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• gamedeal user

  Jun 1, 2022

  The trains look nice and they have fixed the radial blur on the wheels. A couple of training scenarios in and you can see some of the release bugs already. Fireman shovelling coal through a closed door. Strange attire on people. Hardly any life in the route Trackside detail is low. There ARE some good points to this but I would recommend buy this only for the steam train and not for the route which is desert like (quiet) and hardly anything really going on. This is a step backwards in terms of route detail and it seems they have wowed us with a high volume of track which is currently unused , or , if it is its full of identical wagons. This seems like it was released for Queens Jubilee rather than released because it was really ready.
• gamedeal user

  Jun 1, 2022

  A gander around the add-on... https://youtu.be/qhtUUaDdLWc ------ *From a 'Murican non BR steam weeb* YMMV From a physics standpoint alone, the locos/trains feel nice and act in a manner in which I'd assume is "correct", they feel heavy and require more than "durrr throttle make go!!" and you must learn the quirks and how what to do and when to do it - though it's not terribly difficult, it just may take more concentration than the average tik-tok enjoyer has to give. They've nice enough sounds from the whistle (non quill-able) to the run, chuff and general creaks and groans (although not enough rod clanking when coasting) and steam leaking from various holes all over the beasts. Looks are where i'm kinda ...ehh While the models look nice enough its the way they're textured and painted up - seem flat with no shading or 'depth'. Got that play-doh look to them, inside and out. Were this done bc of late gen consoles? Probably. Who knows. It could've been better though. Anywho, the steam and smoke look a bit weird as well, a serious defined outline between the particles and the world as well as the color and lack of thick/thinness - these things have never been great in TSW1/2. There are plenty of services for the Jub with stoppers, semi express and named expresses (cant recall atm the names) as well as a few yard moves. The 8F has plenty of services as well although a bit bland just "way freight" and pass throughs, no working yards or industries which is a bit ridiculous as there are literally HUNDREDS of spurs and rail served industry (ok maybe not hundreds, maybe like 99) - toral waste of space and opportunity and makes me wonder why the he77 they chose this massive area... The route itself as with the average TSW route seems plainly ok - some spots were obviously tended to with detail while the other 75% of the map was not. Swaths of blank and bland areas with nuclear colored grass and weird ground textures but also the amazing looking Liverpool Lime St Stn. and its tunnel as well as a few other notable areas. Crewe is just a shame... the place is massive and a corner stone of UK railways and was just left bare. Some a.i. stock is sitting around but not near enough, which yeah fine were there more performance would suck - so how bout just choosing another locale thats not so massive? Both locos and rolling stock seem to work great on West Somerset which is a treat, slow but hilly so a challenge nonetheless and a bajillion more times scenic than Crewe. For DTG's 1st outing in the steam realm, it ain't all that shabby honestly. It seems to be centered in the actual experience of operating steam engines themselves (not the fire mind you, its auto-fired) and in that respect its ok. The next steam DLC needs to LOOK great. Then giive it good sounds, play-ability and physics and you've got yourself a well rounded product. 6/10
• gamedeal user

  Jun 1, 2022

  My feedback so far after playing some tutorials and a service. 1)The route itself is fantastic, the details are great and it all looks really nice. 2) The new introduction is great, short and to the point, a nice way to get introduced to the route. 3) The tutorials are really good, if you new to steam, they will teach you everything you need to know to get going, really nice. 4) The sounds are somewhat good, the footplate experience on the whole is not great, the chuffing sounds are too soft, it sounds as though you way in the distance. There are no regulator movement sounds, when you open and close the regulator, you should hear linkages and what not, there is nothing here. I was not getting any breaking application sounds either. When you apply and release the breaks, you hear no steam sounds. 5) There is no delay when opening the regulator and the steam chest filling with steam. In reality, when you open the regulator, there is a delay until you start seeing a build up in steam pressure, on TSW, its instant. 6) Lack of AI. The route feels as though there has just been an apocalypse, there is next to no traffic. 7) The fireman animations are fantastic, really nicely done. Would be nice if the fireman would stop what they are doing and start shovelling when you open the firebox door, and if it could continue to do so until you close the door. (This is in manual mode that I am referring to) 8) No climbing animations when you climb onto the footplate. I really do feel like this is an immersion killer as this instant hop into the cab is very jarring. If you have never been on the footplate of a steam locomotive, this DLC will be fantastic for you, however, if like me, you have experience being on a footplate of a real steam loco, this will be extremely disappointing. I really wanted to love this DLC and I really do want to love this DLC, but the locos on here are a real let down for me and i'm really disappointed.
• gamedeal user

