Beyond the Baltic Sea Expansion: Saint Petersburg

SCS Software employees told us about the largest city in the Euro Truck Simulator 2: Beyond the Baltic Sea expansion, the city of Saint Petersburg.

Saint Petersburg is the second largest city in Russia by size and population, with over five million residents. Its geographical location, combining the Neva River and the Gulf of Finland, posed a complex challenge for the developers in terms of accurately implementing the city in the game. The scale limitations of the game map also impose additional constraints on transferring real-world locations into the game world.

Saint Petersburg combines a vast number of cultural sites, landmarks, and well-known popular places—so many that it was difficult for the developers to make a final selection. However, by gathering all their efforts, they arrived at a unified list of landmarks and transport hubs that became the foundation of the city in the game. SCS Software staff hope that players, patriots, and local residents who decide to explore their city in Euro Truck Simulator 2 will support the developers' choices. In Saint Petersburg, the main transport arteries run through densely populated city districts, and designing these was another challenge for the developers. They had to apply many different tricks to achieve the necessary optimization. For example, creating the Western High-Speed Diameter in the game was a real problem for the developers, as this high-speed urban highway was built very recently and there are very few photos and videos of it online. But after thorough work, the developers managed to recreate the city as ordinary drivers see it in real life, with its features, aesthetics, and scale.

The expansion page is already available on Steam, where you can add it to your wishlist. There is no new information on the release date yet, but the developers promise to release Beyond the Baltic Sea before the end of this year.

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