Patch - Build t430 - LIVE NOW [PUBLIC AND BETA BRANCH]
The largest update to Train Station Simulator since the game has been released 3 months ago. Please follow this article to find out more about all the new features and fixes you get with the upcoming update soon!
NEW FEATURES
+50% more objects in certain game era
CCTV Security Cameras
WIFI Zones
Advert Billboards
Homeless persons
5 new languages: Spanish, Dutch, Italian, Norwegian, Hungarian
Updated Removal tools
general bug fixes and improvements
1.+50% more objects in certain game era
We have managed to enable a lot more objects to each game era. Some objects are new and others are from older eras so now you are able to place your favorite benches, vending machines and plants in every game mode. In upcoming updates we plan to change these objects and we will add some more new items as well.
2. CCTV Security Cameras
We are introducing the great CCTV Security Camera system in Train Station Simulator. When you place cameras in your station you can cover the whole area of important machines and or places so vandals will not kick when they know they are in the view area of cameras. By selecting the cameras in the objects menu (only after the '90s) you can see already placed and covered areas and hovering above your station will show the area your new cameras may cover.
3. WIFI Zones
Placing some WIFI Zones into your station will help your passengers navigate more easily around and they will feel a little bit better. Moreover when we will enable some future features WIFI Zones will get some more important roles as well!
4. Ad Billboards
Now you can make your station more colorful by placing Ad Billboards to your station. In future updates you will be able to earn some extra income by placing more billboards in the area but right now it adds some extra information points to your statistics.
5. Homeless persons
In update t430 some unwelcome homeless persons will also arrive to your station. Beware as too many homeless persons will make your passengers feel unpleasant and it will hit your ticket incomes highly. Your police officers will ask them to leave their newly selected benches. If you employ many police officers the likeliness of new homeless persons are lower. In the future security cameras will also keep your benches free of them.
6. Five new language packs
We have continued to add more language variants to the game so the complete list now as follows:
Now you do not need to remove trees one by one you can build flooring, tracks and platforms over trees. It is such a great and easy way to start over a new, beautiful station.
General bug fixes and improvements
We have managed to sort out a few bugs and added some more fixes here and there to the code. Some major changes as follows:
Linux: mouse scroll should work for zoom in and out
Achievements: more achievements have been fixed
Car headlights: fixed and moved to look better
Night lights: changed on masks a bit
Working shift problems: some have been changed and modified
General coding issues have been fixed
More objects have been added and lots of text have been changed
Thank you guys. This is a huge update so it may contain errors as we had to change on more than 180 objects and modify their 1000s lines of code so please expect some errors here and there!
Thank you and hope to get more and more new features soon! :)
Patch - Build t427 - LIVE NOW [PUBLIC AND BETA BRANCH]
A quick patch is coming tonight that will address a few issues that have been bugged by our great reviewers and gamer community.
FIXES AND ENHANCEMENTS TO BETA AND PUBLIC BRANCH
- in certain positioning of ticket machines and booths generated a never ending loop making all passengers going crazy and not buying any tickets - NOW FIXED
- right mouse scrolling made it impossible to remove tiles or walls with right click - NOW FIXED
- Achievements now fixed: "The New Era" , "First Campaign Completed"
- Statistics menu: "Platform" text changed to "Tracks" to make more sense
- Staff members not working properly at night - NOW FIXED
- Cargo Worker now works more reliable
- Play and Fast Forward are not flashing anymore
NEW FEATURES TO PUBLIC BRANCH
- Train Restaurant - nice incomes and nostalgic style
- Coffee Box - passengers can grab a quick coffee in the morning
- cars are now older for the early 1970-1990 years
- 5 extra types of indoor plants
- 2 extra types of vending machines
- Hotdog stand
- All lamps have light effects on
- Most cars have their lights on at night
- More Police Officers Staff members added
- More Repair Man members added
- More ER personnel members added
A larger update is coming after these fixes within a week with some great new features and more fixes!
