BUILD 99.3

10 December, 2024

Platform & Stability

• Fixed having items on sticky tape or hangers out of locos breaking saving, since B99.2

Train Customization

• Fixed alternating controller wiring order not saving properly, since B99.2
• Fixed S282B (tender) and caboose not having electricity onboard to power gadgets
• Fixed items on hanger rotating when placed and sometimes hanging too low
• Fixed the Driving UI gadget submenu button being available when no gadgets are installed
• Fixed items that require a license showing their stock amount as -1
• Fixed alternating controller sticking out compared to other controllers
• Fixed being able to drill mounts to windows in some cases
• Fixed being able to install gadgets to broken windows

Train Simulation

• Tweaked Covered Hopper colliders to prevent getting stuck inside

Misc

• Fixed fast travel working even when it's disabled in difficulty, since B99
• Fixed DVRT paint can text typo

BUILD 99.2

06 December, 2024

Platform & Stability

• Numerous more fixes to tutorial failure cases
• Disabled creating bug report files on GeForce NOW, as it causes issues
• Fixed game window size being reset during loading screen if playing in windowed mode
• Fixed an error with the turntable that could break the game

Career & Cargo

• Added Forestry Trailers cargo type

• MF/HB → Forests, Sawmill and Harbor

• Added a custom model for S282 restoration train parts (running gear)
• Fixed servicing costs of private vehicles adding up to the insurance copay amount
• Fixed private vehicles accruing environment fees (this should only apply to DVRT rolling stock)
• Made Wireless MU Controller require owning the “Multiple-Unit” license to buy
• Fixed museum license decreasing bonus time instead of increasing it like it says
• Fixed Realistic difficulty to have “Main Res Refill Time” set to 500% as intended
• Fixed scrap wood texture having some issues
• Made trams able to squeeze under the Sawmill overpass

Train Customization

• Increased some shop stock limits

• Light Bar 3 → 10 per variant
• Beacon 6 → 10 per variant
• Mount Small 20 → 30

• Fixed a bug where derelict locomotive windows would stay broken after repairing body
• Fixed an exploit with using starters to drive derelict locomotives
• Fixed alternating controller not saving the wiring order

World & Tracks

• Added forestry trailer props to forests and sawmill
• Added electric charger to the Museum
• Added diesel station to the Oil Refinery
• Fixed IMW turntable not being aligned properly
• Fixed bad service module placement at IMW

VR

• Fixed missing haptic feedback when attaching items to sticky tapes
• Fixed some bugs related to carabiner slots

Misc

• Fixed being unable to insert a cassette to boombox, since B99
• Added a notice about mod usage in the loading screen
• Fixed DM1U temperature gauge typo (0 → 80)
• Made career manager and service module displays fit slightly more letters per line
• Fixed localization test scene missing item description texts

BUILD 99.1

29 November, 2024

Platform & Stability

• Fixed some UI elements being able to remove game focus on GeForce NOW

World & Tracks

• Fixed CS cars spawning too late when approached from east

Career & Cargo

• Updated tractors cargo texture to look factory new

Train Customization

• Soldering gun now blinks red when a gadget is solderable, but its location doesn’t support it

Items

• Redesigned schematic map track ID elements to be better visible and at a higher distance

Train Simulation

• Improvements to DM1U

• Made side door animation smooth
• Fixed DM1U oil temperature needle going below minimum value
• Fixed the vehicle being leaned forward on level track
• Fixed it not showing oil level properly in driving UI

• Improvements to diesel locomotives

• Fixed throttle and dynamic brake locking not working flawlessly in all cases
• Fixed DH4/DM3 RPM sometimes not increasing when increasing throttle from idle
• Fixed DH4/DM3 RPM sometimes jumping under acceleration
• Fixed DH4 turbine RPM jerking when moving out of idle

• Improvements to steam locomotives

• Fixed abandoned museum locomotives being able to spew smoke despite not being lit up
• Animated the lubricator handle to turn with the moving locomotive mechanism
• Corrected the S282 valvegear animation being inverted

• Fixed Overheating Protection incorrectly operating controls sometimes
• Made internal brake airflow more audible (helps know when brakes can be lapped)

Graphics

• Fixed glass, water and sign text rendering on top of fog, since B99

VR

• Fixed not being able to place mounts/gadgets when in “item hold” mode

Tutorials

• Fixed a few bugs in career tutorial that could break the game, since B99
• Fixed vehicle catalog missing spawn point locations and probabilities, since B99
• Fixed BE2 quick tutorial to require the vehicle to be charged to start

Misc

• Fixed issues with buying many items and going away before they all spawn in
• Various small improvements

BUILD 99

21 November, 2024

Platform & Stability

• Improved Steam Deck support

• Performance is notably improved
• Created an official controls scheme
• Added virtual keyboard when inputting text

• Improved GPU performance when using Ultra preset (vegetation shadows optimization)
• Improved GPU performance when it comes to shadow rendering (for lanterns in particular)
• Fixed falling through terrain when dashing occasionally
• Fixed more rare occurrences of falling through terrain
• Fixed the game breaking if a VR controller is toggled on/off during the tutorial
• Fixed a bug that had a potential to crash the game during quick tutorial
• Mitigated an issue where custom difficulty presets could duplicate since B97
• Fixed a rare bug where graphics could glitch out while in external camera
• Potentially fixed a cascading problem with vehicles disappearing after long pause
• Potentially fixed errors related to VR carabiner slot usage
• Strengthened failsafes that could lead to save corruption
• Fixed some UI elements able to irrevocably lose game focus on Steam Deck and GeForce NOW
• Fixed bad mousewheel usage on mice with smooth scroll
• Fixed badly timed alt-tab causing disappearance of mouse cursor
• Various micro improvements to performance

World & Tracks

• Added Oil Refinery (OR) industry

• Located north of FRC, on previously unused track

• Added Coal Mine South (CMS) industry

• Located east of FRS, on previously unused track

• Added Coal Power Plant (CP) industry

• Located just south of MF

• Added City South (CS) city

• Located west of HB, on previously unused track
• Home of the Derail Valley Railway Museum (more info below)

• Notable track changes

• Added an eastern corridor connecting CM (now CME) and HB
• Added a fork connecting GF and HB
• Cut a shortcut tunnel connecting FRC and the new OR
• Added an approach connecting OWC and FRC
• Added a bypass connecting FRS region with CSW (now CW)
• Added a complex intersection between CW and OWC
• Turned some forks into wyes
• Straightened some tracks to increase the average speed

• Added new types of buildings

• Numerous buildings, pipes and other objects for the refinery, power plant and city locations

• Added new types of props

• Fishing boats, tanker and camper trailers, cafe tables, hedges, traffic cones, street lamps…

• Made small improvements to signs

• Removed signs in stations that shouldn’t be there
• Fixed signs getting too tall or buried into ground
• Fixed some cases of signs showing faulty limits after certain switches
• The signs will be further improved in the future

• Added a pass-through water tower to SM, and coal tower to GF
• Added lights to coal towers

Career & Cargo

• Added 16 new cargo types and supply chains

• Mining Trucks, MF/HB → Mines
• Tower Crane Parts, MF/HB → Mines
• City Buses, MF → Towns
• Semi Trailers, MF → HB
• Trams, MF → HB
• Scrap Wood, Towns → SW
• Wood Chips, SW → GF
• Railway Sleepers, SW → HB
• Military Cars, MFMB → Military bases
• Attack Helicopters, HBMB → Military bases
• Missiles, HBMB → Military bases
• Ammonium Nitrate, HB → FM
• Flour, FM → Towns
• Tropical Fruits, HB → Towns
• Scrap Containers, HB → SM
• Fish, CS/HB → Towns

• Added Dispatcher license

• Allows reading and changing switches remotely, using route and schematic maps
• This is useful when you want to set your route without leaving a vehicle
• This license costs $10k
• It adds no copay penalty, but shortens time bonus time by 2%

• Added Fragile license

• Eggs, vehicles, animals, fruits and HAZMAT cargo now require this license to transport
• To buy the HAZMAT1 license, you need to own the Fragile license first
• Non-HAZMAT fragile orders now pay 50% higher than before
• HAZMAT orders pay roughly the same as before
• This license costs $10k
• It doesn’t affect bonus time, but adds a $2k copay penalty

• Added Museum license

• See “Train Customization” below for more information
• This license costs $15k
• It adds no copay penalty, but extends time bonus time by 5%

• Modified existing supply chains

• Crude oil and methane now go to the Oil Refinery, in addition to Harbor
• Oil Refinery now offers gasoline and other derivatives, in addition to Harbor
• Coal mines now offer coal to both the Steel Mill and the Coal Power Plant
• Harbor now offers Excavators and other new equipment to the mines too
• Sawmill now offers boards to Machine Factory, in addition to Harbor and Goods Factory
• Tools now go to all industries
• Tractors now go to Forests, in addition to Farm and Harbor
• Eggs, fruits and vegetables now go to towns directly, in addition to Harbor
• Eggs, fruits and vegetables are now transported in refrigerated cars
• Steel products now go to Harbor, in addition to Factories
• Adjusted payments of some existing cargo types (scrap metal, ammonia, etc.)

• Reduced visual footprint of hopper iron ore load, while keeping the same mass

Train Customization

• Added private locomotives

• For each type of locomotive there exists one demonstrator, abandoned somewhere
• Demonstrators are unique pre-production locomotives, having a special paint job
• Their locations are randomized, most commonly found hidden in stations
• These demonstrators are owned by the Derail Valley Railway Museum
• Buy the museum license for $15k to gain ownership of the demonstrators
• Once restored, the private locomotives are treated as work trains
• They can be requested using comms radio and never despawn
• They can only be serviced manually and don’t fall under DVRT insurance

• Added locomotive restoration

• Demonstrators are found in wrecked state by default and need to be restored
• Each has its own dedicated track in the museum’s roundhouse
• The track shows the restoration steps on a poster, for a respective vehicle

• 1 - Find and Rerail
• 2 - Tow Home
• 3 - Order Missing Parts
• 4 - Bring Missing Parts
• 5 - Install Missing Parts
• 6 - Repair and Refuel
• 7 - Paint Job

• Added train part buying

• To buy a missing part, you need to reach step 3 of the vehicle restoration process
• Paying is done at the museum’s office cash register
• Once paid, the missing part will await at the designated loading track
• To pick it up you must bring a utility vehicle (more info below) to the loading track
• Interact with the cargo transfer machine, like you normally would for freight
• Bring the loaded utility vehicle to the museum and park
• The part will be automatically unloaded and installed to the vehicle it’s intended for
• Transported train parts cannot be damaged

• Added gadgets

• Gadgets are items that can be installed to locomotives and/or other things
• To install or uninstall a gadget, you need to use various tools (more info below)
• Gadgets can be bought in shops around the world

• Added paint jobs

• Each demonstrator locomotive brings 4 new types of paint jobs
• Primer (no paint), abandoned Demo, new Demo and new DVRT
• To paint a vehicle, you need to reach step 7 of its restoration process
• Currently only demonstrators can be painted, and this step is optional
• Painting is done using the sprayer gun and cans (more info below)
• The paint sprayer gun can only be found at the paint station in the museum
• Vehicle’s body and cab are painted separately, and may receive different paint jobs
• To paint a body or cab its old paint must be removed first, using sand cans
• Exploded demonstrators will not recover their paint job after being repaired

Items & Gadgets

• Added vehicle systems gadgets (in alphabetic order)

• Amp Limiter
• Anti-wheelslip Computer
• Automatic Train Stop (dead man’s switch)
• Brake Cylinder LED Bar
• Clinometer (grade gauge)
• Digital Speedometer
• Distance Tracker (end of train measuring device, aka “Roadrunner”)
• Infrared Thermometer (brake shoe temperature gauge)
• Overheating Protection
• Switch Setter
• Wireless MU Controller (aka “DP”)
• Controllers (5 types of switches, including analog and alternating ones)

• Added equipment/cosmetic gadgets (in alphabetic order)

• Flag Marker (8 colors)
• Hanger (allows hanging hangable items)
• Headlight (can also be setup as a ditch light)
• Light Bar (8 colors)
• Swivel Light (aka “Mars” light)
• Shelf
• Steam Engine Checklist
• Sticky Tape (allows sticking flat items, like maps, to vertical surfaces)
• Sun Visor

• Added Mounts

• Mounts come in various shapes and sizes
• Mounts are needed to install some gadgets onto vehicles
• First place the mount on the vehicle surface
• Secure it using drill or duct tape (more info below)
• Then install a gadget on it
• Mounts can be removed using a hammer
• Mounts can be bought in all shops

• Added Electric Hand Drill

• This item is used to firmly secure mounts
• It can only be used on hard surfaces, but not on gauges, windows, boilers, etc.
• It creates holes in the drilled surfaces
• To drill, aim at a mount hole and hold the use key
• The drill can be bought at the GF shop

• Added Duct Tape

• This item is used to loosely secure mounts
• It can be used on any type of surface and leaves no trace
• Taped mounts will be knocked off in case of a vehicle collision
• To tape, aim at a mount hole and press the use key
• Duct tape can be bought in all shops

• Added Filler Gun

• This item is used to repair the holes made by the drill
• To fill, aim at a hole and hold the use key
• The filler gun can be bought at the GF shop

• Added Hammer

• This item is used to uninstall mounts and gadgets
• To uninstall, aim at the mount or gadget and press the use key
• The hammer can be bought at the GF shop

• Added Soldering Gun and Soldering Wire Reels

• This item is used to connect installed gadgets to the vehicles’ electrical supply
• It needs to be loaded with a soldering wire reel to work
• It takes exactly one reel to solder one gadget
• Empty reels can be disposed of
• To solder, aim at a gadget and hold the use key
• The gun can be bought in the GF shop
• The soldering wire reels can be bought in all shops

• Added Crimping Tool

• This item is used to wire gadgets with controllers
• This lets you toggle them on and off, or even control intensity of lights
• To make a connection, use the tool on gadget A, then use it on gadget B
• To remove a connection, use it on the wired gadgets
• The crimping tool can be bought at the GF shop

• Added schematic map switch operation

• It is now possible to change switches using maps
• To change switches using maps you need the Dispatcher license, described above
• In nonVR you can interact with switch icons in mouse mode, using the mouse cursor
• In VR you can interact with switch icons using the aimed comms radio

• Reworked schematic maps

• The maps now more closely resemble the top-down view of stations and yards
• The switches on the maps are made easy to spot and aim at
• The maps now also show more precise locations of service stations, loading tracks, etc.
• Various inconsistencies between the schematic maps and real tracks have been fixed too

• Added Route Map

• This is a map of all switches in the world that aren’t represented in the schematic maps
• Like the schematic map, it needs the Dispatcher license to use
• This item is acquired at the game start and can be retrieved to inventory at any point
• Route Map does not show hidden switches, such as those leading to vehicle garages

• Added Handheld Game Console item

• Features a high score based game where you dodge cars
• It can be bought at the CW shop

• Added Oiler

• This tool is used to manually lubricate steam locomotive running gear (more info below)
• It can be bought in all shops

• Added Paint Sprayer and Paint Cans

• Paint Sprayer can be found at a paint station in the museum
• It needs to be loaded with a can of paint or sand to work
• A sand can will remove paint from a vehicle, whereas a paint can will add it
• Paint cans represent paint job themes, and can be used on various vehicles
• It takes exactly one can to spray one body or cab of a vehicle
• Empty paint cans can be disposed of
• To paint or strip, aim at a vehicle body or cab and hold the use key
• The Demonstrator themed paint cans can be bought in the MF shop
• The DVRT themed paint cans can be bought in the MF and GF shops
• Sand cans can be bought in all shops

• All gadgets and related tools are available for free in sandbox mode
• Adjusted prices of some existing items
• Made EOT Lantern available to buy in all shops

Train Simulation

• Added DM1U-150 (Utility Rail Vehicle)

• This is a diesel-mechanical railbus modified to transport train parts
• The URV is not powerful enough to haul much, but it can do light shunting
• The URV is a work train and can be found in a locked garage near the museum
• The garage key can be purchased in the MF shop for $25k
• Once unlocked, the URV can be summoned using the comms radio, for $1k

• Added Utility Short Flatcar

• This is a short car acquired with the Derail Valley Railway Museum purchase
• It can be used to transport vehicle parts for locomotive restoration, along with URV
• Once unlocked, the USF can be summoned using the comms radio, for $5k

• Added Covered Hopper car

• It’s used by FM to transport flour and grain, instead of the open hoppers

• Added brake cutout valves to all locomotives

• This valve is used to enable or disable a vehicle’s train brake control
• It is closed by default and needs to be opened for the brake control to be functional
• When closed, the vehicle’s brakes still function, but the control doesn’t
• The valve resolves conflicts between self-lapping and non-self-lapping vehicles
• On trains with multiple brake controls, regardless of valve type, only one should be enabled
• Brake warning light will now flash if a train has more or less than one active brake control

• Improved air brake simulation

• Properly simulating auxiliary reservoirs and correct pipe volumes
• Filling auxiliary reservoirs now takes much longer
• Releasing brake when auxiliary reservoirs are full is now a lot quicker than before
• A byproduct of this is also quicker brake release when loading a save
• Non-self-lapping release needs to fill the aux reservoirs first before being able to lap again
• Accurate and more intuitive leak simulation with the following propagation:
• Compressor → Main Res → Cutout → Pipe → Aux Res → Cylinder → Atmosphere
• All cars in a train now play air exhaust sound, not just locomotives
• Diesel and electric locomotives in MU now share main reservoirs
• Tenders and slugs now do independent braking too
• Compressors now start running when main reservoir drops to 7.3 bar
• Non-self-lapping emergency position no longer springs back to the nearest notch
• Simplified non-self-lapping keyboard and UI controls to behave the same as mouse wheel

• Revamped steam chest simulation

• Steam chest is a pressure chamber separating the boiler from the cylinders
• Steam is fed from the boiler to the chest using the regulator
• The filling rate depends on the regulator setting and available boiler pressure
• Steam is then exhausted from the chest to the cylinders according to the cutoff position
• The exhaustion rate depends on the cutoff position and vehicle’s speed (chuff frequency)
• Warnings and tips

• The faster you go, the higher the exhaustion, while the filling rate remains the same
• Hence, to keep the chest pressurized at higher speeds, you must lower the cutoff
• Closing the regulator does not mean immediate stop of acceleration
• This is because chest steam still pushes the pistons until it is exhausted

• Revamped steam engine lubrication

• Reworked automatic lubricator

• Automatic lubricators now have two sight glasses
• The left shows the vehicle’s oil reserve
• The right shows the oil level in the bearings that the lubricator serves
• With each running gear cycle the bearings lose a bit of oil
• The lubricator makes up for the lost oil, from the reserve
• However, when a locomotive sits still, the bearings lose some oil too
• This is why the newly spawned locomotives have no oil in bearings
• To add oil to bearings, lubricator must be primed manually with the new handle
• Hold “use” on the handle to add oil to the bearings
• Automatic lubricator no longer has an on/off valve
• Stationary losses no longer affect the oil reserve, thus causing no fee accumulation

• Added manual lubrication

• Some bearings of the steam engine running gear are not serviced by the lubricator
• Instead, they’re lubricated via oil cups, scattered around the running gear
• The level of oil in the cups can be seen by opening their cap
• The player needs to bring the Oiler item to an opened cup, to oil it
• Oiler works by transferring oil from the locomotive’s reserve to the bearings
• Oil cup caps must be closed while driving, or the cup will run out of oil quicker

