You can already start thinking about where to build your chicken coop – especially, if you want to bake some cakes by delivering eggs to the local bakery.

Animals are back in Farming Simulator 22, and they’re more important than ever. Also, a lot cuter. Honestly, look at those fluffy sheep!

Animals will keep you busy all-season

Animal husbandry is the perfect chance to expand your farming experience! With specialized machines and tools, a lot of different tasks, and even more possibilities thanks to the new production chains.

First, you need to build them some housing, including a variety of animal pens. You can then transport them in animal trailers to their new home. Once there, you need to take care of them by providing straw, fodder, and fresh water.

Production chains are not the only new feature to expand the usefulness of animals. With seasonal cycles enabled (allowing up to 28 days per month), they also give you more to do during winter besides focusing on greenhouses and keeping your roads clear of snow.

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Crossplay is coming to Farming Simulator 22! Missed our crossplay announcement? Go, catch up! There’s an FAQ included. Also, if you’d like to know more about what that means for your future multiplayer experience, listen to the new episode of our podcast!

As a special guest, we welcome Marcel Bößendörfer to the podcast, CEO of Nitrado – the world’s leading provider of dedicated game servers, including servers for the Farming Simulator series. Find out more about Nitrado below!

The official Farming Simulator Podcast is also on Spotify, Apple Musicand many other platforms. Check it out and subscribe, so you don’t miss a single episode!

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Crossplay for Farming Simulator 22

Talking to Marcel Bößendörfer, CEO at Nitrado

Nitrado: Crossplay servers for PC and consoles

Nitrado is the world’s leading game server hoster, offering high-quality game servers at a low price for a variety of games, including Farming Simulator 19, and soon Farming Simulator 22. Nitrado servers allow you to host a persistent multiplayer session for you and your friends to drop in and out anytime, and have full control. Even via App, allowing you to manage your Farming Simulator server anywhere and as easily as possible.

Using the latest technologies, Nitrado strives to provide its customers with the best possible gaming experience. That includes safe servers, secured by DDoS protection, and a 24/7 customer support. Just in time for the new era of crossplay, Nitrado is once again our trusted partner for Farming Simulator 22 servers.

“Crossplay is fantastic news, and finally allows console players to enjoy dedicated servers, too. Gamers waited a long time for this. We’re very glad and proud to be involved right at launch to support this new way to experience the game”, comments Marcel Bößendörfer, CEO at Nitrado. Find out more about Nitrado servers over at Nitrado.net!

That’s our Podcast!

Around every two weeks, we’ll discuss themes and topics relevant to our fans. Community Manager Lars aka “Lisertan”, and Community Coordinators Chris aka “Chaki” & Kermit aka “Kerminator” talk about the most important news from Farming Simulator and GIANTS Software.

That’s not all, of course! We’ll have guests on, too! Don’t think of the podcast as a simple news source. Think about the podcast as a way to get deeper into the latest topics and hear more about them right from the source.

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Did you miss our gamescom stream to show you more about Farming Simulator 22! Watch the whole presentation, now! QA Lead Ken Burgess and Community Manager Lars Malcharek show you new gameplay scenes from the game.

Farming Simulator 22 releases on November 22nd for PC, Mac, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Stadia. Pre-order now to receive the CLAAS XERION SADDLE TRAC Pack! The Year 1 Season Pass is also available, now.

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Fact Sheet Fridays are back! We know, all of you machine enthusiasts want more details on the machinery in Farming Simulator 22. And you’ll get them every Friday until release of the game on November 22nd.

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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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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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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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Let’s get into production chains! QA Lead Ken Burgess and Gameplay Programmer Marius Hofmann presented the new feature for Farming Simulator 22 at FarmCon. Watch the recording below!

Mind the fact, production chains are still work-in-progress. So, some things may change until release of Farming Simulator 22 on November 22nd.

Starting your productions

Let’s take the grain mill, for example: The grain mill isn’t just a place to sell your wheat, now. It’s a production plant and a placeable that processes your grains. Either visit a mill that’s already placed on the map, or build one yourself on a piece of land you own.

Instead of just selling your wheat after harvesting, you can also transport it to the mill to get some fine flour. Deliver that to the bakery, and you have the option to produce bread, or cake. Most production plants have multiple production chains available, with varying inputs and outputs. They’re listed as recipes, showing you what’s possible and what’s required.

Let’s make some cake!

At the production plants, you can also store ingredients: If you want to make something that requires several ingredients, you can start the production as soon as you got all of them delivered. In case you want to make some delicious cake, you’ll need a whole set of ingredients. Flour, eggs, sugar, milk, butter and strawberries.

This rather complex production chain requires you to deliver a lot of ingredients which need to be harvested or even produced themselves, first. Like butter, you need to produce at the dairy plant by delivering fresh milk. Maybe you just start with bread, instead, to get the hang of it. Don’t worry. You’ll get multiple production chains started simultaneously in no time. The delicious (and valuable) cake will be worth it. Take a look:

Move the product, and step up production!

After production, you have several options on how to sell it. Either the production plant sells it automatically right away and takes it off your hands, or generates a palette you can move yourself (to generate more money, of course). In most cases, you have the choice where to sell the goods: the supermarket or the farmer’s market, for example.

Maybe, to get rid of bottle necked production chains, you even have to build multiple mills, dairies, and bakeries at once to make up for resources not piling up fast enough. Also, you need to think about storage and seek different ways to make most of your resources. Soon enough, you own a whole empire if you’re able to manage it efficiently. Get some help by cooperating with other players in multiplayer if you need it!

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