A few issues reared their head immediately as I tried to configure the HUD to match TSW as closely as possible. How do I disable the coloured markers on the track for stopping? In TSW this is fairly easy to toggle in the menu. In WoS, I tried the same but could not find an option which does so after toggling everything. The keyboard command from TSW did it temporarily but that only lasted until the next stop. How do I enable being able to see the next signal aspect in the corner, rather than as a hideous gigantic blob floating in the game world that obscures my view of everything else? I got a couple of SPADs because I was having to manually look at every semaphore flag from the external cams. Other issues seemed a bit more systemic. Why is it so hard to get a loco coasting? The controls make it exceedingly difficult to zero out the throttle and brake, with how there's no discrete controls for each. You always end up with a degree of braking or acceleration. Why does James' acceleration/deceleration display only show up with the full HUD when Thomas' one is visible in the minimal HUD options? This jumped out as an inconsistency. What is going on with the trains regularly just launching into the stratosphere at random from the track? Every single scenario I attempted on stream ended this way, and while it was entertaining for my audience, I can only assume it was not exactly intended behaviour. I would just be rolling along, a couple of mph below the speed limit, with a mile or two to the next station, and then suddenly, the loco is in the air going directly upwards and spinning uncontrollably. I have managed about an hour of this and am pretty close to refunding the game, as frankly the state it's in is disappointing even by TSW standards, which is saying something.
For the rainbow stop marker you need to toggle it on and off after every stop, CTRL+7 twice. I think it is in the menu, as STOP MARKER but as it just comes back on again in game you can’t tell you’ve actually set it to be off. For the next signal in the HUD, you currently can’t do it at all. The only option is the blob that obscures the view or taking your chances with seeing the signal in time. This one is just designed that way. Everyone has complained about it.
So everything is just a decision by DTG to make it objectively worse by taking away features which worked fine in TSW? Good to know. Refund it is.
