It's increasingly common for small developers to look at piracy differently: There are two kinds of pirates. The ones who do it for spite - they aren't going to buy your game no matter what, so it's not worth spending your resources caring about them; and the ones who do it because they *can't* buy your game - generally because it's just too expensive relative to their personal economics. This second group, you can address by keeping them on board and giving them a gentle nudge, all the while looking at where your game is being pirated, and adjusting your country-level pricing until the problem clears up. Sure, this might mean you're selling a US$30 game for the equivalent of US$1 in (for example) Argentina, but so long as other markets are covering your costs, who cares? Now you're one of the only games people there can afford, and you'll carve out disproportionately sized chunk of the local market.
Well we can also say that some people would like to try the game before buying it. I honestly have pirated Beamng for years and then when i bought a powerful PC i immediately bought it. I now have almost 2000 hours on steam and around 700 mods
@@turbo_marc Well the thing about paid mods is very controversial: they have always been free and the reason is that even if some put great effort some might be a scam (and infact there are lot of scammy paid mods). I agree tho on paying mods but i would do something like this: Early access beta mods can be ok to be paid to support the mod development so that when the mod is fully released it’s free for everyone. Then another example would be having a free limited version of the mod and a paid one with more features. Another example would be making the mod free after some specific time so that for people that wants it immediately they have to pay (and so supporting the mod creator) and those who can wait will still have them free after some time. Or maybe making it free for limited periods of times. This ways could prevent some piracy
I am one of the modders that still make mods for Rigs of Rods. I am in the process of making a car mod so detailed, it'll be like a BeamNG dev-spec car.
@@playcer8388 itll be called the "Tasman Hunter". I plan on releasing it on a Rigs of Rods mods discord between October and December. (I'll also add a link to it on a video trailer at the time).
A detail that i don't see people talking about (well, ever), is that if you look in the Vivace's rally livery, you can see that the co-driver name is B. Aguette. Not important, but cool
and the other side of the car has a different name, (i forgot the name) but it pays attention to the realistic factor that the other name might be the name of the co driver, or even a second driver, meaning a rally team with two part-time drivers.
I've personally owned BeamNG since 2013,2014 era, and have fallen in love time and time again, This brings back some good memories, as well as a really interesting different look at the game!
I've looked at beamng videos since 2015, and got it last year, right before the winter holidays. Didn't dissapoint. It's crazy how much you can enjoy a game. (On another note, the UI did bring me more bugs than i saw when i played on a friends computer in 2018, it's all delayed.)
As a modder: 15:00 the automated test map, it's used to generate info files. There are info files for each config of the car, this is the map that devs or modders used to generate performance info like 0-100 time, braking G force and etc. It's used with automated script which can be downloaded from BeamNG's documantation.
I truly believe that BeamNG Drive's career mode coupled with multiplayer, can become the next "Motor City Online". The ability to build, customize, and fine tune your car are already in the game, as well as dealerships to purchase cars. The only things missing are the multiplayer, auctions houses, and rare parts/cars. I mean there is a dyno, you can customize the body roll, gearing, final drive, spring rates, tire size by with/aspect ratio+rim diameter. The tire-vs-ground type is already here in Beam. The damage/performance is much better than MCO(2001) but MCO had it 23 years ago. I'd love to have a a discussion with a BeamNG dev on the similarities between MCO and Beam.
You mentioned YBR and how he introduced so many people to the game, and I thought "huh i've never heard of that guy"... then the clip of his voice played, and i was suddenly taken back 8 years, remembering the light blue gavril on the old classic grid map.
Sorry for my bad english... I played BeamNG for 200+ hours on my old account, and 700+ on my main account. I started to play this game at 10-11 years old (I will be 18 this year). I played LightRunner, Career mode for 20+ hours, Bus Driver mode, I have all the achivments, I remember the remote-control app and this goofy engine sound (26:47 - that's Soliad Wendover S3800) I want to say, that there is a decal creating opportunity in the garage mode, and you can also add your own pictures by replacing files with other but same named ones. I got almost all the iceberg, but it was some new facts about my fav game, thx for this video!
Congrats, you're a true veteran! I was actually about to include the decals editor, but I decided against it because the video already was 30 minutes in length. Thanks for the additions though!
You sound like you eating the mic, seriously pure bass, had to unplug my subwoofer lol... Other than that it was a very well done video and as a BeanNG fan you did it justice man, love this game! Subbed
@@SkyFall4839 Yes it was very informative, being a solid fan of this game for years I learned some things about it I never knew, glad you took my reply in stride and didn't get offended lol. Keep up the great work, I look forward to more videos ✌️👍
I've never had a racing game so immersive that I was able to roll the car just because the wheels were too grippy and caught when I was sideways. That was until I played BeamNG.
