All right, here's the deal. On Steam, if you buy a discounted bundle, you only actually buy the DLC you don't already have, but at the bundle price. This is often the cheapest way to go, even for just a single route or loco. I'm trying to figure out how to leverage this for the TSW6 Special Edition. I have two of the bundled legacy routes, but wouldn't mind picking up the other two. However: Steam won't register my "owning" the DLC I have until I have it all in TSW6 form- which won't happen until Sept 30 with the main release. And if I wait until then, l then I give up the 10% preorder discount. Thoughts?
Im personally on xbox but if that was me I would think its only 10% its not like its 20 -30% . But its up to mate
solicitr, most interesting since the faq states that Steam users get to bring over the legacy routes on 25 September when you load TSW6. So why would they wait until 30 September to recognize your ownership of them. Should note for others, it is only Steam that is doing this, all other platforms have to wait until 30 September even if you get the early use of TSW6 and its routes.
Not all bundles offer a discount if you already own some content. You may be paying a fixed price. You sure? Because Steam says I already own some TSW6 DLC. 10% discount is nothing. There'll be future sales, as there were with TSW5 and previous versions, possibly even at the Autumn sale. The more patient you are, the cheaper you can get stuff.
I thought the Upgrade launched on Sept 30, and only Deluxe and Special Editions got 5 day's head start
Oooh, interesting. Apparently the usual Steam bundle math doesn't apply here: Special Ed will be full price (less 10%) despite getting credit for owning two of the routes. Which means I would be paying twice for those routes (or overpaying for the other two). Probably better to get the Deluxe then, and pick up Worcester and Groeningen on sale (legacy DLC usually goes on deep sale the soon after the new version launches)
To me the Deluxe version is only worth it if you want 2/3 of the content. And the Special Edition doesn't make much sense since the legacy routes are often on sale at deep discounts which allows you to cherry pick. The Standard version actually makes sense even if you just want one of the routes plus its extra loco as I do. You don't have to install the other two routes or buy their extra locos. It works out to a little more than buying that one route plus extra loco alone. And you have the other routes " in the can " if you decide you want to install them later.
Understood. But actually I find all three routes and two of the locos to be "wannas" this year (unlike previous years, ever since Rush Hour). And the Voyager isn't a wanna, but as part of the bundle certainly I don't mind it.
dal#7945, I am actually excited by all 3 and that includes the extra locomotives you get with the deluxe version. I watch the Dawlish cams a lot so am looking forward to driving that route. NJT route will be a lot of fun to run and I have really gotten into driving German routes now that the safety system is very well entrenched in my mind.
Yeah i have pre-order the Deluxe Edition same as described above. All dough my favorites are the GWR and German route but yeah you got 1 route for free so no question there if i should choose an another option.
The calculation should be simple: find you what you really like. The calculate the cheapest way to get it (alternative is wait hals a year or so). If a bundle with additional content turns out to be the cheapest, happily accept the present. If you need to pay additionally for content that is not so important. You can judge if it is worth the money. be aware, something you will never play does not have any value, even if the discount is very big.
Just wait for Black Friday or at least that’s my plan because on Xbox I ain’t exactly getting much sales
I do t know but I have 3x1TB hd’s on my gaming laptop and one is set aside just for TSW, nothing else is going on there, I reckon that is future proof. I enjoy playing the Quick Play feature a lot and hence need as many routes as possible to keep things fresh. I I love spinning the wheel to see where I’m driving next. Is there a more relaxing game than TSW?
I mean last year we got like 40 to 50% off the core bundles, aside from that we didn’t get much hence my decision to just wait for Black Friday for the core stuff will still buy cargo line 5, the hst pack and just trains new route on day one but that’s just me
For steam? Because I sure haven’t heard anything from Xbox, sorry was just saying how I normally do things
Yes, is does appear that the Steam Autumn sale will be earlier this year - https://steamdb.info/sales/history/ - starting at the end of September rather than November (so not coinciding with Black Friday any more). It makes sense to me to spread the sales out a bit better like this. Also, yes there are two type of bundle on Steam, complete your collection ones and 'regular' ones where there is just a fixed price (https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/store/application/bundles). I think the core bundles are normally the latter.
Scoring out of a possible six points, I went Deluxe. Even though the era is wrong for me, South Devon Banks is pretty much essential viewing. And pointless without the Voyager which, if the sounds are done correctly, will give more thrash than the Cucumber with its non powered end driving cars. Scores 2 points out of the 6. Dresden to Leipzig. Well I still think it’s a bit of a fudge by DTG and the Stuttgart route with the 140 should have been the all new route. However it should be a nice long route to get the teeth into and I always found the original Riesa route a tad frustrating finishing where it did. As a proponent of route extensions I can hardly turn my nose up either, when DTG make one. So, 0.5 points for that. If a quick play in Zusi 3 is anything to go by, the BR294 should be a beast. Not the 211 or 212 I would prefer but probably the best we could hope for. Scores 1 point making total 1.5. The US stuff. Well NJT is an unknown quantity to me but it looks like we are getting a decent length run on a route that has a bit of curvature and scenery unlike last year’s straight plod across SBO. I’m also a sucker for chunky old EMU’s and again the closest we will get to something that resembles a NYC Subway train in the game. So going 0.75 points there. The additional loco for NJT. Again don’t really know much about these and/or whether really justified as an extra item. However it could be fun sticking it to the man and running on diesel all the way into the city. Let’s say 0.5 points for that one. In summary.. UK 2 points. Germany 1.5 points. USA 1.25 points. Making a grand total of 4.75 points out of 6. Which therefore, ladies and gentlemen, is my decision to go Deluxe.
I think I'm going to go Special. I already wanted the route bundle and deluxe locos, i.e. Deluxe, and the upcharge for the SE is 30 USD: although I have two of the routes that is still three new ones, which works out to $10 apiece- a really good price (~80% discount). Just a shame I don't get the usual Steam credit for the DLC I already have.
I used the Main-Spessart_Bahn_Driver's_Manual as reference as I drove the route. It has a very good section on signaling. I am fortunate to have a 2 monitor system where I could have that Manual loaded on one screen as I drove on the other. As far as what German routes, most of them. Don't stick to any one in particuliar.
Can I ask you have question do you stick with one route for let's say a day or would flick between different ones. See if stick a short route for i get bored with it and change routes.
I'm weighing whether to go free starter plus Morristown and the ALP45DP or Standard plus the same loco. First option is cheaper and gets me what I really want, but second option gives me two routes which I might play in the future depending on forum reviews. Not going Deluxe after getting 3 boring routes last year which are gathering dust on a basement shelving unit behind some empty mayonnaise jars.
The British route will be good, allowing for possible "R" involvement. Think DCZ but partly by the sea. The trains, I guess we won't find out until the big day. Not been in the cab of a Cucumber but I know from sitting in the front or rear coach on both electric and diesel apart from a bit of resonance from the wheelsets as you pick up speed, there's very little sound. The Voyager, depends how DTG have mixed it. All cars are powered and in the passenger saloon you get a lovely melodious thrum (the only good thing about these otherwise wretched trains in real life), but will that be reflected by what we hear in the cab. Very similar sounding to the German 612 we have in game already.
That's because this isn't a bundle where the cost is a sum of other DLC costs. There isn’t an individual price for each entitlement within that edition.
No it isn't. The price difference between the Deluxe and Special Editions doesn't equate to the total individual costs of each of the additional routes the latter grants.