• Other general improvements to steam locomotives

• Reworked coal combustion

• Combusting coal in the firebox now requires a proportional amount of airflow
• If air is insufficient the coal will combust inefficiently, with some of its energy wasted
• When airflow is low (e.g. parked or coasting), you should aim for a light firebox
• When airflow is high (e.g. accelerating), you should have a full firebox
• Smoke color is a good indicator of combustion efficiency (the brighter the better)

• Reworked startup process

• The sped up startup now takes x5 longer on Standard, x10 on Realistic
• It is tied to the new Steam Startup difficulty setting, see below for more information

• Reworked water sight glass

• Changed graphics, now simulating light refraction with a striped background
• Corrected range representation, now approximately x3 bigger on both locomotives
• Because of the bigger range, water level appears to change slower now
• Water can now be seen dripping from the valve above sight glass, if overfilled

• Added blowback effect

• If you enter a tunnel with a firedoor open and low airflow, blowback occurs
• The pressure difference blasts the fire out of the firebox to the cab
• Currently this has no harmful effect, only visual

• Improved exhaust particles simulation

• Smoke color now corresponds better to burning quality
• Smoke density now corresponds better to air flow
• Smoke no longer clips through tunnel ceilings, instead staying inside the tunnels

• Improved valve gear and chuff sounds, volume and other characteristics
• Having the cutoff set opposite while moving now produces ash sucking sound and damage
• Finished mass calculation to now take into account water and coal onboard the vehicle
• Improved steam particle effects fidelity and performance
• Dynamo-powered lights now smoothly fade in/out based on the dynamo turning speed
• Steam locomotives now lose torque when their mech. powertrain damage drops below 30%
• Made the blower more effective (indirect fix by other changes)
• Added steam effect to dynamo exhaust
• Increased amount of notches for regulator and cutoff controls
• Fixed water hatches on S282 and S060 being hard to interact with using the mouse wheel
• Mitigated looks of hydrostatic lubricators in S282/S060 interiors, where they don’t belong
• Made fire sound stop playing when boiler explodes

• Improvements to DE6

• Increased dynamic brake power almost x3 (more accurate), peaking at 40 km/h
• Tied dynamic brake fan speed to amperage
• Improved engine sound loudness

• Improvements to S282

• Increased torque (now traction limited)
• Animated the radius rod, like on S060
• Fixed leading and trailing axles wheelsliding
• Fixed rain dripping inside the cab
• Fixed whistle sounds not originating from the correct position
• Modified fire temperature gauge to go up to 1600°C
• Improved mouse aiming at controls
• Fixed firedoor animation being offset
• Made it easier to reach the cab floor from outside by jumping
• Removed floating lubricator arm duplicate on the left side

• Improvements to DH4

• Increased dynamic brake power
• Having released throttle disengages engine from the turbine (no more creeping)
• Dynamic brake no longer works when engine is off
• Halved the fuel consumption and capacity (now more physically accurate)
• Fixed DH4 overheat smoke not being very noticeable

• Improvements to DM3

• Fixed DM3 able to weirdly wheelslip when downshifting
• Added tachometer warning light
• Reduced fuel consumption (now more realistic)

• Improvements to S060

• Matched simulated boiler capacity to the visual (now 20% bigger)
• Made water tower alignment more tolerant
• Modified to have pneumatic wipers instead of electric

• Improvements to DE2

• TMs will pop almost immediately now, when temperature goes beyond red

• Improvements to work trains

• Fixed Slug lights, dynamic brake and sander able to stay on after disconnecting
• Fixed Microshunter able to remain dysfunctional after getting fixed
• Fixed work trains not having handbrake applied when unlocked

• Improvements to couplers

• It is now possible to tow cars without tightening the chain screw
• This creates more slack between cars but is quicker to do (useful for quick shunts)
• Chains, hoses and cables now remember who was attached to whom
• Fixed an issue where some coupled chains visually appeared loose after game load

• Improved texture detail on all locomotives
• Diesel engines now take damage and shut off when submerged underwater
• Reduced mass of empty locomotives
• Fixed wheels rotating while sliding
• Fixed gauge needles moving abruptly to their target position

Graphics

• Revamped windshield raindrop rendering

• Drastically improved realism of rain droplets on glass
• Rain now impairs visibility and usage of wipers is necessary
• Fixed issue with wipers making deformed shapes sometimes
• Advanced physics simulation of droplets remains unchanged

• Improved shadows quality

• Greatly increased shadow detail up close
• Fixed SSAO artifacts noticeable in station offices in VR
• Road and rail vehicles now feature better ambient occlusion with ground in nonVR

• Fixed urban/industry lighting missing some features as of a few builds ago
• Changed SSAO graphics setting to Ambient Occlusion, now with 3 choice levels
• Fixed fog missing from water reflections
• Fixed smoke rendering in front of windows and headlight glares
• Fixed the whole screen getting motion blurred occasionally, for a single frame
• Fixed weathercast and world map legend graphical elements glowing
• Fixed rain puddle ripples appearing pixelated
• Fixed terrain being white in reflections sometimes
• Fixed item light glares not showing in external view
• Potentially fixed headlight volumetric beams blocking godrays
• Various graphics pipeline improvements under the hood

VR

• Improved shovel usage in VR

• When dug into coal, shovel can no longer be swung before being pulled out
• Fixed rare issue where shovel could flicker between loaded and unloaded states

• Added option for Vive users to walk with Touchpad Press instead of touch

• When using this, press Right Touchpad Up to run

• Fixed being unable to progress in career tutorial when using HP Reverb G2
• Made the menu windows smaller but closer in VR, making them more comfortable
• Made it possible to telegrab  coupler chains, to the extent of its reach
• Improved schematic map button interaction in VR
• Fixed item ghost being visible all the time in carabiner slots
• Fixed being unable to use carabiner slots while inventory is open
• Improved hand positioning for many items
• Make footstep sound work in Teleport movement mode
• Fixed a bug in VR where one could remain crooked after falling out of a tilted vehicle
• Fixed height adjusting getting broken after recentering
• Fixed being unable to save favorite cab position when in teleport locomotion
• Fixed door frame header on locomotives preventing teleport/movement
• Fixed various rare situations where player collider could separate from the player
• Fixed getting the “you made changes” prompt after recentering and going to settings screen
• Added debug shortcuts for VR tracking in Settings → Advanced
• Fixed sound delay when telegrabbing items
• Improved “autosave” and “need license” UI appearance

Misc

• Reworked Shops

• Purchasable items are now displayed on shelves in their physical form, with a price sticker
• Aiming the scanner at the items now shows their description in UI
• To add items to cart use the scanner at them
• Added more advertising posters to shops

• Reworked Lost & Found shed

• It’s now called Tool Shed
• Its interior has been remade, how more detailed and featuring many shelves
• Items left anywhere in the shed will remain saved in those places, across all sheds
• This is to help organize the many customization-related items
• A green desk in the shed still serves as Lost & Found. Lost items will spawn there
• Changed item retrieval button to two service bells, one for lost items, another for stored
• A tool shed was added next to the player home too

• Tweaked difficulty UX

• You now only need CCUR1 or LONG1 to unlock custom difficulty usage in career mode
• Session screen now lets you pick a custom difficulty, but says the requirement to unlock it

• Added Steam Startup difficulty setting

• Lets you adjust time it takes to fire up the steam engine
• The Standard preset setting is 100% (now taking x5 longer than before)
• The Comfort preset setting is 25%
• The Realistic preset setting is 200%
• The maximum value of 2500% matches real life and is not sped up (takes hours)

• Added Main Reservoir Fill Time difficulty setting

• Lets you adjust time it takes for the compressor to fill up the main reservoir
• The Standard and Comfort preset settings are 100% (similar as before)
• The Realistic preset setting is 500% (closely matching real life)

• Improved comms radio cheat features

• Added Livery mode that lets you repaint cabs and bodies of locomotives
• Vehicle spawner selection is now organized by loco/car → model → livery hierarchy
• Cargo spawner now only lists cargo that the selected car can accept

• Improved localization

• Improved translations (thanks to the translation team!)
• Finished vehicle catalog localization
• Fixed some text characters in certain languages appearing thinner than others

• Improved player character interaction

• Fixed standing on some moving props (e.g. crane arm) not moving you along with it
• Fixed inability to sit while crouching in toggle mode

• Improved inventory interaction

• Shift+click in inventory now moves item to/from hotbar, Alt+click equips it
• Moved starting non-essential items from hotbar to backpack by default

• Improvements to UI

• Added next/previous page buttons on booklet corners (invisible, usage optional)
• Numbers are now nicely formatted (e.g. 1,000), with rules respective of selected language
• Changed graphics settings to sliders
• Fixed buttons making sounds when hovering over them while not in-game (out of focus)
• Added vehicle type listing under vehicle ID on a fee
• Removed unimplemented difficulty settings from the difficulty editor UI
• Fixed career manager scroll arrows looking like diamonds
• Fixed autosave UI not disappearing when pause menu is open

• Improvements to driving UI

• Added driving UI gadget extensions (accessible via gauge-icon button)
• Driving UI now shows blue outline over cylinder cocks if full with water, red if popped
• Fixed a bug where using UI while player is far from controls could cause issues
• Fixed rare case where driving UI wouldn’t display tender water level correctly, since B98

• Misc improvements related to vehicles

• Improved locomotive remote input detection
• Fixed misused vehicles retroactively receiving damage after enabling the difficulty setting
• Fixed vehicles able to get their wheel rolling sound glitched if summoned while moving
• Fixed cars sometimes staying stuck when derailed via comms radio, if stationary
• Fixed key-controlled buttons staying stuck if holding key while leaving a vehicle (e.g. horn)
• Fixed fast traveling with locomotive not taking the coupled slug along

• Improved item storage

• Items stored at player’s home now stay there
• Paint sprayer and cans left at the paint station will stay there too

• Fixed environment sounds not playing when the game is initially loaded
• Fixed the weathercast being broken sometimes
• Added Run Toggle setting to Settings/Controls, allowing short tapping run key to enable it
• Fixed some items’ held position not adjusting properly to different FOV in nonVR
• Fixed fast travel and sleeping progressing time of day when it’s overridden in weather editor
• Removed Automatic Headlights difficulty setting (to be replaced by a gadget later)
• Fixed booklets glitching out when flipping through pages on moving trains
• Made licenses ordered by acquisition difficulty, when listed on career manager and orders
• Fixed boombox cassette resetting to start when going to pause menu
• Rebalanced the audio mixing volumes
• Fixed items not behaving nicely in drawers (e.g. caboose)
• Made cargo transfer display relevant order ID when reporting missing vehicles
• Fixed being able to interact with aimed item when using mousewheel with the hotbar open
• Added the missing “Paused Photo Mode” setting for Weather Editor difficulty
• Added “Fees Total” entry to career manager stats screen
• Fixed some station fast travel spawn locations not being great
• Guarded against potential false "you have unsaved settings changes" prompt
• Added a prompt option to save when quitting
• Fixed the game sometimes resetting display resolution when relaunched
• Numerous other small improvements

Tutorial

• Added sandbox mode tutorial popups

• These appear only once, per user
• They teach about custom difficulty usage, vehicle unlocks and comms radio cheats

• Improvements to career tutorial

• Added the gadget introduction segment
• Fixed a few softlock hazards
• Various other small fixes

• Improvements to locomotive tutorials

• Revamped steam engine tutorials due to new features
• Added brake cutout introduction
• Fixed “later” prompt button not working when used during career tutorial

BUILD 98

09 February, 2024

Stability

• Made numerous CPU and GPU optimizations, increasing FPS up to 30% in some cases

• This affects both VR and PC users
• It depends on user hardware and game situation

• Fixed a few game-breaking bugs involving tutorials
• Fixed hovering over save slots causing jarring hiccups in VR
• Fixed rare case where items or vehicles could fall through ground near tunnel entrances
• Fixed save files sometimes able to appear in wrong sessions

Train Simulation

• Added BE2-260 Microshunter work train

• Microshunter is a tiny locomotive with a special purpose
• It’s an emergency tow vehicle, for when no proper locomotives are at hand
• It needs to be unlocked before it can be used
• The key costs $30k, and it’s found in Bob’s Garage (handcar is no longer there)
• Once unlocked, Microshunter can be summoned via comms radio for $2500
• It features the all new battery-electric powertrain, with an electric charger socket
• Beware of Microshunter not being a great choice to do orders with
• See vehicle catalog for more details

• Revamped DE powertrain simulation

• DE2 and DE6 now behave significantly closer to real-life counterparts
• The change shows in notch operation, heat management, sound dynamics
• TMs can now break apart if overspeeding
• Simulating series and parallel circuitry, proper transitions
• Improved governor simulation
• TM wear now occurs from running at high temperature in addition to raw mileage
• Rheostatic dynamic brake power now peaks at around 35 km/h
• Slug can now share power from two locomotives, one at each end
• Slug now has less of an impact on top speed

• Modified DE6

• All new engine sound
• Reduced powertrain wear
• Updated gauges to fit the new simulation
• Swapped large DE6 breaker switch for electrics with a smaller one for TM

• Modified DE2

• Boosted DE2’s power to its former 400t glory
• Reduced powertrain wear
• Updated gauges to fit the new simulation

• Modified DM3

• Fixed DM3 getting frozen if money shifted
• Added gear shifting pattern plaque next to the gear levers

• Modified DH4

• Dynamic brake no longer functions when the engine is off (no pump)

• Added a variety of air compressor sounds
• Fixed S282 loco and tender sometimes colliding at spawn, causing damage
• Fixed wipers squeaking when there’s light rain, but windows are still wet

Gameplay

• Added Vehicle Catalog handbook item

• This item is always available and can be retrieved to inventory
• It condensely lists stats of all motorized and work vehicles in the game, including:
• Name, unit count, production years, license info, vehicle type and role(s)
• Spawn locations and chance, ability to summon and cost
• Load rating on flat, dry uphill and wet uphill track (conservative)
• Dimensions, mass full and empty, pricing, wheel and coupler configuration
• Vehicle power supply, transmission, brake and other features
• Detailed system of scores and effects of vehicles

• Turned handcar into a free vehicle

• In career mode you can now spawn it for free right from the start
• This helps reduce running/teleporting around in the Realistic difficulty preset

• Began implementation of player-owned vehicles feature set

• Work trains are now player-owned
• This means insurance doesn’t cover their servicing - careful!
• You can see owned vehicles listed under the “Owned Vehicles” career manager category
• You can print them for cost specifics, just like with vehicle fees
• Microshunter and Slug can get damaged and need servicing to stay functional
• Handcar and Caboose are intentionally made to not acquire damage or need servicing
• Player-owned vehicles can only be serviced manually, not adding up to copay

• Added electric chargers

• Located in towns’ and SM service points, for Microshunter charging

• Fast travel now elapses game time, depending on distance traveled

• Increased the UI window to show arrival time

• Improved sleeping

• Extended maximum sleeping duration option from 8 to to 10 hours
• Modified the sleeping cooldown logic, now being less restrictive
• Added Sleep Cooldown difficulty setting
• In the Realistic preset the cooldown is 8h, in Standard 6h and in Comfort none

• Added loose world map coordinates next to vehicle ID on career manager
• Increased fire damage to vehicles x3
• Removed work trains being available in sandbox if they're not unlocked in career
• Added more day duration difficulty settings (3, 4, 6, 8 and 12 hours)

UX

• Added sitting height adjustment in nonVR

• Hold X and use mousewheel to adjust

• Added ability to save favorite position in a vehicle

• This is a position you’ll be placed into when dashing to a vehicle’s cab
• First get into a comfortable position in a vehicle. Then:
• In nonVR - in mouse mode (Alt) click the new “Save Camera Position” button
• In VR - in inventory top-right corner, click the new “Save Camera Position” button
• Favorite positions are saved per particular vehicle type, on the user level
• Click the "Reset Camera Position" button to reset to default position

• Improvements to mouse mode UI and external camera

• Made mouse mode UI accessible by temp-holding Alt, instead of only toggle
• Each camera type now has a separate button in mouse mode UI
• Photo mode button now features outline when active
• Same as for 1p view, you can now save/reset camera offset for the follow camera
• Fixed being unable to shovel coal on S282 via driving UI, since B97
• Fixed driving UI not showing amount of coal and water in tender properly
• Fixed driving UI text being cut off
• Increased size of non-alphabetic fonts in Driving UI, for improved clarity

• Made improvements to manual and its UI

• Added new articles and updated existing ones
• Manual headlines now break into multiple lines when they don’t fit
• Manual now displays text in tooltip area on mouseover, helps when truncated
• Removed text justification for languages with long words (French, Dutch…)

• Improvements to item interaction in nonVR

• Prevented being able to grab items through walls and objects
• Made held items adjust their position proportional to camera FOV

• Improvements to nonVR input

• Fixed mouse scroll not working on career manager in mouse mode with held item
• Added a couple settings for inverting scrolling in Settings/Controls
• Fixed “use” action being hardcoded to LMB (mouse0)
• Inverted mouse-wheel interaction with loco remote coupler selector knob

• Made turntable booths have a dash anchor, like locomotive cabs do

VR

• Added seamless height adjustment in VR

• Hold both Triggers and move hands vertically to lift/lower yourself

• Revamped Vive wand controls and feel

• Fixed controller calibration angle, bad since B97
• It is now possible to walk while holding an item in left hand
• Use Item is now done with Trigger, like on all other controllers
• Item scrolling is now Trigger+Touchpad Left/Right, like on all other controllers
• To drop an item press Trigger+Grip

• Drastically improved hand shakiness and aiming smoothness feel
• Fixed missing haptic feedback when interacting with levers in OculusVR mode
• Added haptic feedback when aiming at a switch with comms radio
• Fixed objects in peripheral vision popping on Oculus headsets
• Fixed being unable to tele-interact with item-nested controls
• Fixed a bug where item scrolling in VR could get stuck in a certain circumstance
• Fixed being able to drop an item in VR with the hand still attached to it
• Fixed bad interaction with some vehicle buttons/switches in VR
• Improved interaction with fuel hose plug in VR
• Cut number of notches on handcar hand crank to make VR haptic feedback less spammy
• Shortened inventory long-press wait threshold

Graphics

• Fixed sun sometimes shining through mountains when behind player at sundown
• Fixed items in player’s home having bad lighting
• Fixed glitched lighting on passenger car windows
• Fixed rain droplets missing on High graphics setting (merged with Very High)
• Fixed shadows being glitchy on the lowest quality setting
• Fixed a rare visual glitch with pumpjacks being drawn behind background terrain
• Fixed SteamVR loading screen being low-resolution, since B96

Misc

• Fixed being able to “man vehicle” oneself into a locked military base
• Fixed some short sounds not being affected by the doppler effect (e.g. horn pulse)
• Fixed tunnel entrance structures not having collision with player and trains
• Fixed CCUR1 license not saying that it removes rerail discount
• Reduced career manager text size to fit long words in non-English languages
• Fixed VR-intended inventory icons showing up in nonVR inventory, since B97
• Fixed inventory hotbar being offset on ultrawide monitors
• Middle mouse button is now bindable (as mouse2)
• Increased size of weathercast posters
• Added coal service marker to CM on world map
• Fixed missing collision with harbor military base fence
• Made boombox radio signal no longer getting audibly lossy in station offices already
• Fixed pocketwatch ticking sound not being 3D when held in hand
• Made pocketwatch alarm needle movement increment 12 min to align with minute marks
• Numerous improvements to texts and translations
• Many other small improvements

Tutorial

• Reworked locomotive tutorials to be singular runs again, but with only a short drive
• Integrated newly added features to the career tutorial
• No longer showing post-tutorial steps if session was started with tutorial disabled
• Added all tutorial prompts to the Localization Test scene
• Numerous tutorial improvements, cleanups and bug fixes

