Boeing 747-8 expansion, for either P3D or FSX. Of course, I have to remind it requires that you have the prior base pack Queen of the Skies II 747-400. P3D users will be charged USD 69.99, while FSX licence is yours for USD 49.99. Below is the new features list introduced by the expansion : Fly By Wire upgrades, new FMS design, GEnx Engines, Electronic Checklists (ECL), Airport Map Display, Electronic Flight Bag (EFB), Vertical Situation Display (VSD), the debut of PMDG RainMaker, a dynamic rain, snow and fog effects generator and visual…
This week is special for commercial aviation simmers fans of vintage aircraft with the release by Flight1 of Ultimate Airliners DC-9 and Super 80 MegaPack for P3D4. Get both at once, and all updated and revised for P3D4 optimization. The dispatch / flight center works now with both aircraft, and you may also have failures along realistic systems.
Is it possible to fly the Cessna Mustang of Flight1 in P3D4 ? Now certainly yes ! Pick up the new Complete Edition and the business jet is now equipped with dynamic lights, 16:9 ratio for the panel and improvements to the G1000 avionics loading procedures. Existing customers of the previous versions can upgrade with a coupon to pay only USD 19.95.
SCS Software is feeding the news stream with upcoming expansions info for both Euro Truck Simulator 2 and American Truck Simulator. For ETS2, the above video is extracted from “Beyond the Baltic Sea DLC” Promo Video. For American virtual drivers, the next expansion to depict Portland city in Oregon US state, a new blog post reveals new screenshots here.
After a long development, the QualityWings Ultimate 787 Collection has been available for a while now. The 64-bit version for Prepar3D v4 has been since the end of May. That’s the version I’ll be looking at in this review.