I may be overthinking this, but with the introduction of the Class 171 & 377/3, perhaps the dream of having an East Coastway remaster/extension to Hastings or Ashford might be on the cards in the not too distant future.
I suspect not sadly. It's not a Rivet route and I doubt DTG will do it for them, same with the TSG 218 and Hamburg to Lubeck. I would love to see ECW updated but I don't think the lighting seems as bad on it as some of the other routes of the period.
I took it to mean that the AI will be added at Brighton on ECW, not that the AI will be added to Brighton Main Line.
They abandoned Brighton Mainline for so called "preformance issues" a long time ago, I doubt they will ever touch it without any rework involved.
Sadly it looks like East Coastway will still have the old lighting, which is a shame as I think the newer system could make it look really good. Funnily enough BML is one of the best performing routes for me.
Same here it’s only Brighton and London Victoria which is FPS heavy which is understandable but part from that it’s fine.
Well this has already happened when Rivet released a newer version of Isle of Wight with class 484 and back then it was £14.99. If they sell these as a pack together with the extension it could cost the same , probably more.
This is in the roadmap article: "Currently, Rivet Games are also investigating any further changes to the East Coastway route alongside this pack, and we'll keep you updated once we can confirm and share more news." I'm wondering if it's a lighting upgrade.
I think Matt did say they are looking into what they can do with East Coastway. Wait to hear back from DTG or Matt before getting your hopes up, but they are at least looking into it, so fingers crossed.
Actually did a run on it last night. Did enjoy it but the morning sky and overall lighting looked terrible, not to mention the way random buildings are just plonked on flat ground with little to no texturing throughout. I can’t help but hope for a remaster and even better an extension up to Ashford. Dor a time I grew up on the Romney marshes so that would be a dream come true.
Matt said East Coastway was an old route now and it uses TOD 2 lighting not even TOD 3. I think DTG are looking into what tricks they can use on it, anyway they can improve it, but from what Matt says, it takes about a month to upgrade the lighting on a route. So the fact it is an older route, would it take even longer for DTG to do it and who pays bill? An extension would be class, but DTG would have to rebuild the whole route in order to add a bit onto it, asking the player base to pay twice for a route may not work.
IMO the older 377 should have updated sounds, PIS, GSMR, better rain effects, suspension and announcements as a minimum.
I would think they would not just upgrade the lighting to TOD4 and do the scenery as well with more foliage and the usual scenery upgrades we get.
Same here and hopefully they will update the sounds on the ECW 377 as promised when the London - Brighton route came out. Edit: Which was 3 years ago……
If this DTG's feeling, i think they should be pushing back a little on third-parties releasing content for ancient routes unless that 3rd-party or DTG are willing to fund upgrading them to current standards for lighting/sound reverb/etc. We've already seen it before with the BR218 and Hamburg-Lubeck- the loco itself is great, but as a customer it annoys me that the "main" route for it, with the bulk of timetable services, is quite outdated. I think it's just a little sketchy, especially for newer players who don't necessarily know that or why ECW (for example) wouldn't be up to the same standard as the loco DLC that is currently be released for it.
I feel if they don't do it now they won't do it ever. It'd be a great shame, especially since /3 sometimes couples up to the /4 to make 7 and 10 car trains.
That’s very true, maybe they might update the ECW 377 when the pack comes out or if they do an upgrade for ECW might be along side that.
cant the route be remaster? Or would due to when it was made, its impossible to remaster or even extend? To be honest if they were to extend, I think they would go as far as Ore or something. Obviously extending all the way to Ashford would be awesome so we can drive the full Class 171 run. Though to be honest this we Rivet we are talking about and this is only the train packs... i am really worried about how many bugs they arent going to fix... and a very desired 377 variant which is much needed in TSW is concern if bugs were to affect it heavily