Well organized, flowing, superb editing and scenes are all purposes to the details. Wouldn’t be here if Beam was just a crashing sim. Took a deep liking to it. Just really wish some features were fleshed out to be noob friendly as you pointed out with the negative reviews.
@@SkyFall4839from 1:23 onwards ,there were two music tracks playing in the brackground, mabye it was an editing accident ? 26:53 is that the soliad wendover?
28:04 There's an object in the world editor called "precipitation" which is basically rain. You might also find it in West Coast USA but it's not enabled... yet.
Yes that’s true, you can activate it yourself by setting the ‘numDrops’ value to anything above 0. This is just visual rain though and doesn’t affect anything.
12:42 I agree with SkyFall, YBR is my start with Beamng he is one my favorites and I am very happy that you included YBR in this video and I say this because YBR is the reason I started playing Beamng in the first place so lots of respect to YBR and SkyFall. Again, lots of thanks to YBR and SkyFall. Also, this is just a really great video overall. :)
aye uhm just a quick question could you friend me on steam because I really need help downloading rar mod files and I was wondering if you know how to do that at all but i understand if you don't want to share your username. Also you are very welcome@@SkyFall4839
iirc the automated testing track is what's used by the game to automatically generate the statistics for configs that you see for every vanilla vehicle. you run a bat file (i believe) inside the game files after adding in the vehicle name and it generates 0-60, 0-100, offroad scores and all that. cool video!
I knew all of these except the last two and the antipiracy screen. Some of them I forgot about until I watched the video. Also, thanks for mentioning YBR, as he is also the reason I found out about the game in 2015.
wow, i have just around 15 hours of BeamNG but i was still aware of everything shown on the video (except about the background for the unnoficial copies), the reason must probably be because i am in the community since 2016 and because i have watched thousands of hours of BeamNG youtube videos lol. i will send this to my friends to see how deep they got into BeamNG's iceberg.
I understand why Bluebird sent a letter asking the devs to remove the bus mod; some copyright laws essentially say that if you don't defend your copyright, you risk losing it. They weren't seeking monetary damages or anything, they just sent a letter asking the devs to remove the mod, and everybody went on their merry way. Also, car companies don't want images of their cars being smashed into a million pieces out there (which is why you won't see licensed cars in the game, or crash damage in almost any game with licensed cars), and since there have been BeamNG crash videos being passed off as real car crashes on TikTok, they had to do what they could to keep it from happening.
It's very rare for the copyright incident to happen on BMG forums. But there's a newer one. Ferrari mods. No, the gta 3 liberty city mod does not count since the OG author took it down because of responses Take Two given to modders.
I'm quite sure it got added recently, because there used to be a flashlight mod for the player character (which obviously wouldn't exist if it had one by default)
Now they just gotta add it to photo mode or something. Tbh tho I won't complain about it anymore cuz now I know some kind of flashlight feature exists so I'm 100% happy now :)
27:43 dynamic weather would be really nice to have but also would be cool to enable a setting so you can have live weather like if it rains irl it rains in the game to
My favorite driver reference is "M. Mouton" on the vivace gravel rally. Its a reference to Michelle Mouton who drove the Audi Quattro S1 back in Group B rally!
I used to play on a pirated copy of beamng when i was broke and young. Always had the pirate background but never thought of it as a sort of anti piracy thing. Pretty cool. I’ve ofcourse purchased the game and im just having a blast racing a bmw e36 through the need for speed most wanted map.
I gotta say, your content is HEAVILY underrated. I would love to know what editor you use, beacuse I am trying to improve the quality of my videos. I also low the camera path you use! GREAT WORK!
Beamng is already an insane game and it has so much more potential. The devs are as great as the game. And I can’t wait to see how big this is gonna get
I found more info on the bus situation. The creator of the mod himself is who posted the news originally on the "Wentward Bus Type C" thread. ----------------- ThreeDTech21 Feb. 9, 2018 "It had the brand name Blue Bird, I think BeamNG was sent a copyright notice front the company, it was taken offline, when I went to rebrand it I needed up doing a full overhaul of much of the jbeam, it took longer because I was super busy this year." --------------- also the Jansport backpacks were removed from the bus props. The Stig was also removed.
Wow, that video is a banger! Thank you so much for giving such a detailed look into beamng, Skyfall ❤ I have now accumulated more than 1100 hrs in beamng and it is by far my favourite game! Lets see what the future holds for beamng:)
theres a .bat file that you can download from the mod documentation that allows you to automatically test vehicle mods on the automated testing map, its mainly used for automatically filling in the performance tab in the vehicle selector
I watched WhyBeAre for years, from when I was probably 9 or 10. Finally became able to buy BeamNG two days ago. So glad to see that you honored him properly here
I think the car you were driving is a Wendover. I got everything from Level 1 and 2 and a lot of things from Level 3 to 5. One of the best videos on RUclips right now.
