Dovetail Games Mbta Commuter - Community Q+a Thread

Ah, another well crafted and carefully beta tested route then! Haven’t watched the stream but the fallout isn’t surprising. Roll on a couple of weeks and JT’s highly anticipated route!

 

The comments are tongue in cheek, of course they’re spotted, they’re super obvious issues.

Things like this get highlighted because they stick out like a sorethumb & are easily identifiable. They shouldn’t be getting into release builds & people should absolutely be making noise about it being unacceptable.

 

Glad to read that. Beginning to think I was a lone voice. Wonder what other issues the route has that weren't evident or concealed on the stream. Ah well another one where the paying beta testers can evaluate and flag for a deep sale next year.

 

I agree that the issue with the railroad crossings is getting quite old now. And it seems to be especially problematic on US routes recently?

Another issue I noticed is that the first station after Boston South was completely dark. It was daytime, but as the station is halfway underground, it should be lit. The train pulled into a completely pitch black platform.

Also the headlights on the locomotives were ridiculously bright. They were so bright that at one point Matt found even the dimmed lights too much and completely turned them off during a night run. That is NOT how you make bright US headlights!

In overall the route didn't look bad. I liked the scenery, stations looked nice, sounds were okay.
But I am hoping for some fixes to the issues noticed during the stream.

 

Honestly I didn’t watch so I wasn’t planning on jumping in, I made some comments on the first few screenshots & left it at that.

I just find it ridiculous that people try to shut down complaints about really obvious problems. Back in TSW3 Matt had made a huge song & dance out of the improvements made to cars & level crossings. Since then the state of road traffic has only gotten worse & every other route seems to have an issue with level crossings.

The bigger problem here though is there is obviously less time being spent on this, which no doubt people will argue as not being an important issue, but in the next couple of years when DTG implement more gimmicks & want to spend the same amount of time on a route, what will they deem ‘unimportant’ then?

There’s been a solid pattern forming over the last year or so, that the current development timescales are untenable. As TSW gets bigger and encompasses more features, the time issue is only going to compound & overall quality is going to decrease.

TSW5 itself wasn’t ready for release, I find it incredibly disappointing that we’re even discussing the issues with a new DLC, when the core is in the state that it is.

 

Didn't watch the stream either, I rarely do these days.

But I'm very disappointed that these issues are rearing their heads once again. What is beta testing/QA for if not to catch this nonsense? It makes you wonder what DTG have been doing during the extra 2 weeks that they took " to ensure the route is as polished as possible. "

I'll have to revise my initial decision to buy this route on release at full price.

Shame.

 

Why is the font on the station signs different from the real Helvetica Neue Bold font? is that font copyrighted?

 

I mean for something like the level crossings, if the car stoppers aren’t working, which may be a core issue, as a temporary measure leave the barriers and lights functional but just place static vehicles either side and disable car spawnets. It might not be as pretty as moving vehicles but it avoids the clueless and incompetent display of vehicles crossing the path of oncoming trains.

Sobering to note it is 20 years today since the Ufton crossing tragedy in the UK when a person parked his car on the crossing to commit suicide, derailing the HST costing the life of the train driver and several passengers in the process. I know it’s a slightly different thing, but it’s appalling that DTG seem totally complacent about the matter, just look at the lack of action regarding passenger spawners putting people smack bang in the middle of the track at stations.

 

And you have the warning message about what a dangerous place the railway is whenever you launch the game (is it still there ?).

And, Lord knows, there are enough accidents at grade crossings here in the US to sober anyone's thoughts.

 

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