Derailment / Buffer Block

diesel legends
immediate derailment
PS 5
put a gronk on it
journey
5X03 coach preparation
probably the coupler alignment

 

Issue Summary: Instant Derailing
Platform: PS4 TSW2
Game Mode: TimeTable
Route Name: SoS
Loco Name: Stanier Class 8F
Service/Scenario Name + Start Time: Edge Hill Sheds - Edge Hill Yards 0:45
Step-by-Step Instructions: Trying to couple to 30 car formation.

+Screenshots, +Video Links: At this time N/A

 

diesel legends
immediate derailment
PC
put a gronk on it
journey
5X03 coach preparation

 

• Issue Summary: London Commuter Service 1A34 Failure: vehicle derailed
• Platform: Windows 10 (Steam), core i5 8600K, RTX 2080ti, 32GB DDR4
• Game Mode: Journey Service - chapter 4 (the importance of being on time)
• Route Name: London Commuter
• Loco Name: BR Class 377/4 SN
• Service/Scenario Name + Start Time: 1A34 London Victoria to Brighton - 15:23:00
• Step-by-Step Instructions: Start the service. The service immediately fails due to a derailment issue. Only on the third attempt to start the service I was able to run it.

 

I just hit this very same problem. As soon as I get to the step to couple to 30 wagons I stopped short. Hit the wagons at .5 mph. both by hand and using external camera I couple the wagons and get instant derailment service failure.

EDIT: This is AFTER I applied the Jan 9th update

 

Issue summary: Service Failure message. No explanation for why.
Platform: PC
Game mode: Timetable
Route name: SEHS
Loco name: Jubilee
Service: 1P99 1900 Faversham - Dartford
Step-by-step: running at 70mph approaching Rainham. Received double yellow aspect. Applied brake. About 10 secs after doing so, Service Failure message received. No explanation given.

 

And again…

Issue summary: Service Failure message. No explanation for why.
Platform: PC
Game mode: Timetable
Route name: SEHS
Loco name: Jubilee
Service: 1S99 1206 Rochester - Faversham
Step-by-step: running at 30mph just after Sittingbourne. Accelerating with full regulator and 18% cut off. I hadn’t adjusted any of the controls for about 20 seconds. Service Failure message received. No explanation given.

 

...And again - 3 steam journeys attempted since the recent patch, 3 'Service Failure' notifications - all the same.

Issue summary: Service Failure message. No explanation for why.
Platform: PC
Game mode: Timetable
Route name: Lime St - Crewe (SoS)
Loco name: Jubilee
Service: Up 'Red Rose'
Step-by-step: running at 40mph approaching Runcorn. Accelerating with full regulator and 20% cut off. I hadn’t adjusted any of the controls for about 40 seconds. Service Failure message received. No explanation given.

 

DTG Matt

So Matt, where are we with this?
I´ve noticed this thread has been unpinned. Am I suppose to believe that all the efforts to produce videos, screenshots and standard reports (on your request!) have been in vain? That these issues will slowly vanish into cyberspace, that they won´t be fixed in TSW2 where it all started?

I really, really, from my heart, don´t want to believe this!
I rarely tag someone from DTG, but this time please tell me if these issues are gonna be addressed or should I get drunk asap?

BR Pipe

 

• Issue Summary: Instant Derailment
• Platform: Steam
• Game Mode: Journey (Diesel Legends of the Great Western, Chapter 1: Put a Gronk on it)
• Route Name: Great Western Express
• Loco Name: Class 08 BLU
• Service/Scenario Name + Start Time: 5X03 Coach Preparation, 03:22
• Step-by-Step Instructions: Start the scenario. Boom, you're derailed. Might be instant, might be after a couple seconds. One time I managed to fly around the loco in external camera and saw that the buffers were clipping heavily into each other. The loco isn't positioned correctly. So the game tries to correct that and pushes the loco violently out, sending it flying off the track.

Here's a YouTube video I found, with this problem visible: Except the video is from TSW2, so the loco doesn't derail, but just keeps shaking. You can see the buffers clipping into each other 20 seconds into the video. However, in TSW3 there just isn't time to get out of the cab and do the uncoupling, as the loco derails immediately upon the scenario starting.

