Your Tsw Hot Take

Discussion in 'TSW General Discussion' started by west coastway trains, Oct 30, 2024.

  1. PseudoStalker

    PseudoStalker Well-Known Member

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    I also hope that the camera manually attached to the front of the train will stop being knocked down by collisions in the most unexpected places. I'm tired of hanging it back.
     
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  2. Crosstie

    Crosstie Well-Known Member

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    My hot takes: Starting this coming Tueday, make the railway the noisy, banging, clanking, rattling place it is in real life instead of the emasculated sound we typically get in TSW.

    And give us more dirt and grime, more litter etc., rather than the squeaky clean platforms you could eat your lunch off of.
     
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  3. OldVern

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    Yes, even the Cucumbers rattle and lurch around particularly if sat over the bogies you feel every little dip or kink in the track. Even CWR becomes a bit uneven over time but TSW rarely reflects this other than the symmetrical rather than random bounce and sway they introduced.
     
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  4. jack#9468

    jack#9468 Well-Known Member

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    Clean or not, I wouldn't eat my lunch off the platforms.
     
  5. dal#7945

    dal#7945 Well-Known Member

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    And that is why I haven't got it.
     
  6. TSW Nathan

    TSW Nathan Well-Known Member

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    Hot take: 90% of American routes are long and boring to drive. The only one I've rlly enjoyed is long Island rail road.
     
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  7. PseudoStalker

    PseudoStalker Well-Known Member

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    Yeah, give us more 15 miles UK tram routes with stops every 150 yards, and so that the express train could go full route in 8 minutes.
     
  8. Crosstie

    Crosstie Well-Known Member

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    Well, I could say that 80% of UK routes are short and boring.
    It's all a matter of taste.
     
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  9. vodka#2734

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    And perhaps 90% of freight traffic on them is carried out using Class 66
     
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  10. star#5823

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    Yep which makes them incredibly boring
     
  11. TSW Nathan

    TSW Nathan Well-Known Member

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    Very fair point. I agree tbh
     
  12. vodka#2734

    vodka#2734 Member

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    I don't think it's the locomotive. At least the US routes have difficult terrain and the trains are heavy. There's nothing like that in the UK to create a challenge.
     
  13. star#5823

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    You just don’t understand how much I despise the class 66 both in game and real life,

    usa/ br 1980 freight for the win
     
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  14. Killer-Of-Night

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    The GP9RM is the most underrated NA freight loco in the game.
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  15. maccagee#4924

    maccagee#4924 Well-Known Member

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    Every new route should have a completely new train included.
    Too many routes, not enough trains.
     
  16. Matin_TSP

    Matin_TSP Well-Known Member

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    That's not really a hot take, is it?
     
  17. OldVern

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    Too many routes, need some more HD space and the hosting companies (well, one of them for now) saying “enough is enough”!
     
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  18. maccagee#4924

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    A hot take is designed to get attention, and this has, so by definition, it is.
     
  19. maccagee#4924

    maccagee#4924 Well-Known Member

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    If they could go back and unlink old DLC from the routes they came with, there's a couple of routes I'd like to uninstall. I only got them for the DLC and they are taking up space on my drive.
    For example, I have no interest in the Crewe-Liverpool route, I only got it dirt cheap in a sale for the wagons so I can use them on WCMLoS.
     
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  20. OldVern

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    The German stuff is by far the worst, followed by American freight. Then, as much as I like them, need to be realistic about how often I play NTP or TVL these days but still need the routes and child DLC installed for layers on more recent routes.

    Even IOW 2022 - easy to get rid of, or is it? We will probably need that to layer in the District Line AI on GWE Remastered, though not a huge loss if not there I suppose.
     
  21. maccagee#4924

    maccagee#4924 Well-Known Member

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    DTG won't improve the Scenario Planner because they'd be embarrassed by how much better the community efforts are than their own.
     
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  22. samuelpower2001

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    Tsw hot take; don't like whole exploration aspects. Prefer just driving.
     
  23. Mikey_9835

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    While the new Random Events sound good and I don't mean to sound ungrateful: I was hoping for more than just two random events

    Also sidenote I was playing Salzburg to Rosenheim today and I think it's very underrated.
     

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