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ProMods 1.97 is released!

Euro Truck Simulator 2September 4, 20157Comments

Bit of a late update, but despite that, we’re happy that ProMods 1.97 is released and that most users are using this version with no problems!

Apart from allowing ProMods to work with Euro Truck Simulator 1.20, which is the latest version, ProMods 1.97 fixes many bugs that were reported in earlier versions. However, as with ProMods 1.96, you must own the Going East! DLC as well as the Scandinavian DLC in order for ProMods to work.

With ProMods 1.97, we decided to release a new method of downloading and extracting the files. These files, because they are uncompressed, they do take up more space on your hard drive. However, the mod now takes less than 1 GB to download, benefiting the Payloadz users, as they can get the mod with one single file again. Then, there’s the extracting process. We’ve fitted a self-extracting application. This application, when running, will automatically extract all the files in the archives, which makes the whole process easier for everyone. It is only needed for extracting, and can be deleted once the extraction has finished.

To download ProMods 1.97, click here. However, make sure you follow the tutorial in order to avoid any downloading/installing issues. The tutorial can be also found translated in 21 languages; select the language forum and click the locked topic in the first page. If you do have any issues, please post them here with your game.log.txt file.

Best regards,
Your ProMods team

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ProMods 1.96 is Available Now!

Euro Truck Simulator 2August 10, 20154Comments

ProMods-1.96-Release

We are excited to share with you that the compatibility update for 1.19 is finally ready. Now you can enjoy the improved ProMods Map on the latest Euro Truck Simulator 2 update!

When patch 1.19 of Euro Truck Simulator 2 came out, SCS changed some file formats which required updates to map mods – again. ProMods 1.96 is mainly a compatibility update, however we also did some bug fixing all over the map to improve the quality of our work.

Another issue we had to solve was that with the 1.19 update two new Hungarian cities were added to the Going East DLC: Pécs and Szeged. This pushed us to come up with a solution to connect our Slovenia to the new areas of Hungary via the Slovenian A5.

However, this also means that from this point, the Going East DLC will also be mandatory to run ProMods. There would be no other way to connect the areas mentioned prior, without having the Going East DLC. Without it many bugs would arise. Furthermore maintaining two versions of our mod pack would be extremely tedious and hard to handle, plus it would severely disrupt our future plans! Due to the fact that the Scandinavia DLC is already required since ProMods 1.95 we finally made the decision to make both map DLCs mandatory from this version onward:

ProMods 1.96 requires both the Scandinavia DLC and the Going East DLC!

[button color=”orange” url=”http://download.promods.net/”]Download Version 1.96[/button]

To update your copy of ProMods 1.96, don’t forget to create a new DEF file, since we’ve made some changes there too.

Work continues on ProMods 2.0

We now reset our focus to developing ProMods 2.0 which will be our biggest update in ProMods history. In saying that, the current status of the project is still a huge work in progress and it doesn’t allow us to predict an achievable release date just yet. So to tame your expectations, ProMods 2.0 will not be available within the next few months.

As we already announced Radol and his team joined us and Poland Rebuilding will be a permanent project in our further ProMods updates, which gives Poland the love it deserves. With the Scandinavia Merge, we combine the best out of the DLC’s Scandinavia and the former areas of ProMods’s Scandinavia – from Denmark, Sweden and Norway to Finland.

We’re also proud to introduce seven new countries:

[flag country=”es”] Spain
[flag country=”ad”] Andorra
[flag country=”ro”] Romania
[flag country=”bg”] Bulgaria
[flag country=”md”] Moldova
[flag country=”lt”] Lithuania
[flag country=”lv”] Latvia

And last but not least, many improvements on roads, cities, signs and details all over the map!

Stay tuned for further information by visiting the development topics on our forums or follow us on Facebook, Twitter or Google+!

Many thanks for your support!

Best regards from your Promods Team

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The Second Anniversary of ProMods.net

CommunityAugust 8, 20156Comments

Hello community!

Today we are celebrating the second anniversary of ProMods.net! With a forever growing number of fans, over 170 000 people have joined the fun on our website, making ProMods the largest fan forum in the Euro Truck Simulator 2 community! Now is a good time to set things in retrospective to see how our humble project could grow to something this big…

ProMods started around three years ago as a two-man project between Scul and Nico. Their initial plan was to build Scandinavia for Euro Truck Simulator 2, called the Scandinavia Map. This would eventually become ProMods 1.0, which took ten months to complete. At the first release of the ProMods map, the website ProMods.net was opened to the public, exactly two years ago on this day.

Throughout the years, the team grew in size. Kutchek and MandelSoft joined quite early on after the website launched, and other team members with their own set of skills were invited and joined the team. Our current mapping team has 18 members and we are still looking for new members.

But not only did ProMods grow in size; it also grew in quality. Innovation has played a big part in the ProMods history. We don’t profilate ourselves that we try match SCS’ quality; we strive to go beyond that, to find new ways to design roads, landscapes and decoration. Pushing the boundaries, so to say. And we will keep on doing that to give you an increasingly better map.

We are more than just a map mod; we are a modding platform and a community. Our forums are full of activity of our fans and we even have recruited some of our developers on the forum that convinced us about the quality of their work. We have merged the Italy Addon mod in ProMods and Poland Rebuilding will be fully integrated into ProMods 2.0 in the future.

Therefore, we would like to thank our team members for all their effort and countless of hours they have put in the map to make it the map that it is today. We would also like to thank our moderators that keep our forums tidy and under control. We would like to thank our beta testers for their efforts to catch bugs for us to solve before the public has to deal with them…

But most of all, we would like to thank all of our fans that supported us, follow our work and that help other players out when they are having problems with Euro Truck Simulator 2, ProMods or any other mod. Without you, ProMods could never have become this big. As a little gift, we will add a special ProMods 2nd Anniversary truck skin for the Mercedes New Actros and the ProMods 2nd Anniversary trailer for you to drive with. You can pick it up from here.

ProMods is not just a map. It’s a community!

Happy Trucking!

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We’re Back Online

CommunityJuly 29, 20150Comments

Server-diary

Most of you may have noticed a blackout of promods.net websites. This was caused by a corrupted hard disk on our server. Fortunately no data was lost, so we could start from backups on a temporary hard disk. The second maintenance offline period was nescessary to replace the corrupted hard disk by a new one and move all data to it. Now everything is up and running again. Thanks for your patience!

What about another host?

Some people suggested to move to another host service. But we believe that we already found a powerful one: LeaseWeb, based near Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Just to give you an impression why we need to run our services on such a professional host:

Our WIP folders contain about 10 GB of data and we’re working with 16 developers in parallel on the various projects all over the map. To manage this, we use a professional document management software (SVN).

Our current release has a size of 1.6 GB. With over 170,000 installations, our server has to handle dozens of terabytes of data transfer within a few days or even hours when we release a new version. This is way beyond what a “simple” webhost can handle.

When will you release the next versions?

During the server failure we were able to work on our local copies of the WIP folders, but had to ensure not to overlap our work. This caused a delay in releasing the compatibility update for Euro Truck Simulator 2 v1.19 – Even though we’re still working hard on it, you should not expect a new version within the next 1-2 weeks.

In parallel, we’re working on our next big step: ProMods 2.0 – That version probably will become our biggest update ever! Our long time partner Poland Rebuilding joined us and will be included to the ProMods map. And there will be additional content in northern Sweden, Finland, the Baltic States, Romania and much more!