Intense, episode 06 is probably the best yet.
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Finally the purple flunder gets a REAL beating 
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Episode 07
Bernd Schneider pushes the massage button of his heated leather seat - since Sarah is again in hospital, but will soon be back in duty, Schneider takes the opportunity to patrol himself out there with his Ilaris Impid. His passenger is Batimus, since Schneider wants to teach him how to arrest baddies without trashing the car - and other than for Harald, Schneider has still faith in Frank to do so. Harrys ACR is mechanically fixed but still dented as Schneider refused to pay complete repairs for a car that will be trashed again soon…
They are interrupted by a radio call of Harald, chasing a speeding dark Zephorus. Dr. Günther Bess overslept and rushes to the courthouse where he has to defend a guy who was DUI. Since the ACR of Harald can not keep up with the Zephorus, Schneider, who is two kilometers ahead, takes the opportunity. He blocks the Zephorus from speeding, but Bess refuses to stop, since his appointment is urgent. Walkowski overtakes and cuts off a Swanson 220, causing it to swerve and be right in the way of Bess`Zephorus, with an obvious result.
A furious Bernd Schneider is not calmed down by Harrys defence that he didn´t ram anybody this time…
Highway construction workers repair the damaged road surface - and find bones in the tar. Examinations prove that the two victims were Oliver Rolle and Tristan Zahn, two crooks that disappeared in 1981, when this section of the highway was built. In this 15 year old case, Batimus and Walkowski run against a wall of silence. The drug dealer Mirko Jeske might know more, as he was a close friend of the duo. But when they just wanted to speak in peace with him, Jeske thought Batimus and Walkowski wanted to arrest him for his dealing and rushes off in his pimped IP Colibri. Walkowski happily accepts the pursuit and a desperate Jeske uses his small car to drive up the stairs of the Berlau university, but Walkowski does not back off. While the small IP maneuvers more nimble, the SUV of Harald can climb better with the high ground clearance. Arriving at the top, Jeske is mad to see the cops still behind him, and speeds off the roof…
HAAAAAAAARRAAAAAALLLLLLLLDDDDDD!!!
Walkowski wasn´t lucky with aiming, landing with a huge bang in a trash container already waiting for his car to be junked in it.
But Harald climbs out and runs just in front of the brand new Globus Premier Signature of the Gasmean businessman Dave Crane, pulling him out and obtaining the potent 3,5-liter V6 car to go for the Colibri that is now slowly limping after the crash landing. With a keen ramming maneuver, the heavy Globus catapults the tiny IP into an old Primus Urbano.
When Jeske lied on a stretcher with broken legs, Batimus offered him either to talk, to have to walk to the hospital or with Harald being his driver… that was finally convincing, Mirko Jeske reveals that when the two victims were hiding drugs in the woods near the A-2 highway, they must have withnessed something… this was active gang territory of the Bald Eagles motorbike club.
After a rather pointless interrogation, a selfmade gokart with a bomb attached to it followed Batimus and Walkowski, but after a few shots, the danger was eliminated. Yes, the Swanson is a puke green this time, propably because the purple one is still in repair.
Later on the shift, when Batimus was driving home, a blue Globus Phoenix followed him, finally shooting at him and shooting the rather unsafe fuel tank of the Swanson, the well-known weak point of these models. [OOC: That´s the revenge for submitting the lowest safety in all 4 cars for the characters]. With a burning trace behind him, Batimus throws a banana peel as last straw, and the Globus ideed slips on it, rams some garbage and gets airborne, Batimus jumps out of the Swanson which exploded only a few seconds later.
Since the Globus occupants made a deal with the DA, Batimus and Walkowski finally got to arrest the Bald Eagles. But a trap was prepared, and the two cops were hunted through the sewers of Berlau by multiple cars that they manage to eliminate one after one. But finally, they noticed nobody filled the gas tank of the Saarland Origo, since nobody expected the car to last longer than five minutes in the hands of these two and a waste of fuel was to be avoided. Batimus got the idea that “Origo” means mathematical vectors. and when the MC baddies were closing up from both sides, Batimus braked hard so that the two gangsters crashed into each other and were taken down.