BUILD 97

10 November, 2023

Stability

• Fixed rare bug where money, jobs and items could disappear in Realistic difficulty

• If you were affected, please contact us - we can fix your save. Steps:
• Email us at [email protected]  with your save file attached
• Tell us how much money you’d like added
• Add up for the cost of lost items too, so you can repurchase them
• We’ll bring back money to your save file and send it back to you

• Fixed bug with items in trains hitting tunnel entrances and thus sometimes getting lost

• Mainly DH4 was affected by pure luck, the issue was deep in general code

• Fixed possibility of loading screen getting stuck if music ends before it finishes
• Fixed loading screen freezing if “Pause minimized” is on and the game is out of focus
• Fixed failing to import a save file if it has empty space in its filename
• Fixed continue screen offering to continue the last career session after it’s been deleted
• Potentially fixed AudioPluginOculusSpatializer.dll causing crash on load on old CPUs
• Potentially fixed sessionData.json getting corrupted, with improved safeguarding

Industries & Cargo

• Added new cargo types, originating in Farm

• Eggs, milk, local fruits, vegetables and sunflower seeds now go to Food Factory
• Cotton and Wool now go to Goods Factory

• Added domestic animals

• Various farm animals can now be found at the Farm industry
• Cats can be found in every town
• The animals move around and make sounds during the day
• The small animals may cross the tracks sometimes and are immune to trains

• Farm animals cargo is now visible inside stock cars

• They audibly react to physics forces and health level
• They lose health when underwater

• Revised HAZMAT license tier ruleset

• 1st tier now allows flammable, asphyxiating and oxidizing cargo
• 2nd tier now allows explosive, corrosive and toxic cargo
• 3rd tier allows radioactive and biohazardous cargo, as before

• Allowed different HAZMAT tiers to be combined into single orders
• Fixed leaking flammable cargo not pooling the flammable liquid when burning
• Rebalanced mass, price and damage sensitivity of many cargo types
• Added new wooden fence type and mud pits to Farm

VR

• Added “mouse mode” behavior equivalent to VR

• Allows operating aimed levers and buttons remotely by holding Grip+Trigger

• On HTC Vive controllers hold Trigger+TouchpadUp

• Susceptible to the new “VR Remote Driving” difficulty setting (off in Realistic)

• Added Weather Editor to VR

• To toggle it click the cloud icon button in inventory header
• Susceptible to the old “Weather Editor” difficulty setting

• Fixed peripheral objects disappearing in the right eye on high FOV headsets (SteamVR)
• Fixed sunshafts effect in VR sometimes showing as a vertical lines glitch
• Simplified item storing; short-press stores item immediately without opening inventory
• Fixed various issues with crouching in VR not working well
• Improved calibration on all controller types for aim and hand alignment consistency
• Fixed shakiness when aiming and holding large items (fix applies to SteamVR only)
• Fixed carabiner slots being turned on by default (applies to new users only)

Graphics

• Added new terrain shadow rendering system

• It’s controlled by the new Terrain Lighting graphics setting. When set to High:
• Terrain is lit more realistically when sun is at a shallow angle
• Terrain has shadows even at a very high distance
• Water surface receives terrain shadows
• Sunset and sunrise shadows are smoother, more natural looking
• There’s ambient occlusion, giving more depth to the air

• Fixed reflections being glitched, as of B96
• Fixed train headlights not having glare in daylight

Train Simulation

• Added stock car

• This is an old wooden cage car, used to transport livestock
• It can be found in Farm and Food Factory, and comes in three colors

• Added short tank car

• This car is similar to the regular tanker, but shortened
• It is currently used only for milk transport
• It can be found in Farm and Food Factory, and has milk livery

• Improvements to diesel vehicles

• Fixed dynamic brake being able to get stuck when doing a DE6 + Slug combo
• Improved DE6 engine bay looks when player is off-vehicle and the door is open
• Fixed DH4 oil gauge warning lamp turning on too late
• Fixed DH4 sand level lamp not blinking and sounding an alarm when very low
• Fixed DM3 window having rain tilted opposite from air drag

• Improvements to steam vehicles

• Reduced S282’s abnormally high resistance to collision damage
• Fixed misaligned valve gear with the S282A’s body
• Fixed lubricator consumption getting multiplied twice by res. consumption setting
• Improved VR interaction with some S060 and S282 locomotive controls
• Made S282A cutoff position indicator lines white for improved visibility

• Improved item and player collision precision on all vehicles
• Made manually spawned vehicles have handbrake applied instead of cylinder pressure
• Made fire from TMs cause fire damage to vehicles
• Fixed wheels not turning on exploded locos
• Fixed cab indicator lights not being visibly damaged on exploded locos
• Fixed handcars having brakes be permanently applied in sandbox mode
• Fixed caboose brake gauge not being calibrated well
• Fixed the “auto-headlights” feature affecting unmanned vehicles
• Fixed locomotive remote inverting headlight orientation if vehicle is in reverse
• Fixed some headlight textures being mirrored on a few locomotives
• Fixed brake cylinder release handle not working on autorack car, when used in VR
• Increased volume of the DM3 compression brake sound
• Simulation groundwork improvements:

• Rewrote resource consump. propagation code (improved loco modularity)
• Improved modularity for breaker configuration on locomotives
• Rewrote how emission fees are calculated for steam engines (cleaner code)

Economy

• Upped the fee tolerance to $100k at the upper limit (was $50k)
• Fixed tender fees unable to be paid in a certain rare situation
• Halved bonus time limit for shunting (was overly generous)

Misc

• Tweaked rain to be a bit less common
• Fixed SW turntable causing unexpected derailments if not nudged
• Fixed issues with zooming and unzooming while in mouse mode
• Weather editor settings are now getting saved
• Fixed weather editor sliders for cloudiness and fog having wrong initial value
• Fixed tutorial messages not working well in CJK languages
• Fixed controls behaving weirdly when mouse-held on moving vehicles
• Fixed being unable to walk through tunnel entrances in some situations
• Fixed EOT Lanterns being able to become unretrievable and permanently lost
• Fixed military base, player house and a few smaller props being white, as of B96
• Made Within Reach controls have lower vertical range than horizontal (no roof driving)
• Fixed external camera getting stuck on world boundaries
• Fixed external camera not adhering to rain quality setting change
• Fixed keyboard controls not working for some switches, breakers, etc. as of B96
• Fixed prompt “Save changes to original [asset]?” doing opposite from chosen action
• Fixed different users not being able to have different settings
• Mouseovering items in inventory now shows their names and descriptions
• Improved descriptions for all items, including cassettes
• Fixed inventory buttons not having tooltips on mouseover
• Fixed inventory hotbar being too large on ultrawide monitors
• Fixed concrete steam coal tower model not fitting the coal particles position
• Fixed being taken to wrong bed when going to sleep, in certain situations
• Career manager license screen in sandbox mode is now listed as “unavailable”
• Career shop items in sandbox mode are now listed as “unavailable” instead of “sold out”
• Fixed the moon being tilted 90 degrees
• Fixed the VR “Item Holding” setting missing a tooltip
• Fixed held item sway not adhering to changes in mouse sensitivity
• Fixed fog level changing in the mornings despite weather being set to a fixed value
• Fixed some items still being collideable with other objects while held
• Fixed language setting not getting saved when playing via GeForce NOW
• Added backup save creation in case of another money loss incident in Realistic difficulty
• Improved logging in case of potential new issues with saves or sessions
• Made license items regenerate if missing from save file
• Made minor cosmetic improvements to tutorial depot (ceiling light, better glass texture…)
• Updated translations to various languages
• More minor fixes

Tutorials

• Fixed many career tutorial issues

• Various improvements to the flow, steps, details, text, reliability and UI
• Prevented use of some leftover features before it’s their turn in tutorial
• Replaced the hopper with a gondola, as the handbrake is more accessible in VR
• Added teaching steps about a few more things that were missed

• Reworked locomotive tutorials

• Locomotive tutorials are now split into 2 stages, “control showcase” and “driving”
• Each stage asks you if it’s okay to begin before starting
• There’s more improvements to come

• Improved tutorial note UI layout, now including action icons
• Fixed the manual missing the contextual “See Also:” links in UI
• Fixed locomotive tutorial button missing from pause menu since B96

BUILD 96

18 August, 2023

Stability

• Added texture streaming

• Instead of holding all textures in VRAM, the game now loads them dynamically
• This drastically reduces required VRAM capacity
• This also indirectly helps reduce RAM usage on PCs with limited VRAM
• This should help prevent crashes and stuttering induced by RAM/VRAM shortage
• Added options for this in Settings/Advanced

• Further reduced RAM usage (apart from texture streaming)
• Fixed corrupted saves being able to make the main menu unusable
• Fixed locomotive exploding being able to cause an error in driving UI
• Fixed turntable sounds continuing playing when the turning stops
• Fixed having a disabled right VR controller being able to break the game
• Fixed error caused by spamming keyboard shortcuts while teleporting into a loco
• Fixed “transform.SetParent” warning message spam in console
• Fixed AudioListener warning spam in main menu, in Oculus SDK

Graphics

• Added NVidia Freestyle support (Ray tracing)

• Requires NVidia GPU and GeForce Experience installed, latest drivers
• Press Alt+F3 to enable the Freestyle sidebar where you can add and edit filters
• We recommend giving the SSRTGI filter a try, which adds ray tracing
• Note that this alters game performance

• Fixed smoke not blending into fog nicely
• Fixed some cases of water surfaces z-fighting when viewed from above
• Fixed comms radio laser not rendering well over smoke

Train Simulation

• Added DE6 Slug

• DE6 Slug is a stripped-down DE6 (has TMs, but no diesel engine or cab)
• It’s a “work train” vehicle, located in a locked garage somewhere in the world
• The garage key can be purchased in Harbor shop for $20k
• The slug can be spawned freely in sandbox mode
• Couple it to any DE locomotive via MU to distribute power to more motors
• Doing this makes the locomotive engine better utilized at low speeds
• It allows for drastically reduced overheating and wheelslip when accelerating
• The slug is able to brake dynamically too
• The slug is filled with concrete to retain traction, making it very heavy
• EMF from its 6 TMs may drastically reduce locomotive’s top speed
• The slug can only assist a single locomotive, the one that was MU’d first
• Once unlocked, the slug can be moved around freely and never gets despawned
• It can also be moved anywhere via comms radio work train function for $5k
• The slug doesn’t receive damage and cannot be repaired
• The slug model is made so that most DE6 skins work with it out of the box

• Improved steam lubricator mechanics

• Fixed indicator not working correctly on S060
• Mechanical damage now starts when oil level gets under 50% (was 100%)
• Running gear now screeches based on oil level rather than damage
• Remade the running gear grinding sound to be more noticeable
• Lubricator now gets reset when paying fees, sleeping or rerailing

• Made accessing a fee for a single unit reset other sibling units to default state

• e.g. paying a tender fee also disables the injector on the locomotive

• Fixed S282A and S060 brake pads not glowing when overheated
• Made loco remote “pair” button do nothing if user is not on a locomotive
• Fixed locomotives sometimes despawning prematurely (S060 in particular)
• Made DH4 reverser immovable when the vehicle is traveling over ~8 km/h
• Made DM3 lever knobs white for improved visibility
• Fixed S282B (tender) missing the wheel slide particle effects
• Modified price of caboose garage key to $20k (was $25k)
• Modified price of caboose summon to $5k (was $10k)
• Fixed DE6 warped metal look causing strange dark blotches on the side
• Fixed S282A wheels visually clipping in rails
• Minor tweaks to the S060 UV map and modeling

Misc

• Reworked zoom in mouse mode

• Zooming now focuses on where the mouse cursor is
• Unzooming now returns the camera to the original position
• Held items now can be viewed zoomed in mouse mode

• Added setting “Within Reach” to Keyboard Driving difficulty parameter

• This allows using the keyboard controls only in vicinity of train controls
• This is now the default setting in Standard and Realistic presets

• Fixed lanterns falling off of S282 (and generally items when close to the vehicle edge)
• Fixed various inconsistencies with vehicle spawning

• Comms radio spawner mode no longer offers locked vehicles
• Comms radio spawner mode now includes work trains too
• Removed the comms radio work train mode from sandbox game mode
• Scenario train editor now shows locked vehicles with a locker icon
• Trying to start a scenario with a locked vehicle now issues a blocker popup
• Caboose is no longer missing from scenario train editor
• DM3 is no longer possible to spawn or fast travel with when it’s locked

• Creating a new session now defaults the difficulty preset to the last used one
• Fixed train keyboard controls being able to cause issues when pressed during pause
• Made sit and lean states turn off when walking away more than a couple meters
• Fixed being unable to pick up items after placing them on bed/couch
• Fixed boombox changing modes during game pause
• Increased intensity and range of comms radio LED light
• Fixed being able to dislodge doors, levers and such with the fuel hose plug
• Fixes to minor missing or floating objects in stations

VR

• Brought back physical touch interaction with buttons

• Now works as intended, please give it a try
• Can still be disabled in settings

• Simplified controller calibration

• Pointer beam is now relative to hand and uniform across all controllers
• Please let us know if calibration feels off and needs adjusting

• Fixed small items not always going to predefined position in hand, when grabbed
• Fixed shop scanner laser pointing down in VR
• Fixed some items being unable to be put in carabiner slots in VR
• Fixed being able to walk through thin colliders (e.g. turntable rod)
• Fixed UI interaction in localization test scene not working in VR

Tutorials

• Fixed career tutorial able to break if one avoids the steps that teaches how to jump
• Added career tutorial tutorial step teaching about the Lost & Found sheds
• Added a post-tutorial step teaching how to cancel jobs (trash bin)
• Added “Can’t save in tutorial” message in save manager, during career tutorial

BUILD 95

21 July, 2023

Stability

• VRAM optimization

• Reduced VRAM footprint of dynamically generated textures
• Reduced VRAM footprint of some large assets
• We’re working on texture streaming, to drastically reduce VRAM usage

• It’s currently in the testing phase. To enable it use console command:
• Graphics.StreamingMipmaps.Active 1
• This is still in development and may not be flawless

• Fixed career progress corruption bug

• Hardcore sessions were able to pull in saves from other sessions when auto-saving on game exit. It was possible for this to ruin one’s career progression

• Fixed small memory leak caused by the window droplets system
• Improved lag-spike optimization when printing out papers
• Fixed brake sound getting stuck when stopped (introduced in #94)
• Fixed shadows cast by terrain disappearing when turning around (introduced in #94)

Train Simulation

• Added S060 locomotive

• Small steam shunter, great visibility, high torque and medium range
• Similarly to DM3, it’s more likely to spawn in smaller industries, like forests

• Simulated efficient coal management during accelerated steam engine startup

• Halves the amount consumed

• Made partial shovel unloading possible
• Reduced cost of coal by 75%
• Reduced DM3 mechanical powertrain damage from engine running by 40%
• Fixed cylinder cock steam particles being out of sync with the piston cycle on S282
• Fixed reverser changing headlights orientation if the paired remote is off or in inventory
• Made some tweaks to Auto Headlights logic when using the “Direction” setting
• Removed accumulation of water in cylinders when the steam vehicle is in motion

• IRL the tiny amount of condensing water gets expelled with each piston cycle

• Fixed S282 fire not going out when coal is exhausted
• Fixed firebox temperature not returning to boiler water temperature when fire is out
• Adjusted S282 so it doesn’t go over 120 km/h
• Reduced price of S282A/B subsystems (and thus repair costs)
• Added a new, heavier, wheel rolling sound for locomotives
• Fixed water in cylinders being audible at large distances
• Lowered dynamos sound volume
• Fixed exploded S282 retaining red valves and labels
• Added numbers to S282 sand gauge
• Allowed adding coal to firebox via the driving UI when the firebox doors are closed

Misc

• Added 9 new water towers to the map

• Pass-through in FF, OWC, FM, GF, MF, FRC, FRS, MB
• Non-pass-through in CSW
• Maps have not been updated with new tower locations yet

• Made improvements to coal/water towers

• Added alert sounds indicating steam vehicle alignment with chutes/faucets
• Improved sound placement and volume, when using the towers
• Fixed the water jet effect clipping through vehicles and taking too long to end

• Reduced intensity of cab lights in locomotives
• Fixed locomotives being able to despawn if coupled to an active order
• Fixed steam engine controls not resetting when paying fees (fire, injector, blower, etc.)
• Fixed text on comms radio sometimes getting stuck until put in inventory (introd. in #94)
• Aiming at locked vehicles in sandbox now notes that they need to be unlocked in career
• Tweaked audio mixing so the sound is less bassy in cabs
• Fixed hotbar mousewheel scroll direction being inverted
• Fixed main menu build badge button not leading to the news link on click

VR

• Fixed some inconsistencies with Trigger/Grip usage (introduced in #94)
• Fixed Vive wands not using Trigger to interact with buttons (introduced in #94)
• Fixed held items being offset in left hand on some devices (introduced in #94)
• Fixed log getting spammed on some devices (introduced in #94)
• Improved interaction with rotary switches, notably the S282 exterior valves
• Removed recenter button in main menu, should only appear in-game
• Fixed carabiner slots resetting rotation on game load

Tutorials

• Fixed “vehicle must be stationary” false-positives when auto-starting quick tutorials
• Fixed vehicles attempting to start quick tutorials when the player isn’t licensed for them
• Fixed multiple softlock issues around the coupling phase of career tutorial
• Fixed multiple softlock points involving picking up money in the wrong moment
• Fixed tutorial not recognizing movement and rotation in VR for some devices
• Added the career tutorial step teaching how to crouch before coupling

BUILD 94

15 July, 2023

Stability

• RAM usage optimization

• Drastically reduced the buildup of RAM usage from traveling around
• Should help alleviate many crashes

• Slight FPS improvements

• Drastically optimized the rendering of lit windows at night (affects low-end PCs)
• Fixed brake sound systems being active on stationary and distant trains
• Simplified some checks in the audio playback system
• Optimized the Doppler effect system
• Fixed terrains out of view being able to cause lag
• Fixed text rendering being able to cause stutter in certain situations

UX NonVR

• Fixed UI receiving unwanted input from unsupported controllers

• This may have affected your language selection screen, save manager, etc.

