Gameplay impressions

[Shekerd]

First of all, I must say that I come from a recognized simulation title and I am not going to make comparisons, I understand the intention of Train Life and I like it.
I will list some of the faults that I have found:

1 - The optimization is not very good, especially when changing the view from cab to exterior.

2 - The sound volume is a little low.

3 - Fine for accident with an animal. If the animal is stopped on the track, even if I stop the train and the animal leaves, I get a fine. If I slow down to 30 or 40, the animal has time to leave, but I am still fined.

4 - Fine for not activating fog lights, it may be that the type of lights are inverted, I understand that the beam of light of the fog light icon is the one that points downwards.

5 - Sometimes the speed limit change messages do not coincide with the signs on the road. Sometimes the signs also do not match the speedometer speed. For example: the messages indicate that the next limit will be 40, when I get to that stretch it turns out that the limit is 70. Sometimes speed limit messages appear and the speed limit signs do not appear, nor are they displayed on the speedometer.

6 - When I ask the Dresden warehouse for permission to pick up mail, I have to turn back because the track is not the right one. I arrive in Breslavia and get ready to deliver the mail, the same thing happens, the track is not correct, again I have to reverse to get to the correct stop.

7 - The switch indicator shows red even if I am going in the right direction, for example: Breslavia Main station, Cologne, Poznan Forest, etc.

8 - The scenarios have poorly signposted delivery and pick-up stops:

* Amsterdam-Cologne (25-30 min) when I arrive in Cologne there is no track area to disembark passengers. It is impossible to do this mission.

* Prague - Breslavia (23-27 min) when I arrive a few meters from Breslavia station, it indicates a wrong track, when I reverse the route is cancelled. I request the entry again but it recalculates the route incorrectly, the correct stop is on the track parallel to the warehouse. I go to the correct track (the mini-map does not show the correct route) and this time I manage to finish the scenario.

* Dresden - Breslavia (12,5-14 min) same problem as in previous point

9 - It would be nice if it would indicate the distance to the next speed limit.

10 - There are trains coming from the front on the same track on which I am driving.

11 - The game freezes in autosaves.

12 - Some text has unreadable errors that show symbols and coding bars at the beginning and end of some sentences.

13 - I understand that adding text to the codex is very useful, but before the release the icons in the production tree looked much better, also, the icons on the map look very bad, are too small.

14 - To be a complete release, there is still a lot of text to be translated into Spanish.

Don't misunderstand me, I like this game, I make these contributions to try to help to improve it.

Apart from all this, congratulations, keep up the good work.

[Maester Silvio]

I definitely won't misunderstand the feedback; thank you for writing down so much! I'll try to get to each points, and will forward any bugs/issues to the relevant departments. I might need 2 posts for responding though, due to character limits.

1. What are your current specs? We've made quite a few hefty improvements (since we're releasing the game eventually on old gen consoles and the Switch), but maybe there's a bug here.
   
2. Our sound designer is definitely aware of this one, and we'll probably be adding a slider to help here.
   
3. When an animal is specifically on the tracks, make sure to honk your horn. This will make it run away, and you'll avoid a fine. We have them automatically run away (due to age rating of game), but if you don't honk your horn you'll get a fine.
   
4. This is definitely a bug that we'll have fixed in the next patch.
   
5. We'll see if we can fix up this situation. It definitely makes dealing with junctions a bit more troublesome.
   
6. Will report this one
   
7. Same as above
   
8. Same as above, will report all of these issues
   
9. We're looking into this one for sure. It's a highly-requested feature.
   
10. While we currently have AI trains spawning on either side, you're definitely more likely to encounter them on 'your' side if you're driving on the left side of the tracks.
    
11. Our last patch should have improved this greatly. Are you running the game on an HDD or SSD?
    
12. If you could get screenshots of any problematic areas, this would be great. Especially if you could post them in our Discord[discord.gg].
    
13. Yeah, we noticed this too. We're going to try and implement a better version of it, but it may take some time.
    
14. Is this in the codex, or elsewhere? We can let our publisher know about any problem sections.

Thank you for such a nice list! We'll do our best to address your points, though some might take a bit more time than others. I'm really glad you're enjoying the game, and I hope our future patches can make it an even better experience!

[Shekerd]

I am glad that you have read so much text and have taken it into account.

1. I don't think it is determinant, my computer is capable of playing any AAA title without noticing any lack of optimization. Maybe they should review it, the FPS are not stable, it has many ups and downs with too high tendency.
   
2. Ok.
   
3. You may be right, by logic it should be like that, I have tried it but I don't remember if it worked well, thanks for the advice, I will try again.
   
4. Ok.
   
5. Ok.
   
6. Ok.
   
7. Ok.
   
8. Ok.
   
9. Ok.
   
10. That's something I didn't know, I'll remember that, thanks.
    
11. I run the game on HDD, but this does not happen to me with more demanding games than Train Life.
    
12. Well, when I encounter this problem I will send screenshots.
    
13. Ok, thanks.
    
14. In the settings, Game section:
    Deadmans Button, by the way, I don't know what this function is for.
    Minimap Orientation
    Minimap Zoom Moden
    Map
    Automatic
    - In the tutorial almost everything is untranslated.
    - In the codex 99% is not translated, there are only two translated words in the left menu.
    - In the scenarios, 95% are not translated.
    - In the UI I thought I saw something untranslated, I'm not sure, if I see it again I will report it.

Thank you very much for your understanding, I will be patient, I am enjoying the game.
Greetings.

[MaestroII]

About point 1, the drawing distance is a bit low, I occasionally see the landscape details on the horizon or even closer a bit slowly pop in, the game is installed on a ssd.

About point 8, at first I couldn't find the drop off point for the passengers from Amsterdam to Cologne, but if you request access with the radio communication system to enter Cologne station, you need to press , or . on the keyboard or the unasigned button for the xbox one controller, to switch to the passenger boarding track to disembark passengers. But it remains rather unclear to choose the right track remotely from the train and i'm still learning about the UI & GPS, it's not all completely clear to me yet. Hopefully things will get a little easier for me later on.

About point 14, the game is not fully translated in my language (Dutch) too, there will probably be a few more languages that haven't been fully translated. Hopefully the developers will keep improving things. Btw this game has potential.