ThomasFanForever1856
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Long time Trainz user here. Have been using the program since 2015 to film videos on it about Thomas & Friends. Sadly, with Trainz 19, I feel there is a lot left to be desired. I have Trainz Plus, so I pay a "pretty" amount of money to get access to the latest "cool features" that were promised when subscribing to it. Unified Surveyor/Driver and the new camera's was the best update to ever come out of TRS2019, which was at the start of 2019 I believe. Since then, there haven't been much "cool features" for the normal, regular Trainz user in my eyes.
I know Surveyor 2.0 is coming, but we are at the end of 2021 now, 2,5 years later, and I feel my Trainz experience has only gotten worse since those cool updates at the start of 2019. I was hoping for a fix (to all users) for the glitchy, low resolution shadows, which has been there since TANE (2015!). I was hoping to see more cool features like an improved weather system (with return of lighting for example), content foundry that was announced YEARS ago but now we hear nothing about. Since SP3 things only got worse, with camera assets not working properly and the team not trying to fix that function, wheel slipping issues that weren't there before, and the height adjust that was not working properly for a long time, unless you updated to an unstable "beta version".
Don't get me wrong, I appreciate the efforts that went into stuff like Multiplayer and/or the TNI Physics, but I don't know many people who really asked for that, and the TNI physics haven't really done much for me either, apart from the wheel slip problem!
The goal with this post is that I hope N3V with it's limited team can prioritize the stuff fans/creators really want. Updated visuals, better lighting, fixed shadows, better weather system, new skybox system, content foundry etc.
I know Surveyor 2.0 is coming, but we are at the end of 2021 now, 2,5 years later, and I feel my Trainz experience has only gotten worse since those cool updates at the start of 2019. I was hoping for a fix (to all users) for the glitchy, low resolution shadows, which has been there since TANE (2015!). I was hoping to see more cool features like an improved weather system (with return of lighting for example), content foundry that was announced YEARS ago but now we hear nothing about. Since SP3 things only got worse, with camera assets not working properly and the team not trying to fix that function, wheel slipping issues that weren't there before, and the height adjust that was not working properly for a long time, unless you updated to an unstable "beta version".
Don't get me wrong, I appreciate the efforts that went into stuff like Multiplayer and/or the TNI Physics, but I don't know many people who really asked for that, and the TNI physics haven't really done much for me either, apart from the wheel slip problem!
The goal with this post is that I hope N3V with it's limited team can prioritize the stuff fans/creators really want. Updated visuals, better lighting, fixed shadows, better weather system, new skybox system, content foundry etc.