  Jun 1, 2022

  Brilliant DLC! One of DTG's best dlc's so far though that may be a bit biased due to the fact that this is the first time in 20 years anyone attempts steam. Great detail and sounds and feeling of driving a steam engine. Comes with the full problems of steam trains like trying to get it moving on an uphill after a stop :) Good stuff!
• gamedeal user

  Jun 1, 2022

  First off, I've played 3 scenarios thus far and I am having a ball with it. There is enough immersion here. between the engines and the route to give one of sense of how things were, some 60 plus years ago. Matt P. and team have delivered a lovingly crafted British Steam rail game and it shows. The tutorials are well done getting you going, though it details little or nothing with respect to stopping in time. That said, I slowed up in advance and came to a stop at the designated point. There a purists who will complain about this or that or they think a sound at 25 mph is off, yet on balance the positives of the experience far out weigh my quibbles thus far. I look forward to much more and a more AI trains once those classes are added. Good job out of the gate! Money well spent for a day one product I am happy to report.
• gamedeal user

  Jun 1, 2022

  Very impressive first attempt at steam in the unreal engine. Good: - Animations all very impressive - Sparks on the track nice surprise To Do: - Manual firing/injectors is essential for being fully immersive - Oiling the engine too would be a bonus - Map lighting is too dark, it looks like I'm driving a shadow at times, needs to be brighter please! - Sounds of the engine are not quite right. Too quiet in places - Safety valve blows too often to be realistic, fireman would top up water to keep it slightly below red line - Smoke should change colour depending on the coal shovelled. - Fireman shovel is empty when firing? - No easy way to put camera in the passenger/guard carriage?
• gamedeal user

  Jun 2, 2022

  It's bad. I have no idea why people are thumbing this up when you derail (fly up into the sky for no reason).Here's a list of problems I've found: Fireman invisible [known bug] Brakes not releasing [known bug] Derailing [known bug] Fireman shovelling nothing into a closed fire? Wheel slip is unrecoverable Brakes behave weirdly (too much) No explanation/manual of HUD symbology Steam doesn't change colour Sander doesn't show any sand? Got thrown up from the cab onto the coal box and couldn't get down. Blower doesn't stay on. No track sounds https://youtu.be/NdDjggB8bNg
• gamedeal user

