Still, should be clearly shown on the schedule along with some intermediate passing times too in the case of non stop services. And maybe I read the room wrong, weren't they dithering about it a bit as there's some issue where the arrival times where affecting on train announcements? Well I know what I prefer, the more so because in the cab of a Class 86/87 I'm not even going to hear the PA.
Thanks eldomtom. I had a look, but that looks like a list of departure times from that platform, not arrival times - or am I wrong?
This has been really bugging me as well. Since the reduced timetable came out on PS5 I've wanted to match up these services and hop between the 2. Done a couple of full runs north by route hopping but really annoying me that i can't do it south. Seeing that this was a feature they mentioned before release I'm surprised it's slipped through testing
Thanks Tom. Unfortunately there was a lot of variation in dwell times in this era, particularly at major centres like Crewe and Preston. The departure time doesn't tell us much about the arrival time. I note that - if you just ignore the schedule and arrive when you arrive (which presumably is what JT had in mind), you arrive a long time before the departure time shown on the map. That either means that the schedule had a lot of recovery time before Crewe/Preston - in which case we should be conserving power and dissipating running time to maintain path - or the schedule had a long dwell time, in which case we should be utilising the full capabilities of the loco to achieve a right time arrival. Without actually knowing the arrival time, there's no way of knowing which - and that takes a lot of the interest out of it for me. I appreciate your help though. I have thought about trying to obtain an appropriate working timetable for the era, in order to find out the arrival times for myself, but it's a bit annoying to have to spend time and money doing so. Hopefully JT will put the arrival times in soon.
You're right of course, all of the schedules should have intermediate passing times - they're essential for a Driver. But I've been on about that since TSW started, and I've never had a response, never mind any schedules with passing times, so I don't know whether their absence is a technical limitation of the game or just that it's considered too big a job to input them.
I've given it a few days and been gentle with it but I've only seen a small improvement in performance on my PC since Thursdays patch. Tried light locos in free roam and light loco moves in reduced TT which worked OK though frame drops were still there and even got into Crewe station from the north on an ex-Liverpool service which was a first. Other moves like freight through the independent lines still crashed. Crewe is still the big memory sink for me, still can't run the introduction module - it always freezes during the class 86 info. Are there plans for another patch addressing memory use? Is removing the screens at Crewe as was done at Warrington being considered? Anyway, off to play with some real trains for a fortnight around Germany, Switzerland & Austria. Perhaps my PC will have cooled down when I get back and will perform better
Not a big one but noticed on the 47/3 the main reservoir runs between about 100 & 120 psi not 118 & 140. The sound of the compressors running is better than the 47/4 though There was a discussion about why the /3's were restricted to 75mph. I was told at the time the main reason was there were savings to be made not having to maintain to 95mph specs if not required anymore in the regularity and tolerance of checks needed.
First time playing since the patch, this is no longer the case. Using the same timetable - don't need to play the reduced one - and only the 3-car services have arrival times still, the 2-car ones no longer have them.
After a few runs with the new patch, I gotta say it's a much better experience on PS5. Improved frame rates, significantly reduced chances of blurred textures, and no crashing to the Playstation dashboard. Played the 86/4 on a variety of services and times/seasons, and still felt like the route had some life despite the reduced layers. Did noticed on some 86/2 or 87/0 services there will be blurries between Wigan and Warrington, but those clear up when getting closer to Crewe or Preston. I think with maybe a tad more optimization on the trains to help reduce blurred textures on routes like Preston-Carlisle and Blackpool Branches, since these trains are backported there, it'll be just about perfect. Otherwise, I still think this is a great product.
The issue is as it's a DTL thing it's on DTG to resolve but they are aware. It's annoying as in the dev environment the hopping works.
A patch for the older rolling stock was meant to go out with the route update at the same time but sadly didn't make it.
thanks for the info, and for the responsiveness in the forums about these concerns. Always a class act from the JT crew.
