Hey guys I’m planning to pick up a new German route should I pick up Dresden to Riesa or Munich to Augsburg
Dra because you get more trains as base and it is much busier. There's also more to do. Hma with all layers doesn't feel as busy as dra.
Dresden to Riesa definitely. The main line splits for some of the distance and you get the Meissen branch with its historic townscape. Huge variety of services. Still probably the best German route in the game (with RSN a close second). HMA is generally a 25 minute sprint with the ICE through relatively dull terrain.
route needs improvements first before the 420 is added which has been confirmed by tsg. cant work the other way around. so route upgrade needs to happen before or alongside the release
MAG is... okay. munich central station looks awesome but it's missing the action, hopefully we'll get a better timetable with the ICE 1 and IC soon...
lets just say if you have KWG already then get DRA instead of MAG because you'd already have an ICE 3 from KWG if you care about it
If you're on Gen9, both have a diverse timetable. If you're on Gen8, HMA is not much fun with only ICE and S-Bahn. Overall, DRA is busier and has more modern lighting (very nice in particular at night). Also, it has Hl signals and, in my opinion, the nicer scenery.
Yes DRA is better but I would wait a bit to see if the rumor of an extension of either route might be true. Save your money and wait just a bit
If you play on older consoles (PS4, XBox One), the timetable is reduced compared to the newer consoles (PS5, XBox Series S/X). This was a decision made by DTG, because the older consoles have performance limitations (CPU, memory) and are not able to simulate the full timetable.
Mag has a mod for pc users a scenery update if u have bro... but only if u care about scenery. Dra is much better because its newer but for me i like the region about munich much more thats why i dont play east german routes so frequently same for tharandter.
If you are careful and patient, you can get pretty good discounts. But even so, I calculate that I spent almost 700 euro, for a game I played for free as part of Gamepass.
You are correct because the Schnellfahrstrecke Hannover Würzburg Kassel Wilhelmshöhe Würzburg Hbf segement ICE 3 version counts for HMA version achievements. Another reason for Nahverkehr Dresden is that your older German routes do get the newer Nahverkehr Dresden versions instead of the old versions which came with them. Easy example for my own personal experience is Ruhr-Sieg Strecke Hagen Finnentrop Siegen where the Nahverkehr Dresden versions start to outnumber the original launch versions
If you want me to go even further with those achievements for the German routes Yellow 182 counts towards the rapid transit 1820 km requirement want to accomplish the RT Red Colour version mileage run Bremen Oldenburg 155 counts towards RSN Power Up and Power Surge achievements. For KWG 185.2 counts towards RSN 185.2 achievements. In the case of the Dresden route you should get the following Dresden commuter still bugged to this day but Making Tracks 1462 km works. Since the game treats Nahverkehr Dresden 146.2 as a Main Spessart Bahn 146.2
If you like driving with high speed then use München - Augsburg, because topspeed there is 230 kph instead of 160 at short areas from the route at Dresden-Riesa. If you like more variety of trains and busy train stations especially at Dresden Hbf then choose Dresden-Riesa.
SKW allows a bit faster but sadly compared to the other German routes it’s a bit of a bore fest. A good way to enjoy German routes is to do some of the freight scenarios or timetable/Journey runs. These allow you to run non stop through the route and may take in rare track or spurs/branches that you don’t see from the passenger runs. Riesa has a nice steeply graded branch which runs down to a chemical plant which will test your ability with the 363. Hamburg to Lubeck has an avoiding line at Hamburg where the freight runs off to avoid the Hbf. Just use the 155 rather than the screechy annoying Traxx locos!
It is pretty much a straight blast through a route consisting of 50% tunnels, the outside sections being largely identical wooded hills with only three stations and cities. It serves a purpose and proves sadly that size isn’t everything. It’s redeeming feature is the BR401 which is quite different to the more modern ICE’s and layers in on a few other routes.
Players say it differently. Skw is how it's sold (schellfahrstrecke kassel wurzburg). Kwg is without the first part. So nobody is wrong. Of course there's an official one used in real life but it's whatever the user wants to use
I agree with that, it's the only one of the three TSW3 starter routes I never touch. I use SEHS and Cajon all the time.
well the acronym list DTG made says SKW but when going through the formations list with godmode it says KWG everywhere, assuming the acronym SKW in the list is for the entire name for how its sold on the store as you said and KWG in the formations only what the route end stations or generally the end locations are (Kassel K and Würzburg W and G), it's actually confusing. same with Munich-Augsburg, people say HMA for the "full name" of the TSW route while in the formations it says MAG (again, Munich M and Augsburg A and G). life is hard
