Manuals and controls.

[RBJets]

Where did all the manuals (not job instructions) go that where in my inventory? Also when hold the world map and then zooming in on it, how do you freely look around at it? tried every key.

[Talkingpeanut]

If you mean the game info booklets like Derail Valley Guide, they were retired in favour of individual loco tutorials and the in-game manual. There currently isn't a way to point your camera around the map while holding it; your best option is to drop the map and look around it in the world

[Boikinov]

IMHO, the new tutorial didn't work well
For new players that rely on the guide to operate new engine, they usually find the new engine in the shed behind a turntable, and it's usually not aligned with the turntable

If you follow the guide to operate the engine, you won't have enough room to maneuver due to the very short rail in shed
If you take the engine out of the shed and turntable onto the mainline for larger space, then you already know how to operate the engine and the tutorial is useless
If you try to align the turntable and run the engine at the same time, it's very easy to break the tutorial because you need to leave the engine to operate the turntable

[Wiseguy]

I disabled the tutorials after they almost made me crash. "Power up this engine" sure. "Make it move" sure. Oh wait, there's stuff in the way, let's brake oh no oh no oh no there's a tutorial screen in the way LET ME GET TO THE BRAKES!

I found the constant interruptions and big view-blocking panes REALLY annoying. Playing in VR by the way, maybe it's better in pancake mode?

[Rick]

The new tutorial was a bit of a last minute rush job for the Simulator update.

I hope they eventually go back to the book style tutorial like Overhauled had

[Prince Polaris]

Originally posted by RBJets:

Where did all the manuals (not job instructions) go that where in my inventory? Also when hold the world map and then zooming in on it, how do you freely look around at it? tried every key.

I also really hate having to toggle the alt key all the time, wasn't it different before?

[TheLostPenguin]

Originally posted by Wiseguy:

I disabled the tutorials after they almost made me crash. "Power up this engine" sure. "Make it move" sure. Oh wait, there's stuff in the way, let's brake oh no oh no oh no there's a tutorial screen in the way LET ME GET TO THE BRAKES!

I found the constant interruptions and big view-blocking panes REALLY annoying. Playing in VR by the way, maybe it's better in pancake mode?

I've only done 1 loco tutorial with the new style, but it really wasn't great as a pancake experience either. I decided to go into it 'playing dumb' as if I hadn't already basically figured the loco out from looking at the cab, and if I hadn't ignored the tutorial it would almost certainly have resulted in wrecking the loco a couple of times, and just had a weird flow (or rather lack of it) that didn't make much sense.

Losing the ingame manual booklets kinda sucks and is a part of what really sucks, which is the increasing intrusion of UI elements where there never used to be any, and doesn't really need to be any. Yes there's much more information in the new paused manual, but it's in the pause menu. I only want to go there to save and quit, or adjust settings, not find content.

[Altfuture]

The locomotive quick tutorials are not finished and will be further improved in future updates.

I've written more extensive explanations in the past, but in a nutshell, the paper booklets were retired as they are not sustainable (both in terms of creation and performance) with the amount of content coming to the game in the future.

With the improved quick tutorials this will no longer be an issue.

[RBJets]

Cool, good to know, Love the game and all the work you all do.