The issue is months old. This scenario is among the first ones reported as having this problem (post #5 of this thread). I think you get my drift.

 

The video from post# 5 is from TSW2 as well. And it DOES derail. Actually I´m a bit surprised that the author of this video was able to uncouple without derailing. As soon as I release the brakes it goes boooom. I shall try to uncouple without brake release, maybe it´s a workaround to get this scenario done at least. (Geeez, to what point we´ve got, after paying truckloads of money ... )

 

I don't know if it's the same issue or not, but yesterday I was doing the Dospolok BR 182 tutorial and when I was asked the couple to the Habbins freight cars, the buffers were rock solid.

I didn't derail or anything, but it was quite bad. No buffer in them at all, they just stopped me on the spot and the loco bounced back.

 

Yes, I´ve got this with the BR 363 on RSN to the point that it renders the automatic coupler useless. She´s bouncing like a kangaroo. Video is on post# 18.
I see DTG brought this ill-conceived patch over to the "new" sim.

 

Your post made me replay this:

https://forums.dovetailgames.com/th...-workaround-for-5x03-coach-preparation.64220/

 

Are you doing this in TSW2 or TSW3? Because in TSW3 there's just not enough time. Even with perfect keypresses, releasing the brakes takes too much time and the loco gets derailed anyway.

 

It's on TSW2. I won't up(?)grade until these bugs are squashed.

PS: I tried 4-5 times until getting it right.

 

Given the attitude of the devs, that is, "TSW3 first, then TSW2," you might be waiting a loooong time. I mean, TS2016 still hasn't had its bugs from release fixed.

 

I put in a ticket about this issue when coupling to the 30 wagons in SoS, Edgehill Sheds Edgehill yard. I even sent screen captures of the cause, as I show in this post https://forums.dovetailgames.com/th...e-hill-sheds-edge-hill-yards-derailing.62999/

The response I got back wasn't very promising that it's going to be fixed, They say that just to move the wagons forwards means they need to rewrite the core program?
Surely if the people that test these routes should have seen that the end wagon is hanging off the track, embedded in a buffer stop, and on closer inspection has no front wheels? Even the route map shows the wagon off the tracks. You can't miss it!
As I've stated before DTG seem more concerned on how the games looks, than how it plays?

 

Mobile version of the Cone of Silence.

 

• Issue Summary: Buffers causing derailment

• Platform: PC-Steam

• Game Mode: Journey

• Route Name: Northern Trans-Pennine

• Loco Name: Class 47/4 BLU

• Service/Scenario Name + Start Time: Red Bank Rotation 17:00

• Step-by-Step Instructions: Follow the scenario up to “couple to formation” task. When approaching the out of service train, the buffers of the latter jump around like crazy, clipping 1 meter into the locomotive. See the screenshots below, all within the same second. So if you try to couple your loco is sent into space. TSW3 with all available updates applied.
  

 

Hmm! doesn't look like I will be bothering with buying NTP very soon then. As I can't imagine that they will bother fixing it?

 

Which would be a pity because it´s a fantastic route for those who appreciate the old BR workhorses. With Diesel Legends and Heavy Freight Pack I know I learnt to love it.

I rarely do but I´ve tagged Matt P. in post #112 to have a perspective here. Without success though. I get it, I´m prolly not worthy.

 

So I looked a bit into the buffers of the Class 45 and 47. It seems they are bugged in general. I hope these observations can help the bug fixing.

- Clipping with the carriages buffers also occurs for both 45 and 47 before they interact, both uncoupled as well as coupled. This does however not cause derailment. (See screenshots below)
- The derailments are occur when the Class 47 approaches the Class 45 from one specific side. The buffers go crazy and touching makes the loco jump. The game allows coupling even when not touching, so that is the workaround for now I guess. Decoupling causes derailment as well. From the other side of the 45, or when the 45 approaches the 47 this does not happen.

