Alpha-4 is here! ProMods, mph, landscape mode, improved navigation and more

Hey! Last week version 0.4.0 (alpha-4) was released on Android and iOS for all Patreon backers in the Early Tester and VIP tiers.

For a deep dive into all the changes, check out the video. Here’s the version changelog:

🚀 New / Improved

• Support for map mods: ATS Expansion, ATS Promods Canada and ETS2 Promods Europe

• The app now adapts correctly to vertical and horizontal orientations

• You can now change zoom level with buttons while navigating and it stays there

• New settings popup:

  • Toggle between metric/imperial units (kmh, mph)

  • Toggle job info top bar and fatigue timer

  • Toggle if U-turns are allowed in route suggestion

• Navigation: Now it won't suggest U-turns, and highways get higher priority than smaller roads if the distance difference is not too large

• Navigation: Rendering improvements, the suggested route should look much more smooth

🐛 Fixed

• Reduced app RAM usage by about 30 to 50%, should fix some crashes in lower-end devices

• Navigation routing: No more wrong-way roads, the route should now track all intersections correctly

• Fixed some cases where the suggested route wouldn't show for very long trips

• Improved the location detection of some companies that were detected in wrong cities

• Fixed IP input field not fitting some large IPs

• Fixed some absurdly large icons in some routes

⚠️ Known Issues

• Mods that change city or company names break the suggested route feature, please keep them disabled for now. You should now see a warning inside the game when an invalid City or Company is detected.

• Detaching and reattaching cargo can sometimes cause the suggested route to disappear

• In ETS2 Promods map: Some companies are not detected correctly and a warning message "Company not found" shows

What's coming next?!

Work on version alpha-5 is already underway. The main focus is on:

• Improving the PC-side telemetry server and plugin

  • This should allow support for real company name mods and fix the issue where the route disappears after detaching the trailer.

• Making map mods modular

  • This is a bit technical, but it is an important step to support a wider variety of map mods and allow combinations.

  • Right now, adding a new map mod requires duplicating the original map data for each mod, which greatly increases app size. For example, the three new map mods in alpha-4 added about 250 MB, and this approach does not scale well.

  • With modular map mod data, the original map data would not be duplicated, so each new mod would add only a minimal size increase. This would allow us to support many more map mods and combinations.

• Custom waypoints

  • Set a waypoint anywhere on the map directly from inside the app.

• Adding support for new map mods and ongoing bug fixes

You can upvote the features and map mods you want to see supported in our official Discord server.

👉 Join here: https://discord.gg/RdC99Er37U

Thank you for all your support, more coming soon!
- Nico

TruckSim GPS for ATS & ETS2 | alpha-4 deep dive | ProMods, mph, landscape mode, improved navigation (YouTube)