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scorpiondown
12-31-12, 03:43 PM
just got this on steam a couple of days ago .. DL,ed a couple of extra scenarios for it , slower paced but enjoyable..trying to keep to a timetable can be a little tough when picking up passengers every mile or so..
Try London to Brighton on the commuter crawl out of Victoria through to about Three Bridges or so. Fortunately the trains that run on that line are designed to have good acceleration and good brakes, to keep to timetable on some of the scenarios I've seen out there you will need both. :haha:
scorpiondown
12-31-12, 07:47 PM
Haven,t given that one a try yet...May just give it a try tonight!!
Spike88
12-31-12, 10:49 PM
I recently got TS13 plus some addons during the sale.
I prefer passenger trains over freight(for the most part) but I still get enjoyment out of running 60 car trains with 4 diesel engines over on Cajun Pass. London to Brighton and West Coast Main Line are pretty good.
I'm planning to get the US pack while it's on sale so I can get Denver Pass with the Amtrak Zephyr, and North East Corridor with the ACELA express. Just so I can get some American passenger trains going.
My wishlist is the Portsmouth Direct Line(love the 4cig's, 444's, and 4VEPs, despite not seeing them in real life), and Cologne to Dusseldorf with the ICE3(I own ICE1 for Ruhr-Sieg line).
Although I have to say, my favorite engines in the game are the Union Pacific Big Boy and the Challenger. Both of them are pure awesome. Although the Big Boy seems to be bugged where the steam pressure gauge doesn't work properly.
Blacklight
01-01-13, 06:10 PM
Have any of you tried "BVE"? It's a freeware train sim that's kind of like the train version of what Orbiter is. It's not bad.
Have any of you tried "BVE"? It's a freeware train sim that's kind of like the train version of what Orbiter is. It's not bad.
BVE was great, OpenBVE had promise, but unfortunately about three to four years ago there was a massive schism in the community which lead to a lot of the creative developers removing their work from the internet. The BVE community has never really recovered from it, the great routes like Maybank, and the Northern Line, as well as the great promise of the updated West Coast Main Line route, and Birmingham Cross-city South...well, it's all kind of fizzled out. I imagine the Japanese community is still going strong, but the British one has pretty much died now. A shame, it was good fun.
EDIT: A quick search, out of interest, has shown me that some parts of BVE are still going, the Network West Midlands (the update of the old Maybank route which I mentioned) seems to still be online, as does Steve Greens lovely Northern Line, and some of the old trains that were hosted on Steve Greens site have made their way to BVETMD...so it's not all doom and gloom. I might even be tempted to dust the old girl off and see if I can get it running again. :D
Arclight
09-26-13, 07:58 AM
Just updated to 2014. It is a bit broken for the moment. :-?
That's what you get for having Sean Bean narrating your trailer, the game dies too. :nope:
Herr-Berbunch
09-26-13, 08:20 AM
Just updated to 2014. It is a bit broken for the moment. :-?
I thought so, when Steam keeps telling me every few minutes that you've just started playing it. Always a sign of a new release. :D
I've not managed to break it yet, although I haven't done too much with it. The inbuilt consist editor is a nice touch, even if it doesn't generate Quick Drive trains for any trains that the Quick drive menu doesn't recognise, which is a bit of a shame, but hopefully the new workshop upgrades will help fix that.
Arclight
09-26-13, 09:59 AM
Really? Crashes on loading a scenario for me. Not the only one apparently. :hmmm:
Sure they'll fix it soon enough though.
* keeps saying 110 files failed to validate every time I check it. Something wonky with Steam perhaps, restart might be in order.
Let me fire up a scenario and test it.
Any particular scenario you're using?
Hmm update, eh? I may have to dl it again, of course I have bugger all for content beyond base stuff. :dead:
Wish I had spare money to get some of the Steam Locomotive stuff.
Arclight
09-26-13, 02:27 PM
Let me fire up a scenario and test it.
Any particular scenario you're using?
Tried loading the first thing it was on, see if it works. Then I picked something else fairly randomly, different loc and route, same deal.
Doesn't matter what I do. Quick drive, click random and go, crash. Engine just crashes.
Hmm update, eh? I may have to dl it again, of course I have bugger all for content beyond base stuff. :dead:
Wish I had spare money to get some of the Steam Locomotive stuff.
They added 3 routes that were paid addons before. Not sure about locs, but there's some new free content.
Or not. Apparently it's only free to 2014 purchasers, not upgrading users.
Very odd, just drove a scenario end to end on London to Brighton, no crashes of either train or software. All I can suggest is keeping an eye on the various forums, Trainsim.com and UKtrainsim.com to see if someone posts a fix, or if a patch is incoming to fix that.
The only bugs I've been able to find is that the EFX seem to have disappeared in London to Brighton, so no reverb in tunnels and under bridges, and likewise the occlusions (making the cab dark in tunnels and under bridges) have gone walkabout and the tunnels all seem to have some kind of glowing brickwork as they're as bright as daylight inside.
It didn't screw up any of my third party sound addons either, which is surprising and rather nice.
Arclight
09-26-13, 02:55 PM
Myeah, not in any rush anyway now that I've realized I didn't get anything new to play with. :D
Platapus
09-26-13, 06:31 PM
Are there any train simulators that allow the player to operate a switching yard realistically?
That is one aspect of trains that has always interested me -- managing the consists in a yard.
Are there any train simulators that allow the player to operate a switching yard realistically?
That is one aspect of trains that has always interested me -- managing the consists in a yard.
If you mean collecting wagons, breaking consists and rearranging them into a new fashion, then 2014 does that. Like so:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9LMkSiLo8M
Herr-Berbunch
10-19-13, 05:37 AM
Aargh!
Trying to find free content (lots available) that doesn't require a dozen different payware DLCs is nigh on impossible.
Aargh!
Trying to find free content (lots available) that doesn't require a dozen different payware DLCs is nigh on impossible.
Now that's a feeling I know well, and the developers don't help matters much by excluding 3rd party content from the Steam workshop (so downloads from Justtrains and Armstrong Powerhouse are out unless they also release through Steam/RSC) and RSC have an annoying habit of repainting a locomotive/unit that's already out and then charging another £11.99 for it. :/\\!!
Platapus
10-19-13, 08:19 PM
If you mean collecting wagons, breaking consists and rearranging them into a new fashion, then 2014 does that. Like so:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9LMkSiLo8M
The ability to control one engine is one aspect that interests me, the other is coordinating the activity in the entire switching yard. Sort like from a yard control tower where I control all the switches and direct the movement. Is that viewpoint part of 2014?
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