I focussed on official happenings as I feel like including the community more would result in an even longer video (probably too long…). Glad you still learned something new though and let’s see, maybe I’ll make a video on the community :)
ybr was when i first got interested in beam all the way back in 2013. Got a laptop in 2021 alongside beamng. Got a good pc in 2023 and I now have 1,118 hours in it.
I knew everything in this video but the license plate detail (that's one of my favourite details now, tbh), the "wet" mode for the Scintilla, and Bluebird getting mad at the devs for a mod :p
i was a big rigs if rids fan growing up and when i found out about beam ng i had to play it, im sure i have 1000's of hours in beamng and the devs are unbelievably supportive ill support this game for years to come
18:30 how did you get your camera to behave like that? Is it a mod or are there settings in game that I can change to have the camera shake and zoom out like that?
If you want to add to the lore side of BeamNG, there's a rock stack on the Utah map near the tourism center. It could be a memorial for a driver who attempted the jump in the mineshaft and failed
This is awesome to see, as I've noticed most of these details over the now 11 years of watching/playing BeamNG since finding it through YBR. The ones I haven't seen are any of the monoliths added/removed other than Utah, scary stuff or some of the caves, the antipiracy screen, the connections/naming which I sorta saw sometimes, Jargl although I do know of Charmand because of the mod, the license plate trick, the first mod as I thought that was the HellHopper, the wet mode, the ice easter eggs, and cease and desist. Most of this is because I haven't had so much time to play anymore. I remember using the BeamNG app, lego technic wheel, and a controller with hot glued pedals to make a working beamng steering wheel and pedals before I actually got a real set. I believe the red car was a Wendover.
BeamNG is my most played sandbox / racing game / driving sim since first alpha release It's just a pure quality by itself 13:54 Shows just how mature BeamNG devs are
Great video my friend! You have inspired me to get into Beam and try to make some cinematics. I have played before but the complexity can be daunting, especially when it comes to making cinematic content
Best 20 bucks I ever spent. BeamNG is something special. Gambler vehicles show just how cool the devs are. Them adding Jake brakes in the last update was a delight
This was the first game i was anticipating for years pre-release, and i went out of my way to buy it on the day of its release, also i was one of the early modders, nothing serious just dabbling with meshes, textures, and suspension settings. Those were awesome times, it was such an upgrade performance wise after R.O.R.
Just to tack onto the whole dynamic weather thing, Beamng already has dynamic clouds that can be set for cloud cover, speed and fog so making rainy weather is already completely feasible in that sense. There is also multiple sections in the ETK driving centre that include wet asphalt, as well as mud at certain points in multiple maps, so changing the road conditions is also certainly possible. They also have a section of icy terrain in the terrain testing areas of both gridmaps, despite it showing up nowhere else in the game. Seems weird to me.
That's true, the only thing that's probably holding dynamic weather back is performance reasons. Having wet or icy surfaces is one thing; dynamic surfaces that can change in real-time are another. In addition to that, an actually good weather system would require volumetric clouds, which would hurt FPS a lot. Let's wait though :)
I'm so thankful I found WhyBeAre so early on cause I wouldn't have been able to watch this game grow so closely, even though I didn't have a computer until a couple years ago, beamng was one of the first games I bought.
one thing imma say now: volumetric clouds soon coming to the game as a mod, well the creator of the mod somewhat has a release but paid until final version of the mod is complete
I think adding the ange engine sound system might be a bit too hardware intensive for the game but would be interesting if they had a lite version of it
first got the game in 2016, one an old laptop it ran like a slideshow, then finally got a slightly better laptop which it kind of ran, and then finally got a gaming pc in november 2018
The winter and Halloween events actually both had achievements for finding all items, which I got, but they were removed from Steam without a trace because you can't get them anymore ofcourse.
Super early audio and handling physics take me back On a laptop at 5 FPS, the eternally visible white UI, not knowing how to change cars, flat tires being one of the most unsightly things...
I was interested in BeamNG the day it was announced while Rigs of Rods was still the version of what was being played (by the people that played it), i just didn't have a PC capable enough to run it at the time (P4, 6800 GT which barely ran Rigs of rods). The engine simulation takes a bit of performance to run correctly. including that on top of BeamNG would put many systems on the struggle bus. But if they was to only use the engine simulator to gather sounds from and import the sound files into BeamNG then that wouldn't put any additional strain on people PCs (which would probably be the better way, yes its a compromise, but the middle ground).
Hmm, there’s the Blue Bird copyright incident, but have you ever heard of the 1967 Lotus 49 mod takedown incident from Assetto Corsa’s developers in 2014?
