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

Bus Simulator 18: Update #2 available now!

Dear bus drivers,

Our second update for Bus Simulator 18 is now available for download here on Steam. The main focus is a number of performance and traffic AI improvements as well as numerous additional bug fixes. More detailed information can be found in the patch notes below:

Patch Note Update #2
Numerous textures were optimized to reduce memory usage and loading times.
Cashier buttons can now be controlled with steering wheel buttons, but you need to take care to avoid double assignment.
Passenger pathfinding while boarding the bus has been improved.
If even with the improved pathfinding passengers clip into the stopped bus, starting to drive no longer generates a penalty.
If the player has Logitech drivers installed and they allow it in the settings, the pedal axis separation setting is automatically set to CombinePedals=false.
Added input rebinding widgets for IncreaseRetarderStrength and DecreaseRetarderStrength in the normal controls and steering wheel section.
Optimized pedestrian spawning/despawning logic to improve performance.
Tweaked update rate of audio volumes to improve performance.
Fixed issue that clients can no longer join a multiplayer company if too many buses have customization on them.
A bug in the traffic AI has been fixed, which caused NPC cars that did not have priority over the player to sometimes cut in right in front of the player.
NPC cars are now more reluctant to waive their priority to prevent situations where traffic no longer follows right-of-way rules because everyone is letting everyone else pass.
The player positions are now shown on the minimap.
Gamma settings are now remembered correctly.
Drive statistics now list all players that participated in a co-op mission.
When using Quick Start, the bus is placed much closer to the first bus stop if the stop is on a long road.
Reduced lag spike that occurred when loading a sublevel that contains parked cars.
Fixed lag spike caused by trains reaching the end of the tracks.
NPC character movement has been optimized to reduce the performance impact of having lots of passengers in the bus.
Movement of NPC cars has been optimized in a similar way to reduce their performance impact.
The map has been optimized to reduce GPU load.


Important note: The game's Force Feedback setting offers a scale from 0 to 100 now. So select 100 to get full Force Feedback. (Settings > Game > Force Feedback)