The issue with the brakes on the BR 103, 110 and 463.0 has been mentioned a lot before, on discord and during the streams. Excessive amount of brake is applied even with notch 1. But never see anyone mentioning the BR 155 Pulsar. It has the same problem.
You mean the br155 press? (Blue 155) I tested the red 155, there the brakes work as supposed to. Braking with drivers valve on 80kmh will result in electric braking only on the loco, while at lower speeds the pneumatic brakes start to get active. (The wagons have the usual pneumatic braking obviously) In tsw, the 110 & 103 do brake electric and pneumatic together which seems to combine both brake forces in tsw value. Also this brake behaviour is not correct. Hopefully this will be updated, i thought its a limitation of tsw but on all traxx or siemens locos currently in tsw, it was implemented well.
Using the drivers brake valve (not independend), the loco uses the electric brakes first until down to a certain slower speed and after that the brake cylinder starts to build up pressure. Even if you turn off the electric brakes, the system changes to pneumatic pressure: So i dont think there is anything wrong with the brakes of the 155.
The 155 uses brake blending. As long as the e-brake is there and gives enough brake effort, the pneumatic brakes will not being applied at all (on the loco only of course). The (real) 103 uses no blending and cuts pneumatic brakes completely as long as there is any e-brake power down to 50kph, then it starts blending down to 25kph), AND that was the "problem" while implementing it and running out of development time. She is using blending all the time at the moment and additionally the high braking in mode R+E what shoots up the pressure in the cylinders up to 8BAR. 110 is a bit different then too. Uses active blending all the time and high braking too, but the setup got messed up a bit and applies air brakes to much when e-brake effort is there. As i know there is someone working on that (no promises at all). To sum it up: developing these things for TSW is really demanding and time consuming. Often there is no time to do it all perfectly (and no, you cant simply get more time for doing it, when time is run out it's out). You (we developers) always have to deal with compromises and stripped down simulation to get any result in a economic way. YEAH, i know, excuses you don't want to hear at all. Alternative: no content at all.
Thanks for pointing out the reason behind the excessive brakes of the 110 & 103, i hope you find a solution & time with DTG to release a patch in the future. Its not the end of the world, since there are good workarounds (just using the pneumatic brakes etc.) In the sense of pareto i agree with you developers, the 20% after the 80% when its about to make things "perfect & polishing", will always be time, which just isnt there (paid) and needs to be highly prioritized. Even on real trains things are usually far from perfect. Keep up the good work. Your Team does also a great job in making the experience believable, as player it makes the impression of actually beein there and driving those locos.
Thank you for your insights! I was wondering if the set-up for the 110/103 was more complicated. Your tales from behind the scenes always make me appreciate the effort put into the simulations a lot more than I already do. Agreed 100%.