• Fixed being unable to save custom key bindings in-game

• Go to Settings > Advanced page
• Click “Remap Keyboard Controls” to open the preferences.ini file
• Make changes to key controls, save the file, close the window
• Back in the game click the “Update Keyboard Controls” button

• Fixed RMB zoom not working while space-to-dismiss tutorial prompts are on
• Fixed a bug with the bad coupler selection when using the Coupling UI panel
• Fixed escape button not working in pause menu if closed by [X] without applying first
• Made inventory slots 11 and 12 mappable (default keys - and = on QWERTY)
• Temporarily allowed Keyboard Driving in Realistic difficulty mode

• Will be restricted to being in cab only when finished

UX VR

• Fixed being unable to go past the “turn around” step in career tutorial on Reverb G2
• Fixed tutorial not addressing the needed VR input actions correctly, on certain controllers
• Fixed held items being offset for certain platforms/controllers, especially on Oculus SDK
• Disabled automatic touch interaction with buttons

• This will be vastly improved and added back as a setting in a later build

• Fixed interaction with most buttons being Grip instead of Trigger

Train Simulation

• Reduced S282 resource consumption (coal, water) by 20%
• Reduced S282 blower power and steam consumption by 75%

• Mostly noticeable with the startup time

• Increased S282 coal consumption when the fire is lacking air

• Indicated by dark chimney smoke

• Increased S282 indicated firebox temperature at low combustion rate
• Enabled body and wheels damage on S282B (Tender)
• Drastically reduced startup costs on DM3 and DH4
• Fixed S282 bad brake gauge needle alignment
• Fixed S282 chimney smoke clipping through the model
• Fixed the crown sheet sizzling sound continuing to play after boiler explosion

Misc

• Refined all bird/cricket biome sounds to be more soothing rather than piercing
• Added “Retrieve all items” button to Lost & Found sheds

• Pressing this button will retrieve all player-owned items from around the world
• It will not retrieve items that are already in your inventory
• Uses temporary art, to be improved

• Fixed certain cases where items would get lost when left on rail vehicles
• Fixed external camera being able to break the game when reaching too high altitude
• Fixed the DE2 quick tutorial turning on by default
• Fixed the possible career tutorial softlock at the “Handbrake release” step
• Fixed the possible career tutorial softlock at the initial “Park the locomotive” step
• Fixed “Manual servi” text being cut off on career manager
• Fixed Boombox audio stuck to the player while away, if locked to an inventory slot
• Fixed order validator in military offices having stuck papers and a bugged name position
• Changed the order of the VR category button in settings
• Updated some localization texts (work-in-progress)

BUILD 93

1 July, 2023

Core Systems

• Added main menu

• Game no longer launches directly into gameplay
• Includes many root changes to make the game restartable without quitting

• Revamped train simulation code

• Designed to increase vehicle production speed and facilitate future train mod support

• Requires no programming to create vehicles, but is still inevitably hard to work with

• Includes many new simulation features, described in Trains section

• Integrated a localization infrastructure

• Features simple updating by multiple translators, dynamically
• Support for most scripts (except right-to-left ones)
• Adapted all game important in-game text, UI and physical
• Includes translations to 25 languages made by the community

• Added many graphical features and systems

• Examples include daylight cycle, fog, real-time reflections, lighting, rain effects, motion blur
• Graphics settings included for each system
• Their features are further described in the World & Tracks section

• Made adaptations to rendering to always use deferred render path

• Fixed TAA causing color bleeding artifacts in nonVR
• Made TAA work in VR
• Fixed color banding artifacts on LDR graphics (VR)
• Removed forward render path option

• Made many improvements to performance and memory usage
• Fixed disabled Vsync setting necessitating limited framerate (now unlimited)
• Added framerate limiter option
• Added users

• Data such as settings, sessions, saves and unlocks are now stored per user
• User data is located at %APPDATA%\LocalLow\Altfuture\Derail Valley\Users
• Old main save is automatically moved to the new location and adapted
• Deleting the game folder thus no longer removes the save files

• Revamp of save file format

• Includes a screenshot
• Modular structure
• Supports simplified sharing among players, despite carrying user metadata

• Added save importing feature

• Saves from older builds automatically convert to the new format and change location
• There’s an ImportFolder (accessible via save manager UI button)

• Adding save files here will create a new session from them on next game start

• Added game difficulty parametrization

• 40+ gameplay aspects are now controllable by these parameters
• This is further described in the UX section

• Added train physics telemetry storing

• Useful for debugging and possibly modders
• Enable in Settings > Dev Tools
• If enabled, stores  telemetry data up to 1 minute (warning: performance impact!)
• Pressing “export” provides a .csv file

• Revamp of bogie movement simulation code

• Fixed phantom forces on junctions causing random derailments
• Fixed rail vehicles getting bogus micro movements
• Fixed rail vehicles sliding slightly when they should be stopped
• Slight CPU optimization
• Resolves other rare undesired behaviors

• Fixed trains/world in motion being jittery on high-end PCs
• Fixed cabs position glitching when setting a locomotive in motion, or sometimes on turntables
• Fixed a rare bug where manually spawned cars have their airline hoses open
• Fixed existing smoke particles disappearing when a locomotive effect stops emitting
• Fixed reprojection artifacts when playing in Oculus VR mode
• Added a setting to choose fullscreen or windowed display
• Fixed going windowed and resizing the window changing the fullscreen resolution
• Revamped item and inventory handling systems
• Updated Unity version to 2019.4.40f1
• Updated Oculus SDK
• Added debug info (press Home to enable)
• Various other core changes under the hood

Train Simulation

• Revamped simulation of Diesel-Electric locomotives

• Simulates traction motors (TM), electric current and voltage
• TM overheating can shut off a breaker, destroy a TM or catch fire (chance based)
• Power is distributed to available TMs (less if some are broken, more if using slugs)
• Simulates rheostatic (dynamic) braking
• Simulates contactors and transition (basic)

• Added simulation of Diesel-Hydraulic locomotives

• Simulates torque converter transmission with gear changing, automatic optional
• Simulates hydrodynamic braking (retarding)
• Simulates transmission fluid overheating and failure

• Added simulation of Diesel-Mechanical locomotives

• Simulates fluid coupling transmission with gear changing, automatic optional
• Simulates engine and compression braking
• Simulating transmission fluid overheating and failure

• Added DH4

• 1970s diesel-hydraulic road switcher
• Low-effort, medium running costs, sophisticated tech
• Requires DH4 license to unlock, free to use in sandbox
• Rated for 700t, medium top speed
• MU and remote support

• Added DM3

• 1950s diesel-mechanical 9-speed shunter
• High-effort, low running costs, primitive tech
• Requires DM3 license to unlock
• Rated for 500t, good uphill, medium top speed

• Modified DE2

• Remade to work with the new train simulation system
• Remade and heavily optimized the interior texture and made it skin friendly
• Redesigned brake stand to be more in line with the self-lapping function and VR ergonomy
• Features a working cab fan
• Made exhaust clapper open more from exhaust pressure
• Improved traction
• More suitable for shunting with high-power in short intervals, but reduced top speed
• Remains rated for 400t, bad uphill, low top speed

• Modified DE6

• Remade to work with the new train simulation system
• Features a working cab fan
• Reduced agility for quick maneuvers and removed locomotive remote support
• Straightened UV on the exterior for easier texture modding
• Fixed fuse box panel being hard to open with mouse drag
• Fixed bogie pivot placement being misaligned (this was necessary earlier, is no longer)
• Remains rated for 1400t, very capable for hauling, but expensive to run

• Improved air brake simulation

• More accurate behavior of valves
• Main reservoir is automatically repressurized by the compressor, provides pressure to pipe
• Fixed equalization bugs and made various adjustments
• Brake gauges now show relative values instead of absolute
• Improved sounds
• Brake warning lights no longer indicate bad coupling, but only leaks and handbrake warnings

• Added brake cylinder simulation

• Leaks over time (2 hours in-game, 10 minutes IRL), can result in a runaway train
• Can be manually released by pulling a red handle, found on each vehicle

• Added non-self-lapping brake valve simulation

• Featured by DM3, S282 and S060
• On these locos the brake lever is spring loaded with three notches
• Pushing the lever slightly fills the pipe from the main reservoir
• Pulling the lever slightly empties the pipe
• Forward, neutral and back positions are called respectively “service, “lap” and “release”
• F3/F4 to apply/release brakes, Shift+F3/F4 to change notch
• When combining non-self-lapping and self-lapping valves, the latter one is in control

• Improved self-lapping train brake valve simulation

• Featured by DE2, DH4 and DE6
• Made application non-linear and easier to fine tune when going downhill

• Improved independent brake simulation

• Made application non-linear, but remains more direct than train brake
• Unlike train brake, it now dumps air from main reservoir when applied

• Added handbrake simulation

• Controlled by a crank found on every vehicle, typically yellow
• Crank features a knob, making it easy to see application state at distance
• CW (right) means applied, CCW (left) means unapplied
• Cars usually have two cranks, one on each side. They are linked together
• Automatically applied on the first or the last car on spawned trains
• Automatically applied on rerailed  vehicles
• Depending on difficulty settings, can be handled automatically when coupling/uncoupling
• Jobs require a single handbrake to be applied to be completed

• Added brake shoe overheating simulation

• Mechanical brake shoes now gain heat when used, depending on speed and braking force
• When overheated they glow red, making a metal chime noise
• When overheated they lose their braking power
• Shoes cool down over time
• Overheating does not do damage to wheels and brakes, as a gameplay balancing measure

• Improved traction simulation

• Track friction now changes dynamically based on how wet the tracks are
• Trains now wheelslide  if braking too hard, causing damage to locomotive wheels
• Wheelslip warning lamp now turns on for any traction loss, including wheelside
• Traction loss warning now comes with a buzzing sound on some locomotives
• Reduced negative effect of grade on traction

• Improved suspension simulation

• Trains now rock and sway more naturally

• Improved derailments

• Adjusted physics so that derailed trains have more forward momentum
• Locomotives now have (limited) traction on land and can be driven off rails
• Derailed trains create dust clouds and spew dirt, depending on weather
• Derailed trains no longer create braking and wheelslip effects

• Diesel locomotives can now explode

• To explode, they need to be in fire
• They need to reach 0% body damage with a tank 30%+ full of diesel
• When exploded, locos drop all resources/health to 0 and become visually wrecked
• Locomotives will un-explode  visually only once repaired back to 95% body

• Improved internal combustion engine simulation

• More accurate fuel consumption, based on engine load
• Fuel injection audibly affected by governor
• May stall on diesel-mechanical drivetrain

• Added breaker simulation

• Toggles starter, electrics and TM systems, where applicable
• TM breaker will shut off if current in TM gets too high, but won’t necessarily save it every time

• Added starter simulation

• Starter now makes a proper sound while held engaged, until the engine turns on
• No longer allows shutting off the engine, that’s done by the “fuel cutoff” button now

• Added compressor simulation

• Makes sound of pumping and spitter valves
• Works faster if revving the engine
• Stops working if a vehicle is sufficiently damaged

• Added lights simulation

• All locomotives feature dim, low beam and high beam headlight modes
• Dim mode is for daytime running
• Low beam mode is for nighttime in low visibility conditions and/or populated areas
• High beam mode is for nighttime in high visibility conditions, no populated areas
• Automatic handling of modes on individual vehicles in MU configuration
• Automatic handling of orientation when using locomotive remote, reverser-driven
• Depending on difficulty settings, headlights can be set automatically
• If overridden in auto-mode, reman vehicle or toggle electrics breaker to return to auto
• Features cab lights
• Stops working if vehicle is sufficiently damaged

• Added wipers

• Multiple motion patterns and speeds available
• Dynamically changes blade scraping sound based on how wet the glass is

• Improved warning propagation through MU

• Traction loss or overheating warnings of any MU member now show in all units
• Highest warning level has priority
• This also applies to locomotive remote when using it in combo with MU

• Reworked doors and windows

• They now stay open when getting off a vehicle
• Their state is also remembered in the save file
• Removed ability to walk through closed doors/windows

• Modified caboose

• It doesn’t wheelslide  nor overheat when braking
• This makes it useful when going downhill on trains with insufficient dynamic braking power
• It is now equipped with a working brake pipe gauge
• Fixed items falling through caboose drawers/floor

• Improved coupler and buffer physics

• Modified couplers to no longer cause derailments in very tight curves
• Added rigid couplers for S282 and future multiple units
• Fixed buffers not visually interacting with buffer stops

• Improved general rolling stock sounds

• Added more train collision sounds and improved their dynamic selection method
• Improved sound of train wheels rolling
• Now cars play braking sounds too
• Improved track joint sounds volume

• Resources in a vehicle (diesel, coal, water, etc.) now add to its mass
• It is now possible to walk under train cars (if they’re tall enough)
• Made it possible to jump onto locomotive stairs without dashing
• Improved accuracy of dashing to cabs (the “enter vehicle” prompt)
• Optimized the generic car bogie model

Gameplay Mechanics

• Improved service points

• Added a hose to diesel modules, must be plugged into a vehicle to refuel it
• Added coal and water tower service points
• Vehicle must be properly aligned to the tower to use it, with an open hatch, where applicable
• It’s now possible to service multiple vehicles in a MU group, if just one of them is in range
• Choose a vehicle to service with a knob on the selection module
• Module screens now display more descriptive status information
• Servicing is now faster

• Fees no longer count into the fee tolerance until 7am the next day

• This makes it possible to do multi-job combos without interruptions

• Jobs now require cars to have at least one handbrake applied, to be completed
• Jobs now require cars to be coupled on the destination track, to be completed
• Don't show "you can save money on this fee" if the fee is under $5k
• Reduced max cost of rerailing to $5k in “standard” difficulty preset
• Split “engine” damage type to “mechanical powertrain” and “electrical powertrain” types
• Added diesel service to GF
• Added steam service to SW
• Moved GF cargo transfer machine closer to loading track
• Manual Service license now has a LONG1 license requirement

Items

• Added flashlight

• Can be bought in shops
• Battery powered, rechargeable by a solar panel
• Works underwater

• Added lantern

• Can be bought in shops
• Needs to be lit by a lighter
• Unlimited light source, has a knob that controls intensity
• Can now be used to ignite the firebox
• Can’t be used underwater

• Improved lighter

• Can now be used to ignite the firebox
• Improved flint visual effect
• Now serves as a weak light source
• It’s no longer needed to throw it to light fire in the firebox
• Thrown lighters no longer respawn in inventory
• Can’t be used underwater

• Added compass

• Shows magnetic north
• Can be bought in the HB shop

• Improved comms radio

• Added “LED” mode

• Serves as an infinite weak lightsource for early game

• Added “Damage” mode

• Available depending on difficulty setting
• Used to damage and derail cars, for debugging and video recording

• Reworked pocketwatch

• Now shows in-game time
• Features a red needle as an alarm target
• Clicking the button toggles the alarm
• No longer features timer and stopwatch capability

• Improved locomotive remote

• Responds better to input
• Features an overheating warning lamp
• Now saves its state

• Improved item interaction

• Fixed various rare bugs with items disappearing and respawning
• Items can now be safely stored in the player house location, without going to Lost & Found
• Fixed bugs with retrieving items remaining floating when having full inventory
• Fixed being able to click use on an item in VR, while holding it in another hand
• Fixed some items not highlighting properly
• Fixed comms radio laser transparency rendering bug

• Shops now have limited supply of items
• Schematic map now has clickable tabs to open a specific page
• Improved solar panel charging logic to take into account weather and time of day
• Disabled interaction with item’s levers/button if it’s beyond a certain distance
• Booklets now show all of their page textures rendered
• Removed old manuals

UX & Input

• Revamped GUI

• Now fully consolidated between PC and VR

• Added user selection screen

• Allows ability to select, create, rename and delete users on this screen
• User contains session, settings, scenario and difficulty data
• Includes buttons to copy data from one user to another

• Added session manager screen

• Allows one to select, create, rename and delete sessions of career and sandbox modes
• Provides access to the save manager
• Provides selection of game difficulty preset and access to difficulty editor
• Provides selection of starting scenario and access to the scenario editor (in sandbox only)
• Provides selection of whether to include tutorial in the new session

• Added save manager

• Allows one to load, save, rename, delete and browse saves for a particular session
• Displays save information, such as screenshot, type, time, date, stats and other
• Available from both main menu and pause menu
• Features a button to branch out a new session from a selected save
• Features a button leading to the save folder

• Added difficulty parameters

• A set of parameters defining session rules
• Includes allowing failures such as derailing, overheating and braking force loss
• Includes allowing aids like keyboard driving, external camera, driving UI, map blips, etc.
• Includes allowing warnings that the train is too heavy, that the brakes are engaged, etc.
• Includes setting multipliers for payouts and costs, such as repairs, rerailing, etc.
• Remote coupling

• Off - Coupling requires manual operation
• Remote - Coupling can also be done using the loco remote
• Remote + UI - Coupling can also be done using the loco remote and context UI

• Automatic handbrake setting

• Off - Handbrake setting requires manual operation after coupling
• Remote - Automatically set when coupling using the loco remote
• Remote + UI - Automatically set when coupling using either loco remote or context UI
• Always - Automatically set after any coupling

• Automatic headlight setting

• Off - Requires manual operation
• Direction - Automatically changes direction based on reverser setting
• All - Automatically sets appropriate headlight setting and direction for given conditions

• Permadeath

• Allow only one save slot, frequently overwritten (intended for hardcore players)
• Also creates a backup save for emergencies, but isn’t accessible through GUI

• Includes various more parameters
• Difficulty parameters are saved together into shareable files called difficulty presets

• The game ships with 3 difficulty presets
• Casual preset provides a relaxing experience with mistakes being a minor inconvenience
• Standard preset provides a challenging experience (continuation from previous builds)
• Realistic preset requires focus, thinking and patience at all times, with permadeath saving

• Added difficulty editor

• Allows one to select, create, rename, delete, browse and modify difficulty presets
• Provides previewing of existing parameter presets

• Added scenario parameters

• A set of parameters defining starting conditions
• Includes selection of starting and destination location and the starting time of day
• Includes initial weather condition settings
• Includes selection of the starting train and access to train editor
• Allows each parameter to be selected for randomization when starting a new session
• Includes randomization seed parameter
• Scenario parameters are saved together into shareable files called scenarios

• Added scenario editor

• Allows one to select, create, rename, delete, browse and modify scenarios

• Added train parameters

• A set of parameters defining trains for scenarios
• Includes selection of vehicles, liveries and loaded cargo types
• Includes manipulation of vehicle order and orientation
• Train parameters are saved together into shareable files called trains

• Added train editor

• Allows one to select, create, rename, delete, browse and modify trains for scenarios
• Some vehicles must be unlocked in career mode first in order to be used

• Modified career game mode

• Serves as the main game mode, with license progression, jobs and more
• No longer allows spawning vehicles, when using pre-installed difficulty presets
• Allows choosing a custom preset only after completing the career mode once

• Added sandbox game mode

• Serves to let the players explore the game without consequences of the career mode
• Starts with a selected scenario
• Depending on difficulty settings, equips the player with essential items
• Depending on difficulty settings, allows spawning vehicles using the comms radio

• Added manual

• Comprehensive in-game documentation with contextual structure
• Features links to relevant pages
• Available from both main menu and pause menu

• Added hands

• Represented as engineering gloves
• In VR players can now see hands instead of controllers

• Hands adapt their shape dynamically when operating controls, in natural ways

• Added mouse mode

• Press LAlt to toggle
• Freezes the camera and allows using the mouse cursor

• Replaces old item interaction mode
• Allows interacting with train controls
• Allows interacting with things while holding an item in hand
• In this mode items cannot be picked up, but only interacted with
• Allows mouseovering signs to read their values in UI
• Allows clicking on switches and cargo transfer machines to operate them remotely

• Enables HUD buttons:

• Top-right: train controls, camera controls, weather editor
• Bottom-right: camera, photo mode, pin camera, inventory, context menu, pause, driving UI
• Some of these buttons only appear in certain context

• Hold RMB to bypass mouse mode (e.g. to adjust camera rotation)

• Revamped external camera

• Press “camera” HUD button or F1-3 keys to switch between 1p and 3p cameras
• Allows large degree of freedom with camera movement, with intuitive controls and features
• Press “pin camera” HUD button if following a vehicle to fixate camera heading to the vehicle
• In free movement it is possible to traverse large distances and press F to teleport there
• Press “camera controls” HUD button to see all controls

• Added mouse mode context menus

• Press “context menu” HUD button to toggle, or hold E key  to show it
• If mouseovering  a vehicle, these context HUD buttons are enabled:

• Couple, handbrake, man, follow, info
• Press “couple” context HUD button to couple or uncouple vehicles

