I've been trying out free roam on freight routes so far. Here is what I've found. * Not all of the freight cars are available to spawn. Missing coal cars(UP, CSX, NS) and box cars (csx) *When moving controls in cab the direction switch keeps moving whatever way I move my sticks (Forward N Or reverse) *SD70ACE you have to flip the breaker for the screens off then on for the screen display to show. *Need some sort of way to tell the spawner how many cars I want to spawn. *A way to directly couple cars when spawning them(might be a way I dont know yet) *GP38 & Sd40-2 (Older Renditions) do nothing when spawned. resetting controls and restarting locomotives does nothing. *BNSF Alarm goes off non stop when you start moving (Spawned in on Peninsula Corridor) as a helper for passenger train. Happens any time I spawn both locos *Some selections of preset trains can only be highlighted. Game will not allow me to hit spawn. *Sometimes when you delete a train, the audio sound of a train moving is triggered. Also the camera will rock as if you were in a moving train. Will add more as I find issues.
* You can add a full loco with freight cars uncouple and delete the loco to add your own as demonstrated by Matt in the preview stream. Maybe those wagons aren't options, I haven't checked. * You have to claim a path using the map or the dispatcher will always give you red signals. * No automatic couple that I know of but there is a coupler assistant that will eliminate the need to use external cameras or being on foot to couple trains.
Thank you for mentioning the spawning made trains part. That works perfectly for what I wanted to do.
When I spawn in GP38-2 or SD40-2 locomotives they just don’t run. Nothing I do makes the engines move.
Running on PS5. When I got to the destination marker, and stopped at the exact spot in the station, the game awarded me 500 points but didn't finish the run. When I looked at the steps to complete the final one did not have a check against it. Very odd. I had to quit in the end.
For the SD40-2 and GP38-2, only the older renditions dont work, the Sherman Hill SD40-2 and the BNSF SD40-2 work. The UP Gp38-2 sort of works, but It kept breaking on me every once in awhile.
Hello there, thanks for reporting about the SD40s, I've raised this internally and will report back once I know more. this is intended, Free Roam mode doesn't have an end per se.
Hi, also can you guys please fix the alerter always going off on the es44c4 and sd40-2 for cajon pass?
I tested a bunch of things including restarting the engine, using the I'm stuck, enabling banking comms. The problem here is the engines aren't taking power as you increase the throttle no matter what settings you fiddle with. Getting no amps. Brakes seem fine and are releasing as expected and I can roll along with gravity, but that's about it.
Problem is something with how the locos were built or designed in game. What ever changes you guys did to the Sherman Hill SD40-2 and BNSF SD40-2 fixed whatever causes the older SD40-2s and GP38-2s from throttling up when spawned with Free Roam. This was also an issue with god mode as well.
Is the alerter issue getting looked into? Any route on free roam the alerter constantly goes off. Even if i spawn them just for a background view for photos. Also update with spawning consists, if I dpawn a large consist ( 80 cars or more ). The game will refuse for me to spawn any more preset trains. DTG Matt thoughts on this part?
Anyone else got issues with any of the uk diesels in free mode? Example the class 45 when I get in cab the engine fault light is on and I can’t get it off
I had the same problem on pc i may have found a workaround try spawning the loco get in reset physics then save the game go out to the main menu and come back into the save i found i got locos moving that would not move doing that.
Bumping this thread. These free roam issues were reported over 2 months ago now and the fact that there hasn't been an update by the devs or a patch released since then is unacceptable. I upgraded to TSW4 before finding out about these issues in free roam. Had I discovered this thread sooner I wouldn't have upgraded. I'm not a happy customer and feel like I was ripped off by their much heralded and newly advertised free roam feature; a mode that is glitchy, bug ridden and doesn't work properly as they advertised it. A simple update from the devs on this thread isn't asking for too much.
For free roam to be useful it needs: free camera spawn option + map spawn option + working formation designer + cars and locos in good shape + cc liveries substitution. (passanger trains need stations stops to be meaningful) It will take them a while, but chance is they ll fix and improve it, as it is core issue of "new" iteration, unfortunately many more older bugs will preserve. Sorry for your cold shower anyway, but its common experience
Scenario Designer 2 bugs still haven't been fixed yet too. To free roam/sandbox mode: - spawning trains at different locations and switching between them causes a service takeover popup to show with the service name being "FreeRoamService_<random integer service id>", though it causes absolutely no issues at all. Isn't it a bit too weird resorting to regular timetable services for trains that are spawned when all you can do is set one point and that's it? Imagine all the stuff you could do with it! Setting multiple stops or points, working PIS on trains and stations, passenger loading and unloading and so on. Seems like this was rushed with either having what I said in mind or just a lazy workaround.
I literally haven't touched TSW and won't until its fixed. And every time I bring it up all I get is its being looked into. Matt mentioned it was the way older locos were made being the issue. Still a big in game mechanic/mode being broken from launch is unacceptable. Makes me wonder if DTG is doing too much with not enough people there.
For some reason the 4F won’t spawn on ECW. I’ve tried and tried and tried and it won’t even put the green outline down. Just used the previous one I’ve used before. Ideas anyone?
My only problem with Free Roam: 'You have reached the end of the playable area' Everywhere I want to go explore in FR, I get that message way before I get where I wanted to go.
Too add on you don’t have the option to choose a livery with passengers on it instead you always spawn a train with a livery with no passengers onboard the train. You only have the option if you select the official default livery for that train. Will add on if I remember some other issues.
