Re: Fantasy freelancers
Posted: 20 May 2021 20:24
Back again already to start the final tour in this screenshot thread - the Scandinavia DLC. We started the thread with it back in October 2018 and toured Denmark. Now it's time for Sweden and Norway. Well, the bottom bits, anyway.
And here's Anni, travelling from Hamburg to Kiel in Germany, because I wanted to check out the newish Germany/Denmark border post that's been added since we were last skanking around down Padborg way.
Revamped Germany is looking pretty decent, on the whole.
Kiel behind us, on the way to Flensburg now. Scandinavia deserves a bit of a lead-in, I feel, as it is of course a special place in the lore of ETS2 - the Place Where It All Started.
How so, I hear you ask, gentle readers. Beat that for an annoying phrase.
Well, of course, it's where ProMods started out back in the day. But it's also where SCS really began its climb out of the supermarket bargain bins, probably with more than a pinch of inspiration from ProMods, as if I remember correctly from the SCS blog back then, some of the PM team were even invited to the SCS studios to share their ProTips with the SCS crew.
Approaching the border with Denmark. And of course, ProMods were rewarded for their efforts to improve the game by SCS siting their first ever DLC slap-bang on top of PM's work. A bittersweet moment, no doubt, which was then repeated again and again. But let's face it, the game looks a great deal better now than it did back then. Would we really prefer a ProMods Europe made up of vanilla and Going East assets over what the game has become now? Probably not.
Ah, the border. Yes, a definite improvement. Very nice.
Cool.
We've got a delivery to make to Aalborg. Heading north through the Danish countryside.
The Scandinavia DLC was what brought me over to ProMods as well - after buying the game and Going East, I used TSM for a while. It covered a massive area, was about the same quality as the original game, and offered such delights as mountain roads in Greece, and driving non-stop from Aberdeen to Cairo.
When I read about PM visiting the SCS studio in an advisory capacity, I decided to check them out. And never looked back.
Sundown over Aalborg. Well after that exhaustively detailed, intriguing and strangely touching intro, let's hand things over to Anni - take it away, Anni.
So... I've spent a few years running deliveries all over Denmark and northern Germany, mainly. I have a way with customers, can park on a dime, and can fix almost any fault occurring when out on the road. I'm careful too, rarely sick - a model employee, you could say. So one day my boss said he's sending me to our branch in Sweden to 'work my magic'. Apparently they're sorely in need of it - profits are down, high absenteeism, and so on. I don't know what my boss thinks I'm going to do about it, but whatever, he's probably the boss for a reason. Picked up this old fifth-hand Scania cab from a dodgy vendor in Aalborg for the Swedish branch to replace something which the mechanic who called me said had 'just fallen apart' and went to find something to haul to my new home base in Linkoping city.
Load found, we're on our way to the Great Belt Bridge. It is the only way to Sweden for miles around, and look what we have here - a police roadblock almost at the entrance. Of course. Naturally, I pretended not to see them and just sailed blithely by on the hard shoulder.
I mean, what could possibly go wrong? Luckily, the police were deep in conversation and didn't notice as we went whistling past.
Ah. This is what could go wrong. Now what? Don't give up now Anni, I said to myself grimly.
Slowing slightly, we glided over to the hard shoulder once more, and squeezed past. Again, the firefighters were deeply engrossed in spraying the charred embers of whatever that sadly warped abomination was carrying, and I miraculously got away with it. High fives all round, beers on me tonight.
The road was pleasantly traffic free as we arrived at the exit booth from the bridge. I flashed the stuttering operator my most winning smile, paid the toll and we were away.
The south of Sweden, now ours to explore, yippee! Until next time...
Anni
And here's Anni, travelling from Hamburg to Kiel in Germany, because I wanted to check out the newish Germany/Denmark border post that's been added since we were last skanking around down Padborg way.
Revamped Germany is looking pretty decent, on the whole.
Kiel behind us, on the way to Flensburg now. Scandinavia deserves a bit of a lead-in, I feel, as it is of course a special place in the lore of ETS2 - the Place Where It All Started.
How so, I hear you ask, gentle readers. Beat that for an annoying phrase.
Well, of course, it's where ProMods started out back in the day. But it's also where SCS really began its climb out of the supermarket bargain bins, probably with more than a pinch of inspiration from ProMods, as if I remember correctly from the SCS blog back then, some of the PM team were even invited to the SCS studios to share their ProTips with the SCS crew.
Approaching the border with Denmark. And of course, ProMods were rewarded for their efforts to improve the game by SCS siting their first ever DLC slap-bang on top of PM's work. A bittersweet moment, no doubt, which was then repeated again and again. But let's face it, the game looks a great deal better now than it did back then. Would we really prefer a ProMods Europe made up of vanilla and Going East assets over what the game has become now? Probably not.
Ah, the border. Yes, a definite improvement. Very nice.
Cool.
We've got a delivery to make to Aalborg. Heading north through the Danish countryside.
The Scandinavia DLC was what brought me over to ProMods as well - after buying the game and Going East, I used TSM for a while. It covered a massive area, was about the same quality as the original game, and offered such delights as mountain roads in Greece, and driving non-stop from Aberdeen to Cairo.
When I read about PM visiting the SCS studio in an advisory capacity, I decided to check them out. And never looked back.
Sundown over Aalborg. Well after that exhaustively detailed, intriguing and strangely touching intro, let's hand things over to Anni - take it away, Anni.
So... I've spent a few years running deliveries all over Denmark and northern Germany, mainly. I have a way with customers, can park on a dime, and can fix almost any fault occurring when out on the road. I'm careful too, rarely sick - a model employee, you could say. So one day my boss said he's sending me to our branch in Sweden to 'work my magic'. Apparently they're sorely in need of it - profits are down, high absenteeism, and so on. I don't know what my boss thinks I'm going to do about it, but whatever, he's probably the boss for a reason. Picked up this old fifth-hand Scania cab from a dodgy vendor in Aalborg for the Swedish branch to replace something which the mechanic who called me said had 'just fallen apart' and went to find something to haul to my new home base in Linkoping city.
Load found, we're on our way to the Great Belt Bridge. It is the only way to Sweden for miles around, and look what we have here - a police roadblock almost at the entrance. Of course. Naturally, I pretended not to see them and just sailed blithely by on the hard shoulder.
I mean, what could possibly go wrong? Luckily, the police were deep in conversation and didn't notice as we went whistling past.
Ah. This is what could go wrong. Now what? Don't give up now Anni, I said to myself grimly.
Slowing slightly, we glided over to the hard shoulder once more, and squeezed past. Again, the firefighters were deeply engrossed in spraying the charred embers of whatever that sadly warped abomination was carrying, and I miraculously got away with it. High fives all round, beers on me tonight.
The road was pleasantly traffic free as we arrived at the exit booth from the bridge. I flashed the stuttering operator my most winning smile, paid the toll and we were away.
The south of Sweden, now ours to explore, yippee! Until next time...
Anni