The new core game update for TSW5 was released a few days ago and I’ve had Steam on offline mode and forcing TSW5 to wait to update until I allow it to. Sad I have to do this but considering that every single core game update always seems introduces a swath of new bugs and problems, I’m just tired of playing that game, no pun intended. However, now that it’s been a couple of days since the release of this update, I wanted to check what the status of it is since I’m sure a lot of people have updated to it. What issues are you having, if any? What mods currently do or don’t work? For those who run the Metrolink DLC, what issues and/or bugs, if any, have you found were introduced after this latest update? I noticed new bugs recently reported were already fixed yet bugs reported months or even a year ago still haven’t been addressed. Again, kind of sad that I even have to post this but it’s not the first time a core game update breaks things and creates more of a headache than it solves so I’m playing it safe this time around since my version of TSW5 prior to this update runs well with no major issues.
I can't even get in the game to play. After the patch started it damaged my install so had to download approx 80Gb worth of data again. At the same time I unticked some DLC I no longer play and deleted the pak files from the DLC folder in Windows Explorer. Just started the game now and all the routes I kept are shown with a red X through them, the only ones that have a thumbnail are a couple of those I removed. So now got Steam doing a file verify, after that it's looking like a complete uninstall and reinstall, if that turns out to be the case think I might not bother with the latter part of the process! In summary, a complete disaster nd that's before even playing the game.
No mods other than the lighting improvements for Shap. Not even got God mode or the environment mod in there at present. Certainly never seen that before in all the time of playing TSW so something must be corrupted. Will persevere in fixing it!
I just finished running a 390 service on WCML south and had no problems. I am on pc/steam, using a Rail Driver and have a number of mods installed.
Old Vern you were not alone. I lost all my content and have only just finished a complete re-install, the same as when l purchased TSW5. It is so annoying as l live in the country in a slow internet area. It takes over an hour to download 5GB, so as l have everything you can see that it doesn’t take hours in my case it’s days. It is so frustrating that there are so many updates for every TSW edition.
Quite appalling. I'm guessing then that a file verify is not going to fix this so might as well get on with uninstalling and reinstalling. Well I've got the file validation almost finished but there must have been something in that last patch that triggered the corruption, albeit not for every user. At this stage got to be honest and think the time and HD space might be better reserved for reinstalling MSFS 2020 instead.
Luckily the file validation and refresh seems to have brought back the menus. Too tired to try anything this evening so will check tomorrow.
Hopefully it works out alright for you l should have said my problem was on xbox, l didn’t have a problem with the steam update this time.
In the end I did fire up a quick run on WCMLS and everything loaded and worked okay. As it was only an ECS move from Euston to Camden (great Journey element), hard to say re performance, being in the dark as well.
Just to add an update to this, I went ahead and let TSW perform the core update and I have experienced no issues with it. All mods still work fine and it doesn’t appear anything broke with this update. I think you can understand though why I was hesitant at first.
