I have read the roadmap and I noticed the Penzance to Truro and St Ives do you think it will be good because I hope will be good
hopefully based on the codename it will take place in the past Like NTP, TVL, DL so yea but I and many others hope they don't reuse the Class 101 again
If the 08 101 52 make a return after the disaster issues that plagued diesel legends it will be another unpleasant experience.The only upside is the route might at least look period correct unlike diesel legends which doesn't.
I hope that rivet will make good this route, it would be nice for it to be something other than the standard BR trains in NTP TVL DL but another important matter will be the scenery of the route. I personally like IOW and thought it had quite nice scenery but I Skipped Arosa as I felt the scenery was too much of a let down for me
Yea,but it be nicer if rivet games fixed the little problem that keeping us from useing are livery edited br class 483's
There was no disaster with Diesel Legends. It’s a great DLC. It’s just lots of people got uppity about its authenticity and some were a bit confused that it was the timetable that you were buying if you happened to already own all the trains, like I did. People who didn’t own the trains already got a bargain. Everyone who bought it will be having a great time driving some classic trains up and down the GWE route, like I am. There’s no suggestion yet that all the trains in this route will be the same ones again and I would expect at least one new train. If they are the same when they are announced then we can complain about it at the the time, but it still might be a great route even then.
Iow being such a short route I swerved it , glad after the feedback. Arosa I was interested in but switched off after seeing how awful scenery was and how they not done much with it. be nice to see a decent sized route , not butchered with some variety.
I actually quite enjoy both IOW and Arosa. I nearly didnt buy either after reading the forums, but have spent many happy hours on both.
I don’t know that much as I went on the St Ives branch during the FGW era, but I’m hoping for a BR Class 150/2
Well an 08 would make sense as they were all over the network and certainly down at Penzance, if it is set in the 1970's and uses a diesel hydraulic then the class 52 makes sense. If the class 101 does get included again, yes I will get "uppity"! Some of us want authentic, that is why I personally use train simulators, others don't, which is fine. I could accept the reuse of the class 101 a little for the diesel legends as the route it was based on didn't match the time period of the pack, although the class 101 being in rail blue would at least made it a little more suitable. If a historic based route comes with the wrong stock then that will smack of lack of research or lack of care. If the wrong colour ballast is enough for DTG to make alterations to a route surely the least we can expect is the correct rolling stock!
Looking on some of the message boards and wiki In the 60's -early 70's we could get a Warship and later and into the early 80's they could reuse a 47 or give us a 50 any later they could reuse a HST... Ultimately we just have to wait and see! D
If the textures are in anyway cartoony in this DLC, like with Arosa, then it’ll not be getting purchased on my console. Rivet needs to do a lot more work on making realistic looking scenery textures. The amount of work they put into their locos is immediately void if the route looks like The Legend of Zelda Wind Waker. Scenery doesn’t have to be accurate, but it certainly must look realistic. To understand what I mean, simply compare Clinchfield with Arosa and you’ll immediately see a night and day difference in the level of realism. As a result, Clinchfield is so much more immersive (although I’m still yet to purchase it). If Rivet want anymore of my hard earned cash, they have to seriously up their game. Arosa line would have been a day one purchase for me, but as it stands, I’ll not be buying. Even if heavily discounted.
Are Rivet licensed to use DTG created locos and stock in their routes? If not then we probably wouldn't see the 08, 101, 52 or 33 again, unless they develop their own, which would be like reinventing the wheel since DTG already have those locos, so I'd assume this route will have some new BR locos on it.
They used the whole MSB route for their 204 shunter (lol) so I guess it works the other way round too. It wouldn’t make sense for them to only be allowed to use things they had made as that would restrict the final product, so I’m hoping everything is available to them. So far Rivet have made two routes which couldn’t use anything DTG had already made, so that’s no indication of how it actually works.
If they fail to do a good job for it, people will loose even more confidence in rivet- the nail in the coffin But if they do a good job of it then loads of people will buy it and Have confidence in rivet again This is why the good execution of this route will matter so much for rivet
With the volumes of bugs on release, the infrequent timetable, and the 31 paths that are still bugged, I'd describe it as underwhelming as opposed to great!
It was buggy on release and still has some issues, as every other DLC does. The Class 31 pathing has actually been fixed, as have some other bugs. The timetable isn’t busy but there are varied services to run and it gives the route a new ‘old’ lease of life, as it does for all the stock included or supported via layers. There is a lot going on between Old Oak Common and Paddington and it is a joy to drive the old BR blue trains on what is still one of the best routes in TSW. If all the trains in this DLC are reused instead of new trains, then it will be a bit disappointing but it still might end up being a great route regardless. We just don’t know. The important thing is not to get all excited and expect too much. That was an issue as much as anything with the Diesel Legends Pack. There were people talking of all the hydraulic locos and a new DMU coming as part of it and the disappointment of there being no new stock overshadowed what the pack did contain. Despite not knowing what exact era this route is set in, there have already been calls to change it to something else, as well as these preemptive complaints about it reusing trains. That’s the opposite of expecting too much, expecting the worst instead. I suppose for people who do that they could always be pleasantly surprised.
