Trainz A New Era (TANE) vs TPF

[Cibaris]

Anyone own this game. Whilst it has a ludicrous £300.00 price tag, its on offer for around £20.00 inc a whole lot of DLC's.. If your playing this game would be interested how it compares to TPF. TANE seems to be more of a model railway than a tycoon game, though TPF is also a reasonable model railway.

[ღ B U N N Y ᠌ ⁧⁧X]

Never really heard Trainz compared with Transport Fever. Whenever i hear someone mention Trainz, i usually also hear "Is it as good as Train Simulator?" lol I never really played Trainz so i can't truly give my opinion, but isn't Trainz more of a "hands on" Train Simulator kinda game where you actually opperate the train instead of the network?

[SlimNasty™]

Totally different types of games, you'd be better off comparing Trainz vs Train Simulator or Train Sim World.

[genemead]

Trainz (and Train Simulator) is only about DRIVING a train yourself. No laying track or roads (though you can use an "editor" design your own "senario" to drive a train in), making your own transportation network using any other types vehicles other than trains, etc. You really can't compare the two. Two totally different focuses. If you want to actually get in the cab of an engine and throw levers to make it go and stop along a set route, Trainz is a good one- but that's all it does.

[cszolee79]

Seems fishy.

Buy Platinum Edition Bundle BUNDLE (?)
-75%-93% 364,81€
24,25€

then it says
Price of individual products: 97,--€
Bundle discount: 75%
Your cost: 24,25€

WTF. Is it 75%, is it 93%, does it cost 97 or 364 without discount?

Then I went to a random TANE DLC (http://store.steampowered.com/app/443300/TANE_DLC_Indiana_Railroad_EMD_SD9043MAC/ ) and the only user review says "it doesent istall to T:ANE" with a recommended status.
Mmmh. Not really convincing.

I'll stay with TSW for now. That's bad enough ^^

[ღ B U N N Y ᠌ ⁧⁧X]

Originally posted by cszolee79:

Seems fishy.

Buy Platinum Edition Bundle BUNDLE (?)
-75%-93% 364,81€
24,25€

then it says
Price of individual products: 97,--€
Bundle discount: 75%
Your cost: 24,25€

WTF. Is it 75%, is it 93%, does it cost 97 or 364 without discount?

Then I went to a random TANE DLC (http://store.steampowered.com/app/443300/TANE_DLC_Indiana_Railroad_EMD_SD9043MAC/ ) and the only user review says "it doesent istall to T:ANE" with a recommended status.
Mmmh. Not really convincing.

I'll stay with TSW for now. That's bad enough ^^

Did you post that in the wrong forum? Or am i not getting something here xD

[Cibaris]

What I have seen TANE is now more of a railway builder more akin to TPF hence my question, and more limited driving. Its changed quite a lot allegedly.

[Cibaris]

Its on offer for a short time or so they say and for £19 its worth a punt

[Didz]

Just bought it on impulse for £7.49, but to me it looks like a train simulator rather than a train management game. We shall see when I try and play it.
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Hmm! ....Ok! well basically I don't get it. It seems from the tutorials that you have to drive your own trains which seems a bit OTT if one was trying to manage a network. Perhaps its just an option, but if so where are the network management tutorials?

[Xayon]

Well, price is inviting, saw this game on utube some times ago. if I remember well, it's a GPU eater, probably my 1070Gtx with 8 giga ram isn't enough, despect to recommended specs. However as other guys told, it's a simulator, a lot different from Tpf. Going check some video again...

[Oldhip]

You can make your tracks/routes/scenario's in Trainz

[genemead]

Yes you can. You design a scenario in an editor (track, scenery, terrain), then go into another mode and drive a train on it. No ecomony, no money, just realisticly driving a train. If manually driving a train (making it go and stop along a set route is your thing, go for it.. but to me it's extreemly boring.
It's NOT the same as TPF. Though both involve trains, they're as different as checkers and chess.

[killakanz]

I have T:ANE.
I know some people who treat that game as a train simulator (by the way guys, it's really not a management game, they never claimed it was. It's a driving simulator with an excellent map maker), but I don't think it plays well like that.
However, once you're over the learning curve of the "Surveyor" map builder, it makes an excellent model railway simulator. I have actually re-created my own N-gauge model railway layout in TANE and it's fun to play with using the DCC controls mode and the ability to switch between any locomotive on the map and take control on the fly... The AI is also pretty good at pathfinding which is an excellent plus for building your own layouts.

TANE does have multiplayer however the netcode is very very broken at the moment (wrecked by an update in December), players are constantly de-synching. I was trying a multiplayer session with some friends last week and we were desynching with eachother instantly even though we were parked next to eachother at a station. These issues mean you can't tell visually where another train really is unless you're the host, this resulted in a lot of passing through another train on the same track which wasn't really there or crashing into a train you can't see. It could only be played by constantly telling everyone over voice chat where you are.

The devs are aware of it but they don't seem in a hurry to fix it... Every response from them on the subject so far has been a bit "well, we know there's this problem but fixing it is not a priority"... I mean really? Multiplayer was one of the game's main selling points which you've just wrecked and it's not a priority to fix it? 0.o

(also, as geneomead said, don't compare it to TpF. Totally different games.)
EDIT= Also to Xayon who thought it was a GPU eater, it's really not... I believe they faked their promo videos, I can't get mine to look anywhere near as nice even with all graphics settings maxed out, it's really not very demanding and seems a bit last-gen graphically. But this doesn't detract a lot from the fun it gives as a model railway game...

[Didz]

I actually purchased Trainz on impulse for £7.49, but ended up asking for a refund.

I played through a couple of scenario's and basically it didn't hold my attention at all. I'm not even sure how to describe it. It's not a network managment game, so its not about building netwroks to satsify demands and there is no real strategic element to it.

It's mainly about driving trains and satisfying operating schedules, which would have made it a Train Simulator under normal circumstances, and I own a few of those. But in this case the controls are so simplistic that actually satsifying the schedules isn't really a challenge. So, after completing the first couple of missions I decided I was too bored to continue and asked for a refund.

It is quite pretty though, and if your happy just driving a train up and down then it's perfect for you. Sort of like a virtual model railway with a set of quests to complete.

[Oldhip]

Did you drive in cab mode ??

[killakanz]

Originally posted by Didz:

But in this case the controls are so simplistic that actually satsifying the schedules isn't really a challenge.

TANE has 2 control modes, "Simple" (DCC, like operating a model railway) or "Cab" (realistic controls).
But as I said though, the game really shines if you play it as a model railway simulator. Build your own small-ish routes and play with a number of locos instead of just 1. If you play it just as a train driving simulator it's not the best one out there...