West Coast Main Line: Trent Valley From All Aboard Studios

https://store.steampowered.com/app/...rent_Valley_Milton_Keynes__Crewe_Route_AddOn/

Coming soon, already seen on Steam (source: train simulator driver on YT)

 

It looks fantastic but im on xbox so really skeptical about this route. Because b2c was so bad and still is . But really want route. Finally we stretch the pendolinos legs. Hope this has good amount of freight jobs as well.

 

I'm going to hold out on buying until I know if it has blurry textures or not (PS5).

 

so, according to the announcement posted a little while ago, there are no streams scheduled for this week, so we should assume that trent valley won't be releasing this week
so, why on earth did they put the trent valley steam page up?

 

I’m also a bit surprised by how the whole situation is progressing. Why put the page online when you can’t even pre‑order it? It raises a lot of questions.

 

Could be that someone at steam hit a button too early.

 

but the person who "presses the button" is someone from DTG, not steam

 

I wonder if this is some sort of experiment to see if by doing this and presumably releasing either during or shortly after may madness sale reduces the hit of releasing a new dlc during sale periods. I certainly have held off on a possible sale purchase because I’m very likely to want to use those funds to by this on release (the usual caveats apply), I don’t know if that’s DTGs desired outcome but for me that’s where my head is at. although had the Evero been in the sale I’d probably have picked that up as well and it’s actually surprised me a little that it’s been excluded from the sale all things considered

 

Its a recent addon, I hoped the Evero would be on sale but imagine my shock when every route and its own personal loco was on sale EXCEPT the one I wanted, its like they know how to get more money out of me.

 

Yes I’m keeping my fingers crossed that some sort of bundle comes out for these on release of TVL

 

More hype for the content I’d wager. It could be a new thing DTG will do with upcoming releases.

 

I guess the lighting effect of headlights is wrong, the devs might have confused the positions of headlights and marker lights. The scrrenshot shows that the lighting effect comes from marker lights instead of headlights, as well as they did on 805. The effect of LED lights should be white rather than yellow. The decelerating audio is way too quiet and inaudible. Also searchlight models for pantographs are missing. Hope AABS can fix it at some point.

 

Are you sure about that? Then why do we have to wait for steam to open before we get access if they are the ones pushing the button?

 

The reason DTG chooses a time when Valve’s office is staffed is so they can get support in case any issues arise. It’s not that Valve has to activate the sales process. Otherwise, DTG could have released the BR145 Expert this early as well. It’s purely about having a support team available.

 

Well it would be if everyone used the correct phrase, but a non-zero number of people have already referred to it as "Thames Valley lines", so that's yet another TVL.

Ironically, a quick search reveals you as one of those people! https://forums.dovetailgames.com/threads/thames-valley-lines.97885/

 

because DTG likes to have guaranteed contact with steam technical support in case of any problems with the DLC release
but DTG publishes the DLC, not steam/valve
just watch a tutorial video on how steamworks tools work

 

From memory I believe with Rapid Transit it was that you could close the doors early but the signal would stay red until your departure time. I know this has been the case with at least a couple of routes, and if they really wanted to "force departure times" then this would have been the more realistic way of doing it as opposed to implementing a system that almost looks like a bug.

Assuming it still isn't actually a bug that is...

 

Im ashamed of my actions :/

 

For the sake of those who are intending to buy on Day One, I just hope this hasn’t been rushed to the finish line to bolster DTG’s coffers, following on from the glut of less than sterling content releases in late March/early April. Particularly with the sudden May Madness sale (have we ever had one before?), can I be forgiven for thinking DTG are more than a little cash hungry at the moment.

 

Here's hoping the stretch from roade cutting by blisworth onto weedon and by the M1 motorway is realistically modelled and I'll be looking out for the now defunct gayton crossing ,Ive done alot of trainspotting in theses areas for years so that's why I'm very interested to see how this comes out in the sim

 

Back in the mid 70’s living in Northampton, I used to cycle out to Banbury Lane level crossing for an hour of train watching. There was also a foot crossing near Milton Malsor which involved dragging the bike over a couple of stiles and fields to get to, that was another good spot to watch the trains and (sshh) flattening the occasional 2p coin! Well I was only 14 at the time.

Still a shame Northampton isn’t included as well, even in its more modern guise.

 

Haha, no need mate, but it does go to show that acronym confusion is easy to succumb to.

 

as an xbox user im worried that this will fail miserably. the 805 crashes on b2c as it is , never mind over 100 miles with multiple layers. i shall sit and wait this one out for a week or two.

 

There was a May madness sale last year