Steam Identifying Missing Dlc - Help Please

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  1. Andy L

    Andy L Active Member

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    The attached screenshot is from the layers screen on WCML Preston - Carlisle. I assume the grey shows that I don't own that item of DLC. Strange because that van should be part of the Heavy Freight pack which I do have installed.
    How do I go about finding which DLC contains a greyed out piece of rolling stock in a layer?
     

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    jack#9468 Well-Known Member

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    You need:

    Spirit of Steam
    West Cornwall Local
    Blackpool Branches
    Tees Valley Line
     
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  4. Andy L

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    Thanks but how can I tell which dlc I need from the information in the screenshot? I'd got West Cornwall, Blackpool and Tees Valley installed and Spirit of Steam doesn't get a mention.
    Turns out that installing Spirit of Steam has resolved that particular issue but I don't see how I was expected to know it was required for that layer.
     
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    PCA is the freight car that comes with the Class 31 add on, is it not? And PGA is the freight car that comes with the Class 20 add on, I think.
     
  6. Andy L

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    Probably, but the wider issue is that it appears very difficult if not impossible to identify which dlc is required to populate a layer such as the one I mentioned using the information in the layer list in game.. If there is a way of doing it I'd be glad to hear it.
     
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    tom#2834 Active Member

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    Oh it is!

    Mostly you have to figure out what the initials refer to.

    But they can be cryptic.

    Eg DSN is really Tees Valley, because Darlington/Saltburn and LMC is Spirit of Steam because Liverpool Lime Street to Crewe.

    I actually thought you needed NTP (Manchester/Leeds) for that, but other poster was right that the version of the br 12t van for that layer is from the Steam DLC.
     
  8. Andy L

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    Indeed it is and installing that dlc enabled that layer but Spirit of Steam or LMC doesn't appear in the screen shot I posted, hence my question.
    Happy to wrap this up now, thanks for the replies.
     
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    tom#2834 Active Member

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    Yes, LMC does appear. Second one down.
     
  10. Andy L

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    So it does - time for an eye test!
     
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