0.9.4 update TODAY - WINDOWS / MAC / LINUX updates
The May24th 2020 update is going live to all platforms today. If you missed all the new features coming to this version you can find the detailed overview in this thread but I have pointed out the new features with images to this post as well.
1. TRAIN INTERIORS
2. Freight train additions
3. Freight terminal additions
4. Cleaning staff's zoning (planned feature)
5-6-7. New VIP areas, carriages
8. Large Restaurant Court
9. Food Truck
If you find any errors or problems platfromwise please report to this or any other threads so I can investigate and fix that for the next update!
Thank you guys!
0.9.3 update AVAILABLE NOW - WINDOWS BETA BRANCH
Hey Everybody,
Finally 0.9.3 update is for for Train Station Simulator. This new update is only available for PC / Windows right now. With your help I need to sort out errors and bugs before I upload the MAC and Linux versions as well.
Let me show all the added new features one by one with the images:
1. TRAIN INTERIORS
I have enabled train interiors for most of the train carriages (except for a few ones). In this update you will not see passengers sitting in the train carriages it will be added later on and some interior changes will come as well. But feel free to test the game and see what each of the trains look inside. Here is a few screenshots:
2. Freight train additions
Many more new freight train types have been added. With some new cool looking engines and also the addition of new carriages. The new type of goods will be added to a latest update to your freight station and it will generate different amounts of revenue. This will result more fun of the freight option of the game. See a screenshot of one of the new trains:
3. Freight terminal additions
Moreover not just new trains and engines will appear but players will be able to create a more complex freight termina. Right now I only enabled the new buildings for a look and overview but the freight terminal will be more detailed by time. New train types also appear on your freight train track time to time.
4. Cleaning staff's zoning
The zoning option for cleaning stuff is almost ready. I can show you a screenshot what it is like in the game. Unfortunately it is not working yet properly, hopefully in the upcoming weeks I can finalize this function as well. New zonings will look pretty nice.
5-6-7. New VIP areas, carriages
There is a new VIP Shop a Jewelry shop. You can influence your VIP passengers with these new VIP only facilities. Your VIP passengers might feel more comfortable and happy if they see greater shops for their needs. The antique VIP carraige is not yet finished but will come in the upcoming weeks as well. Jewelry shop is available in 1980-2010 years.
8. Large Restaurant Court
Now you can place a much larger Restaurant area to your station with a larger variety of food types. Check it out. Available in 1990-2010 years.
9. Food Truck
A new larger food truck is available to your station as well.
I have managed to fix a few bugs. There was a major problems with the UI not in place in some versions of the game. It seems to be fixed now, but multi monitor setup might have some more problems still. I will look into those problems in the new updates as well.
I have also managed to fix a few object related error, issues not placing benches properly.
That is for now with this update if you find any problems please report it in the thread or in the community session of Train Station Simulator.
I continue improving this update next week so I can release it on the PUBLIC BRANCH as well as soon as possible. Moreover to Mac and Linux users.
Thank you guys, hope you will like the new features and graphical elements.
Train Station Simulator Team
0.9.3 update coming on 24th May 2020
In 2019 Train Station Simulator got many major updates. 2020 will be a continuing year for major updates and the testing of new features. The game may will see a final 1.0 release version as well in 2020.
The greatest update I have made last year was the complete re-coding of Train Station Simulator. I have been finalizing this re-coding for some time as some bugs have not yet been pacthed in the game. With the new code I can happily update the game much-much longer.
Let me show your the nine new planned features for the 0.9.3 update:
1. Train Interiors
I plan to enable this features in 0.9.3 version so if you hover your mouse over the train carriages you will be able to see the trains interior and moreover you will be able to see the train filling up with passengers.
2. Freight train additions
You will see many more freight train types in the future. With some new cool looking engines and also the addition of new carriages. The new type of goods transported to your freight station will generate different amounts of revenue. This will result more fun of the freight option of the game.
3. Freight terminal additions
Moreover not just new trains and engines will appear but players will be able to create a more complex freight terminal with more trucks and this will also generate more revenue.
4. Cleaning staff's zoning
This major update will add a special feature for some of your staff members. From now on you will be able to add special regions to your cleaning staff members so you can prioritize some parts of your station. Also you can use the same old classic way as per default but this will add some new dimensions to your station.
