For now it is only official in American Truck Simulator, but most likely in a few hours it will also be official in Euro Truck Simulator 2. The fact is that version 1.41 is already being installed automatically on our PCs through Steam, which allows, among others many things, enjoy multiplayer convoys as normal, without installing beta versions. From now on up to 8 players will have the opportunity to join together on the road, but hope that in the future the maximum number of participants in a convoy will be expanded, and for now these are the features that can be enjoyed in this mode:

-Any player can organize and create their own private sessions for up to 8 people
-Possibility of transporting together the same contracts / jobs from the same company and to the same destination
-AI synchronized traffic
-Synchronized time and weather
-Synchronization of paint jobs, truck accessories, cab accessories, loads and more
-Ability to communicate with other drivers via CB radio (X key), quick responses (Q key) or text chat (Y key)

We know that many of you who are reading this news are big fans of the games of the Czech company SCSsoftware, and you greatly enjoy driving virtually on the roads of Europe and the US. Well, what would you think of being able to do it in the company of your friends? That is the new possibility that we can begin to test in these games.

Many of you may already know about the existence of a fantastic mod that allows online gaming, TruckersMP, and that it is possible to play it on Linux, although with a lot of work and not natively thanks to Wine and TruckersMP-cli. Well, from yesterday this functionality will be included in an experimental way if we install beta 1.41, starting in this case with American Truck Simulator (in ETS2 it will come later).

According to what we can read in this official message on the SCS forums, in this new game mode we can configure or join sessions created by our friends or public games, up to a maximum of 8 truckers. For this, work has been done to synchronize the traffic of the AI, the weather and the meteorology, as well as the work done by all, being able to return to the progress prior to the online game, in case you were not satisfied with what was done during the game for any reason. Convoy. According to the description given by SCS, this is what we will find in this first beta:

The current feature list includes:

Any player can host and create their own private sessions for up to 8 people.
Ability to transport the same contracts / jobs together from the same company and to the same destination
Synchronized AI traffic
Synchronized weather and climate
Synchronized Paint Jobs, Truck Accessories, Cab Accessories, and More
Ability to communicate with other drivers via CB radio broadcast (X key), Quick Replies (Q key), or text chat (Y key)
Notable / not yet implemented issues:

Mods are not compatible with the initial version.
Players can currently join in only if they have the same set of loading DLC ​​and maps installed as the host.
The weather is not completely in sync (good / bad weather only).
Cables for remote trailers are not rendered.
By using your own trailer, there may be a company trailer generated in the same place you are supposed to go to load your cargo.
AI vehicles can disappear when a player disconnects.
The lifting bridges are not synchronized. They will be stationary for the initial launch of Convoy.
Other players' truck sounds are a work in progress.
Sharing of World of Trucks external contracts is not yet allowed.
Steam invites you to work only through the Steam overlay.
CB radio transmission (hotkey "X") interferes with line of text entry.
Cargo on a proprietary platform can sometimes intersect with the trailer
On-screen map in Convoy "M" zooms out along with scrolling chat in Route Advisor.
Changes / limitations planned during the convoy session:

The rate of time progression does not change when entering a city.
The time in a Convoy session will advance to match the host's time, but it's visual only - economic time is not affected (if you had 2 hours left to finish work before joining the Convoy, you should still have the same time remaining to finish his work).
No special transport jobs are allowed. You cannot join a Convoy session with such an active job.
Dynamic collisions are disabled for parked vehicles (you cannot push a parked vehicle, but you will still collide with it).
Downed road signs are not visually reproduced for other players; their collisions are simulated locally and work only in close proximity to the player.
The toll gates are not synchronized, however the opening is based on proximity as for AI vehicles.
AI vehicle colors may differ after a while (so cached vehicles can be reused to limit memory consumption).
Other features that come with 1.41:

Weather and climate settings in photo mode
Fast travel
California Reskin Part 1 Including 7 Farm Stations and a Road Design Redevelopment
New icons in the map legend
Now you just need to try it and give us your opinion in the comments or in our Telegram group or our Matrix rooms. The truth is that it would be great if we could meet one day to take some "trucks" and travel together with our trucks. We leave you with this video where you can see the news of this version 1.41 Beta: