Route Thames Valley: Windsor, Henley & Marlow Branch Lines - Feedback Thread

Thank you so much Johannes!
I do have more errors that you could address, I’ll attach them here shortly

 

Photo 1: glitched terrain on a bridge on the Marlow branch
Photo 2: a floating fence between Maidenhead and Furze Platt
Photo 3: weird scenery error
Photo 4: sloppy terrain between Maidenhead and Furze Platt
Photo 5: floating footpath

 

Photo 1: a floating road between Maidenhead and Furze Platt
Photo 2: a floating fence
Photo 3: floating sign, weirdly placed sign and even more questionable terrain
Photo 4: a floating lamppost and a floating road
Photo 5: NPCs having a “seizure” (not literally but they’re glitching out) between Maidenhead and Furze Platt

 

Photos 1/3/4: sloppy terrain on the Marlow branch near Furze Platt
Photos 2/5: track clipping into the bridge

 

Photo 1: sloppy terrain and a floating fence between Furze Platt and Cookham
Photo 2: scenery issue between Furze Platt and Cookham
Photo 3: floating fence at Furze Platt
Photo 4: houses clipping into each other??
Photo 5: more sloppy terrain

 

Photos 1/2/3/5: more sloppy terrain/scenery issues
Photo 4: For some reason at the stations there are TfL way out signs (like here at Cookham), but these stations are not managed by Transport for London

 

Maybe but they've been ignoring posts in this forum for much longer than that unlike the more professional outfits like JT, AABS and Firefly who seem to take great pride in addressing their customers issues and comments. A great pity I can't buy their content without DTG taking a cut as I don't want to reward DTG's abysmal customer service.

 

Photos 1-5: more terrain/scenery issues between Cookham and Bourne End

 

More scenery issues between Cookham and Bourne End:

 

Photo 1: floating brown “thing” (I think it’s a footpath..) between Cookham and Bourne End
Photos 2-5: more scenery issues

 

Photo 1: floating telegraph pole end near Bourne End
Photo 2: basic buildings at Bourne End, near the token box at the junction where the single track goes to Marlow
Photo 3: floating footpath near Bourne End
Photo 4: REALLY stretched GWR logo at Bourne End
Photo 5: track clipping into the bridge just outside of Bourne End

 

Photos 1/4: really weird water glitches between Bourne End and Marlow
Photo 2: floating bridge near Bourne End heading towards Marlow (the other end of this bridge is uneven)
Photo 3: tree inside that same bit of water
Photo 5: more terrain issues

 

Photo 1: This weird glitch is behind two signs at Cookham…
Photo 2: weird glitches on a bridge near Marlow
Photo 3: another weird glitch behind the two signs at Marlow
Photo 4: a floating sign on the same bridge in photo 2
Photo 5: really weird water glitches

 

Also some more issues that I saw but forgot to include photographic proof:

• There’s a large stretch of floating track south of Cookham, as well as other bits of floating track throughout the route (I forgot the other locations…)
• The interior for the 165 is wrong for the set time period of 2017. At that time, no GWR 165s carried a GWR interior - the interior on all of the 165s at the time were all the First Great Western interior (with pink interior doors) according to real life images from 2017.
• On the under frame of the 165 there are some stickers mentioning “air conditioning”, of which at the time the 165s did not have air conditioning
• There’s a weird bug with the collisions of the interior of the 165 - with the luggage compartment at one end of the train the collisions still feel like that there are seats there, of which there aren’t in reality on that side
• The unit numbers on the outside of the cabs of the 165 (i.e. 165122) are too large, too bold and are in the wrong place. They need to be smaller, non-bold and raised a bit higher to be closer to the top as per real life pictures of the real units

 

Not sure if this is logged already but i ran a 165 service on GWE after the service i walked around and took another service over. The 165 had a random fault and i continued to hear the engine stall warning light click in the cab of the HST i was now driving.

 

incrediblehannes is there or will there be a mastery for Thames Valley Branches?

 

TPWS needs looking at as I don’t think it’s been set up correctly, should trigger if your above 10mph/15mph not 8mph as it is simulated

 

No one has even acknowledged that its missing or if we are getting one.

 

Yes, everything is done on my end, and I'm waiting for DTG to fix the issue in core

 

I was told by a GWR guard that 8mph is correct for the branchlines. Will therefore keep it at 8mph

 

We could be waiting a while then.

 

Brilliant! thank you

 

With DTG, it could well be months before we get this update.

 

incrediblehannes Morning curious as why you did not split the timetable into three different ones. One for each branch was there any reason . Just wondered have a good day.

 

Doing the Henley Regatta scenario. Found this at Henley. PS5

 

Wow passengers really need to sorted its so bad on all routes.

 

passenger behaviour has always been tricky on TSW. Might just be a simple tweak to the platform boundary.

