How To Sound Both British Rail Horn Tones With The Exterior Camera On Console

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  1. rockstarboy#6217

    rockstarboy#6217 New Member

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    Have you ever tried your best to sound both horns with the exterior camera in tsw2? Well if you have then read this thread carefully

    I found a glitch where you can sound both horn tones on British rail trains with the exterior camera without the need to open any windows or doors. Here's how to do it:
    (On Immersion controls)
    Step 1: Adjust your exterior camera to wherever you want. Keep in mind that once you do this glitch, you can't move your camera
    Step 2: Aim your crosshair on the horn switch
    Step 3: Press X, or whatever button that makes the slider thing appear, and make sure to hold the button down
    Step 4: Move to the exterior camera and you should have the slider thing still on your screen! Now you can sound both horns with the exterior camera!
    If you want to stop tooting and honking with the exterior camera, just let go of the button that activates your slider button

    (On classic controls)
    Step 1: Aim your crosshair on the horn switch
    Step 2: Hold down X or whatever button that activates the slider
    Step 3: Activate the camera shortcut panel and select any exterior camera you want
    Step 4: You can release the button that you're holding down to activate the slider thing and the slider will still be on your screen!
    Also, if you want to stop honking and tooting, press X or whatever button that activates the slider and the slider should disappear
     
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  2. kekanha#4892

    kekanha#4892 Active Member

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    Are you saying that I have the "slider" while I change the camera, the "slider" keeps the outside view?
     
  3. antony.henley

    antony.henley Well-Known Member

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    Or you could buy yourself a cheap USB keyboard and use the space bar and n key.

    Hentis
     
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  4. tallboy7648

    tallboy7648 Well-Known Member

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    Or dtg can just make a command on the controller that controls the high and low horns in an update
     
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  5. Tay95

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    Amen
     
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  6. antony.henley

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    Very limited space on the controller.
     
  7. stephen220378

    stephen220378 Active Member

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    There wouldn't be if they just let you map your own buttons, you know like the majority of games have done since the PS3 era.
     
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  8. Gilly

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    Elite dangerous manages!! In all seriousness a combination would suit me fine or already suggested allowing the player to map buttons.
     
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  9. borg#1850

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    Mapping buttons would also be good for disabled people
     
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  10. shhweeet#4292

    shhweeet#4292 Well-Known Member

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    At the risk of stating the obvious, wouldn’t it be a good idea if Sony invented a new controller with a few extra buttons? I mean games are getting ever more advanced these days so surely this would be a worthwhile thing for Sony to do wouldn’t it.
     
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  11. tallboy7648

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    The X button on the xbox controller doesn't do anything so that button can be used for the high horn while pressing the left stick does the low horn. Or even better, dtg could simply allow players to map controls on the controller themself. Just like how most games do. Not every console player has a keyboard and most wouldn't buy a keyboard just to use it for one game
     
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  12. Luke8899

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    More buttons is not necessarily more user friendly. Having to remember an increased number of buttons and their functions increases cognitive loads which can make games harder to play for many, rather than easier. I think consoles right now have a good balance, and on Xbox there is the elite controller Microsoft have created, but it costs about 140 quid for the sake of a bunch of buttons on the back. I think someone, possibly not Sony, invented a back button attachment for the PS4 controller too, not sure if it ever went anywhere though or got official support.

    To be honest I think DTG have done a fairly good job with the immersion controls. The only repeated problem I have seen raised is no dedicated buttons for both horn tones, which to me has always been a fairly minor issue. I have noticed in TS classic if you use an Xbox controller when you use the horn it plays both tones sequentially, but I don't know if people would prefer that in TSW as well.

    On Xbox tapping the X button switches which brake system you are using loco/train/electric, and holding it takes a picture to upload to Dovetail live, so it's actually got two functions.

    But yes, controller re-mapping should be standard across all games, though DTG are hardly far behind the curve here, many big titles do not support it either, and even where it is supported it can be a complete nightmare to try and use the functionality, I was trying with flight simulator last week and it was a nightmare, in the end I just got an X-box controller for PC to save the hassle of re-mapping the keyboard controls.
     
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  13. antony.henley

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    I guess some of you have never played Elite Dangerous / Horizons on a Console then?

    Hentis
     

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