Train Sim World 3 Patch Notes: Sos Physics, Sehs Night Lights And More! January 9th

Hello everyone,

Welcome to another year in Train Sim World, and to start things right we have a massive improvement focused update to bring to you all – including Spirit of Steam physics fixes, night-time lighting adjustments on South-eastern High Speed, a warm welcome to the Class 20 in Livery Designer as well as fixing various issues such as liveries displaying incorrectly and making sure more tutorials, introductions and medals can be completed / achieved.

Thank you so much for your patience while we worked on delivering these improvements, and expect more to come from us soon


Headliners

• Spirit of Steam Physics Improvements
• Class 20 Livery Designer
• Enabled all night lights to be sensitive to light level rather than just time of day
• Livery reskins should display in game as expected across player and AI traffic
• Completing the same scenario from different timetables both count towards your medals
• SEHS Adjusted tutorials so that all medals can be achieved and score thresholds are correct.

Full Changelog
Core

• AWS / TPWS features will now be in the same state as they were when loading from a save
• Completing the same scenario from different timetables both count towards your medals
• Fixed livery reskins should display in game as expected across player and AI traffic
• Fixed various coupling & uncoupling operations leading to crashes
• Fixed issue where switching cameras during a camera transition would break look controls.
• Lightning shouldn’t strike under cover and the visuals should be correct
• Pantographs should now spark as expected.

[ UI ]

• Fixed delay waiting for a dialogue box after selecting Online Sharing Hub
• Fixed button callouts flickering in livery editor UI menu
• Added a gradient behind text In the character selection screen.
• Updated spacing between information on trains details panel
• Increased font size for ‘change profile text’ in my profile screen
• Increased font size of "Get Started" button
• Changed font weight for extra info in item buttons
• Updated UI of “Join the Club” dialogue

[ Scenario Planner ]

• Map should now correctly pivot when zooming in and out
• Maximum number of services is now detailed
• ‘Create New’ dialogue box has been updated to stay consistent with the rest of the UI
• ‘Report’ CC dialogue box has been updated to stay consistent with the rest of the UI
• ‘Create New’ CC assets have been updated.
• Subheadings have been added to the station list

[ XSX ]

• Pressing ‘B’ after confirming a scenario name will now correctly save the scenario
• Pressing 'X' button and going back no longer causes the search tab and icon to duplicate.
• BR155 introduction end screen text is no longer too dark

Köln-Aachen
[DB BR 187]

• "A Long First Trip" achievement and trophy can now be unlocked

East Coastway

• When saving, a suitable image is now shown on the Resume Last Played button

[ Class 377 ]

• Selecting the Class 377 should now allow the user to choose from both available routes (East Coast way and London Commuter)

West Cornwall Local

• PIS monitors now display trains for London Paddington.
• Updated route introduction name to ‘West Cornwall Local’
• Adjusted RPM's so that max rpm is reached in notch 7 and scales down from that (affects both audio and performance).
• Set default selected service time to 10am instead of 6am
• When completing any task in a timetable service, Objective Complete notifications are no longer displayed.

London Commuter

• Minor optimisations
• Fixed an AI 4-car length 377 getting stuck to the south of Haywards Heath causing a pile up of trains
• Fixed an issue with a service spawning on an infinite red light.
• Fixed hovering over London Commuter in route selection caused the menu to become unresponsive.
• When saving, a suitable image is now shown on the Resume Last Played button

Spirit of Steam

• General optimisation to the route to improve performance.
• Fixed major stuttering/FPS drops exploring on foot or in the “The Tables Have Turned” route.
• Firebox no longer illuminates steam above train on 8F and Jubilee
• Fixed red signals will distinctly appear red at night-time
• Fixed position of signal at Edge Hill/Engine Shed Junction to prevent clipping through ground.
• While driving 8F and Jubilee with sufficiently low cut-off values you should be able to maintain pressure
• Updated voice-over used in route introduction
• Updated trees & bushes to look less “flat” at different times of the day when raining / snowing.
• Updated track ballast to look less shiny / “mirror-like” when wet
• When saving, a suitable image is now shown on the Resume Last Played button

Long Island Rail Road

• When saving, a suitable image is now shown on the Resume Last Played button

[ M7 ]

• Tutorial can now be completed after fixing an issue with the brake not working after reaching 25mph
• Tractive effort displays correctly on the HUD

Hamburg – Lubeck

• Updated timetable to add missing virtual destinations
• When saving, a suitable image is now shown on the Resume Last Played button

Tees Valley Line

• Added support for the TVL Class 20 in Livery Designer
• When saving, a suitable image is now shown on the Resume Last Played button

South-Eastern Highspeed

• Enabled all night lights to be sensitive to light level rather than just time of day
• Made location names on the map clearer to read
• NPCs should no longer clip through staircases at Swanscombe
• Updated track ballast to look less shiny / “mirror-like” when wet
• Updated trees & bushes to look less “flat” at different times of the day when raining / snowing.
• Adjusted tutorials so that all medals can be achieved and score thresholds are correct.
• Adjusted banner repeater at signal NK247 should show horizontal for stop aspect ahead and diagonal for all other aspects.

[ Class 395 ]

• Fixed cab light appearing off when set to on when reloading the game from save
• Fixed wipers from stopping when reloading the game from save
• Fixed AWS alert sound remaining silent when reloading the game from save

[ Class 66 ]

• Ensure End of Train Device (Flashing light) is correctly placed at the end of the formation.
• Boosted low end torque to prevent shutting down when coupling.

 

Hello everyone,

Since the update listed above we've found a couple issues with crashing on London Commuter as well as Scenario Planner not working, which we'd like to update you all on.

London Commuter Update:
Our QA teams have confirmed if you have Great Western Express installed but not East Coastway the it will cause a crash when loading a service on London Commuter.
This will affect PC, Xbox Series X and Series S and Playstation 5 (Not Xbox One or PS4 players)

As a temporary solution for players affected:

• Uninstalling GWE to deactivate the layer causing the problem should be a workaround.

If you happen to buy ECW to add the missing train that the layer needs it should also work, however this isn't a solution just an advisory as the problem happens when you do not own East Coastway.

We are working on a fix currently.


Scenario Planner:
We are also testing a solution to Scenario Planner on our Dev Builds that we will update this thread when we have any more news to share. Thank you for your patience.

 

Update as of 11/01/23:
We have just sent out a hotfix that should have addressed both the issues listed above.

• London Commuter should no longer cause crashes on PC, Xbox Series X and Series S and Playstation 5
• Scenario Planner should be working as intended.

This patch should be available immediately on PC versions, and will shortly be available on PlayStation 5. Our estimate is that Xbox consoles will get this later this week, so we will update this when we have confirmation.

Please continue to provide any feedback if these are still occuring after updating your game, thank you

 

Update as of 12/01/23:
We have just pushed these fixes to both PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series S/X users, thank you for your patience

You should expect to recieve the update on your systems very shortly.

14:00 Update:
This update may not be showing up on Xbox consoles, we are working on making sure the update has been sent out to all devices and will update this message when it is released.

 

Update as of 30/01/23:

Good morning,

We have just pushed an update to PS4 users (other platforms will follow shortly) that will allow players to use the Class 101 DMU, from any installed DLC content that has this locomotive, on West Cornall Local.

Previously a change was made to prevent the Class 150 appearing on routes it was inappropriate, however this had the effect of also blocking all Class 101s from appearing except for the one in the 'Diesel Legends' DLC. This update allows any Class 101 from any DLC to be used on WCL.

This update only affects PlayStation4 users. Other platforms will also get this update soon.