We have further enabled some localization features in this latest build.
NEW FEATURE - Christmas Tree Changed
Since it is almost middle of January it was high time to change the Christmas Tree to another Plant Decoration.
NEW FEATURE - German Translation + Audio
We have added more translation for the German localization and enabled the German speaking public announcer sounds.
NEW FEATURE - Russian Translation + Audio
We have enabled the Russian localization and enabled the Russian speaking public announcer sounds.
If you would like to find out what new features are we planning to enable in the near future visit the ROADMAP thread as we are updating it almost every day with new information.
Enhancements to existing features:
- sound and music compression have been modified,
- some text have been modified,
- Comtrol Room in 2010 had graphics overlay issues - now fixed
- some more timetable overlay issues have now been fixed
- other bug fixes in the code
Thank you see you guys!
Patch - Build t362 - LIVE NOW
Hey Guys,
NEW FEATURE - German translation test
During the weekend we have enabled a few things in Train Station Simulator again.
We have added the first test of the German translation of "most" game texts. It is clumsy still here and there and will not fit the menus perfectly.
You may also find typo errors or menu text overlay issues with the English version too as we have completely changed the way all text are drawn in the game. Now everything is coming from an external file so basically new translations may arrive sooner.
However some texts are still image based so we need to change on that in the coming weeks.
Enhancements to existing features:
- sound and music compression have been changed to run with smoother FPS,
- 2560x1440 should go to FULL Screen without an error
- few more timetable issues have been patched
- menu system have been modified slightly
- other bug fixes in the code
Thank you see you tomorrow!
Train Station Simulator - Steam Trading Cards
We are Happy to Announce the introduction of Train Station Simulator Steam Trading Cards.
What Trading Cards are for?
"Steam Trading Cards are virtual cards earned by playing games on Steam. Sets of cards can be turned into game badges and tradable Steam community items." Find out more on Steam's Community Page .
Thank you guys for all your feedback and support happy playing with the cards too!
Patch - Build t358 - LIVE NOW
Dear Community,
BIG SURPRISE TONIGHT
We are giving all your guys a HUGE surprise tonight. This super secret thing will arrive in a few hours of time and we will add another announcement for it.
We worked hard to fix a few irritating things for you for tonight.
Save Images Retired
It was a difficult decision but we have completely retired (for sometime or forever) the "small images" in SAVE and LOAD. You may find this sad as it looks great (when it worked) with the small images. We have added a few information instead of the image and will add some more in the future maybe to find your game saves easier.
The main cause we retired this thing is it seem have caused most of the time the "Out Of Memory" issue as we could not fully remove these images from the background.
In the future we may try to improve this but at the moment it caused more headache to everyone than benefits.
NEW FEATURE:
It is not exactly a feature but an interesting thing you may notice if you zoom in. On FULL HD and UP we have improved graphics by 25-30% so if you zoom in or you zoom out you will see significantly more details.
Enhancements to existing features:
- sound system have been redesigned and should eat up much less memory,
- cargo handling got 50% easier: instead of 12 clicks you need 6 clicks to unload the cargo
- a cargo-train horn sound have been added so you can hear when a cargo train arrives
- some timetables have been fixed again
- zoom out have been raised so you can create larger screenshots.
It seems that the game is becoming more and more stable and less buggy every other day and week.
Right now all seems to be near idealistically happening with the development of Train Station Simulator. Most of you like the game so far and we got many feature request and added many new options.
The next step will be introducing Stable Branch and Beta Branch along with the Linux Test Branch. By enabling these new options you will be able to choose between a relaxed more error free gameplay and between a supportive version that might will have crashes errors and problems but the new features will always there right every other day and week. This option is coming in the next weeks or so we need to find it out how to exactly enable this feature in the system.
Linux Test Branch also coming with this change but WE CANNOT recommend buying the game yet if you use Linux as we and our great fans need some time to test if at all possible to support Linux in the future.
A great supporter of Train Station Simulator suggested that we should open a Future Roadmap discussion where you can still submit request for features and options and we will try and update it with our Future Plans.
Thank you guys for all your feedback and support and enjoy Train Station Simulator.
Patch - Build t352 - LIVE NOW
Display Patch - 2
Thank you for your feedback. Now the game supports the following resolutions and we have checked them all (Win7 64bit):
Please if you use any other resolutions that are supported and seems to be working properly add it to the comment section or if you experience a problem go to the Resolution Problems Thread so we can further investigate it.
