{"id":41639,"date":"2016-12-13T17:57:03","date_gmt":"2016-12-14T01:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/?p=41639"},"modified":"2016-12-15T03:34:41","modified_gmt":"2016-12-15T11:34:41","slug":"american-truck-simulator-accurately-simulates-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2016\/12\/13\/american-truck-simulator-accurately-simulates-america\/","title":{"rendered":"American Truck Simulator more accurately simulates America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not really good at math, but here are the raw numbers.  American Truck Simulator used to be at a scale of 1:35.  With today&#8217;s update, it&#8217;s at a scale of 1:20.  According to the developers at SCS Software, this means the maps are 1.75 times larger.  I think they need to check their work. By my math, 1:35 minus 1:20 means the maps are :15 larger.  Maybe it&#8217;s a metric thing.  They&#8217;re European.<\/p>\n<p>Math errors aside, this is a Big Deal.  A fundamental part of level design, and especially open-world design, is the density of stuff.  Which is directly related to the size of the maps.  On one end of the scale, you have Assassin&#8217;s Creed: Black Flag, which squeezed the Caribbean Sea into a tightly packed pond of concentrated naval action.  On the other end of the scale, you have the original Battlezone in 1980, which didn&#8217;t have a single thing in it no matter how many quarters you spent looking for something.  So when a developer releases a game and later says, &#8220;Uh, we&#8217;re going to rework the world to make it <a class=\"fancybox\" rel=\"41639\" href=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/--sW8kXZ8czU\/WE6mFzdP3vI\/AAAAAAAAC9I\/AkOrWhwvv-EMKpBwPKga6sqCoF8W-ZJvwCLcB\/s0\/map_comparsion_fixed.png\"<\/a>this much bigger<\/a>, it&#8217;s going to have an effect on the gameplay experience.<\/p>\n<p>And in the case of a laidback truck driving simulation like American Truck Simulator, more open space is appropriate.  In Europe, everything is close together.  That&#8217;s why they have so many wars.  So Europe should have a high map density.  You drive a half hour out of Paris and you&#8217;re practically in Warsaw.  But going from Los Angeles to Las Vegas?  It&#8217;s like playing Battlezone.<\/p>\n<p>Mostly I&#8217;m just glad to have more room to drag that big-ass trailer around without constantly scraping other cars.  In the words of Moe Howard, &#8220;Spread out!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not really good at math, but here are the raw numbers. American Truck Simulator used to be at a scale of 1:35. With today&#8217;s update, it&#8217;s at a scale of 1:20. According to the developers at SCS Software, this means the maps are 1.75 times larger. I think they need to check their work. 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