Upcoming Release Gwr Hst Farewell Pack - Coming Soon!

Guessing this was meant to go up last week?

 

Of course, my point was that you've referred to tomorrow as "next week".
"Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so."

 

Does this include an updated and improved sound package?

 

I do love an HST!

 

No ScotRail Inter7ity ? Or are they coming as/with something else, or did I just make up in my own mind that I thought they were on their way too. Would make a welcome addition to the sparse Fife Circle line.

 

Does that mean you are driving Harry?

 

Been looking forward to this since it was announced. Should be fun.

 

Tell me it's a cash grab without telling me it's a cash grab

 

I couldn't agree more
no new sounds, no modeled engine room
there's nothing that justifies the existence of this pack
to me, it's no different from the GBR class 802

 

The big difference for me is I’m happy to support this as a “tip jar” for Liam’s incredible work on GWE Remastered.

 

Same here, I think Liam deserves to receive something for all the time and effort he put into the GWE remaster. I'm looking forward to this pack!

 

Looking forward to this. The HST is by far my favourite loco so I'll enjoy it. Extra variations of the liveries, additional timetable runs for them and new scenarios makes this one of the better value gameplay packs in my opinion.

The fact that that it's from Liam who gave us the best remaster we've had so far for free, means I will certainly get this.

 

I think that's a tad harsh when there's more than you'd get in a usual gameplay/livery pack, which is a new livery and 5 scenarios.

With this you get 7 new power car variants, plus the full GWR and FGB HST sets, a new barrier coach wagon with 2 variants, 6 scenarios and new timetable services on 2 routes and compatibility with all route timetables with the GWR HST.

I would mention the updated audio and new interactive features, like the manual lamps or working Mk3 toilets, but those were already ported from this to GWE HSTs as a free update so you can freely mix and match what you like without compatibility issues.

 

It’s looking like it’s going to be separate from this pack. I thought it would have been a part of this pack but not looking like it… which makes me think the Scotrail HST might be coming with a route. Here’s hoping. And we are still waiting on it being announced so hopefully that’s not too far away also…

 

GDG Liam just for clarification, does this pack give the full FGW blue "dynamic lines" livery to the Blue HSTs and MK3?

 

It includes the unbranded blue version. We tried to get the FGW license again but no luck still.

 

Thanks for the reply, still day one purchase for me. Will be nice to see the HSTs doing the full Riviera line in their full 7/8/9 coaches

 

New liveries, New services and new scenarios plus a Mark 1 barrier coach to enable new formations.

The run down of services by HSTs out of Paddington and the final day is something that is dear to many enthusiasts that was there and is a part of Railway history.

This isn't a cash grab like the GBR 802 which doesn't offer anything new.

 

Sadly I need to pass on a day one purchase here, not because I don't think it's worth it's price, but last month was rather packed and this month I'm on vacation for two weeks, there's not much cash left for DLC.

Will get it next month though at full price, it's too fine a pack to not get Liam what he deserves for his hard work with the remasters and the HST pack.

Also two Welsh dragon liveries? How could I pass on that to begin with?

Well done Liam, well done!

 

I see you're drinking the Dovetail Kool aid

 

Not sure why a ScotRail HST would be part of a GWR pack

 

Nope. I've been critical many many times.

On this occasion though, you're wrong.

 

A loco pack isn't worth 17 bucks! I don't care if the UP Big Boy

 

It's fine if you don't see the value in the pack, but that doesn't mean that others aren't allowed to see value

 

It's developed by Grumpdog which is Liam's company.

 

Yes, I just read that and deleted my post. Probably get it, I like to support 3Ps. And I enjoy Riviera.

 

If you want a tip to help out with the driving, Red means stop

 

Wait, there are working toilets inside the MK3 coaches? Is this already in the game? Had no idea!

Also, I normally don’t really buy gameplay packs, but I’ll definitely consider this once it’s discounted. Will add a nice splash of color to many routes, comes with unique services/scenarios, and directly rewards Liam for the great work he has done with various remasters.

 

That surprised me too !