• There are usually two couplers on each end
• Green shading indicates direction of a coupler that the vehicle is in range to couple to
• Yellow outline indicates that the vehicle is coupled
• Red shading indicates direction of a coupler that the vehicle can uncouple from
• Red coupler icon indicates partial coupling (e.g. chain is coupled but air line isn’t)
• Thin button below enables individual controls for chain, air line and MU cables
• Air line button becomes red if uncoupled but having the angle cock open

• Press “handbrake” context HUD button to toggle handbrake

• Yellow outline indicates that the handbrake is applied

• Press “man” context HUD button to man a vehicle

• This moves the player to the said vehicle and allows driving it
• Yellow outline indicates that the vehicle is manned by you

• Press “follow” context HUD button to toggle vehicle following

• Alternatively, press E+LMB at a vehicle to follow it and E+RMB to unfollow
• Yellow outline indicates that you’re following the vehicle

• Press “info” context HUD button to toggle vehicle information

• This shows the information from the vehicle plate, but in the contextual UI
• Yellow outline indicates that the info UI is turned on

• If mouseovering a turntable, these context HUD buttons are enabled:

• Clockwise and counterclockwise arrows, allowing operation of the turntable

• Added driving UI

• Press “driving UI” HUD button or F4 key to toggle
• Allows driving trains of all kinds entirely using this interface
• The UI can be used by mouse clicking, mouse dragging or mousewheel
• Features buttons to open panels with additional controls or information:

• Coupling, damage

• Added photo mode

• Press “photo mode” HUD button or F5 key to toggle
• Photo mode is intended to aid with taking screenshots and videos
• Camera movement is smoothed out (amount adjustable in settings)
• Press “pause” HUD button or Tab to toggle time flow

• Added weather editor

• Press “weather editor” HUD button to toggle
• Allows modifying time of day and weather conditions, mainly for setting up a photo scene
• Depending on difficulty settings, weather editor can be available outside of photo mode too

• Added inventory UI

• Used for both PC and VR

• On PC press “inventory” HUD button or I key to toggle
• In VR short-click inventory key to open and close like a regular GUI
• In VR hold-click inventory key to open in quick access mode, like before
• It replaces the old VR inventory

• Consists of 36 slots, divided into hotbar (12) and backpack (24)
• Has additional slots for hands (1 on PC and 2 in VR)
• Items can be drag & dropped into desired slots
• Specific items can be locked to specific slots, so they always go there and nothing else can
• Essential items can now be respawned into their inventory slots directly
• Last three slots in backpack serve as belt slots in VR
• Belt slots feature additional options to be hidden or recentered

• Revamped hotbar UI

• Now features item pictures instead of icons
• Scrolling through inventory now immediately changes through items, no slot-swapping
• Newly taken items go to hand slot and reserve the first empty slot in inventory

• Added bug report menu

• Serves to pack together a bunch of information that can help identify bugs
• Includes a text field to describe an issue
• Can include a screenshot, log files
• Can include train telemetry, benchmark results
• Exports a .zip file with info on how to send it to developers

• Remade tutorial

• Career tutorial is now a separate session that can be skipped

• It was expanded with showcasing the new features

• Locomotive tutorial can now be started on demand

• Supports all locomotives out of the box, including modded ones

• Movement can now be started on demand too

• Reworked keyboard controls

• For train controls, one tap advances one notch
• If held, the control will advance through multiple notches
• Many controls were remapped (redo the tutorial for more info)
• For train and camera controls, see top-right HUD buttons
• Many more controls are now mappable (but aren’t all mapped by default)
• Click “Edit keyconfig file” in Settings / Controls to view or modify the current mapping

• Added “Toggle Crouch” setting, available for VR and nonVR
• Added “Toggle Lean” setting, short-click Q/E toggles it when enabled
• Added “Toggle Headbob” setting for nonVR
• Crouching in VR now lowers the player height in-game too
• Holding scroll in VR now does repetitive scrolling action
• Reworked pause menu to use the new GUI
• Added autosave amount and frequency setting
• Fixed controls jittering when mouse-dragged after being mouse-scrolled
• Reworked settings categories
• Added button to access changelog in the main menu
• Simplified cab highlight visualization (modding future-proofing)

FX

• Added day and night cycle

• Time of day now passes seamlessly
• Sun, moon and stars now dynamically move across the sky, casting light
• Featuring moon phases
• Sun and moon sizes are adjusted for FOV difference in VR, for increased realism

• Added atmospheric effects simulation

• Sunlight turns increasingly red with greater density of particles it goes through
• Sunlight may produce sun shafts, noticeable when obstructed, depending on fog density

• Added cloud simulation

• Seamless dynamic formation and dissolution of clouds
• Variable height and wind direction

• Added fog simulation

• Seamless formation and clearing of fog and smog
• Height dependent density, the highest at water level
• Volumetric-like effects from sunlight, headlights and city lights
• Simulating a sun-induced boost every dawn

• Added rain simulation

• Seamless start and end of rainfall, with intensity depending on clouds and other factors
• Includes particle effects lit by light sources, not phasing through rooftops
• Includes physics-driven windshield droplet simulation and mist
• Includes effects of wetness, ripples and pouring on exposed surfaces
• Creates puddles on flat solid surfaces
• Takes time to dry up, based on sun exposure

• Added thunderstorm simulation

• Seamless start and end of lightning strike clusters, depending on weather conditions
• Lightnings may hit near or far, or even behind the clouds
• Thunder sounds change based on distance and intensity
• Close enough lightnings produce light flashes with shadows

• Added advanced city lighting rendering

• Hundreds of light sources are now present per location, on buildings, street lights, etc.
• All lights actually illuminate their surroundings, including lit building windows
• Lights can be seen from afar
• Some tall structures feature blinking red lights
• Lights are enabled from 6PM to 7AM

• Significantly improved reflections rendering

• Reflections now include the dynamic sky and weather effects
• Reflections now include vegetation, viaducts and buildings
• Reflections now include city lighting
• This is all especially noticeable in wet conditions
• Unnatural reflections in tunnels are no longer prominent

• Significantly improved water simulation

• Water is no longer static, it now moves and is transparent
• Trains can fall into water and have buoyancy
• Player can swim and dive with appropriate visual effects
• Being underwater filters the sound

• Improved HAZMAT effects

• Added dynamic lighting
• Better visual quality of fire, explosions, smoke particles
• Leaked liquids are now visible on terrain and they stream down the terrain flow
• Burns now leave mark in the terrain in the form of ash
• HAZMAT material now gets stored in the save file
• Flammability depends on weather conditions
• Radioactive areas now linger and have a grainy visual effect when entered

• Added environment sounds system

• Dynamically morphing sounds depending on biome, time of day, weather conditions and other
• Supports both background and localized sounds with particular parametrization
• Hundreds of new sounds, enhancing the environment ambiance, both natural and artificial

• Improved sound processing

• Supporting doppler effect on all sounds
• Supporting sound reverberation effect when in tunnels
• Being inside interiors now filters out the environment high frequency sounds
• Revamped mixing, adjusted volumes, effects and compressors
• Improved distance ranges of all sounds
• Fixed sound occlusion effect trigger lagging behind cab in low-FPS conditions
• Fixed control drag sound being choppy if having too high FPS
• Made dragging loop sounds on controls randomize starting position
• Locomotive rooftops won’t play rain sounds if the locomotive itself is under a roof

• Added new footstep sounds for walking on ballast and puddles
• Added glare effect to strong light sources, such as sun, headlights and street lights

Environment

• Improved railway track imperfections

• Added bumps and twists

• Added 25+ new vehicle props

• Located around all cities and industries
• Includes new model for Imported Cars cargo
• Includes wreck models

• Added support for animations and working hours to industries and cities

• Oil well pumpjacks are now animated
• Cranes now move around

• Industrial buildings with smokestacks now spew smoke
• Improved detailing on some stations

• Added new buildings (passenger station and communal)
• Added street lights, props, mining details, etc.
• Fixed riverside buildings at CSW floating in the air
• Fixed FF turntable being filled with terrain

• Improved appearance of fields and station ground surface when looked from distance
• Removed trees another 25cm from track sides (reduces branches going in cab)
• Added level crossings

• Procedurally generated surfaces over tracks on road crossings and large concrete surfaces
• Accompanied by level crossing signs and barriers

• Reworked pole cable rendering

• Cables now have a rounded look and sway a little
• Slightly optimized CPU usage

• Made tracks shinier
• Made clocks on passengers stations and station offices work
• Fixed a few trees in stations being on tracks or clipping into offices
• Improved color of a few plants
• Fixed a tree in yards having mesh holes in the trunk bottom
• Fixed LOD popping on wheat plants
• Remade military containers and military office (part of texture optimization)
• Fixed roads having sharp side edges
• Fixed iron and coal pile textures appearing too repetitive
• Extended harbor walls underwater to hide the terrain walls
• Fixed missing ID signs on HB-D-1S track
• Fixed FF and MB turntables not having a terrain hole
• Fixed terrain mesh having gaps
• Fixed track mesh having gaps at ends
• Fixed farlands having weird shading

Misc

• Fixed jumping off a train on a slope not detaching the player from the train
• Fixed schematic maps HB-G, IME-A and FRC-A being inaccurate
• Fixed Freight Haul license having a bad right hand grab anchor in VR
• Fixed job reports not rendering a correct fee format when the job is in progress
• Fixed bad button being appointed in tutorial for inventory on Cosmos and Reverb G2
• Replaced text in textures with dynamic text on various buildings and items (for localization)
• Removed text from HAZMAT placards (for localization)
• Fixed one of the MilitarySupplies containers having HAZMAT placards by mistake
• Optimized rendering of machines (Service Point, Job Validator, etc.)
• Optimized damaged car props
• Optimized tank cargo material
• Fixed locomotive smoke taking strange shape when the game is paused
• Renamed “Load Machine” to “Cargo Transfer”
• Renamed “Crew Vehicle” to “Work Train”
• Renamed “Jobs” to “Delivery Orders”
• Renamed “Job Validator” to “Order Validator”
• Renamed “Service Stations” to “Service Points”
• Removed old freecam available from console
• Limited frame rate when the game is paused (energy/hardware saving)
• Renamed “Non-VR Mode” platform listing in UI to “PC”
• Countless more fixes and improvements

Start of an era - Simulator

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BUILD 92

20 August, 2021

Stability

• Fixed trains getting damaged on game load if a consist was compressed
• Attempted fix at locos getting damaged very rarely when player spams teleport

World

• Revamped vegetation

• All new trees, bushes, grass and rocks
• Added some additional types of flora
• Modified vegetation settings (auto-reduces by one level if Very High or Ultra High)
• Now defaults to High

 VR

• Fixed trigger and grip buttons getting swapped sometimes
• Fixed HP Reverb G2 having bad beam angles
• Fixed controllers being drawn behind menus
• Fixed couplers and brake hoses not following the "item grab" setting principle
• Fixed being able to feel map buttons during fast travel in OculusVR
• Changed default setting for movement orientation to Headset
• Fixed VR tutorial not pointing the correct inventory button on Vive Cosmos

 Misc

• Boombox improvements

• Added TruckersFM radio station
• Now can play .wav files
• Now can play .mp3 files with embedded album art
• Now can change volume with scroll or trigger+joystick when held
• No longer stutters when changing songs from HDD
• Fixed Boombox audio not ducking when overshadowed by explosions or horns
• Changed cassette item collision sound

• Fixed several bugs that would prevent lost items from going to L&F
• Fixed items being unreachable when in interaction collider (e.g. lighter on firebox sill)
• Job booklets now show two rows of cars for better clarity, if train has over 10 cars
• Added highlight to aimed junctions (can be disabled in settings)
• Added item placing (R) to nonVR tutorial
• Fixed item placer gizmo getting stuck on screen if pressing esc while placing
• Fixed bad loco remote and world map orientation when item placing
• Fixed Boombox volume not working properly when mouse-scrolling
• Clearing the Caboose now moves it to depot together with items inside
• Fixed player movement being choppy when going down the hills
• Made the console key remappable (default ~)
• Fixed items in Caboose dropping through the floor when in drawers
• Made service station controls easier to use with mousewheel
• Fixed being able to cause an empty inventory slot with wallet by a certain action
• Fixed being able to squeeze into locked garages
• Fixed Item hanging in the air if the game is paused during telegrab
• Only show 'Press LMB to deposit' when a transaction requires money
• Allowed banknotes and coins to be used in nonVR for transactions
• Fixed clipping house floor in GF
• Flipped loco spawner orientation in FM
• Cleaned "missing script" log spam (OculusVR will still have some)
• Cleaned "There are no audio listeners in scene" log spam
• Fixed "Oxydizing" typo on a hazmat placard
• Updated Readme.pdf

Build 91

11 March, 2021

Stability & Internal

• Attempted fix for trains that occasionally spawn inside other trains, causing unfair fees
• Drastically improved automation of terrain build preparation process

• This speeds up internal workflow for build making and testing

• Preferences optimization

• Increased preferences reading speed
• Added functionality to auto-upgrade preferences
• Made anisotropic filtering auto-upgrade to Ultra, if was on High in previous build
• Added versioning to preferences file

• Updated Post Processing

Items

• Added Boombox

• Can be bought in CitySW
• Features two modes, Radio and Cassette player
• Radio can play real life online radio stations (included https://simulatorradio.com/ )
• Players can add or create radio stations (see readme.pdf for details)
• Radio features audible signal loss effect when going through tunnels
• Cassette player can play cassettes that can be bought in shops
• Some cassettes contain music, whereas others point to players' local playlists and/or folders
• Players can add their own music to those playlists (see readme.pdf for details)

• Added item placing feature in nonVR

• Hold R while holding an item and aim at a surface to see item gizmo
• The gizmo will show warning color if aimed location clashes with another surface or item
• Use mouse scroll to rotate the gizmo
• Release R to place the item in place of the gizmo, at the aimed location

• Booklets now save the page they were on
• Fixed issues with Loco Remote

• Fixed nonVR mouse interaction not working with joysticks when ungrabbed
• Improved couple knob to react better to mousewheel
• Fixed item preview being offset in VR inventory

• Fixed issues with Pocket Watch

• Fixed occasional scrolling jam in nonVR
• Fixed wind knob chaotically colliding with the environment when held
• Fixed falling too slow

• Fixed the inability to pick up the items remaining on the turntable control panel in nonVR
• Item highlighting is now disabled by default in nonVR
• Optimized shovel texture size

VR

• Made improvements to belt orbs

• Their position is now saved
• Items stored in them are now saved too
• Orb rotation now snaps to 90 degree angles when in close proximity
• Rotation gizmo now appears when hovering over the orb

• Improved controller anchors for Cosmos users (thanks Niko!)
• Fixed draft lever (and DE6 windows) not working on some headsets
• Fixed shovel in VR getting dropped when holding it a certain way and teleporting

Career

• Rerailing is now free until buying licenses CCUR1 or LONG1
• Improved randomness of destination input tracks in job generation
• License printouts now list license dependencies
• Removed the ability to click trash bin to delete job (throw it in instead)

Tutorial

• Fixed taking money via wallet-click in tutorial breaking the tutorial
• Tutorial now introduces the player to mouse-scroll train controls in nonVR
• Fixed various rare bugs with reloading the game while in tutorial part 2 or skipping tutorial

Misc

• Removed snow, at least until next Christmas
• Improved interactable control aim precision in nonVR
• Limited junction speed limit to 60 (was 70 before), to prevent unexpected derailments
• Money left in cash registers, career managers, etc. is now returned to wallet on game quit
• Fixed receipt not being able to flip pages
• Fixed missing crosshair tooltip in nonVR if starting the game with Cab Highlight option off
• Fixed nonVR inventory bugging out when retrieving items via pause menu
• Improved tender water hatch to be easily grabbable in nonVR
• Tweaked shape of controller tooltip background in VR
• Added readme.pdf to game root folder

Build 90

24 December, 2020

World

• Made the world snowy

• Limited time only (till late January)
• Features new snow textures and sounds
• Adds Christmas trees to Station Offices
• Contains new snow-themed loading screens
• Derailed cars make sleigh bell sounds

• Added antenna beacons to all Station Offices (easier to spot)
• Fixed CSW not having a 30 kph sign
• Loosened a tight southbound entrance curve at SW
• Fixed OWN loops not having signs
• Fixed FF LP tracks having faulty name in built game
• Fixed IME service station platform not aligning with tracks
• Fixed phone pole in MF next to coal shed having offset LOD
• Fixed terrain ballast texture having flipped normals

VR

• Belt point positions are now being saved
• Fixed bad item orientation in hand when using Oculus VR mode
• Fixed a bug with the first job booklet able to disappear when finishing tutorial

Career & Gameplay

• Added Expert Shovel

• Can be bought in a shop
• Adds less coal than default shovel (for precise firebox control)

• Remade trash bins

• Bigger, solid design
• Now suggests that jobs can be thrown in
• Fixed position, no longer an item

• Removed dash from Job Booklet track ID for consistency with track signs
• Fixed Job Denied page falling through Job Validator as of #89
• Fixed being unable to unlock garages as of #89
• Fixed Caboose Career Manager not working as of #89
• Fixed being unable to pick up money while holding wallet in nonVR
• Fixed items dropping out of hands if alt-tabbing during pause
• Reduced volume of footstep sounds

GUI & Settings

• Added sliders to the rest of the options
• Made turntable key bindings configurable

• Can only be used inside a turntable booth
• Default keys: [ ]

Build 89

18 December, 2020

Stability

• Fixed the hang on quit causing the "not responding" prompt to appear
• Fixed rare case where sounds could become permanently disabled in a session

VR

• Added support for Oculus Quest 2 (via Oculus Link)
• Added support for HP Reverb G2
• Revamped shovel interaction

• Allows twisting and using with both hands
• Entirely rewritten code (for dual-handed item interaction in general)
• Fixed visually adding coal on shovel from empty tender
• Decreased amount of shoveling needed to fill up the firebox
• Coal fling yet todo

• Items in hand can no longer bump into train controls (levers, valves...)

