So besides not having the second level is Grand Central terminal accurate because I can’t find pictures of what it looks like when you leave the platform so I just wanna know if it’s accurate.
Granted Matt did not walk around too much so I cant give a full assessment, the platform area we saw in the terminal is close to reality. Some of the platforms have columns down the middle and some dont. Something I didnt see on the stream was small little platform number cards placed along the ceiling but to me thats a small detail that is not super necessary. Not sure if tracks 39-42 are represented, this area was the old arrivals platforms for long distance trains which are on a slight slope and are wider platforms. They are still used but are disconnected from the rest of the upper level platforms. if DTG didn't create the concourse to connect both areas then I'm not sure if these will be included.
Good lord that looks depressing. It looked very dark on stream, may just be my brightness settings but I couldn't see the track at all, even on the platforms.
Yea, the real grandeur of Grand Central Terminal is walking up the platform, through the doors, and into the main hall. Heres a 20 minute video detailing the architecture of the building if your interested in the rest of the terminal.
On the stream, the platforms at grand central were way too dark compared to reality. In reality the platforms are much much brighter
But its look like the team didn't research this part throughly, they shouldn't have mess up since they could look at youtube. Also another thing i realize its missing is the PIS at grand central terminal and the track number plate, where are those? Shouldn't those be in the game, also where is trash bin and the poster and ad and billboard in the station or the newspaper cage, and the clear crystal glass that leads to another part of the terminal? The Grand Central Terminal that we saw has very little asset and missing so many items as I mention. You can see the video of how the lower level of the grand central terminal should look like starting from the timestamp: 20:43 and 26:57
i thought this was a thread about a German safety system. We are running into abreviation problems here
Doesn't help when you can't even get the acronym right in the thread title (and got it wrong in yet another way in another thread title)
You cannot truly count YouTube videos as accurate for the lighting. Cameras automatically brighten the scene up when its dark. Those platforms really are quite dark in real life - the last photo by bdlaplaca is about the right exposure and representation. While I've not been down there since 2019 it was plenty dark then. Paul
The platforms aren't dark in reality. I use Grand Central very often and you can see well when walking along the platforms. The photos of station platforms are quite accurate. I don't understand why some are saying that the platforms are "quite dark" when they are not. Are they blind or something?
GST is ironically part of the tilting safety system in the DB BR 612. Not sure why the op didn't put GCT in the title
Depends on one's personal definition of dark. To me, GC's platforms are grim and gloomy. DTG's version is grim and slightly more gloomy.
Yeh the concourse area is beautiful but the platforms are certainty far from pretty. But as a frequent user of the station they are in no ways dark. The lighting brightens the platforms very well. You can see just fine.
I really don't understand why the MTA can't give GC's platforms a facelift along the lines of London Victoria's or München Hauptbahnhof's lower platforms. "Underground" doesn't have to mean "bomb shelter."
Yeh i see what your saying. But is it necessary? Doing a facelift to the platforms at Grand Central would cost alot of money and possibly lead to some platforms having to be shut down. Personally I don't think it's really necessary even though it would be nice. The platforms do serve their purpose even if it gives a grim/depressing feeling but most of the time passengers would be waiting in the concourse area anyways for their train instead of on the platforms. I think what dtg should do for the lighting for GCT is to use the same lighting color/brightness that is in Atlantic Terminal-Brooklyn or Penn Station on LIRR which would give a decent depiction of the lighting in game at GCT as a compromise in my opinion because in game it is simply too dark. You should be able to see the side of your train fully when on a platform at GCT
It reminds me of the comment made by an architect at the time of Penn Station's destruction- "One used to enter the city like a god. Now one scuttles in like a rat."
Ive only been at GCT terminal once and my over riding memory of the platforms was dark and dingy. Have DTG made it too dark? Well I dont know it well enough but for me, the lighting on the preview stream definately took me back and I immediately recognised the place.
The platforms are way too dark. You should be able to see the side of a train on the platform as is in reality. On the stream you could barley see it
