Riviera Route & Xc Class 220 Voyager Announced

I remain hopeful that those screenshots are indeed early WIP, but if they do reflect the final build, going off previous streams any drab scenery or bland trackwork will be embarrassingly glossed over and any questions pertaining to, ignored.

 

I believe it was clarified early on some of the scenery was WIP and much progress had been made on the route since.

I think it's only fair we give DTG the benefit of the doubt for now and that we reserve any judgement until watching tomorrows stream. That is only fair.

 

Also Early Access doesn’t equate to final version. A day one patch, plus another snag list patch will likely cover all the immediate critical feedback!

 

Reminds me of fife Circle...

 

We should absolutely not be made to pay for the deluxe version if we want early access then. I understand patches are required following release, but why should anyone have to shell out £50 just to be a beta tester.

 

One thing that annoyed me in the video published today was that the 802 door alarm was way too quiet - the exact same issue as the 801.

 

It's not too late to get a refund for pre-order, yes? Because it's very stressful...

 

Those houses are very concerningly low quality for so close to the track

 

This and the bridge shot were the two that stood out to me from that video. Honestly though I agree, this one could really just do with some people and cars. It doesn't look right, a complete ghost town. In real life there's always cars parked on the side of the road at that spot and obviously pedestrians on the sea wall walkway. My main problem with the route is just that ballast, its so bad, it makes the route look terrible compared to what it could do from such a small change.
I'm honestly surprised they even show these parts in promotional footage, I mean they are trying to sell us this route, not doing a great job at it with things like this though.
Hopefully all of these things will change on actual release, if not I'm hoping somebody can a mod to improve this among other things with the route.

 

I've looked back at some older UK routes and there's so many different ballast textures that'd look so much better. The ones I think look the best are London Brighton and East Coastway. The ballast textures on Manchester Airport and Cardiff City look quite good as well.

I've also noticed when the voyager was first announced, the screenshots and footage showed the mark where the Virgin shield used to be, but for some reason on the latest showcase video it doesn't appear to be visible.

Another concern I have is the voyager sounds. We only really got to hear the idling sounds, which did sound fantastic, but DTG never stated if they had a full recording trip to record sounds. I hope it isn't a case like the 390 where only static sounds were recorded, and the other sounds sounded, well, rubbish.

 

The Class 220 is actually sounding pretty nice