Upcoming Release Db Br 147 - Coming Soon!

Will be this the last addon of March? What a bizar load off addons this month.... Next few months everything is sold out i guess....

 

I will probably release in april, as the preview is March 31 ;-)

 

Will you make a steam bundle with Frankenbahn&BR147?

 

Read above there you find this part:

"Train Sim World 6: DB BR 147 is releasing on 31st March 2026 for Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 5, Epic Games Store, and Steam for £14.99/€17.99/$17.99"

So no its for March

 

Ah, you're right. Yet more pressure on my wallet this month

 

I hope, although it may be a bit unrealistic, that the BR 147 can also be used as a substitute for the BR146 or BR 111.

 

It looks like not very difficult to implement. Maybe not as ai but only playble loco to drive by yourself.

 

I'm curious about the texture blurring on PS5, because maybe something needs to be adjusted in layer 423, if I remember correctly from previous messages, it should help performance a bit.

 

Will the new schedule layer work on Ps5? And will the Fis walk on the train because when I launch a service, it is always written "nicht eisteigen"

 

Can you provide a full list of all (driveable) layers and substitutions before release? They are mentioned in the article, but would be nice to know the required content in full.

 

The part about seeing your stopping pattern on the screen is interesting, could this be another step toward eBula ?

 

What is with the Original Timetable, will this also get its own BR 423 or does it still need Frankfurt S-Bahns BR423

 

Will the 147 correctly sub at least for the player selectable loco into all older routes that have 146 and Dosto services? That would be a big selling point for me, rather than having it restricted to the Stuttgart timetable. For some auto subbing would be out of the time period, but I would definitely like if the player had the option to choose it.

 

Instant buy!

 

Stuttgart Improvements
Mentioned in previous roadmap livestreams, and earlier in State of the Game, Frankenbahn: Stuttgart - Heilbronn is being updated to include a DB BR 423, removing the requirement for Frankfurt S-Bahn, and therefore natively including over 400 services in both the original 2000 and the DB BR 147’s 2018 timetables. Not only that, but it has also been amended to reflect Stuttgart S-Bahn condition, making the services more realistic than just using the Frankfurt one.
https://live.dovetailgames.com/live.../article/train-sim-world-6-roadmap-march-2026

 

So there's gonna be a two day release marathon? Monday the Class 90 (albeit that wasn't the originally scheduled release day) and Tuesday the DB BR 147 already.
I mean, I'm kinda glad those two will finally release, but I'm beginning to get overwhelmed by the flood of content these days.

I've gotten myself the BR 145 Expert and Liberec - Stara Paka in the beginning of the month and I haven't found the time to really explore both DLC in depth yet.

Partially to both needing fixes to even play the scenarios and journeys, but mostly due to being glued to YouTube for preview-, release- and review-live streams, add to that the occasional community stream event with your streamer of choice (not complaining about me spending my time socialising for a change on TSP's streams), the time needed to consume actual world and local news to keep up with the moat chaotic time I've yet to be alive in and the need for actual rest, recreational entertainment media consumption, chores around the house and work, I'm not even finding time to actually play the game or have the mental strength at the end of a challenging work day.

I know it's the end of the fiscal year, close to Easter and so on, and I'm able to afford the DLC I want without having to starve by any means and I'm looking forward to fresh and long anticipated content, but I feel overwhelmed by 6 releases in one month in such rapid succession and with, let's face it since we all know it, day one bugs which certainly won't get fixed before Easter.

Please bear in mind I'm not complaining about having to buy everything on day one, FOMO or something alike. I had my eyes set on certain DLC to get on day one. That doesn't mean I'm only interested in those, I'm just less interested by the others at the same moment until I can read the articles, watch the streams, learn about the DLC and gain interest in them, possibly make up my mind to get some of them as well. And I realise I could just watch the streams after they've been broadcasted on YouTube, but that way I can't participate and interact with people on the streams, which is a core feature of DTG social media (and I'm really glad it's that easy to communicate with the Devs and Publisher).

