I just want to address the elephant in the room, but we were promised multiplayer and I quote the TSW 2 FAQ: "Where is Multiplayer? We want to bring Multiplayer to Train Sim World, and we now have a design that we think will give a great social experience. It’s been crucial to design based on the experience of the mode, bringing the right roles and communication to our online experience. Multiplayer is not part of Train Sim World 2, but it’s on our future roadmap." So where is multiplayer status at!
They said a long time ago that it is not possible to add multiplayer to the game as it is now. Adding multiplayer would require to re-design how the game works completely.
Yes, maybe I am just asking if it is still on their "long term roadmap", it has been 3 years, 2 games later that it was "announced" (if I can say so) and ever since have not been open in saying that they are developing it has the idea fallen in the trash or ?
It was dropped because it proved to be not possible. There's a lot of moving parts and dtg want to focus and improve on the singleplayer experience. I would prefer dtg just focus on sp instead of doing mp and running into many problems because the sp was poor. Also the fact that the game needs to be rebuilt to support multiplayer. Dtg can't just add it in.
Okay, I understand the fact that they want to focus on sp which I agree with make the experience as good as one possibly can. But come on if you say it's something you want to do at some point you actually have to do it! I don't care if it comes tomorrow or in 10 years time, I just want to be able to take a train on a route and see my friend going the other way...
For mp to work properly, the single player has to work properly. Imagine bugs affecting one platform but not another. A route may crash on one platform but not another. What about the routes each player owns and mods? There's also moderation that needs to take place if someone is misbehaving. Sp has to work so the same issues aren't in multiplayer
Usually stay away from such discussions, but my preference would be multiplayer be a long forgotten topic.
They didn't promise it; they said years ago that they want to. Then they said later, also years ago, that it wouldn't be possible after all. It was never announced, in quotes or otherwise. If only doing something were as easy as simply wanting to.... All the bugs would be cleared, for starters. All desired licenses would be acquired.
NO MULTIPLAYER IS COMING. If you're expecting it in the near or distant future I suggest you get rid of your hopes now
Saying “we want to bring multiplayer” is exactly that. They didn’t definitively say they would be bringing it, they said they wanted to.
Multiplayer is very firmly in the bin! To start they'd have to completely rebuild the game from scratch along with all of the add-on routes and most of us would baulk at having to spend all that money again. Then there's the fact that they can't even make the single player game work properly considering 2 was abandoned as a broken mess and 3 is going to be the same. If they can't get single player working properly you've got no chance for multiplayer
If DTG brought multiplayer, that would've been a proper argument to justify selling TSW for the third time in 3 years
They have already said many times that multiplayer is NOT coming. So there is the answer if you don't like it oh well. Again they have said MP is not being looked at or attempted anymore. Several times over the last 2 years. Seriously I don't have to tell my kids they can't have something and then have them continuously ask if they can have it. They just drop it and move on with their lives just like people on these forums should. In fact in my opinion the reason Simrail bites is because of the multiplayer. I played for a month and it is so boring and uninteresting. TSW would be an absolute disaster with MP.
They brought out TSW4 because they can and if you read the roadmap already over 800,000 services and gamplay sessions have been played in 1 week. Sounds like a success. Sorry people who don't want to pay. Just proves they will do it again next year since it has been successful.
Last couple of times I tried SimRail multiplayer seemed to have settled down and everyone was very polite and friendly. But it doesn’t really add anything to the experience of driving the train other than occasionally sounding your horn as you pass a player staffed signal box or train, exchanging a few text messages or trying to understand a heavily accented broadcast on team speak. The one thing I would like to see in TSW that SimRail has (but only in MP not yet if ever SP) is signaller mode, with working panels or manual signal boxes. Imagine the havoc you could cause running Dresden, or the BML!
Seeing as you asked and people have already replied. Its not happening. "We want to bring multiplayer to Train sim world" Business models change over time. What could be construed of being done or a really nice feature to have may not in the end be able to be done on the current platform. Irrespective of what was said 7 years previous. That's it in a nutshell. Multiplayer is NOT coming to this current version of Train Sim World. For multiplayer to happen the game has to be designed with multiplayer in mind. Train Sim World has not been. No if's, buts, why's and wherefores. Understand Multiplayer is not coming to Train Sim World. Get used to it and over it. Hentis
