The Train Sim World 6: Free Starter Pack ends soon! If you've yet to upgrade your existing collection, you can do so now on all platforms until 11th November 2025. Epic Games Store What is the Free Starter Pack? The Train Sim World 6: Free Starter Pack is a free-to-download option allowing existing players to bring their content across to the latest version of the game. It's also a great way for new players to dive into Train Sim World for the first time! The Free Starter Pack contains: Training Center 'test track' route Tutorials for a selection of unbranded trains Class 323 EMU Class 66 Diesel Locomotive NEW SD40-2 Diesel Locomotive BR 146 Electric Locomotive 8F Steam Locomotive As well as access to Livery Designer, Scenario Planner, Formation Designer and Creators Club. It does not contain any of the core routes or locomotives from Train Sim World 6: Standard, Deluxe or Special Editions. Benefits of upgrading to Train Sim World 6 Notable benefits to upgrading your existing collection include: Train Sim World 6 specific features and Settings options: Refined Layer Selector, which saves between sessions Support for any future implementation of Train Sim World 6 features to back catalogue content Opportunities to implement features such as Temporary Speed Restrictions on older routes will be reviewed in future. Being able to purchase current and future Train Sim World 6 Add-on releases - such as: WCML: Birmingham-Crewe Santa Fe on Cajon Pass Frankenbahn: Stuttgart-Heilbronn Liberec-Stará Paka And more! Updates to existing TSW Add-ons: Sprinter Timetable for Fife Circle Line (Class 158 Add-on required) WMR / XC Class 170 improvements Manchester Airport Commuter improvements Plus any future TSW6 Remasters of existing routes, when released, such as Great Western Express. What happens on 11th November? From 11th November, the Free Starter Pack will no longer be available. Players who have already downloaded the Free Starter Pack to upgrade their content or try Train Sim World for the first time, will be able to continue to play their content after this date. After 11th November, players who wish to upgrade their collection to Train Sim World 6 will have to do so by purchasing Standard, Deluxe or Special Editions. Find out more about Train Sim World 6 by following @trainsimworld on Twitter/X, Instagram, Threads, Facebook, YouTube, Twitch, and TikTok.
how is it advertised: free starter pack with training center and the newly added SD40-2 how it really is: it's not possible to use the SD40-2 in the training center
It's there but there just nothing you can do but drive it.Unlike the other locos who get wagons and coaches to use theres no US rolling stock to use with it.
Or SPG. Or Boston-Worcester. They super goofed when they copied and pasted the SPG CSX SD40-2 to create the TC version, as it ended up overwriting the original and removing it from its home route and all layers where it appears, and the TC one isn't usable anywhere.
At least they tried to do a nice thing, although yeah fumbled in the end. I would have loved a US loco in the TC in the TSW4 era, might have tried us stuff sooner
As an aside, while the CSX SD40-2 had no services for me in Boston-Worcester with SPG installed, it DID appear, in CSX livery in Boston-Worcester (But not SPG) once I installed Cajon Pass.... Further suggesting a relationship to some kind of screwup in TSW5 too where the SPG one keeps defaulting to the BNSF version...
I think there's something not quite kosher about charging for the starter pack. Why should players have to pay a fee to update content they've already paid for when there's really little if any difference between TSW5 and 6? I mean, maybe I'm missing something here, but what will they get for a paid " update " except a couple of questionable features that aren't apparently working that well and don't necessarily work on their existing content. And is "6" necessarily better than previous versions in terms of performance? I suppose you could say, well, they've had plenty of time to download it so more fool them. But many players are not yet convinced, haven't seen a reason to get it and are sticking with earlier iterations that work better for them. Then along comes a route they really want, perhaps JT's, and now it will cost them a premium. That aside, wouldn't it generate more future sales in TSW6 among new players if the starter pack were always free? .
They don't have to be convinced, or download it. They just have to claim it. They can carry playing TSW5 or 4 or whatever, doesn't matter.
