FF2: Filling in the Suburbs
Posted: 11 Jun 2021 21:25
Hi there! I'm Krigl and I've been posting screenshots in here since October 2017, using ProMods since 2015, using ETS2 since 2013, and taking screenshots of simulation games since 2005 (starting with FS2004). I'm an Englishman living in the Czech Republic.
This is my 3rd screenshot thread in here - I'm on a mission to tour the entire ETS2 and ProMods map in detail, as well as the ATS map too. Here's a brief overview of the progress so far, just in case anyone cares.
First screenshot thread - Heartland Journeys: October 2017 - October 2018: https://www.promods.net/viewtopic.php?f ... 43#p193043
I toured the entire ETS2 base map, with ProMods of course, and Grimes's weather mods + some light editing to bring out the sometimes well-hidden beauty of this ancient region. The ProMods content made a massive difference, of course. Today many of the areas look very different - SCS has updated Germany, and ProMods have significantly updated the UK, so it can be seen as a bit of a historic document. Last thing I heard it had been included in the digital repository of the Library of Congress as a Significant Cultural Artifact.
Here's the map, just for perspective or whatever.
Second screenshot thread - Fantasy Freelancers: October 2018 - June 2021: https://www.promods.net/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=26492
My original plan was to work outwards from the 'Heartlands' of ETS2, but I got distracted by ATS, other games, various problems and activities in life, and SCS kept announcing new DLCs, so I ended up touring 3 different ProMods areas just before SCS erased them more-or-less from the map. Instead of a celebration, it became more of an obituary. Still, again it's worth a look through if you're curious or nostalgic about what the ProMods areas of the Baltic States, south Finland, Romania and Spain once looked like. Also got through the Scandinavia DLC and retoured the UK and Ireland. Map:
Meanwhile, in ATS I decided to go through the base map there, and also took in Arizona and New Mexico. In this current screenshot thread I hope to get through 4 more states - Oregon, Idaho, Utah and Colorado. Fascinating infographic below:
As for ETS2, the plan for this thread is to do that spreading out from the heartlands I was hoping to do 3 years before. The planned areas are below in green:
Hope I can manage to keep motivated, it looks like an awesome project. So let's get started!
Wait! Wait a minute! Why the stupid name? Fantasy Freelancers 2: Filling in the Suburbs? Like, really?
Well, the best way to deal with that is simply to translate it into Japanese:
Fantajīfurīransā 2 - kōgai o umeru
(ファンタジーフリーランサー2-郊外を埋める)
Now that looks like a manga about schoolgirls with cat's ears and katanas fighting ghouls and ninja robots...
...so that settles it, then. It's a brilliant title.
Enough of that, on with the screenshots... The first tour will be the venerable region of the Going East! DLC, and here to take us through it is Dusan...
Here we are at my garage in Kosice, Slovakia. Honza (in the orange vest) has just finished polishing my truck ready for it's journey across the north of Slovakia and the Czech Republic to Prague via Banska Bystrica and Ostrava.
We have a premium view of the city skyline.
Kosice is the easternmost city in Slovakia in Going East, and it's also a ProMods modded city.
It's a great place for my HQ, and for raising my family.
Today we're going to take a cargo to Banska Bystrica.
Still getting out of town.
The housing estates are just fading from view, and we're into the sunflowers...
As I mentioned in the last thread in the Scandinavia tour, Scandinavia may be newer than Going East and it certainly has some very nice parts (often thanks to ProMods) but in some ways it's less interesting than GE.
Here, ancient assets used even in ETS1 in some cases rub shoulders with very modern scenery areas added by PM very recently. You never know what's just around the corner. There's lots of variety.
And the assets made specially for GE, while not up to modern SCS standards, still have a kind of grimy realism about them that makes them somehow more, er, real-looking than the squeaky clean and colourful Scandinavian architecture.
So, there's plenty of interest in the GE region and I'm looking forward to seeing it all, and sharing the screenshots, of course!
We're going to do the DLC in two parts, with the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary in the first, and Poland in the second, separated by a tour of Oregon.
Right, that was more than enough waffle for any sane human being, so for the last few shots I'll shut up at last.
