Recalling the release of Bus Driver Simulator to Early Access, we now understand how much has changed since then. Out previous game had relatively small amount of content back then: two buses, seven scenarios and a small map.
Bus World will have much more content in its open beta: two maps both of which are bigger than Serpukhov, almost ten buses, 20 scenarios (moreover, they are really different and are not like "drive along the route), and Free mode.
Some things are still to be done after Early Access release, like dirt and volumetric tracks and some new scenarios. A bit later, we'll make another post about the things we'd like to add while the game is in Early Access.
No our game has been worked on before Early Access for so long. For example, Bus Driver Simulator was in development since the end of 2016 to come out in Early Access in January of 2018. Bus World has been in development since Summer of 2019.
We haven't disabled FPS counter for the screenshots so that you can take a look at how the game runs on a mid-range PC with GeForce GTX 1080. We've been working on optimization through the whole development process and it was the hardest task - HDRP on Unity is really hard to work with. We had to take some compromises as well: in some places of Chornobyl map, the game will load map chunks on the fly (even though these loads are very fast, they are still noticeable - we plan to get rid of them in the future).
We also understand that many of you are disappointed by the news about models of cars and buses. But, as we wrote before, we can't do anything about it now. But, we'll look if we can implement the support of user-made mods. In any case, implementing modding support will be a very slow process because we are a very small team. As of now, the state of affairs in Russian gaming industry is very hard, forcing us to work in a crisis. But, the project we've been working on for so long, is close to public testing, and it pleases us.
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