- Upgrade to Unreal Engine 5 with graphical improvements and RayTracing support. - Content Manager with Workshop Support -> Blueprint Editor (create costum scenery assets, signals, bridges, tracks, rolling stocks, etc.) -> download community made free-ware assets. - Route Editor (be creative and design you own fictious or real route. -> biom brush (generate generic nature as base) - Scenario Editor - Script Support - Multiplayer
I just saw a flock of pigs flying through cloud cuckoo land, so hopes are high for all of this happening.
about your points: - Upgrade to UE5 - This may happen at some point in the future. - Content manager with workshop support - Given the way TSW2 is set up, this will probably never happen (see next point). - Blueprint editor/route editor - Not going to happen as DTG will not release the editing software for UE to the general players. - Download freeware assets - again, not going to happen. - Scenario planner - There are plans to try and upgrade the current scenario creator (mentioned in today's roadmap article) which will be discussed at a later date.
Reminds me of my Amazon wish list. Lots of things I'd like to have, but know I will probably never be able to buy.
Missing are base routes. United States NJ Transit Raritan Valley Germany Netherlands Duisburg Oberhausen-Arnhem Railway United Kingdom Calder Valley Line or GEML. Optimized for PS5 and Series X.
Gaurd Mode and Ticket Checking Doors releasing instead of opening when you press Door Release. Train and Station Anouncement Upgraded P.I.S boards in train for all routes
I think it's less about people wanting abandonment of TSW2 and more of them saying what they would like to see in TSW3, which leaked as officially being a thing the other day. I hope we get a good reasoning on why DtG are moving on to TSW3 when they reveal what is coming with it. If we were to get an editor to enable playerbase to recreate routes from across the world and escape the perpetual Muricaland/Brexitland/Deutschland loop (would need to be paired with an abandonment of licensing requirement) as well as multiplayer, that would make it beyond worthwhile.
Last years annual update was called ‘Rush Hour’ so it’s all just a name surely? Train Simulator is the same game each year but gets a bump in the name dept after all
I want to see the games move on, TSW3 would be a good thing, but I'm unsure as to whether or not it's time yet. However, I also think that not some people - Not everyone - are wanting TSW3 as soon as they can, in some cases with the hope that Gen8 will be abandoned and then game will suddenly become 10× later.
TSW3 if/when it does happen needs to address the core issues which are the bane of TSW2. Chiefly the dire lighting, particularly night time but also the awful shadowy conditions that occur in daylight and gloomy conditions. Also sound, more channels and things like reverb in tunnels and rattle over bridges etc. Three iconic routes to sell the whole thing. A save slot for each route or even each run.