If anyone from Dovetail is actually reading or even interested in our feedback, it's also time you sorted this LOVE out... First run on the new route and you still can't get the end summary to correctly display the route name. Outstanding, as Paladin Danse once said.
14 km with the 140 on Maintalbahn is a feat in itself and should have been worthy of Platinum! Sorry Vern, I had to
Just finished my second run with the 140 and this time the summary showed correctly. I know it's more of a core issue, another one DTG either can’t be bothered or don't know how to fix but flagging in here more likely to get noticed (hopefully). Anyhow the 140 is great the route, well, a bit average. Track laying as you enter the yard at Heibronn seems very shonky, doglegs and reverse curves through the points. Not very scenic and of course not very long either. If DTG insist on bringing out these similar style German routes and charging £30 for them, at least have a minimum of 50 miles/80km running length.
Hmm, I guess it's up to personal taste. I rather enjoy the route. Basically for the same reasons why I like Main-Spessart. I enjoy finishing my services in one sitting, and we already have many routes where full end-to-end services take 1,5 hours or more. Having routes with full-length services of under 1 hour is not a downer in my eyes, as long as the route is fun My main criticism about the scenery is mostly that all the many yards along it are way too empty. At least a bit more window dressing in form of static freight wagons would have helped a lot.
Not sure if I should post this in the Frankfurt-Fulda feedback thread, the Passenger Announcements feedback thread or here, so I'll go with here. I just took the Wittenberger cab for a spin heading from Frankfurt to Fulda, RE 4502 early in the morning. Got Platinum even with the safety-systems-not-counting-bug, yay me! After leaving the last station ahead of Fulda, Neuhof, I heard something I hadn't heard before on this route: an announcement! The announcer welcomed everyone aboard the RE to Fulda, as if the service just started. And when approaching Fulda, another announcement came, announcing Fulda and the (correct) side of exit. This opened a whole can of worms for me: Have announcements been added retroactively for Frankfurt-Fulda? If so, why didn't I hear any between Frankfurt and Neuhof? Also, does this affect other vehicles on the route too, or just the Wittenberger cab (and probably the Stuttgart-Heilbronn 111 if used there)?
I read the reviews here and on steam. This route will highly likley purchaises in december 26 on a 85% sale. If i want empty train yards, i can just go back playing tsw2. Now with tsw 6 and a huge marketing campain devs were not capable of make it feel alive?? Very very disappointing. Why all the effort just to deliver an unfinished product. So Dtg takes shortcuts ans expect me to drop money on this? Just didnt work for me. Didnt buy a single tsw 6 dlc yet.
Train malfunctions also occur on older routes (tested on BR294), and it's possible that the announcements are directly dependent on the trains, as this is the version for TSW 6, even though the route is older.
I'd go with occam's razor on this one and expect simply that there is a train that ends in Fulda on either DLG or SHN so they had to add that word to the system, and that the announcement system just dumbly checks if it has all the pieces to stitch together an announcement and plays it if yes. Which if true is fun, because it would mean they added yet another layer of unnecessary searching algorithm running in background when not needed, degrading performance for another bit.
Might well be true... I just did a test on the old Dresden-Riesa route. Announcements work just fine there, as long as I use Stuttgart-Heilbronn's 111. Would love to corroborate that by trying it on Kassel-Würzburg or Tharandter Rampe, but neither the 111 nor the n-Wagen layer into them... and I don't have Dresden-Leipzig, so I can't test it with that rolling stock.
