![]() ![]() No matter how good the locomotives are modelled, if the surrounding traffic on the line just isn't realistic, my immersion is ruined.The allure of the roguelike sells itself: rewarding repetition and the tantalizing hope that your next run, whether because of the new tools you’ve gathered, the new skills you’ve developed, or the new stats you’ve buffed, will be more successful than the last. ![]() In conclusion this game is great if you are more of a train enthusiast rather than a railway enthusiast. They rock about as they should - Dovetail have made some great advances with the physics. The sounds are great despite the surround sound effect. ![]() The trains do look amazing and the weathering is superb. Pretty frustrating when everything else has a shortcut bound to it. You cannot drive the BR DMU outside of the cab as their is no controller shortcut for the gear selector. Wish there was an option for a more stereo experience.Ĭertain shortcuts really need to be implemented for the ps4. Frustrating as the sounds otherwise are great. Panning around the cab moves the sounds so drastically from one ear to another that it makes you feel deaf in one ear. There seems to be a really extreme surround sound effect which is really off-putting at times. But I do appreciate that optimisation isn't easy. Also noticed loads of visual "fuzzy" glitches, especially the train wheels. Anything further than 10 meters or so away looks pretty terrible and the framerate walking around busy stations is unplayable at times. So the draw distance is pretty bad on ps4. I shouldn't have to do this 5 times over for each new route. And the game made me repeat the same compulsory tutorial for each new route. Lots of scenarios require you to obey and chase yellows and begginerswould have no clue! I don't know how a beginner would know to use the "contact signalman" function either which is required on many scenarios. We need signalling tutorials for the different routes for beginners. Where are the electrics? Of course you can't include everything that would come down the line but driving down the route with nothing using the nicely modelled overhead wiring is a bit off.īeing a train nerd I didn't need to use the tutorials to get going. The lack of accurate traffic is also frustrating with the great Western railway route only featuring 3 trains. There should be constant movement, but its just dead! The general lack of traffic on the line while playing through scenarios really does remove some of the immersion. Plonk yourself into London at 8:30am and where is the rush hour traffic? There's maybe 1 train every 15mins let alone the lack of passengers. In short, this is very much a train simulator rather than a railway simulator. This gets lots of things so right but there's too many problems letting it down. ![]() In summary: if you want a good realistic train simulator that even simulates the relaxing vibe of train journeys, but can also simulate the challenging timetables of commuter trains, well go ahead and buy it ! CONS: Short routes (between 35 and 75 km), as for now only focuses on 3 countries (UK, USA and Germany), trains aren't very frequent if you want to be a passenger even on German S-Bahn commuter trains which are known for their high frequency and the business model of the game (DLC after DLC after DLC). PROS: very realistic train physics and sounds (especially on the latest DLC, East Coastway), you can walk around the tracks, stations, your train or even board a train from the AI and be the passenger, a very relaxing game experience, excellent graphics, all trains are very complete, the game keeps on improving with frequent updates and frequent new content. Each DLC add something different from the other and improves on the previous one. Each game update polishes a bit more the experience. Probably the best train simulator out there, just missing a few things from being perfect. ![]()
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