Hi everybody. This is the TS2018 screenshot contest for the second week of August 2018. Please do not upvote until Thursday. The Rules: Please see the terms and conditions for this competition here: https://dovetailgames.com/competition-terms-and-conditions/ Note that by submitting an entry to this contest, you are consenting to us using your screenshot as a loadscreen, and showing it on our social media and livestreams, if it wins. The winning screenshot shall appear in-game as a loadscreen for 4 weeks. -The thread is open for entries until Thursday morning for entrants to post their screenshots. That is when the upvoting starts. This is to make sure late entrants have the same amount of time to collect votes as all the other entries. - Limit is 2 screenshots per person. - 1 screenshot per post. This will allow people to upvote the screenshots they like. - No photoshopping, no watermarking. The screenshot should be as it looked ingame. We will add credits to the winning screenshot in a style fitting the game. - Screenshots must be in a 16:9 resolution. - Screenshots must fit the theme of the week, as stated at the end of this post. - Official content only. Please make sure anything that is not available on the Steam store is not shown in the screenshot. Your entry may be disqualified if it is deemed to not follow these rules. - Competition closes at mid-day Friday (UK time). The screenshot with the most upvotes is declared the winner. Winner's Prize: The winning screenshot will appear in the game as a loadscreen for 4 weeks! This weeks' theme: USA Good luck!
By the way can you see the pic I posted? There were people having problem about that so I uploaded it on Imgur this time. Hope it works...
Most of my screenshots are with locomotives that have a third party payware modification that makes the headloghts look super realistic. Would this be considered cheating?
Nope. Presumably you have a Steam log-in. Haven't tried this but could you not upload your screengrab to Steam then copy/paste the URL in a post here? Edit: Oh wait- in the original posts. Yeah. Sorry- bit hard of thinking.
The only US route I have is Sherman Hill which limits my options a bit (I presume Castle Rock in the Workshop is off limits) but I'll give it a go: No doubt someone will explain why this line-up at Cheyenne is completely inauthentic. I could never get the sun in the right place- either I can't read a map or Wyoming is south of the equator.
A Sacramento Northern Holman 1003-class interurban train set is coming into the San Fransisco Terminal in the heavy fog.
Can I suggest that entries should have a caption mentioning at least which route has been used in their creation and perhaps any other assets. Without knowing much about US routes my impression was that most if not all of them involve slow, slogging, endless freight trains and Sherman Hill largely satisfies my appetite for that experience but no few of the entries here look quite different and appealing. I can identify some routes but have no idea about others. I echo the congratulations to this weeks winner BTW- a nice scenic view. No idea where it comes from though.
The US routes are many varied just like the UK routes. NEC, the NJ transistor routes are long distance commuters running both Amtrak and NJT locals. New Haven route is both commuters, amtrak and freight so you have high speed passenger and moderate speed freight. Feather River Canyon is a beautiful freight mountain route that will challenge to no end for freight and does have the California Zephyr for passenger. All very different from the Sherman Hill experience. The new Raton route is again a challenge to your railroading skills especially with the very quick transistion from the 3.4 % grade up to a very short “summit” then hit the 3.0+ down grade —again good, but slow fun. Hope that helps a little and I do agree that captions should b part of the contest.
Oh no doubt but, as a foreigner ill-informed about US railways, it's impossible to judge what will appeal just from the list of DLC in Steam. Of course the communities here and on Steam are quick to offer recommendations so I can, and yet may, ask but when something catches my eye it'd be nice to know where to look into it. It was the inter-urban EMU that particularly caught my attention here BTW- easy enough to find the route thanks to the caption. Thank you for that.