Thank you guys for your continues reporting and help!
Patch - Build t425 - LIVE NOW [BETA BRANCH]
NEW FEATURES
- Train Restaurant - nice incomes and nostalgic style
- Coffee Box - passengers can grab a quick coffee in the morning
- cars are now older for the early 1970-1990 years
- 5 extra types of indoor plants
- 2 extra types of vending machines
- Hotdog stand
- All lamps have light effects on
- Most cars have their lights on at night
- More Police Officers Staff members added
- More Repair Man members added
- More ER personnel members added
Enhancements to existing features:
- some more localization added
- German localization changes
- Doors can be set by right click as well
- general bug fixes
- station evacuation tests continued,
- general bug fixes and enhancements in the code,
- graphical updates
- Closed Pre-Alpha Mac first builds are being tested
- some nonfunctional Achievements will be fixed
We have planned many more new features for February in the RoadMap so we will update the game 2-4 times in February with lots of new content as well!
Check out what can be built in Train Station Simulator: a beautiful station by our great community member "Kurswagen":
Click and like his creation on the link to see it in LARGE :)
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1285170903
Train Station Of The Week
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1284178995
The Train Station Of The Week's pick is now a smaller but very nicely designed station with three trains parking at once.
Come and share your creations and your great screenshots with your friendly community members!
More Updates coming soon! :)
Patch - Build t400 - LIVE NOW [Public + BETA]
Hey Guys,
We have managed to add some new things to Train Station Simulator this week as well.
NEW FEATURES
1. Large doors can be set to: OPEN or CLOSED. You can click the small EXIT sign on top of the doors to set it.
2. Ubuntu Linux support turns official now so the Public Branch will include Linux build as well.
3. Vandal cars are arriving very less frequently if you build more police stations
Enhancements to existing features:
Shoeshiner guys were never paused - now fixed
Limo appeared weird after pause - now fixed
Door have been redesigned
Bricked wall doors graphics have been redesigned
all audio mutes when paused
when paused unlimited transportation could be placed - now fixed
overall code update for a more stable flow of the game
other bug fixes in the code and some graphical changes
Train Station Of The Week
Take a moment and LIKE this beautiful creation of our player-creator "Kurswagen" for building Train Station Of The Week!
We have addressed a few issues that you have been experiencing in a quick patch for the BETA BRANCH channel.
The PUBLIC DEFAULT BRANCH will get version t400 next week including all these beta features coming too.
Enhancements to existing features:
Emergency Exit cannot be placed in 2000 - now fixed
+/- keyboard for zooming has been added and fixed not to get errors if you reset your mouse settings
Black Full screen start up for some Linux version has been solved by not enabling the game starting in full screen after saving your settings files
A new type of cargo truck has been added that randomly appears instead of the standard truck
Vandal persons sometimes disappeared after returning from Pause mode - now fixed
Cargo handling had issues after returning from Pause - now fixed
Steam Save Sync has been fixed for Linux version
Some new language localization are coming this week and also we plan to include some more features that are on our RoadMap until the end of January.
Thank you guys for all your great efforts and help with bug tracking and all recommendations are welcome too!
Patch - Build t395 - LIVE NOW (BETA BRANCH)
NEW FEATURES
1. Emergency Exit Doors added
2. Cargo Managers, trucks and lifters
3. Right mouse button for "drag screen scrolling"
4. Partial French localization for all game texts added
5. Public and Beta Branch
6. "+"/"-" keyboard can be used for zoom in and out
You have to be on BETA BRANCH to be able to download the latest version!
1. Right click "Train Station Simulator" from your Steam Library
2. Select Properties / Betas /
3. Select from "Select the beta you would like to opt into" and click "beta"
4. Restart your Steam Client and the game should download the latest version. We will enable this version to the Public Branch after a few days.
