Time for a Positive 'Railworks Is Great' thread!!

[92212]

Now, before anyone suggests it, I don't have any ties with RSC so these comments are totally genuine. I'm no 'fanboy'!! Well not much of one anyway!

The Reason For This Post

I've been putting together some preview videos for the new version of the GCR. I've really enjoyed doing so because the whole experience within RW's is SO much more real than it has ever been! I watched back my old videos from RW1 and RW2 days. Well.........they were awful!!

I confess I've invested in a new computer since then, but not on anything like the sort of computer some suggest is required.

Yes there are some problems that bug me(get it?! - I'll get my coat!), but overall, the experience is very realistic. I look forward to TS2013!

Please feel free to comment on why you love this sim, despite its flaws.

Thanks for reading.

Matt

[TheTazman]

Interesting post. I will watch some of my older videos too.

[lenfish]

We know where you live.

Seriously though, I agree. It has its faults (well documented-you know who you are ) but I enjoy playing it. Never liked night time activities in MSTS but really like them in Railworks because of the lighting effects.

Regards,

Len

[nineercharlie]

Anything of this nature always reminds me of "There is no cause for alarm."

[michaeldono]

I can't remember ever being immersed in MSTS in quite the same way as in RWs. MSTS did look a bit cartoony, especially on default routes.

[hertsbob]

I am not immersed. I am not immersed. I am not immersed.



Actually, that's only a year and a half's worth of working days... I've been slacking!

[Rockdoc2174]

It isn't perfect but I find it great fun and spend a couple of hours - or more - playing it every day. And, to me, the last bit is the key - play. It's a game so I run the program to be entertained and, although it often seems to frustrate in equal measure when writing a scenario, it succeeds in entertaining me.

Keith

[karma99]

To me it's giant rail themed sandbox in which I can build and script and create things to run in a recreation of a historical era that no longer exists.
The tools can be fickle, the documentation is non-existent, and technically there are times it frustrates the heck out of me, but when you figure it out and get something working that's innovative or just plain cool, that's a great feeling. And it's just so darn pretty now with TSX.

Someone once said that you can drive trains in it and complete scenarios... I must try that one day!

[jimmyshand]

Despite the fact that many of us are seen to moan and criticise (myself included) it needs to be said that it's not out of dislike of the game, it's the complete opposite! Criticism is aimed purely at making the best even better. If it werent for the moaners then we wouldnt have seen the joys of cabsway, headlights and rain which were everyday topics of debate on here pre-TS2012! I've been playing this game in its various forms since 2007 and I'm still in awe of it today and never tire or get bored even for a second. At its basic level it enables grown men to play trains to their hearts content, from the comfort of their own homes and in never before seen detail and realism. However, that's not to say it can't be improved, hence the 'moaning'!I could play it all day if I could get away with it!

[Stone75]

Its too easy to compare RW to the game with their 50 million dollar budgets. RW does a very good job and the tallent of its creators always impresses both free and payware. Been playing PC games 20 years +, could not of even dreamed up this would be possible one day. Its impressive to say the least and i'm more than happy with it

steve

[lenfish]

If it werent for the moaners....................

I think the term "moaners" does you a disservice as it implies continuous negativity. I prefer the term critic;

"One who forms and expresses judgments of the merits, faults, value, or truth of a matter"
because it is evident from your post that although you have rightly pointed out faults, you also appreciate the merits of this game/simulator that a lot us love/hate in equal measure!

Regards,

Len

[vlado960]

I love this simulator because of... because my dreams come true Two years ago I wrote:

I noticed on the forums, there are 3 items that users would like to see (most of all) implemented in RailWorks. These are:

1. Headlight
2. Superelevation
3. Cab sway

Can someone from RSC team provide unambiguous and clear answer to each of three items. Will that be ever implemented in RailWorks (Does not matter how and when)? Please only respond with YES or NO.

If we get unequivocal answer, I think it would no more spilled so much energy to these eternal three questions. It would be better that the energy spent on something else. Personally, I would like to have this story ends up on the forums.

Regards
Vlado.

P.S. Sorry for my english

[david1]

I think some of the previous comments sum up railworks, i do moan a lot abouts its problems but like other comments thats to hopefully improve then game even more.

On the good side though i do use RW almost every day, and always keeps me entertained, having started late with RW only had for the last 2 years, i could not go back to MSTS that had me enthralled for so many years, due to the advanvces in technology, i have just completed my second scenairo for Brighton Mainline 1706 to Victoria to brighton set in the rush hour, i remember London to Brighton for MSTS i adding extra local service to a default activity and crashed it due to its limitation and that was not rush hour, RW handled it fine.

New effects that came with TS2012 have improved the feel of the game and make it more real, night driving feels real as the station are all lit up and darkness everwhere else and headlights that dont light up too much like the real thing, although i am not a fan of night driving in RW the effects are spectacular, i never like driving in the rain before was a bit pointless, but now with the effects i now like doing so, i also like having intermitant showers and when it stops raining the rain drops on the windscreen slowly disappear which is a great effect, i prefer this than full rain in my scenarios.

[jimmyshand]

You're quite right Vlad, the showcase features of TS2012 were the result of what users of the sim were asking for, primarily here on UKTS, cabsway, super-elevation, headlights and the bonus rain effects. Not quite sure where they're going with TS2013 but we'll see!!

I remember once commenting that I'd be eternally grateful to RSDerek for creating a virtual class 37 for me to drive at my leisure! As a boy growing up by the West Highland Line in the 80's I was a MASSIVE fan of 37's and never in my wildest dreams back then would I ever have thought there would be a simulated 37 in my own home. Back then my 37 simulator was a BMX bike and bucket loads of imagination! In the mid 80's "Southern Belle" appeared for the old BBC computer which one of my 'rich' friends happened to have. His was the only household we knew who had a personal computer! A gang of us would gather round his house and imagine we were driving 37's up to Fort William rather than the black and white grainy steam loco on the screen!! We were mesmerised back then by this basic line game, how I'd love to go back in time with a modern PC and Railworks to see the looks on those boys faces!

[ttjph]

Variety, and immersion (okay, maybe given a little suspension of disbelief)...

I like flying along in an HST with the AWS going 'ping!' what seems like every few seconds, and the scenery flashing past at two miles a minute.

I like slogging up the Cajon Pass listening to the deep throb of an SD-40 (or four!), and looking back at a mile of wagons snaking behind me.

I like balancing a powerful DBAG 101 on the dynamic brakes to keep just under the speed limits over the gradients of Hagen-Siegen.

I like listening to the familiar uneven idle of a Class 47 as I sit in a loop with a freight service, waiting for an express to pass.

I like rattling through the bleak Scottish landscape with the wipers pushing rain aside, and the wind noise mixing with the hum of a Class 86's traction motor blowers.

I like doing a tightly-scheduled stopping service in a Class 166, trying to judge the braking points just right so that I get all five coaches in the platform without wasting valuable seconds creeping along for the last coach length.

... and I've only mentioned one bit of non-core DLC!