Medway Valley Dispatcher Mode & Rainbows

Medway Valley is soon to add a dispatcher mode and rainbows in TSW!

What do you think?

 

https://www.youtube.com/live/kOE6lU0Ov0Y?si=rFEZIgvgrmaf_pZ_

Start at 1 hour in I think

 

Where did you find those photos?

Dispatcher mode would be really cool - iirc Liam added it in a remaster as a scenario? It would be cool wondering around the station dispatching trains - enter free cam and use a baton. Bonus points for TD/RA buttons, if prototypical

 

This was said on the roadmap and they also played a dispatcher mode video firefly had done. Apparently they were a bit late to go into the full roadmap.

The dispatcher mode looked really cool the way they did it. I think it's only the 375s IIRC

 

Nice to see the Skittle Bridge make its debut in TSW.

 

Someone recently suggested rainbows in TSW and I was dead against it. That’s just because of the specific conditions that are required for a rainbow to occur in real life and how bad it would be to see a rainbow where a rainbow could not appear if such a feature was done badly. It’s said that they will appear in the correct place and will be rare so that’s something encouraging about it.

Dispatcher mode is like conductor mode in that it isn’t a feature that interests me so I can just ignore it but it seems fair enough for those who want a different way to play.

Medway is certainly a route that is packed with features.

 

This sounds like a really cool feature
Do you get to dispatch trains dressed as any of the four main characters in-game?

 

Verdict out on dispatcher mode, doesn’t quite float my cup of tea. I would much rather we had a signalbox or control centre mini game like SimRail, though of course on quiet routes with little or no late running and no regulation to sort out there could be nothing to do for extended periods of time.

For spin off ideas, something like a fully interactive 3D version of the Hellfire bashing game could be fun.

 

I remember Hellfire I used to play it around the time of MSTS and often thought it would be cool if they were somehow linked.

There is someone developing a signal box simulator. I've seen it on Facebook. It features what appears to be a class 119 DMU.

The chap from IHH was making one and it seemed to be quite advanced in development but it went quiet some time ago.

 

I was fortunate enough to be involved in testing an alpha version of that and it was looking very promising, but then it suddenly just went dark.

 

A shame as it looked very immersive and was set in such a great period.