Enough Is Enough!!! The Ongoing Saga!!! 2 Year Anniversary

Trouble at mill?

 

I'm not surprised by this. I've been a long time TSW user (over 6 years), but since I upgraded to the free starter pack of TSW 6 when it launched I've only played TSW for 11 hours. None of those hours were in the last month. I'm glad I didn't buy any of the TSW 6 content because I feel I've definitely given up on TSW. I've had my fun with previous editions, but if nothing changes at how DTG is leaving their playerbase hanging with a game full of bugs, I won't be hanging around here for much longer.

 

Despite denials to the contrary I still feel there was a sea change when Focus Entertainment took over. But still, you would think they would be exercising a bit more oversight particularly at the highest level in DTG and the TSW operation to restore order.

 

imo, dtg acquisition by focus entertainment only made things worse... but that's just my opinion

 

There’s definitively been a conscious decision to cram as many variants of existing trains we already have out there. Now we’re getting quite pricey dlc that is little more than a repaint and/or move a few nuts and bolts around, even populating new routes which never used to be a thing. These days truly new trains seem to be at a premium.
I do think there has been a sea change since the French company took over, it’s seems more about maximising profits now than anything else, and that’s where the recycling existing trains over and over has come from.
There’s a hell of a lot of units on British railways that haven’t been done, many of which would layer onto other routes, and it is these I’d like to see get more attention.

 

I think changes to the forum are due to Focus, but honestly I feel like people are wearing rose-tinted glasses if they think the DTG of old acted a whole lot differently. They've always been allergic to variety since TSC, the tendency toward "the big three" countries has been a thing even under RSC, the lack of non-BR steam routes has always been a thing too. So has things like reuse of existing content, and lack of oversight on QA, remember the state infamous state of Donner Pass anyone?

 

Wasn't DP and some other content released round that time outsourced to some Mumbay code farm for finishing?

 

I've noticed things which just haven't been fixed which should have been sorted a long time ago.

Firstly, the Azuma external PIS is still showing the wrong coach letters on the 9 car formation.

CPU drivers sitting in the wrong cab on AI driven locomotive services - 47, 86 and 87 for sure. This one I think I've sussed out - the CPU driver is coded to sit in the "front" of the locomotive. If the locomotive is running southbound then it is effectively running backwards in terms of how the game is coded. This is immersion breaking to see a train being driven from the cab facing the coaches and seeing the front cab empty.

Birmingham New Street still has the glowing benches despite having a new rolling stock layer introduced. I've also noticed that the staircases are also solid white too, the correct textures pop into place once you get close enough - how is this a thing when the route is almost £30?

On the subject of BCC, the entire Camp Hill Line. Why was this abandoned when it was clearly meant to be included and is almost finished? It's quite easy to run trains along that line as it's fully signalled, a lot of the scenery is done (houses, bridges, commercial buildings, car parks, roads, cars etc). Heck all of the lineside equipment has been placed - lineside cabinets, full signals, some fencing and even a GMSR mast. You cannot tell me that the line wasn't intended to be in game or to be seen by the player, there's no way all of this scenery and equipment was placed in an area which cannot be seen from the main BCC route if it wasn't intended to be part of the playable route. Again, it's very easy to drive the Camp Hill Line and it's possible to set a route along it. Will DTG ever finish BCC?

 

Assuming you're talking about BCC New Street, the new timetable and stock was done by Rivet, but as the route itself was done by DTG, it would be up to them to fix

 

For the first time in my TSW career I feel the urge to add a post to this topic. TSWs performance has never been reliable, but with DTG adding more features and pushing for longer routes with busier timetable, I get the feeling that performance has been getting worse. Or just that I've started noticing it more.

Anyways, the frequent lagspikes and FPS drops are putting me off. I've come to a point where I cannot enjoy TSW as much as I have done in the past, and I've spent more times playing other games with ETS2/ATS which are not only good looking, but run extremely smooth, despite being on decently high graphics settings on a 4K resolution.

I hope DTG can focus more on optimization and performance so I can keep enjoying TSW as much as I've done in the past.

 

Hmm, I was just thinking about this the other day and was kind of curious as to exactly what my level of enjoyment throughout my entire TSW cycle actually was, so I pulled up my XBox gameplay stats.....

Time played:
TSW 2020: 11d 0h 01m
TSW 2: 51d 08h 57m
TSW 3: 53d 23h 41m (still playing, albeit not very often)
TSW 4: 13h 21m (played via gamepass)
TSW 5: 4h 53m (free version)
TSW 6: 1h 07m (free version)

Total miles driven / incremental driver level (obtained from trueachievements):
TSW 2020: Unknown
TSW 2: 36,014 / 1203
TSW 3: 34,009 / 2077
TSW 4 - TSW 6: 3998 / 2186 (only played to farm free + easy achievements)

My most played games ever on XBox (excluding X360):

1: Railway Empire 1: 71d 7h 7m
2: Diablo iii RoS: 67d 23h 59m
3: TSW 3
4: TSW 2
5: Borderlands 2: 51d 01h 26m

So it does goes to show that, once upon a time, TSW was a mighty fine game. Well, for me it was.

 

If the things you mention here were the worst of our worries, this thread wouldn't exist.

 

It's gotten so bad that I didn't even bother downloading the free version of TSW6! I only got 45 hours of playtime on TSW5!
If the game were at least smooth and without stuttering, maybe I'd play more, but it's getting worse and worse; for me, it's unbearable.
Even with a €50,000 PC, this game wouldn't run smoothly.