It's crazy that the devs support people trying the game instead of preventing piracy...
It's increasingly common for small developers to look at piracy differently: There are two kinds of pirates. The ones who do it for spite - they aren't going to buy your game no matter what, so it's not worth spending your resources caring about them; and the ones who do it because they *can't* buy your game - generally because it's just too expensive relative to their personal economics. This second group, you can address by keeping them on board and giving them a gentle nudge, all the while looking at where your game is being pirated, and adjusting your country-level pricing until the problem clears up. Sure, this might mean you're selling a US$30 game for the equivalent of US$1 in (for example) Argentina, but so long as other markets are covering your costs, who cares? Now you're one of the only games people there can afford, and you'll carve out disproportionately sized chunk of the local market.
Well we can also say that some people would like to try the game before buying it. I honestly have pirated Beamng for years and then when i bought a powerful PC i immediately bought it. I now have almost 2000 hours on steam and around 700 mods
I bought it in steam after i test it by pirating (buying was the best decision of my life)
Ironic considering how this community is full of people who cry about their mods getting pirated.
@@turbo_marc Well the thing about paid mods is very controversial: they have always been free and the reason is that even if some put great effort some might be a scam (and infact there are lot of scammy paid mods).
I agree tho on paying mods but i would do something like this: Early access beta mods can be ok to be paid to support the mod development so that when the mod is fully released it’s free for everyone.
Then another example would be having a free limited version of the mod and a paid one with more features.
Another example would be making the mod free after some specific time so that for people that wants it immediately they have to pay (and so supporting the mod creator) and those who can wait will still have them free after some time. Or maybe making it free for limited periods of times.
This ways could prevent some piracy
I am one of the modders that still make mods for Rigs of Rods. I am in the process of making a car mod so detailed, it'll be like a BeamNG dev-spec car.
Ooo that sounds amazing!
Nice, aways like seeing people still doing stuff with older games
What's it called?
@@playcer8388 itll be called the "Tasman Hunter". I plan on releasing it on a Rigs of Rods mods discord between October and December. (I'll also add a link to it on a video trailer at the time).
RoR will always have a place in my heart
A detail that i don't see people talking about (well, ever), is that if you look in the Vivace's rally livery, you can see that the co-driver name is B. Aguette.
Not important, but cool
Fun little Easter Egg!
and the other side of the car has a different name, (i forgot the name) but it pays attention to the realistic factor that the other name might be the name of the co driver, or even a second driver, meaning a rally team with two part-time drivers.
also, in the dunekicker, near the ignition switch you will find some words that say “this side up”
Also on the amateur rally livery you can see the name "C. Rossaint"
The vivace gravel rally has m. Mouton which is a reference to Michelle Mouton who drove the Audi Quattro S1 back in group B days
I've personally owned BeamNG since 2013,2014 era, and have fallen in love time and time again, This brings back some good memories, as well as a really interesting different look at the game!
You are a true veteran! I’m very happy that you liked it ;D
I've looked at beamng videos since 2015, and got it last year, right before the winter holidays. Didn't dissapoint. It's crazy how much you can enjoy a game. (On another note, the UI did bring me more bugs than i saw when i played on a friends computer in 2018, it's all delayed.)
I knew about BeamNG ever since 2016 (because of RUclipsrs like YBR, CrashBoomPunk, Insanegaz etc.), but actually started to play it in 2018.
As a modder: 15:00 the automated test map, it's used to generate info files. There are info files for each config of the car, this is the map that devs or modders used to generate performance info like 0-100 time, braking G force and etc. It's used with automated script which can be downloaded from BeamNG's documantation.
Thanks for the insight, that’s interesting for sure!
12:20 thats the man who introduced me into it too but i never really knew who he was at first but now hes just.... gone
same he was accused of rap3 and bomb threats
@@HH-fh4dswhat? Seriously?
@gettothepoint2707 Yeah, also he wasn't earning any money, so he saw it as a waste of time. He was too busy to make videos for fun
@@HH-fh4dsis there documented proof he did this? I'm not defending him but I gotta know
@@Nikofoxrealfurry
I truly believe that BeamNG Drive's career mode coupled with multiplayer, can become the next "Motor City Online".
The ability to build, customize, and fine tune your car are already in the game, as well as dealerships to purchase cars.
The only things missing are the multiplayer, auctions houses, and rare parts/cars.
I mean there is a dyno, you can customize the body roll, gearing, final drive, spring rates, tire size by with/aspect ratio+rim diameter.
The tire-vs-ground type is already here in Beam. The damage/performance is much better than MCO(2001) but MCO had it 23 years ago.
I'd love to have a a discussion with a BeamNG dev on the similarities between MCO and Beam.