• They still collide with solid objects however

• Fixed steamer rope not adhering to the "use trigger to interact" setting
• Belt orbs now only show directional gizmos when grabbed

Movement

• Added footstep sounds

• Includes 40 new sounds
• Dynamically changes based on surface underneath
• Applies to movement, teleporting and falling

• Improved headbob

GUI & Settings

• Added sliders to menu GUI (yet to be added to all settings)
• Added "FOV" setting (vertical angle)
• Added "Always Run" setting
• Added "Cab Highlight" setting
• Mousewheel can now scroll through nonVR inventory slots while holding Tab
• Fixed "Press F to enter" appearing while looking at an item (e.g. map)
• Split VR and Graphics settings windows into two rows in VR menu
• Tidied up menu layout misalignments

Items

• Loco remote charge speed no longer depends on sun direction
• Schematic map now sounds like a heavy book upon impact

Misc

• Made minor schematic map corrections (IMW, IME)
• Slight physics collisions optimization
• Fixed ISO tank container using wrong LOD texture
• Updated Career Manager default screen text to "Please select:"
• Fixed bad character in a tutorial text message
• Derail log now also prints vehicle's ID and job ID

Build 88

9 October, 2020

Hotfix (14 October):

• Fixed a bug causing items/money to go missing after starting build #88 if there was a derailed caboose in the savegame from build #87 (if you were affected make a copy of savegame_old_version5 and rename it to savegame)

Stability

• Fixed NRE in tutorial when approaching SM
• Fixed more rare benign errors related to item grabbing
• Skip spawning of cars with corrupt world position in savegame
• Guarded against a case of locomotives falling under the world and causing NaN
• Fixed NRE when entering caboose while in roundhouse
• Fixed "skip tutorial" breaking the game since last build
• Fixed tutorial breaking if playing offset in seated/teleport mode in VR
• Fixed infinite loading screen if Alt pressed during fast travel
• Potentially fixed a rare case where spamming inventory button in VR can freeze the menu
• Slightly decreased RAM consumption

• Optimized distant buildings texture atlas
• Reduced size of some booklet textures

• Fixed rare benign errors related to item grabbing
• Slightly optimized saving states during tutorial

Graphics

• Fixed vegetation rendering

• Fixed trees LOD fade effect being inverted and causing extra popping
• Trees in distance no longer pop-in, but smoothly fade in
• Fixed distant trees flickering visibility while the player is moving, from certain angles

• Improved texture clarity of some booklets (particularly in VR)

VR

• Added preliminary fixes for WMR joystick drift

• Enable via Debug.WMRFix 1 and Debug.WMRFix 2
• This enabled needs to be tested on other headsets too, to make sure non-WMR isn't broken

• Added sprint to WMR, activated by holding both joysticks up

Trains

• In case of reset tracks, Caboose will retain items left in it
• In case of reset tracks, Caboose will teleport with the player to the nearest station

• Will happen if the Caboose was attached to the train you were last using
• Will happen if the Caboose was within 1.5km of the player in the last session
• Will happen in #87 -> #88 build transition

• Added charging sound to Caboose loco remote charger
• Fixed MU plugs not aligning properly when connected
• Fixed Handcar taking time to "refill air brakes" when just spawned
• Fixed Handcar brakes taking long to respond (sticky behavior)
• Fixed tender sometimes spawning uncoupled from the steam locomotive
• Prevented coupling to handcar (both auto-couple and via remote)

World & Tracks

• Fixed turntables having glitched tracks LOD
• Fixed teleporting into Military Base tunnel
• Increased LOD distance of signs text
• Improved sign generator

• Added speed ahead diff signs (shows on current sign if next limit is notably different)
• Significantly reduced sign clutter and speed limit turbulence
• Junction signs now display distance till actual junction (in km)
• Changed junction sign color to white and red
• Grade signs now display grade amount on them (in %)
• Increased grade sign sensitivity
• Updated Train Basics manual with new info on signs

• Fixed various track kinks in stations
• Moved various trees off the tracks, in stations

Map

• Updated world map

• Remade the world texture in higher detail
• Now features accurate track layout
• Increased size of player blip
• Player blip now draws on top of other blips
• Increased brightness of map text

• Fast travelling with MU'd locos now takes all of them together
• Fixed fast travelling with multiple vehicles playing coupling sound on arrival

Misc

• Teleporting off a vehicle while sitting in nonVR will now unsit the player
• Disabled Unity's resolution dialog (previously started by ctrl + game start)
• Fixed inventory items not loading in tutorial extension on restart
• Fixed menu UI sounds having glitchy volume when used
• Fixed being able to open inventory during pause in VR
• Improved clarity of scrap metal texture when looked at level
• Made Career Manager "copay paid" screen exit directly to item selection
• Stylized "boosted signal" to "sgnl boost" on loco remote for consistency
• Improved appearance and text of the "skip tutorial" prompt
• Fixed a village house having slightly offset shadows

Build 87

11 September, 2020

Trains

• Added Multiple-Unit Control

• DE2 and DE6 locos now come equipped with an MU cable
• When connected, locomotives will share all controls
• Compatible with Loco Remote
• Requires a new MU license to use

• Randomized timing of engine shut-off due to overheating

Tutorial

• Added a step in tutorial extension that teaches the player to pay the fees
• Fixed a bug on tutorial extension restart that could spawn the shunter under the hopper
• Fixed errors when loading the tutorial in certain states causing it to become unplayable
• Fixed a bug with the "first crash" message able to appear multiple times, and too soon
• Modified the turntable step resolution criteria to be clearer
• Modified tutorial end criteria (prevented potential intentional game crash)
• Removed locomotive blocker from service depot (could cause temporary item loss)
• Fixed being asked to take out a Comms Radio when already holding it
• Fixed a case where the tutorial wouldn't detect the player entering the loco
• Fixed missing belt points on save game load during tutorial extension (VR)

VR

• Fixed player-camera misalignment caused by circular movement when smooth turning
• Fixed switching from room-scale to centered play type not updating the player height setting

Stability

• Slightly decreased RAM consumption (distant buildings optimization)
• Fixed game crashing of you put a brake hose in the inventory
• Fixed sound NRE on game quit
• Fixed various small bugs with code-reused cars (stuck hazmat fx, stuck sounds, etc.)
• Made a minor Gondola rendering optimization
• Reworked how terrains are loaded, slight optimization

• Fixes bug with derailed trains falling through terrain

Misc

• Added Anisotropic Filtering Ultra setting (sharper texture rendering)
• Fixed bad position of Gondola brake cocks
• Fixed visible terrain corners at the military base tunnel entrance
• Fixed loco spawning not working properly at IME (and potentially other locations)
• Fixed being able to take items through Career Manager when interacting with mouse
• No longer showing "press 'print' for details" on a "you have no fees" screen
• Fixed GF and FF service stations always drawing regardless of distance
• Fixed Reginald poster always drawing regardless of distance to player
• Made the VR centered play area mode popup take Trigger to begin

• Can be cancelled by opening the menu

• Fixed sound not having interior effect when teleported to vehicles, sometimes
• Standardized code settings regarding VR haptic feedback
• Removed "shop" sign from gas stations
• Added quotes to license names in UI (nonVR)

Build 86

21 August, 2020

Trains

• Added Gondola car type
• Added colliders to Caboose buffers
• Added keyboard control to Caboose independent brake
• Fixed Nuclear Flask Carrier car getting stuck sometimes

Career

• Added Scrap Metal freight type

• Produced by cities/towns, delivered to Steel Mill in Gondola cars

• Improved player resetting after a tracks update

• The game now moves the player to the nearest station with a loco you're licenced for
• A note informs the player of what happened
• Remaining empty job items now get automatically removed from inventory

World

• Modified Coal Mine track layout to loosen the loading track curve
• Attempted fix at OWN service station door collision, once more
• Tweaks to some tracks kinks
• Added CSW shop icon to world and schematic maps

Misc

• Drastically improved fast-travel loading times
• Slightly decreased RAM consumption (distant buildings optimization)

Build 85

14 August, 2020

Trains

• Added Caboose

• Secret garage find, unlockable by buying a key
• Boosts Loco Remote signal by additional 2km, when in 2km range
• Features a fast battery charger for the Loco Remote
• Visible on map (useful as end-of-train marker)
• Contains its own Career Manager (allowing mobile or remote area servicing)
• Allows free teleporting between it and the locos in the same train ("jump")
• Can be summoned using Comms Radio for $10k
• Has its own independent brake
• Has stronger brakes than other cars/locos
• Can be used to store items
• Doesn't take damage (until locomotive ownership is added)

• Fixed a train spawning bug (solves the sometimes missing steamer at IMW)
• Oil no longer deteriorates from mileage, but only from engine RPM
• Fixed ISO tank support beam clipping into the tank

Career

• Added dynamic Fee Tolerance

• Job suspension will now tolerate fees depending on the % of your overall wealth
• Your current Fee Tolerance can be see listed in Stats

• Added "press 'print' for details" line to Career Manager item listings

Navigation

• Modified size of player/loco map blips
• Decreased brightness of map text and location blips
• Added target vehicle ID to fast-travel GUI

Tutorial

• Extended tutorial

• At the end instructs the player to deliver the hopper to the Steel Mill depot
• Includes various new steps and checks (WIP)
• Can save during the extension

• Added separate messages for when derailing and crashing for the first time
• Added "Fee Tolerance" page to DV Guide
• Corrected brake arrow orientation in Shunter manual
• Added "signal booster" and "charger" notes to Loco Remote manual
• Modified the Quit button description to say that you'll lose progress (until saving is possible)

Stability

• Attempted fix at game hanging on quit
• Slightly decreased RAM consumption (distant vehicles texture optimization)
• Slightly optimized steam locomotive interior rendering when outside
• Fixed error spam caused by engine smoke during paused game

VR Controls

• Fixed telegrab sometimes causing hoses to get frozen in air
• Fixed item not dropping sometimes in "click" mode

Misc

• Added a shop to City SW

• Features a poster (more shop posters todo)

• Made rerailing gizmo autocorrect its orientation to best match target vehicle's world orientation

• Should prevent accidentally rerailing vehicles the wrong way

• Updated "Crew Vehicle" Comms Radio option, to allow Caboose summoning

• Made Crew Vehicle options hidden while locked

• Fixed lean in nonVR allowing teleporting to forbidden areas
• Fixed "flood" effect when looking at bodies of water with shallow shore from distance
• Added signal boost light to Loco Remote
• Tweaked buffer stop LOD distance
• Fixed short glitchy sound playing when entering vehicles with sliding interactables
• Fixed DE6 loco having a duplicated audio script
• Renamed "RT Water Reflections" to "Real-time Reflections"
• Corrected default value description for Detail Level setting

Build 84

26 July, 2020

Graphics

• Revamped graphics rendering of terrains

• Greatly improved rendering quality of distant terrain textures
• Remade some terrain textures

• Improved overall lighting
• Improved post processing

• No longer increases overall game brightness
• Creates a better looking HDR effect
• Better illuminates dark spaces

• Fixed tileable asphalt texture appearing blurry

VR

• Added support for HTC Vive Cosmos headsets and controllers
• Fixed a bug where grab key would move to trigger when operating brake hoses
• Fixed falling off a locomotive when leaning out the window in VR
• Fixed inventory tooltip text jittering when on a moving train

Career & Jobs

• Revamped the fee tracking system

• Paying fees for jobs no longer requires discarding or completing them
• Reaching copay now always clears all the fees
• Having fees under $5k will no longer prevent the player from taking new jobs
• The player can't take new jobs if having 8+ fees (or if hoarding money as before)
• Updated fee booklet design (simplified texts, layout)

• Increased job deletion distance in all stations (can go further without jobs being reset)
• Added a Career Manager machine to Military Base
• Fixed a rare bug that could result in jobs requiring more space than there is
• Fixed a bug where cargo damage in a shunting job could display a faulty, negative value
• Fixed an ultra rare edge case where fee payment could be higher than copay

Trains

• Temporarily fixed DE6 often derailing the first car behind
• Forced a DE6 to always spawn at HB roundhouse
• Forced a SH282 to always spawn at IMW turntable

World & Tracks

• Added green crops
• Straightened many tight turns and sections
• Moved depot in CSW to loosen track curve on approach
• Fixed track kinks at IMW and IME
• Fixed the tight turn between B and C yards in SW
• Improved the tight turn in CM loading track, less jerky
• Fixed residential buildings having no smoothness texture (reflectivity)
• Fixed beige cars in stations being invisible
• Potentially fixed passenger platform being too close to tracks in HB
• Potentially fixed trains clipping depot doorway in OWN
• Potentially fixed GF and CSW storage tracks not being used due to lower clearance tolerance
• Removed some trees from the tracks in stations (HB, MF, CSW...)
• Updated TC2 so that quarry paints rock texture
• Fixed CSW crane being messed up

Misc

• Fixed aiming at junction signs being imprecise
• Removed loading alerts (can be enabled via debug.LoadingAlertsToggle console command)
• In nonVR tutorial a prompt will teach player how to sit (X key)
• If player leaves the tutorial area with brakes on, a popup will warn them
• Added continual checking of free system memory in the background

• When amount of free memory is under 1.5 GB and dropping:
• Writes to log and pops up a "low memory!" alert on screen

• Made locomotive map blips yellow
• Made a few minor schematic map tweaks
• Moved SM service station closer to depot entrance

Build 83

10 July, 2020

Stability

• Further terrain rework (WIP)

• Eliminates stuttering when "loading area"
• Increases terrain texture resolution in distant terrains
• Fixes end of the world being visible (terrain prolongs outside of the world borders)
• Reduces system complexity, allows easy world terrain updating

• Reworked car loading

• Fixes stuttering caused by trains spawning when approaching stations

• Potentially fixed the ignition switches not starting the train for some players
• Fixed fast-travel with handcar crashing the game

VR

• Fixed a bug sometimes making it impossible to teleport while moving
• Fixed a bug with Comms Radio getting dropped when used since build #82
• Potentially fixed a bug where grip binding could move to trigger after a while
• Fixed a bug causing Vive wands sticky item holding to behave like continuous
• Fixed inventory tooltip jittering if on a moving train

Career

• Fixed a bug with jobs not spawning properly after fast-travel
• Prevented manual service tip screen from showing on fees smaller than $1k
• Inverted sorting order of fees so the smallest ones show first
• Fixed fast-travel with handcar charging extra for loco transport
• Reworded a few Career Manager lines

Trains

• Fixed loaded trains having faulty mass in Freight Haul and Unloading jobs

• They were almost twice lighter than they should be

• Reworked hopper car UV map and texture to be modder friendly
• Made locomotive windows harder to break
• Loosened the ignition rotary switches on DE2 and DE6 locomotives
• Fixed unused locos being able to despawn if part of an active train

Misc

• Increased sunlight intensity

• It was accidentally lower than normal since the Overhauled release

• Fixed Hazmat spills/fire being temporarily disabled since #82
• Fixed tank car leak orientations being wrong and their cracks invisible
• Fixed a bug in NonVR where tab+esc would make the handheld item flimsy

Build 82

26 June, 2020

Stability

• Reworked terrain loading

• Fixes abnormal RAM usage
• Should no longer cause crashes on PCs with 12 GB of RAM or more
• Somewhat reduces stuttering when loading new areas (WIP)
• Can cause vegetation NRE if player goes out of world bounds (WIP)

VR Controls

• Added option that Trigger operates all train controls

• If enabled then Grip only interacts with items
• On by default for Index users (based on feedback)
• Applies to all controllers except Vive wands

• Fixed left-hand item scrolling moving the player (e.g when page flipping)
• Fixed a bug where opening menu while hovering over a wrist orb could break the game
• Fixed a case where Comms Radio won't work when taken out of the belt
• Fixed a bug where pageflipping could get stuck when not looked at, in VR
• Improved grab precision of Index controller (volume was too big)

NonVR Controls

• Fixed item view mode (Alt) getting bugged when alt-tabbing
• Fixed some bugs with nonVR inventory when adding items to the last slot

Trains

• Reworked shunter to have interactive doors

• Maintains the same UV layout so the existing skin mods still work

• Minor optimization to diesel locomotive rendering

Career

• Costs from manual servicing now add up to copay too
• Added Stats screen to Career Manager

• Shows player stats including total copay and time bonus deadline effect

• Removed "manual servicing" hint screen if the fee is bigger than remaining copay
• Reworded "you only need to pay" when having a smaller fee than copay
• Tweaked wording on "job denied" printout

• Explains that you only need to pay the fees you can afford, not all

• Fixed steam locomotive fee payment not putting out fire (causing ongoing env. fees)
• Fixed a rare case where a locomotive despawning during fee paying could break the game
• Updated DE6 license text to say it's capable of loads up to 1400t

Items

• Fixed Shop Item Scanner sometimes not spawning where it should
• Fixed loco remote not charging through DE6's windows
• Updated inventory item representations of most booklets, to make them language-independent

Navigation

• Added key page to Schematic Map
• Tweaks to Schematic Map (missing switches, etc.)
• Fixed being able to fast travel to a locomotive you don't have a license for

World & Tracks

• Remodelled Iron Ore Mine chute area to be wider (prevents DE6 from clipping it in a corner)

• Reworked tracks around it to fit

• Made IME service station tender-accessible when reached head first
• Replaced an empty/unused shop building with an unenterable scenery shop model
• Moved HB D yard slightly so both a shunter and a flatcar can fit into the merge track
• Fixed oil silos floating
• Fixed terrain going over tracks at a wye west of Harbor

Misc

• Fixed user settings not getting saved until the player reopens the menu
• Fixed being able to fast-travel twice before the first one initiates, breaking the game
• NonVR Controls booklet now has a specific icon in inventory

Tutorial

• Changed the "Save and Exit" button text to not say that during the tutorial
• Fixed UI option not updating when choosing some options in tutorial
• Updated DV Guide texts to better explain some things
• Tweaked nonVR "pick up the Comms Radio" prompt wording
• Tweaked steam locomotive manual (+ added "prerequisites" page)

Build 81

5 June, 2020

Errors

• Fixed "white terrains" bug

• Potentially fixes some types of crashes on old GPUs

• Fixed NRE in tutorial (VR) if no controllers were turned on
• Fixed a rare OverflowException error
• Potentially fixed cars rarely spawning over existing cars

• Should also fix the case of cars spawning damaged

• Fixed a case in which a car could get undespawnable along with items inside, until restart

VR Controls

• Fixed bad item orientation/position for WMR, Index, Quest and Oculus SDK users
• Fixed issues with Vive wand controllers
• Fixed VR joystick drift issue
• Fixed it being difficult to teleport between cars in Teleport locomotion
• Fixed page flipping/player rotation not working on the right controller in some cases
• Potentially fixed problems with starting with only the left Index controller on
• Fixed undefined controller types being able to break the game
• Fixed teleporting getting disabled if having an undefined controller
• Potentially fixed NOLO controllers not working
• Made it possible to dial pocket watch with the holding hand in VR

Career & Licenses

• Redesigned Career Manager dialog texts

• Puts more focus on what you need to pay to clear all fees

• Reduced starting copay from $5k to $100.
• Added Shunting license

• Costs $1k, serves to introduce player to the concept of working with occupied tracks

• Added Logistical Haul license

• Costs $20k, serves to prevent beginners from taking logi jobs in early game
• Requires having a CCUR1 license, as these shouldn't be hauled alone
• Increases time bonus deadline by 5%

• Added Manual Servicing license

• Costs $20k, serves to prevent beginners from servicing manually while having low copay
• This prevents players from wasting money on servicing in early game

• Buying licenses DE6 and SH282 now requires having a CCUR2 license
• Trying to buy a dependent license will now write the exact needed license at Career Manager
• Added Freight Haul license, auto-acquired on game start
• Greatly reduced cost of Military 2 license
• Rebalanced copay/time effects and prices of some licenses
• Made "print info" button green, on Career Manager

Jobs

• Added warning messages to job reports explaining why the task isn't complete
• Shunting job booklet now specifies how many pick-ups/drop-offs it involves
• Updated job payment calculation

• Somewhat increased shunting job payment
• Increased payments involving empty containers
• Slightly decreased payments involving tank cars

• Increased track clearance so that trains look more like they'll fit the tracks

• Should prevent people from thinking there's no space to fit their train, although there was
• As a consequence, some trains will be shorter than they used to

• Added a button to Job Validator to respawn all existing job booklets
• Added 1 min tolerance to meeting the bonus time
• Fixed a minor bug that could prevent some jobs from getting generated
• Fixed loco spawner requiring unnecessary 1.5m of clearance

• Fixes steamer not spawning at IMW

Service

• Added service station range platforms
• Added service station train detector

• Indicates with lights and sound whether a train is in range for servicing
• Informs player if they need a license

• Moved City SW service station closer to exit, so it's not blocked by a spawned loco
• Added diesel/oil/sand station at Food Factory

Trains

• Fixed coupler chain hook drifting over time sometimes
• Teleporting to the steamer and shunter now puts you straight to the driver position
• Fixed steamer cab teleport gizmo showing up when leaning against the tender
• Made tender invulnerable until excessive damaging is fixed
• Updated steamer UV layout to make skin modding easier

• Will break existing steamer skin mods

• Fixed being able to teleport onto invisible colliders on the sides of locomotives
• Made at least one shunter always spawn at the Harbor

