November Roadmap Q&a Thread

Is there any consideration being given to rail journeys that became impossible to complete in TSW3 (or before) and remain broken in TSW4? This includes (but not limited to):

• Clinchfield: One journey not completable due to unrealistic timings/underpowered train means that the player cannot arrive to a certain point in time to avoid an eternal red light.
• Diesel Legends of the West: One journey flips the loco off the track upon entering.
• New Journeys: Koln-Aachen: Four journeys are unable to be completed because the locos aren't loading in properly meaning that the cab you need to drive from doesn't exist.
• Arosalinie - R1565: Chur Runaround. After coupling to empty formation, unable to proceed to shunt to the next objective due to a permanent red light.

These have all be reported as bugs in the past year.

 

Are there plans to have the option to make liveries downloaded from Creators club, active or deactivate, instead of having to unsubscribe and subscribe again if we want liveries to appear or not. Green 47's and Green 40's (bar D200) appearing on NTP in the early 80's is an immersion killer but I require that content for my Peak Forest scenario's and free roam.

 

Why do fixes continue to break other stuff?

Why is the game so unstable that keeps happening?

 

Matt has mentioned we’ll get the TSW3 fixes after Trenton has been fixed.
How much longer do we wait as the bugs have already been tested and told they are coming.

why did you release TSW4 when it obviously has issues as well surely that puts added pressure on yourselves to sort TSW3 issues out as well

 

Are there any updates plans for LFR, especially in terms of the wrong PZB behaviour of the BR 103 and the missing advance signal between Uhlerborn and Heidesheim?
Will the Talent 1 get an update regarding weak headlights and poorly visible PZB indicators?

 

- Do you plan any fixes of daytime cycle? For now there is a nightfall at 19:30 in the early july, at 16:30 nightfall in early october, etc.
- Dynamic weather still needs many adjustments(fixes) for transitions(especially fog on/off). Do you working on it? Also dynamic weather needs different configs for different regions.

 

not yet, no date announced yet, possibly December but don’t quote me on that

 

It’s a shame how almost all of these questions are about bug fixes…

 

They don't announce release dates on roadmaps.

What else can we ask?
Is XYZ coming will be a 'no plans' and when is ABC releasing will be a 'not announced on a roadmap'

 

Will there be a feature to replace units with others in timetable mode, still keeping the original stopping pattern, as currently deleting that train removes it completely

Such as the new pacer for 101s on TVL/NTP?

 

Also what about adding more assets to the PC Editor? Is this a thing considered to come as an update to TSW4 at all?

 

I think I speak for a lot of us when I say we just want the stuff that was broken on release to be fixed before we “get excited” about new stuff coming. That and for all the bugs and issues we’ve brought to attention to be acknowledged and addressed since it seems DTG has gone very quiet on here as of late.

 

A shame? TSW4 is in the worst possible state compared to TSW3 and 3 was even not in a good state. So most people are not interested in DTG starting the next hypetrain for future content is GOOD! Because we already paid for the content we wish to get fixed. Why board the hypetrain for the next unfinished stuff?

You can also be sure that 90% of the more crictical questions will not be answered in the stream, the forums or anywhere. DTG never does that. So I'm sure you will get new stuff teased where you can be excited for.

 

Any updates on PS4 players being able to access their game without it getting stuck in an infinite loading screen? I have bought close to all DLCs and I can't play any of them because the core game won't open

 

That's because on any question about new content and features the answers will be(take one of your choise): "Not planned at the moment", "If it isn't on the roadmap, then it doesn't exist", "silence/ignoring".

I was asking this question like dozen times on each streams, but everyone is ignore me. Then... here we go again!
- What "winter core update" means? It will remake winter season ingame or it was named "winter" cause it will release in winter?

 

Do you having anything to share regarding the sound mixing on the 801?
I can hear birds chirping loud and clear while cruising at 120 mph… meanwhile the AWS is but a little squeak.

 

It's lucky the birds are there to warn you of upcoming signals.

 

Don’t forget to ‘up vote’ any posts containing questions you want answering by liking the post (as per OP).

 

-Will the horrible quality liveries of the Union Pacific Heritage Unit pack ever be fixed?

-When can we expect formation designer?

-Will the floating/missing scenery issues with Antelope Valley ever be fixed?

-Will the GP9RM from Oakville ever be available for Livery Designer.

 

Also about the Union Pacific Heritage Collection, I’d like to know if anything is being done regarding the headlights on these locomotives (example shown below) and the wheels which look like they were dipped in black tar.

 

It's the latter. However, and this is also one of my thoughts already shared: What exactly will be included in the so called "core update" released this winter 23/24? Will it only contain the suspension improvements and the formation designer or any other new features?

I am not so interested about the suspension thing. And the formation designer only makes sense for me when we could use custom formations for timetable services. But apart of that, how is the actual game play enhanced with the Winter Core Update? Do we get something which enhances or facilitate a timetable service or scenario?

