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I think in the long run the more we get the word out about this, the more people will become aware of the potential it has..although no one has mentioned yet how it will be distributed,Steam Maybe…?
The devs have said that they will be distributing the game on Steam and in boxed form. Other sites might potentially sell Train Fever, but Steam is the only online provider confirmed as of now.
The main thing I would complain about is that the color changes while it puffs up.
Good point.
So I think we could live with a slightly changed smoke since the smoke is quite diffrent from situation to situation (weather, engine state). Maybe the developers could give us the chance to change the appearance of smoke for each locomotive.
Exactly, my opinions were coming from the American perspective where things might be different, too.
I think the devs already understand this, but smoke/steam is really unrealistic at this point. The color is off, at least the cylinder cock steam should be white, and the main smokestack should have darker smoke. Speaking of the cylinder cocks, they should only be opened the first moments after a locomotive starts from a complete stop, and the puffs should be synchronized with piston movement and the ‘chug’ of the locomotive, as should the main smokestack, it seems that it constantly emits a huge plume of smoke, even when the locomotive isn’t actually releasing steam (AKA, when it is stopped.) Overall, the steam/smoke lasts far too long, compare any real steam locomotive photo to one of the screenshots and that is definite, it also doesn’t puff up as much as real steam would. And, finally, there is no whistle steam.
Of course, as I said, I believe that the devs understand this, but I had to put all of this in since it doesn’t appear that the issue has been fully addressed in any of the recent screenshots (although one of the screenshots of the Class 218 features smoke, which already looks good, as far as I can tell.) Although smoke and steam don’t change gameplay directly, it is a detail that should be considered since you see so much of the stuff, so the more realistic it is, the better.Same here, I really want to see something new. I’ve been doing whatever possible to figure out anything, mostly from developer comments in threads and news posts. That’s getting kinda boring :/ Hopefully we’ll get something soon, it’s about time. I wonder what they are working on that would take longer than usual to make an article for, possibly stuff for the beta, that would be nice. Whatever it actually is, everybody will have to wait and see.
Ok, that sounds like a good plan on their part. Games like this have so many ways to go with expansion packs. As with just about everything else in the game, I’d love to see where they go with possible expansions. When they do make a US pack, I hope they put a lot of effort into it. There is a lot to US railroading, so it would be a huge project (hopefully). I hate it when games slack out on the section on American locomotives, especially in modern times. Hopefully Train Fever will be otherwise, I have very high expectations!
