Train Sim World®: Rapid Transit DLC

All scenarios exactly 35 minutes, all along one straight line. Thats all there is one straight line, what scenerio does is limit endpoints and change weather. Theres no challange, no red lights, no suprise events, nothing at all. . . . A lot of bugs unfixed still, camera bluryness, wheels at speed have some sort of retarded look, if you bother exiting from the train chance is you will be stuck getting back in, even station road underpasses and stuff are completely unfinished. There are areas at stations you can go to where the road will just . . . end. This is an end of the road for me and TSW.

Now sold as separate DLC after the TSW2020 update. I recommend this route, especially if you get the DB182 as well. Without that you only get the Talent-2 though, which is a pity. They made a big update for this a while back fixing the whole signalling system and PZB safety system. Therefore this route is now a joy to drive. The stations are recreated authentically and it shows.

TSW has a great deal of potential, however the current lack of rolling stock makes routes seem barren. This means central Leipzig looks like a busy city, but doesn't feel like one. There should be trains constantly passing by but either they aren't implemented because they do not run on the S2, or don't use a Talent 2. Finally, the reason I'm writing this review is my fustration at the PZB system. You will often be travelling at a perfectly legal speed under PZB and the emergency brakes will come on as soon as you press ackowledge. This often makes it impossible to stick to the timetable. If/when DTG fixes this issue I think I'd be happy to change this review to recommended, but given how many critical bugs still exist in RT I think it may take a long while, probably until their next German DLC. TSW also lacks a lot of polish, be that AI trains taking off like a rocket (with no concern for passenger comfort per reality), no passenger information systems (so you have no idea where trains are headed, or when they are due into the station. Despite a recent update that fixed some missing catenary, there's wtill plenty missing. It simply feels like either DTG haven't actually drove the route in it's full length, or they noticed issues and decided their customers weren't important enough to justify a 5 minute fix.

Having brought all of the DLC for Train Sim World, I can honestly say that I'm really disappointed in this one. The value for money just isn't really there. At £25, you would certainly expect more than a few scenarios that last only 30 minutes each. There doesn't seem to be enough going on. The environment is boring. There isn't enough going on, on the line. It feels like you are on your own out there, just you and nothing else. I wouldn't recommend getting this at full price. Wait until there are some sales going on and then pick this up. GWE was a much better purchase and DLC.

This is the last DLC I'll buy for TSW for now. It doesn't seem like they're going in the right direction at all. There is still no RailDriver support, the world feels even more deserted and empty than it did with GWE, and for some reason cab sway and sense of speed are completely missing from the train in this addon. Enough, I'll wait for them to actually tend to the "simulation" part of this so-called simulator before I spend any more money on it. If at least raildriver support doesn't come soon, I'm uninstalling this. Oh, and I had to completely uninstall and re-install the game for it to properly install this DLC - otherwise steam would get stuck on 100% downlad forever. Dunno if it's a bug in the game or with steam, but in any case if anyone else runs into this issue, that's how you solve it. Completely erase the game, and then put it back on.

Great graphics The game lacks depth and realism. Here is some ideas for a furture update ;-) 1. There is not a train depot and the opportunity to wash the train 2. There is no life and traffic in the streets/Roads. 3. Ai people lack proper dressing for the seasons. 4. Several AI trains and trains on sidetracks.

So... after an hour I think I have a little bit to say. This DLC looks stunning, and I am very interested in Germany and Europe. However... I might have been fooled by how good it looks and probably the excitement and hype that DTG are so good at produce. I will be very generic and do a Pro/Con here... Pros: - It looks amazing. More or less... more on that later. - Included stock is very detailed and user-interactive... is that even a word? - It brings a new world to TSW, Germany. That is hopefully a sign of expansion. - Signal lights fades when they changes... something I requested and I am happy that made it in there. - PZB is in there and functional! It has a few bugs though. - In service mode, you do occasionally have services formed of two trainsets rather than just one like in GWE. I don't know what more to say to be honest - EDIT: I forgot one thing that now that I think of it is quite important to me. For most part, the scenery and stations along the route are very immersive and detailed, with a few exceptions, and sometimes you will find details missing. However, visually route is quite detailed on most parts. Cons: - Features one piece of rolling stock, in one variant, which in real can be found in various different variants along the route. - Quite short maybe? 70 kilometers? I thought part of the TSW hype was that longer routes were possible. - The fact that it only includes one piece of rolling stock, makes spotting quite boring. Because what will you see that's different? - Another point to point route. No variety at all, more on that in next point. - Services are very generic. I have counted a total of 4 different services (yes, FOUR) to do in service mode, not counting the same service at a different time of the day. Scenarios are replicates some of these services, but only a part of a service. - It seems clear that creators of scenarios had a hard time to figure out what to make. 5 scenarios I believe it was, which also are point to point. Nothing exciting in the scenarios at all, unlike there were a few "unexpected" situations in GWE scenarios. - Various graphics issues. Catenary gantries are either invisible, or lives in a world where anti-aliasing doesn't exist. - Few general bugs that you as a Q&A team simply could not miss. And I am being serious there. Plus a few bugs that I don't know happen rarely or not. But those could go into a support ticket at some point. - Now this is probably not a point, but I will put it anyway. There is less than 8½ hours of "different" gameplay. As I said, scenarios are nothing special compared to services, so driving from one end to another and back takes around 3 hours. Now drive some of the other services or the scenarios, and you'd have a massive feeling of deja vu. To be honest, I wish the best for this, however as it stands now, I am quite disappointed and won't recommend this in it's current state.

