Train Sim World 7 - Discussion

That's the live weather which is getting updated. They said they've made improvements specifically to Dynamic weather alongside adding Live weather. Hence just wondering what dynamic weather is like now

 

I managed to find a workaround to enable AFB for the 412. This is for when the train is already in motion, and was done on Series X. Expert mode was enabled, although I don't know if that makes a difference. As you probably know, pressing Vsoil frei does give the audible AFB activation, but then moving the lever doesn't set any speed. So, first I tried to use the 25 km/h setting, and that did work and the appropriate speed was set. After that I was able to change to Vsoil frei, and finally I was able to set AFB to whatever I wanted. So I hope that helps anybody who is having this problem, and also that DTG fixes it.

I also would note that, using Series X, I am able to interact with all the monitors and press all the buttons by pressing the "A" button for "View Screen." However, it seems like a lot of other people on Xbox can't do this? I have Digital Display Screen Mode set to Enhanced and Expert Mode set to On. So for others on Series X perhaps there is hope that you can get the screens to work as well, or else I don't know why it works for me but apparently not for some other people.

 

You can just go back to the ‘classic’ display screen view option in ‘HUD & Gameplay’. The new option hasn’t worked since TSW5 so I’ve always had it set to that.

 

Anybody know a keyboard shortcut to show/hide the freight hauler car tags?

Still getting used to this mode but seems promising.

One less than great thing I've noticed is that some ai vehicle traffic will just drive right through your train rather than wait at the crossing (observed at the yard at Ft Lauderdale).

 

Thanks! That's really useful so I'll give it a try tomorrow, I hadn't enabled AFB until i was moving.

I originally had digital display screen mode set to enhanced but couldn't interact with anything so changed that to the other option (legacy or whatever it is) I've never fiddled with the expert mode so I'll check that tomorrow as that will still be on whatever the default is.

 

Matt used dynamic weather yesterday I believe and he was telling he worked about smooth transition for it.

 

Goodness. 458.5GB on Steam is quite the download... I must admit, I thought that past DLCs weren't supported until the 15th.

 

The only trouble i had with doors was when i tripped TPWS at the destination, although i was mostly inside the platform i kept getting the prompt to unlock doors and although I did unlock them it didn't trigger. It wasn't until i managed to work out i needed to press the overspeed button. Once that was sorted, I closed the doors, moved forward a bit it recognised me unlocking the doors.

I'm happy to chalk that one up though as me pulling into the destination too fast for now though!

 

Thanks, I'm still trying to decide if I gonna buy TSW7 with the pre-order discount or just wait for a sale. I have the most interest in the UK route, for the German route I miss layers and I don't want to spent money on the ICE4 either.

 

s t i l l g o i n g, why'd the devs release it so late in the day considering how long it takes to download

 

The way that it is supposed to work, is that if you have set the Freight Hauler Tooltip to "Scheduler," then you can press T to toggle the car tags. However, I haven't gotten this to work on Series X and think it broken. So, the only way to see the tags that currently works is to have them always-on, unfortunately.

As far as the traffic at crossings, it was also shown on the stream for FTR that the vehicles didn't necessarily stop at crossings and would drive right through gates and trains. This problem was also very common on SBD. Not a great look.

 

If it's Steam and possibly Epic, I don't believe that DTG have a say in the release time, the store platforms do ... I could be wrong, but it's been discussed somewhere before.

 

But this should be exactly the condition under which it should still work properly and if it's not that's problematic.
This is the real benchmark, not "just a few or no layers" or something.

 

Oh ye that's a good point, if DTG had no say or couldn't release it earlier, then I take that back, but it's still slightly annoying, I was hoping for a lengthy first look.

 

Pressing T worked for me on PC when having it in "scheduler" mode! Thanks!

Not sure how random it is, but both sessions I loaded had a more reasonable number of cars (24 and 33) to move than we saw in the first stream.

Some bad news, doesn't seem like the save game works well with FH.

I completed 4 cars, saved the game, loaded up a little later and immediately got the "disappearing upper-left HUD" bug, so I just quit out.

Really hoping the launch day patch can smooth some rough edges, cause it is fun (if you like switching).

Desperately needs a switching list feature imo. Not many players are gonna be patient enough to write their own with paper & pen.