1. Now you can place Emergency Exits in your station so in the near future when a station evacuation is needed due to any emergencies occurring your passengers will use these doors to leave the station as fast as possible.
2. Cargo Managers will be enabled so if you employ some new employees to your station the cargo handing will be automatic generating more income and a better service. Also some new animations will be added using trucks and lifters around your cargo area.
3. You can now drag and scroll using the right mouse button making it more easy to navigate on your station map.
4. French localization has been added for most game texts.
5. You can choose between Public and Beta branch from now but beta is very unstable for some time.
Enhancements to existing features:
- Limos acted weird after returning from Pause - now fixed
- Cityside pedestrians generating in Pause mode - now fixed
- More StreetNames added :)
- Avoiding some Pause related issues it is not possible to switch to fast mode from Pause mode - now you have to hit Play first and after that Fast
- Cargo handling had issues when using Pause - now fixed
- Main Menu texts have been redesigned to be more easy to read
- Certain language parts have been modified,
- Most German text has been updated and modified
- certain timetable issues - now fixed
- other general bug fixes in the code
Thank you guys. We have updated the Future RoadMap and you are welcome to add any other ideas or request to that thread as well.
Patch - Build t380 - LIVE NOW
NEW FEATURES
1. Pause button
2. Advanced object usage statistics in pause mode
3. More advanced vending machine finding AI
4. More advanced ticket machine finding AI
Some of use missed the pause button from the game so we managed to implement it for this update. But enabling an empty and boring pause button would not be much fun so we added some fun to it.
The new pause feature introducing an advanced "statistics view" that will show with colorful clouds ranging from yellow (low usage) through green (all good) to red (very frequently used) of most objects. Also we have enabled percentage to see all data exactly.
Statistics are updated every day and are not saving with the game so it is not updating right away needs a few minutes each load up to see stats.
Enhancements to existing features:
- After deleting all buffer-stops sometimes it was not possible to build new ones - now fixed
- Employee menu graphical glitch - now fixed
- certain language parts have been modified,
- Control Room in 2010 had a graphics overlay issue - now fixed
- certain timetable issues - now fixed
- other general bug fixes in the code
We are working on a larger update containing a few new amazing features.
COMING NEW FEATURE
In-Game Pause button with advanced object usage statistics.
Some of use missed the pause button from the game so we managed to implement it for the next update. But enabling an empty and boring pause button would not be much fun so we added some fun to it: the new pause feature introducing an advanced "statistics view" that will show with a color ranging from dark blue to white of the object usage in the complete station.
We will update this post when we will have the completely working prototype.
Also the following features are to be implemented during January:
FUTURE ROADMAP - UPDATED: 12 / January / 2018
January 2018
- Steam Trading Cards - added ✓
- Text Localization: German - added ✓
- Text Localization: Russian - added ✓
- Text Localization: French
- Text Localization: Spanish
- Text Localization: Dutch
- Text Localization: Italian
- Text Localization: Polish
- Text Localization: Norwegian
- Text Localization: Hungarian
- Audio Localization: German - added ✓
- Audio Localization: Russian - added ✓
- More complex passengers' AI: find ticket machines easier and find train door easier - UNDER FINAL TESTING
- General Bug Fixing
- Linux Branch First Tests - UNDER FINAL TESTING
- Stable and Beta Branch - UNDER FINAL TESTING
- Pause Button - UNDER FINAL TESTING
- Pause Mode with Statistics on most objects - UNDER FINAL TESTING
- Out Of Memory issue solution - seems to be solved ✓
- Cargo Manager Employee
- Build menu option lagging solution
- Build menu demolish option lagging solution
- Ticket Gates first tests - UNDER EARLY TESTING
- More Cargo features coming - lifters and trucks
- Station Evacuations first tests - UNDER EARLY TESTING
- Emergency Doors first tests - UNDER EARLY TESTING
- New Objects and Facilities: train restaurant, onrail buffet, new objects
- More transportation: parking lots
