Freight Fate 1.9.0

Compatibility

• Careers from 1.8 and earlier do not carry over; every driver starts a new career. Old saves stay listed, untouched and playable in 1.8.
• Your settings come across from 1.8.
• Freight Fate runs on Windows, Apple Silicon Macs and Linux. Linux comes for x64 or ARM64, as an archive or an AppImage.
• On Linux, speech uses the Speech Dispatcher installed on your computer. Without it the game still starts, but stays silent.

Highlights

• Freight Fate is rebuilt from the ground up, and starts noticeably faster.
• The biggest map yet: 100 new cities, real speed limits coast to coast, and real streets into hundreds of facilities.
• Highways drive like highways. Real lanes, exit ramps at their real lengths, deceleration lanes, ramp-end lights and cross traffic at the bar.
• A co-driver reads the road. Spoken curve calls, steep-grade warnings and speed-limit drops, with bends that can move your load or roll the truck.
• Choose how much the truck does for you. The game asks once: All assists, Balanced or Realistic.
• The road has rules and someone enforcing them. Troopers, roadside inspections, real weigh stations, and a driving record your carrier and insurer read.
• The radio is a real dial. Thousands of real stations, dozens of new original songs, your own playlists, and Synthesized music the game makes itself.
• The truck sounds like a real truck. A three-stage engine brake, real brakes and gear changes, and traffic that sounds like what it is.
• Weather and seasons matter. Snow chains and chain laws on the western grades, winter tires and hydroplaning.
• Truck stops sell more than fuel. Meals, showers, repairs, loyalty points, live parking counts and CAT scales.

New features

• Each truck keeps its own condition. Worn brakes, tires or engine can put it out of service, so walk around it before you pull out.
• Your freight can be damaged, and the receiver can refuse it. Tank loads slosh, and hard bends and stops show it.
• Drop and hook, detention pay, and receivers with a drop yard.
• Hours of service has its own keys. T plans your next sleep stop, and opt-in hints name a comfortable break.
• Cruise reads the road ahead. It drives the hill before it arrives, has a resume button, and adaptive cruise slows for bad weather.
• You can choose how much room the truck leaves to the vehicle ahead.
• Latch the brake and give your hands a rest. Turn it off under Settings, Driving assistance, Latching brake.
• Hold slash to straighten up. With lane keeping on partial or off, the truck points down the road.
• Alt T switches between automatic and manual shifting on the road.
• You can change which key or controller button each driving control uses. F2 lists every driving command by name.
• Learn game sounds plays what every sound means before you meet it at speed.
• Comma and period review your recent spoken messages while you drive. Comma re-reads the last line anywhere in the game.
• You can play from a braille display with speech off. Driving readouts are short enough to fit one.
• Driving keys work with JAWS without the pass-through key. Settings, Speech has a JAWS arrow keys row when JAWS is running.
• Live road reports, real construction zones and live truck parking cover most of the map.
• The pumps charge this week's real diesel price.
• Real time joins the Driving mode row. The game clock follows your computer's.
• Licenses and training replaces the endorsement menu. Train out of the automatic-only restriction, and add steel and lumber to flatbed securement.
• You can stay a company driver, and owner-operators can go back to company driving. Owner-operators start with a brand-new truck.
• Dispatch picks the truck to fit the load, and relays one from a nearby town when your board is thin.
• Online, you choose which career is public. A driver directory sits next to Drivers on duty, and profiles say what each achievement was for.
• Dozens of new achievements, browsed by category. Careers that reach level 21 get a menu theme of their own.
• The driver tablet has a Radio app. Search the dial, tune by name, and save favorites with O.
• Music source can be set to Synthesized. A music seed changes every piece, and the original 1.5 soundtrack is back.
• About three thousand new billboards, state welcome signs, and real roadside attractions where they really stand.

Fixes

• A stalled or damaged update download is never installed. Escape leaves the download at once.
• Closing the game hands your screen reader back right away. A stuck screen reader can no longer freeze the game.
• Speech comes back on its own when a voice locks up mid-drive.
• Safety calls, hazard instructions, turn calls and exit calls are never lost or talked over.
• Automatic braking stops the truck in time, even on hot or worn brakes.
• The assists no longer run your air tanks dry by pumping the brakes.
• Hills and bends match the real road, and interstate curve warnings are rare.
• Exits, state lines and rivers are announced where the truck really is.
• Every stop the game announces is one your truck can enter. Convenience stores no longer pose as truck stops.
• Town speed limits no longer follow you out of town, and a lower limit is always announced in time.
• Checking in at a weigh station no longer gets you fined for bypassing it.
• A dead radio stream lands on a live station instead of silence.
• A damaged settings file or sound file no longer takes the game down.

Changes

• New installs start on All assists. Switch to Balanced or Realistic under Driving assistance.
• Spoken lines are shorter everywhere. Quiet and Urgent only leave out traffic chatter, and a key you press always answers.
• The game stops repeating key prompts you have mastered, and Escape acts instead of explaining.
• The radio dial moved to Page Down and Page Up.
• Four keys answer one question each about where you are. R now answers just "where am I".
• Fines match what they cost a real trucker, and your driving record costs you with the carrier and the insurer.
• Company drivers no longer see the truck dealer, upgrades or tire choice. The carrier handles the truck.
• Pausing no longer takes you off duty.
• Every music track and radio segment plays at the same loudness.
• The Mac app is signed and notarized by Apple, so it opens without the Open Anyway step.
• The driving school steps out of this release to finish training.
• Lane centering assistance is gone from Driving assistance. Lane keeping on full already holds the lane.

Complete change list

Every change in this release is listed in the full Freight Fate 1.9.0 changelog, on GitHub and as CHANGELOG.md in your game folder.