I 100% agree, can’t wait to see where the career mode goes.
My thoughts are similar but looking for a successor to Street Legal Racing, aside from the slowly developing Street Tuning Evolution
Motor City Online! Man, you're old. 😂
I also loved it. Lol
You mentioned YBR and how he introduced so many people to the game, and I thought "huh i've never heard of that guy"...
then the clip of his voice played, and i was suddenly taken back 8 years, remembering the light blue gavril on the old classic grid map.
Nostalgia hit 🥹
And the leap of death map trying to crash cars into helicopters and planes
i heard of the game from camodo gaming
Sorry for my bad english...
I played BeamNG for 200+ hours on my old account, and 700+ on my main account. I started to play this game at 10-11 years old (I will be 18 this year).
I played LightRunner, Career mode for 20+ hours, Bus Driver mode, I have all the achivments, I remember the remote-control app and this goofy engine sound (26:47 - that's Soliad Wendover S3800)
I want to say, that there is a decal creating opportunity in the garage mode, and you can also add your own pictures by replacing files with other but same named ones.
I got almost all the iceberg, but it was some new facts about my fav game, thx for this video!
Congrats, you're a true veteran! I was actually about to include the decals editor, but I decided against it because the video already was 30 minutes in length. Thanks for the additions though!
Also, you don't have to replace files, you can just add images named `logo_yourname.png` so it doesn't replace anything :)
@@SkyFall4839 did I guess the Wendover correctly?
@@Gr_AndI also guessed the soliad wendover
That English is better than mine could ever be.
I feel like a beamng “Volvo”would only make sense seeing how they’ve pioneered safety or maybe saab with their many quirks
10:56 I played hustle and bustle and complete it last week now I only need the “A rocky start” achivment
you're literally supposed to start with a rocky start
That's the only achievement I need also
Wow SkyFall. This is some great work. This is an entire BeamNG documentary. Thanks for sharing this. Can't wait to see what comes in the future!
Glad you enjoyed it!
It was a surprise to see my old Rigs of Rods videos there :')
Great quality video!
Well, what can I say, I didn’t expect you to comment here either! Appreciate those words coming from you :D
man i rememnber watching your vids back in 2010, good times...
You sound like you eating the mic, seriously pure bass, had to unplug my subwoofer lol...
Other than that it was a very well done video and as a BeanNG fan you did it justice man, love this game! Subbed
Lol I‘m sorry about that, my microphone isn’t the best..
Glad enjoyed the video though!
@@SkyFall4839 Yes it was very informative, being a solid fan of this game for years I learned some things about it I never knew, glad you took my reply in stride and didn't get offended lol. Keep up the great work, I look forward to more videos ✌️👍
@@DROK278glad you learned something new! Always happy about constructive criticism :)
SkyFall is a BEAST for putting this legendary video together! Great work as always, friend 🔥
Appreciate it!
Seeing the old beamNG menu took me waaaayyyyyy back. Damn! Awesome video btw
Thank you so much!
I've never had a racing game so immersive that I was able to roll the car just because the wheels were too grippy and caught when I was sideways. That was until I played BeamNG.
Well organized, flowing, superb editing and scenes are all purposes to the details. Wouldn’t be here if Beam was just a crashing sim. Took a deep liking to it. Just really wish some features were fleshed out to be noob friendly as you pointed out with the negative reviews.
You ALWAYS nail it with your comments, that’s exactly what I was aiming for!
Thanks for watching :)
It’s FINALLY here 🗣️
YES :D
Hell yeah
@@SkyFall4839from 1:23 onwards ,there were two music tracks playing in the brackground, mabye it was an editing accident ?
26:53 is that the soliad wendover?
@@nerfgodbigguy1405yes something went wrong while exporting, I’m sorry about that!
And yes you guessed it :)
@@SkyFall4839 lessgoo, got it right on.
28:04 There's an object in the world editor called "precipitation" which is basically rain. You might also find it in West Coast USA but it's not enabled... yet.
Yes that’s true, you can activate it yourself by setting the ‘numDrops’ value to anything above 0. This is just visual rain though and doesn’t affect anything.
REST IN PEACE AUGGIE💝🙏🙏
Who is that?
@@Eekerbb2You can’t be serious… it’s literally explained 3 minutes into the video you clicked on.