Also the huge backlog of updates and fixes still in QA-limbo don't make me look forward to the Easter holidays anymore in terms of the game.

Instead of rolling out long awaited fixes so we can use the holidays to finally sit down for long leisure days and indulge ourselves in the game we get flooded by new broken content on top, which we still want to explore because we've been awaiting their respective releases with hope and wonder.

On top of that the season for real life train events is starting on the northern hemisphere and weekends are getting claimed by them.

Where are we supposed to find time to follow just DTG social media (not even speaking of social media in general which consumes more and more time in our busy lives these days), stay on top of events, anticipate and discuss upcoming releases, play said releases once they're out, discuss, report issues etc. in our busy lives?

This may be just my experience and my mental state and I really am looking forward to driving the 147, even though it will release with bugs and without extra coaches to fill highly demanded gaps, but seriously, there never has been a march with that many releases before for TSW, there will likely be a big gap in the near future without releases and for QA and Devs to handle a whole bunch of issues for even more DLC all of a sudden.

I have a really really bad feeling about the whole situation.

So please DTG and 3P Devs, please change my mind or at least ease it.

 

Good that the 423-issue will be resolved with the patch for the route. Will all mounting and missing services issues with this route on PS5 be solved now (like described in https://forums.dovetailgames.com/th...table-services-for-stuttgart-heilbronn.95713/)

 

No thats the FIS screen on the most left what is pointing out here:



So no Ebula

 

Yeah, I didn’t say that it was.

 

Okay but its also not a step in that direction. Its not near an Ebula support

 

I guess it makes sense they’re churning out all this content in March from a business perspective. But I’m worried the add-ons are not launching in a state that’s as polished as it should be. The fact they had to delay the preview stream for the new UK route by a week because of a completely unrelated issue (EMU braking on NY-Stamford) just shows how super busy everyone is right now.

I’m hoping they take a well-deserved breather in April and then release all the updates/optimizations these add-ons should probably have launched with in the first place. This also includes resolving the issues in the core game and existing add-ons (PIS, blurry textures, PS5 add-on mounting) that have seemingly fallen by the wayside because of the busy DLC release schedule.

I saw a forum comment opining that the developers have become overwhelmed by the various bugs/issues recently, and I think that rings true. Resources were clearly pulled away from bug fixing to get all of these add-ons out in time.

 

DTG can still sneak in a release the 31st at 23:59.

Come on, we still didnt get enough this month.

 

Looks surprisingly good! If the new timetable holds up to the promises, it might be even better than the "old" one (which I already consider to be quite good)
Hopefully we will also get the promised bundle of updates and fixes for the route along with this.

But I share the concerns Puddington Bear already mentioned. We are getting a tidal wave of new stuff lately, I can't remember a single month ever being this busy. My hope is that quality control can keep up with this influx of new stuff to manage. DTG's QA track record for 3rd party content hasn't been too great lately as it is, perhaps mostly (?) due to the blurry textures issue. And rushing all those 3rd party DLC out half-tested just to meet some fiscal year deadline probably won't help.

 

Its funny how in January people were complaining its too quiet. And then making up conspracy theories that TSW is dead. They are too busy on Metro Rivals.

In case you didn't notice but Alex said alot had been pushed back on the roadmap stream because of the PS5 and Blurry texture investigation.

So this was all probably going to be spread out originally.

 

Sorry but the most addons are 3rd party. 2 of them from DTG what is very average in therms of DTG addons

 

Some BR147 have recently transferred from the Berlin district (where they move to after originally working out of Stuttgart) to Aachen to work RE services IRL. Would be good if this DLC subs into Köln - Aachen dosto services. Here's one on a RE at Düren in February.

 

Really nice and for 147 can it actually substitute itself onto other routes that are Germany

 

Let's hope that at least this TSW 6 add-on meets "all" the Standards a user can expect.

