Roadmap Predictions

the first roadmap in over a month and a half is just around the corner, so what are people expecting and hoping to see, that includes updates on existing projects and new additions? personally, i think the richmond extension and carlisle-whitehaven will be the main updates, and possibly the first details about the romanian route. the amount of things announced in the dtd means there may not be much in the way of new content added, but that’s fine

 

NTP news
King’s Cross with hopefully a mention of a certain loco

new loco Addon (hopefully not another 158)

some excuse for the lack of fixes/ blurry textures or being fixed

 

DTG patting themselves on the back for a "successful" launch of TSW7.

A promise that they are working on known issues.

An update on the Portuguese Route.

More information about the Carlisle to Whitehaven route.

Information about the class 70.

Some information about the German and American routes.

But nothing of substance.

 

Personally I just expect updates on stuff we already know about, I don't expect anything actually new

 

Very low expectations.

I doubt we will see Carlisle to Whitehaven (which should have been Carlisle to Barrow) or the TSG steam route, this side of Q2 2027. Everything else will just be ticking the boxes to move it another month or three down the road. And I highly doubt we will hear of anything new, previously unrevealed being added to the Roadmap.

A few low hanging fruit fixes but nothing to help those on consoles or lower spec PC’s. Certainly no buffs to the save game, be that more slots or the grail of being able to load a chained run properly.

 

Maybe some reshuffling in the release windows and some screenshots. Nothing revolutionary.

 

When is the roadmap?

 

On October 33, 2026 at 26:75h

 

tomorrow

 

Dovetail countdown to Christmas,
Thomas the tank,
Class 91 to boost morale,
Our team are looking in to it and a fix is being looked at

 

Hopefully a release date for Richmond extension. Feels like that’s taking forever!

I hope questions are asked from the community about why console players got such a rough deal this year and why blurry textures are worse than ever. DTG stated they needed to get this sorted within months as opposed to years but yet here we are years down the line.

 

All I'm interested in haring about is GWR 387, ECML and maybe the Sheerness Line

 

Not forgetting, “Passed to engineering.”

Hasn’t the author now gone back to doing stuff for Transport Fever 3? Sadly still only interested in this route if the 378 gets a decent sound set, or a Legends pack with the Class 501…

 

I hope we will hear about the Neckatalbahn and see some pictures about the expert railjet. I'm hoping that maybe we will get an update about the br 420

 

Hope we get something about the Richmond extension tomorrow on the roadmap hope dovetail mentions something

 

If there is indeed a roadmap tomorrow, why is there still no Q&A thread for that?

 

Tadami Line because it's been such a regular feature there the roadmap won't look right without it.

 

Predictions? Some superb up and coming content advertised, but all pointless at this stage for us Gen9 players with blurring continueing even worse then last year...

Forgive the pessimistic attitude.

 

I would like to see updates on the below.

- Fixes and/or further improvements to the live weather system

- improvements to DLSS/DLAA and FSR with older routes showing grainy textures/artifacting on small displays, catenary wires and in-cab ADU's, especially during night runs

- Reveal of next route for a remaster

- news regarding the NJT Bergen line

- Updates to the Richmond extension

 

I feel like the 91 would've been announced when the ECML was announced. It's an extremely popular loco and would've driven even more interest in the route for ATS. Unless someone has decided to work on it after TSW7 was announced.

 

if it is coming then it’ll be the highlight of the roadmap, so it probably wouldn’t have made sense for it to be announced in august in the backdrop of the main release

 

Lol, literally just snorted out loud at that, thank you for the Monday laugh

My predictions?

• A bunch of self-congratulatory marketing headlines for how great and smooth and successful and flawless of a launch TSW7 has been and how the community has made TSW the best it's ever been and blah blah blah...
• Marketing spam for the Class 70
• Small blurbs on some of the upcoming releases, maybe some expanded info on the stuff like Jersey Transit that only got hinted at during the Direct
• A recap of the patches received to date and reassurances of how hard they're working to make the game perfect for everyone
• Literally a single/sentence paragraph that blurred textures and performance issues are being continuously worked on by engineering, a la the George RR Martin "don't worry, it's coming" skit/meme from South Park

While I would love some sort of sincere, personal apology (for clarification, as in non-AI or fluff from marketing, not to me personally) and acknowledgement of issues from DTG, past precedent has me believing that that will never happen. To quote Sir Alec Guinness, my impression of DTG as of late is that they are "more machine now than man."

 

DTG still has nothing new to tell. I can give a sort of answer if it helps. The train is at about 80% done. Still have two big timetables to finish, one scenario and the tutorial to create, lots of audio to do, and all the other logistic stuff like translations, QA, bug fixing after that, next round QA (and probably 10 more), and marketing blahblubb of course. No idea how long all that takes.