 

Glad it works for you, and we have now shown that it works but not on Xbox. Total shocker, that one.

24 is good, the least I have seen so far is 29. We definitely need to be able to set this.

Disappointing about save game, if not surprising. Of course, Freight Hauler will be pretty limited for most people if it does not play nice with save game. This definitely needs to be looked at.

There are a lot of issues right now but I agree it is fun and there's a lot of potential.

The switching list is a great idea! Right now I have a rake of 20 cars that need sorting. You should consider putting that idea in the official Freight Hauler feedback thread:

https://forums.dovetailgames.com/threads/freight-hauler.99414/

 

Well there it is folks, TSW7s routes work on TSW6. Another year, another pointless redownload of everything. :/

 

I can't be the only one that doesn't like the UI, everything just looks smaller and the light grey and red doesn't work to me.

Also something about Nurnburg-Wurzburg, what on earth was the point of including the ICE 1 when it only has 6 SERVICES?!

 

Hello, I just wanted to mention that I think the TSW 7 music is really brilliant! My compliments – it’s a very melodic piece! I like it a lot and thought I’d just say so!

 

i had to listen a few times to the music to somewhat appreciate it
it is not bad but not great either it is just good

 

The TSW4 menu music is still the gold standard

 

I think this was the case with previous iterations as well (at least for the initial core routes)...I believe subsequent DLCs failed to load though (IIRC)

 

This is what the menu looks like at night, from my POV



My eyes are burning

This is a genuine accessibility issue and it NEEDS to have a dark mode

 

I expect a dark mode will be coming very soon if not a change to dark in general

 

On PC at least, it may be modded quickly. Nothing yet though....maybe after it exits EA

 

Well if not, it can be a highlight feature of TSW8…..

maybe not!

 

I'm up way too late taking a look at TSW 7 on PC, Steam. The first thing I've done (apart from adjust settings) is check out Bernalini Line. I've had it for ages but not got around to looking at it. So... Starting in journey mode, after putting up a route map, you have to talk to a guy at the station. It displays a block of character dialogue, but the text is faint white and the dialogue box background is bright red. It's almost impossible to read the writing. Was this always like this, or an issue now introduced with TSW7?

Despite this, I like what I'm seeing so far. It's running better than ever on PC. I'm just really frustrated for all the console players.

 

Some ppl really didnt like me saying how the redownloads aren't much more than a big pointless waste of time and bandwidth and here we are seeing this. XD

 

I’d just like to know if there are any differences/enhancements that come with it. I know they have to do it for game licensing purposes with the systems if they want to connect all routes with the latest version (i.e. Xbox/Sony/Steam). But if there are no enhancements, then it’s really annoying.

 

This is pretty horrendous for readability, what were they thinking.

 

Not sure if its already been identified in this thread ort not, but if you're downloading from Steam I've found the DB BR 363 Loco Add-On to be broken download. I had 1Gbps solid until halfway through my collection when it slowed to a grinding halt. isolated it to this add-on, If I uncheck it; I'm back to full speed downloads

 

You'll be happy to know he just posted a TSW7 vid

 

He got a key this year

 

I honestly wish scoring and safety system scoring was a part of the QA process. We're seeing it again and again releases that doesn't register safety systems correctly. The DB Vectron has had the issue for over a year now and still not fixed, now reused without it being fixed. If you have scoring and platinum medals in your game make sure it actually works and is achieveable.

 

This is such a disgrace.

 

Another classic from Doesn’t Test Games, then. Surely to god if you bringing in a new feature, one which you hope will sell the game to people used to doing that in Run 8 or Railroader, you test it works with the save game! Or was it reported and ignored? So not only did we not get this years old save game bug fixed, they now managed to add something else to it! Well maybe on the half full side it will be the catalyst that actually gets someone off their backside and sort out the problem for both Freight Hauler and chained passenger runs.

At least we can see where the priorities lay…

You know, last night I was wavering again with my finger poised over the buy button, or at least the Standard edition for when it releases on Tuesday. Now I’m glad I didn’t, sick of funding mediocrity and a couldn’t care less attitude to end users. Will wait a couple of weeks for the Steam sale and buy a few more bits for OMSI 2. (Which despite its age has limitless save slots and doesn’t bork out when you load into a game).

