Since I’ve been so wrapped up by the beta, I never went back to Euro Truck Simulator 2. Seems they got a new patch. Not sure if ProMods will work with it.
But what I wanted to talk about, I saw a video that was done about 6 days after my birthday (August 26th) of DaSquirrelsNuts and Keralis(famously known for his godlike Minecraft house tutorial videos(the houses themselves, not the videos)) playing Multiplayer in Euro Truck Simulator 2. It looked amazingly fun, and reminded me of this video of Dan and his father playing it several months ago. It’s still AI-less, and it also showed what I didn’t see from Dan’s video; how at times the server can go unstable and disconnect you.
Squirrel explains this as a concern in his ETS2 Multiplayer setup tutorial video(done yesterday) when out on the highway, to keep the same distance as you would IRL if it was raining. You never know when the guy infront of you will just suddenly stop and you’ll be ramming right into the back of his trailer in mere seconds.
Another thing to note, you can’t use mods. They will not work. Period. Don’t even try. Also, you have to had bought the game from Steam and not Retail. And you have to make sure your Steam profile is public. Both of these reasons is for the multiplayer’s authorization thingy. Lastly, Steam must be ran as an Administrator for the Multiplayer to hook correctly into your game.
You can get the Multiplayer mod (yes, a mod. Not made by SCS, so you’ll have no support from them) from ES2mp.com. It is extremely important to note, if you want to remain virus free.. ONLY get the download from THIS SITE! Do NOT trust any other site!
I mentioned earlier that SCS won’t support you. Well, you’re in luck as this site includes a forum dedicated to the ‘helping you out’ part.
I personally… I think I’m going to try this. But if I remember, I’m still on a job in the ProMods part of the game world. Somewhere in Finland. Got to deliver that and then backup my profile, and have a copy of it with all mods disabled.