Who would like to see and hear the long awaited in- train announcements in TSW5? I think its about time after all these years of TSW..
Wishful thinking but wouldn’t be nice if this whole time after saying they weren’t working on announcements they brought it as a launch feature for TSW 5?
I'm hoping it is as they were supposedly working on it for core but possibly TSW5 has come too soon. Maybe something for a year or two (No, I'm not going to mention the version name(s) this early!)
I'm sure they mentioned they were looking into making it a core feature in future during the Goblin preview stream a while back, just wasn't at the stage where it was good enough, something along those lines
On board announcements need to be a standard feature going forward. No more of them -sometimes- being implemented on a per route or per loco basis. Same goes for guard mode. The scenarios are cool but this adds no replay value. Guard mode implemented apart of the timetable for any playable service would be amazing!
Younger people won't remember riding in locomotive hauled stock with only the sounds of the wheels on the track, no noisy diesel engine under the floor and no constantly repetitive announcements which make conversation difficult if not impossible. I'll be off to Rochdale later on a 150. I'll be glad to get off.
Yeah, there is too much information overload now and long winded too, request stops for example, just announce it's a request stop, not along the lines of "tell that guard that you wish to alight to allow the train to come to a stop" blah blah blah
It wouldn't be too bad if the stations were a fair distance apart but as soon as the train leaves we are told what service it is, what the next stop is, to watch out for anything suspicious, not to smoke or vape, not to ride scooters etc. Then just before a stop we get told "we will shortly be arriving at" and warned about the gap between the train and the platform edge, thanked for travelling with Northern etc. This is repeated over and over again and what with all that and the racket from the demented washing machine under the floor, we just give up trying to talk and wait until we get off. Train travel is not the restful experience it used to be unfortunately.
Without giving my true job away, I'm told by my managers to make all these "fantastic customer announcements" to deliver "customer service" which involves giving status updates, unique attractions, telling people where to pay, how to exit etc etc, it's tedious and exhausting. Nobody bothers paying attention because they have their headphones on or just aren't paying attention. People don't even pay attention when you tell them where the train is stopping at and which doors won't open at certain stations... anyway besides me ranting I fully agree with you. To think people actually made train journeys without the excessive rubbish from announcements seems mind blowing
Oh don't remind me, they don't even bother checking where the train terminates over here. Especially painfully when you are taking it out of service and have to throw them off, or when they take the initiative to pull the emergency brake or door opener.
I guess it’s all about perspective. I grew up in New York City and I remember train crew screaming “STAND CLEAR THE DOORS PLEASE” through the speakers whenever people would hold the doors open. They’d announce the next stop, every stop, which was annoying since the next stop was usually a couple of blocks away. My favorite was always “we are delayed because of train traffic ahead of us” while standing in a packed car on an evening commute. IDK what they do now over there as I’ve since moved away. I don’t miss it tbh.
Given its on rails, you'd kind of hope that people who get on know where its heading. Likewise not falling between the platform and the train- I think I kind of knew that I need to avoid putting my feet on empty air having not yet quite mastered levitation. Maybe its for the glued to the mobile phone types who might look up long enough to realise theyre on a train and no longer walking down the street..
People in general are just stupid, nor do they really pay much attention, doesn't matter what you tell them. Countless times I've said "it's that train up there, meaning the one furthest from the buffers, only for them to try a door on the train at the buffers (which can't go anywhere for obvious reasons).
