Train Sim World 2 - Rush Hour - Creating Passengers

Please inform the release date of BOSTON SPRINTER

 

An interesting read , looking forward to RH

 

Not yet

 

I wonder who is responsible for this...

It's totally not obvious.

 

Interesting article and looking forward to this. Some comments:

- Please be aware there are countries where the departure tracks are known in advance, so people will move to the platforms straight away. It would be dangerous to model it assuming the UK/US? way of working.
- It would be awesome to have collectables in the form of lost luggage (umbrellas, suitcases, bag, gloves). You could even put them in in the trains.
- It should be avoided to have scenes repeating to often. For instance at Peninsula Corridor and TVL you see far to many buses. Also you see the same shiny red car every 10 seconds at Peninsula corridor. Repeating stuff should be very low profile, you should barely notice it.
This holds for all stuff., at Cane Creek there is a small rock with a very noticeable white spot. Very annoying and immersion breaking.
- It would be awesome if we can adjust passenger density a bit, like we can adjust the weather..
- Did I see it correctly that there also will be crew members among the passengers?

 

I understand that passenger visuals need to be improved, it does affect immersion. But I'm wondering if too much emphasis is being placed on passenger numbers as a part of Rush Hour. To me the more important components of a rush hour are:
1. Increased AI traffic, that is more trains arriving at, standing in and departing from stations.
2. More vehicular traffic around stations including cars and buses.
3. More noise of all kinds, hustle and bustle, if you will.
Certainly, passenger numbers are important, but not the be all and end all.
Your thoughts?

 

Are you going to be sharing some Rush Hour tidbits with us tonight, Matt?

 

My feedback on this is that I’d like to see more random areas of workmen, either in diorama style or as passengers. They could pop up randomly on parts of every route giving us a another reason to sound the horn.

Will we get an increased number of options for our avatars? Different faces/hairstyles? I’m no oil painting, but the avatars all look like munters. Also, my driver keeps going bald in the 143/112.

 

This will be good. On Playstation certainly this is an area that's always been in need of an upgrade.

 

has the weather improved?

 

I hope that this carries over to the busy-ness of trains arriving and departing for rush hours etc.

I was just in Boston this past weekend, and I hung out in south station for the better part of rush hour, and I couldn’t believe the frequency of trains coming in and out. There were multiple instances of two trains coming out at once, one coming while one departs etc. I’m really hoping some degree of that carries over to the game.

In just under an hour I saw 26+ trains arriving/departing south station.

 

Having ‘races’ as two trains leave the station at the same time would be fun.

 

Agree, especially with point three particularly train noise, it just isn't loud enough and isn't as simple as to 'just turn the volume up'. I remember when I used to catch the HST, when one pulled in you had no chance of holding a conversation on the platform but in the game you would have no trouble.

 

What about of fixing luminous passengers at RRO and removal them from the trains which are running to depot?

 

Station signs need some work, also appear to be in standard case when the real signs are all caps.

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Same goes for the departure screens

These are just recycled from the LIRR, and weren't particularly accurate there, but they're definitely not here. The text isn't even the right color, the MBTA (and Amtrak) signs have bright red text.

Overall, not particularly impressed as it seems that there was either a lack of care, or a major lack of time from whoever was in charge of this.

 

I certainly think these points need to be addressed. Particularly the last point, about the ambient sounds.

It’s all well and good there being more NPCs, but have DTG actually done anything in regards to the ambient sounds at stations? It can often be far too quiet sounding at big stations. There’s no chatter noise or anything like that.

 

I agree, standing in south station between an f40 and an hsp46, with several more locomotives idling under the building is absolutely deafening. In general if you’re close to American diesels when they throttle up its a ground shaking and deafining event.

 

Yes, it was raining hard earlier but it’s brightened up a bit now, thanks for asking.

 

This sounds exciting.

 

Passenger variety should be the same across all platforms

 

Absolutely not. As the article says, one piece of hardware shouldn’t be limited by another piece of hardware.

