"Wait for the brake system to charge"

[HuggernautNL]

Any way to skip this nonsense?
I went for coffee, took a dump, came back and it still says this.

Or am I doing something wrong?

Please tell me I can skip this. I don't want to waste my sunday waiting for the brake system to charge...

=== EDIT ===

Ok so apparently I screwed something up. After restarting the tutorial and doing the same steps again, it only took around 30 seconds to charge.

Onwards!

[Grumpy Englishman]

Least U took a dump lol!

[bobbi]

I’ve had problems getting the brakes to charge multiple times. When charging the brakes goes well both the gauge in the cab and on the HUD start showing the increase as soon as you click the button. If you’re using an X-Box controller, as I normally do, the left shoulder button also charges the brakes.

The last time I had problems charging the brakes I noticed a notification in the upper right corner of the screen that the emergency brake valve had been opened. I don’t know if that was the result of excess application of the master control lever or I had accidentally pressed one of the controller buttons I normally don’t use. After I used the mouse to close the emergency brake valve (a red handle to the left of the upper windscreen) the brake charging button started working again.

[HuggernautNL]

Originally posted by bobbi:

I’ve had problems getting the brakes to charge multiple times. When charging the brakes goes well both the gauge in the cab and on the HUD start showing the increase as soon as you click the button. If you’re using an X-Box controller, as I normally do, the left shoulder button also charges the brakes.

The last time I had problems charging the brakes I noticed a notification in the upper right corner of the screen that the emergency brake valve had been opened. I don’t know if that was the result of excess application of the master control lever or I had accidentally pressed one of the controller buttons I normally don’t use. After I used the mouse to close the emergency brake valve (a red handle to the left of the upper windscreen) the brake charging button started working again.

Wow, thanks for the detailed explanation.
I really wish they would give more hints and information about what is going on in the game.

Sometimes you can be looking for half an hour just because some switch got flipped and nothing tells you.

[Rares]

I've tried doing this tutorial at least a dozen times already. No dice. I always get stuck on "Wait for the brake system to charge". What can I do to move past this?

[Frag]

Im also currently stuck at that part. Nothing helps..

[Detail]

Same issue here, stuck at waiting for Brake System to charge. Resetting doesn't help and I have no notifications

[Detail]

Thanks Iron but I requested a refund. Too many issues when running through many of the tutorials where it just hangs. Not really what I expected and the controls while I guess you could get used to them aren't very operable for gameplay.

[Muskiet]

I have the same problem. Judging from the original posting date, Dovetail has again created a problem riddled game and doesn't bother to fix anything people find.
To be clear, this is a tutorial called "BR 146.2 Introduction" that is part of the "Main-Spessart Bahn journey" which doesn't allow me to adjust or control anything unless the previous part of the tutorial has been satisfied with.
So while I'm waiting for the brake system to be charged (brake gauges shows it is charged already) nothing can be done, no brakes can be released/set, no emergency brake valves can be cycled... nothing.
I'll keep trying and if I manage to continue this... journey I'll post it here.

[Haverknol]

After restarting the tutorial like 30 times, I finally got around the bug, but sadly I can't explain exactly what I did.

The key to the solution is that when you enter the cab, if you stay away from the marker, you have full control over your unit. So I did everything on the back panel, closed the circuit breaker, held the train line button to the start position (I have no clue what the button is supposed to do, but I guess it did something), released the train brake, set the independent brake to the apply position, en went to the marker in the middle of the cab. Now I only had to push the battery again, and all the other steps skipped, including the brake charge one. Because the independent brake was locked into place after I continued, I had to finish the tutorial with the independent brake applied.

I tried again several times after that to try and formulate a solid solution, but sadly it didn't work the second time. So if you want to have a chance, don't go into the marker before your brakes have charged. Good luck!

[Muskiet]

Success!
Thank you Haverknol!
I've had to try twice, and the second time I went inside, avoided the blue beam, sat down and went through an entire power-up, released every brake (also parking brake), set the train brake to 1B because I started to roll, and when I got up I had to go outside to trigger the blue beam inside again.
I sat down and pressed the battery button after which it skipped all the way ahead to raising the pantograph.

I like the Main-Spessart Bahn scenery, the trains are fun and the track is beautiful, but it is so far the only one where I keep running into issues.
Many of the rides don't have time schedules, I think the best fun is trying to get to each stop in time, and at another drive, I have to physically get out of the chair, go outside, and open a door before people started boarding.
Just switching the left side doors to "unlock" doesn't seem to work.
Every other scenery has been trouble-free so far.

[Hutz]

Yeah, I had to try this about a dozen times or so. It looks like you can get away with just setting the train brake to 'full service' before you touch that objective marker inside the cab, then the brakes seem to charge properly after that.

[rgx107]

Originally posted by Hutz:

Yeah, I had to try this about a dozen times or so. It looks like you can get away with just setting the train brake to 'full service' before you touch that objective marker inside the cab, then the brakes seem to charge properly after that.

Brilliant, that is all that is needed. Avoid the marker in the cab, sit in drivers seat, set brakes to full service, then get up and continue from there. Thanks a lot.

[Green_Deer47]

I’ve tried that. Didn’t work for me.

[salamander5]

I'm experiencing the same issue... There's a ticket logging tool of dovetail available here:
https://dovetailgames.kayako.com/Tickets/Submit
Let's submit this problem, so they finally do something about it.

[Lord_Chencho]

You can go through the tutorial if you don't activate the blue mark inside the driver's cabin but you must know how to do that in the correct way.