I generally play with a minimal HUD as I can (not got to learning the route speed limits yet). My question is if you want to play hud-less, can you do some of the scenarios without memorising them too? For example, I was playing Fife Circle - Fun Around the Forth scenario. It basically means you need to stop at scenic locations. Am I missing something, or is this not possible without learning those locations or using the HUD?
Not really because you need to know what the objectives are. Use minimal hud, it's the least intrusive and focused on showing you what those objectives are - you can turn some bits of it off too to further reduce it to the bare minimum. Matt.
I've been wondering this too. Also, when removing UI with F1, the mouse is gone. The only thing i am now able to do is timetables on zwolle-groningen, as there i know the distances ( and signs (S-board)). There should be an UI with only the timetable info, passenger load times ,and in case of scenarios the pointer. also, mouse pointer on screens
German content can be pretty much played without HUD completely (with my driver's timetables ), except for passenger loading time (this game desperately needs some whistle to replace that) and shunting, as TSW unfortunately decided to use "this exact point with 3yd tolerance" markers rather than much more realistic acceptance of the whole track between two signals. Scenarios can be driven without HUD, but you will be likely missing some of the messages and hence the main fun they contain. There was recently added "Off" option for HUD that hides everything by default, but keeps your mouse and button prompts active. Unfortunately with it you cannot for some reason use the ingame timetable HUD, so it kinda defies its purpose, as you have no option to check your tasks other than lengthy going to the menu making it unusable in practice.
not all routes, since lets say now on new S-Bahn route, there are parts where you have missing or otherwise absent speed signs, so unless you go by route knowledge, sometimes you have no way to know if you are or arent going over speed limit
East Coastway and Brighton Main Line are good routes for learning to drive HUDless. On the latter especially, I quite often find myself turning the HUD off.
