Random Events
Random Events is a gameplay mechanic in Euro Truck Simulator 2 and American Truck Simulator that increases the realism of driving. These events only occur on roads such as car collisions, police activity, broken-down automobiles, aircraft emergency landings, detours, roadworks, and vice versa. This gameplay is an option to use as a feature in the gameplay options for both games. The options for "random events" and "detours" are also separate.
Summary
The term random events are events that occur mostly on a variety of roads in either ATS or ETS2. Some of them occupy a small portion of a highway median, while most of the others require shutting down one lane or occupying almost half of one lane.
Unlike detours, these are unexpected if the player has enabled this option, and they can only appear on one-way roads that has at least two lanes in the same direction. Detours will block and obstruct the driver's path of travel in which they follow their GPS on their route advisor to their destination, and they will be forced to reroute. Depending on how long the detour is, they might also change the player's expected time of arrival while making deliveries or reaching a waypoint on the map.
History
- In update 1.29 for American Truck Simulator, the first appearance of the random events gameplay feature was added to the game.
- In update 1.31 for Euro Truck Simulator 2, the addition of the random events gameplay feature was added.
- In update 1.33 for American Truck Simulator, the addition of detours was added as a separate gameplay feature for the game.
- In update 1.36 for Euro Truck Simulator 2, the addition of detours was added as a separate gameplay feature for the game.
Trivia
- Random events can also appear inside tunnels, but no matter what is behind the road that is mechanically closed off, helicopters will still appear inside of the tunnels despite being nearly impossible to fly one in them in real life.[1]
- Depending on how wide the road is (a minimum of 3 lanes recommended), the player can drive through the closed road if there is room to drive through. The only vehicle that is mostly concerned about is the helicopter, which will always be placed approximately in the middle of the road and which will damage the driver's truck and/or trailer if they touch the helicopter's rotor blades.
- Random events quite often occur on the one-lane exits from the highways, which makes it quite challenging for a trucker to maneuver past the stationery vehicles. Usually, the closed off exits have two police cars and the cones blocking them on both at the start and the end of the exit.
- Some random events (for example, a broken-down car or police pulling over a vehicle) occur on the roadsides and thus do not hinder the road traffic.
- In some cases, the AI vehicles on the road fail to "identify" the random event in front of them and therefore crash into the stationery vehicles (this usually happens at the multi-lane dual carriageways)
Gallery
Cable Roadwork
An automobile collision
A Kenworth W900 was stopped by the police
Police stopped an automobile
Police surround an automobile (with a helicopter above outside the screenshot) after pursuing the vehicle
A broken-down bus
A second broken-down bus
Another automobile stopped by the police
A Peterbilt 389 was stopped by the police
Another automobile evaded the police and was stopped by two law enforcement officers
Cable Roadwork
An automobile collision
A DAF XF Euro 6 was stopped by the police
Police stopped an automobile
Firefighters put out a flaming Euro Goodies trailer (the old skin was revised after update 1.44, but this screenshot was taken after this update)
A vehicle fire
A broken-down car
Another automobile stopped by the police
Another automobile collision
Police stopped a truck, searches and inspect the trailer attached to the vehicle
Police surround an automobile
A MAN TGX Euro 6 was stopped by the police
