Farming Simulator 25‘s sales figures were announced by Giants Software. More than 2 million copies were sold worldwide with pre-orders in the first week. More than 125 thousand players played the game at the same time on Steam on release day. To date, all games in the series have sold over 40 million copies on PC, PlayStation and Xbox platforms. According to Giants, free content updates, patches, bundles and expansions are planned. The 4 different DLCs that will be released in the first year have already been sold with the Season Pass. Apart from this, there will be some paid or free DLCs to be released. Although many players are currently suffering from various in-game gameplay bugs and graphics optimisation, tens of thousands of people continue to play every day. The previous game, Farming Simulator 22, sold 1.5 million copies at the end of the first week. Accordingly, it is emphasised that Farming Simulator 25 is the most successful release in the series, selling more than 30% more in the same period.

On the first weekend, we saw 135 thousand players instantly on Steam. Other platforms are not included.

The agricultural simulation launched on November 12th for PC, Mac, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S.

First harvest: Best Farming Simulator launch to date

“When our ambitious self-publishing journey started with Farming Simulator 22, we were already overjoyed by the resonance of our unique, engaged, and passionate community,” Boris Stefan, Head of Publishing at GIANTS Software, comments.

“Farming Simulator 25 marks our most successful launch yet and proves that our bond with the community has grown even stronger. Their enthusiasm and support is not only at the heart of our success, but a driving force behind our continued commitment to delivering an unparalleled and satisfying farming experience. The launch was just the start for FS25.” Including the other main games of the series, GIANTS Software also reports more than 40 million copies of Farming Simulator sold worldwide.

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Farming Simulator 25 brings the long-awaited GPS-driven steering assistant feature similar to Courseplay. The Giants Software team introduced the GPS Steering Assist feature along with AI workers. In FS 25, AI workers have been reworked to be more precise and reliable. Now, every vehicle can use GPS-assisted steering in farming tasks. Of course, if you prefer the old-school method, that’s up to you. This makes it easier to control the tractor or any machine while working the fields.

The game will be available for PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S on November 12th.

Smarter Helpers

Pressing the key to activate an AI worker will instantly let a hired hand take over, as before. Holding the button will offer you some additional settings, however.

The first of two modes, “AI worker”, is dedicated to the functionality of your virtual helper. The ideal settings are already preselected and depending on the size and shape of the field, you can preview how exactly he will operate.

• Working Width is based on the tool of the respective action that should be performed. If multiple tools are attached, you can customize the width to take overlaps into account.
• Number of Headlands is set based on the machine and action, but can be changed, too.
• Work the Headlands tells your helping hand if the defined area should be handled like the rest of the field (therefore cultivated, harvested, etc.) or just defined as lanes to turn vehicles, for example.
• Start with defines if the worker will start with creating the headland first (e.g. when harvesting to not unnecessarily destroy crops, or last when cultivating or plowing).
• Skip lines orders the helper to leave some more room between the lines, which gives you some room to operate your own machines in between, for example.

When the AI worker starts, he will choose the best direction of operating his machines in addition to the settings. He will always prioritize working within the borders of a field.

Assisted Steering

Want to operate the machines yourself instead of paying an AI worker to do the job for you? You can do that – with every tractor in the game, as it’s possible to just retrofit older models with GPS functionality. Convenient, isn’t it?

Switching from the AI Worker tab to the Steering Assist, a few other settings become available that allow you to customize how the field is handled by the steering assistant.

• Working Width is again set in accordance with the tools used.
• Number of Headlands is also customizable and automatically set to the selected tool.
• Work Direction can be changed in degrees. In case you want to operate in a direction where you don’t look at the sun at noon or something like that.
• Side Offset can be changed in case you have tools attached with an offset, like certain mowers, for example.
• Show Lines enables or disables the 3D lines you can see live on the field, whether you operate in third-person view or look onto the soil from within the cabin.

With the live display of the lines, you can always see what’s happening when operating the machine. The HUD will display a “ready” indicator as part of the dashboard when you have aligned the machine to a line and can start.

A selected line is displayed in orange and will turn green as soon as you begin to drive. Meanwhile, the working width of your machine is depicted in blue lines. All lines still to do are displayed in white. They’re greyed out as soon as they’re done.

You can access the pre-order pages on the official Farming Simulator 25 website, as well as on Microsoft Store, Xbox, Epic Games Store, Steam, and PlayStation Store from here. The game will be released on November 12.

For those interested, the system requirements for Farming Simulator 25 are available.

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You can access the pre-order pages on the official Farming Simulator 25 website, as well as on Microsoft Store, Xbox, Epic Games Store, Steam, and PlayStation Store from here. The game will be released on November 12.

For those interested, the system requirements for Farming Simulator 25 are available.

