Farming Simulator 22 Mods – Download & Upgrade Your Game Today

Farming Simulator 22 will be the biggest game of the series to date when it launches on November 22nd. But, we won’t be done adding new content with the release. So, we’ll please you with even more machines, tools and other cool things in the future.

It’s available to pre-order, now.

If you want to extend your copy of the game – you might want to take a look at the Season Pass! Especially, since you save money compared to buying the content separately.

Year 1 Season Pass to add a lot of content

The Year 1 Season Pass includes all planned content for the first year after release of Farming Simulator 22. That means three individual content packs with various new machines, and tools. On top of that, there’s a huge expansion on the horizon to extend the game even further. Here’s the road map:

Pack 1: Winter ‘21/’22
Pack 2: Spring 2022
Pack 3: Summer 2022

Expansion: Fall 2022
With the season pass, you also benefit from the price advantage compared to buying the new content separately. Pre-order now, and save even more money on the Season Pass!

Map & gameplay trailer – More news from gamescom
Besides the Season Pass, we also revealed the third map in Farming Simulator 22: Haut-Beyleron is inspired by the French countryside, and an ideal setting to create lush orchards and beautiful vineyards on your farm. Find out more in the separate article linked above! And, of course, we have the first gameplay trailer for Farming Simulator 22 which you can see below.

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Haut-Beyleron (o bɛlʁɔ̃) is the third map in Farming Simulator 22. With Erlengrat and Elmcreek already announced, we kept this one secret until now. Some of you already guessed right – the last map will take you to France. Take a look!

Enjoy the French countryside!

Just like with the other maps, the inspiration for Haut-Beyleron came from various places in the country. It’s not meant to resemble only one place in France, so you’ll notice influences from the regions of Nouvelle-Aquitaine in the south-west of the country and Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur in the south-east – creating the Mediterranean charm of southern France. The topology of Haut-Beyleron is heavily inspired by Beynac-et-Cazenac, including an almost identical recreation of the river courses that run through the map.

Take a break, go visit some places!

There are a lot of special places in Haut-Beyleron, apart from the beautiful hillside orchards, and the various selling points, you’ll deliver your goods to. In the center of the map, you’ll notice a castle – only one of the influences that came from south-eastern communes like Sisteron, which is also called the “Gateway to Provence”.

But there’s more to discover all over the map. Like the traditional gondolas, floating on the rivers, creating an idyllic scenery. Or the observatory, opening its dome at sundown to align the telescope with the stars. It’s okay to stop the tractor once in a while or drive around in your car to enjoy the view.

There’s even a catapult!

Create your own idyllic vineyard!

Haut-Beyleron is predestined for the new crops we’re introducing with Farming Simulator 22. Especially grapes and olives will transform the already beautiful landscape into a wide-ranging sight of lush vineyards, striping the fields.

Since Haut-Beyleron is not based on a particular region of France, the mild Mediterranean climate of the map allows for snowfall, too. So, expect your farm to be covered in white, thanks to the seasonal cycles we’re introducing with the game.

Of course, you can turn snow off if you want to – creating an experience that’s representative of the more Mediterranean regions in southern France, where snow is a bit rarer.

New gameplay scenes show Haut-Beyleron

We’ll show you more of Haut-Bayleron in our gamescom stream. Tune in on Friday, August 27th at 9pm CEST on our official Twitch channel!

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You want to see more gameplay from Farming Simulator 22? In the form of a gameplay trailer, perhaps? We can do that – watch it below!

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Prepare for gamescom! Because we are preparing to reveal more of Farming Simulator 22 on Friday, August 27th at 9pm CEST. On our official Twitch channel, we’ll have some exciting news for you. Here’s what you can expect.

Unveiling the European map
You already got to know Elmcreek, our Midwestern US map in Farming Simulator 22. Erlengrat will be back, too. The third map is still to be revealed, and now it’s time. Inspired by the Mediterranean region in Europe, some of you already guessed right about the country it’s set in. To know for sure and find out what the new map looks like, tune in and watch our stream!

