London Overground Mildmay Line: Stratford-willesden Junction Discussion Thread

PS5
I tried the service, powered from the rail, and it didn't want to run, but when I tried pressing the power button from the rail and the foot release button to be sure, it started running. So even with the services on the WCMLS map... there is also no transition noise between the inserted cars and there is one more effect, see the picture ... Something is hanging under the car, some cables or something

 

PS5 Pro

I've tried many configurations, and the only time I don't have problems with blurring is when I have only the Suffragette and WCMLS maps installed, but no Pendolino. Freight activated via the ECML map and anything else causes problems, but the ECML and Pendolino add-on in particular is a conflict. I can't assess the links with the Stock 1972 sets, I don't have them active, although it says that it should also activate the WCMLs map, so obviously it will be different, I would guess that the Bakerloo map is needed and I don't have that

 

I agree it's great to drive having great fun with it

 

That's the ramp the train uses to take off

 

I had the same problem. If I remember right, I pressed DC power button and then hold shoe down for a couple of seconds. Then it worked

 

Can anyone tell me why the Stock 1972 tube lines don't work on the PS5? Do I need the Bakerloo map? It says that WCMLS is supposed to activate it, and that's obviously not enough, or something is wrong there
Thank You

 

On PS5 Pro, it is enough to slightly blur the external texture at 378 in the front section with only the maps Sufragatte and WCMLS and Pendolino DLC installed ...... i.e. no freight traffic and no other additional layers ... removing Pendolino then moves the map to fully playable ..... but the textures at 710 for the two lines in Stratford (Anglia and Elizabeth I think) are of some very low quality

 

Believe that the WCML ‘provide’ the 1972 AI and 710, but they in turn require the home routes of Bakerloo and Suffragette to ‘unlock’ them.

 

Thank YOu
So it's more like Bakerloo provides it when it's needed to unlock... it's funny that DTG doesn't mention anything like that with this product......

 

No, the 1972 stock doesn't need Bakerloo.

 

I posted in the feedback thread about starting to experiment with disabling layers on PS5, so I'm curious which AI locos are the biggest memory hogs. If WCML is a big culprit I wonder if it links to some of the memory issues that have plagued that route in the past?

However, given the much better frame rate I got at Stratford and Gospel Oak from disabling ECML, Thameslink, MML, and SEHS I suspect it's just sheer volume of traffic all at once that is a big factor.

 

So what do I need, just WCMLS is not enough, at least I don't have it active on PS5

 

I don't know about FPS, it's not fixed anywhere on PS5, but as for texture blurring, it only works for me with the WCMLS and Suffragette maps installed..... as soon as I add Pendolino or possibly freight traffic via the ECML map, there are problems and only the Pendolino is affected

 

Only WCMLS is needed for it. The 1972 stock was included with that so that Bakerloo didn't become a requirement.

 

In that case it doesn't work on PS5....WCMLS doesn't activate layers with Stock 1972

 

So am I more so with the feeble excuse they gave for not putting it in That only 4 trains go Between Wilsden Junction & Richmond .

The Royal Gardens at Kew Gardens would have made lovely back drop or the br class 378 going over the Thames Between Kew & Richmond shows you the level of there mentality at dove tail if they choose a piece of twisted metal that used to be the Olympic park over something more iconic & Historical like the Royal Gardens at Kew probably would have sold the game a lot better as well.

So What if there are only 4 Trains between Wilsden Junction & Richmond per day does not change the fact they still go there.

Along with blurred Station signs across the route Buildings bad Lighting & Filtering in places they have butched it

Finally Fulll Credit to Johannes Hartman for his Efforts as a Solo Developer How irresponsible of DTG for letting one person Developing a full price with out over-seeing or making sure it came up to a certain standard before it was released & your talking about Performance

 

Not seen the train selfie passenger before - this one's at Hackney Central

 

Probably had it stolen shortly after lol

 

Sorry if already been asked how does this run on xbox x thanks

 

The blurry signs are a core issue with the game, they are not limited to this route.

Your other comments about "they should have added this, that etc" are subjective, they don't make a bad route.

The route went through internal testing at DTG before release.

Many people are happy with the route, me included, it has minor bugs that I am sure a patch will address.

 

Been running ok for me I've had a bit of a stutter but nothing major it's mainly good

 

It’s running fine on Xbox SX for me but only after losing about half of the layers.

