Hi everyone, I'm playing TSW4 on the PS5 and used the formation designer so far to look how it all works, but I face some issues when putting the trains in formation. Formation issues EMU trains (surge arresters on the roof) So far I have used formation designer, I don't have any issues with forming locomotives with coaches. The issues I have so far, is with the formation of the EMU trains, in particular the Talent 2 train. I haven't tried it with other EMU trains. It seems like the Talent 2 M1 and M3 carriages don't always match and that is because of the surge arresters on the roof of these EMU trains that won't connect with each other, because the distance is too far or too close or there is missing surge arrester on the other M1 or M3 carriage. Also the bogie between the M1 or M3 is missing. Because the maximum lenght of the Talent 2 train is 4 carriages, the in-game core won't allow me to make this train longer than 4 carriages, because of the surge arresters. The same applies for the other EMU trains that have a maximum in-game core lenght. When I do this, then the train won't have power. The weird thing is that even thou the train has no power, it still can be turned on by raising the pantograph, but the screens in the cab won't turn on and keeps on black screens. That is a sign your train won't work correctly, because of the surge arresters not being connected correctly as above mentioned. I hope this can be solved in the future to make it possible to make EMU trains longer without issues of surger arresters not being connect to each other. See PDF files for the images of the surge arresters and the missing bogie. UPDATE 17-04-2024 DB BR182 (DB, Dispolok & ES 64 U2), DB BR193 (Vectron) top speed One of the other things I want to highlight about the issues, is that the DB BR182 and the Vectron won't reach a top speed of 200 km/h (Vectron) and 230 km/h (DB BR182) as A.I. trains in the Scenario Planner or Free Roam when you have created these 2 locs with IC coaches in Formation Designer for high speed services. This only applies when you are operating these 2 locs by yourself. I am aware that the DB BR182 maximum speed is 160 km/h for regular services, but in the cab it says maximum speed is 230 km/u. Same is for the Vectron with a maximum speed of 200 km/h. Maybe this is something for future improvements, making it possible for these 2 locomotives to reach the top speed of 200 or 230 km/h, but only if the IC wagons are coupled to these 2 locomotives. Unlock and lock doors on the wrong side What I also noticed is that on some routes, the doors will be unlocked on the wrong side instead of on the side of the platform. In particular on the route Aachen - Koln, but it could be possible this issues also occurs on other routes. Trains or locomotives won't depart as A.I. trains in Scenario Planner For the Aachen - Koln route I created a Scenario Planner with trains I created in Formation Designer, but there is one train I created in Formation Designer that won't depart as A.I. train when I choose another train drive. It was the DB BR182 with IC coaches that won't depart as A.I. train I have created in Formation Designer. If there are more issues that I will discover, than I will keep everone updated!
