Louisiana DLC is coming December, 4
Louisiana DLC for American Truck Simulator will be released on December 4th, 2025
Hidden Roads Study – November, 24 2025
As you know I’m sharing found hidden secret roads in both American Truck Simulator and Euro Truck Simulator 2 periodically. Latest available guides with hidden roads is still actual but we have updates in ETS2 1.57 on refreshed Scandinavia, where I found at least 4 roads already, and will be more on Nordic Horizon DLC soon. In ATS, I assume, we will see also brand new secret paths with Louisiana DLC which will be released on December, 4. So for now I will not update guides until all these hidden roads will be discovered. I hope it will happen in 2025 but not sure because currently I have not enough time in the games.
Actual list of cities with hidden roads for Europe and America will be updated periodically here https://trucksim.top/y9t6. It is probably won’t help you with exact secrets locations but you can check if you missed any.
ETS2 (updated 04.25.2025, actual on 1.57 without Scandinavia Refresh and Nordic Horizon DLC, 80 roads so far)
ATS (updated 08.23.2025, actual on 1.57 without Louisiana, 235 roads so far)
Unfortunately, YouTube search results often prioritize older videos, so even though I’m updating descriptions, outdated guides still rank higher in search results. Please always check if a more recent and updated guide is available.
ATS 1.57 Released
Since SCS gave it all they got in the ETS2 this time we have a minor updates in American Truck Simulator. Louisiana DLC is close and there will be much more contents in terms of map and features.
Changelog
Map
- Minor Existing Gas Stations Changes (Preparation for Road Trip)
Visual
- HDR Support
- Reworked Players’ Company Logos
UX
- Cursor Navigation Enhancements
Map Combination Beginners Guide and Secrets for ATS & ETS2 1.56
Map Combos for SCS trucking games are not an easy for newcomers. So you can find lot of ready setups for actual version, including here on Trucksim, but before start better to avoid obvious mistakes. In this guide I’m explaining how to build map combo for Euro Truck Simulator 2 (ETS2) or American Truck Simulator (ATS), from how to download and combine maps, to tricks how to avoid crashes. I will cover the basics for beginners. Guide made in 2024 but is still actual in November 2025 on game versions 1.56 and latest DLCs
Mentioned in video parameters for Launch Options in Steam:
for 8GB -64bit -nointro -unlimitedlog -rdevice dx11 -mm_pool_size 4096 -mm_max_resource_size 32 mm_max_tmp_buffers_size 1000
for 16GB -64bit -nointro -unlimitedlog -rdevice dx11 -mm_pool_size 8192 -mm_max_resource_size 32 -mm_max_tmp_buffers_size 1000
for 32GB -64bit -nointro -unlimitedlog -rdevice dx11 -mm_pool_size 16384 -mm_max_resource_size 32 -mm_max_tmp_buffers_size 1000
Telegram: https://t.me/trcksm
Final Map Combo for ATS 1.56 with 20 Maps – November, 8 – 2025
The final big map combo for ATS 1.56 with Coast to Coast, Promods Canada, ATS Expansion, More American Cities, Beyond, Sierra Nevada, Western Canada Expansion and other mods. Links below consist 20 maps and additions. Only Free mods.
Links:
📌Coast to Coast Map 2.21.56.0 https://trucksim.top/mck5
📌Reforma 2.9.4.2.156 https://trucksim.top/j8q9
📌Reforma Mega Resources 2.9.4.156 https://trucksim.top/et5v
📌Reforma Sierra Nevada 1.8.156 https://trucksim.top/0vxg
📌Reforma Other Maps Patch 32.156 https://trucksim.top/pnhz
📌Promods Canada 1.5.0 https://trucksim.top/38bg
NEW 📌Reforma-Promods Duplicated Item Fix 1.56-1.0.0 https://trucksim.top/vrwb
📌ATS Expansion 18.0 (Requires Volvo Construction and Heavy Cargo DLCs) https://trucksim.top/2363
NEW 📌Road To Nunavut 1.0 https://trucksim.top/4hfe
NEW 📌More American Cities (Texas) 1.1 https://trucksim.top/wa6v
📌More American Cities (Washington) 1.3 https://trucksim.top/x5fs
📌More American Cities (Utah) 1.1 https://trucksim.top/7rib
UPDATE📌More American Cities (Idaho) 1.5 https://trucksim.top/qnh7
📌More American Cities (Colorado) 1.5 https://trucksim.top/rblk
UPDATE📌More American Cities (Oklahoma) 1.3 https://trucksim.top/efrm
UPDATE📌Discover North America 1.7.1 https://trucksim.top/d45p
UPDATE📌Welcome to the East Coast 10.4.2025 https://trucksim.top/nqoa
📌Welcome to the East Coast-Discover North America RC 10.2.2025 https://trucksim.top/wp7x