Extremely boring 'tech demo' DLC with no rolling stock other than the one you are driving. I don't even care about the 4th scenario some how. Yes - every thing looks pretty, the BR442 drives pretty well but it's lifeless. It looks to me like Dovetail went: - we need something before Christmas - we already did UK and USA, so what's our third market? - hurry, get it done - What? - no we don't care It has no heart in it which is disappointing. Please redeem yourself DTG and give it a good upgrade - your Great Western was so much better. Why ruin your new series for the future at such an early stage?

I have played this DLC 240 Minutes right after release and these are my toughs. Did I enjoy playing it? Yes. Does the game play smooth? Yes. Does the game look good? Yes and meh but yea. Does it have problems? Yes. So I the most important thing is that I did enjoy playing it. I really did. But of course I can complain about all bugs and problems that we already know. But I don't wan't to do that this time. Ok maybe just a little. I just wan't the dev's to listen to me. I really know what the game needs. If they just listen to us it will fix everything. DTG just needs to listen. 1. Bring the route to life. More AI as in passengers, cars on the road. Maybe even flying birds and planes. And you guy's could even bring in the AI of the other lines that are running on this route. That is easy to do and will make it so much more fun! 2. Make the editor for third party content and steam workshop a priority. It will really wake up the whole Train Sim community. And big things will happen. That's a fact. And it could even help you guy's with ideas and DLC's. 3. One year ago you guy's already told us that plans where to release the game with multiplayer. And still no sign of it. At least let us know something about it. Because multiplayer will also be a ton of fun. But I think we will need the editor as well for that one. Otherwise people will get bored of playing the few routes that we have. 4. Make me a Alpha tester (and other people that really wan't to help out the state of the game). You guy's release DLC's broken/unfinished all the time and it's not good. I don't know if you guy's don't play the game enough or what. But I am a pro at spotting bug's and other elements that will help the state of the game. But you guy's need to release things in a better state. Even if it takes longer. But don't give us a release date and then tell us it's delayed. That would be the worst. 5. More tiny things you can use in the cab. Like there are a lot of buttons in the cab. But we still need more we can press on. There are small things that we should be able to play with and aren't that hard to implement into the cab. There are still buttons we cannot press that we should be able to press. We also should be able to open the windows on the side of the cab door. I mean it's a small thing. But still adds a chunk of realism to the game. The real drivers on this route us that window all the time to check if all passengers are boarded. 6. Announcements and displays. I mean like. This should not be to hard when you already have all the times of the services. The only reason I would accept that this still isn't a thing if it would display our delays and such. That would be great. But if not, I really don't understand how this isn't in the game. I mean. I think following these steps would make a solid game. I know it is easier said than done. But it's defiantly not impossible. You guy's need to show us something insane!

I've driven the whole route and these are my thoughts. [b]What's Bad?[/b] Firstly, the whole world just seems dead. There's no ambient noise, and there is very very little in other trains passing by - I ran the whole route (approx. 90 minutes) and passed 3 other trains, 1 of them was at the start of the game. For a major S-Bahn route it seems like everyone has packed up and left the area leaving just a handful of people behind. Secondly, there is no sway/sense of speed to the train either. A 160km/h run and there was nothing that gave me a sense of speed. GWE had that feel with minor sway, but there is nothing her, it feels like we've gone back to Railworks phsyics in this regard (not even Train Sim 17/18). The level of detail is really well done, however there is one section that completely lacks any overhead equipment whatsoever. At certain parts of the map it also seems like DTG (the developers) simply got bored, a lot of assets are re-used, now this isn't normally a problem and I'd overlook it but it's impossible to overlook when you've driven past the same factory with the same colour and same loading bays every 2 minutes. Mixing it up and having some of the factories just plain grey would be better. This last point is a weird one, but the seats fall out of place in quite a spectacular fashion. I've never seen anything quite like it, at the start of driving the train it looked fine (seats were correct etc.), but as time went on I noticed the seats getting more and more out of sync. At the end of the journey I walked through and grabbed some screenshots. [b]What's Good?[/b] The route is very nicely made. There's quite a lot of detail especially in the more urban areas, but as mentioned they've also seemingly got bored and just skipped over some parts without taking the same amount of care and attention. The train is also incredibly well made and the detail is fantastic, again however it does have it's issues as mentioned above. It's a German S-Bahn route and has electric stock. A first for TSW so it's nice to see. [b]Overall?[/b] Overall, do I recommend Rapid Transit for TSW? No, at least not in it's current state. The route is boring due to the lack of life in the world - this is something that could be fixed with custom scenarios once we get to that stage. The bugs are just weird and should have been picked up on in testing. And the amount of pop in is just crazy, three gantries ahead must pop in, I'm running Ultra settings getting around 50-90fps. The route is well detailed, and has quite a bit of potential. Unfortunately, it's once again another step back for DTG. With GWE (it had it's bugs but nothing game breaking/enjoyment breaking for me) my hope that TSW would be a really solid platform for the future of Train Sims went up. With this it's gone back down again. However, with all that being said, if you can pick it up for £10-15 like I did then sure go ahead. But make sure you have the Great Western Express expansion first. Missing Overhead Equipment: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1231540215 Seats have gone crazy: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1231540255 Seats have gone crazy: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1231540285 Seats have gone crazy: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1231541689