 

Is anyone else having trouble with the ‘Route Learning’ scenario? At the start you manually set up the train and it’s a struggle to pull out of Stratford. I have to use notch 3 to even get moving, it feels like there’s some resistance. I’m sure it’s just me, but I’m just curious?

 

It's not just you. If you have a look at the feedback thread there's been a few of us notice the same thing. Also on the dad rail stream last night he struggled to get a 66 to move off from Stratford, not sure if it's related though.

 

I tried it just to see and I couldn't even get the train to move on notch 4, just nothing. Then I tried the reset simulation physics in pause menu and it worked fine... Something is definitely broken but that seemed to work for me for now.

 

Interesting!

I don't play scenarios but haven't had any trouble in timetable mode with either the 378 or class 66. You're going mostly uphill from Stratford and the 378 isn't quick off the jump. I usually am in notch 3 at 10mph, i'd go higher sooner but wheelslip kicks in.

Maybe some kind of scripting error specific to that scenario?

Another weird thing i noticed is that you can route-hop from Mildmay to WCMLS at Willesden Jct, but not the reverse- unless i'm just missing the marker but i looked pretty carefully.

Anyway enjoying the route immensely- hopefully they can get a patch out to fix the known issues sooner than later, and that DTG can finally solve the core memory leak causing the texture bug.

 

They will need to add the ‘route hop’ marker into the database on WCML.

Same as when WCML came out you could hop to the Bakerloo, but not from it initially.

 

Just bought and what is with the tutorial repeating itself. Then tried two timetable jobs both just dumped me on the platform no train in sight not a very good start also cab set up but will not move just roll back. Also so much blurriness along the route it makes it look horrible

 

This is great little route ruined by DTG not sorting the core game out

 

So-called history repeats itself.....

 

PS5
I haven't been able to activate the 1972 Stock layer yet, and I don't want to buy the Bakerloo Line at full price just to find out it didn't help.

 

Not sure if anyone else is struggling to find all the collectibles on Mildmay, but I've only found 24 defibs, and 22 each of the others out of a supposed 25

 

I found them all

 

watch this video very helpful

 

that newspaper stand at Hampsted Heath had me stuck for ages thanks for the video!

 

You're welcome

 

... the history book on the shelf is always repeating itself

 

This issue is still happening on the route on Xbox Series X was this not supposed to be fixed with todays update ?

 

It makes the route and trains look horrible

 

It's a core issue, nothing to do with Johannes and his route - which conceptually looks great. Unfortunately until DTG sort the core, unfortunately nothing, no matter how well made, will be immune from these texture problems

 

Thanks for clearing it up apart from this issue really enjoying the route

 

Anyone else noticed when you pull in at dalston kingsland going towards Hackney the platform goes pitch black and cant see anything sorry if mentioned already.

 

I caved and bought it. Man does the TSW5 core let this route down. Blurry textures galore and I'm guessing a memory leak as I suffered a crash on my first play through.

It's impressive for a single developer but man there's some serious scenery snagging issues. There's one station which has a floating metal fence above the tracks. OLE poles floating in the air (judging by the terrain I'm guessing a completely missing section of scenery), floating buildings and walls etc.

I genuinely think this route could have done with a bit more polish time, as what's here is great but there's a few scenery elements which could have benefitted from that extra time.

 

Thank you for bringing up these issues, because I haven’t really seen anybody else bring them up, but they were some of the first things I noticed upon opening up this route. Sections of floating scenery such as fences, roads, paths, and other items like you mentioned. I even noticed that some of the track is floating above the ground. The route certainly has a lot of scenery, but some of it doesn’t seem to be placed well. I’m not saying that to bash the developer, of course, because he did a good job for this being his first route. But I completely agree with you saying that this route could’ve done with a bit more polish.

 

I've refunded it. After not 5 minutes the blurry textures kick in. Walls, trains, signs, the ballast, basically everything goes blurry.

Also very concerned about the scenery in places. As I mentioned before, the floating metal fence above the tracks and other scenery things just aren't up to par. This DLC feels like it was rushed out and definitely could have benefited from another few weeks of QC.

 

It’s a core issue because of terrible Optimisation on all Consoles

 

Can anyone get higher then silver on the scenarios I only got gold on Xmas chaos rest all silver played with safety system on and no braking speed limit but was way off getting gold. I thought they was supposed to have fixed the blurriness still looks absolutely atrocious. Just done run and its horrible I mean what are they actually fixing cause looks like they are fixing sod all.

 

It's happening, people!!

 

Great news shame we don't get an extension for Cardiff City Network to Barry Island