In the end, Batimus and Walkowski arrest the president of the “Bald Eagles”, a drug-dealing motorbike club who executed their “Diablos” counterparts in 1981 and were withnessed by Rolle and Zahn.
Bernd Schneider assists them, since he wants to protect his officers and prevent them from causing another mayhem in the donut restaurant where they finally got the president. At this opportunity, you finally got to see Schneiders new wheeled pimphand, a Swanson 437.
WHY THE SWANSON?
It has the best allround capabilities, and looks menacing in the mirror. Only the price hurts, but since it is for the boss this time, it is of lesser concern, making it finally win over the Ilaris rival that became a normal patrol car.
Vehicles in the episode featured by @riley, @ludvig, @knugcab, @skygel14 and @shibusu
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Didn’t think a more packed episode than 6 was coming, very nice work!
It´s actually done technically, as @Ludvig is the winner since he features two cars, while the other winners have one taken into filming. However, after I recieved a lot of nice stuff, I want to give it the fame it deserves. Although the hosting part is finished, I will continue to produce the remaining three episodes. This will take some time, as Nr. 8 is even more intense and will need a lot of effort. I am not sure if I can keep that up for 9 and 10, but I won´t let the season fade out with junk, so it should nevertheless be worth both creating and reading.
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Another baller episode, highlights:
- A Riegel guest appearance!
- The Swanson 220 being so mean and angry it even flips cars when it’s not running people over
- Jumping from 3rd floor
- Gokart Bomb
- Banana Peel Special Attack
- Advanced trigonometry
- Destruction
Fortunately Schneider’s car has the advanced safety package at least, which includes a “bullet proof” fuel tank.
Getting 2 out of 4 featured cars is great, and should help sales in the difficult German market. But I think the host is the real winner of this challenge.
While photo mode has been used for storytelling before, this is by far the most ambitious and well executed example.
I accidentally submitted with the wrong green color - it was supposed to be classier, but even less camera friendly, dark green - the purple was a good change.
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Episode 08
Bernd Schneider is upset: Young crash kids listening to loud rock music are going berserk on the highway with stolen luxury and sports cars,or almost running over half of Berlaus pedestrians with their 200 horsepower cars. Batimus gets the case of the juvenile joyrides as number one priority, and it seems suspicious that the kids are chosing to 75 percent a brand new and rather expensive Primus model.
While Batimus interrogates Waldemar Piontek, since he owns the dealership where all the Primus originally came from, Sarah makes an urgent call that she is currently in pursuit of a stolen Merit Compact Sport, which plows its way recklessly through Berlau. Piontek states that he can not explain the fact that the Primus from his dealership are the preferred cars, and says that it might be due to the fact that Primus builds the best cars and are therefore sought-after.
Just in time, Bernd Schneider is in pursuit of the Primus flagship, the Imperator V12 - stolen just from the parking lot of the Miesens AG, delivered only a week ago by the Piontek Primus Handelsgesellschaft mbH.
Sarah is still in pursuit of the Merit Compact, but the crashed van that lost its load had a heavy box that bumped into Sarah´s rear left wheel arch, and that plastic part suddenly gets loose and jams the tire, causing the Zephorus to spin out and crash into a lamppost. Luckily, Sarah is unharmed.
But the stress is not over for the juvenile delinquent: A nailboard makes him evade onto the sidewalk, where Walkowski speeds in an alley and matches his speed just to ram the Merit into dust. The uniformed police runs after the delinquent, and Walkowski desperately tries to get his ACR back to work, but the damage is too much.
In that moment Schneider is just a few blocks away in pursuit of the Imperator and a bus stops for the end of the line, as it is empty without passengers, Walkowski pulls out the driver and uses the bus to build up a roadblock. But the driver of the Imperator has no intent to stop, he even accellerates the V12 as hard as he can. Realizing that this will be potentially lethal, Walkowski jumps out of the bus while the Primus crashes through it. Schneider did not dare to harm his officer and made an emergency stop, sliding onto the debris ramp with only minor damage to his Swanson, but without a crane, the chase finally ended.
Meanwhile, the uniformed patrol failed to catch the runaway Merit driver, but found a bag he lost - it is from the Otto-Reuter-Oberschule. With a phantom image, Frank visits the school and the principal identifies the boy as Matthias Vosswinkel. Sarah manages to arrest him at home, but he won´t say a word.