 

I thought the save game and settings feature was out of action due to dovetail live not being available on early access?

 

Well save game should be local to your PC or console. Test it with a normal run perhaps (I can’t as I’m not paying £58 for this mess). The fact someone has reported the issue indicates the process is there, just that it’s picked up the same bug as chained passenger runs have. Which Doesn’t Test Games either can’t be bothered or don’t know how to fix. But, never mind, we will advertise it as a great new feature to pull players in from Run 8 and Railroader where it works fine with infinite save game slots.

 

I mean I would never mock you Vern but for newer players who need the TLDR version of your TSW history ;-)


TSW 1- A fresh faced handsome new TSW player. Bought
TSW2 - Bought, initially raised BR blue stock
TSW3 - Bought,refunded, bought
TSW4 - Bought, snowrunner dlc came out, refunded, bought, had a mint on stream, refunded , bought
TSw5 - Bought, Bought, added to steam wallet, bought, refunded spare copies , bought another.
TSW 6 Bought, Bought, Refunded, reconsidered stream, bought, tried to refund but steam denied, bought, bought
TSW 7 - Refunded, realized hadn't bought, so bought, Bought, refunded, bought , refunded, bought

 

I downloaded the deluxe package last night (PC - Steam), first impressions were it was quite good. After a bit of messing around with the settings to get them how I had them in TSW6 - It would be nice if the new version could read your settings from the previous so you have the same baseline, but not really an issue. My laptop is about 5 years old, so probably not the most powerful machine, but it runs TSW fine for what I need. I did a full length Würzburg to Nürnberg run in the ICE4 which ran OK, the usual stutters for compiling the shaders. I got the AFB working although I must have had the wrong mode as the LZB section didn't auto move the speed set point (need to have another look). I also had a few zwangsbremsung occurrences due to me missing the PZB wachsam a couple of times as I was looking around whilst driving. It was easy to reset the brakes after this to get going again. I then tried Airedale, doing a scenario from Bradford in the 331 and got stuck after the first station with a door stuck open and couldn't do anything. I think this is an issue with the AI conductor, so I found the setting to disable this - I probably won't re-enable it as I'm happy using the keyboard to open/close doors at stations, although I will probably raise a ticket as it does need fixing. The route worked really well on my set up and looked great with little or no stutters. I tried a timetable out of Leeds and to be honest it does look very empty, needs some Northern DMUs, TPE stock and I don't know if the XC Voyager layers in? I was surprised that my whole collection was installed which took a good hour to download. Overall for me a positive first look.

 

Mad that this is the only comment with a reply.
The optics here are literally appalling you need somebody to do your PR.
I’d now go so far as to say there are people who should be considering their positions.
I would be

 

It should, at least they were there on the preview stream

 

I started downloading at 6pm UK time yesterday. It's still going. My internet speed is decent, but in anybody's book 458GB is going to take time. It's only going to get worse each year, and without an option to preload it's just going to take up more of the 'advanced access' time that was paid for.

For those people debating whether consoles should be abanadoned or not, it's the consoles that are the reason for the yearly update - not Steam.

 

Deluxe version, Steam, PC, running EPIC DLSS/DLAA and it looks incredible with the new lighting and it's running much smoother. Well done DTG this is great!!

 

Nah, as music they're functional. but they invoke the same feelings as royalty free rubbish, extremely generic. The old Trainz menu music (Or whatever you call it, I suppose it's not really music) is more what they should be aiming to replicate than that stuff.



Like those scream that you're playing a train simulator, whoever made them did a nice job invoking railroading. In comparison I feel like DTG just asked for a generic orchestra piece and didn't tell them it was for anything in particular.

 

The reason for the yearly updates is actually execs bank accounts

 

Its fine, it will correct itself when the next instalment releases & we see which colour got picked out of the hat this time.

 

Well, that's the reason for making the game at all...
But the way the console stores work, not having a new annual entry is disproportionally harmful to visibility and severely hampers the chance at sales.
I'm not saying the console version should be abandoned by any means, just that without consoles the yearly numbered versions wouldn't be anywhere near as important. Of course, without consoles the game might not be commercially viable.