Took a long while away from this community and games. Decided to hop on TSW6 recently. As an American Freight guy im surprised(kidding). Still cant figure out how to properly list all of the freight car options? Here ya go only select like 9 out of the 100 options! Also the GP38 YN2 CSX skin was missing a long time ago. Come to find out its still missing how hard is it really to make free roam proper. Option to spawn any car you want and an option for it to be loaded or unloaded.. cheers to seeing a lot of the familiar faces still around!
I’ve submitted a bug report (got a generic response and I expect it’ll get chucked out of the queue soon). When I spawn in the 8F or Jubilee on free roam or timetable actually, usually about 30 mins in to a journey (even if coasting with no regulator) the brake cylinder suddenly goes crazy and the train comes to a halt. The session with that loco is then over. I’ve paid good money for the spirit of steam and peak routes for these locos, I expect them to work even if they’re now classed as older assets. Definitely breaks my enjoyment of the game. I really hope someone does take a look and try to fix the bug.
One thing I found interesting was how much how the newbie Wonders of Sodor players found free roam completely unintuitive. It's pretty damning how bad the whole system is when DTG has to make a article trying to explain it. The whole thing really does need to be reworked completely to be made easier to use and understand. But sadly knowing them they probably consider that article enough of a fix.
The way that freeroam currently works is so janky right now, for example, I can barely get it to work on the Harlem line without getting the dreaded "Unreachable Location" notification. It's not because something is blocking the path either, it started working when the rear locomotive of the consist was removed. That seems extremely restrictive for "Free roam".
Yes I had an issue when using the 313 on freeroam on the WCML South route. For some reason I can go from Watford Junction into Euston on the DC lines, but for some reason I cannot go that far out of Euston when I select a destination - beyond a certain signal it cannot path anything. I wonder why it works one way but not the other.
