As someone working constantly though the trophies in TSW games I do have a suggestion for DTG. Because of all the trouble with trophies / achievements I believe the time has come to axe legacy trophies / achievements for future TSW games (so TSW5 ect) Do we need to complete all the scenarios for GWR every game many people are not a quick look at PSN profiles shows that for completing scenarios for GWR the numbers on PSN profiles are: (trophy GWE Peak performance) for PS4 versions : TSW 2020 984 TSW2 112 (only EU players as US has seperate list) US is 15! TSW3 17 TSW4 4 Which shows diminishing returns for the old trophies. Personally I would scrap legacy trophies have more base trophies and leaves room for new routes and locos to have a proper amount of trophies. then you dont need to keep repeating each games plus with over 250+ trophies in TS4 it will become unmanageable. It also means no cutting and pasting and having trophies that work break in the next title
I fully agree! The absolute simplest way in solving this is not to port achievements from routes made for one version over to the next. If a route was originally released on TSW4, then this route will have achievements on TSW4. The route will be playable on all future sequels but with no achievements linked to the route. Right now, I think all routes from Tsw2020, which are legacy routes and playable on TSW2/3/4, are present with achievements. This is just nuts and no sane person would bother replaying these routes again. The statistical overview you provided speaks for itself. So this definitely needs a revamp.
I have TSW4 through sale but currently still on TSW3 trying to get all the trophies since I haven't in 2020 or tsw2... but I'm now wondering if I should just start the collection again on tsw4 with the improvements made on tsw3 routes and core etc... it's annoying as a trophy hunter to repeat the tasks again. Especially those collectables!
I did find with the collectables the trophies I unlocked in TSW3 immediately unlocked in TSW4 with the imported profile obviously as I had already hit the usual 100 collectables this worked on all TSW3 collectable trophies in TSW4 for PS5
Glad to hear that TSW5 will have a new set of trophies / achievements with the end of the legacy ones which is good to hear as we still have a trophy in TSW3 that wont unlock that worked in 2 This now frees up capacity for more trophies for the routes and locos !
It didn’t make a whole lot of sense carrying over the older trophies to each new game. Especially as the newer trophies were so limited and the ones they gave us were quite boring. Hopefully we’ll get a load of interesting trophies to work towards. I also hope it’s a bit more challenging, but not impossible to get the Platinum trophy - I got it in less than a week in TSW 4.
Given the reliability of achievement unlocking in this game, they should also steer clear from such PTSD inducing trophies like complete 100 services etc. In general, avoid tying an achievement to any particular scenario/training (or worse all scenarios), and instead require to complete any number of scenarios/services/training. That way if something breaks down the line, we could just complete same scenario say 5 times and still get the trophy. It's a workaround to keep everybody happy.