The next day, attorney Dr. Günther Bess finally picks up the replacement for his crashed Zephorus, a brand new yellow Primus Ares Turbo II - just to find the spot empty two hours later. A cut to Polizeihauptmeister Uwe Holtmann: He is in pursuit of two crashkids - a Tio Eagle and a Primus Ares - what a coincidence. Bernd Schneider responds on the radio to take over the Ares, while Holtmann should focus on the Eagle. After a sharp turn, a Swanson surprise appears, as Batimus had hidden behind a parked bus and used the force of surprise to scare the crashkid. Losing control of the oversteering Eagle, the first arrest after more than 30 joyrides is finally the archievement of Frank Batimus. An old police radio was made to work as a portable and quickly fitted into the Tio, explaining why the crashkids do so well against the cops… The 15 year old Carsten Fischer was arrested with only superficial injuries - and also does not say a word.
Meanwhile Schneider finally wants to make a point and is in a dramatic 250+ kph chase against the Ares. Crashkid Felix not only sees a menacing Swanson in the mirror, but also the most dedicated cop he has ever seen, it even seems the eyes of the middle-aged man are glowing reddish. A construction site seems to be the solution - Schneider follows him closely. In the last moment, Felix swerves to the right, breaking through the barriers, while sending the irritated Schneider high up in the air - the Swanson patrol car even flies high enough to land on the old railway bridge - from where a furious Schneider watches the yellow sports car roaring to the horizon.
Sarah - as she is very young and still a believable high school graduate - works undercover, since both caught boys Matthias and Carsten were in the same class. It turns out that Bert Unger, the school yard weed dealer, conveyed interessed students to a guy named Ulli Butzke. Sarah arrests him and finally makes a confrontation with Carsten and Matthias - under the pressure, Butzke confesses to be paid by Waldemar Piontek. He had the kids hired to sell more cars, since the insurance always pays…
Schneider and Batimus come a second too late, as Piontek just escapes with his Primus Legacy 430, but as Harald and Sarah have built up a roadblock - this time a better one - Waldemar Piontek gives up without resistance.
Cars featured by @shibusu , @Skygel14 , @Riley, @DrDoomD1scord, @S_U_C_C_U_L_E_N_T and @Ludvig
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Episode 09
WARNING! VIOLENT CONTENT. Not that the show was FSK / PEGI 12 before, but if you do not want to deal with gore, skip the text and enjoy the pictures. You might also do this please if you are under 16.
Batimus and Walkowski are alarmed - in one week, two truck drivers died after, eeh, being un-manned… They had their … well… stuffed into the mouth, after being cut off. Bernd Schneider is sure that this is another case of mafia crime, since this was a ritual for 31-ers - named after § 31 StGB, when you got a weaker sentence for telling the police what they want to know. But both truck drivers had absolutely no connection with any criminals. While absurd rumors of a “v…na dentata” circulate among frightenend truckers, prostitutes complain about severe loss of revenue, since the truckers are preferring their socks until the case is solved.
Meanwhile, a 1989 Primus Aventura driven by Gernot Sudenberg speeds on the A-25 into Berlau, causing a mayhem. The medical examination of the driver reveals a shot… in the front lower half. He must have escaped and fainted when speeding away from the scene. Footprints of a women sneaker revel the shocking truth: This is not a mafia thing. And the victims are now not just truckers, Gernot Sudenberg was the owner of an army shop.
Psychologist Petra Liehr, a recurring character from the first two seasons and a capable profiler, helps the team once again to find a woman going on a bloody vendetta. She assumes that she might be a tramper and was harrassed or even assaulted by truckers when tramping through Hetvesia. Walkowski wants to be the decoy, but has no luck. Instead, the watches an old ambulance with completely tinted windows throwing off a body into an old bunker. Harald “Dirty Harry” Walkowski does not hesitate a second and goes into pursuit, but his heavily banged ACR reports an oil pressure problem. Just in that moment the two cars pass a few barrels with funny signs on them, and Harry ignites them with a well-placed gunshot. The result is obvious… two low-ranked members of the Archanean Mafia doing the dirty work less out on the streets.