12:42 I agree with SkyFall, YBR is my start with Beamng he is one my favorites and I am very happy that you included YBR in this video and I say this because YBR is the reason I started playing Beamng in the first place so lots of respect to YBR and SkyFall. Again, lots of thanks to YBR and SkyFall. Also, this is just a really great video overall. :)
Thank you for watching :)
aye uhm just a quick question could you friend me on steam because I really need help downloading rar mod files and I was wondering if you know how to do that at all but i understand if you don't want to share your username. Also you are very welcome@@SkyFall4839
The one who introduced me to Beamng Drive was a RUclipsr known as MuYe.
yeah I know MuYe he was like the 5th person@@AWizardAndaMouse3432
iirc the automated testing track is what's used by the game to automatically generate the statistics for configs that you see for every vanilla vehicle. you run a bat file (i believe) inside the game files after adding in the vehicle name and it generates 0-60, 0-100, offroad scores and all that. cool video!
Oh I didn’t know that! Thanks for sharing :)
12:21 It's because of him that I love Beamng Drive
I knew all of these except the last two and the antipiracy screen. Some of them I forgot about until I watched the video. Also, thanks for mentioning YBR, as he is also the reason I found out about the game in 2015.
Congratulations!
wow, i have just around 15 hours of BeamNG but i was still aware of everything shown on the video (except about the background for the unnoficial copies), the reason must probably be because i am in the community since 2016 and because i have watched thousands of hours of BeamNG youtube videos lol. i will send this to my friends to see how deep they got into BeamNG's iceberg.
I understand why Bluebird sent a letter asking the devs to remove the bus mod; some copyright laws essentially say that if you don't defend your copyright, you risk losing it. They weren't seeking monetary damages or anything, they just sent a letter asking the devs to remove the mod, and everybody went on their merry way.
Also, car companies don't want images of their cars being smashed into a million pieces out there (which is why you won't see licensed cars in the game, or crash damage in almost any game with licensed cars), and since there have been BeamNG crash videos being passed off as real car crashes on TikTok, they had to do what they could to keep it from happening.
It's very rare for the copyright incident to happen on BMG forums. But there's a newer one.
Ferrari mods.
No, the gta 3 liberty city mod does not count since the OG author took it down because of responses Take Two given to modders.
Ive been playing BeamNG since 2013, and im shocked how much I didn't know. This is a great video!
Wow I’m glad you learned something new!!
As a kid when i was like 13 i remember i pirated the game from sum website and then after a year i bought the game to support the developers
I am an adult now, Played alpha when i was in maybe 4th grade? Its an honor to grow alongside this game.
it's about time I've seen a BeamNG iceberg, good stuff skyfall!
5:47 You've got to be kidding me! After nearly thousand hours I learn about it just now? Great video! Absolutely love it!
I'm quite sure it got added recently, because there used to be a flashlight mod for the player character (which obviously wouldn't exist if it had one by default)
Now they just gotta add it to photo mode or something. Tbh tho I won't complain about it anymore cuz now I know some kind of flashlight feature exists so I'm 100% happy now :)
27:43 dynamic weather would be really nice to have but also would be cool to enable a setting so you can have live weather like if it rains irl it rains in the game to
That would be cool, there's a Gmod mod that does that so it's fully possible too
There's a experimental mod for it
@@CodenameGSDsRealwait really? Never heard of it!
My favorite driver reference is "M. Mouton" on the vivace gravel rally. Its a reference to Michelle Mouton who drove the Audi Quattro S1 back in Group B rally!
Interestingly, BeamNG is still missing some stuff that was/is in Rigs of Rods like trains, boats, cranes and official multiplayer
The modding community worked fast on making them
@@toddaustin449 Yup, BeamNG modding community is amazing, and devs are very supportive of it which is great.
25:07 Cant belive its already 7 years ago. Wow
Time flies..
I’ve never seen a vid like this on beamng, can’t wait
I used to play on a pirated copy of beamng when i was broke and young. Always had the pirate background but never thought of it as a sort of anti piracy thing. Pretty cool. I’ve ofcourse purchased the game and im just having a blast racing a bmw e36 through the need for speed most wanted map.
Thanks for sharing your story :)
I gotta say, your content is HEAVILY underrated. I would love to know what editor you use, beacuse I am trying to improve the quality of my videos. I also low the camera path you use! GREAT WORK!
Thank you! I use Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe After Effects for editing :)
Cool! I use CapCut Pro for PC 😅@@SkyFall4839
Beamng is already an insane game and it has so much more potential. The devs are as great as the game. And I can’t wait to see how big this is gonna get
Same here!
THIS IS GONNA BE AWESOME
:DDDDD
I hope you’ll enjoy it ;)
29:10 AND NOW FERRARI IS DOING THE SAME SH*T
Yep, I was considering to include a joke related to Ferrari in this video but I didn’t want to jinx it
Welp I guess I did
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ybr introduced me to beamng too. i loved his videos
Same here!
@@SkyFall4839 same here! i was introduced mostly by YBR, Camodo Gaming, and BeamNG Emergency Stories
Skyfall, thank you for a really thorough and intelligent overview. I've used BeamNG for many years, and never knew much of what was in your "iceberg."
