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Transport Fever announcement from Trains Fever devs.
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Yes I've seen this a couple of days ago too, looks really interesting!
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They are comparable. Imo Train Fever is more fun because it treats passangers as people not commodity.
In OTTD passangers don't know where they are going. Bus takes them in and unloads them at nearest stop. OTTD then later introduced "hack" in options to make some calculations where passangers might want to go but this is more like bandaid than fixing problem as passangers do not have again destination. they may choose station a or b but they can't choose c because to get to C they would need to switch trains at some point.
Train Fever is only game i know what does that for now and imo for that reason alone is better.
Aside from that it is really fun and it isn't only about trains.
rezaf
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I thought specific destinations for goods (including passengers and mail) were the unique selling point of Simutrans?
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This looks really interesting. But is there really a challengin, interesting economy behind it? Somehow the games look like model railroad plate simulators.
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Thanks
tripedal
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Release date has been set to November 8, they also put out a 15 minute gameplay trailer:
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My Train "Fever" lasted only 10 minutes 
I dunno what it is but there is something unmistakeably German about this game, that it is very well made but very boring. It's more like building your own model railway than playing a tycoon game, not that this is particularly bad but maybe a completely different genre.
I dunno what it is but there is something unmistakeably German about this game, that it is very well made but very boring. It's more like building your own model railway than playing a tycoon game, not that this is particularly bad but maybe a completely different genre.
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Try it more.
It is really fun game but 10 minutes is simply to little to get grip on it.
Don't start with trains at the beggining. Just focus on road type transport to get feel for game.
Once you understand how products flow to cities, how passanger transport works start building train connections.
Watching city grow when you give it proper transportation system is really fun thing.
It is really fun game but 10 minutes is simply to little to get grip on it.
Don't start with trains at the beggining. Just focus on road type transport to get feel for game.
Once you understand how products flow to cities, how passanger transport works start building train connections.
Watching city grow when you give it proper transportation system is really fun thing.
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I was just kidding mostly. It just did not blew me away, but it looks like decent autist fun.
kris
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Random maps?
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yes.
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Turjan
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Heh. They have all videos in German, too, which sounds about the same.
Buggy piece of shit. I am not sure if it was ever like that in Train Fever, but things just break all the time. Trains decide to stop, stations not getting goods. The kinda shit that should've been fixed years ago. Uninstalled it already. Got it for free.
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Seems to be the consensus from the Steam reviews. The game was rushed, should have been Early Access and an addon to Train Fever.
Would not be too hard on them because if only 2 guys do large games like this this is what you can expect. Doesn't keep them from demanding premium prices though.
I think I will check back in some months, a year maybe. Still need to play Train Fever which sits on my harddisk forever.
Would not be too hard on them because if only 2 guys do large games like this this is what you can expect. Doesn't keep them from demanding premium prices though.
I think I will check back in some months, a year maybe. Still need to play Train Fever which sits on my harddisk forever.
MadMaxHellfire
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what a shame, i was so enthusiast when i torrented it... looks like i'll delete it without even giving it a spin.
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I have the game already, but I'm playing something else at the moment, so I haven't touched it yet.
Train Fever was mostly bug-free, or to put it differently, I never encountered any bugs. Trains stopping was usually an error on the user side, because you had to think about where to put your signals and where not*. After a while you get the hang of this. I didn't have any issues with goods in Train Fever, either, but this has been changed in Transport Fever, so I'll have to see whether there's any truth to the reports. Most common user issue in Train Fever was the misunderstanding that you set up the first leg of your transport chain and then expect something to happen, as the system was completely demand-based.
But as I said, I first have to look for myself.
*To elaborate, my first error was not placing enough signals. With switches and diamonds, occupied track units can become quite large. After that initial issue, I made the mistake to place too many signals. The biggest clusterfucks happened when I let trains proceed to a point where there was no way for them to pass anymore ahead. You have to think these setups through for a moment. Also, you have to use the one-way signal function to make it work in some situations, like a double-tracked curve with diamonds on both ends (trains will always choose the shortest route). You can also set waypoints, like when you want to assign a specific station track.
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Train stopping issue was not related to the signals. It happened to me on a straight line. Train was going back and forth on it for ages and then just stopped. Wouldn't budge. I noticed late and just sent it to the depot and back out and it fixed it.
Thane Solus
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Improved but still bad, its more like an overpriced addon. They improved lots of things but has the same problem as with the previous. The industry its still a fucking mess, not many signals for trains, airplanes are a bit bugged, UI is worse than anything, music is fucking horrible compared to the Train Fever, it made go back and play some OpentTTD.
It seems very rushed, more like a cash grab. And they made enough money with the first, so ... ding! ding! wake up!
To make it even more retarded, now to make a industry chain work, you have to develop all of it to start the production and you get no info about it, many refunded the game or gave it a bad rating because they didnt knew that, thought its a bug, similar to the first one.
It has no soul, the only good thing is the way you can develop cities with the chains of industry, but overall it doesnt worth more than 9.99$. Of course that didnt stop them to sell 50k easyly with a bugged, broken design game. And that fucking map with no edges, looks like a hobby project in Unity...
When you see Perkel beeing excited about a game, 90% its vaporware.
It seems very rushed, more like a cash grab. And they made enough money with the first, so ... ding! ding! wake up!
To make it even more retarded, now to make a industry chain work, you have to develop all of it to start the production and you get no info about it, many refunded the game or gave it a bad rating because they didnt knew that, thought its a bug, similar to the first one.
It has no soul, the only good thing is the way you can develop cities with the chains of industry, but overall it doesnt worth more than 9.99$. Of course that didnt stop them to sell 50k easyly with a bugged, broken design game. And that fucking map with no edges, looks like a hobby project in Unity...
When you see Perkel beeing excited about a game, 90% its vaporware.
Severian Silk
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Too bad they can't somehow mix OpenTTD and X-COM into one game.
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