 

One consideration for DTG:
Next time you do this, state in the OP that the users shall create different posts for different questions.

Kind of hard to bring the question I want to get attention, and vote on a post with 10 different questions.

 

Is DTG Aware Of The Bug Of The Free Camera No Longer Speeding Up, Making Fly-By Shots nearly impossible?, (PS5 & XBOX) And Is There A Fix Coming For This?
Thanks.

 

As I'm visually impaired, I would like the Dev Team to investigate possibility to have guard buzzer keyboard commands on ALL trains that have guard buzzers/bells. Is that possible? It would help me a lot not having to look for a guard button on the panel.

 

What will you do to regain customers who no longer have faith in your ability to deliver a quality product?

 

Is there any chance we could see the class 31 come to livery designer? It is the only British loco we are missing now apart from the 33

 

And the 45

 

I doubt this question will get answered but if it does I bet it’ll be more or less the same as what they’ve always said. I don't think the way they’re doing things is gonna change anytime soon.

 

Can DTG respond to why the controller behaviour, sensitivity and dead zones have changed on the PS5 controller. It has degraded the usability of the controller especially for players with less fine motor control in their hands. My wife says it is the worst controller setup she has experienced in any game when I asked her to try it and I say it has been getting worse with each iteration of TSW on the PS platform.

Despite saying you are concerned with accessibility in the game you are making it harder to use the controller even for avid gamers.

Can you respond to my concerns in the roadmap stream and promise to address this failing? Please fix the dead zones and improve how the controls actually control please.

 

With all the issue’s reported for TSW4,does DTG think TSW4 came out to soon instead improve TSW3 more,surely it has the same fundamentals.

Moving forward with the series do you think it would be better to go back to making it more train driving based simulator rather than getting collectibles and walking around as I don’t see a train driver getting out of cab and running around yes it’s a game but surely this uses up memory for free roaming where it could be used to improve optimisation

 

+1.
Anything involving controller sticks on the PS5 is almost completely broken.

Why has the issue not been acknowledged? When will the issue be fixed?

 

The 37 for tees valley also seems to not have livery designer support. I just checked and only sehs and wcl has ld support for the 37

 

The difference, It’s not just a livery on the TVL one, the cabs are different, like wise the 43 GWE needed doing separate to the 43 MML

 

The whole point of tsw is to walk around and explore the world and the trains. The main thing I disliked about tsc was not being able to walk and certain things not being modeled so it was literally just a 2d object/texture. Some didn't even let you turn around in your seat.

 

One of the reasons I don't play TSC is that I hate being trapped in the cab.
If they took this out, I'd actively stop playing

 

TSW 4 runs better than all the previous versions. And my old computer is barely on system requirements! Isn’t that quality if anything. TS Classic and Trainz are way behind.

 

Any more news regarding the boxed version for Xbox?

 

I don’t think they have any plans to touch the timetable

 

Are there any plans to fix the missing passenger issue? On Linke Rheinstrecke this problem has been resolved but still passengers are not functioning on some routes. For example, Northeast Corridor: New York.

 

Yet this game is clearly riddled with problems that players didn't experience in the previous version so it is a valid point that this game has problems and is a mess. It may not be an issue for you or you may not mind the bugs, but it is a problem for many players hence why there are those that have lost faith that DTG can deliver a good quality product

 

Is substitution broken and has a fix been identified?

 

1. Will the texture flickering glitches on xbox ever be fixed or acknowledged?

 

Is xbox still being optimized like Playstation got? Would be nice if we didn't have to wait 5 minutes for the game to load when we have a lot of DLC.

 

It's almost sad at this point how this whole thread has turned into us asking about bug fixes and issues needing attention instead of new stuff that's coming, which I think the OP was originally hoping for with this thread. I think most of us would rather see everything be fixed first especially considering that's become quite obvious from all of these replies. TSW4 needs tons of bug fixes and THAT should be the focus of the November roadmap. Why do I feel like I won't be surprised to see none of this mentioned or addressed when the live stream comes?

 

Don't worry we are still waiting my game won't start even if I leave it to load for hours (PS4) we are waiting on fixes too

 

DTG asked for updates

 

Problem is, roadmap is limited to 'only announced stuff, and they don't focus too much on it and what isn't yet revealed about it'
So... what else can we ask?

 

Why can we not spawn certain wagons individually like the Eanos or IC coaches in free roam mode?

 

I agree. It has been stated a number of times on various streams that priority is given to bugs that stop the player completing things, but there are many such bugs such as those mentioned above and the the Boston Sprinter timetable that ends in a non accessible building (if you get that far without being derailed by a passing ai train) that have been in the game since the respective routes launch. Why have these not been fixed if game breaking bugs are prioritised?

 

That service in the Boston sprinter timetable was actually fixed with tsw3 when the acela launched i believe. I was able to complete it no issue on pc