Freight Fate 1.9.4

Added

• Drivers at Great Lakes Training Transport can now move to another carrier. At level 4 with full dispatch trust, Business status lists the other carriers.
• Interstates now have the sound of distant traffic, louder on busier stretches.
• On busy freeways, traffic now comes up beside you and passes.
• The radio status screen says where your own playlist files go until you have one on the dial.
• A fuel range warning speaks when your fuel will not reach the next fuel stop. It names your range and how far the stop is.
• The Radio app can suggest a station that is missing from the dial. Accepted stations join every driver's dial, and AM and FM ones play near home.
• Text fields now paste with Control V, and name punctuation as you type it. A colon or slash is spoken as a word instead of a silent click.
• Drivers can call dispatch while stopped for trip-specific help. Report delays, hours, road conditions, truck trouble or load trouble.

Changed

• The player manual and How to play now explain menus, driving, rest, radio, and career choices more clearly.
• How to play announces controller controls, including how to stop speech.
• Update checks, the bug report page and the manual download link now go to the game's new GitHub home, orinks-games.
• A slow vehicle ahead in your lane is now called at half a mile, when you start to hear it.
• Tire noise on the road is louder at highway speed.
• The fuel range now comes from your truck's own mileage on this drive, load and hills included.
• The Engine voice and Engine brake voice settings are now called Engine sound and Engine brake sound.
• The distant interstate traffic is now a steady roar.
• A slow vehicle ahead in your lane can now be heard from half a mile away.
• A slower vehicle ahead now plays the slowing-traffic sound, not a passing sound.

Fixed

• Switching screen readers is now silent, and ZDSR no longer repeats "Speech is now using ZDSR" on every key press.
• Channel 3000's shows are now as loud as the other stations, and their theme music no longer jumps out over the talk.
• Been Everywhere, For Real now needs all sixteen regions on the map, not fourteen.
• Grossed Out at the Scale House can now be earned. It needs a load within a ton of the legal limit; dispatch never offered the old 24 tons.
• The Route 66 and redwood badges count the newer towns on the map, like Joplin, Gallup and Kingman on the Mother Road, and Eureka in the redwoods.
• Menus accept Enter, Space, and letters from braille notetakers and automation tools. Like the BrailleNote Evolve, they could arrow but not select.
• Traffic is now loud enough to hear over the engine, from about a quarter mile away.
• Passing traffic now sounds where the vehicle really is. It comes up on its own side, then fades as it pulls ahead.
• Traffic sounds on exit ramps now match the cars. The freeway fades off to your left, and cross traffic at the ramp end sweeps across in front of you.
• Bobtail to a nearby city is refused while your CDL is suspended or disqualified. You hear when the suspension ends instead.
• Training classes now leave you tired, about half as fast as driving does. If a class leaves you drowsy, you are told to sleep before you drive.
• The last weigh station warning names its scale and leaves time to take the exit in every driving mode. Closed scales say so.
• Weigh stations and truck stops around West Memphis are now where they really are. The scale that was never there is gone, and the Marion and Lehi scales are added.
• The clock no longer sticks at real time after a slow merge. Changing Driving mode while moving now waits until you stop, and says so.
• A pickup dispatched from another city now calls each street turn by its real direction. It no longer says keep right at every street.
• The weigh station bypass charge now applies only when you really skip an open scale. A hazard near the scale no longer costs you; slowing, then speeding past, still does.
• A closed weigh station says it is closed, once, and nothing more. It no longer chimes, saves, or counts as an inspection.
• The state line on the St. Louis to Memphis drive now says I-40, over the Hernando de Soto Bridge.
• The update check no longer offers a preview snapshot that is the same as your copy.
• What's new, when updating from an older preview snapshot, now lists every change since your copy.