I was reading the new Rush Hour page and I could not believe my eyes when I saw this. I mean, come on, you make it $10 more and now you remove 2 branch lines which make the route more interesting? That feels like salt in the wound. I've played Train Sim World for 2 years now and I own literally every DLC, and this one is the first one I'm considering skipping. The removal of the branches and the price increase made me extremely upset.
Those branches were critical in making the route interesting. Without them it's just another A-B route with only partial services, and not worth my money.
For me these two Branches were the only thing that makes that Route so interesting. With this two Branches it could be the best Route we have ever seen in TSW, with a lot of variety. But now without those Branches it is just a copy of the TS Version. There is nothing special to it which is really really sad!
Correct but DTG can restore them as an extension to Riesa-Dresden on a later patch or make another route from Dresden using those two
They won't do extensions they already said that, and paying even more for them also doesn't seem right. Also, those branches kind of are on this line only, so they could only be included with this line and not with another one.
Why did they remove it? I don't care that it costs 10€ more, because at least there are 3 routes included, but the most important thing for me is Riesa Dresden, and the S Bahn lines are really nice so why did they remove it...
As everyone already said it was the only thing that made this route special. the fact that it had branches and not just a linear boring old german route again. and with these branches not existing the services have been cut back to the final stations before they branch of wich makes it a lot less realistic. why would a driver changeover happen at a random station. it is realistic that the drivers would change at dresden HBF but not at coswig and neustadt. also s-bahn routes are often busy so they would make the best ''Rush Hour'' experience. also of all the branches to keep they chose to take the großenhain branch that is just stupid
If they don't restore them before release (like practically everyone wants) they probably wouldn't ever, no.
Route Extensions or DLCs for DLCs for DLCs (like a cab car DLC for the BR101), are out of the question for the foreseeable future.
It seems that DTG did not fully anticipate that subdivision routes would be so popular when choosing routes!
Guess we were wrong at least partially. Hopefully the community lets them know that they want S2 back as well.
The only problem for the route is the tunnel station, but what about Raoit Transit, there are also a lot of tunnel stations, so maybe it wouldn't be such a problem to spend some time just making the one tunnel station and everything is fine, same also for München Hauptbahnhof, there we also don't have the tunnel station
The original post was on June 21st, the most recent post was September 15th. The branch was added after then.