I think that this may be the most requested thing, multiplayer would be a game changer if it comes to playing with friend or playing with random people. DTG please give us multiplayer maybe in TSW 6, if it will come out but it probably will.
It is not the most requested feature by any means. Have you actually experienced MP in a train sim by playing either SimRail or Run 8? It actually adds very little to the experience of player driving their train. SimRail has now discouraged social interaction between players and Run 8 when I tried MP was simply a “Good ole boys” clique. There are far more important core and QOL issues DTG need to address before even considering how they might implement MP for TSW.
I listened in on the Hungarian server once with SimRail. From what I heard, it can go well past the “Good ole boys” clique. It started to get downright nasty with the name-calling. At some point, it started to get vulgar. I could hear the anger, and it started to get loud. No thanks. I don't need that kind of BS, and I never joined the server. Even Co-Op could go off the rails The list can go on as to why it could / would turn to the Dark Side.
To be fair I never encountered that on the English servers, but then there were a fair few people on from here plus others I knew and that was in the early days of SimRail, too. I mean, DTG can’t even moderate these forums full time (wait for the usual weekend trolls to appear), so how could they manage a 24/7 MP server(s) to ensure fair play and good behaviour?!
Yes, I'm sure there are plenty of well-behaved, respectful people, but it is just that you stated there will always be trolls that pop in I honestly can't see how they could handle a 24/7 MP server, they would need people online 24/7/365, and that would not happen... Oh, don't I know, I just look at the suggestion thread, where barely Five words are written in some, and DTG should take it and run with it.
And also i guess if you are running a inter-city servive and you are pasing by trains at high speeds, MP adds almost nothing but for example if you'r doing a shunter service and there is another with you in the sidings, i guess that could be fun. But i know that there are morr important things that DTG needs to do.
Multiplayer is actually a feature that will most likely never ever come to TSW5 for a very long time, it won't even come to TSW9! unfortunately
MP would be a very niche thing for me, I would use it a few times and that’s it. Plus like said before it would be next to impossible for dovetail to moderate servers, thus making it impossible to play because of trolls. Also, the game itself is not designed for MP in mind, the game would have to be rebuilt from the ground up!
How about a few of your friends on your private server - regardless of who host it? By invite AND OR password protected too as need be?
I say it’s more likely they fix steam and start working on it again than this happening, also I never understood why people want multiple so badly, like it would be fun for a few hours until you have someone being a troll
You see them in the tablet games like Hay Day or Clash Of Clans. They join the team and spam the chat with illiterate one liners wanting to be the centre of attention. Luckily the teams I’m in on both those games have a low tolerance to that sort of thing and offenders get booted quick. The flip side of that is that some team leaders can also be quite aggressive, in the case of Hay Day they want the weekly Derby tasks done PDQ and for maximum points which means spending premium currency, or CoC whinging at you if you don’t get enough stars in the clan to clan wars.
whilst multiplayer was announced with TSW2 (although not released), DTG have said in the past that multiplayer will most likely never happen. We are more likely to see steam return which we all know is probably not going to happen for a while
I would like to, but more in the control of several trains, let's suppose you are on the route, you press button 9 on the keyboard to tell the train where to go, but you are only in Free Roam, it would be good to put a teleportation to different parts of the route, I think that already exists, and put several trains and then tell those trains with artificial intelligence to get to other parts of the route while you control your Freights Trains or Passengers Trains.
Amen. Checked the SimRail servers last night and apart from the main Polish one, all were pretty much down to single digit numbers and most had nobody on. It’s just not a side of gaming that really fits in with the train sim hobby.
l also feel that there are enough bugs in the game without the need to create more. Multiplayer and TSW6 are not needed until TSW5 runs smoothly IMO.
TSW6 will come in September, TSW7 next September, TSW8 the following September. Its a business strategy by DTG and their owners Pullup Entertainment.
