Dear bus drivers,

Our first update for Bus Simulator 18 is now available for download here on Steam. Its focus lies on a number of performance-, controller- and steering wheel- improvements as well as numerous bug and localization fixes. More detailed information can be found in our patch notes below:

Patchnotes June 25, 2018

#techart
[*]Fixed numerous framerate drops, especially the one while the general hint widget is shown.
[*]Added a one-time-only popup at startup which tells you to activate PS4 controller support in Steam, if one is connected
[*]How much the in-game steering wheel rotates is now defined by the max angle on the BS18GameInstance (only if an actual steering wheel controller is connected)
[*]Added Logitech G920 steering wheel preset
[*]Added controller sensitivity settings
[*]Added SteeringWheel_LookLeftButton, SteeringWheel_LookRightButton, SteeringWheel_ResetCamPositionButton bindings
[*]Added steering wheel max range setting to the steering wheel settings
[*]Tobii, TrackIR and mouse steering settings are now only deactivated instead of hidden if they are not available
[*]Implemented new relative steering mode (and hooked up the respective settings)
[*]The cockpit zoom FOV is now always 50% of the cockpit FOV (so it also works better on triple monitor setup)
[*]Steering wheel buttons that are bound to virtual axle now work in-game (throttle / brake)
[*]Some steering settings are now disabled or enabled depending on the steering mode (relative / absolute)
[*]Increased possible FOV Range from 60-140 to 60-170
[*]Additional settings are now also reset once you reset the controls
[*]Allow achievements with installed mods, but not on installed mod maps
[*]Added button in the mod manager widget to disable unsubscribed mods
[*]Buses from deactivated mods will temporarily be replaced with a rental bus
[*]Bus stops are again shown on the UI minimap
[*]Updated FR, JA, KO and PT translation
[*]Added a minimum view pitch to the player controller to fix an issue with flipping camera orientations
[*]Fixed a wrong key check in rebind controls popup widget (Gamepad Trigger Left was checked twice instead of Left and Right)
[*]Fixed that rebinding a key/axis to the same key/axis could lead to nothing being bound even though it would show up in the UI
[*]Fixed that Tobii settings were always greyed out
[*]Fixed that if a player would change steering wheel controls and then updates to a new version, which had new axles (lookleft/lookright/centercam) they would not be able to rebind those until they reset the controls once
[*]Fix loud music event log spam
[*]Changed ticket machine buttons collider extents to prevent accidentally pressing a neighbor button and enabled the hint overlays for the buttons (but not for ticket machine itself)
[*]Replaced intro video with quieter version
[*]Language setting is no longer deactivated while the game is playing as the user will be told to restart the game either way
[*]Updated localization and deactivated localization on certain objects
[*]Changed the way all bus doors are animated to store the target location on the bus-door-component instead (changed all buses to make it work again and tested all of them too)
[*]Fixed IVECO buses front door clipping into cockpit
[*]Minor fixes of some steering wheel presets.
[*]Second camera zoom axis is now correctly rebindable
[*]Updated localization



#code

• It should now be possible to load someone else's single player saves (will be renamed into a new GUID, and ownership will be taken over)
• Change how session searches are working. Searches are now enqueued and handled one after the other, first come, first serve.
• Fixed issue that mod ad revenue wasn't displayed correctly in customization menu
• Savegame update notifications are now only triggered once per frame per type of update, not for each unlocked or changed item immediately. This should fix the issue that on some missions not all unlocks get saved.
• Separate XP addition and unlocks. Now XP based unlocks are applied retroactively, so if something should have been unlocked but wasn't, it's going to unlock after the next drive.
• Disable savegame upload to persistent server on clients
• Retroactively apply all unlocks for missions before the current one whenever a drive is finished.
• Filter persistent multiplayer savegame lobby searches in main menu by savegame BS18SessionName. Fixes issue that sometimes games were shown as not running, although they were.
• Update session information every 5 minutes, to have up-to-date UTC timestamps

#audio

• Reduced volume of intro video
• Added three bus radio tracks