Further interrogations of the frightened truckers by Batimus and Liehr end with a hint: Their colleague Holger Kehl had some trouble with a woman a few years before. After the murder series started, he hid on a construction site to be safe from the woman he thought of being on a revenge tour. Frank and Sarah are trying to ask him, but he mistakes Sarah with the woman and goes in panic mode, escaping with his Globus Commander and trying to run Sarah over, who escaped in the last moment. Batimus is tired of another chase, and takes an abbreviation by using the containers as highway, ramming a trashcan down on the Globus which crashed into a staple of skids. He confesses the rape of a girl named Michaela, but without a victim, Batimus can´t put Kehl into prison.
Petra Liehr remembers a patient named Michaela who made a very unstable impression, it was 1992, before Batimus and Maier joined the force. Sarah reads through everything and does the dirty work to get the full name and address. Rainer Sordel, Frank´s first partner, did good police work but lacked the proof to find the rapist. While Harry and Petra drink a coffee, Batimus was provided with the adress of Michaela Berger and speeds to the apartment, Harald jumps up into the IP Royal Vagant of Petra and speeds off.
While Frank rings and gets in, Harry climbs up a fire ladder to give cover, and just as he arrived, Michaela tries to kill Frank, Harry fires, but closely misses the target. Frank immediately uses the opportunity to jump through the window, landing in a container filled with old seat pillows from the nearby cinema, but is unable to move at first. Michaela punctures the tires from Franks Swanson and jumps into her Saarland Adjunkt convertible, just in the moment Frank managed to climb out, she rushes off, but Harry now appears with the IP and yells for Frank to get in and join him.
A dramatic chase through Berlau leads into a train station, since Michaela thought she would have an advantage with the smaller car here, but she underestimated Haralds madness. Looking behind a second too long, she loes control on the platform, crashing into a barrier and since she did not use her seatbelt, was thrown out of the car and died as soon as Frank and Harry tried to get her off the rails.
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Maybe your best work this far, sitting like if I’m on nails waiting for the grande finale now, haha!
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THE FINAL EPISODE OF SEASON 3
Bernd Schneider yells at Walkowski: Another time he crashed and caused a huge pileup, although performing a successful arrest. Schneider thinks that it is a psychological problem, maybe Harry was hurt by a toy car in his childhood and is now on a vendetta against cars, but Petra Liehr refuses to make a therapy with Harry since she is still furious about her crashed IP Royal Vagant. So Schneider suspends Harald and revokes his license, and he will only be back on duty if he passes the exam.
Meanwhile, Sarah is in court and was a withness in the trial against the former SS seniors (see ep.05) who got two years on probation, since they are too old for imprisonment, but finally the ancestors of Moshe Rosenzweig and many others has been done at least some kind of late justice. The next trial is against Yulia Sokolov (see ep.06) who is still a bit… injured. Suddenly a fire starts and the alarm causes confusion and panic. Sarah sees Yulia quickly wheeled away, but outside she sees the ambulance crew knocked out. She immediately speeds after the ambulance, and since that Globus DuraTrans is no match against the Zephourus, it seems an easy arrest, but suddenly the rear doors open and a wheelchair with a full body cast drops out, and Sarah swerves harshly to avoid a collision, crashing into the trees. Klaus Kasupke, responding first on the radio, pulls her out before Batimus arrives. A grateful Sarah accepts a dinner invitation by Kasupke, leaving behind a jealous Batimus. Well, in the body cast was a crash test dummy, so they had two ambulances, one for distraction and Sarah stepped into the setup…
A bit later that day, surgeon Dr. Norbert Klein is fired from his job after messing up another operation. He speeds in tears, as suddenly his SVC Starecrow Turbo explodes. Bernd Schneider finds out that a bomb with a thermal sensor on the exhaust was the cause, igniting after the car was floored to overtake.
Batimus is devastated, Sarah, who he is secretly in love with, dates Klaus Kasupke, and his partner is suspended, so he visits a huge techno party to distract himself. He cries on the toilet realizing Sordel was killed exactly a year ago on this day, as a Rhania Hunter crashes into the building, ending fatal for the driver and three young people dancing where the car smashed in - the brakes were manipulated. Sarah informs him that the driver, Marko Hartung, had a service garage with the reputation of scamming people and doing bad work - and that she takes a few days off to go on vacation with Kasupke.
