Well it could explain why there’s not really much in the pipeline for TSW on the roadmap, other than the third party projects and the compact Cardiff City network, which must be nearly ready to go. Hopefully if TSW is being replaced they will come up with some means to port existing content or at least the newer stuff across. Could all be tinfoil hat thinking, of course!
Could track titans be something more like simrail perhaps along those lines? I have been concerned about the future of TSW just with everything that's been going on and the stability of TSW5? Whatever it is hopefully there's a reprieve for steam
Remember how disappointed we all* were at the Thomas reveal? You guys are setting yourself up for exactly the same thing here *90% anyway
I don't think it'll be a new title for TSW, I think it'll probably be a casual less realistic game to cater for the 'casual gamer' market, if the current trend is anything to go by. I'm not against that type of thing if they focus on that demographic with a different title and platform that is away from TSW, so it doesn't infect or dilute TSW in anyway. I think if anything DTG might stick with the Train Sim World brand if there was a further evolution of the game, rather then come up with different brand. TSW is well established so it would make far more sense to do so.
Possibly the case. Could be the reason we've got more "casual" stuff in TSW lately, they could have been testing whether it'd be a good market or not.
Here's a thought, does anyone know what DTG actually trademarked in regards to Rush Hour? Would be pretty helpful to know if DTG specifically trademarked things like "Rush Hour" alongside things like "Train Sim World 2: Rush Hour" or what not. Would make it a lot more clear how tied to TSW Track Titan's could be.
A while ago I had an idea for a railway management game based on TSW, like Bus Simulator if it was transposed onto a train simulator.
An evil narcissist billionaire has somehow become president, has dismantled government from the inside, and has abolished democracy. The year is 2035. A decade after taking office and locked in a heavily guarded Whitehouse, the cartoonish villain president has hatched a plot to destroy the cities where people who want a return to democracy have gathered, by blowing them up with trains full of explosives. You and a crack team of renegades out to foil his plans, the Track Titans, take control of the subway trains loaded with Tesla nuclear bombs, drive them to safe locations and neutralise the explosives. Can Project Subway be foiled, can New York be saved, and can democracy return to the USA and the world? This is your mission in Project Subway Track Titans* *A new action adventure game by DTG and not what’s actually going to happen in the real world (well, at least not the bit with the bombs, the rest is definitely happening).
Sounds like a mobile or tycoon game--maybe a subway tycoon game based on the since revoked trademark application?
Probably to throw people off the scent of what they are developing for maybe the long plan, we already know about all the code names, this is probably the same idea behind it.......
Probably the business equivalent of starting preproduction on a movie, doing a preliminary sketch for a painting, etc. I'm sure there are a whole lot more withdrawn trademark applications than ones that end up appearing in the wild.
Might be a decision they made on their own but also sometimes trademark applications get withdrawn after there’s opposition to them. You can push back but it’s not always worth it. So all this really tells us is that the trademark application is withdrawn but not much beyond that
I don't think it will be a successor to TSW, but rather, it will be some side project like the Roblox thing.
Heroes In Flames is an interesting one because that trademark is active, could that be like a firefighting sim or something?
Well if you are of certain age you will probably know that most Jilly Cooper novels always had some train going into some tunnels, think that was the technical family friendly term for it anyhow......
Unless you go back to the early days of underground/subway systems when you had rival companies building lines in the late 19th/early 20th century there aren't really 'rivals' today. But it does again have a mobile game vibe in the same way Track Titans did.
Metro Rivals, the new subway battle royale live service? I don't even want to speculate what this is supposed to mean.
Metro Rivals… Trains with swords and assault rifles duke it out in a 128 player battle royale on Verdansk? Hell yeah, sign me up.
So now that DTG have confirmed new titles outside of TSW will be announced during the direct, safe to assume whatever Metro Rivals is will be announced
The trend seems to have been to release titles on new platforms, e.g. Roblox and VR. So given the names they've tried to trademark a mobile game seems like the next logical step.
A mobile game is probably the most sensible thing they could release. They completely missed the point with TSWVR somehow, and that bloody Roblox game needs no explanation.
The two live trademarks, as previously discussed, are Metro Rivals and Heroes in Flames. These are likely what will be announced in the Dovetail Direct in August as new games. What format they are in or what platforms or devices they will be available on is anyones guess* as all we have are these titles. They said “Expect the unexpected” which could mean anything. *What’s that really popular gaming platform? Ah, Nintendo Switch, that’s the one. My wife’s got one. I think it’s a market DTG are keen to get into more and they did release Catan on it. I’m going to guess that there will be a game or games for Switch or Switch 2.
I was thinking about a metro game and I was sad because I would have to buy another game... But this name suggests something more childish (not necessarily bad) but defenitely not my cup of tea. We'll wait and see.
I’m thinking about a game like Football Manager or F1 Manager, where you’re running a subway company and you have to “survive” against other competitors. It might be more “online-focused” but that would be weird.
I agree, Metro Rivals is too silly a name for a proper metro simulator... Although I suppose if they were going to do more metro routes they'd be in Train Sim World anyway. Heroes in Flames reminds me of Blazing Angels: Squadrons of WWII, but I doubt DTG would go back to the flight simulator genre.
