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I see a announcement that there will be some sort of TS2020 out next month. OK.

What I see here is never in my memory have so many people been working on so many routes, models, re-paints, scenarios for our dynamic simulator. To all of you supporting this great sim.... . Keep it up people. It just keeps getting better and better.

Usually, Train Simulator will get a new yearly release in September.

Perhaps we are still due the announcement when DTG's TS team returns from holidays?

It'll be interesting to see what happens as Dovetail tries to focus more and more on TSW but they can obviously see how alive the TSXX community is compared to the TSW community (or lack thereof).

DTG needs to make some serious improvements to TSW to entice the present TS19 players to switch over and abandon the old game.

If you forego better physics, lighting and sound at the moment (those should have been 100% OK right from the start), TSW lacks any form of creative user input that is available in TS19.

I can never envision console players creating routes using their game pads.
So if DTG tries to sell them fixed routes with everything cooked solid in perfect DRM'ed small packages you play and throw away when done, fine.

TS19's core engine is about 10 years old now, and although technically possible, I doubt DTG has the resources and financial means to give it a new and up to date game engine core that makes use of the tried and proven .xml blueprint system that every player so inclined can understand and work with.

Computer gaming nowadays is all about DRM to curtail piracy, to limit hacking and tampering because of online gameplay, and not into free roaming open world games/simulations that allow the user complete freedom to express himself in creative ways.

DTG's financial director for sure must know how the cost vs return figures of TSW compare with TS, at least they haven't given up on TSW yet.

Do you know of any TSW community apart from grumpy old gits squabbling with fawning fanbois over the pro's and con's of TSW?
A community only comes to life when there are tools to be used, ideas to be discussed, questions to be asked, a place to share the result of your work etc etc.

IMO only a reasonable bug free and useable editor can save TSW for the PC user that comes from TS19.

Why has this changed over to a discussion of TSW? Take it down there where the four or five of you are interested in it. This was started to talk about my enthusiasm with the dynamic happenings of TS2019 and hopefully if there is a twenty. I was commenting on all the good stuff going on with 2019. Right now after a year or so of it being pretty quiet it seems there is a lot going on and I couldn't be happier.

"some sort of TSW2020"

In hindsight, I just wished DTG would re-vamp TS with a new game engine, keeping all the previous and present assets intact. Just rendering them with a state of the art graphics and physics engine.

The only announcement that I have seen is that TSW 2020 is coming out on August the 15th. https://live.dovetailgames.com/live/tra ... tvkvYhKVHo No mention of TS 2020 on Train Simulators FB page.

Googling TS 2020 brings no results but just TSW 2020. Perhaps you should go to Specsavers Buzz.

buzz456 wrote:Why has this changed over to a discussion of TSW? Take it down there where the four or five of you are interested in it. This was started to talk about my enthusiasm with the dynamic happenings of TS2019 and hopefully if there is a twenty. I was commenting on all the good stuff going on with 2019. Right now after a year or so of it being pretty quiet it seems there is a lot going on and I couldn't be happier.

A TS2020 will more than likely happen. They probably won't announce it until August or September, as per their pattern.

buzz456 wrote:What I see here is never in my memory have so many people been working on so many routes, models, re-paints, scenarios for our dynamic simulator. To all of you supporting this great sim.... . Keep it up people. It just keeps getting better and better.

Agreed. There is a lot of good things happening with the community that is built around the game. It's been the creativity and effort of those people that have made the time spent with Railworks worthwhile.

Didn't TS 2019 arrive November last year?

It was certainly later than previous issues.