Driver Assist System

[Janine]

Hello guys and gurls! :)

I just wanted to know where I can activate the driver assist system which was so highly praised as a new feature in TS16. How do I see or activate it?

Shy greetings from Switzerland, Janine.

[Bananarama]

I believe the only time this is active is with locomotives that have this feature built in. For those locomotives, there should be documentation on its use in the railworks\Manuals folder for your relevant country.

[robbit]

ctrl + a is how you activate it if the engine has it. The only engines that have it at this time is the ones the come with the riviera in the 50's route

[OldProf]

At present, I see this as a clever concept not very cleverly carried out. For now it's available only for the steam engines of the "Riviera Line in the Fifties". What happens is that if your driving is not up to snuff, little notes pop up and the controls you've mismanaged take on a golden glow. Unfortunately, the notes provide no clues about how to manipulate those controls and the cab camera is so close to them -- and not in any way adjustable -- that doing anything about the situation is nearly impossible. By the time you've fiddled around trying to follow those partial instructions, you've passed a red signal and slammed into another train or you're speeding. Having read and memorized the controls pages of the manual (in which the controls appear on one page and the key to them on another) would, of course, help, but then you wouldn't need the hints, would you?

I very much like the concept of assistance to drivers and hope to see it expanded to the more complex diesels as well, but with the changes suggested above. As one of my Jesuit teachers often repeated, "There's always room for improvement".

[Janine]

I see ... I don't like how DTG always praises new features and make them look game-wide, butt then just to find out that it affects only a single locomotive in the whole game and even then it's not really helping much. Isn't the first time I've gotten "trolled" by new features not being what they were praised to be. Oh well, thanks for all the infos and help! Since I don't drive steam trains, this is nuffin for me then. :)

[RudolfJan]

I believe the only time this is active is with locomotives that have this feature built in. For those locomotives, there should be documentation on its use in the railworks\Manuals folder for your relevant country.

It is nowhere documented for which locos it works and what it does. For the moment, it is completely useless.

[buzz456]

I think the comments have just about covered it all.