Bernd Schneider uses his noon break to look for a car he wants to buy - a Globus Grand Cruiser LT. But as he arrives, he finds the vendor, Gilbert Uhlig, squeezed below the car - somebody has lowered the jack. When he wants to pull Uhlig out, Schneider notices a fire. He has only seconds to decide, and since the key is still in the ignition, he jumps in the Grand Cruiser and uses it to push his Swanson away from the exploding building. A grey IP Vagant speeds off, and Schneider chases it, but suddenly the engine stalls and a smoke cloud forces him to stop. It turns out that the car was only quickly polished to look good and Schneider just escaped a big scam.
The 80 year old loner Traugott Scheuerlein lost his wife due to a bad surgeon, after she crashed her old Saarland Adjunkt after a lousy repair, after being scammed by the used car vendor. Scheuerlein is on a revenge tour - punishing everbody scamming others and being part of the chain that made him a widower.
The whole police force is at red alert - since more or less every business in Berlau is ran by scammers…he is quickly identified by the license plate, and the TV puts him on the news. The inhabitants of Berlau cheer for Scheuerlein, as they see in him the avenger of the consumers. Scheuerlein is soon arrested, but the 72 year old widow Gerda Falke withnesses the arrest and frees Scheuerlein with a keen move.
At the same time, traffic law attorney Dr. Günther Bess speeds his AMS Albite, recently bought on a business trip in Gasmea and maintained by the service garage of Marko Hartung. After a risky overtake, the freshly renewed front suspension breaks, causing the AMS to skid uncontrollably. Walkowski watches it in his driving school car, using it to bring the AMS to standstill. An impressed driving instructor hands Harry back his license.
Traugott and Gerda fall in love with each other, and she tells him that she also would like to take revenge on scammers, in her case Hans Bösblech. Herrmann Falke, her husband, was scammed by the broker and lost their savings, committing suicide faked as murder to fill the bank account up for Gerda with the life insurance he had.
The next moring, Bösblech parks his Nordwagen Freya Aero in a parking lot nearby his office, as suddenly Gerdas car, parked next to his spot, explodes, killing Bösblech immediately.
Since they escaped in Traugotts IP Vagant 3000, they were quickly spotted by the police. Schneider instructs the officers to not follow the IP and wait for Frank Batimus.
The purple car is soon in sight, and with the AWD drivetrain of the Swanson, the pensioner car can not escape in the snowy mountains. Schneider and his officers block the way, and Scheuerlein makes a full stop, so does Batimus. Traugott and Gerda kiss each other, put their hands simultaneously on the gear lever, shift to D and finally the IP accellerates hard, steering towards a cliff. Frank wants to stop them, but runs out of way before successfully doing so - both cars fall off the cliff and explode.
The final scene shows a thoughtful and devastated Batlmus, who jumped out in the last second, landing in a nearby parked pickup, staring down the cliff.
cars featured by @abg7 @shibusu @Ludvig @Knugcab @moroza @Skygel14 @happyfireballman
and @Riley
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Wow! A worthy ending of the season indeed, I bet the next season is going to be hilarious (for the Hetvesians that will actually be able to watch it).
Thanks for this awesome glimpse into Hetvesian television, this has been one of the most exciting challenges on the board in a long time!
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Bravo! A fitting end to an incredible season, never seen anything like this. I hope we’ll see something like this sometime again soon, but you must be tired making the scenes and shooting all these shots.
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+1 on a new season, but no rush - perhaps when 4.3 stable comes along?
Excellent use of in-game assets, and “crazy but plausible on TV” plots & scenes. Cool to see our various cars being used (and abused) in a non-racing setting.
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I like the usage of the Rhania that was quoted in the beginning, maybe it’s poetic of all things come to an end like how they have begun, such as the Rhania being in the first and last post.
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Oh, what keeps you from moving to Hetvesia?
I am! Since I was often asked to do a second challenge, this will definitely happen. For the timeframe, here is a good proposal:
That´s what I had in mind.
