This timeline showcases almost every official DLC trailer (+ free map expansions and reworks) from the 2012 base game launch through the upcoming Iceland DLC (2026-2027). Watch how SCS Software expanded the virtual European trucking world from the original 18 countries to the complete continent, featuring:
Base Game (2012) – The foundation with 18 countries Going East (2013) – Eastern European expansion Major DLCs: Scandinavia, Vive La France, Italia, Beyond the Baltic Sea, Road to the Black Sea, Iberia, West Balkans, Greece, Nordic Horizons Future expansions: Iceland DLCs It does not include future Isle of Ireland, Soul of Anatolia and UK Rework.
Each trailer is presented chronologically with game version info and covered regions. Perfect for ETS2 veterans wanting to relive the journey or newcomers discovering the game’s incredible growth over 13 years! All footages taken from @SCSSoftware, the music has been replaced since most of the trailers have copyrighted tunes. Resolution of initial trailers was 720p and later 1080p so I framed them.
New game versions 1.60 updates are here so we will also see the mods updates and it is perfect time to make you perfect profile.
In this guide I explain how to merge several profiles map discovery progress on example of merging vanilla 100% and Promods 87% profiles on ETS2 1.58. You can try this scheme on future versions in both ETS2 and ATS. Below you can find link to text version, tools and also ready strings used in this video and some updated for 1.60.
Guide:
1. Reason
There are several reasons. The most common one:
You play vanilla + DLC on one profile. And you play mod maps like Promods or Roextended on another profile. Keeping them separate is fine. But what if you want:
Your 100% vanilla discovery
Plus your mod map exploration
Combined into one master profile
Another reason:
You created a new profile for TruckersMP or testing purposes. And later you want your original progress back Or maybe you lost progress after an update and want to rebuild quickly. In all these cases — merging discovered map items makes sense.
Important:
In this tutorial we are merging only discovered map items.
We are not merging:
Garages
Money
Drivers
Trucks
XP
That is a completely different topic.
2. What Was the Problem With the Old Method?
My year-old guide is still mostly actual and you can still use Notepad++ or other editor but new guide can save you hours. Let me remind you that in every profile, discovered roads are stored in a strict indexed order inside the game.sii file.
If you simply copy part of the data:
The order becomes incorrect
Duplicate entries appear
The profile may crash
Or the game may behave unpredictably
And this becomes a serious problem because:
Vanilla profiles contain thousands of discovered entries
With map mods, this can grow dramatically
Manually fixing that with Notepad++ used to require:
Regex
Manual renumbering
Removing duplicates
Reindexing everything from zero
It worked — but it was slow and error-prone. So today we go another way. We automate the process using a Python script.
3. Make backups!
If you plan to modify game files always Make backups! This is extremely important. Your profiles are located by default in: Documents/ETS2/profiles or Documents/ATS/profiles Copy the entire profiles folder somewhere safe. If something goes wrong, you restore everything in seconds. Disable Steam Cloud synchronization for all profiles involved. We cannot modify profiles that are stored only in Steam Cloud. After disabling Steam Cloud, profiles will be saved locally in the Documents folder.
4. Preparations and tools
As always for manipulations with the profiles we need several tools: Truck Tools for save decryption – it is free of charge application you need to install to make various actions with you profiles in both games. You can also use your preferrable tools for game files decryption https://trucksim.top/trucktools Sublime Text – we need good text editor that allow us to run big files. While I use Sublime, you can use your preferable text editor like Notepad++ or even VS Code. https://www.sublimetext.com Python installed on your system – it will run my script. Python is also free of charge. https://www.python.org/ The merge-discovered.py script – you can download the script for free https://sharemods.com/uig6zgjgicrf/merge_discovered.zip.html
How to use Python?
1. Go to the official website: python.org 2. Download the latest stable version for Windows. 3. Run the installer. ⚠️ Very important: Before clicking “Install”, check the box: Add Python to PATH. This is critical. If you skip this, the `python` command will not work in Command Prompt. 4. Click Install and wait. 5. That’s it.
How to Check If Python Is Installed?
Open Command Prompt and type: python –version or py –version If you see something like: Python 3.x.x You’re ready to go. If you see an error like “python is not recognized”, then: Either Python is not installed Or it was installed without adding to PATH. In that case, reinstall and check the PATH option.
Before starting
1. Make sure all profiles you plan to modify have Steam Cloud disabled. 2. If merging modded profiles, verify that all required mods are present in your mod folder. 3. Enable file decryption in config: g_save_format 2 4. Enable console: uset g_developer 1 and uset g_console 1 5. Make sure all profiles are from the same game version (don’t combine ATS profiles with ETS2 profiles and vice versa)
5. Prepare profiles
Enter each profile you want to merge. Create a new save to identify them easily by timestamp. Decrypt each profile using Truck Tools. Inside each profile, locate the file: game.sii and copy them one by one to a new folder.
6. Merging Process
With the old method, you had to manually clean and reorder everything in Notepad++. With the new method, we only extract the necessary data in seconds. Instead of manually: Removing prefixes Reordering numbers Re-adding brackets Generating incremental indices Removing duplicates
We now use a Python script that: Extracts all discovered item IDs Removes duplicates automatically Reorders them correctly Recreates properly indexed discovered items entries Outputs a ready-to-paste result Shows you stats
Collect all game.sii files from desired profiles in one folder. You can rename them as you wish, just make sure that they have .sii extension. Example profile3.sii or promods.sii etc. Put the script merge_discovered.py to the same folder. Open terminal or command prompt in the script folder (right click with Shift – Open Powershell window here) and type:
python merge_discovered.py
or
py merge_discovered.py
Press enter The script will: Detect all `.sii` files in the folder Show how many items were found per file Show total collected items Show duplicates removed Generate output file: merged_discovered.txt – fully indexed and ready to paste.
Then Open the target profile’s `game.sii (The profile in which we want to get results of merge) Replace its `discovered_items` block with the newly generated one. Save the file. Open the save in the game. Enjoy the results.
One known side effect
Recruitment agencies may not work properly after modifying discovered items. If you attempt to hire new drivers after merging, the game may crash. Recommended workaround: Hire all drivers you need before modifying profiles.
Probably version 1.60 for ETS2 and ATS will have the short lifecycle as it was with 1.59 but we have some time to enjoy big map mods configurations until that. Below you can see guides for both games with actual mod versions. I know that we have space for improvement and I hope to release further mega updates later in July. I’m not rushing out a combo setup, I will release only those that I personally enjoy and would actually use myself.
Lately I’ve also updated Beginner’s Guide which help new comers to dive to combos world. Also since it was drastic changes in game engine in 1.59 I strongly recommend watching it everyone who did not touch configurations for a while. It will save you time, prevent recurring issues, and help you create a stable and enjoyable setup from the start.
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The big map combo for ATS 1.60. It includes Coast to Coast, Promods Canada, Reforma, Grand Utopia of America, Radiator Springs, More American Cities, Sierra Nevada and other mods. Links below consist 12 maps and additions. Only Free mods.
European version of Promods 2.83 as well as other map mods and add-ons for ETS 1.60 released and ready to be downloaded and installed. Since the process is still not clear if you want to get it for free I created below video guide:
