Koln Aachen Tod 4 Remaster Discussion

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It's great to see yet another remaster! Here's my take on it:

The weather and otherwise lighting (both night and day) of the route itself are much better, it has significantly improved my experience with the route. The night lighting especially is such an upgrade! The light bounces well off of most stock on the route.

However, the 442 does not take to this new lighting well in comparison to Dresden-Leipzig's 442. It simply doesn't fit lighting wise. Additionally, the 406 ICE train has a distracting reflection on its windscreen which affects vision and the view.

I feel as though the GWE remaster set the bar so high that this remaster is simply underwhelming. A remaster usually means that the route will be brought up to the latest game specs. (now being TSW6). The route does not currently have announcments (of any kind), suspension physics, upgraded sounds, or proper lighting on the rolling stock.

All in all, while I hugely appreciate this remaster as it comes as a free update, I believe there needs to be a consistency between DLCs and remasters alike. If the resources weren't available to do a remaster as outstanding as GWE, it should have been given more time so it could fulfill this standard.

I am grateful for the update but do wish a bit more effort could have been put in rather than a sort of 'half' remaster.

 

Can anyone who's played the remaster tell me if any there are any drivable services with stock that has the new suspension? I know the included trains don't but maybe from a layer? I honestly have lost track of what does/doesn't have it at this point lol

I wanna try out the new lighting but i can't go back to the old suspension model

 

There are a few on here who live in total denial unfortunately.

 

You should at least be able to drive the dostos services with the 146 from Leipzig, I think that has suspension. You could also drive most of the freight runs with the Vectron from FTF or the 185 from Leipzig.

 

Are we playing a different version? I think the night lighting is still terrible. Köln is a ghost town during a blackout at night. Honestly I can't remember the old version being much worse

 

Same for me. I struggle to see much difference in the city at all.

 

It does, because like it or not, the management and CM's are gallivanting around like a bunch of excited kids over the game that has faces on the locos, but over in the Feedback and Troubleshooting threads, with the exception of Candace there is little to no acknowledgement of the massive tech and content debt stretching back years (like the broken G6 Journey) let alone any fixes forthcoming.

 

But what's different? We had tons of not fixed issues and newly introduced issues even during times were they completely focused on TSW. Some of this issues are a decade old so how are the two new games the issue? It's not like without them everything was fine and released bug free or got fixed fast

 

It seemed really good for me on the s bahn run I did yesterday.

 

Exactly what i was looking for- thanks!

Gonna run some Vectron services tonight after work

 

Come on that seems a little unfair- there's like 1 post from Matt over in the Sodor forums.

I wish he (and/or other Devs) were more active in the TSW forums, but from your post i was expecting a whole different ecosystem over there lol. Il

I can't begrudge the devs who are excited about the Sodor game tbh- it's probably not for me but that's OK

 

It just grinds the niggle a bit, that’s all.

 

Just had a quick go doing an end to end run in the Flixtrain Vectron and thought it was perfectly acceptable for a smaller scale remaster. Much prefer the new lighting and the new timetable from last year was already excellent.

Blurry textures on Xbox but won’t hold that against it as that’s virtually every newer route now.

 

Don't get me wrong I love that the older routes are now getting upgraded to TOD4 but that's exactly what it is an upgrade much like SEHS & SoS got for TSW3 they aren't full remasters like WSR, GWE & CCL. I was hoping that there would be suspension added to the trains, faults and events, announcements and even the new rain materials but oh well, just nice to see SKA with TOD4 finally! Hopefully the other stuff will get added in the future!

 

I did a full run and I can tell the update.

A year ago, we had very few services for Köln-Aachen. Now we have plenty of services and visually looks better. And all for free!

I was not touching this route until the new timetable. Now for sure I will run even more. For me taking the 2 things together, timetable and graphical refresh, it is a clear remaster. I do not understand why many people is complaining about a FREE upgrade.

Thanks to DTG and all the people that worked hard on bringing this remaster to us. Looking forward to more to come.

 

i think mainly the issue is that no tsw 6 feature like station and onboard announcement got added with this remaster but GWE and east coastway will/do have it