Developer snapshot 2026-07-27

Preview snapshot for players who want the newest features before the next stable release. Expect rough edges; your save files stay compatible whenever possible, but back them up first.

Changes since the previous snapshot

Added

• Review recent spoken messages while driving. Use the message review controls to move through general and critical announcements, jump to the first or latest message, switch categories, and copy the current message to the clipboard. Contributed by Day Garwood (@day-garwood) in PR #122.
• Tire sounds now react to your speed. On supported audio systems, the tire hum rises and falls as you accelerate or brake. Above a crawl, soft road-seam thumps add texture through sound and controller vibration. Contributed by Swarup Baral (@swarup-developer) in PR #114.

Fixed

• Automatic speed control now slows in time for construction zones. At highway speed, adaptive cruise begins braking when the advance warning is announced and reaches the work-zone limit before the speed keeper takes over, so the game no longer fines you while its own controls are still slowing down.
• The rest-stop arrival cue now leaves real time to set the brake. Trip pacing no longer consumes the whole stopping buffer while even a slow voice is still speaking. Terse speech now says "Stop now." If you set the parking brake when the stop announces your arrival, the truck can finish stopping and open the rest-stop menu; continuing past without stopping still misses the stop.
• A destination exit stays ready after it is announced. On Standard or Fast trip pacing, slowing down while the callout spoke could shrink the action window, so pressing X answered "No exit coming up." The exact announced exit now remains available through a human reaction window, while expired and already-passed exits still cannot be armed. Braking, inspection, and other safety warnings also finish before the signaling confirmation.