Century Of Steam

[SurvivorSean]

OK all you guys who wanted a really good Steam Simulator, look what just got announced.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAlFom1GQxg

[eric]

Pole switching? There's a feature I hadn't thought about seeing in another simulator.

[SurvivorSean]

Honestly despite being over 50 and a fan of railroads since I can remember, I never knew of such a practice. Amazing!

[eric]

It fell out of favor in the 50's. Older locomotives including first generation SW/NW/GP/ALCO/Baldwins have the indented pockets on the corners where the poles would be seated.

[Nels_Anderson]

That looks really interesting...

What we mostly think of as trainsimming really only covers a small portion of the history of railroad...for the most part, there seems to be little that allows simming of the first 100 years or so. Having something dedicated to an earlier time period like this will make for a nice change.

[SurvivorSean]

Yeah I'm not much of a steam buff but I'm very appreciative of history and the chance to possibly shape and built it. There was another video that analyzed that 2 minute video I want to share here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnA_2DrB64g

Turns out this 2 minute video shows some Easter eggs. In reading the description on Steam it mentioned both strategy and simulation for a period of 100 years between 1869 and 1969. It also appears that this is Narrow Gauge. Haven't noticed any indication of dual or standard but to me a train is a train.

The description had me reading between the words thinking this may very well be both a tycoon and a simulator where you shape the railroad the way you want to build it. The president Hyce was part of Railroads Online as was a few people on this project. About a year ago there was a change in some of the leaders of that project, and sure enough this project has been active for 1 year.

But if you watch that video which goes into plenty of details (most I'm not intersted in because he talks about different classes of steam etc.) I'm more interested in what I missed in that small 2 minute video.

There is a scene where there is a hill that has no railroads in it. The very next scene shows a cutting with a railroad and a train. Another scene shows 2 cars with rails and ties on a spur that appears to have new ballast as if it's being built.

Railroads Online was what I called revolutionary because it actually allowed you to build your own railroad network in the 3D world to hook up to industries and towns the way you wanted to build it. However you could never change the shape of the land only build bridges and find different ways of getting through it. What this is looking like to me at the very least is dynamic scenery that can change as you see fit. How far that goes into the strategy aspect remains to be scene.

That part has me really excited.

Thanks

Sean

[NorthernWarrior]

Multiplayer only not going to interest me though.

[SurvivorSean]

Where did it say MP only? Railroader works fine in single player. Believe it or not I want something in single player and I'm trying ways to figure out how to develop one for a long time now. We already have enough simulators focused on MP.

Thanks

Sean

[SurvivorSean]

To close off the last post, from what I can tell this is going to be a sandbox and it should work single player or multi-player. I haven't confirmed this yet but I'm pretty sure it will. These guys are big on options.

Now on to the latest and greatest info. There is a video of gameplay from the demo they used at a narrmow gage convention. Remember this is pre-alpha but dang is this looking and even better sounding impressive. I missed a month ago about whistles because to be honest I didn't care that much. I'm not even a steam guy, and the sound alone with patented software that simulates the horn not plays a recording is incredible. The echoes in the canyon, the rumble of the train. Absolutely incredible stuff.

Amazing stuff, and this is just the beginning.

Sean

[alvinkathage]

To close off the last post, from what I can tell this is going to be a sandbox and it should work single player or multi-player.
Sean

This is what I'm interested in finding out. Knowing I could play single player in a sandbox mode would sell it to me more than things like having dozens of different accurate whistles for locos that aren't even going to be in the game.

[SurvivorSean]

All those whistles are in the game. I can't confirm sp but the demo shows it.

[alvinkathage]

All those whistles are in the game. I can't confirm sp but the demo shows it.

I know, I've watched the demos, but the locos they belong to aren't. I watched as he scrolled down the seemingly endless whistle menu and wished for just a few of the locos (many standard gauge that are not going to be included in the game) they were from. Just hoping they are not directing too much effort into 'bells and whistles' as it were at the expense of operational game play.

I'm holding out great hopes for this but so far the demo has only shown a single train being run around a loop of track with no switching or other operations.

[haverfordwest]

Just what a train game needs, 50,000 different whistles. No interest to me i do not enjoy North American steam.