Ruzombarok. Time to head south to Banska Bystrica.
And here we are. Hope you enjoyed this first set from northeast Slovakia.
Dusan
This is my 3rd screenshot thread in here - I'm on a mission to tour the entire ETS2 and ProMods map in detail, as well as the ATS map too. Here's a brief overview of the progress so far, just in case anyone cares.
First screenshot thread - Heartland Journeys: October 2017 - October 2018: https://www.promods.net/viewtopic.php?f ... 43#p193043
I toured the entire ETS2 base map, with ProMods of course, and Grimes's weather mods + some light editing to bring out the sometimes well-hidden beauty of this ancient region. The ProMods content made a massive difference, of course. Today many of the areas look very different - SCS has updated Germany, and ProMods have significantly updated the UK, so it can be seen as a bit of a historic document. Last thing I heard it had been included in the digital repository of the Library of Congress as a Significant Cultural Artifact.
Here's the map, just for perspective or whatever.
Second screenshot thread - Fantasy Freelancers: October 2018 - June 2021: https://www.promods.net/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=26492
My original plan was to work outwards from the 'Heartlands' of ETS2, but I got distracted by ATS, other games, various problems and activities in life, and SCS kept announcing new DLCs, so I ended up touring 3 different ProMods areas just before SCS erased them more-or-less from the map. Instead of a celebration, it became more of an obituary. Still, again it's worth a look through if you're curious or nostalgic about what the ProMods areas of the Baltic States, south Finland, Romania and Spain once looked like. Also got through the Scandinavia DLC and retoured the UK and Ireland. Map:
Meanwhile, in ATS I decided to go through the base map there, and also took in Arizona and New Mexico. In this current screenshot thread I hope to get through 4 more states - Oregon, Idaho, Utah and Colorado. Fascinating infographic below:
As for ETS2, the plan for this thread is to do that spreading out from the heartlands I was hoping to do 3 years before. The planned areas are below in green:
Hope I can manage to keep motivated, it looks like an awesome project. So let's get started!
Wait! Wait a minute! Why the stupid name? Fantasy Freelancers 2: Filling in the Suburbs? Like, really?
Well, the best way to deal with that is simply to translate it into Japanese:
Fantajīfurīransā 2 - kōgai o umeru
(ファンタジーフリーランサー2-郊外を埋める)
Now that looks like a manga about schoolgirls with cat's ears and katanas fighting ghouls and ninja robots...
...so that settles it, then. It's a brilliant title.
Enough of that, on with the screenshots... The first tour will be the venerable region of the Going East! DLC, and here to take us through it is Dusan...
Here we are at my garage in Kosice, Slovakia. Honza (in the orange vest) has just finished polishing my truck ready for it's journey across the north of Slovakia and the Czech Republic to Prague via Banska Bystrica and Ostrava.
We have a premium view of the city skyline.
Kosice is the easternmost city in Slovakia in Going East, and it's also a ProMods modded city.
It's a great place for my HQ, and for raising my family.
Today we're going to take a cargo to Banska Bystrica.
Still getting out of town.
The housing estates are just fading from view, and we're into the sunflowers...
As I mentioned in the last thread in the Scandinavia tour, Scandinavia may be newer than Going East and it certainly has some very nice parts (often thanks to ProMods) but in some ways it's less interesting than GE.
Here, ancient assets used even in ETS1 in some cases rub shoulders with very modern scenery areas added by PM very recently. You never know what's just around the corner. There's lots of variety.
And the assets made specially for GE, while not up to modern SCS standards, still have a kind of grimy realism about them that makes them somehow more, er, real-looking than the squeaky clean and colourful Scandinavian architecture.
So, there's plenty of interest in the GE region and I'm looking forward to seeing it all, and sharing the screenshots, of course!
We're going to do the DLC in two parts, with the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary in the first, and Poland in the second, separated by a tour of Oregon.
Right, that was more than enough waffle for any sane human being, so for the last few shots I'll shut up at last.
Ruzombarok. Time to head south to Banska Bystrica.
And here we are. Hope you enjoyed this first set from northeast Slovakia.
Dusan