Maps

• Halved cost of fast travelling without the locomotive
• Removed minimum distance requirement to fast travel (was 200m)
• Added repair station blips to world map
• Added FF diesel station to world map
• Increased size of player home blip on world map
• Removed (obsolete) blips from office world maps
• Updated schematic maps

• Added shop icon to overviews
• Added missing service stations to overviews
• Fixed wrong bearings in City SW
• Fixed wrong track name in schematic map (HB-G O3 -> 3O)

• Prevented fast-travel with loco when derailed (was causing bugs)
• Fixed a rare fast-travel with loco edge case that could lead to breaking the game
• Fixed IMW office map "you are here" flag pointing at MF

World & Tracks

• Beware: Junction save states will reset in this update
• Fixed wrong track names at IMW and CM
• Added a separate parking track at IME, freed the previously blocked service station
• Loosened the bypass turn at City SW
• Loosened the turn at Food Factory north exit
• Loosened turns on the route north of Sawmill

Tutorial

• When the player derails or crashes for the first time, a "what now" message will pop up
• Fixed being able to do actual damage to the locomotive before leaving the tutorial area
• Player is now told to kill throttle when leaving the tutorial area, learning fuel conservation
• Added Train Basics pages about Fuel Conservation and Track Designations
• Improved tutorial loco blocker letting the player into the loco prematurely
• Fixed missing pointer in the "switch change" tutorial step
• Player is reminded to read Train Basics and DV Guide at the end of tutorial
• Reworded "Push" to "Hold" for certain VR joystick tutorial messages
• Added note on how to turn pages to the Controls booklet front cover
• Fixed Train Basics booklet having wrong page numbering

Misc

• Fixed held items growing over time, sometimes (RIP shevel)
• Fixed getting stuck in loading screen when save file is corrupt
• Fixed UI text bugs on computers with non-English regional settings
• Fixed inverted collider warning log/console spam during game load
• Updated Unity Burst Compiler to 1.3.0

• Could fix other potential errors/crashes

Build 80

21 May, 2020

Hotfix (21 May, 2020):

• Fixed loading getting stuck at 86% when starting the game in continuous movement in VR, after previously exiting the game while on a train
• Improved loco entry blocking in tutorial to prevent player getting stuck in shunter before it gets unlocked

Performance

• Drastically optimized CPU load of parked cars (notable in stations)
• Drastically optimized CPU load when spawning trains or coming close to them
• Drastically optimized CPU impact of derailed cars
• Drastically optimized rendering of tracks, props, cars and cargo
• Removed hiccup at the moment of derailing
• Fixed items remaining active when distant
• Optimized various sound code
• Slightly optimized car cargo model rendering
• Fixed rare items getting duplicated when revisited
• Fixed non-physical shovel in VR killing performance

Graphics

• Added V-Sync option (unlocks FPS)
• Added render path settings (forward vs. deferred)
• Added post processing effects (optional)
• Added SSAO (optional, deferred only)
• Added TAA (optional, nonVR only)
• Added experimental real-time reflections (optional)
• Improved lighting in offices
• Improved anti-aliasing on vegetation billboards (distant trees)

VR Controls

• Added Oculus Quest support (via Link)
• Revamped controls on most controller types
• Revamped VR implementation

• Fixed issues with room-scale and centered (formerly seated) play area types
• Added adjustable player height setting

• Improved item handling

• Added option so items stick to hand (default for all but Index, configurable)
• It is now possible to move and turn while holding an item in hand
• Trigger-click to use item in hand (trigger+up on Vive)
• Trigger+axis to use or scroll the item in hand (e.g. page flipping)
• Fixed items shaking when held
• Fixed accidentally grabbing false items and sub-controls (priority system)
• Removed excess haptic feedback (when touching an item in belt or the other hand)
• Items now properly align to the hand when taken

• Smooth locomotion is now the default locomotion type (configurable)
• Telegrab is now a one-button action (hold grab to point, release to attract)
• Teleport button now works in all situations, no longer clashing with telegrab

• This fixes being unable to move sometimes when using Index controllers

• Added smooth turn option (configurable turn speed)
• Added crouch and jump

• Hold axis down to crouch, tap to jump

• Fixed snap turn math error that was offsetting the player from player collider over time
• Fixed trigger-press dropping held item
• Fixed items getting dropped when pulled quickly out of inventory
• Fixed controls booklet adapting to headset type, now adapts to controller type instead

• This fixes Vive/Index combo users not seeing Index controls in the booklet

• Shovel is now non-physical by default (configurable)
• Fixed arc and vibration levels in Oculus VR mode to be consistent with the SteamVR version
• Added ControllerAnchors.json file (in SaveGameData)

• Can be edited to tweak position and rotation of VR controller sphere and telegrab/UI beam

Non-VR Controls

• Added mouse-wheel support for using train controls
• Added sitting toggle (default key X)

• Useful for better visibility in some locomotives

• Improved hitboxes for using train controls with mouse
• Smoother lever movement when keyboard-controlled
• Added controls options

• Mouse sensitivity, Invert Mouse Y axis, Toggle crosshair, See controls

• Improved camera transition when exiting item-interaction mode (Alt)
• Player moves slower when crouching (or sitting)
• Made all train controls remappable (steamer valves, draft, etc.)

Jobs & Cargo

• Added Hazardous Materials jobs

• Includes 15 hazmat cargo types (11 new)
• Includes explosive, asphyxiating, corrosive, radioactive and other kinds
• Includes some new cargo models

• Added 4 new vehicle cargo types
• Added deliveries of empty containers
• Added 16 contextual container liveries

• Includes A/C model variant

• Much more diverse job chains and routes
• Notably increased amount of cars and jobs per station
• Renamed Empty Haul job type to Logistical Haul

• Now also colored red, distinct from Freight Haul

• Revamped the job payment calculation for better balancing

• Now also takes into account cargo value, damage risk, "boringness", etc.

• Changed shunting train splitting to maximum of 3 tracks (was 5)
• Prevented being able to load/unload cars while they're moving
• Prevented being able to finish a job while the cars are moving
• Revamped the Industry Chain diagram
• Made small improvements to the job booklet design

Career & Economy

• Revamped Licenses

• Licenses can now be a requirement for already existing jobs
• Some licenses now have a tier-based progression
• Added Hazmat license (3 tiers)
• Added Military license (3 tiers)
• Added Concurrent Job license (2 tiers, now required to do concurrent jobs)
• Extended Longer Trains license to 2 tiers (and no longer affects general train length)
• Licenses you own now determine your time bonus and insurance copay (more below)
• Redesigned license graphics

• You can buy licenses only if you have no unpaid fees (more on that below)
• Added Career Manager machine

• Located in every office station
• Used to browse licenses and buy them
• Used to browse fees and pay them

• Added Fees

• Career Manager can print fee booklets, detailing damages and consumed resources
• Fees are tracked per job (cars included) or per locomotive
• Fees can also include environmental damage (from emissions or accidents)
• Player must repay all fees in order to buy or upgrade licenses
• Job reports now list relevant fees

• Added Insurance Copay

• Player only needs to pay the insurance copayment in order to clear all the fees
• Initially the copayment is small, but it gets bigger with every newly bought license

• Added difficulty settings (affects payment amount of newly generated jobs)
• Added repair-only stations to towns that didn't have service before
• Adjusted prices of items
• Can't enter military bases without the base license

Train Simulation

• Revamped derailment physics
• Fixed all sorts of unexpected derailment occurrences
• Higher speeds are now safe to travel at
• Made rerailing possible (more info below)
• Revamped couplers
• Completely reworked coupler physics
• Brought coupled cars closer together
• Made buffers compressible
• Added fully functional chain couplers, with dangling physics
• Added damage simulation
• Added damage tracking of cars, cargo and the environment
• Added liquid and gas cargo leakage on damaged cars
• Liquids naturally flow and spread over terrain
• Added fire and explosions, which can damage their surroundings
• Added general chemical and chain reactions between reactive materials
• Revamped brake simulation
• Air is now realistically distributed throughout the entire train
• Brake system now takes time to fill up with air (i.e. big trains need multiple locos)
• Cars feature manual brake valves, and can be uncoupled without brakes applied
• Added fully functional air brake hoses, with dangling physics
• Shunter now generates air pressure only while the engine is running
• Steam locomotive now generates air brake pressure using steam pressure from boiler
• Braking now requires more planning and slamming is disincentivized
• Fixed bugs with braking when having multiple locomotives in a train
• Finished handcar simulation
• Increased steam locomotive power, reduced wheelslip
• Somewhat reduced shunter top speed
• Remade buffer models (better visual quality, more variety)
• Added independent brake to locomotives (more responsive than train brake)
• Buffer stops are now breakable
• Made steamer "Fire Out" valve work (if temp. under 100 deg)
• Fixed broken window shards flying in the opposite direction when colliding
• Temporarily removed locomotive headlights until they're finished
• Added notches to shunter throttle lever
• Improved whistle rope grabbing
• Fixed bogies sometimes having weird rotation and gap after derailment

Trains

• Added Diesel locomotive
• Can be acquired via license purchase
• High power but also high fuel consumption, for use with very heavy trains
• Added Nuclear Flask Carrier car
• Added a few new car skins
• Redesigned the car ID plate (now shows vehicle and cargo damage too)
• Fixed new cars spawning in front of job cars while shuffling cars outside of yards
• Trains now spawn around the middle of a yard track instead of against one end
• Spawned trains sharing the same track are now visually separated from one another
• Cars now have random orientation when spawning in yards
• Manually spawned (non-job) cars no longer despawn if they are coupled to a loco
• Fixed bad normal map shading direction on boxcars and tank cars
• Locomotives now despawn after 2 hours of no use

World & Tracks

• Revamped all stations
• Added countless new props including roads, buildings, fences, vehicles, etc.
• Changed track layouts
• Revamped all yards to have a ladder layout
• Added turntables and roundhouses, where applicable
• Added passenger stations where applicable (for future use)
• Added service depots
• Added procedural sign generation
• Automatically creates speed and grade signs throughout the entire railway network
• Easily adaptable to potential new tracks and worlds in future
• Added a Military Base station (north)
• Added two Military Base sub-stations (MF and HB)
• Added player home location
• All lost items now respawn at home, in addition to Lost & Found sheds
• Switches can now be manually operated (click-based)
• Various track curve tweaks
• Fixed sharp terrain walls and floating tracks
• Fixed grass sticking through office floors and some platforms
• Fixed radar floating when viewed from distance
• Redesigned track ID signs

• Set fixed distance of track ID signs from track ends

UI

• Revamped inventory (VR and non-VR)
• Hold inventory button to access, hover and let go to take/store a selected item
• Greater capacity
• Dynamic layout, shows only occupied slots
• New visual style (includes item icons and slot numbers in non-VR)
• Wrist-based slots for dropping items into inventory (VR)
• Fixed VR inventory buttons getting stuck sometimes
• Revamped teleporting (for VR and non-VR)
• Generally a lot more intuitive and precise
• Allows easier climbing on rooftop surfaces
• Allows climbing on flipped cars
• Fixed issues when teleporting through tunnel entrances
• Fixes many related bugs
• Revamped menu GUI
• Now more responsive, featuring new layout, graphics and sounds
• Includes links to DV support page, Discord, etc.
• Showing current headset/play mode at the bottom of main menu
• Clicking out of menu now closes it (non-VR)
• Improved VR belt
• Items can now be taken out of belt only from within the belt sphere
• Belt point positions can now be adjusted when grabbed with empty hands
• Improved visual feedback
• Fixed being unable to place an item to belt after briefly touching a VR inventory slot
• Item retrieving
• You can now retrieve essential items from the main menu
• They will be brought to your hands, no matter where they are
• Added VR loading screen (SteamVR only)
• Added a loading screen when teleporting via map (non-VR and SteamVR only)
• Item highlighting when clicking can now be turned off in the controls menu
• Crosshair now automatically fades out when mouse is inactive (configurable)
• Fixed sound pause lagging when opening menu

Items & Shops

• Added Comms Radio
• Replaces Junction Remote and includes several modes:
• Switch mode - Throw a switch remotely, like before
• Rerail mode - Rerail a vehicle, for a fee
• Clear mode - Delete a vehicle, for a fee
• Crew mode - Spawn a handcar if unlocked, at no cost
• Spawn mode - Spawn any vehicle (replaces the old spawn tool, now also works in VR)
• Cargo mode - Add cargo to spawned vehicles
• Improved switch remote mode aiming precision
• Remade World Map
• Fast travel to any station or locomotive, for a fee
• Fast travel with your locomotive, at extra cost
• See other locomotives marked on the map
• Improved map indicator visuals
• Improved model
• Added Golden Shovel
• Very expensive, has extra capacity, stylish
• Revamped schematic maps
• Now includes markers for offices and service stations
• Fixed items not going back to Lost & Found shed if left on derailed cars
• Prevented many items from falling through terrain
• Reworked shops
• Shops are now dedicated buildings with item shelves
• Every shop now features items exclusive to that shop
• Remade cash register
• Improved service stations
• Fixed bugs when trying to service multiple locos
• Steam loco and tender now need to be serviced separately
• Increased servicing speed
• Updated service station resource icons (consistent style with cargo icons)
• Cash registers now issue receipts when completing purchase and service transactions
• Lost money now goes to Lost & Found
• Made the trash bin bigger and more massive

Save system

• All locomotive states are now getting saved, including damage
• Backup now keeps the saves of at least 3 sessions, or up to 10 MB
• Made important items save as left on trains, when leaving the game (and not fall through)
• Reduced autosave to every 5 minutes
• Show notification banner when auto-saving
• Steam version now stores the save on the Steam cloud

Sound

• Fixed numerous issues with sounds (rail joint spam, glitches on start, etc.)
• Fixed train wheels making rolling sounds when off-track
• Improved sound processing (improved EQs, filters, reverbs, side-chaining...)
• Fixed sound not changing to exterior when leaving the shunter sometimes
• Added new joint sounds when crossing over switches
• Added doppler effect to horns
• Fixed wheels sound having start-delay when stepping on a rail vehicle

Misc

• Revamped tutorial
• Introduces VR controls on the controller, for beginners
• Includes new UI and various other systems
• Various tweaks and improvements
• Updated locomotive manuals
• Added Train Basics booklet
• Updated DV Guide booklet
• Revamped tunnel holes code to prevent sometimes hitting them as solid terrain
• Added free camera (for video filming)

• Console command - Player.FreeCamToggle
• WASD, ctrl, space - move
• Mouse scroll - change speed
• LMB/RMB - change FOV
• Alt - orbit around aimed target
• Num Enter - attach to a moving vehicle player is on
• Step on a moving vehicle to load terrain as it goes
• It is possible to stop time by pressing pause (Esc)
• Pressing Q also stops time but it stops the moving trains too

• Loading screen in NonVR now shows high-res screenshots, picked at random
• Updated Oculus SDK to the latest version
• Fixed double-clicking Esc causing the player to teleport to the sky
• Alt+Tab no longer enables mouse-look when the latter is bound to Alt key
• Removed the "you derailed" popup as it's no longer relevant
• Updated DV logo
• Reduced size of splash screen Altfuture logo
• Added option to prevent Alt+Tab from pausing the game (non-VR only)
• Fixed coal lumps not disappearing when thrown into firebox
• Increased sensitivity of locomotive remote joysticks
• Added sound alert for wheelslipping using locomotive remote
• Fixed wallet text overflowing to new line when too rich
• Fixed being able to bring up menu during loading

Start of an era - Overhauled

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Build 79

3 July, 2019

Controls

• (SteamVR) Added support for Index controllers (legacy, no finger tracking)
• Fixed being able to get stuck moving in VR smooth locomotion, when no input was given

Bug fixes

• Fixed locomotive remote joysticks being difficult to grab in VR
• Fixed some cars having bogies appearing off-tracks until touched with another car

Build 78

20 June, 2019

Bug fixes

• Fixed the recent bug with camera tilting while in a locomotive cab
• Fixed VR belt point getting stuck in grab mode
• Fixed sound playing when the game is paused
• Improved prevention of falling through ground when teleporting to steep slopes in VR

Misc

• Optimized item spawning
• Game will now pause when switching windows (alt-tab)
• Controls booklet now dynamically adapts to current input device
• Fixed being unable to zoom with a booklet in hand in NonVR
• Extended remote controller battery life
• Command debug.toggleui now also disables in-game tooltips (NonVR)
• Shunter's reverser can no longer be changed when throttle is applied, in NonVR
• Increased NonVR crosshair and interaction text font size on high-res screens (e.g. 4k)

Build 77

22 May, 2019

Railway

• Reworked tunnel entrances

• Fixed tunnels missing holes sometimes (looking caved in)
• Fixed colliding with terrain at tunnel entrances sometimes
• Fixed tunnel holes being visible (terrain faces sticking out of tunnel walls)

Performance

• Reduced CPU spikes in VR, caused by 3rd party code (console, VRTK)

Controls

• Fixed being unable to teleport to shunter from its right cab side
• Fixed a bug where mouse-look could make held item untakeable
• Fixed mouse-look being usable during stashing/unstashing animations
• Fixed locomotive remote battery indicator showing as not charging

Misc

• Fixed car ID plates having no spaces in cargo names
• Load machine now displays its corresponding track's ID

Build 76

15 May, 2019

System

• Upgraded Unity to 2018.3

• Improved performance (terrain rendering optimization)
• Removed SSE4 requirement (can be played on older CPUs, e.g. Phenom II)
• Should fix crash when quitting game
• Should fix rare in-game crashes for some players
• Slightly improved terrain graphics

Cargo

• Added cars cargo models

Jobs

• Job booklets are now saved as items, preserving inventory slots and job ID
• Fixed inventory bug in VR, caused by validating booklets or taking money
• Restart button now deletes all active job booklets (previously only from inventory)

Controls

• Fixed colliders on loaded cars not working properly when teleporting onto them
• Fixed items easily falling from belt in VR when accidentally grabbed (e.g. loco remote)
• Fixed belt slot sometimes disappearing in VR
• Decreased locomotive remote battery consumption
• Fixed a bug when dropping an item during the mouse-look exit animation
• Fixed grabbed items having incorrect velocity when dropped after teleporting to a moving train
• Fixed Bob's vehicle brakes not working (keyboard)
• Fixed a bug with shunter exhaust which could make player get stuck in the air if stepped on

Build 75

8 May, 2019

Bug fixes

• Fixed bug with "restart" button moving player into the sky in VR and corrupting savegame

• Also prevented loading screen freeze at 71%, for affected players (savegame auto-fix)

• Fixed a bug that could prevent the game from starting on first launch after installation
• Fixed some booklets not being placeable in VR belt
• Fixed an error with VR belt
• Fixed loading screen background image not preserving aspect ratio when resizing window
• Fixed incorrect boxcar normal map export
• Fixed items not giving back scroll wheel focus when destroyed
• Fixed pocket watch alarm sound playing at the player's position even when the watch is somewhere else
• Fixed pocket watch crown and watch hands sometimes being misaligned
• Fixed low initial player position in tutorial

Controls

• Alt-scroll now forces inventory scrolling
• Tab now unstashes selected inventory item even when you already hold an item
• Mouse-look can now be toggled with a single key press, or activated when holding the key
• Fixed steam whistle being activated when using locomotive remote horn using keyboard

Items

• Items now animate into place when leaving mouse-look mode
• Improved lighter lid closing interaction with the fire
• Lighter fire can no longer be extinguished by clicking
• Increased the success chance of lighting the lighter
• Fixed map indicator sometimes spinning
• Added "job" suffix to job booklet item name

