So, there have been a couple things that I have noticed with the Acela Express trainset in TSW 3 that I find a little odd and need a bit of clarification on. First The first thing that I need a bit of clarification on is the force meter on the Acela. In real life, there are two force meter's on the engineer's side, one shows the lead Power-Car force, and one shows the Trailing Power-Cars force. The thing that is confusing about this is that in real life the force shown on the Lead and Trail should combine to give you a net force. An example of this is that when departing providence lets say I push the engines to 5klb's each. That mean's that both the lead and trail powercars would be applying 5klb's of force right? So that should give us a 10klb yield. However, when I go to the force meter on the HUD, It shows that I am only applying 5klb's of force. I am not sure if this is something that slipped through the cracks or if it's just a bug, but some clarification would help. Second The second thing I noticed that I found a bit odd was also one of the force meter's, however this was on the conductors side this time. In real life, the conductor's side force meter should have the label "Total Force" under it, and show the net/total force of the trainset. The problem that I am seeing here is that as I said above, the amount of force that the game says is being applied is not accurate according to the engineer's side force meter. Let's use the example from above again. Lets say I am departing providence and I push both my lead and trail powercar's to 5klb's of force, yielding me a net/total force of 10klb's. The engineer's side would display 5klb's of force on both lead and trail force meter's while the conductor's force meter would display 10klb's of force since it's using total force. In the game it doesn't do this, and is not correctly labeled. I would like to know if this is just a bug, or just due to a time constraint when making the DLC? Third The third thing that I noticed that was off with the Acela was the Brake Pipe/Brake Cylinder meter. The main problem I am having is that it's off by a bit when braking. An example of the problem I was having is that when braking for RTE 128 on track 1, I usually start braking the train at the home signal for transfer int. (mp 218.5). Usually before I hit transfer interlocking I will put the train from an 8 pound reduction to a 10 pound reduction from the Brake Pipe. The problem is that when I have the brake to where the white bar says 100, in the actual game my brake pipe says 101. Now I know it doesn't seem THAT much of an issue, but the inaccuracies as you apply more brake only gets worse. Not the biggest Issue, but one that bugs me. I would like to know if this is just a bug as well? Fourth The fourth thing that I found odd was the brake pipe's PSI when I put the Automatic Brake into suppression. Usually suppression is a 15 pound reduction from the brake pipe, which would read off as 95 PSI left, but in the game it goes to 92 and 91 PSI. This isn't that big of a deal, but those small details really make a difference. However, on a brighter note I am happy to report that the brake cylinder reads off the correct amount of PSI. Only question I have is why is the brake Pipe off by that much? So far, I've loved the Acela Express DLC, and I still think it's great! This is just me wanting some clarification on some things so that I can report them as inaccuracies or bugs! I appreciate any feedback anyone could give me! I also hope that cActUsjUiCe could give me some clarification on all of this too!