This is only your personal view whether this really fits in with the train sim hobby or not. As to me I do not see any sense a train sim without multy ( Likewise I can not imgine to play MCFS solo after having played in VATSIM) . SimRail is essentially the first attempt to bring a multiplayer to a railway simulator without conventions right from scratch, you can jump on a train or a control post at any time of the day and play any longivity, and each session will be different. You don't even need people on the server! And it has been done brilliantly and innovatively in every way, and if you develop it... Just riding alone from A to B is already yesterday, and people will understand it. The future of Railway simulators is a flexible interactive environment. TSW without multiplayer is dead to me. And nothing can be done within the framework of TSW because it has been riddled with so many defects from the very birth . The target audience is another reason why a decent multiplayer mode might be implemented in TSW . I do not know what you are checking there, but every evening there are people on the servers, when more or less it all depends on the time of day, the weather. Every weekend you can have wonderful gaming sessions on at least 5 servers, sometimes even with professional dispatchers, One such session is worth hundreds of pointless trips along buggy and scripted routes in TSW.
All fun until some A hole shows up, if you want multiplayer go play a different game because this one sure as hell will screw it up
I fired up SimRail last night and while it’s always a pleasure to drive the EN57 and EU07 the multiplayer side added very little. On my first run, took an express the last hour into Warsaw. Only one of the signal posts was manned by a live player so there was a brief interaction as he advised me I would get delayed slightly while he sorted out a bit of a train tangle. Other than that and a couple of player trains who exchanged horn toots with me, there was no gain over doing the run in single player. Added to which the train then got stuck at a red signal on the outskirts of Warsaw, AI doing the signalling no means of negotiating a path to continue. So an unfulfilled (part) run on the route aborted. Second run later took an EN57 on a local service in towards Krakow. This on INT1 the busiest non Polish or German speaking server. None of the signal posts manned and again just a couple of horn toots with passing player driven trains. Then there was a couple of Italian guys gabbling excitedly on the chat system, couldn’t understand a word but luckily nowhere near me. I thought the INT server was English speaking. This also turned into another unfulfilled run unable to reach destination in time. If that was a SP game with a save I could have left off and finished the run later. Another drawback of MP in real time is that you can’t pause for real life, other than engaging the autopilot and hoping another player doesn’t hijack the train in the meantime. I was approaching a station stop when my wife popped her head round the door asking me to look at something. You do not risk the ire of the wife by telling her, “Sorry dear, be with you in a minute, got a station stop to manage.” At a minimum I’ll get told to grow up, at worst she’ll be hitting the PC reset button.
The addition of the conductor mode basically introduced the perfect co-op framework. My friends and I are still waiting for a game that lets us play a train crew. Shunting in sidings with one person handling all the switching and coupling while one drives, etc. Basically the collaborative experience taking on different roles that we get in a game like Sea of Thieves.
They can easily do a multiplayer mate and if anyone goes past the red signal it should kick them out still unless it’s free roam they can do what they want bus yes multiplayer is requested a lot by many and it’s just a matter of time and don’t worry about OldVern he just doesn’t like people expressing there opinions or coming up with good suggestions
I would be interested in a two player mode where somebody drives, and the other guards. Something that really annoys me about TSW is the lack of driver guard interaction and having to bring up the HUD at every passenger stop; so it would be nice to have an organic guard since DTG can’t seem to introduce a proper dispatch system which is a very big part of train operations.
Yes exactly DTG is a big let down on the game they don’t seem to listen to people’s opinions or reply back to them. I’m trying my hardest to push for Australian trains to be added to the game because we have some pretty cool long distance regional trains and city double decker trains but apparently it’s too much effort for DTG to travel because of cost from uk to Australia and back and do all the research but there happy to travel to America and research there it’s frustrating but I don’t get why it’s called train sim world when majority of the locamotives are in uk and Europe
And, with respect, who appointed you as moderator? There is no rule that prohibits joining in a thread, whether to support or otherwise and one opinion is just as valid as another. I'll continue to post and respond as I see fit. Got a problem with that, put me on your ignore list...
l too have pressed for some Australian content. DTG’s Matt used to live in Sydney and l remember he said he would love to see Australian content in the game, but l think it’s something to do with a licensing problem. Isn’t Trainz produced by an Australian company and there are few Australian routes in that!!! l would love to see some Australian routes and locomotives in the game especially around Sydney with some Tangara and Waratah trains. That would be absolutely awesome and l would be willing to pay a lot for the privilege to drive them on some Sydney City routes. Not sure l will see it in my lifetime!!!
Well said OV. If RayRay03 is a moderator he should delete his unnecessary post. With respect, that is disgraceful, as the world is full of opinions and some differ from others.
Thing is, I actually appreciate the frustration of those who want to see some Australian content or multiplayer a la SimRail, but at this stage seems likely neither will happen and it’s beating a bit of a dead horse really.
