Enough Is Enough!!!

Heh, 10-12 months? TSW4 went into panic discounts a month into the release, those of us who bought it for full price were utterly and totally stupid.

 

So you are saying that I should wait for a period of time before purchasing TSW5? This graph is for Steam though, I use PlayStation

 

On Playstation TSW4 was £32 for a pre-order, £40 for full price, £25 for Black Friday, so I guess it depends whether you want to save approx £7 or play it 2 months sooner, or even wait until next summer when it will likely be 70% off again.

 

If you have TSW4, you already own TSW5....

Now am I being serious, joking, or somewhere in between..

 

Well, I'm on PS5 and 9 Euro for Deluxe some weeks ago was a fair price for me although I already owned the Dresden route. Vectron was a must for me and the Scotsman is a nice to have. I'm planning to do the same with TSW 5. No need for TSW 5 in the next couple of months.

 

I will know tomorrow if I will be supporting TSW with a pre order.

 

The minimal hud was a TSW4 launch feature....but it took them a little bit to remove that intrusive traction lock indicator from it

 

It's easy for me. If there is something I really want on day one, I'll buy it. I'll even preorder it to get whatever discount they offer (Though as Swiss prices are 33% more than Euro Prices despite the exchange rate being almost 1:1 due to Steam unfairness, that still means I'm paying more than full price).

However, there is not much on my 'really want' list, Certainly a short bit of WCML is not enough. (I don't gamble, but if I did I would bet it is Euston to Milton Keynes). A German route that went through Berlin Hauptbahnhof would be a must buy as would Riviera Line in either the 60's, 70's or 80's - Throw in a Paxman Valenta HST in the Deluxe Pack and I won't be able to handover the money quick enough. I suspect I won't be seeing any of that in TSW5 or whatever pack is announced tomorrow. I have loads on TSW and TSC that I haven't driven yet, so I can wait.

Interestingly I went through my Drivers Log Book last weekend to see how much I've played the TSW4 Core Routes (Standard Edition). Less than 10 hours in total. I have 3 times that amount in Blackpool Branches alone. So even the argument that it's good value for 3 routes doesn't really work for me.

Can't even summon up the enthusiasm to watch it live tomorrow. I'll catch the fallout on this thread afterwards.

Love the game, but it peaked at TSW2 Rush Hour, the new core features don't in my opinion justify a new paid title every year, especially when it takes all year to actually get all the features out (and the editor still can't cook). Best I can hope for is a free core update and then purchase the rest in a sale, hopefully sometime before JT's next route comes out.

As for new features, I hope we finally get the option for configurable controller input and ideally an api like the one in TSC so that we can read the state of the game externally. That's about all I want.

 

Assuming it has a similar amount of content as the same bundle TSW4 had, it will be 7 or 8 routes and two locomotives, which would normally be around £240 to £270 as separate DLC (assuming no increase in DLC price) and will include the base game, £105 would actually be very good value. It could have a bit less or a bit more content than last year but it’s likely it will be around the same level.

But hey, let’s not consider what you might get for that money before complaining about it. That wouldn’t be the forum way.

 

£105 special edition is mainly for newcomers who don't have many routes so to most of us we won't be looking at that edition anyway.

Could be worse Sony want to charge £60 for the Until Dawn remake which is just a graphical overhaul

 

Yeah maybe I was a bit over exagerating

 

Let's take a look at what I'd pay for......

TSW Annual release with a UK NW Home Counties electric route (including a suburban unit, an express unit and any other recently released units that'll work on metro services), a couple of Berlin S-Bahn services, something from the US (I won't care)
With extras of: Class 91 for the ECML that also layers HSTs in at last. London to Shoeburyness line circa 2002. An new ICE unit for various German routes and a Class 730 for Birmingham Cross City and any other lines it might be useful on.

I'd pay £150 for that lot.

 

When you say "the base game", what do you mean?

 

24 hours to go. Forum users you better be prepared.

