Gosh, really miss Armstrong Powerhouse’s physics. Just drove Class 158 enhancement pack in TS2021 and timed all the braking and acceleration physics according to real world data and it is bang on. Literally to the second. The Class 166 physics are appalling in comparison.
But you’re not - the physics are way off so what you’re actually driving is a rocket ship. Armstrong Powerhouse actually create a train to drive. Not a feeble attempt. I guess you’re the sort of person this game is aimed at. ‘Point and shoot’ nonsense and people that haven’t the faintest idea how a real train should actually handle. it actually takes proper skill to drive AP stuff....
Physics are pretty important, believe it or not. It can make or break a game for me, especially as this is supposed to be a simulator. Going back to the original post, the 166 physics aren’t correct. You shouldn’t be able to accelerate as soon as you power up on the 166. That’s just isn’t how the transmission on it works.
Well firstly, AP, as good as they are, don’t have to put in the same amount of work as DTG do, it’s much easier to go to a completed product and then correct things on it, as opposed to having to build an entire route & accompanying rolling stock, and then look at how long AP take to do their work with a train, if DTG took the same amount of time to complete content they’d be out of business, sometimes DTG get stuff wrong, but without DTG you wouldn’t get any AP trains. Secondly, if you’ve got to the point where you’re literally timing breaking curves then you’re letting yourself in for whatever disappointment you find, however I suspect that even if DTG got everything right you’d be straight into ridiculous comparisons with some other data, even if everything is spot on, are you really getting the feeling that you’re ‘there’? Finally, as someone who works in the rail industry, I have perfectly adequate knowledge in that respect, and I compare that knowledge to the experience in game, and what it should reasonably deliver, as a game that charges £24.99 (avg) for said experience, if it doesn’t deliver, then sure I’ll come here and let DTG know, but I’m certainly not about to bang out a stopwatch and tell DTG that their breaking curves on their first TSW locos are a few seconds out.
If they were a few seconds out of course I’d be very happy. But with the Class 166, we are talking a whole minute too quick to get to 60mph from a standing start. It should be around 1,45 - 2min and this bloody piece of LOVE will get there in about a minute. Not just a little out. (. Every unit varies I know ) but this is WAY WAY off the real world timings. That’s what annoys me. BASIC RESEARCH is all that’s needed. 5 seconds here and there - fab, I’d love that sort of ball park figure but it’s beyond ludicrous how fast that Class 166 accelerates
