The Euro Truck Simulator 2 Heart of Russia DLC was just weeks away from completion at developer SCS Software back in February, when the Russian Federation launched its invasion of Ukraine. Now, in light of the war, the studio says it has decided to cancel the expansion to avoid the appearance of offering any support to the Russian side of the conflict.
SCS Software says that on February 24, the Heart of Russia team was about "6-8 weeks" away from being ready to launch the map expansion for their popular simulator game. "We all felt really good about the result; a lot of effort had been invested in making this new region look truly fantastic in the game," the devs write in the latest blog post. "We were absolutely sure that our community, especially those in Russia, would really appreciate that."
The studio scrambled to put together a Ukraine charity DLC to offer assistance to Ukrainians fleeing the war, and to date about 85,000 copies of the Ukrainian paint jobs DLC have been sold.
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