Hi everybody I recently bought Train Sim World and am enjoying it. Since the Steam Lunar sale is currently on, I thought I might as well dive into TS 2019 as well, given that it seems to be a much more mature product (in terms of available content) at this point in time compared to TSW. Accordingly, had a few questions for the community: · Those amongst you who bought TS and later on bought TSW, do you still find yourself going back to TS or has TSW completely replaced TS in your gaming time? If you still go back to TS, is it because of the wealth of content available, in which case do you foresee staying with TSW solely once the editor and 3rd party content starts arriving for TSW. Just trying to gauge whether it is still worth dipping into TS now given that TSW editor and third party content appears to be on the horizon. · My main questions: What base pack of TS2019 will you recommend keeping in mind the following criteria I have-lengthy routes, lots of rolling stock and variety of locos, variety of scenarios-mix of shunting stuff around and dropping passengers off, preferably routes with amazing vistas and history behind them. Keeping all this in mind, was thinking of going for the UK edition-which I think has the Woodhead route. For anybody who has done all the routes included, is this Woodhead route (Mixed steam reviews-roughly 100 km routes, electric locos) better than the specific routes offered in the other country specific editions- (Miami - West Palm Beach for US edition (Mixed steam reviews-114 km routes), Wutachtalbahn: Lauchringen – Immendingen Route Add-On for German edition (64 kms route, steam loco), Longhai Railway: Lingbao - Mianchi Route Add-On (June 2018, Mixed steam reviews, 116 km route) and Shanghai Maglev route (mostly negative steam reviews) (also why 2 extra DLC for China edition compared to only one for the other editions-no clue!) for Chinese Edition-in terms of nice routes, least number of bugs, good locos and rolling stock, scenic vistas and good mix of scenarios. · Further to above, what DLC in the long and storied history of the TS franchise would you deem as essential purchases? · I am currently thinking of purchasing the following mostly UK based DLC- request if you could let me know if these are good for purchase,mostly bug free and compatible with the 64 bit version- WCML Trent Valley , Weardale & Teesdale Network, East Coast Main Line London-Peterborough Route Add-On, East Coast Main Line Modern: York - Peterborough Route Add-On, Liverpool-Manchester Route Add-On, WCML North, WCML Over Shap,Western Lines of Scotland. Thanks and looking forward to some constructive feedback!
Keep in mind that older editions of TS are available from other sites often at bargain prices. For the sake of a few minutes Googling you can pick up a good bundle for a fiver or so. TS2016 was going for less than a pound at one point last year. W&T is the route I started with and still my favourite. It's varied, detailed and, I think, represents the simple beauty of the area I live in rather well. I never saw most of the lines it models (I moved here in the '80s) but someone was showing old photo's to a group I was in a while ago and challenging us to identify the locations and I was keeping up because I'd seen them in TS. WCML(N) is an older route but a good one (unless you are fanatical about collecting Career points- the points for two of the three Career scenarios don't add up to 1,000 so you don't get a gold star and the third, Scots Pine, you have to drive like a meth addicted ferret being chased by the Devil just to finish before a bug breaks it never mind scoring anything). Much potential for commuter and freight working as well as main line running. It also includes both the US and European/UK Loco's and Assets packs much used by scenario makers and worth having for that reason. I bought WCML Over Shap in the last sale so not had it long but I like what I see. WLoS I've had a little longer- same goes. You might consider adding the original Woodhead route to your list.
Thanks for your feedback. Any particular reason why you would recommend the original woodhead route over the remastered (?) route already provided as part of the uk2019 edition? Also, given that the editor is available, is there not any possibility of any player made patches removing any bugs in the dlc-or is that not allowed to be done as per the terms and conditions? Am thinking of Bethesda games where user patches have cleared out bugs that the devs could not/would not fix. I have an i7 and gtx 1060-6 gb so I assume that should suffice for 1080p 60 fps at ultra.
You CAN fix the bugs and you CAN change the timings, BUT you won't get the medals. The editor doesn't create "scored scenarios" that add to your rating level. Stupid thing is that level has zero bearing in the game, how it works... But some people like to have a clean sweep of gold stars. I turned off scenario scoring in the options about a month ago and am finding myself restarting scenarios much less now.
You're welcome. No because I don't have the new version but the original, although an older DLC, is great. It's set in the electric era but with steam still running, lots of old stations still open and any number of pits and industries to take freight from or to. I picked it up in a sale over a year ago along with the EM2, Robinson O4 and Thompson B1 (yeah- the last two are kettles... don't tell anyone) all for less than a tenner and still haven't explored all of it. You can edit scenarios but, as ARuscoe notes, they won't then count as the same scenario and won't be worth points. The points don't unlock access to other things or count towards anything other than bragging rights so I couldn't care less- YMMV. As many have mentioned in these and other forums TS is an old program that doesn't take great advantage of newer hardware- your i7 is great for TSW but TS will only use two cores no matter how many are available so clock speed may be more significant though of course that does mean Windows and background tasks shouldn't trip TS. By comparison I have TS running on an i5 laptop with a middling GPU (did have- it's broken ATM) and it runs (ran) nicely enough for me with some of the graphics settings dialled back. I currently use an i5 laptop with just your standard Intel HD chipset, not a new one either, and it's better than nothing.
