Arriving alongside Train Simulator Classic 2024, the optional Rail Subscription is the perfect way to get started with the ultimate railway hobby. The subscription includes the base game and 39 DLC add-ons covering a wide range of experiences from modern to historic. With this you will be able to explore 1,400+ miles of track, take on 200+ challenging scenarios and master 100+ locomotives. The content included has a value of over £500 and features hundreds of hours of gameplay. Read the article to see the full list of content included : https://live.dovetailgames.com/live...s/article/rail-subscription-a-new-way-to-play
Anything that encourages new followers of TSC is welcome but there is nothing there for anyone who has been into TSC for more than a few years. In my case there is one loco in the list that I haven't got and that's because I don't want it. It does say in the spiel that it's a great way to get started - agreed.
Subscription doesn't even open all addons? Only some of them? Which was released from 2012 to 2014 approximately? Wow... Newbies will be surprised by the number of broken scenarios, I have all these routes, I know what I'm talking about
It's a good range of DLC, and if you're new to TSC it's a good way to start. I think Donner Pass is now looking rather dated, but it does at least give a historic US route, albeit marginally historic. I'm surprised they aren't giving some unique content to subscribers.
Clinchfield? What I like about DP is how versatile the scenery is. Lush in the west, turning into spruce, rocks... Takes a few hours to notice, though. I'm not sure that would go well. Especially with workshop and scenario packs. Either people complain about their use, or the lack of content. A previous example was TS 2016 - eventually being handed out to most everyone with the base DLC. Or the DLC locked behind BNSF. From another angle, I already spent so much on this game (4000€ or more, holy hell) that I wouldn't buy a sub. Maybe if I get to keep the content but even then I'm not sure I would actually get to play it. Only 400 more DLC to play! 50 years.
Donner Pass is honestly at a point where it needs a refresh, it's stock doesn't know what era it's in and without modding or edits, the scenarios are pretty much broken.
Yes, I'd forgotten about that. Although I've got it, it's never excited me enough to really engage with it.
Or Soldier Summit. Weirdly enough, the TSW version of Clinchfield has more interactions with the branches than the TSC version, where most of them were never included for some reason.
TS1 does have the bit between Dante and St Paul though which TSW doesn't have (and also the sideways trucks / lorries on the roads! )
But the TSC version comes with a horribly broken copypaste SD40 where the script does not match the ControlValues and gauge animations, and the audio occlusion fails making the cab horribly loud.
lots of old, obsolete and junk in the first batch of curated content, what are DTG thinking in promoting TSC? Not wanting to take the shine away from TSW, a game far better suited to the subscription model as it is already practiced on the consoles? are the subscribers even familiar with the Workshop and allowed to use it? Since the curated content rotates, and any WS items might get orphaned and become useless?
The routes are fine, but the stock isn't the best selection in my view. Not much I don't already have anyway... It will be interesting to see what the exclusive content turns out to be.