Glad you learned something new!
Wow. Just WOW! Great video, @SkyFall!
Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it!
I feel like the old crash sound effect should come back, I find it hilarious for no reason
IT'S FINALLY HERE!! This is gonna be EPIC!!!
12:18 why be are just brings back so much memories bro 😔
14:19 whys this so funny yet wholesome at the same time 😂
Awesome video. I remember the halloween events. Ive been playing for over a decade now. This video almost made me cry from all the nostalgia.
Glad you enjoyed it 🥹
I found more info on the bus situation. The creator of the mod himself is who posted the news originally on the "Wentward Bus Type C" thread.
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ThreeDTech21
Feb. 9, 2018
"It had the brand name Blue Bird, I think BeamNG was sent a copyright notice front the company, it was taken offline, when I went to rebrand it I needed up doing a full overhaul of much of the jbeam, it took longer because I was super busy this year."
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also the Jansport backpacks were removed from the bus props. The Stig was also removed.
funny you mention the brakelights, because I feel like they can still use some work to make them look like they light up gradually like on older cars.
The bus company overreacted in my opinion
Wow, that video is a banger! Thank you so much for giving such a detailed look into beamng, Skyfall ❤ I have now accumulated more than 1100 hrs in beamng and it is by far my favourite game! Lets see what the future holds for beamng:)
:)
Who else watched ybr 👇
SAME
theres a .bat file that you can download from the mod documentation that allows you to automatically test vehicle mods on the automated testing map, its mainly used for automatically filling in the performance tab in the vehicle selector
people that got beamng cause of whybeare👇🏻
I watched WhyBeAre for years, from when I was probably 9 or 10. Finally became able to buy BeamNG two days ago. So glad to see that you honored him properly here
Aww thank you for sharing your story!
Oh man, i just love you videos. And you go and make a 30 minute one? Hell yeah. 30 minutes of pure knowlege and joy
Appreciate it! :)
I think the car you were driving is a Wendover. I got everything from Level 1 and 2 and a lot of things from Level 3 to 5. One of the best videos on RUclips right now.
Thank you so much!
And yes, it was a Wendover :)
Great video. I have over 1,000 hours in the game and I learned a couple things. I guess mods themselves are gonna get a separate video lol
I focussed on official happenings as I feel like including the community more would result in an even longer video (probably too long…). Glad you still learned something new though and let’s see, maybe I’ll make a video on the community :)
ybr was when i first got interested in beam all the way back in 2013. Got a laptop in 2021 alongside beamng. Got a good pc in 2023 and I now have 1,118 hours in it.
It’s such a great game for car enthusiasts I remember rigs of rods as well
I knew everything in this video but the license plate detail (that's one of my favourite details now, tbh), the "wet" mode for the Scintilla, and Bluebird getting mad at the devs for a mod :p
YBR was also my introduction to BeamNG when I was probably 10 years old
Thank you for such a good and informative video about our game!💙
Any time!
I almost cried when you brought up ybr
i was a big rigs if rids fan growing up and when i found out about beam ng i had to play it, im sure i have 1000's of hours in beamng and the devs are unbelievably supportive ill support this game for years to come
Thanks for sharing your story!
18:30 how did you get your camera to behave like that? Is it a mod or are there settings in game that I can change to have the camera shake and zoom out like that?
It‘s a mod -> www.beamng.com/resources/enhanced-chase-camera.29131/
@@SkyFall4839 thanks! :-)
Watching this made me realize how much I knew about Beamng.. played it for years and I only didn’t know a few things pretty deep in
this video was awesome!! i love your videos!!!
Thank you so much!!
You're truly one of the most underrated beamng youtubers ever. This was an awesome video/explanation! Please continue to make beamng content💙
Wow, thanks! There’s more to come!
Fantastic video! I knew a lot of these points but learned about others I never knew about either.
Glad you learned something new!
If you want to add to the lore side of BeamNG, there's a rock stack on the Utah map near the tourism center. It could be a memorial for a driver who attempted the jump in the mineshaft and failed
This is awesome to see, as I've noticed most of these details over the now 11 years of watching/playing BeamNG since finding it through YBR. The ones I haven't seen are any of the monoliths added/removed other than Utah, scary stuff or some of the caves, the antipiracy screen, the connections/naming which I sorta saw sometimes, Jargl although I do know of Charmand because of the mod, the license plate trick, the first mod as I thought that was the HellHopper, the wet mode, the ice easter eggs, and cease and desist. Most of this is because I haven't had so much time to play anymore. I remember using the BeamNG app, lego technic wheel, and a controller with hot glued pedals to make a working beamng steering wheel and pedals before I actually got a real set. I believe the red car was a Wendover.