 

I'll put in a complaint to Abingdon School!

 

"Bloody Yoof of today etc etc" lol

 

incrediblehannes Hi have you got any indication as to when the updates will release thanks.

 

So they released patches and updates today but nothing for this.

 

It was never going to be that quick! Hopefully should be on the one of the next updates, but don’t forget there’s a queue

 

If the timetables were separate then fast travel from one branch to another would take you to an empty branch with no trains running. It all needs to be one timetable for the route to function. Further to that, there’s no need to separate the timetables.

 

nice to see however that the route hopping for these branches on the GWE were included with this patch…

 

This photo is terrible.

 

I didn't take it to be artistic, but to show a fault.

 

... for what it's worth ...


South of Cookham (i think): This fence could do with some adjusting

Route Hopping:
I can confirm all the route hopping nodes to GWE work both ways as intended. The only comment I can make is, it's a shame you couldn't add the token shed to Twyford station on the GWE route (just as a plain scenery item). This would have helped the continuity of nearby objects when hopping between the two routes.

Mainline views at Twyford:
Johannes, while these issues are not deal-breakers for me personally, I just wanted to add the pictures below to show the difference between your Twyford and GWE's Twyford in relation to what the player sees...

Looking East: You can see some brick viaducts are missing (may help in hiding odd scenery in the distance).


Looking West: Horizon/"end of scenery" clearly visible. Maybe you could add some more trees lineside into the distance.

Final thoughts:
Firstly, I must thank Liam (GrumpDog Games) for such a wonderful remaster of GWE. It was the first DLC I purchased separately after acquiring TSW6 Deluxe Edition. I had played many hours on the original GWE, but now with the TOD4 lighting, busier timetable, extra train layers and everything it is awesome.

Which leads me to thank you Johannes, for such a neat add-on DLC to an already wonderful route. Thanks for addressing the scenery issues (I'm sure you've done what you can in that regard). Keep an eye on those player clipping plane boundaries

I can't wait to see your extension to the Mildmay Line.
Regards.

 

I've actually quite enjoyed being able to pick up this route and have a few very quick plays when I have not been on TSW for a while but also don't have much time.

 

Xbox - I've just route hopped from Thames Branches to GWE from Slough station and was deposited halfway down the Windsor branch line, at the end of the accessible area

Edit. I’ve just noticed I was actually deposited on the Marlow Branch, not Windsor. I’ll try it again later to see if I get the same result.

 

That is weird, I did a route hop from Thames branch Slough to GWE and it worked fine… I am on PC however

 

Question why is it on the Marlow branch you only get a services between bourne end and Marlow between 4pm and 8pm. Nothing runs from Maidenhead to Bourne end.

 

Peak time shuttle? Is there no driveable services at all from Maidenhead?

 

Im gonna have a look right now. Just looked and yes there is a lot that go Maidenhead to bourne end and vice versa.

 

I seem to remember someone saying that at peak times they run separate trains just from Bourne End to Marlow or Maidenhead to increase capacity as it enables more journeys to be made.
Must be annoying to get from Marlow to London (or vice versa) at that time as you'll have to change twice.

 

A while back I did Windsor & Eton Central to Marlow in rush hour for a short spell while my car was off the road.
Change at Slough, change at Maidenhead, change at Bourne End.
The trick was to be in the front coach at Maidenhead and Marlow, short hop walk round to the next train.
You don't miss your connection as the other train always waits.

 

Most of it is still going to the 3P developers you know, and it helps them in their continuing efforts. So if you value their work, DTG taking a cut would be a small price to pay.

 

After completing the Regatta scenario, passengers on this route and on GWE continued to be clothed in that colourful attire. Only after rebooting the game they wore their normal clothes again.

 

Hi
incrediblehannes, I have identified an issue regarding the 165. This is relating to the GWE route. The 165 from Thames valley seems to have changed the formations of the 166/165 trains. Before, you would see 5 car/ 6 car. Now, you see more 2 car / 3 car 166/165s. Is there a possibility that this issue can get addressed

 

The creator of the Thames Valley Branches DLC has put a great deal of effort into beautifully recreating the scenery. I don’t understand why the garishly bright route-hopping markers haven’t been discreetly hidden behind some element of the scenery so that they’re only visible to someone who wants to use them. Instead, they’ve been placed in the most prominent locations, glaringly catching the eye every time we pull into Twyford, Maidenhead and Slough stations.

For some reason, the route-hopping markers are the only element of the TSW6 interface that players cannot disable. This makes it all the more important for the creators of DLC routes to ensure they are placed discreetly within the scenery, so as not to spoil the sense of immersion.

 

If TSW7 still has no option to hide those markers, I’m probably going to get banned from the forum because I will be kicking off. Two years I’ve had to put up with them spoiling the view and they breed like randy Daleks and are popping up everywhere ruining more and more stations.