After just over 2 weeks, to be honest, I am very dissapointed, with the product overall.
4 out of 10 Kuju could have done much much better than this bug ridden effort.This simulator is so full of bugs, it should never have been released in this state. I think Kuju have rushed out this product, no doubt with the insistance of EA Games, to meet a certain deadline. What about the American Version? If America had got this version, with all its bugs, they wouldn't have been very pleased. I wouldn't mind betting that the American Version will have the patch included. Kuju are using the European Railsim Community to beta test this simulator. if you ask me, when they should have done it before release. I would have gladly waited another month to six weeks for a copy that was as near perfect, rather than what we have been given in this early release.
Why couldn't these new tools, that are coming in November, have been included in the DVD. I bet the American Version will have them and if the instructions for the new tools are as breif as the instructions that came with the sim, they won't be of much use to anyone
We have seen a few unofficial tweaks for KRS over the past few weeks, relating to cab view positions.
Even Matt has done a video, explaining how to change stock to be used on any route. Why couldn't this have been explaned in the instructions, which are about as much use as something scribbled on the back of a fag packet, especially to the novice.
The novice to rail simulating, has not been adressed at all. Ok for those that have had MSTS, because they know what to expect and how to understand how most things work. The instructions that come with KRS explain what certain things do, but NOT HOW TO DO IT! Not very instructive at all really.
Even the Program Folders are a bit confusing, not like MSTS, where everything speaks for itself, Routes (with names, not numbers as in KRS) Trainset & Consists in MSTS (which speak for themselves) instead of Assets, which eventually gets you to the Trains Folders after opening several file folders. This is okay for those that are familiar with going into the Programs Files, but what about the ordinary guy, who hasn't a clue about how to find where things are stored.
Sorry, but the Program File System for KRS could have been made much easier to look at, than it is. To delete a Route, you have to go into another folder and delete some of the text, not as simple as MSTS, where you just send the particular Route Folder to the Recycle Bin, or store it in another folder.
When the upgrade patch becomes available, to overcome all the reported bugs, it is going to be quite a long list. I have never known a new released game, to have had as many bugs as KRS has.
Let's just hope they get everything right with the patch.
I am that fed up with running the same scenarios, I have decided to uninstall KRS and put the DVD back in its case, until things are improved on.
I still have MSTS installed and always will have, despite its age and quirks, to me it is much better than KRS in a lot of areas. Decent looking rain, insted of the massive droplets showing in KRS and wipers that don't have any effect when running. The skies in MSTS are much more realistic than KRS skies, especially if you use Sky Conductor or Kosmos. AND the quality of some of the latest routes for MSTS are much much better to run on, Dorset Coast V4, Thames Mersey V4, Cannock Chase V5, to name but a few, than the default routes of KRS.
I'm afraid that MSTS still provides me with much more enjoyment for the present, whether this will be the case in twelve months time when KRS has improved, I can't say, but for the time being, I'm sticking with MSTS.