 

Wait I thought the class 387 gwr was coming with this as well or have I got that wrong

 

I feel like for this pack we really need a WCL V2, extended to Plymouth, set to modern day and with a TT to last year of ops for the HST, and/or mirrored to/with Riviera line to truly represent its use

 

£12.99 is too steep for what is essentially a livery pack.

 

At the time detested by spotters but loved by the public, the IC125 is probably one of the few good things that BR did in the 70s. I will surely pick this up. To be honest I spent more on a KFC yesterday.

 

A bit of a shame 43172 Harry Patch livery wasn't included in this pack.

 

This one was down to licensing, being a FGW livery, so we couldn't use the livery or artwork.

 

Completely understandable

 

Yep, bad mistake on my part. In my excitement of all things HST I somehow managed to miss the glaring "GWR" in the thread headline !

Fortunately I spend much more time on the remastered GW route and Riviera than I do on Fife Circle these days, so this will definitely be getting snapped up tomorrow

 

It would be interesting to understand why the license holder would not want to support a livery for a train that already exists in the game, that theoretically needs little more than an artwork sign-off by them. GDG Liam do they give any specific reason, that you might be at liberty to share, or is it a blanket "no, goodbye" ?

 

From what I understand they would rather be represented as the brand they are now than what they were before. This includes FGW branding as a whole and the FGW 'Harry Patch' livery.

 

I now have already blurry textures on GWE and have to disable layers to get rid of it. On this moment I only have the layers from SEHS and IS 2022 enabled, as soon as I enable WCML I get blurry textures. What is the point of bringing extra DLC to the route on console when blurry textures are still an issue?

 

I appreciate the work is still going on, however releasing DLC's making the problem worse on routes is maybe not the most smart move. First fixing the issue on a route and after that releasing the DLC would be a better idea in my opinion. For now I'm holding back on buying new stuff, the release of the BR147 reminds me again why that's a smart idea.

 

The issue going forward is until you sort this issue, the gaming experience is going to be diluted for everyone. Consolers will suffer with the blurry textures and pc players will suffer with leaner timetables and low res, poor textures as seen on the latest 90 release. You need to decide who your target audience is rather than try and capitalise from everyone. These issues have gone on for so long, it really is very poor that there’s no solution to it by now.

 

Considering we are over 4 months in since it was a priority and we have yet to see one blurry route fixed I don't buy it.

I don't believe you are since you have repeated the same thing for the last 3 roadmaps and still nothing.to show for it on our side.

Looks to me like its business as usual and those with blurry textures oh well. Lets just keep telling them what the problem is and say we are fixing it and showing no proof.

Let be fair here a bit the Czech route, NYC, and MVL don't seem to be affected by blurry textures. But honestly they don't have enough variety of stock to have been a problem like the routes that have the blurry textures anyways.

So i don't buy you are working on it anymore. I think they were wrong and hit brick wall and are now trying Plan D.

 

I didn't know about poor textures on the class 90, is this because of optimization or is because of something else? The route from Firefly do not have blurry textures and I also haven't seen anyone complaining about low quality textures.

Well, DTG sells the game to both console and PC players, so both are their target audience. I suppose losing one of them will be an issue because of the loss of income. Timetables become larger, but also route choices do enlarge the problem, often it's going wrong with blurry textures and performance issues around those big cities. The reduced timetable on Frankfurt S-bahn was not really a big success, a lot of console players complained about it and didn't buy the route. They choose to include Flughaven Fernbahnhof and Frankfurt HBF Hoch, well this was not needed for the S-bahn trains. In my opinion they better leaved those out and instead made a simplified low texture Frankfurt HBF, not accessible and only as distance scenery. This would give room to some AI traffic on the route and this route is about S-bahn anyway and not about IC, ICE and regional trains.

 

The problem with blurry textures started with TSW5, so that's around 1,5 year back and nothing has changed. So I'm totally with you and do not buy any new stuff. I have almost no TSW5 routes and no TSW6 routes because of this, the GWE remaster made it again pretty clear why I better do not buy new stuff.