Story

From mods to experiences.

Before Rafael LP, there was LPMods. The work goes back to 2016 — free community projects for Euro Truck Simulator 2 and American Truck Simulator. This is how that chapter led to what's happening today.

2016

LPMods begins

LPMods started in 2016, creating community content for Euro Truck Simulator 2 and, later, American Truck Simulator. Some projects were large packs; others were small fixes and tools. Every public release during that era was free — nothing was sold, and no paid tier existed.

Flagship

Brazilian Trailers

The largest project of the LPMods chapter: Pack de Reboques Brasileiros, a pack of Brazilian trailers for ETS2. At its historical peak, it reached #3 among the most popular Euro Truck Simulator 2 Steam Workshop mods of all time.

That ranking is a snapshot of its moment, not a present-day position — the workshop has changed a great deal since. What lasted is simpler: it was genuinely used by a lot of people.

Original promotional artwork for the Brazilian Trailer Pack, showing Brazilian trailer liveries at dusk.
Original promotional artwork for Brazilian Trailers — Pack de Reboques Brasileiros. Archival material from the LPMods era.
Archival screenshot of the Brazilian Trailers Steam Workshop page from the LPMods era, showing the trailer pack artwork, a 5,878 rating count and the last update in August 2023.
Brazilian Trailers — Pack de Reboques Brasileiros on the Steam Workshop. The page's last update is from August 2023, when the chapter closed. Archival material.
Reach

Historical reach

The workshop presence in numbers, as recorded during the LPMods era:

Steam Workshop subscribers
244,178
Unique visitors
382,993
Favorites
6,349

Historical Steam Workshop figures from the LPMods era. They describe that chapter — they are not current Rafael LP or Sliproad numbers.

Archival screenshot of the LPMods Steam Workshop author statistics: 382,993 unique visitors, 244,178 subscribers and 6,349 favorites.
Steam Workshop author statistics as displayed during the LPMods era — 382,993 unique visitors, 244,178 subscribers, 6,349 favorites. Archival material.
Spotlight

An official SCS Software post

Brazilian Trailers was featured in an official SCS Software Steam Workshop community post, published through the company's Instagram account — a spotlight on Workshop content that included the pack. A highlight for a free community project.

Archival screenshot of an official SCS Software Instagram post about Steam Workshop mods, with the Brazilian Trailers pack visible in the workshop listing.
Brazilian Trailers featured in an official SCS Software Steam Workshop community post from October 2021. Archival material — view the post on Instagram.
2019–2021

The one we refused to rush.

Iveco Hi-Way Brazilian version became the most ambitious project of the LPMods era — and the one still considered its strongest work. A Brazilian-market take on the truck, built for Euro Truck Simulator 2, from scratch, for about two years.

Development began in 2019. By the time it finally released in 2021, the wait had become a running joke in the Brazilian community — the “LPMods soap opera” (novela da LPMods). The reason was simple: it would not ship until it felt right.

Original promotional artwork for the Iveco Hi-Way Brazilian version, showing the blue truck in front of a factory.
Original promotional artwork for the Iveco Hi-Way Brazilian version. Archival material from the LPMods era.

When it finally launched in 2021, the wait paid off: the release was met with a strong response from the community and became one of the defining releases of the LPMods chapter.

Workshop subscribers
90,709
Unique visitors
160,913
Favorites
2,396

Historical Steam Workshop snapshot for this project, from the LPMods era — not current Rafael LP or Sliproad numbers.

Archival screenshot of the Iveco Hi-Way Brazilian version Workshop statistics: 160,913 unique visitors, 90,709 current subscribers, 2,396 current favorites.
Workshop statistics for the project as displayed during the LPMods era — 160,913 unique visitors, 90,709 subscribers, 2,396 favorites. Archival material.
Archival screenshot of the Iveco Hi-Way Brazilian version Steam Workshop page, showing the truck artwork, a 2,252 rating count and the last update in September 2023.
The Iveco Hi-Way Brazilian version Workshop page — posted August 2021, last updated September 2023. Archival material.

Like every public LPMods project, it was released free — and like the rest of that generation, its active support ended in 2023. It is a legacy project today: finished work from a closed chapter, not a maintained one.

Also

Other projects from the era

  • Brazilian Portuguese GPS voices — voice packs for ETS2 and ATS.
  • Other smaller projects and mods — built around what the community asked for.

All of it free — it was made to be shared.

2023

The chapter closes

Active support for that generation of projects ended in 2023. The mods remain what they were — finished work from a chapter that ran its course. They are not maintained today, and they are not offered here as downloads.

Support ended. The work didn't.

Now

Rafael LP

The next chapter keeps the useful part — building for driving simulators — and raises the ambition: product development, with software that has to hold up during an actual drive. Rafael LP is the current identity; LPMods is a closed chapter, not the brand.

Sliproad is the flagship project of this chapter: verifiable gameplay for American Truck Simulator. Currently in development.

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