TUNE IN ON TWITCH

First gameplay trailer
The first trailer of Farming Simulator 22 set the mood for the new installment of the series: Our cinematic trailer showed father and daughter working the field together, rewarded by delicious grapes after some challenges that come with the profession of farming.

You can watch the cinematic trailer below. If you want to know how it was made, there’s a Making Of, too. For gamescom, we have the very first gameplay trailer prepared, showing you actual scenes from the game.

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The Precision Farming Project, led by EIT Food and John Deere, continues with a new and improved DLC for Farming Simulator 22. We talked to Thomas Engel, Manager Technology Innovation Strategy at John Deere, about the upcoming version of Precision Farming for the game.

Watch the interview by Stefan Maurus, our Gameplay Programmer and Lead Integrator of the Precision Farming features, down below!

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Just unveiled and soon in the game: With the TRION 750 TERRA TRAC, agricultural machinery manufacturer CLAAS presented its brand-new top model in the compact combine harvester class, today – and we’re already showing you the virtual implementation, which you’ll be able to control in Farming Simulator 22 when it releases on November 22.

If you can’t wait and would like to see the CLAAS TRION 750 right away, enjoy the digitalized version of the machine in augmented reality!

“At home on every field”

When developing the new combine harvester, it was particularly important to manufacturer CLAAS to design a machine that could cope with the tasks of all field types. “No matter whether it’s hilly, flat, large or small, near the coast or in a rather dry area,” CLAAS promises. So for the three different regions you farm in Farming Simulator 22, the new TRION is ideally suited.

In the game, you can expect flat fields in the Midwest of the United States as well as curved fields in the hilly Alpine region and the varied landscape of a Mediterranean region – so the international machine manufacturer from Germany comes into play wherever you need it to thresh precisely, powerfully and reliably.

Choose your configuration!

You can choose from three different configurations for your farm: The top model, the TRION 750, offers you 435 hp and a grain tank capacity of 12,000 liters, just like its real-life counterpart.

With the CONVIO FLEX 1080, you also get the fitting header and then choose the rear tires by Continental or Vredestein for your combine that got the TERRA TRAC tracked undercarriage that protects the soil.

Try the AR model now!

Use the camera on your mobile device to make the harvester appear in your living room – or wherever you are. Simply scan the QR code on your desktop with your camera app or click the link in the mobile view and the CLAAS TRION 750 TERRA TRAC will appear on the screen embedded in your surroundings by the camera.

Then simply press the shutter button and share the picture directly with your friends or on social media. Feel free to use our hashtags #fitsyourfarm and #farmsim22 on Twitter and Instagram to share it directly with us and other fans!

More info at trion.claas.com

Want to learn more about the new CLAAS TRION 750 TERRA TRAC? You can find more information about the recently unveiled combine harvester, its features and specifications on the manufacturer’s official website at trion.claas.com.

CLAAS fans (and everyone else) can’t just be excited about the new TRION in Farming Simulator 22, though: If you pre-order now, you’ll get the CLAAS XERION SADDLE TRAC Pack for free. The game will be released on November 22 for PC, Mac, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Stadia.

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With Farming Simulator 22, you enjoy improved performance and graphics thanks to the latest version of our very own game engine. The GIANTS Engine 9 features DirectX 12, Parallax Occlusion Mapping, and a lot more. Lead Software Engineer Thomas Brunner explains what improvements you can look forward to. Watch his presentation below!

Why do we use our own engine?

Simply put, we need our game engine to do exactly what we need it to do, so you can farm on virtual fields. While other game engines are applicable to multiple games of a genre, like shooters or racing games, and may offer some things or features, ours currently doesn’t include, our in-house built GIANTS Engine has a whole lot of other requirements no other game engine out there can offer out of the box.

An engine is simply not interchangeable without major adjustments. To use another engine for Farming Simulator would require a huge amount of customization. And, in the end, we’d basically have what we’re already using – our own, customized engine. Also, only with our own solution, we can offer the extent of modability, for example. If you want to know more about this, Thomas explains it more in-depth ins his presentation above.

What performance features can you expect?

