You know that TSC is also made by the same company? If you are moving to PC there are tons of mods to improve your experience.
TSC is also now pretty much bereft of any further support or ongoing development by DTG. It's good but after the last uninstall and purge to delete unwanted carp, I still haven't got round to reinstalling it. Anyhow, back OT, as I could rebuy Cardiff City for £21 in the bundle offer, still more than I really wanted to pay but I took the plunge anyway; I shall report whether conductor mode is working decently or not. Edit: Conductor mode seemed to be working on a quick job from Cardiff to Penarth. No one on board from Central but picked up at Grangetown and Dingle Road and both times had tickets to check. What was unnerving though, is that throughout the journey there was no visible driver avatar in the leading cab! Must be new ATO working for the Cardiff Valleys! Edit 2: Anyone had issues not able to take power on the 150 after leaving the driver's seat and sitting down again? Just happened to me.
Yeah that’s why I want to move, just for the mods and routes and overall experience, I’m a big fan of AP sound packs
I must have been lucky then, as noted above. As regards the 150 not taking power, going to call user error on that one. Couldn't replicate on a subsequent run and realised probably because I had used the single leaf crew door to exit the set, rather than just using the saloon one. And obviously the crew door doesn't close with the U or Y key, needs to be done manually. Durrr... Anyhow sort of enjoying the route. Fulfils its purpose of being a filler but still no excuse for not building it out a bit further - Barry Island, Pontypridd and Caerphilly - and for the disgraceful cut job at Cardiff Central as regards the lower concourse and station front.
To paraphrase Matt's comments on the preview stream ""we had intended to go to Barry Island with the route, but the deadline was too short so we had to cut bits""
Exactly my thoughts. It really just isn't long enough, particularly when you compare with what the German route building team produced with the Frankfurt S-Bahn network. Selling at the full £30 price mark, absolutely more time and resources should have been allocated to the Cardiff project. I guess there's a glimmer of hope that DTG could do a SEHS or LIRR with it and push out a 2.0 at some stage, adding Barry, at least one of the full Valley Line runs in its entirety (my choice would be Rhymney for the scenery and the possibility to fudge in the old loco hauled peak workings) and a substantial portion of the rest. As it stands, more like a demo or something that was given an intern as a project who forgot about the assignment until the last minute. It would be like getting a Bristol network with the various routes terminating at Clifton Down, Filton Abbey Wood, Keynsham and Nailsea (better not give them ideas!).
Unfortunately (and we see it time and time again) the deadlines set for DLC are clearly too tight, which is why we continually see incomplete DLC that hasn't realised its potential and/or bug ridden projects that get released to satisfy the greedy person at the helm.
Even what we got does not fulfill its potential. Pulling into Radyr on a round the City Line, spied a rake of Mark 2’s hauled by a 66 in one of the other platforms. I returned to free roam, walked over to the 66 only to be told “You do not have permission to drive this train.” DTG or Rivet, can you please answer what’s the point of putting a Railtour in the timetable if it’s not available to drive? Checking the list of player driveable services in the Timetable, you can’t even choose it from there. The only Class 66 player trains are the two RHTT trips.
Wonder if it doesn't really run on the route and goes to an off route destination. Though I guess if it does pass any other stations on route, a staffing change stop could be put in
Well the 66 was on the Cardiff end of the train so it must have been heading onto the City Line or via Llandaff, not off towards Pontypridd.
Xbox series x Class 153 fault: the TPWS switch in the smaller cab is labelled wrong. When I set it to “Normal”, the pop up bar says “isolated”, basically the opposite.