 

Thanks for the update. It's good to hear some progress

 

Hopefully some news on TSW7 editor.

 

I suspect the mildmayline extension and neckertalbahn...

 

I'm just waiting for information on Mildmay and date if possible and more info for the Portuguese route and ECML King Cross

 

Very likely just a few screenshots of the upcoming content. I doubt anything brand new will be revealed.

 

The announcement that it'll be too much to do ECML King's Cross to Peterborough so they're doing King's Cross to Finsbury Park instead?

 

it would also be nice to see a timeframe for when we should expect the 90 to layer onto mac and/or the wcmls timetable to be significantly improved, i heard recently that the build for mac was submitted ages ago but still nothing official about that. if we get a fair bit of information on older content with actual substance then i'll consider it a successful roadmap

 

you're forgiven. despite the years of issues and lies i still fall into the trap of getting excited every time something flashy and interesting appears on the roadmap. thankfully nowadays the realisation sets in pretty quickly before i can get *too* excited

 

I wish they would stop releasing new TSW routes one after another—including ones that are already delayed. Prices have become quite high lately, and I really don't want them moving on to the next route before fixing the bugs in the current ones.

 

The solution is simple! Wean yourself off the game and don’t feel obliged to buy every single piece of content on Day One, if at all. There’s now quite a substantial list of DLC I haven’t bothered to get, compared to the TSW5 and earlier days when on PC I pretty much bought everything. The demise of physical Steam gift cards has helped as I curate my spending, no longer being able to slip the odd £20 on the account so that Mrs Vern can’t go into apoplexy over how much I spend on software. That aside, the general slide in quality and DTG’s indifference to long outstanding core issues (the various save game ones I keep going on about, for one) mean I no longer feel obliged to hand over money for everything on Day One like I used to. Even the potentially good 3P stuff coming out, Cumbrian (half) Coast, German steam route and Sheerness will be getting very close scrutiny to see if a full price purchase is warranted.

I’ve probably spent more on OMSI 2 content (courtesy of openOMSI) in the last couple of weeks, than on TSW in the last several months. In fact, TSW is on the cusp of being uninstalled so I can do a curated reinstall of TSC and MSFS 2020.

 

How would they distract us from the bugs then though? Much easier to dangle keys in front of our face than actually fix the problems, plus if they're don't release more increasingly expensive DLC how will they hit their financial targets and keep their shareholders happy?

 

Where's the roadmap article? It's 2PM already, you'd imagine they had it mostly ready boefore today.

 

It’s normally anytime up to 4pm. It will no doubt be here soon enough.

 

It's much better like that

 

That looks 100% better they need to hurry up and push it out I can't keep wearing sunglasses at night when I play lol

 

Great news that the Mildmay extension is imminent. It’s one I’ve not played in ages as had been waiting for the extension to drop.

 

That does look much better more darker will be more efficient than the lighter one and yes the mildmay line richmond extension finally thanks to dovetail. But can't wait to it gets released

 

I hope the menu on tsw 7 changes very soon

 

Should have be fixed in the first week not a month after

 

You are right there mate.

 

When's it coming to console?

 

If its not on the roadmap....

 

Knowing DTG it could be anywhere from like a week to into sometime in the new year

I don’t get why they struggle so much with such basic game design and why they somehow ruin the ui more and more each year

 

It's a bigger job than they expect. The UI team are obviously busy working on the UI for TSW8, and can't be distracted away from such important, time consuming work.

 

When terms are as loose as "team" the "UI Team" can be a magical dragon that forms for 15 mins once a year to wreck stuff.

 

The "UI team" in this instance is probably whichever modder they could buy the mod from cheapest. It's now over to the "console teams" to shoehorn it into the XBox and PS5 versions without making the rest of the game look like it's running on an Atari 2600.

 

I have noticed in het Amsterdam Den Haag pictures that they have build the Dijksgracht.... Thats the area in the direction Watergraafsmeer wat is a large train depot for international and national trains. And the have add the Nemo museum as well.... Very cool to see.

Dijksgracht:



Nemo: (the Green Building in the middle)


Those are 2 pictures outside of Sloterdijk

Picture with the tracks direction Alkmaar and Haarlem. The tracks in front are the Haarlem ones the outside tracks are to Alkmaar via Zaandam


This picture is the area outside Leiden where you can go via the middle 2 tracks to Schiphol and the outside ones are heading to Haarlem via Heemstede Aerdenhout


And the last one is when you leaving the line to Schiphol behind and you and the building with the walls are PI Leiden or the Prison.



You can see how much detail this route has. This route is insane. I travel very often on this route and i can tell you this is a master peace. The quality what i have seen here is blowing my mind. I can not wait to see the full route. 10 out of 10!!!