Railworks America

http://store.steampowered.com/app/53007 ... PX,1HWXI,1

Release date 16th March.

And save 20% if you already own any version of RailWorks or Train Simulator from the past, which I imagine everyone on this site does.

Pretty cool, they didn't have to do that.

That's cheaper than I was expecting, nice!

With 20% off I might end up pre-ordering it, but there's also those new locos .... hmm, decisions.

Done

dr1980 wrote:That's cheaper than I was expecting, nice!

Version 1 looks pretty limited in terms of content, so priced accordingly.

I expect most of us will have both old & new on our systems for a long time.

Diego

I won't pre-order TSW. First, I will wait the reviews, and after, I will buy it. I don't like buy without analyse. And just to save me... 6€/8$?

There is some discussion going on on several boards wether this is the nucleus of the whole TSW, to be expanded upon by routes and rolling DLC, or that every single route comes as a stand alone game with its own rolling stock DLC?

Also, has any roadmap been shown? ETA of Editors/creative tools? Multi-player?

No ETAs were given on any of that stuff.

Seems quite obvious to me it well work the same as TS2017, you have to buy the base pack and buy DLC for it as and when they are released. So if you don't buy it now and want to buy it when they release a DLC that you want, you have to buy the base pack with Sand Patch and the DLC. You might even get the base pack at a discounted price.

I'm tempted, but I am concerned about the performance question. My i5 2500k, overclocked to better than 4 ghz, with a GTX 970 does everything else I want to do just fine. That's a faster CPU speed than either their base or recommended specs; but I still have some concerns. I have no desire to run it at FPS below mid 20s, and I'm not upgrading, and certainly not for one application. So, as much as I'm interested in the new sim, I guess I'll have to wait to hear reports about performance first.

Sitting on the fence is actually a good idea. When it comes out, virtually every user will chirp either good or bad on their personal desk top, or heaven forbid, their laptop.
I too have a GTX970. One game in particular, Grand Theft Auto 5 plays and runs phenomenal on my system. There is so much going on in this game. Constant movement with crisp and clear graphics and color. Hopefully DTG's development crew has optimized TSW in the same way. I gots my fingers crossed.

I won't pre-order TSW. First, I will wait the reviews, and after, I will buy it. I don't like buy without analyse. And just to save me... 6€/8$?

If you don't use it more than two hours you can refund the game from Steam. Review it yourself.

I bit and bought. I will try with my GTX 960 4GB card but I am ready to purchase a 1060 6GB anyhow.

Griphos wrote:I'm tempted, but I am concerned about the performance question. My i5 2500k, overclocked to better than 4 ghz, with a GTX 970 does everything else I want to do just fine. That's a faster CPU speed than either their base or recommended specs; but I still have some concerns. I have no desire to run it at FPS below mid 20s, and I'm not upgrading, and certainly not for one application. So, as much as I'm interested in the new sim, I guess I'll have to wait to hear reports about performance first.

That sounds a good set up, young man, a lot better than some others, however, as is often the case, it's how smooth the game plays, rather than having to frame rate watch all the time, I assume that as this is the base game it should all work out of the box to everyone's satisfaction, it's after a few years time when we've added lots of DLC packs and 3rd party content that our machines might start to cough and splutter, but, that's way way into the future, not something to be worrying about now, and as you are all likely to have this game for the next 5/10 years, obtaining it NOW for such a miserly sum of money surely can't be denied, I just can't understand the reluctance to part with your cash, such a load of cheapskates on here, you must all be from Yorkshire.

The one thing I did think about the other day is that I can imagine the Steam servers will have a hissy fit on the 16th with all the traffic, so, it might be worth waiting until later in the day for you North Americans, when all us Brits & Europeans have gone to bed, before you download your 20/40 GB installations, I personally remember installing the BETA version around Midnight when that was released, I can hazard a guess that it will be 10 times as worse this time around.

Cheerz. ex-railwayman.