 

Yet another route that I so much wanted to own Full of bugs! I am gutted and very disappointed. It really saddens me
Unless DTG Matt can have a word with the boffins in the dev's department to see if they will fix these issues. If they can't be bothered, then I will give up on DTG products and take my money elsewhere.
Might be a lot more expensive, but I might switch over to MS Flight Sim? At least they fix their products!

 

What´s really annoying is that this route was near to perfect (OK, with aged assets, but else?). What you see above wasn´t there when I got the route.The buffers and couplers were just fine. It was implemented by an amateurish "patch" that was intended to fix derailing and buffer issues on SoS. (Update 1.86 for PS4 players) Instead it messed up the whole sim and waits for a fix on TSW2 ever since.

I´ll refrain from further comments. There might be underaged kids on this forum.

 

DTG Matt do you know if this issue with NTP has been put forward to be fixed?
TIA

 

I am not sure if this is related to this topic, but recently I have noticed in TSW3 that US buffers keep making clanking sounds constantly even if the train is percetly stopped and has been for quite a while. It just never stops.


Is it related to this 100% hard buffers bug that keeps being menitoned here?

 

Who knows, DTG is giving this thread the opossum treatment now, no matter how often you tag them.

 

For the first time since I began playing TSW2 and TSW3, I encountered a very strange thing.
I was playing a scenario on Oakville route called Equipment Move. I was reversing a tandem of locos to connect to another tandem of locos. We started with 5 locos pulling 10 wagons, and at some point we dropped off one loco. Right after that drop, I was reversing slowly, less than 3mph, waiting for the coupling, and... it didn't couple. My loco moved right through the stationary loco, to the point where there was a significant overlap, and then it bounced off. I used the brakes to slow down, and then coupled manually.
Unfortunately, I didn't think to save a clip.

 

Exact same issue on PS4, current version of the game.

Edit: Also happens with journey service 1A29.

 

• Issue Summary: Immediate Derailment
• Platform: Steam
• Game Mode: Timetable
  
• Route: Great Western Express (Diesel Legends)
  
• Loco: Class 08 BLU
• Service: 5X03 Coach Preparation (03:22)
• Step-by-Step Instructions: Begin Scenario. Train derails within 1 to 2 seconds.
  The linked video shows several of my attempts to play the scanario put to music:
  

 

Knock, knock ..... somebody home?

At 3.20 ...... doesn´t seem to have changed that much, no?

 

Same issue, although I managed to still couple the Loco's by stopping at 4yd distance and executing the couple via the external camera.

 

Well they're all on leave now until some time after Easter, at which point no doubt priority will be barking up trade for EML and covering up the likely shortcomings of Peak Forest.

 

Platform: PS4
Route name: Great Western Express Diesel Legends pack
Game mode: Timetable
Loco name: Class 08
Service: 5X03 Coach Preparation (start at 03:22)
Issue Summary: Got instant derailment after press start, video added.

 

How’s that patch coming? May 2023, not fixed yet Any timeframe? Thanks

 

Same issue in TSW2 on PS5 in journey and timetable..

 

Played now this scenario for the first time and short before an contact with the other loco, the buffers of the Class45 started to jitter and my Class 47/4 blu derailed....
TSW3 on PC

 

I've tried 2 times to complete this on PS4. At second attemp i've stopped the class 47 a little more far from the buffers of class 45 and coupled it. This workaround might help you complete scenario, you have just to remember when the buffers start jittering and stopping very little more far before tried to couple

 

Thanks for info mate. Ive tried it several times and everytime with same result. But ive give it a try.

 

Ok, so after 2 attempts it worked. I dont know if this was necessary but before ive released the brakes on the Class45. Then slowely moved to the point where the buffers startet to jitter (approx 0,5m distance) but i was able to couple the train and finish the scenario.

 

Issue: Service failure
Platform: PS5
Game mode: rail journeys
Route: SoS - Spirit of steam
Chapter: Steaming Ahead
Service: Express Freight: Northampton - Edge Hill
Loco Name: Stanier 8F
Description: message: "service failure" for no apparent reason, after passing Acton Bridge, just before the 60 MPH speed limitation.