#Beamng.drive initial release date full#

On September 11 (very patriotic), the Moonhawk was at a state of completion justifying its release, and the AI functionality was reincorporated.

#Beamng.drive initial release date full#

On August 3, 2013, the full Alpha and Tech Demo became publicly available, along with the first fully-incorporated, downloadable community mod, Mythbuster's 1949 Cadillac Series 62. In the last days prior to release, the devs went hush-hush, and the streaming tab was changed to 'Drive,' without any explanation and only a countdown timer to show for any efforts to inquire. The release was also preceded by (but not revealed in) at least 3 streaming sessions in July, previewing the H-series, Pigeon, several maps, and AI. In mid July, the last pre-release YouTube video was uploaded, showing a Gymkhana with the Grand Marshal in Industrial's port. In mid to late June 2013, two videos came out showing the then-newly completed Civette Bolide, and the destructive rampage of the Cliff Map. As a result of the engine change, PenguinvilleNG was cancelled and vehicle tearing lost most of its support for the time being. A little beyond a month later, tdev created a post demonstrating the editor in Torque to prospective mapmakers. By January 26, 2013, a video was released showing the fruits of the engine change. It was at or just before this point that the team seems to have moved over to Torque, citing royalties and performance concerns. In the final days of 2012, a poll was opened up asking the community which vehicle should be incorporated next. LFHutch revealed his first map, Dry Rock Island, in mid-November. Mods, such as donoteat's PenguinvilleNG, began to appear. Three days later, yet two more videos were unveiled showing an unmodified Covet being used for rallying, and a D-15 rolling down a hill.Īround early August of that year, the forum seems to have opened up (based on the dates of certain posts), and vehicle shells were frequently created. On September 24, two brief videos portraying smaller crashes were also released. The second video was released the 7th of July that same year, portraying a fully custom, fully fleshed-out level (still in Cryengine 3, most likely Dry Rock Island), two extra vehicles (the then mostly-completed Gavril Grand Marshal and Ibishu Covet), and collision between vehicles. It portrayed the freshly-finished Gavril D-15 in a test level in Cryengine 3, and garnered an substantially large number of views in an equally substantially small amount of time. It also lists as the release date for the first video, and, in turn, the first hint to the public toward BeamNG's existence. The main page states that the project was started in 2011 with two artists and two programmers, who, to this day, are still the only known working staff members on the project.