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.)
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.
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.
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 ✌️👍
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
@@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?
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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!
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
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.
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
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 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 :)
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 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.
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
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
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 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
YBR also intruduced me to beam I rember the video, it was of a 20s car mod that he drove on small Island, the rear wheel flew when he brushed a small rock we both started to laugh histericaly, me expecialy xd
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:)
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).
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
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.
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 :)
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‘m glad that you think like that, but I worked on this for about 3 months and I prefer a regular uploading schedule with shorter videos over an irregular schedule with videos of this length.
i got a pirate version originally and i remember when they added the covet as the second vehicle iv since bought the game but it’s crazy how far they’ve come
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
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
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
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 TH-cam right now.
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 :)
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
They should integrate Automation into BeamNG or something like this, it is so satisfying when you made a car that drives well and maybe even looks good.
That’d be awesome, but they would have to increase the price because the Automation devs want a part too obviously. Not sure if the BeamNG devs want to increase it…
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?
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.
The anniversary skin? Just spawn a Scintilla, open the *vehicle configurator* and select ‘Anniversary skin’ from the *paint design* section. Thank you :)
Its crazy, just compare the Forza with the Beamng Iceberg: The further you move down the worse forza´s seems like and for Beamng´s its exactly the opposite: The further you move down there the better it gets xd
You should really point out that the player character is not a snowman by default. Also, Randolph isn't considered "hidden" if it's right there on a mudflap.
Weirdly enough it seems to decide randomly between the snowman and the debug meshes. About Randolph tho, I meant to put “hidden” in quotation marks, sorry.
I wonder how the devs of beamng drive view whybeare? And I hope that YBR one day considers doing a collab with other beamng TH-camrs. I know he’s focusing on his education and I wish him the best, but beam wouldn’t be as popular as it is without him.
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 TH-camrs like YBR, CrashBoomPunk, Insanegaz etc.), but actually started to play it in 2018.
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
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
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!
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
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.
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...
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!
REST IN PEACE AUGGIE💝🙏🙏
Who is that?
@@Eekerbb2You can’t be serious… it’s literally explained 3 minutes into the video you clicked on.
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 :)
Seeing the old beamNG menu took me waaaayyyyyy back. Damn! Awesome video btw
Thank you so much!
SkyFall is a BEAST for putting this legendary video together! Great work as always, friend 🔥
Appreciate it!
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 TH-camr known as MuYe.
yeah I know MuYe he was like the 5th person@@AWizardAndaMouse3432
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.
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.
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!
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 :)
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
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.
I am an adult now, Played alpha when i was in maybe 4th grade? Its an honor to grow alongside this game.
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 :)
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.
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.
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!!
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!
it's about time I've seen a BeamNG iceberg, good stuff skyfall!
I feel like the old crash sound effect should come back, I find it hilarious for no reason
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!
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.
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
man, i miss WhyBeAre so bad, he's the one who teach me about this game
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!
I’ve never seen a vid like this on beamng, can’t wait
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!
The bus company overreacted in my opinion
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 :)
14:19 whys this so funny yet wholesome at the same time 😂
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 :)
THIS IS GONNA BE AWESOME
:DDDDD
I hope you’ll enjoy it ;)
It’s such a great game for car enthusiasts I remember rigs of rods as well
Wow. Just WOW! Great video, @SkyFall!
Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it!
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.
IT'S FINALLY HERE!! This is gonna be EPIC!!!
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.
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
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👇🏻
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
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.
12:21 It's because of him that I love Beamng Drive
I love your channel too, I love your videos, my dream is to have a PC to play Beamng Drive
The brand "FPU" in beamNG must be based on "Argo", as argo makes literally the same ATVs, but in real life
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!
YBR also intruduced me to beam
I rember the video, it was of a 20s car mod that he drove on small Island, the rear wheel flew when he brushed a small rock
we both started to laugh histericaly, me expecialy xd
Reading that made me smile that’s so funny and sweet :)
i think the blue bird bus thing was a overreaction because nowadays there are tons of irl cars in beamng
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:)
:)
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).
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
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.
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 :)
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 miss YBR so much, I remember watching him back in 2014 I was 7 and he got me into the game
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!
Theres nothing wrong about long videos when its entertaining, i wish it was longer.
I‘m glad that you think like that, but I worked on this for about 3 months and I prefer a regular uploading schedule with shorter videos over an irregular schedule with videos of this length.
25:07 Cant belive its already 7 years ago. Wow
Time flies..
Thank you for such a good and informative video about our game!💙
Any time!
i got a pirate version originally and i remember when they added the covet as the second vehicle iv since bought the game but it’s crazy how far they’ve come
YBR was also my introduction to BeamNG when I was probably 10 years old
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! :)
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
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 :)
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
"hey this is whybeare with beamng drive and today..." that takes me back. It's such a shame youtube had to put all this hate and stuff on him.
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!
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 TH-cam right now.
Thank you so much!
And yes, it was a Wendover :)
oh my word. touching story on Augie. I'll pause right here and cause a big old crash for Augie
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 :)
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
They should integrate Automation into BeamNG or something like this, it is so satisfying when you made a car that drives well and maybe even looks good.
That’d be awesome, but they would have to increase the price because the Automation devs want a part too obviously. Not sure if the BeamNG devs want to increase it…
I Think the devs made the monolith as a tribute to the around fifty year old movie 2001: A Space Oddesy
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?
Thanks for referencing YBR. Bro was the GOAT
No doubt!
This video made me look at the game in a different, better view, I did not even know anything about the game.
Glad it changed your perspective on BeamNG :)
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.
16:15 im happy to see my submission for the iceberg is here! 😀
Thanks again for the submission!
@@SkyFall4839 👌
The clocks in cars display the computer’s time. Even in the E36 mod where the rpm gauge is replaced by a clock
Where did you get those skins for the scintilla cause I dont think its there in my game...
Btw, the video is amazing! Keep up the good work :)
The anniversary skin? Just spawn a Scintilla, open the *vehicle configurator* and select ‘Anniversary skin’ from the *paint design* section.
Thank you :)
Im so glad you featured WhyBeAre. he is who got me in to Beamng and even PC gaming.
Its crazy, just compare the Forza with the Beamng Iceberg: The further you move down the worse forza´s seems like and for Beamng´s its exactly the opposite: The further you move down there the better it gets xd
Yes haha!
You should really point out that the player character is not a snowman by default. Also, Randolph isn't considered "hidden" if it's right there on a mudflap.
how fo i get snowman
i dont like that grey arrow sh*t
Weirdly enough it seems to decide randomly between the snowman and the debug meshes. About Randolph tho, I meant to put “hidden” in quotation marks, sorry.
@@zenoudoWhen you're in the walking mode, open vehicle config and select snowman from visual meshes or how thats called (forgot)
@@kotiksae thx😁😁
@@SkyFall4839 It never "decides randomly" for the walking mode, it always picks debug meshes.
I wonder how the devs of beamng drive view whybeare?
And I hope that YBR one day considers doing a collab with other beamng TH-camrs. I know he’s focusing on his education and I wish him the best, but beam wouldn’t be as popular as it is without him.
Dry Rock island looks diffrent now ever since the game has a PBR terrain material in update 0.24
I would also like to thank WhyBeAre. If not for him I wouldn't have found this game and I probably also wouldn't be such a huge car enthusiast today.