I hope it will be combined, I don't think the cabcar on it's own would be worth it and I think it would help make the SW1000R DLC worth it. Maybe we'll see a separate article for it later since it's so different?
I figure they'd announce it along with the 1000r , but who knows. I know next to nothing about the cabcar but would greatly appreciate the chance to use it
....they're gonna be seperate releases it seems like... Every dlc only has one loco.. Except that freight pack..
To be fair the freight pack is the most recent one, so they could just be trying to do things that way now. Also, the BR 182 came with a cab car as well, albeit a reused one. I'm holding out hope since they wouldn't release just a cabcar as a whole loco DLC, nobody would buy that. I'm hoping they're trying to space out the hype by doing two articles on it, and we'll see the other article this week sometime.
One of the reasons I think we might see the Cabcar released as part of the SW100R DLC is because why would we just need a switcher? Amfleets can run bi-directional, there is not a large need for modifying consists in the route, and there is the Sunnyside loop for turning around consists. If it's just a Switcher, I'm not motivated to really get it unless it includes something or some other purpose that adds to route.
Yeah, and this could help them add a bunch of Keystone corridor services to the game. Like with the NTP pack, the services this would add would make any run on the route more immersive. The SW1000R will have services, too, the article mentioned, but like you said, there's only so much switching to be done at Sunnyside. On another note, if they don't name one of the scenarios "Sunnyside Up" I will be immensely disappointed.
Well, that's already the name of the achievement for driving the SW1000R some distance. I doubt any scenarios will be called that since I've never seen an achievement named the same as a scenario (not even the achievements for completing a specific scenario!) And the setup of the achievements makes it look like the two are part of one DLC. Each loco DLC gets 5 achievements, and there are 3 SW1000R achievements, 2 cab car achievements, which adds up to 5 achievements. AKA, 1 loco DLC.
Didn't pay much attention to the avjievent names TBH, lol. And yeah I agree that that is evidence they are in one pack. I am not disappointed, then!
No. Maybe they will release it in the sw1000r dlc without telling anyone as a surprise. But as I said, I doubt it.
In case you haven't heard, the answer is no, it's coming with the SW1000R. See article here: https://live.dovetailgames.com/live/train-sim-world/articles/article/amtraks-cab-car-is-coming