Open OMSI 2

[haverfordwest]

This is great and gives the original game a whole new lease of life.

[NorthernWarrior]

I am going to try this later. I did grab that free version of Bus Company Simulator off Steam, but it’s a bit of a scam as it has a lot of features disabled behind a paywall for a Premium version, including the GPS map.

[haverfordwest]

Not heard of that BCS game Vern, is it more a management game than driving ? I got mouse steering in OpenOMSI it's a menu option, but it insists on using the up and down direction as accelerate and brake as well. Even though i mapped W & S for those two functions. Excellent free update though to run OMSI 2 as a 64 bit game.

[NorthernWarrior]

It's a management add on for OMSI 2.

I've been playing around with Open OMSI this evening and it looks to have good potential. Some of the buses were causing issues though - in London I couldn't set the destination blind up. Then I jumped across to Yorkshire and my Studio Polygon bus kept throwing up a message about the door brake being on (which they don't have), switched to a Veiling and that wouldn't move. So off to try something from Germany now.

It does seem to give better control with the joypad though.

[NorthernWarrior]

Well I got going on Berlin X10 with the O405 bus, only snag I hit on coming to save was a failure message. But other than that and the few wrinkles with the buses this is looking good and effectively makes OG OMSI 2 redundant.

[haverfordwest]

Vern apparently there a quite a few bugs, some of which affect types of buses differently. But i will stick with it as i believe it has great potential.
Mind driving is harder than doing it real world. 🤣.
Glad you are enjoying it mate and yes OMSI 2 is now only good for providing the necessary files.

[NorthernWarrior]

Quick tip - the save game appears to work okay if you run the game as Administrator. Must be a permissions thing.

[haverfordwest]

Good info Vern, thank you.

[NorthernWarrior]

Save game apparently fixed now. London routes run great on it. Finished a No.3 into Oxford Circus and now doing the 432 around the suburbs.

I need to give Lincolnshire another go later too as the stops and GPS were getting jumbled, but could be how the map is made as I know in OMSI 2 it didn't save the timetable progress, so on restarting you had to remember where you got to, reload the timetable and jump down to the next stop.

Only fly in the ointment I can see is that the original team seems to have split into people working on their own versions of the programme. Well I'll stick with the original one for now.

[haverfordwest]

Cannot get anything to work properly Vern. Keys do not stick when re-assigned, steering with mouse insists on taking on the accelerator and brake functions as well.

I can see me binning it, i have been playing a lot more Transport Fever 3 in the last week.

[NorthernWarrior]

Sorry to hear that Mike. I have been playing little else though having the joypad work half decent is a great help. Though I do think they should slow down some of the updates and focus on stabilising the core. One thing, certainly weaned me off TSW haven’t touched it in three weeks. Not even going to bother with the new Class 70 coming out this week, £15 just to do a handful of A to B runs then forgotten with the rest of the DLC.

[haverfordwest]

All uninstalled Vern, good to hear you are enjoying it though. That is excellent then regards TSW and the fact OpenOMSI is saving you money. Class 70 is not really my thing mate, if they had a Class 60 DLC that might make me install TSW again. Anyway it was the New Routmaster in OpenOMSI that broke the camels back for me, couldn't get it to do anything.

[NorthernWarrior]

Is that the Boris RM? I actually got it working on the Lincolnshire map but it needed a special hof file from the Fellowsfilm place for the roller blind and I had to turn off ticket selling as all the London buses are card or Oyster only, no cash desk.

Agree about the Class 60, or a decent 56 for that matter in TSW!

[haverfordwest]

Yes Vern the RM that is not an RM mate. I just couldn't get on with it and it just ups the anxiety and frustration levels.

Yeah i could live with a 56 as well, but all DTG are obsessed with are 66's and anything post BR.

[NorthernWarrior]

I bought a German bus last night, well more of a coach, the O560. Quite nice though it doesn’t have that lovely Cummins/Voith scream that the British Enviro 200’s and 400’s have. There’s a couple of other bus sets and maps I want to grab, but they can wait for the Xmas sale as - even with the better experience in openOMSI - most of it is a bit overpriced for what’s very old content.

Still, a poke in the eye for DTG that I’ve actually spent more on OMSI content in the last 4 weeks than I have on TSW in six months!