Hopefully everyday more and more aspects and resolutions will work as it should.
Thank you.
Patch - Build t348 - LIVE NOW
Hey Guys,
New year, new graphical settings.
As many of you with non standard 16:9 aspects and resolutions had difficulties and issues we have managed to test out a few more different resolution settings.
NEW FEATURE
We have completely changed the display settings that will follow your aspect ratio from now. So if you have 16:9 aspect display now you get the same aspect ratio in windowed mode. If you have 21:9 you get the same etc.
Right now we DO NOT support aspect ratio larger than 21:9. We continue development to get that work too but it seems most of you use 16:9 and 21:9.
We are always here to support other formats so please open a question in the community if you have any questions.
Thank you guys hopefully it is fixed for all of you!
Happy 2018 - Patch - Build t345 - LIVE NOW
Hey Guys!
Hope you guys had wonderful Holidays and had lots of fun.
Fun continues this year as we enabled many bug fixes and new features this year all along too.
NEW FEATURES
1. Mouse wheel scrolling
We have enabled a great new way to navigate in your games. Now you can push the mouse-wheeler to scroll around the map in the game. This is a very useful way to go from one end to the other of your game map.
2. Passenger AI large overhaul
We have been working on this for a few days now but have enabled for the first time for today's patch. On the one hand, your passengers got a little bit more clever this year and now they find benches more easily around your station.
On the other hand, passengers now rush only to the same train as their tickes is valid for so a Commuter will not rush to a CityLink train anymore.
3. Wide Display Experiment
As many of you reported difficulties on wider 3440x1440 or 5780x1080 monitors and any other resolutions that was not 1920x1080 we started testing a few things. This test has been enabled but as we have not yet managed to get our hands on a large format display it is not guaranteed that it will work at all. So we really need your help to continue reporting bugs and sending feedback.
UPDATE: we have tested the 3440x1440 but users reported that however if fitted their screen but FPS dropped heavily on these systems. Moreoever controls does not seem to work perfect. Tomorrow we give it a try again!
Thank you guys! Hope to hear your voice this year as loud as you did in 2017 and we can add more new features and address more bug fixes for Train Station Simulator!
Thank you guys!
Happy New Year! - Patch - Build t338 - LIVE NOW
Hey Guys,
We are wishing you all HAPPY NEW YEAR in 2018!
NEW FEATURES
Cargo Handling
We are happy to announce that we have enabled the very first TSS Feature Blue voted new options in Train Station Simulator: Cargo Handling
This is a new and not deeply tested feature so you can get errors or weird things. You will find your cargo rail track on the down part of the map. When a cargo train arrives its the players' task to unload all cargo container manually. In the future you will be able to employ a "Cargo Manager" who will handle these operations automatically.
The Good - unloading each container will earn you $5.000. Not bad at all especially in situations when you need money fast
- unlimited resource, cargo trains come and go often
The Bad - right now you have to handle this manually,
- in fast mode the ropes are slow: we wanted to avoid catching the ropes on fire! :-)
Advanced Loan System
We have enabled a few other options in the Bank Loan menu too. You can see now how many more days to pay your loans and you can pay it back at once also.
NOTE: sometimes you may realize that days and not counting back with your loan. That may happen if your balance is lower than the loan so you will need to pay the loan an extra more days later!
- graphical changes
- menu changes
- Ready Mode behaved weird after day 12 - now fixed
- some timetable changes and track issues - now fixed
- translations are continued to be enabled slowly
- wider screen (3440x1440 etc.) mode are under development
- out of memory issue is under investigation still
Thank you guys and we continue with bug fixes and new features all next year!
Now go and enjoy the night out!!
TSS Feature Blue - 1st and 2nd Round Winner(s) + Patch t333 - LIVE NOW
Hey Guys,
So the first TSS Feature Blue winners are the "Ticket Gates" and "Cargo Handling" for the first two weeks.
We will upload some more entrants soon so you can continue up and down voting for the new items.
For tonight's patch we will start to enable a few new bug fixes that might cause less and less Out of Memory issues and also we show you the basics of the Cargo Handling.
We have also coming a few surprises for all of your for the beginning of next year so keep coming back every day to see new details! ;-)
Enhancements to existing features:
- Door placing had some issues - now fixed
- Floor tiling have been modified a bit
- Out of Memory issues - more leaks have been fixed
- Languages localization - under development and added by community too
- Crane has been placed experimentally but not functioning yet
