
Steve Hogarty revisited it for us last year and called it a "fascinating distraction to idle away a few hours, and a near perfect simulation of what was happening in my child-brain when I played with Matchbox cars. You can pick up BeamNG.drive from Steam, where it's currently 20% off. This articles introduces its fundamentals and use. A lot of the changes are tweaks to particular vehicles, or to the physics of certain parts on particular vehicles, and sentences I fully do not understand like "Added odometer measurement to vehicle electrics." The AI feature allows the Artificial Intelligence to take over one or more vehicles, and drive using several different modes. There are lots more changes, and you can find the full release notes on the official beamNG site. The same feature will eventually roll out to other maps.

AI vehicles will stop at red lights and traffic will flow as urban planners intended. As of this update, the "East Coast USA" map now has working traffic signals. The new version of the map is four times larger than before, split into eleven zones, each with a particular focus.īeamNG.drive has come a long way since its greybox beginnings, and now has large open world spaces to drive around, with roads, buildings and traffic simulations.

A greybox space filled with tubes, bumps, ledges for you to drive across and into, so you could see the game's remarkable soft-body physics shudder and shatter your vehicle into its hundreds of constituent parts. For each of them I also did a 5 min benchmark and tested the traffic feature.For those who haven't played it, Gridmap was the original physics playground shipped with BeamNG.drive. "These are my picks for my own top 10 best BeamNG.drive maps for just driving around. For each of them I also did a 5 min benchmark and tested the traffic feature.ġ5:42 - Tail of The Dragon / Deal's Gap, ġ7:43 - Benchmark summary, final notes Save Cancel Hope you enjoy this map and a special thank you to Camodo. Those gamers that love to play racing games that are beautiful and realistic should definitely try playing this game. These are my picks for my own top 10 best BeamNG.drive maps for just driving around. PUBLIC RELEASE New map This is called The Long Road which aims to bring The Long Drive to BeamNG This map has been great to work on, as it feels more like an experience while driving through I have also added a rainy version that makes the roads wet, and the ambiance 10x better. Check our site for new best mods every day Ever since BeamNG.drive game was released back, it rapidly grew into one of the most popular car games on the market.