 

Nice but its not reflecting the route time period..... The route it self in its state is way back so 2025/2026 is not really realistic

 

Please DTG can we have an official comment on the 147 being available as a sub on existing 143/146 services on other routes? If it's not available as a sub (doesn't have to layer in as AI, just a player-available sub) then I'm going to hold off on purchasing.

 

I hope the Success of this Add-on will have a positive impact on the BR 187. Perhaps DTG and Skyhook can work together to bring this add-on to an acceptable state. Copy the Sounds from the BR 147 to the BR 187 If possible.

I've always thought that, if not for the terrible Sounds, the BR 187 could be the best German (non-Expert) Freight Locomotive.

 

Really looking forward to this - finally nice to see FlixTrain appear elsewhere other than just Frankfurt!

However, the current route needs some big improvements regarding optimisation with issues with frequent video memory errors and blurring on console. But, now with the first pass on texture memory improvements for SEHS, hoping Stuttgart and many other German content will benefit all eventually too.

 

It does raise the question (one perhaps that’s been answered somewhere?) of whether all of this new content is getting made with the blurring in mind (ie not slamming down 4k textures everywhere).

 

I thought that perhaps too. Whether a coincidence or not, at least for newer content recently, but ECW Remaster with the 171 and 377/3, Liberec-Stara Paka etc blurring does not seem to be an issue, if at all?

If they know potentially what the root cause of the blurring is, it would be nice to know if they have implemented any changes when it comes to textures etc.

 

In one of the recent livestreams, Matt mentioned that developers now have access to a tool that helps reduce file sizes. I think it either lists the sizes of individual textures, or the sizes of layered content — not sure which one. Anyways, that’s now apparently a firm part of the internal checklists and should ensure that no unnecessarily bloated textures and/or layers that completely waste resources (e.g. by using a single wagon from a massive route) end up in the game from now on.

 

*dream on* Yeah, maybe we get the 147 in advance so it can layer on a possible upcoming Berlin route *dream off*

 

Will sadly never happen.

 

It does appear on the revamped Köln - Aachen timetable which released last year.

Not an ideal experience since it utilises a mix of ToDv4 and ToDv3 stock, granted, but it was playable.

Not that I care much for the Flixtrain as I'd prefer to play with its cars in their original state, also its timetables runs are heavily limited IRL compared to DB Fernverkehr and for that limited prototypical use it has always been overpriced.

You raise a good point though: it's the first ToDv4 route that has been originally built as such besides Frankfurt - Fulda and since TSW5 that utilises the green one. Nevertheless the article states these services will be AI-only, so there's that.

It may have a layer on the Kassel - Würzburg Expert gameplay pack timetable, but I've not driven it much since the typical runs on it are rather boring.

Personally I'd rather take a set of high rise entry Dostos with the 147, which we've been asking for almost a decade by now, than a layer for the Flixtrain.

Also sorry if I'm coming off soured at the moment, the barrage of content and information as well as lack of fixes for all that's been broken for ages finally broke something inside of me. Hopefully it'll mend, but I'm too overwhelmed to focus on one thing and enjoy it. Also those things I wanna enjoy are newly released and already bugged and won't get fixed before Easter, so I'll maybe take a break and pick some good value deal up on the last day of the spring sale fo something completely different.

 

With the BR147, DTG now has a basis for the all-new TRAXX MS3 as well, whoch is the multi system version of that loco. Alstom offers four versions, one of them (BR188-D-A-CH-I-FR-NL-B) can (as the name suggests) run in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, France, the Netherlands and Belgium. Other versions are planned, including one for use in the east of Europe, and versions that run in a more limited set of the countries already mentioned.

Akiem has already ordered a fleet of the BR188 variant and the versions for eastern Europe, as well as a 3kV+last-mile-diesel variant, which will be delivered starting summer 2027 (and lasting until late 2028). By that time, you'll see these locos everywhere, replacing the oldest BR186 units (depending on their mileage).