5. New VIP partners
In the new version of Train Station Simulator some new VIP passengers will arrive to your station as well. For these very important passengers you will need to build more complex waiting areas with certain criteria. And happy VIP passengers will generate a lot more revenue!
6. New VIP areas
With the new VIP passengers you will have to ability to expand your station layout with a few new luxury facilities that will be used with VIP passengers.
7. New passengers carriages
Some new type of passengers carriages will arrive as well for these VIP passengers.
8. Underground restaurant court
More hungry passengers? No problem. You will be able to build a new larger food court to serve each and every passenger of your station.
9. Food Trucks
You will be able to add some food trucks along the street side of your game to serve passengers faster.
10. Console options, controller support
I plan to add controller support to the game but this is not yet clear if it will work properly on PC platforms as well.
Some new screenshots of these features will be announced before the update on the 24th of May!
As of now I plan to support the game for many years. You have seen major updates in Train Station Simulator since the first release. Last year was a bit quieter but that never means that the game have been abandoned but I am creating more projects as well and sometimes I cannot fully work only on one project. So please keep up guys with your support, ask questions, suggest new features and I will try to add them by time and also would love to hear all your ideas!
Thank you for all You Guys Train Lovers!
The 0.9.3 update is coming on 24th May 2020!
Stay Safe Everyone!
0.9.2 update with bug fixes!
Good Afternoon Train Lovers,
Train Station Simulator is getting some more updates and bug fixes in 0.9.2 update and also with this update the BETA program will go live to the Public channel so more users can experience all the new features.
This new version 0.9 build t450 will remain in BETA for a couple of weeks I believe so there will be time to find all issues and problems in this huge update. If any critical problems appear I upload new builds as well.
(You can access BETA channel by right clicking in your Steam Client's Library "Train Station Simulator" select "Properties" choose "Beta" sub and select "beta -" to opt in!)
PC:
Windows XP is not supported anymore. Vista and Windows 7 players will need to ensure they have DirectX 11 installed and SP1.
MAC:
OS 10.12.x is the minimum requirement to run the game on a MAC.
LINUX:
From now on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 64bit is the only distro that is supported.
BUG REPORTING
Enjoy the game and submit all your bugs are error findings to this thread !
0.9 update is coming this weekend on the PC BETA channel
Great Day to Train Station Simulator,
I know that some of you guys lost belief in this game but I am still here. However, I have not posted too much recently but it was not at all about abandoning the project but I had to work so much more on it to be finished.
Why did it take so long for this update?
So 0.9 update is coming to the BETA channel this weekend (4-5th May 2019). This is a very BETA update and you may face serious errors and bugs. The game have completely been re-coded due to some technical limitations and problems but this 5 months of re-building of the complete game has some great benefits. In the future, new features can be added so much easier and the game will be supported much-much longer. Stay tuned I will upload a new post when the final build will be out this weekend.
Is it coming really coming this weekend? (4-5th May 2019)
In short yes.
With bugs? Yes... some bugs will appear. First I upload the PC versions and after that I try to upload the MAC and the Linux version as well. This may take some more coding to work properly but it will come soon as well.
The added new features are very long and the bugfix list as well so let me put here all the details:
1. Re-coding
The game has been re-coded entirely. It has been optimized highly but some bugs can appear in the beginning.
2. Custom Timetable menu
You can now create 4 custom timetables in ENDLESS and Sandbox mode. You can set each train's settings by clicking the icons.
3. Custom Train types and length
You can set the engine, the carriage, the length and type of the train.
4. 200% more passengers. Maximum is now 500 passengers at once.
5. Redesigned Build / Object / Facilites
6. Completely redesigned Empolyees Menu
7. Redesigned all in-game icon layouts
8. Redesigned transportation menu and new transportation names
9. New Transportation graphics
10. New flooring tiles and new road design
11. New pavement design and new grass design and new tree design
12. Buttons added for passenger mood and ticket type
13. Ticket Machines when kicked by vandals now show 'Out of Order'
14. New region namings
15. Huge speed and memory optimization
Try the double speed with 500 passengers. It should run very smooth now.