  Jun 3, 2022

  I am utterly gutted that after two years of work (and maybe more), that the Spirit of Steam project has completely failed to launch as a working piece of software. The developer (DTG) has had a new QA Director in place for months, and yet this DLC has still been released in a shocking state - either as a late alpha (key features undeveloped) or an early beta (key features and broad content generally untested and generally not subjected to sufficient QA). The concept of this DLC is warmly welcomed, but it needs months more development work before DTG can begin to think about selling it for £25 or $30/€30....! You will probably need to wait at least a year for the major issues to be properly addressed, so wait until at least June 2023 before thinking about buying.... at which point you will also be paying a more reasonable price, probably "discounted" by about 60% to 70%. This is what you will experience in your first hour of your "Journey" on this DLC: - in the Introduction you will see some very nicely modelled trains (they are truly wonderful looking models), including a fabulous first class interior on a MkI coach...... but then you take control.....: - but there is no manual (the DLC has not been completed to specification, so they can't write a manual....), so you are on your own with your steam trains....; - in the first service, if you try to stop your freight train with even a minimal amount of braking effort when going downhill, even when you have slowed to 1 mph, your freight train will derail and the engine will turn over (the physics for the combination brake is broken); - in the second service you cannot start your freight train because the consist includes fitted wagons that have vacuum brakes locked on and situated between unfitted wagons, so you cannot control the brake pipe for the fitted wagons from the loco (this would have been found in testing if they had tested the gameplay for less than one hour....!); - when the locomotives are at a stand the fireman/woman will constantly keep the fire super-hot so that the emergency pressure/safety valve is constantly on and utterly deafening, although he/she does this with a shovel that has invisible coal on it; - the full manual firing simulation has not yet been developed (water management is supposedly planned for some future update...), although this is fundamental to a steam train simulation (and present in 2013's Train Simulator)...; - the safety valve will obliterate the rest of the audio (chuffing, etc.) most of the time you are running and there is nothing much that you can do about it, and in the first 'rescue' scenario even the dead-in-tow loco has the same problem for the whole run; - if you are not careful the fireman/woman will suddenly appear coincident with your avatar, with collision on, and you will be thrown from the footplate - if this happens when the train is moving you will lose control of the train; - when you do get moving and maybe have brief respite from the safety valve for a minute or two, you will realise that the train makes no sound over any track joints and there is no reverberation from walls/tunnels/bridge supports (which is something you do get in the 2013 version of Train Simulator...); - the physics on the 6P Jubilee passenger train with a rake of MkI coaches is a joke, it's like a MagLev on acceleration... maybe they used the London Commuter Electrostar EMU physics as a baseline... (the 8F with a mixed rake of loaded wagons is pretty good though); - there are hardly any other trains around, including around Crewe station (in 1958 - maybe there was a pandemic that year...?), but there is still a chance that somewhere on the map a badly scheduled AI (or something else unseen) will cause a SPAD which will end your game without warning; - although the route scenery is generally quite attractive, it is very poorly optimised with memory being swallowed up by scripted track that appears on the map widget but can't actually be used (yet...?); - on my PC (well beyond the recommended spec for TSW 2), any interaction with a train control (HUD widget) results in a long freezing studder (up to about a second), and this happens everywhere on the route - the memory is that badly stacked; - some of the builds (such as over-bridges) have very poor texture work, so that you can see the stitching between the prims, and some flooring has no collision so you can fall through the map's ground. This is a DLC that DTG says it is "proud of", yet they couldn't even be bothered to play-test their unfinished release candidate for this DLC for just one hour - because all of the above problems are immediately obvious in the first hour of play. The safety valve issue alone makes the DLC largely unplayable - unbearably so. You can, of course, mute all of the audio and play the DLC in silence... Taking screenshots around Runcorn with a UE4 sunrise (with audio muted) is about the only positive experience available on the route, although even that will be spoiled by the jet of steam blowing out of the safety valve, so even your screensaver images will serve to remind you of the terrible time you had with this DLC. NB: It is even worse if you are on XBox or PlayStation. The lack of optimisation on XBox means that some players are having random crashes (on a console...!), and of course there is no headroom or priority to fully play sound, so many sound loops get jack-hammered. On PlayStation, nobody has checked (as usual) to see if the final build has problems with LoD (detail level) or poly count/priority (which are handled differently on PS when cooking from UE4), so those players can't even see much of the loco cab controls or much of the scenery. It's a total disgrace. This is a DLC where DTG genuinely had a chance to shine, and to show off the undoubted skills of their artists. But yet again, the poor production, co-ordination and management of many talented people, the lack of testing and the rush to release an unfinished product has spoiled the show. Avoid this DLC until it is completed and been tested and shown to work... sometime towards the end of 2023.... or maybe 2024....
• gamedeal user

  Jun 3, 2022

  First off, this content is fantastic, and the loco is super fun to drive.. With that said, it is absolutely infuriating to spend 45 minutes on a route, end at the final checkpoint to a stop only for the train to fall through the map, and fail the mission for derailment. This is absolutely unacceptable, and because of it (happened more than a couple of times) until fixed, utterly unplayable.
• gamedeal user

  Jun 3, 2022

  So the trains look beautiful and the sounds are not too bad. This DLC as a lot of bugs it wouldn't be a DTG product with out them....it's amazing how they showcase the DLC and then we get some different but apparently they knew about these issues...and in true DTG form released it anyway. Will they ever fix it we will have to wait and see. My first hour with this DLC was simply could not get the loco to move then finding out it's a wagon brake issue. It's negative due to it was the most anticipated DLC and it's just not in a state to be released. I sure fixed will come but for now don't worry about this DLC