I’m very glad you learned something new & thanks for sharing your story!
And yep, it was the Wendover!
man, i miss WhyBeAre so bad, he's the one who teach me about this game
Thanks for referencing YBR. Bro was the GOAT
No doubt!
16:15 im happy to see my submission for the iceberg is here! 😀
Thanks again for the submission!
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Great video about one of my fav sim-game, so much stuff I didn't know, well done!
Glad to hear that!
I Think the devs made the monolith as a tribute to the around fifty year old movie 2001: A Space Oddesy
i love beamng drive and this video has really showed me how complex this game actually is. Awesome video! ❤
Appreciate it!
The brand "FPU" in beamNG must be based on "Argo", as argo makes literally the same ATVs, but in real life
This was such a great video man. keep making them, you are my most fav beamng youtuber.
Aww I appreciate it :)
BeamNG is my most played sandbox / racing game / driving sim since first alpha release
It's just a pure quality by itself
13:54 Shows just how mature BeamNG devs are
Great video my friend! You have inspired me to get into Beam and try to make some cinematics. I have played before but the complexity can be daunting, especially when it comes to making cinematic content
Go for it and have fun!
I wonder if they have cinematic tools mods
@@azi9_ity that would be awesome, I use the drone cam mod for my videos so that's all I would really need, I could do without camtool 2 in Beam lol
You've made a really good work and you've put a lot of effort, congratulations😊😊
Thank you very much!
Best 20 bucks I ever spent. BeamNG is something special. Gambler vehicles show just how cool the devs are. Them adding Jake brakes in the last update was a delight
100% agreed
This was the first game i was anticipating for years pre-release, and i went out of my way to buy it on the day of its release, also i was one of the early modders, nothing serious just dabbling with meshes, textures, and suspension settings. Those were awesome times, it was such an upgrade performance wise after R.O.R.
dude i love playing the lightrunner maps! thanks for putting them in the video.
Nice to hear there’s still some people playing that game mode :)
Just to tack onto the whole dynamic weather thing, Beamng already has dynamic clouds that can be set for cloud cover, speed and fog so making rainy weather is already completely feasible in that sense. There is also multiple sections in the ETK driving centre that include wet asphalt, as well as mud at certain points in multiple maps, so changing the road conditions is also certainly possible. They also have a section of icy terrain in the terrain testing areas of both gridmaps, despite it showing up nowhere else in the game. Seems weird to me.
And on top of that, you can add rain as an effect in world editor. It’s only a matter of time
That's true, the only thing that's probably holding dynamic weather back is performance reasons. Having wet or icy surfaces is one thing; dynamic surfaces that can change in real-time are another.
In addition to that, an actually good weather system would require volumetric clouds, which would hurt FPS a lot. Let's wait though :)
I'm so thankful I found WhyBeAre so early on cause I wouldn't have been able to watch this game grow so closely, even though I didn't have a computer until a couple years ago, beamng was one of the first games I bought.
one thing imma say now: volumetric clouds soon coming to the game as a mod, well the creator of the mod somewhat has a release but paid until final version of the mod is complete
I think adding the ange engine sound system might be a bit too hardware intensive for the game but would be interesting if they had a lite version of it
3:50 Well now I have to go crash one for Auggie real quick and try not to cry.
first got the game in 2016, one an old laptop it ran like a slideshow, then finally got a slightly better laptop which it kind of ran, and then finally got a gaming pc in november 2018
The winter and Halloween events actually both had achievements for finding all items, which I got, but they were removed from Steam without a trace because you can't get them anymore ofcourse.
Super early audio and handling physics take me back
On a laptop at 5 FPS, the eternally visible white UI, not knowing how to change cars, flat tires being one of the most unsightly things...
I was interested in BeamNG the day it was announced while Rigs of Rods was still the version of what was being played (by the people that played it), i just didn't have a PC capable enough to run it at the time (P4, 6800 GT which barely ran Rigs of rods).
The engine simulation takes a bit of performance to run correctly. including that on top of BeamNG would put many systems on the struggle bus. But if they was to only use the engine simulator to gather sounds from and import the sound files into BeamNG then that wouldn't put any additional strain on people PCs (which would probably be the better way, yes its a compromise, but the middle ground).
Hmm, there’s the Blue Bird copyright incident, but have you ever heard of the 1967 Lotus 49 mod takedown incident from Assetto Corsa’s developers in 2014?
5 score . I did manage to talk to a beamng dev and they are quite cool and chilled. i wish the best for ur future man (;
Congratulations! I can tell the devs are chilled, it's amazing that you got to talk to one!
Thanks, you too man :)
@@SkyFall4839 Ya . I will ask if they know ur yotube (; keep up the good work
@@fah1007 thank you so much :D