Upcoming features that was not fully ready for this update:
- Train and station disasters and station evacuation
- Ticket gates
- New passengers
- Five new train designs
- Two new facilities
- Train cleaner units, track maintenance service members
- Train interiors
Bugfixes and improvements:
- new transportation names
- new passengers ticket icons
- much smoother mouse zoom in and out
- much smoother mouse navigation
- improved smoke animation
- improved staff animation
- kicked machines now show "out of order"
- floor crack generation has been disabled
- maintenance workers can fix kicked machines
- redesigned police officer AI
- menu click areas have been improved (close, or set buttons)
- transportation bus: now day and night graphics with door opened / closed
- transportation trolley bus: changed to trams
- door placement bug fixed
- closable entrance doors fixed
- speed switched new graphics
- missing / non working achievement fixed
- new day icons graphic
- locker room graphics improved
- train graphics code completely redesigned (this will allow adding new train graphics so much faster)
- cleaning managers menu improved
- zoom in and out icon added
- analog and digital time indicator added
- changing to 24hour time layout from 12 hour PM/AM
- redesigned tutorial layout and icons
Continued Edit:
- arrival passengers only appear to platforms not onto grass - fixed
- menu texts have been simplified: more icons less text
More to be added but I did not make note about all changes so I might add to this list more.
Thank you guys for all the support in the past and hopefully I can add more and more to Train Station Simulator.
January Update
Hey Guys,
Thank you guys for all your support in the past year and I really appreciate all the active users being with the community and every new players of Train Station Simulator.
Train Station Simulator has been in Early Access for a little more than 1 year now and I have enabled lots of new features during this time.
1. "Where the hell is the latest update? I have waited so long!"
You might have realized that the last update of the game (especially on PC and Linux) was in Autumn and I have promised a huge update that should have arrived during 2018. Unfortunately I could not finish up all features and find all the solutions for problems in time that is why this
update is being delayed.
The game is actively developed every day but the main reason this new update takes so much time to be completed is more technical related. Train Station Simulator is being developed using a third party game developer engine. This engine got a very large new update during the time of the development of TSS. Right now the old version is still works but I decided to migrate the game to the new version of this engine and I bumped into a few serious issues during this work. The game works more or less but the code needed enormously big re-designing even to be able to work the same way as it did before this update.
Right now the main sections of the re-code is finished but still I find some nasty bugs every other day with testing.
I cannot tell an exact date when the migration will be finished and all the new features will also be ready but I am on it and doing as much as I can to release the new update.
2. Leaving Early Access:
I plan to finalize Train Station Simulator in 2019 so a first 1.0 version might come to Steam during 2019 with some more features added during this year.
I plan to continue support for the game and adding regular bug fixes, optimizations and new features upon your requests and ideas. I really need community feedback to decide which features would be the mostly wanted for the game in the future.
Thank you for your continued support and sorry for the recent delays. All these delays are for the benefits of the game so no time wasted during this time. Hopefully the 0.9 update is arriving soon and we can together with the community continue planning new features for your favorite Builder Simulator game in Train Station Simulator!
Thank you guys!
Happy Birthday Train Station Simulator!
Hey Guys,
One year ago, TODAY Train Station Simulator was born. This first year of development was a fun and exciting time with hundreds of new features added to the game by day upon your feedback and requests.
The game is still in Early Access and active development however patches are coming not every other months or weeks I try to create larger updates on special occasions.
Latest update:
The largest update yet is 0.9 t450 I have been working on for 3 months now. This update is not yet fully functional but I will continue development during the Christmas holidays to be able to bring it to all of you soon.
You can read all the details about the upcoming 0.9 t450 update here.
A year with Train Station Simulator
We cannot pass on this HAPPY BIRTHDAY without mentioning all the great work I put in Train Station Simulator in the past year.
The work goes on developing and making Train Station Simulator a much better place for all players.
Thank you once more for your continues support for the existence of Train Station Simulator!
Let me show you all the major functions that I have added to the game in this wonderful year.
