The important contemporary topic of organic farming also returns to Farming Simulator 22. With the Gratis-DLC Precision Farming Giants Software offers you many new functions from April 19th.
The developers created Precision Farming together with European universities and were able to draw on funding from the European Union. Precision farming was also available for the predecessor LS 19 – and it also brings a few improved game mechanics with it.
The European initiative acts as a sponsor EIT Food
who wants to use the DLC to raise awareness of the topic of organic farming.
If you’re interested in the game, our test of strengths and weaknesses will put you in the picture:
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That’s what precision farming is all about
Let’s first show you some pictures from the new DLC for Farming Simulator 22, which show modern farming equipment:
Farming Simulator 22 – View screenshots of the Precision Farming DLC
According to the developer Farming Simulator 22 gets these new features in the free Precision Farming addon:
- plant sensors
- environmental assessment
- Variable Aussaat
- Variable weed control
- Variable fertilization (slurry)
- Purchase option for soil maps
In addition, various functions return from the predecessor, which have been improved in some places:
- Soil types and soil samples
- variable yield increase
- economic analysis
According to Giants, the improvements concern, for example, the possibility of having the manual determination of soil types carried out automatically by a service provider by purchasing a soil map.
Even more is happening in LS 22: The second major content update for Farming Simulator 22 was recently released. Here you can see the new machines:
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Farming Simulator 22: Trailer for Content Update 1.3 shows 8 new machines
awareness through knowledge
Giants Software also explains in the blog post what purpose the DLC should serve. It is almost educational entertainment with which the EIT Food increase public awareness
would like.
In addition to the European innovation institute EIT Food, universities and institutes in Hohenheim (Europey), Reading (Great Britain) and Olsztyn (Poland) are also involved with the machine manufacturer John Deere and the food company Grupo AN.
In addition to entertaining gameplay, the DLC should also offer a realistic depiction of sustainable technologies in order to make organic farming more comprehensible.
So you see: There’s a lot going on in Farming Simulator. The first expansion will also integrate a whole heap of additional content into the game.
