glenn68 wrote:So the update out now?
Glenn
No it is not. They haven't revealed a release date, but my guess is that it will be in the next few months. Other than new tracks being laid (as the photos showed), I haven't read any details as to what beyond that they are going to fix or add to.... if at all.
The bugs I know about personally are the tunnel entrances with transparent polygon faces where you can see scenery beyond it.
Then there's the A.I. train issues. WEIRD BUT TRUE STORY-----"Under Pressure" is the longest run of any RW route and is a heavy 100 car coal train from Sparks to Roseville. I was about 2/3rds the way down the western grade when I had one put on a collision course with me. I couldn't avoid it since there was no crossover track in that section and didn't see it until it was too late. Smacked it head on and derailed. I went to an earlier save that gave me just enough time to stop a mere 20 feet from an opposing signal. I sat there and the A.I. train stopped at that red signal. I then saved.
I didn't want to start over since I'd put so much time into run and I was in the home stretch to Roseville. So I put the train in reverse on this fairly steep grade, threw on the sander and went Run 8 since any lower of throttle wasn't helping at all. I was getting non-stop wheel slip, but it was moving..... but literally only about a 1/4 mile per hour like speed.... if that. The plan was to reverse long enough to reach a crossover and salvage the run on the other track. But the crossover was so far away that it would have taken hours to get there at the current speed and grade.
I quit and brainstormed. I reloaded the save with me stopped head to head at the signal with the A.I. train again. I had never touched a parked A.I. train before. So my idea was to slowly force it down hill until I hit a crossover and move around it and finish the run. So I slowly moved forward and I LITERALLY drove THROUGH the parked train like it was an A.I. hologram.
So I was able to finish the run and complete the task.
I also had a VERY ODD moment on Cajon Pass in free roam. I wanted to make a monster train that used every single car and engine on the entire map. I was on the SB YARD TRACK 3 and I wanted to add the UP passenger train which is at the bottom (south) tracks of the yard. Being a few tracks over (north) of it, I was gonna have to backtrack west and south then back up to grab the passenger train. I switched to map view first to set most of the switches ahead of time. When I clicked BACK to cab view to start my planned procedure, the UP passenger train had somehow TELEPORTED 4 tracks over (North) to SB YARD TRACK 1 while I had been in map view. I no longer had to take the long way to grab them, Railworks READ MY MIND and moved it over to make it quicker to grab them. I was STUNNED!
By the way..... on trying to make that monster train with every asset on the entire map. I was able to do it with all the assets BUT ONE SET. It's the line of cars on Barstow yard track 24 I believe. Every time I''d get within a few feet of the couplers of either end of it, the whole line of cars would just instantly derail no matter what.
I was able to make the monster train MINUS those line of cars I wasn't able to touch. I was pulling out of the Barstow yard heading for the SB yard. Everything was slow but fine. I saved it and went to bed. When I went to reload it, the save crashed. I've had this problem hit or miss on monster trains and saving. All those hours of hard work down the drain. Someday I'll try again but without saving. Just a marathon session. I've heard that saving in cab view avoids this, but I'm not sure. I was in outside view when I saved.
A little tip on monster trains.....
When you want to stop it, especially on a grade..... set the handbrake of the LAST 6-10 cars of the train first. Cuz just air braking makes the cars bunch up and derail. Hand braking the last cars creates drag on the end and stretches the cars out..... thus avoiding a derail due to bunching.
I gave you FAR MORE then you asked for...... but I just had the need to share it with you and the others.
by AdmiralLeviathan » Sat Aug 18, 2012 1:06 pm 
