I'm wondering if a remaster is on the cards, the route is 90% off on the current Playstation sale, it probably has been that low before but I don't recall. If memory serves, it was the third UK route released after GWE and WSR, Both of those have been remastered. With Just Trains giving us more stock set in that era and to an extent, Athena with their Mark 1 carriages. I won't be surprised If an announcement was made soon.
It would be great if it is next, but I suspect the next UK route will be BML, which I wouldn't complain about. Matt is a BR blue fan so hopefully he might have an influence.
Athena Simulation have "adopted" the NTP class 40 and 45, according to Jane, when he appeared on the DTG live stream showcasing their class 47 reskin DLC. Since they have seemingly disappeared since that class 47 DLC released, we might never see the class 40 and 45 get updated. And would you really trust Athena Simulation to remaster NTP, after what they did to the class 47?
Hopefully DTG have seen the error in their ways and broken the adoption of the 40 and 45 to Athena. Would love to see JT take these diesels on and upgrade them like they did with the 47 and of course the up and coming 20.
And the 31. Would love that to receive the suspension updates. A railfreight red stripe one would be nice too.
Yes! Remasters of NTP along with TVL are much more needed than BML. BML is AFAIR what's been advertised as a Rush Hour route, and those 2 are from TSW (even without 2020) era, only with some updates from the Preservation Team to bring them more in line with TSW2 standard (like new sky texture, added PIS, probably some level crossings' barriers made working, raildriver & livery designer support).
You are right, but you've also been around long enough to know how this works. The kiddies will always get their shiny, remastered modern routes, while us older nostalgic folks get shafted by DTG every time, because "older routes don't sell". We are lucky that Just Trains are even here, or NTP and TVL is all we would ever have.
I'm glad to see this discussion moving along nicely I do sadly feel that BML is next in line for a remaster, unless I misread the marketing guff for the ECW route they seemed to suggest that BML was going to be next as it could benefit from some of the "improvements" - not really sure, unless they mean fixing the timetable so it has the 700 in there. I would love a BML remaster, I lived by Three Bridges for a while and still enjoy the route today as being a PC user I am able to take advantage of modders revamping the route themselves, while I understand console users are missing out they are also quite vocal about how the route just does not run well enough, particularly how it can be limited in terms of the timetable as it affects performance. I just don't understand how a remaster and new more intense timetable will not make their situation worse, unless of course it was only made available to the latest generation of console. NTP on the other hand has no performance issues and can probably be ran on a Casio watch, mainly because there's bugger all there Now, on a slightly related note, our 56 was out for a sound recording session a few days ago, I had been asked to assist but had to decline as I was away on holiday however I have not yet been able to find out who it was for (I've done a few previously many years back). Hopefully someone (ideally JT) has decided to go down the "locomotive pack" route and give us something which will nicely layer in to a number of BR blue routes and more importantly be another locomotive to fit into the regiment and make it even more enticing for someone to remaster NTP as "look at all the suitable locomotives we have now". As for the Mk1s, NTP desperately needs them (there is a PC mod which switches the Mk2s for reskinned Mk1s and is really good, just a shame about the interior of course) but do you really want the Athena ones? One does have to wonder regarding both the 40 and the 45, they are both very old and in need of an upgrade, I wouldn't put it past JT to eventually bite the bullet and make their own (like they did with the 47) which would obviously be a great addition in itself but also fit nicely into their existing BR80s routes and replace the "classic" version. With something like the 45 there is also an opportunity to make the 44 and 46 to make a "Peak Pack" or something, the 44 of course would have limited use (unless of course it was in green and available for Peak Forest ) but the 46 would also nicely drop onto NTP... I genuinely think there is great potential, we just have to hope that someone in a position of power is able to do something good about it
