What do people think firefly are up to? Alex said they are currently working on their first route. Leave your thoughts in this thread
I don't know who's on the team. Have they built stuff on TSC before? Though past TSC releases haven't been a useful indicator of what Just Trains and ATS did for TSW. Keeping my fingers crossed that they're all Network South East fans from Essex.
AFAIK Fawx is a producer of quite a fair number of (solid) timetable mods for TSW and Spratty/Jetwash seem to do more on the enhancement side of things. Not familiar with the others' work (sorry guys). All fairly active community members too so I imagine there will be solid enough communication once DTG let them speak. Basically a modders' effort at making a DLC which is something I think the game's been crying out for for a good while - especially with the disparity in quality between modded content and Console and vanilla PC
This brings me hope that we could see an ECW enhancement to go with the 171/377 pack. Dovetail said that Rivet were looking into possibilities in upgrading the route and to be fair, an enhancement to go along with a loco/TT DLC (nice colab if it happens) would make that sell like absolute hot cakes
As speculated in the other thread, part of me wonders and hopes it could be a rework and extension of TVL. The origiginsl should certainly have gone to Bishop Auckland and maybe Boulby as well. If they were doing that plus throw in a Class 56 I would be very happy. More ambitious would be extending the line from Middlesbrough to Whitby even.
yeah, thinking about it more. I dont think these legends have much history of making new assets (routes or stock). However they are utterly light years ahead on making gameplay and route improvements. Im betting their skillset is best used for remastering old but loved routes. Especially for timetables that make full use of the expected standards for PC users ( and soon to arrive next gen consoles). Busy and beautiful will be their standard. Imagine older routes with now 1,200 services a day...
Looking forward to what these guys are going to serve up, always enjoyed their mods/EP's - surprised LondonMidland isn't part of the team, or is he doing other things? Anyway, if they are revisiting and updating old routes, NTP first please...please....please....please All the best with whatever they have planned.
Oh god, could you imagine NTP remastered and by this crew? Im giving chef kisses at the very thought of it.
Imagine an extension to Lime St via Chat Moss on NTP, couple that with JT's Preston-Crewe route which will cover Newton Le Willows we could route hop there and/or Earlestown, bliss! Here's hoping
West Highland 1988, filthy Eastfield 37/4s, full RETB working. Day One!! Getting back to reality As long as it's not modern day, we need a second dev for older stuff. If it's decent reworks of older stuff then that's great also. Please give us another 1st Gen DMU though!!
That’s what I was thinking too since they have experience with modding etc. I wouldn’t say no to a Fife Circle Remaster. Similar to the modded version on PC with much better scenery. That would be amazing.
I would love to see them do a backdated route but much of their work has been on more modern routes, although FAWX has made a timetable for TVL. I wonder therefore if it will be a more modern route. What ever it is I am sure will be of high quality, I would love it to be a period route though.
NTP, TVL and wcl would all be great to be remastered, hell just a new timetable that uses the JT rolling stock
If it's a remaster/extension, TVL would certainly get my vote, though NTP would be good as well, though i'd think it would need even more work done to bring it up to standard.
Something makes me think it will be Wherry. The guy who was making Wherry and posting their progress in the forums stopped and said there will be a payware version coming along soon enough. Could it be these guys? Based on their work ethic, I think Wherry would given the TLC it deserves.