 

Ditto - there will be more insight here because we are the field test

 

And also the track monitor did not work correctly for a while I think

 

CHOOSE YOUR BUNDLE!

I can barely contain my excitement.

 

Standard for me

 

You would have to pay me £150 for that, how's about DTG start doing more transition era stuff. Blackpool Branches worked as it had the noisy diesels and the more modern DMU. No more 2024 offerings that you can walk onto in real life thanks...

 

Wonder if there will be a DLC for SOS a Britannia or black 5?. HST railtour with a brake van in the middle? Only the CVR does those for now.
Betton grange for the WSR...

 

I mean the new TSW itself, the UI and menus, features and Training Center. Not as exciting as the content but it is still a thing that you get and indeed need.

 

Thanks Stujoy. Fingers crossed for a good upgrade.

 

I might need to sacrifice my uni tuition fees money to afford this game

 

There is no indication DTG have recanted their current stance on steam traction. i.e. not doing any more.

 

Is West Midlands transition from 323s to 730s not enough? I picked 2002 era LTS to capture the transition from slamdoor stock to the current units and the HST to ECML so that route becomes one going through transition. I too prefer a choice of old and new stock and my selections, whilst not your area of interest, were all picked to satisfy my love of transition era stuff.

 

50 bucks?! Bloody hell! I hope there's a London Underground route in there. Jesus...

 

If they do the 730's I wonder if they'll add the built in stuff ups that West Midlands Trains have turned them out with like the geofencing that makes the rear doors not open at many stations

 

Rivet games may or may not be having their debut in the direct, releasing whatever they are doing..you know what I say to that?

“BOOOO!! Get off the stage!”

 

Your probably right on the 730/323 transition. TBH I am pretty much chucking TSW in the DB routes only and then only if discounted. The UK routes are just not interesting enough to keep going back to so the thought of paying £100 plus is not likely.

 

How brave you are!

Why not return to your weekly Platform Post newspaper you were promising? Second issue is overdue. Else I'm gonna give you a Booo too.

 

5900 messages... wow...

 

And wow, you seem very proud of yourself for making that statement. Want a medal? Or do you want an extra badge on your forum account? I’m not too sure.

I don’t want this thread getting locked, but I will fight back if I must.

stop wasting your breath.

 

My god it’s still going?

 

LOCK THIS THREAD??!!

 

150 pages by release - we can do it

 

TSW 5, free to players who have TSW3 and 4, WCML, Euston to Milton kynes, 350 is skyhook as a dlc, San bernadino was a tsw4 route, it's now been delayed until TS5.4 (Rush hour 2 which includes WCML over shap

Alan Thompson DLC cancelled

 

JT morecambe

 

Congratulations on this thread getting this far. I remember when it started last year :`)

 

Wasn't the goal of this topic to prevent today from happening?

 

Definitely not. I want Page 120 so we get a nice Swindon built Cross Country DMU.

 

I recall this thread starting, shortly before I took a forum leave of absence; and here I am rubber necking again!

 

Only 2 pages away from bubble car page!

 

Well we've seen how much DTG cares about customers - in this thread or supportive ones.

 

Not to mention despite the public face, behind the scenes I suspect Focus are very much pulling the strings.

Though having fired up Snowrunner yesterday evening for a change, Focus have stuck with that and not released a new version every year, what’s it on now something like Season 3 pass? Don’t really count Explorations as that’s effectively an all new game just built on the same engine (waiting for a sale on that one). The one thing that Snowrunner and TSW both have in common, which to be fair is a credit to respective developers, is that with all or most of the DLC installed, you have literally years of gameplay at your fingertips.

 

Last route played in TSW4

 

full dejavu moment imminent!

 

I'm predicting the announcement at the Direct that this topic will be put behind a paywall. No free enjoyment on the expense of DTG

(when do we finally get a devil emoji?)

 

I am more and more thinking about this one:

(since the image keeps breaking, imagine Corporate Commander from Angry Joe's reviews if you don't see it)

 

A broken image?