Pause Mode with Statistics on most objects - added ✓
Out Of Memory issue solution - resolved ✓
Cargo Manager Employee - added ✓
Ticket Gates first tests - testing ✓
More Cargo features coming - lifters and trucks - added ✓
Station Evacuations first tests - testing ✓
Emergency Doors first tests - added ✓
New Objects and Facilities: train restaurant, new objects - added ✓
February 2018
Station WiFi Internet Zones - added ✓
Station Security Camera Zones - added ✓
Advertising posters - added ✓
Underpasses between platforms - added ✓
Bookshelves for passengers to read and relax (in the indoor park area)
Linux version Stable - added ✓
Continued bug fixes and improvements - added ✓
Audio Localization: French - added ✓
Mac Branch First Tests - not working right now. :(
Lighting on lamps and some objects in dark - added ✓
Setable Doors - added ✓
Graffiti Artists - added ✓
Beggers and homeless passengers - added ✓
Thieves, robberies and bomb threats - testing ✓
Station Evacuations Stable - added ✓
Emergency Doors Stable - added ✓
Weather system first tests - added ✓
Weather related disasters first tests - testing ✓
New Objects and Facilities: new objects, more objects - added ✓
In-game tutorial - added ✓
March 2018
Build menu option lagging solution - added ✓
Build menu demolish option lagging solution - added ✓
+50% more objects in certain game eras - added ✓
CCTV camera system - added ✓
Advert Billboards - added ✓
WIFI Zones - added ✓
Homeless persons - added ✓
April 2018
New language: Spanish - added ✓
New language:Dutch - added ✓
New language:Italian - added ✓
New language:Norwegian - added ✓
New language:Hungarian - added ✓
Updated removal tool - added ✓
May-September 2018
New localization: French Audio - added ✓
More transportation: parking lots - added ✓
More transportation: tram lines, disabled person parking - added ✓
Graffiti artists - added ✓
Basic in-game tutorial - added ✓
Train Station Evacuation Button - added ✓
Force FULLHD Windowed mode - added ✓
More types of passengers: disabled passengers - added ✓
Underpasses between platforms - added ✓
Mobile phone Charging kiosk - added ✓
October 2018
First Stable Mac build added ✓
November 2018
Mojave OSx update added ✓
December 2018
Complete Re-coding of the game
Custom Timetable
Custom Train layout
Train/Passenger disasters
New type of passengers
Five new train designs
Train interiors
New staff members: Train cleaner units, track maintenance service members
Two new facilities: playgrounds and parks
New localization: Brazilian (Portuguese) translation
Moving smaller objects without demolishing and rebuilding
Planned upcoming future features
Continental graphical train packages
Live Events: VIP persons visiting stations worldwide REAL TIME LIVE, football matches and other similar LIVE events happening world wide at the same time for amazing Achievements and ingame income
Ticket Gates Stable later version
More types of passengers: elderly, children - coming soon
Mac version Stable - added ✓
Train accidents, passengers on the rails, trees on the rails - coming soon
Train cleaner units, track maintenance service members - coming soon
Lighting on trains in dark
New Objects and Facilities: new objects, moving walkways, recreation area
New Objects and Facilities: new objects, playground, park, animal relief area, er room. - coming soon
More types of passengers: smoking violators, distraught passengers
Text Localization: Turkish
Text Localization: Chinese (simplified and traditional)
Text Localization: Japanese
Text Localization: Brasilian - Portuguese - coming soon
Text Localization: Polish - coming soon
Redesigned Train Timetable - set arrival and departure times - coming soon
Redesigned Train Timetable - set engine type - coming soon
Redesigned Train Timetable - set carriage type - coming soon
Redesigned Train Timetable - set carriage numbers - coming soon
Different location styles: dessert, high mountain peaks, lake pond
Mojave MAC OSx update AVAILABLE!
Hey Guys!
I am happy to announce that after working for almost 10 days we have successfully fixed the issue affecting the latest Mojave Mac versions.
The hotfix is available right now to update version 9.1 for Mac! It is still not 100% perfect but the minimizing issue and disappearing game windows have been fixed. Tested on 1600x900 // 1920x1080 // 2560x1080 // 3840x2160
We will bring you some more news on the future update soon too!
Train Station Simulator Team
MAC support AVAILABLE NOW!
Hey Guys,
So along our hard work on the latest 0.9 update we have successfully uploaded a new fully compatible* MAC version the first time.
We have updated the Storepage as well so now the game is officially supported on Windows / Linux and finally Mac OSx* as well.
Beware that some errors can happen on the new Mac version and please report any Mac related issue in this topic.
More news is coming soon about upcoming cool features of the 0.9 version and new amazing screenshots!
