Agree. Even living in a "cheap" place (unless you are a tourist of course) - southern Italy - it's hard to spend €30 to have the same hours of entertainment as a TSW DLC. Even talking about other games. I've just spent €40 for the MSFS Concorde, but I doubt I will play it as much as some of my most played TSW DLC
I'm lucky enough in my country. Maximum price for TSW2 DLC over here is 11,26 USD (Epic) and 9,73 USD (Steam). Plus i get the games for free from Epic Games.
For me in Poland, the price of DLC is ~ 10% of my go-work fuel budget. When the fuel price will fall, for example, by 10%, I will be able to buy two DLCs or something to drink ... to enjoy the game even more!
SCS ETS2 & ATS dlc is far cheaper than DTG. I have loved railways since about the age of 3yrs. Worked in the industry straight from school. Left before poxy privatisation. BUT because of the poor quality of the so called train sims. I play the two truck sims far far more than i do, anything rail game related. Never into trucks either until i bought those two games. I do not hesitate to buy the dlc for both games, as soon as it is released. So because of DTG's oh and N3V's LOVE poor track record. SCS benefit and DTG etc get very little of my limited income.
Which one can you drive in Forza? If you want realistic driving experience then you need iracing or accesto corsa. Both of which will set you back a hell of a lot more than TSW over the course of a year
Its what i recommend to everybody, just go outside and deal with the real thing. Somebody actually working in the rail industry knows instant the differences. I did a lot of technical crash and accident investigations, mostly on bogies. Im well aware that modeling an entire train with its full complexity is way beyond the scope of whats useful and probably beyond whats even possible. So i actually when i criticise dtg about quality, its not because they didnt make a 1:1 replica. its about things which make a huge difference in game with low effort in going the extra mile. Sounds, cutted off features (stuff was present in early dlcs and not in newer..), not implement disused stations etc.. Putting alot of effort into new rolling stock, and not seeing a use in the 24h timetable mode, not even as a static stock...(hc). The reason everybody still comes back to tsw is, the list of good things is still much longer.
Your posts are very contradictionary. On the one side you try to teach us, that TSW is a nich game. On the other side your advice for critical people, that in opposite to you bought everything from TSW since it first released, is to leave TSW. If you would think a bit further, you would realize, that with a shrinking customer base of a nich game, there would not be so much to invest in the development of TSW for creating future content.
Perhaps. But I didn't create a new game. And it's a difference if you're a native english speaker like you or not (like me).
Before this thread become more and more escalated. Let's talk about the route itself and what could be fixed in the future. Just recently watched several GEVOS sound compilation on YouTube, and i notice clearly the GEVOS sound on SHG Horseshoe Curve missing something to it. On YouTube's videos, I can clearly heard whining sound of the traction motors, and the 12-cylinder GEVOS prime mover got a distinctive low rumble, bassy tone to it. All that sounds doesn't appear & present at the moment on the SHG GEVOS. Well, for now i hope someone with enough talent create a sound pack modification for the GEVOS, clearly need more love.
An English speaker with dsylexia and dsypraxia but hey you do you. Sign that you are losing the sevate when you start to attack the person rather than the point
Some people can't handle criticism. They take all personal. Even they didn't showed a very decent behavior before.
Picking on someone's disabilities isnt criticism it's just shows what a nasty piece of work you are. Doubling down on your abuse just confirms it
I think skyhook did a good job with the route scenery. So can anybody confirm redrevs post about the wrong speed signs after altoona? That would need a fix if true. Adding more services with the gondola and the flatcar in the 24h timetable mode, or is there loco dlc planned?.. Change the flatcar configuration more accurate & to a 2 wheel trailer. Checking the physics, seems there are many posts about strange behavior of loaded / unloaded configuration. Gevo sounds need a rework.
I didn't know from your disabilities before. Otherwise I didn't wrote a thing that you could understand as a discrimination.
Well you was told and you continued on with it so excuse me for thinking you are just a biggoted nasty piece of work
Had the come back, seeing as there's so many issues and problems with the game currently and lack of any other medium in order to know what's broken, as I want to continue to playing (I've never said I was walking away from the game) you've gotta be on this toxic forum
From what I am seeing in this thread it seems we have seriously fallen off the topic. it is this kind of behaviour that gets threads closed, can we please try to stay on topic and not argue with each other.
Well considering that the op post was about quality of products are going downhill with the exception of TSG, I don't think everyone is really off topic
Yeah sure let's just pretend someone hasn't attacked someones disability and then doubled down. To pretend something hasn't happened makes you complict
If someone were to attack me like you have described, I would simply ignore them as they would not be worth the time and effort.
If you spent you entire life being attacked, you'd know hiding you head in the sand doesn't work or achieve anything.
Who said anything about hiding my head in the sand, there is only a small minority of people who spend their time trying to attack others.
Have you tried it with good headphones? It makes a big difference; it seems to me that TSW uses a hi-fi sound mix which unfortunately means that you lose a lot through low-fi reproduction like most computer speakers or cheap gaming headphones. This is, IMHO, a mistake on their part.
Well, this thread goes to show how negative this community is being these days, demanding for better quality than it already is for a train sim (which is better than any others out there) in a niche market. This sickens me more than ever now.
Ehh, outside of the timetable mode, I still think TSC still has TSW2 covered. Granted TSW2 does cover a bigger market, but I still would rather run a train on TSC vs TSW2.
How is demanding better quality being negative? I agree, endless negativity for no reason at all is not good, however, I don't see how asking devs to strive for better quality and realism is being negative.
This literally makes zero sense. It doesn't matter if tsw2 is a "niche" product. DTG say that they make "Highly authentic recreations of routes and trains from around the world." When they say that it is only natural for people to expect that. They basically set the expectations themselves. Now they aren't gonna make a train or route 100% realistic and every button clickable but they have shown that they can make really good locos and routes that closely resemble their real world counterparts. The problem is they lack consistency and recent dlc's have released with game breaking issues, bugs and many inaccuracies. DTG can make good dlc's, but it's clear they don't mind rushing them out and have players effectively be paid beta testers. Why do you think there are many players on the forum frustrated at this product to the point where Matt had to effectively be grilled during the roadmap stream? Asking for realism or a better overall product isn't negative at all so I don't know why would you think that. I guess players should just keep their mouth shut and not ask for improvements since that would be negative then. Also $30 is not cheap at all.
my last hour with TSW, HSC PC - Hsc Switching Cabs Does Not Work Sometimes | Dovetail Games Forums PC - Hsc 10k Chicago - Allentown (manifest) No Path | Dovetail Games Forums PC - Hsc Wrong Mu/dpu Setup | Dovetail Games Forums // 64E Chicago - Linden (Ethanol) 'Complication at Cresson' scenario is broken too, as far as I know, so the whole CHAPTER 2 is broken... It is not about AAA, playability, small budgets, or insulting anyone. This is a pure shame. The REAL QUESTION is: does it change anything? I'm starting to doubt... BR o7 DO NOT CLOSE. CHANGED MY MIND.
10k Chicago works as long as you start in timetable mode. What the difference is beyond me but there you go another work around where there shouldn't be. I'm running 64E now from journey mode, what's wrong with the set up? I've got all 5 locos under power.
NO power at all except HEAD one but I think this is the mystic no-sound-or-maybe-no-power issue. Restarting TSW sometimes helps. I am tired... eh
Is it possible to go two services in a row without problems? I just want to play. It looks great and sounds good, but it doesn't work. EDIT Is it possible Journeys are recently buged? The Harlem Line case was a bit similar.