So in TSW’s case, a higher end console/PC will naturally have more features/passengers than a base console, due to its limited hardware capabilities.

This is good as it allows TSW to continually keep evolving, whilst not being limited by older and/or less powerful hardware.

 

I said the variety , not the amount

 

About the same in Köln if you stand on the Rhine bridge. There is so much traffic there, I did not count them but I was very impressed. Pics dating from 2007.

 

This happens at most big stations Matt and would be brilliant to see it.

 

I would say that passenger behavior/AI is one thing that has needed addressing for a long time:

1) Passengers stay aboard for depot runs, don't all debark at terminus stops
2) Passengers completely ignore the weather, blithely standing around in the open in raging thunderstorms
3) Passengers spawn on/walk directly to platforms with no train due to arrive for hours, then stand there doing nothing
4) Unpopulated station concourses. Real humans don't stand on the platform for 40 minutes, they window-shop, have a coffee, sit down and play with their phones etc.

 

This sounds really amazing. Looking forward to seeing and experiencing it in action.

One question remains for me though, and has not been mentioned so far: will people use umbrellas when it rains? It is nice to see they will have proper winter clothing now, I hope they will also be equipped for rainy weather

 

Some passengers sit on their suitcases when it gets busy as well. Those flying passengers are annoying as well.

 

How many different faces are there? Didn't someone say it was just 8 before? (PC)

 

Gotta love the 110 with n-Wagen and the 143 with x-Wagen, just lovely. Nice shots!

 

From the top left picture it seems like we'll have some railroad employees standing around, that's absolutely great, looking forward to seeing that in game myself! Do these employees only spawn in certain stations, in all stations, or also along the side of the line? And are they permanently there, or do they randomly appear in certain locations?

 

Could this palletisation tech also be applied to the cars on auto transporters? Make them not all pale grey?

 

TrainSim-Matt
Xbox Series and PS5 have the Same Level as PC?

 

I wonder why they are using innacurate looking pis for this route. Surely they should've had enough time to model the pis correctly. The pis on lirr got a negative reaction so why repeat the same mistake?

DTG: "We learn from our mistakes"
Also DTG: "Let's keep making the same mistakes"

 

After rush-hour routes released this summer, is there more passenger routes by the future as well as the quick drive segment?

 

TSW needed this to feel more alive and it was something very much in demand, I can't wait to see it implemented.
One thing is not clear to me, will all existing routes benefit from this with the new update or only the new routes that will be released from now on?
And in case the answer is "no" and these new features are not applied now to the old routes, will the preservation team add them in the future?

 

Of course there will be passenger routes in the future...

Also do you really need the Bold, Red text. It's quite annoying...

 

I really, really hope not!

 

Don’t forget, cars on train wagons are often wrapped in white plastic for protection.

 

Doesn't all this also consume more memory? Memory that could be used for the layer e.g. at HMA (or perhaps also future routes) on the old consoles?

 

Wow! It looks like DTG are paying attention to the small details when it comes to upgrading the passenger system and the passengers themselves. As someone who played the original TSW on my PS4, I can’t express my excitement to have TSW2 use the power of the Series X so that I can have an experience on par with PC. Great job with everything they have done since the release of TSW2 and such a big turn around DTG has made this last year! Can’t wait!

 

Gary Powell is you?

 

From what was said on last Thursday’s stream - the new passengers are added to a new core, and preserved collection routes just needed to be updated to this new core and then will automatically get the update. NOTE: the routes will be updated overtime and not at once.

 

We appreciate your passion as someone who has a say in what TSW2 becomes, as it translates to a lot of the fun experiences for everyone who enjoys TSW!

 

Sort of related to this, but I’ve noticed on Cathcart there is definitely a lot more passengers than previous routes and my trains do actually get full sometimes anyone know if this is intentional by DTG or just coincidence? But either way I really like it makes immersion so much better and doesn't affect performance so definitely looking forward to rush hour.

 

You can sit down at the station? That would be something new?