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GIANTS Software will launch the ninth installment of the series on November 12. Farming Simulator 25 brings a long-awaited terrain deformation feature and a more integrated seasonal system, offering players a rich variety of gameplay mechanics across dozens of agricultural tasks.

You can pre-order Farming Simulator 25 from platforms like Microsoft Store, Xbox, Epic Games Store, Steam, and PlayStation Store.

For those interested, the system requirements for Farming Simulator 25 are available.

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There’s very little time left for Farming Simulator 25! As we eagerly wait to play, the latest Fact Sheet features the International Transtar II Eagle Truck, HOLMER exxact Terra DOS 5-40 Sugar Beet Harvester, John Deere S7 Series Harvester, Sennebogen 340 G Telehandler, and the Brand H550 Beavertail Low-Bed Trailer.

International Transtar II Eagle Truck

Price: 45,000 Dollar

Engine: 400 hp

Transmission: Manual

Fuel Tank: 755 litres

Speed: 80 kph / 49 mph

Weight: 8,4 t

Brand H550 Beavertail Trailer

Price: 106,000

Weight: 12.3 t

 

HOLMER exxact Terra DOS 5-40 Sugar Beet Harvester

Price: 685,000 Dollar

Engine: 652 hp

Transmission: Variable (CVT)

Fuel Tank: 1150 litres

Speed: 40 kph / 24 mph

Weight: 30.1 t

Capacity: 45 m3

Working Speed: 10 kph / 6 mph

Sugar beet harvester

John Deere S7 Series Harvester

Price: 381,000 Dollar

Engine: 547-625 hp

Transmission: Variable (CVT)

Fuel Tank: 1155 litres / 74 litres DEF

Speed: 40 kph / 24 mph

Weight: 20.4 t

Capacity: 14,100 litres

Working Speed: 10 kph / 6 mph

RDF 35 Header Size: 10.7 metres

Sennebogen 340 G Telehandler

Price: 145,000 Dollar

Engine: 136 hp

Transmission: Variable (CVT)

Fuel Tank: 160 litres

Speed: 40 kph / 24 mph

Weight: 9.4 t

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Eddie Edwards, a Senior Programming Engineer who has been working at GIANTS Software for 12 years, shares details about this new technology. While improving the Density Map, a new terrain geometry system and terrain texture system are being integrated into the game engine. Thanks to this feature, our tire tracks can now appear in 3D on the terrain. In various videos, they have shown that this depth has increased significantly and that the fields look great when wet during rainy weather. Fields will look much more realistic when plowed with a plow.

Eddie, tell us about you and your position first – what’s your role?

I’m one of the Senior Engine Programmers for Farming Simulator. I’ve been at GIANTS since the early days of FS13. I created the original PlayStation 3 port, and I have been responsible for other ports of the GIANTS Engine to PS4, PS5, Switch and iOS. I’m very much “the PlayStation guy” at the company, but I also work on cross-platform engine technology such as Density Maps, rendering, shader compiler, some physics, audio, etc.  There’s not much in the GIANTS Engine that I haven’t worked on to some extent over the last 12 years! And in particular, of course, I created the new technologies that bring us ground deformation for FS25 – the improved Density Map system, the new terrain geometry system, and the terrain virtual texturing system.

Firmness & Viscosity

How the Ground Deforms

Depending on the ground type, the deformation and compression of the soil is dependent on multiple factors. Take a look!

Which factors define how the ground deforms?

Eddie: A number of factors affect this. Firstly, every ground type has a different level of “firmness” and “viscosity”. Tarmac cannot be deformed at all, for instance, while mud can be deformed a lot (due to different “firmness”), and driving on snow instantly crushes it, while driving on mud causes it to compress over a longer time (due to different “viscosity”).  Also, if the ground is wet, this affects the deformation as well.Which vehicle you are driving also affects the deformation – the weight of the tractor and the width of its tires both affect the reaction of the terrain. And a slower-moving vehicle will sink faster than a fast-moving vehicle.

How does ground deformation affect gameplay? What will players “feel”? 

For the first time, FS25 gives a real physical response from the terrain – you will feel the tractor bumping over the ground, and you will see it creating ruts and tracks, and if you go back and drive over those ruts and tracks you will feel the effect from them as well.

It is also harder to steer if you have dug into the ground, just as it is in real life. Driving in rain will be more difficult than driving when it is sunny. Your tire configuration now has a greater effect, too, and you may need to consider which tires are best to use for different seasons and different types of field work.

The Fun of Plowing

Plowing on another level

While the deformation on the soil is individual to the machines, their weight and other conditions, one field activity in particular will probably feel a whole lot different in Farming Simulator 25.

What kind of machines/equipment will showcase ground deformation best? 

Plowing is a new experience now – the plow creates real physical furrows which can not only be seen more clearly on screen but also affects the tractor when driving over them.  Also, machines with caterpillar tracks come into their own now, as they can handle uneven ground so well.