DirectX 12

For the PC version of Farming Simulator 22, you can enjoy the benefits of DirectX 12. In previous versions of Farming Simulator, we used DirectX 11 / OpenGL. Compared to DX11, the latest DX12 gives developers more control of how their game interacts with the CPU and GPU.

That means, the GIANTS Engine 9 can directly manage resources and states, so we can control and manage them more efficiently. As a result, we have less driver overhead and more free CPU resources for other tasks.

Texture Streaming

On top of that, we added Texture Streaming to the GIANTS Engine. With this, we dynamically load higher or lower resolution versions of the textures based on what is actually visible on screen. This allows us to put even more objects into the world and to reduce the used slots per vehicle since we no longer need to make sure that we can load the full textures of all vehicles. Also, the loading times are reduced, since less texture data needs to be loaded at the start.

Occlusion Culling

Occlusion Culling is another important optimization technique. It allows us to make even more detailed worlds. Occlusion Culling basically prevents the engine from performing any expensive rendering for completely hidden objects. For example, boxes hidden behind a barn are not rendered until you see them – boosting performance by saving resources.

What new graphics features can you expect?

Temporal Anti-Aliasing (TAA)

Farming Simulator 22 features Temporal Anti-Aliasing. It is an approach to reduce unwanted rendering artifacts such as jagged edges or flickering specular highlights using the information from previous frames. The GIANTS Engine 9 uses a high-quality temporal anti-aliasing (TAA) algorithm by default, but it can also be disabled for performance reasons or if you don’t like the results.

In previous games, we enabled MSAA by default as an Anti Aliasing solution. Compared to MSAA, TAA is faster and usually leads to better results. For example, MSAA only improves the quality of geometric edges, but TAA also reduces other artifacts such as flickering specular highlights.

Parallax Occlusion Mapping

Parallax Occlusion will make the terrain and other surfaces in the game look more detailed and dynamic if the feature is turned on in the settings. The result looks very realistic and adds a depth to the surfaces in the game. Like the tire tracks on your field, for example, trenching in the ground. We covered this in another article. Find out more about Parallax Occlusion Mapping!

Improved Shadows

We made several shadow rendering improvements in the GIANTS Engine 9. One of the most notable changes is that we are now able to render the shadows much further away. This helps to increase the visual quality in the distance and your farmlands will appear more natural and realistic.

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Farming Simulator 22 releases November 22nd, and we unveiled the release-date with a Cinematic Trailer a few weeks ago. Since the feedback on the trailer, showing you an atmospheric outlook on the game, was overwhelmingly positive, we asked our dear friends at the French animation studio Capsule to share some exciting insights from behind the scenes.

Haven’t seen the trailer yet?
And they did! But, if you haven’t seen our Cinematic Trailer for Farming Simulator 22 yet, watch it now! You’ll find the behind-the-scenes featurette down below after the exciting trailer in its final form.

And that’s how it was made…
Capsule’s Co-founder Stéphane Montel and his colleagues explain in detail how it was made: Technical Character Director Alice Ruquier explains how our two protagonists were animated, Environment & Lighting Artist Samy Seffadj tells you about the authentic implementation of tractors and other objects, and Stéphane will also explain, why Capsule chose different music themes for our two characters. But see for yourself:

Meet Sophia and Jacob

If you watched our trailer closely, you noticed that our two protagonists are not just father and daughter. They have actual names, too! Our two farmers are named Sophia and Jacob.

They were performed by the French-Spanish-American actress and director Anaïs Parello and actor Dominic Gould you might already know as a virtual face from other video games, and a variety of movies and TV shows.

After looking for the perfect faces to represent our characters we decided that Anaïs and Dominic would be perfect for the roles. And we were right! Judging from the behind-the-scenes recordings, they seem to have had a lot of fun, too!

We thank Capsule as well as Anaïs and Dominic, and everyone else involved in the making of this awesome trailer and for the fantastic work!

We hope you liked our Cinematic Trailer and had fun looking behind the scenes. Stay tuned for more Farming Simulator 22 as we have more exiting news to share in the coming weeks!

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