........and my award goes to "Service Saviour" on WCMLS, almost certainly from the original build of the route. Between Milton Keynes and Euston I only personally saw a solitary moving train; a 350. Aside from the 377 you start on before changing to a 350, there were no other moving trains on 44 miles of WC MAIN LINE! Just a little bit of static stock here and there. This has got have been done by a certain infamous 3rd party dev I think, only they could turn this super busy line into a rural branch line with just 2 services a day. Awful experience. Oh I almost forgot, the final joke was when I stopped inside Euston I heard rain falling on the cab! Amazing.
There’s on antelope valley I just did. Supposedly there’s a missing hiker in the mountains and you’re supposed to look for him. I crawled along at like 10mph forever looking at every hill and valley for an NPC and no dice. I get to Lancaster and I have to go report that to some random guy. I say “my bad” and he says “I guess I’ll call mountain rescue”. Probably should have called them from the start buddy.
Antelope Valley - Home at the Depot, 90 minutes of crawling at 5 mph...no thanks. I haven't even attempted that one. From the ones I've played, Linke Rheinstrecke - All Change was terrible. You have almost no time to change trains, and stopping markers are at nonsensical places so you stop on the other side of the platform than you should, AI traffic makes zero sense. Your slow-stopping train gets priority over intercity service, which parks beside you at stations and patiently waits...
Ah yeah, I remember that one. Wants you to do 3 almost identical depot moves. 5mph at a slight gradient I believe. Least enjoyable scenario I've ever played, but the completionist in me did manage to complete it.
Every scenario that starts with "deactivate the security systems", like that "Movie star" or how it was called. Scenarios where you go "as fast as you can". Any scenario with music. Just silly.
The football special one on WCMLS with no passengers was ludicrous. Also usually enjoy Rivet ones but the slow ballast laying one on WCL nearly killed me.
I love to hate that 5mph loop you have to drive on Boston Sprinter to turn around the train. Awful scenario.
the Antelope valley has the worst scenarios the only one that i liked was the movie one..the rest no, 5 mph for 90 min forget it ..the hiker one awful im a locomotive engineer not search and rescue sim world ..i dont like the prisoner one either played tgh most of it till freight train meets glitched cant complete it trains wont move ..
It's frustrating with some of them because some scenarios are actually really interesting! The steam route scenarios I actually found really good and even some of the old ones were quite interesting. I love the 31 and TVL scenarios but it was frustrating having to do it all a certain way for the objectives to trigger on that annoying broken cement wagon I think it was? And I also spent 30 minutes going back and fourth with the 08 to get a gold medal lmao on one of them.
Any of the scenarios in the BNSF SD70 pack. All travelling the wrong way on the tracks, swapping tracks for no reason, and getting routed into loops for no reason, with next to no AI traffic around. Whoever made them obviously had a big old guess at what a train might do and used the first dodgy path that scenario planner gave them, added one AI train, then clocked off because who would want to put in any kind of effort into their work.
lol yeah exactly. Most of them felt like regular timetable services but worse. But the mastery reward is pretty cool (tram depot) so I did them anyway.
Any scenario which requires you to do switching/shunting in the dark - looking at you Clinchfield. Any scenario which ignores basic railway operating rules and safety protocols - like the ones on ECML where Emily Turner or a farmer were giving instructions that should have come from the signaller.