Want to know more?

Let’s talk performance, visuals & challenges!

What were the technical challenges in implementing ground deformation?

The ground deformation works on a grid size of 12.5cm which works out to 16K x 16K for a 2km map (that’s 256 megapixels – the map itself is only 4 megapixels). There were various technical challenges with storing this data efficiently, and also with processing the data efficiently, for instance when tools like cultivators or plows work on the fields, and when vehicles drive over the fields and react to these fine-scale bumps and ridges.

There is also a “procedural” level of ground deformation, which is mapped with geometry in a similar way to how the terrain is texture-mapped with images, except it runs on the CPU instead of on the faster GPU, so we had to heavily optimize this code.

How is ground deformation data stored and managed?

Since ground deformation works at a higher resolution than we’ve dealt with before we wanted to save memory in areas which are not deformed (e.g. on rocky mountains, or in places where the player has not yet been), so we created a “sparse” version of the Density Maps.  This stores tiles of data only in regions where deformation actually exists. Furthermore, to reduce memory footprint even more, the tiles are all compressed, using a more advanced version of the existing Density Map compression that we’ve used in the past.

Additionally, to support fast operations on this high-resolution data we created a Density Map Processing Unit (DPU) which is like a little GPU emulator that runs on the CPU, and is capable of performing operations on Density Maps at much higher speeds than previously.  It can actually be programmed using our in-house shader language, although this feature is not used in FS25 yet.

For speed, the whole system (data compression, DPU operations, and procedural generation) is written using native SIMD instructions (SSE4.1 or AVX2 on PC and consoles, and NEON on ARM-based Macs).  There is far more SIMD-optimized code in this version of Farming Simulator than we’ve ever had before.

Tell us about how you optimized deformation physics for performance.

In previous versions of Farming Simulator the custom vehicle physics was dealing with terrain at a resolution of 0.5m. With terrain deformation and displacement, the resolution is now 0.125m – 4x greater in each direction, or 16x as many triangles.  This made our wheel vs terrain collision detection 16x slower, so we wrote a custom implementation of this for FS25 which is approximately thirty times faster than the old code, so overall our vehicle physics is now about twice as fast as before, even with all the new features.

The new physics code involved some quite heavy math and numerical analysis – fortunately I have a Master’s Degree in Mathematics, which helped me a lot on this task!

How does the game handle visual transitions for ground deformation?

Another new feature for FS25 is the terrain quadtree mesh, which enables high resolution triangle rendering near the player but uses a lower resolution further away – there is no need to render the deformed geometry when it is hundreds of meters away.

The geometry smoothly morphs from deformed to not-deformed some distance from the player.  However, this transition is quite well hidden because of another new technology in FS25, which is the terrain virtual texture system.

Although deformation is not rendered in the distance using triangles, it is still shaded and rendered into the terrain texture (using a graphics technique called normal mapping). So the deformation is still clearly visible, even on distant areas where the rendered triangle count is very low, and you can see the tracks left by the AI vehicles even if you are watching them from half a kilometer away!

What do you personally like most about ground deformation in the game?

It was a very rewarding experience to implement all these new technologies, and I love the fact that the result is not only a better visual experience for the player, but also that it interacts with physics and gameplay in such interesting ways, making FS25 a much more interesting and realistic “simulator” than ever before!

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With this feature, tire tracks can now appear in 3D on the terrain. In various videos, they’ve demonstrated a significant increase in this depth effect, making it one of the most exciting and fun features for interacting with the terrain in the new game. The long-awaited technology is finally here. Mud now sticks to the tractor tires, and while rain can wash some off, certain spots remain and need to be cleaned manually. The depth will also be noticeable while plowing fields.

Giants Software will be publishing a blog post about this feature soon.

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With Farming Simulator 25, hand tools like chainsaws are now independent items. You’ll also need to stock bale wrapping resources, as they are consumable. A storage area for handheld tools has been added, where you can find chainsaws and spray paints that let you mark trees. Additionally, you can now place your chainsaw on the trailer with a crane used for collecting wood in forestry. These tools will now appear as items on the map and can be stored in the tool shed. Other farmers can also borrow them from here when playing in multiplayer.

When entering the forest with certain forestry machines, you can place your chainsaw in the designated area and pick it up when needed. We’ll see how this mechanic will be adapted in mods to allow different handheld tools for various machines.

Farming Simulator 25 will be released on November 12 for PC, MAC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S consoles.

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A video has been released showcasing the rich landscapes of Riverbend Springs, a town in Farming Simulator 25 where fertile fields, winding rivers, and endless farming opportunities await players. Giants Software prioritizes the quality of starting maps in each new game, aiming to elevate that standard, and this American map is no exception.

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