As the title suggests, most of the North American locos in the game automatically start the bell ringing when you sound the horn. While appreciating this may be a requirement IRL, it can be a pain on consoles using the joypad where there is no bell function mapped. Means each time you sound the horn - and on routes such as San Francisco to San Jose or AVL and SBO you are pretty much on it constantly- you need to faff around with the waggle sticks trying to find the bell button sweet spot. Even worse at night when the cab is pitch black, so you end up not bothering to sound the horn at all which in simulation terms is worse than not having the bell auto start. So IMHO this could do to be an option, thus allowing the purists or those with keyboards plugged in to have the bell operate, but preserve the sanity of those of us who want to tear down the track sounding the horn but not having to cancel the bell afterwards.
Yes, I agree this is an option worth having, even more so for some with mobility issues. Have you tried to use the Classic layout? Just an idea to try... provided you don't do much with the #2,3,8 camera, where you use the "Y" to change from drive mode to camera mode. I can't find the PS layout to show and compare.
TBH I still haven't properly figured out how to manipulate the views, can just about click the waggle stick to go from internal to outside!
Yeah, it took me a while to get the hang of it, at times, I still get myself in a bind with the way the game works with the controller; it feels jerky "and not beef jerky " it could be much smoother.
Something else just came to mind as I do the Conductor mode mastery, is how dead or alive the "waggle sticks are, as you put it, I like that if I may use it" the outside camera is hyper sensitive, but inside is okay, kind of, having to fuss with sensitivity all the time is also a pain. Anything lower than this inside the cab is like a sloth in molasses. But outside, it's like Speedy Gonzales Spoiler
As an alternative/addendum, I'd like to suggest reintroducing a key bind for the bell on console. I haven't checked, but surely one of the operation shift combinations is still available to put the bell toggle on for NA content.
I forgot if it was TSW4 or TSW3/earlier, but there was at one point a quick toggle on consoles. If memory serves correctly, it was either up or down on the D-Pad. I was pretty annoyed when they got rid of it, because as Vern notes, the button isn't always in the same place and often requires diverting the camera, which is not ideal, especially at night. In theory, as Lamplight mentioned, all they would have to do would be to tie it to the shift-function (X button for us Microsoft people) in the same way that the low- and high- tones function on UK and Euro trains. I've suggested this a few times as a quality of life feature, but it always seems to fall on deaf ears. But hey, Thomas is green now, so at least we know the DTG labs are hard at work...