I had a short summary of the episodes in the opening post before submissions opened to give you a better impression of the show, so using a Rhania was decided right from the beginning.
Now I came to think what my biggest burden was, and it was a lack of photoscenes. Don´t get me wrong, we have quite a lot. But the DIY HDRI images are great for doing SINGLE shots, not telling a story with multiple images.
@MrChips now that this challenge idea turned out to have a huge and enthusiastic fanbase, is there any chance we can set up a competition to encourage users to develop 3D photoscene environments? That´s clearly not easy to make and very hard to fit into the developer´s schedule, so we will have to rely on the modding community. I do not know how much money is a motivation to put so much work into the game. But if six people take part, we have one winner, but six scenes more. If 100 Dollar/Euro/equivalent amount in another currency is enough for modders to invest the time (which is surely worth more than a 100 bucks, but I am no millionaire), I will fund it from my own bank account.
The next part is: What will be in CSCS2? Not few wanted to stay with Frank Batimus and the highway patrol. But there are plenty other cool settings. So I will make a poll. It´s open for a month, since I guess the stable version and OB won´t be merged prior to that.
What to do in CSCS2?
- Season 7 of NOTRUF 110 (2000)
- Something totally different for now
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NOTRUF 110 was on screen for many more years, as this is a shot of Season 11 (2004):
Some production notices here for you, too:
Season 3 has been the most expensive season of any series in the whole Hetvesian TV landscape until then, and the spectator numbers altered by a lot. However, the season was so much over budget, that the amount of episodes per season was limited to 6, with the first being an opener in double length (90 minutes). This also gives the actors more time to do another project per year, as for example Zbiginiew Mandroki (Walkowski) is afraid of being only recognized as Harald Walkowski and being limited to that role in the people´s minds, while Nicole Korte (Sarah) thinks the workload was too much to have a family life and also threatened to give up the role.
The last episode with Harald Walkowski was the finale of season 6 (1999), another 90-minute banger, when he was accused of a crime he did not commit. He felt betrayed by the police force and threw the towel, emigrating to Gasmea, where Batimus drove him to in a roadtrip.
Another thing I would like to put up: There is a winner, its @Ludvig . Perfect stats of the cars, always being the jack of all trades, unique styling that fitted two characters great.
Second is @Riley. Well-detailed exterior, engineering choices are keen in some aspects, but they work fine and credible. Both cars were of very high quality, and the KT12 was actually almost equal to the Swanson 425 of Batimus.
Third rank is shared by @Knugcab and @shibusu . While the latter won the Walkowski choice, Knugcab´s designs were a little more pleasing to me. However, neither of you presented a bad car. It deserves some applause to actually do the work to build four solid cars for a challenge.
A honorable mention: @DrDoomD1scord : The well-detailed Tio Eagle is not only a pleasure to look at, it was also fitted with a beacon (shibusu did that too), but also WITH A F…CKING REALISTIC POLICE RADIO! That´s definitely dedication for a challenge.
And thanks for the Nordwagen company by @moroza that provided us with excellent stuff we usually can’t afford to blow up. The producers are willing to continue the partnership, since being a baddie on the show puts you potentially in a Nordwagen, many actors are asking for a role…
If any of you wants to host a CSCS, you can (if you are not scared of nightmares by the time it consumes).
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You already know that if I have to live in a fictive country, I’ll follow Alice to wonderland instead.
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I must decline the burd- honor of continuing CSCS and leave it in your proven competent hands.
II’ll probably use Notruf 110 as a marketing reference for the Swanson 400-series in possible future posts though 
I think (but really don’t know) photoscenes would need to be built using appropiate Unreal engine tools, costs and learning curve unknown. There are some user-made scenes already, unsurprisingly these are specifically built for showing off stationary cars.
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If it was easy, then it would most likely have done by now, so I asked for our community managers opinion…
All entrants can use the screenshots with their cars featured for their lore and advertizing, definitely.
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Good thing I provided the Starcrow with additional exterior and interior color and material options - the one I submitted for FC1 had a black exterior, but you settled on a yellow exterior this time around. And blowing it up was the perfect send-off for it, quite frankly.