The BR188 is very similar to the BR147 (and 187), but has more pantographs (obviously), train protection systems for the target markets (implemented in software) and a rear view camera (which sounds as an awesome feature to have in TSW).

 

I just watched Video from Felix der Weise about the BR 147, and you can drive this Locomotive on Dresden-Riesa/Leipzig ,Hamburg-Lübeck and 2 Services on Bremen-Oldenburg.

Of course, I don't know if he had all the DLC installed.

 

Bremen - Oldenberg is set before the introduction of this loco, so you get the same situation as with the Vectron on this route. In other words, I hate to see locos on older routes where they not suit.

 

Please DTG Jan. Could you please release an Xbox link at 10am tomorrow to save the mad frustration of finding it in the Microsoft store.

 

Coming soon?…… yeah I don’t think so

 

No console release tomorrow, only for PC. Disappointing.

 

It won’t be coming 10am tomorrow….

 

What’s the reason it’s not on consoles tomorrow …does have issues
How many is that now …at least it’s a better move to delay it.. but these issues should’ve been sorted before even giving a date

 

Can't imagine the rush to release 45 dlcs in two weeks has anything to do with it, right?

At least they can't release the wrong build if it doesn't get released at all! /s

Embarassing

 

Another day another mess by DTG with console users now not getting it.

 

This is the news that was put out on the Discord. it may also have been put elsewhere in this forum.

Personally I think they have done the right thing in delaying for the console. Would you rather have the DLC delayed by a few days or taking a dump on yer console then having to wait a week or two to get a patch out after you have paid you cash for it? You cant have it both ways to be honest.

I would rather wait for console release, so they get it right.


DB BR 147 – An Update on PC & Console Release,

Hello everyone,
Ahead of the launch of the DB BR 147 Loco Add-on tomorrow, our teams have concluded a final round of testing with some changes that we want to let you know about.

Firstly, we have identified performance issues that are limited to console platforms (PS5 & Xbox Series S/X), and as a result, we’re now aiming to release PC and console platforms separately in order to ensure everyone has the best experience with the release.

PC platforms (Steam & Epic Games) will continue to launch tomorrow at 4pm BST on Epic Games, and 5pm BST on Steam, however, we will be deferring console releases until a later date. We want to first confirm the improvements in our builds before committing to that new date, and once we have decided this, we’ll let you all know asap.

Secondly, we will be making some small amendments to the timetable across all platforms to ensure the gameplay works as you’d expect, that will remove AI services layered from the LGV Méditerranée route.

As a final note, we also had a range of Stuttgart-Heilbronn improvements that were linked to the release of the DB BR 147. We will continue to release these alongside the 147, so that means PC platforms will see these improvements tomorrow, and console players will see them alongside the upcoming release of the 147, which we will confirm soon. We will confirm the full list of updates in our release article tomorrow, with the key changes reflecting Timetable updates, various livery and service fixes, and removal of additional dependencies to help support memory optimisation.

As a summary:
Steam and Epic Games will release tomorrow, March 31st 2026 at 4pm and 5pm BST respectively, and we’ll support the launch as we normally would with feedback/reports.,
PS5 and Xbox Series S/X will be releasing at a future date once we’ve confirmed the improvements. We’ll share more news on when you can expect this release after we’ve confirmed that the fixes in our builds are suitable for release.,
Small amendments on all platforms, removing AI services from the LGV Méditerranée route.,
Stuttgart Improvements will release alongside the DB BR 147, including Timetable updates, and fixes for liveries and services, as well as greater memory optimisation.,

Thank you for understanding, we’re continuing with our official showcase for the DB BR 147 tomorrow evening, following the PC release, to give you all a closer look. Be sure to tune in and also catch various ambassador coverage for the loco that went live earlier today!
DB BR 147 Showcase Livestream