I think it´s the best route by far from them. I would give it a chance in a sale. The views are really great.
My main issue remains that it's only just over half of the actual route. Maybe in a deep sale, at least 60% off.
This is unfair, because it is not only Rivet who is not fixing even these small bugs (small bugs with large impact to gameplay). Wrong or missing speed boards are in most of German routes (Maintalbahn is the worst), and DTG never fixed it.
I didn‘t say it’s only Rivet- but on this route it’s especially noticeable. And if someone makes such a gift and makes a whole list on the correct bords, it’s double the shame it hasn’t been fixed until now
To be fair, a full trip is already 80-100 minutes; the complete route would be like 140-160? But yeah, the whole route would be amazing! Especially since the missing part is more beautiful in my opinion; since streets, houses and cars don’t look tooooo great in TSW, it would have been cooler to leave put the street running sections and make something like St. Moritz- Poschiavo :/
As I said- it’s definitely not an issue and I would also love to see the route! But I guess many people don’t want to sit down für 2-2,5 hours for a single ride. Yes, you can use the pause button but in this case the usage of a few services split into two parts would be better I guess
DTG Alex what is even the purpose of these feedback threads if this is the answer you get from Rivet? (and no, i am not a rivet hater)
Tried it but refunded. The Allegra has some very strange physics aberrations, velocities going bananas when you reduce the cruise control speed setting. Simugraph probably having a meltdown. On the first "proper" Journey run got a SPAD at the crossing loop beyond Alp Grum despite having two green dots on the approach signal. And yes it looks nice, so much better than the TSC version but I still just couldn't in the end excise from my head, it's only half the route really.
Has anyone noticed the SiSte acknowledge buttons? There are 2 of them, located on both far sides of the desk. And there is an enabling switch on the front panel. In real life, do train drivers need to reach their hands that far to the button to acknowledge each alert? Is there any pedal for it under the desk?
In game one of these two buttons is to activate Siste, the other one is to use it. This was done because the switch to activate the Siste irl is behind a small door at the back which wasn’t modelled. On pc we have the keyboard combination to activate them but since they don’t exist on console it was done this way. Now for the Irl question I’m not 100% sure but I think that the Allegra has a pedal as like all other locos made in the last 60 years.
The main gripes I have so far is that 1) the distance to next stop is as-the-crow-flies rather than actual distance (which is more obvious with TSW5's barber pole) which isn't so useful with the zig-zags of the track (I could've sword that at least in other routes or TSW release it was based on actual rail distance), and 2) when riding the actual train you can look back to the valley lake (Lago di Poschiavo) to get your bearings or sense of distance as the train zip-zags up the hillside but in TSW5 the lake doesn't seem to be visible/rendered (I presume from being too far away).
The crow flies thing is on all routes, it's really annoying when you think you're running ahead of time only to discover you've just driven within a mile of your next station before looping another 3 miles back round to it.
yeah, that's always been a bug bear. it's saying you're 1.3 miles from your next objective point but you look at the map and with all the twists and turns it's more like 130 miles lol
