Dovetail Games Tsw March 2026 Roadmap Q&a Thread (answered)

Hey folks - just working through timestamps and final questions, I'll come back later this afternoon!

 

Hello everyone,

The March 2026 Roadmap is timestamped, which highlights all our discussion topics, and answers to many questions from this thread.

March 2026 Roadmap Livestream


(Thank you to our team, chat moderators and some of you in the community who have provided answers to many!)

Just a quick mention that anything regarding new content that we've not yet shared details about, we won't be able to answer directly. Many of the questions in this thread were directly answered on the Roadmap stream above, so please be sure to skim through the timestamps to see if you got an answer!

Key Discussion Topics
This Roadmap, we continued to address frequently mentioned topics in the community, mainly related to the health of the game, and key issues that players are finding limit or harms their experience. Please use the links below to hear from our team on these areas:

• Gameblast26 Celebration (£5200+ Raised)
• State of the Game - March 2026
• PS5 Mounting Limitations
• Blurred Textures & Optimisation Work

Questions Answered

• 1:40:45 - Question: When is the next Dovetail Q&A Session?
• 1:41:55 - Question: When is the Mildmay Richmond Extension coming?
• 1:42:40 - Question: Why are some add-ons limited to Gen9 platforms?
• 1:45:30 - Question: Why are we seeing fewer sales on consoles?
• 1:47:40 - Question: Why have we not returned to the London Underground?
• 1:53:25 - Question: When is the next TSW update?
• 1:54:15 - Question: Will we be creating more remasters? What defines a remaster?
• 1:58:15 - Question: Do remasters impact our release schedule?
• 2:00:25 - Question: Any work being done to NPCs/Passengers?
• 2:02:00 - Question: How does our team review feedback threads (old and new)?
• 2:05:05 - Question: Are the optimisation changes supporting new add-ons?
• 2:06:50 - Question: Any updates for the PC Editor?

Additional Community Questions
What happened to the Peak Forest BR Class 104 Pack?
This has been a unique case, as generally speaking, when we announce new add-ons, we typically bring them to players in a generally short timeframe (3-6 months). Sometimes this can be longer; development cycles aren't always consistent, and certainly from one add-on to the next, never the same. Our timeframes are also just our best guesses, especially with third-party content, the developers are creating the content, but these plans/directions/life can suddenly change and plans can change too. A notable example is Lisbon-Setubal from the Roadmap stream, and VirtuaVia360, despite having unforeseen issues, they're still making good progress.

When it comes to the Class 104 pack, this is similar, but essentially we haven't received more from the developer, and we've as such removed from our Roadmap. Until we see more information/development, this is effectively shelved (of course, with the potential that if we start getting more details, we can look to re-introduce it to the Roadmap and continue development updates).

I'd like to think this is quite a rare circumstance; a few add-ons fall into this bucket of jumping around on our Roadmap (the 420 is once, Tadami Line is another), but again, I come back to our Roadmaps aiming to be the best prediction of what you can expect.

As feedback for our teams, seeing how the community reactions and questions have been, I think we probably should be clearer about when content "drops off" the Roadmap, and draw a clear line if we've not had communication/updates after X amount of time. I'm not sure we did that here, but I'd like to think if we have another situation like this in future, we'll try to communicate more clearly

Any plans on updating the UI for the mastery achievements poster screens?
Mastery has been great to introduce, but I think we can agree some oversights were made about the longer term support, and adding more posters for the UI here is likely one of those areas. I'll raise this to the team again, I know we've discussed it internally once already, but if we can get an improvement here, then we'll see if we can support.

I take it there isn't any more Remasters coming then?
For now, we've not announced anything, but if you see our Roadmap timestamp above (1:54:15), then you'll hear me and matt talking about the success of remasters, and the internal desire to look at future candidates.
So, I wouldn't say never, I'd probably start asking "when" - but we'll share more news if/when the time is right

With the community demonstrating that route merges are possible, what are the chances of some of the more frequently requested merges/extensions being progressed?
As of right now, we've not got any formalised plans to consider route merges. I think it's worth stating that, before we start increasing the potential of routes, let's nail the optimisation work for what we have available first, and then consider the idea.
Similar to extensions, but this is a very different scope to a merger, and then we've got to understand player appeal and such.
Good ideas, not part of the focuses we're aiming at for the time being, but possible something for the future!

Future plans for TSW?
Speaking of the future, of course I can't commit to anything we've not formally announced yet, but when we have more news, we'll aim to share it with you all The team are working hard, and the future of TSW continues strong - Right now, a lot of our focus is on improving the core experience, but we're also scoping what happens beyond this, and where else we can take the TSW experience!

Direct Player Responses
d.heal Looking forward to sharing more fun streams with Harry and the team for 4UPs, and ideally bringing more guests on board when we can As a note, JD will likely make the odd appearance, but he's stepped away from livestreaming as a key part of his work, and Nat has moved to work on other areas within Dovetail, so it's unlikely we'll see her return to regular streaming (outside of guest appearances on fun streams potentially).

archline DLSS is something the team are aware and investigating as a note, I'm unsure of what's been stated in some of Matt's older comments, but I know the team are reviewing a range of choices that we can activate to support the best performance, and improving this so that the foundation of TSW remains healthy. If we have more news to share about when/if you can expect this to arrive in TSW, we'll let you know!

Thank you everyone, catch you for next month's Roadmap!