📌Western Canada Expansion 1.5.0 https://trucksim.top/cpfp
📌Western Canada Expansion – ATS Expansion + DNA And C2C Connections 1.5.0 https://trucksim.top/tbav
📌Western Canada Expansion – Promods Canada Connections 1.5.0 https://trucksim.top/tkpj
NEW 📌Beyond ATS 6.0 https://trucksim.top/l58f
NEW 📌Beyond – Coast 2 Coast Road Connection 1.56-1.0.0 https://trucksim.top/rb03
NEW 📌Mega Resources Beyond Fix 1.56-1.0.0 https://trucksim.top/4607
NEW 📌Reforma Beyond Fix 1.56-1.0.0 https://trucksim.top/0pay
📌Aleutian Islands 4.0 https://trucksim.top/dv2x
NEW 📌Alaska Expansion 1.0.0 https://trucksim.top/t6tg
📌Discover Oregon 3.0 https://trucksim.top/akve
📌Project Better Arizona 0.4.5.1 https://trucksim.top/rf0s
📌Project Better Arizona Reforma Connection 1.11.1 https://trucksim.top/aeg7
📌North America Map (Dark) (Steam Workshop) https://trucksim.top/e943
Bonus:
📌YARA – Yet Another Route Advisor (Steam Workshop) https://trucksim.top/75fa
ATS 1.57 Open beta
Following the ETS2 it has been started open beta test for American Truck Simulator 1.57. Comparing to European counterpart this change is not so impressive but is important for game evolution. Also we hope to see Louisiana DLC right after the final 1.57 release. Also the Road Trip Mode have to be debuted in 2026 and SCS make step on it with Gas Station tune-ups.
Changelog
Map
- Minor Existing Gas Stations Changes (Preparation for Road Trip)
Visual
- HDR Support
- Reworked Players’ Company Logos
UX
- Cursor Navigation Enhancements
Map Combo Study 11.04.2025
After the latest map combo releases we have some new maps released and can be added to the setup but some maps are still tricky and I have not enough time to test combinations so probably it will take time and I guess those will be final map combinations for 1.56. No one like broken roads and CTDs so I keep latest combos below as a milestone for today.
As always I strongly recommend to start with beginner’s guide and do not ask same questions again and again in the comments and TG channel.
Before you start please always check if the guide you see latest and actual (check dates and videos availability). Please also follow rules and requirements – correct load order, DLCs compatibility and avoid extra mods that did not mentioned in the guide. In some cases you need to create new profile for stable work of maps especially if your old profile have pieces of deleted mods, garages, trucks etc.
Every single mod (not only map) can break the game and you will have a problems.
ETS2 Big Map Combo for ETS2 1.56 – Tutorial – October, 27 2025
ATS Big Map Combo for ATS 1.56 with 18 Maps – October, 13 – 2025
Guide mentioned above and could be helpful:
You can find on youtube and forums some combos with 100+ maps but here I’m standing for quality not quantity. Why you need millions maps you never visit if they work not stable together and take more time to setup than you will play the game?
Cities of Louisiana DLC
Upcoming Louisiana DLC for American Truck Simulator will bring us 11 new cities
Canada for ATS revealed
These days SCS Software bring surprises to their community almost every day. We had unpredictable Ireland announcement yesterday and now we see British Columbia DLC official confirmation.
I’m planning to make a podcast about latest announces and teasers but you already can read details of Canada’s first DLC on SCS blog.
100% discovered study 10.23.2025
My golden rule is Every Road Must Be Traveled, Map Have To Be Discovered. So since 2017 I do it almost on every game update including all expansions and reworks. This obsession has driven me through countless game updates, expansions, and complete map reworks across both American Truck Simulator and Euro Truck Simulator 2. Some map updates take a lot of time but some is pretty small and can be discovered in couple days. When you switch to another profile and don’t want to start map discovery from the scratch it is possible to transfer opened road to another profile. So I do it sometimes with newer profiles for both games (ETS2 and ATS) and also periodically share my progress in Youtube guides
Below you can find latest guides for update 1.56 for both games.
100% Discovered Map of ETS2 1.56 (Profile and save game) (September 2025, ETS2 1.56)
100% Explored map with all DLC in ATS 1.56 * Full Map Discovered, Guide, Profile (September 2025, ATS 1.56)