Misc

•  Updated DV Guide and Controls NonVR pages with latest info
•  Reduced tender hatch spring resistance

Build 74

3 May, 2019

Controls

• Added mouse-look feature to NonVR

• Press 'Left Alt' to toggle on/off
• Useful for operating items in hands using mouse, such as the loco remote

• Keys 0-9 now automatically equip items from the requested slots
• Booklet pages are now turned with the scroll wheel in NonVR
• Made scroll wheel controls bindable to keyboard (for those without the wheel)
• Updated item hover highlighting to highlight more sensible parts of items
• Fixed lighter lid being controllable with the scroll wheel when not held

Sounds

• Fixed track joints not playing sound when crossed over by wheels
• Fixed pocket watch sounds sometimes being spatially incorrect

UI

• Reworded "respawn" to "restart" in UI texts
• Updated job booklets to better format cargo names

Build 73

25 April, 2019

Bug fixes

• Fixed an error potentially causing all belt and item -related problems in VR
• Fixed teleport gizmo not showing in NonVR
• Fixed pocket watch clock hands sometimes clipping into the watch body in NonVR
• Fixed some items having wrong orientation when picked up in VR
• Fixed some items having wrong orientation in belt in VR

Locomotive remote

• Increased locomotive remote range
• Updated locomotive remote battery usage

Items

• Lighter lid now opens and closes using the scroll wheel in NonVR
• Lighter is no longer guaranteed to light up on first try in NonVR

Build 72

19 April, 2019

System

• Reworked game loading

• Now shows loading progress (screen only)
• Fixes player falling through terrain when starting game
• Smoother experience after game loads in

Items

• Added pocket watch

• Can be bought in shops
• VR controls: Button - start/pause, Knob - set time
• NonVR controls: LMB - start/pause, Scroll - set time
• To use as stopwatch, start at zero time
• To use as timer, start at set time
• Alarm goes off when timer runs out
• Works while in inventory too
• Gets its status saved during play
• Save-game can now track item-specific states

Trains

• Trains no longer slide when parked on a grade
• Increased coupler strength 50%

Controls

• Potentially fixed undefined device controllers not working (e.g. Pimax with Vive wands)
• Fixed walk/run speeds in nonVR being increased in a recent build

Misc

• Added pages about derailing and item storage to DV Guide
• Fixed crash when using teleport console commands while being on a vehicle
• Halved job validator cooldown

Build 71

11 April, 2019

World

• Attempted fix for not being able to go through tunnels

Build 70

10 April, 2019

World

• Removed vegetation and rocks from tracks

• Removed need for gravel texture next to tracks (more natural track-side)
• Allowed bringing vegetation closer to tracks

• Fixed vegetation flickering at terrain loading
• Fixed terrain bump at lake loop

Jobs

• Fixed non interactable levers on load/refill machine (introduced recently)
• Fixed being unable to take out job booklets from inventory (introduced recently)

Steam locomotive

• Added non-physical shovel option for VR, making coal stick to the shovel

• Can be found in settings, under the Misc submenu
• Can be switched on and off during gameplay

Cars

• Brake strength now automatically adjusts for car mass (no more buckling)

Build 69

5 April, 2019

Steam locomotive

• Fixed coal not being accepted into the firebox (introduced in last build)

Shunting remote

• Made buttons easier to press in NonVR

Console

• Player.GiveWallet command now forces wallet into inventory (or L&F if no room)

Build 68

4 April, 2019

Items

• Fix broken tutorial due to item falling through ground (introduced last build)
• Added Item Dumpster

• Dumpsters can be used to permanently delete your items
• They can be found next to each lost and found shed
• Purchase-able items tossed into the dumpster will be deleted if player moves 200m away
• Job booklets tossed into the dumpster will be deleted immediately (same as trash bin)

• All previously "essential" items can now be bought in shops (except wallet)
• Player.GiveEssentialItems became Player.GiveWallet

• Backup command in case there was a bug with the save-game that deleted the wallet

• Optimized world map, no longer calculating player position if 5m+ away from player

Shunting remote

• Added shunter remote booklet manual

• Buying the remote will now also issue the manual

• Fixed LED bars showing fully empty when there's still slight control input

Controls

• Editing keybindings using text editor:

• Start game at least once to generate keybindings.ini file
• Edit the file in text editor to remap keystroke(s)
• The file is located at Derail Valley\DerailValley_Data\SaveGameData\
• Supports multiple keys to be assigned to one action
• The changes will apply at next game start

• Editing keybindings in-game using console commands:

• "showbinds" to see all current key bindings for reference
• "bind" followed by action and keystroke(s) (e.g. "bind moveForward W UpArrow") to remap
• Automatically updates keybindings.ini file

• Added steam whistle key control (default: num+)

World

• Fixed floating L&F sheds at Sawmill and City SW

Shunter

• Fixed levers jumping into place after a moment when entering the shunter

Build 67

3 April, 2019

Shunting remote

• Is an item that can be purchased in shops
• Makes it possible to remotely control a shunter
• Features interactive joysticks and buttons (VR and nonVR)
• Can be used with keyboard controls in nonVR (when equipped)
• Features solar-powered battery mechanics
• Features limited wireless range with signal loss
• Includes various technical reworks and improvements to be used in future features

Controls

• Added keyboard controls for all train commands
• Added belt item points (VR)

• You can place items to belt points for quick access
• Provides hands-free item interaction (useful for shunting remote)

• Fixed nonVR player being dragged by moving train if teleporting off of it
• Fixed camera flickering when teleporting in nonVR

Items

• Hand-held items are now saved to inventory, rather than falling to world

• If inventory is full they are sent to L&F shed

• Reduced item spawning distance in L&F sheds to 50m
• Updated Player.GiveEssentialItems console command

• Now adds lost items to inventory if there's space, else to L&F sheds

UI

• Added menu button to refresh Lost & Found
• Added menu button to summon Old Bob's vehicle (once unlocked)
• Added tooltips to menu
• Reworded many options
• Added highlighting of nearby items (VR: telegrab press, nonVR: LMB click)
• Added build number to main menu

Railway

• Fixed glitches with clipped shadows occurring on some parts of the railway
• Fixed railway LOD sometimes appearing (e.g. at Machine Factory)

Save-game

• Fixed job loading errors, potentially causing other bugs

Build 66

20 March, 2019

Controls

• Fixed nonVR player drifting when in moving vehicles
• Fixed player being nudged onto tender sometimes in steam locomotive
• Added "teleport to last loco" button to main menu (experimental)
• Added console command to invert mouse Y-axis

• Debug.InvertMouseY (true/false)

Build 65

18 March, 2019

Railway rework

• Railway is now generated in real-time, as you move around the game world
• Greatly optimized railway meshes outside of 350m radius from the player
• Optimized generation & rendering (Unity Job System; GPU instancing)
• Reduced build size 60% (from 10.6GB to 4.25GB)
• Allows major future improvements (reduced stuttering, in-game changing, better world-editing)

Job system

• Reworked job taking

• Stations now spawn Job Overviews
• Job Overview is a single-page item, describing job essentials
• Insert Job Overview in Job Validator to accept job
• Job Validator will then print out an actual Job Booklet
• Last page/step of Job Booklet says to validate job to complete it
• Possible stutter improvement when nearing stations, for some players

Controls

• Locomotion type setting for VR users now gets saved
• Changing VR mode to Seated now automatically recenters play area
• WMR improvements:

• Fixed the WMR controllers sometimes having unusual interactions with items
• Added pointer spheres to WMR controllers to always know where you are pointing
• Fixed occasional bug with controller being black and unresponsive

Item storage

• Decreased range for item respawn to L&F shed to 200m

Misc

• Added teleport console commands (nonVR ONLY):

• Debug.TeleportToPoint; takes desired x and z world coords (0-16384)
• Debug.TeleportToPointNormalized; takes normalized x and z world coords (0-1)

• Updated to Unity 2018.2.21f1

Build 64

13 March, 2019

Save-game

• Saves player position
• Saves trains and their position
• Saves ongoing jobs and their progress
• Added console command "Debug.DeleteCarsAndJobsSaveData"

• Flushes all current train and job save-game data in case of a bug

Item system

• Fixed inventory order getting shuffled when reloading
• Fixed game starting without items for some players
• Fixed certain items sometimes missing for some players (may go to Lost & Found)
• Fixed duplicate wallet appearance (might need to find yours in Lost & Found shed)
• Fixed tutorial items able to render tutorial impossible to complete as of #62
• Fixed shop items not sharing the total available amount of each item
• Added colliders to Lost & Found shed, window tweak

Controls

• Player position will be auto-fixed if falling under terrain, past the water level

• Added console command "Player.MoveToLastGoodPosition" for manual recovery

• On Vive enabling option "touch-click" will now use click to turn pages too

Misc

• Updated various 3rd party plugins (potential bug fixes and performance improvement)

Build 63

8 March, 2019

Item storage

• For players missing essential items, they will now respawn at lost & found sheds
• Minor graphical tweaks to shed

Build 62

7 March, 2019

Item storage system

• Added Lost & Found sheds

• Located at every station
• Lost player-owned items will respawn in these sheds
• Items need to be 600m+ away from the player to be considered lost now
• Items will no longer respawn to player inventory

• Rail vehicles are now storage locations too

• Items left in locomotives/cars will remain there
• If a locomotive/car is deleted, items will be moved to Lost & Found

• Player-owned items are now saved at their world location, when not lost or in inventory
• Job Booklets and Job Reports are not yet being saved (coming soon)

Jobs

• Fixed occasional bug with missing jobs in empty stations
• Fixed Food Factory schematic map saying S04 instead of I04

Build 61

27 February, 2019

Bug fixes

• Fixed unpausing still shaking/damaging trains

Controls

• Added option to click touchpad to turn, on Vive

Misc

• Potentially fixed quit crash and some other crashes (updated burst compiler, untested)

Build 60

22 February, 2019

World

• Added bridge and tunnel colliders
• Fixed a faulty tunnel entrance on lake helix causing collision
• Fixed tunnel sticking out of terrain near Forest South, causing collision
• Further removed trees and rocks from track
• Somewhat reduced severity of grade south of Steel Mill
• Fixed lake helix track bumps
• Fixed Iron Ore Mine East track being named L05 instead of L08

Misc

• Updated nonVR controls booklet page
• Added nonVR controls page to game files

Platform

• Reverted max Oculus adaptive resolution default value from 2 to 1

• Was causing performance drop to people unaware of its original setting (as of #56)
• To force another value use console command Oculus.RenderScale

Build 59

20 February, 2019

Bug fixes

• Fixed "Press F to enter" not appearing when aiming under shunter's window
• Fixed lean/crouch being bugged after teleporting in some cases in nonVR
• Fixed error with deleting unused cars introduced in #58

NonVR HUD

• Fixed HUD showing empty on game start, even if it isn't
• Respawned items don't show up in the inventory until selected again
• Fixed HUD getting broken if using debug.toggleui command as of build #57
• Minor HUD CPU usage optimization

NonVR controls

• Added secondary locomotive keybinds:

• F1/F2 - throttle release/apply
• F3/F4 - brake release/apply
• F5/F6 - reverser backward/forward

Build 58

19 February, 2019

Bug fixes

• Fixed a bug that in large stations negatively impacted performance since #56
• Fixed cars sometimes spawning inside buffer stops
• Fixed leaning and crouch smoothing bug introduced in #57

Console

• Added console commands for Oculus SDK adaptive resolution & render scale

• Oculus.AdaptiveResolutionEnabled
• Oculus.RenderScale

Other

• Few minor memory allocation optimizations to reduce stutter
• Updated splash screen background color

Build 57

18 February, 2019

Performance

• Further optimized CPU usage by not rendering various off-camera text elements

Controls

• Fixed teleport imprecision/offset when used on moving trains
• Fixed reverser sometimes getting inverted and causing infinite acceleration as of #56

UI

• Further improved nonVR HUD

Jobs

• Fixed lack of available jobs as of #56

Debug

• Pressing 'i' no longer activates spawn mode

Build 56

14 February, 2019

Performance

• Rewritten simulation code which moves rail vehicles along the track

• Reduced overall CPU usage ~10%
• Should result in less stuttering, in addition

Steam locomotive

• Fire and coal now last much longer on the final stretch of burning
• Fixed tender coal being consumed when adding coal to an already full firebox
• Fixed tender water being consumed when adding water to an already full boiler
• Shoveling in nonVR now requires firebox door to be opened
• Added wind sound for blower and draft effect
• Fire now automatically ignites when adding coal to a hot firebox
• Updated minimum firebox temperature from 0 C to 25 C
• Fixed whistle sounding off when entering steam locomotive
• Added back tender water hatch

Trains

• Added headlights to shunter (WIP)
• Fixed uncoupled trains only applying brakes on the first car
• Fixed cars still showing coupled when deleted
• Fixed brakes staying active on cars, once uncoupling the second locomotive

Controls

• Fixed leaning on a moving train in VR causing player to be teleported around

Jobs

• Haul job payment now depends on train mass instead of car amount

Platform

• Potentially fixed Oculus SDK supersampling unable to be set more than 100%

Build 55

12 February, 2019

Simulation

• Made brakes less sensitive to light application
• Reduced locomotive braking power
• Further tweaked derailments

NonVR

• Fixed switch remote not working properly since last build
• Improved HUD appearance (WIP)
• Made draft and whistle usable in nonVR
• Further improved keyboard train controls, now smooth
• G key now does weak throw, removed MMB throw
• Fixed switch remote aiming incorrectly

General

• Slightly increased track "clearance" space, so that they're not packed switch-to-switch
• Fixed job validator beeping infinitely when taking money in nonVR or using wallet in VR
• Cash register now returns money to wallet if player walks away from it
• Made water surfaces blue in the map
• Tweaked option names

Build 54

8 February, 2019

Options

• Added screen resolution option

Controls

• NonVR: Added teleport (key F)
• NonVR: Added keyboard train controls

• U/Y: Throttle
• J/H: Reverser
• M/N: Brake

• NonVR: Added slot selection via 0-9 keys
• Added item equip/unequip sounds (back)
• Updated controls booklet page for nonVR

Vehicles

•  Further improved derailment
•  NonVR: Added secret rail vehicle (keyboard only)

Game

• Reduced price of water
• Fixed a money duplication exploit
• Reduced job booklet spawn rotation randomness
• Disabled deleting cars when player is in car

Console

• Added debug.toggleui command to hide/unhide non-VR UI

Build 53

6 February, 2019

Options

• Added graphics options (WIP, no resolution yet)
• Added sound volume option

Controls

• Added tilt to nonVR lean

Gameplay

• Fixed cash register money duplication exploit

Debug

• Output log now includes system info (CPU, GPU, RAM, etc.)

Build 52

4 February, 2019

Derailment

• Fixed cars derailing in turns seemingly randomly
• Updated derailment parameters and sound cue

Controls

• Fixed leaning in shunter causing player to be pulled out
• NonVR: Added leaning (Q/E)
• NonVR: Arrow keys do same as WASD

Gameplay

• Load game and respawn to nearest station will now always spawn a shunter (temp.)

Service station

• Fixed being unable to refill a resource sometimes
• Fixed cash register buttons rarely not responding
• Fixed station remaining occupied after a serviced locomotive gets deleted

Vehicles

• Fixed tender being too far from steam locomotive (WIP)
• Fixed brakes releasing when game unpaused / headset idle awake

Items

• Fixed essential items missing after respawning to nearest station

Build 51

1 February, 2019

Platform

• Fixed game not starting for Oculus users
• Preemptively fixed Touch controllers issue if there are both Oculus Remote and a gamepad attached to computer

Build 50

31 January, 2019

Gameplay

• Cars in station will no longer regenerate so closely
• Fixed cash register money-making exploit
• Map player indicator is now always visible

Savegame

• Fixed game load always spawning player at north-east

Vehicles

• Fixed spawned locomotives not having brakes applied

World

• Fixed terrain bump over tracks near Forest South
• Somewhat widened loading loops in Iron and Coal mines
• Updated city buildings with higher-res textures
• Fixed Sawmill load machines being swapped

Controls

• Added touchpad clicks on WMR for teleport, snap turn, page flipping

• Alternatively can be used via joystick

• Fixed misaligned teleporting in fast moving trains (esp. at low FPS)

Platform

• Potentially fixed Rift controllers not working properly for some users in Oculus SDK version
• Starting VR version without a headset will now fallback to non-VR automatically
• Updated Oculus SDK to 1.32.1

Build 49

30 January, 2019

Physics

• Fixed heavy/loaded cars being very sensitive to derailment
• Potentially fixed tender being prone to random derailments

• Temporarily removed water hatch for testing

• Potentially fixed random derailments occurring on straight track
• Fixed unpause doing damage/shaking to vehicles

Gameplay

• Added "Respawn at nearest station" button

• Teleports you to the nearest station together with last used locomotive
• Note that the locomotive will be restocked to new condition. This is temporary.
• Clears all your active jobs

• Added a "you derailed" tip, explaining what to do

Savegame

• Game now loads player spawned at the nearest station from save location

• Like "Respawn" option, it also spawns last used locomotive, in new condition
• This is a temporary workaround until the savegame can handle ongoing jobs

• Now every station has at least one locomotive
• Added note to main menu that savegame is work in progress
• Fixed player being flipped at game load if savegame was made in a flipped train

World

• Greatly reduced trees and rocks on tracks
• Added an extra locomotive spawn stub track to many stations
• Fixed a few railway bumps and irregularities
• Updated schematic maps and some faulty track names

Controls

• Improved Windows Mixed Reality controller mapping (WIP)

• If unable to use the switch remote (or some other items), try toggling option in Main Menu > Misc > Use grip to teleport (Vive)

• Fixed Rift joysticks being difficult to flick when playing in SteamVR

Tutorial

• Tutorial tip now points to individual items in the locker
• Fixed locker interior being dark

Oculus SDK

• Added Oculus SDK as a launch option on Steam

• Somewhat improves performance for Rift users
• Not to be used with other headsets

Build 48

26 January, 2019

Gameplay

• Added unlocking mechanic

Savegame

• Progress is now auto-saved every 30 seconds
• Saved data includes:

• Tutorial completion
• Player's position
• Inventory contents
• Money amount
• Acquired licenses, keys and unlocks

• Currently active job's progress is NOT saved, WIP
• The "-skiptutorial" flag has been disabled
• It's recommended to keep a copy of your save file, outside of the game data dir, to prevent Steam/Oculus potentially overwriting it during updates

Vehicles

• Added secret new rail vehicle

Build 47

25 January, 2019

Optimization

• Fixed major lag/stuttering when entering stations

Gameplay

• Added tutorial

• Features a new location / building
• Introduces player to the game basics
• Features control instruction booklets for different devices
• Can be skipped with "-skiptutorial" argument

Controls

• Completed non-VR controls. Additions:

• Train driving
• Inventory / item interaction
• Zoom feature (RMB)
• Pause menu
• Needs to be selected at game start
• Can be forced with "-nonvr" argument

• Added initial WMR support
• It's no longer possible to teleport on walls

Vehicles

• Fixed tender derailing
• Reduced amount of shunter fuses to 3
• Fixed shunter windows not repairing, since recent build
• Doubled steam locomotive chuff frequency
• Fixed shunter dashboard light turning off when leaving cab
• Removed dashboard teleport block collider in shunter
• Tweaked tank car teleport destination points

Items

• Added hat item (can't use yet)
• Fixed shunter manual showing incorrect highlights

UI

• Updated switch sign design
• Added track name signs in yards
• Improved player indicator on map (WIP)
• Updated map texture (shops locations and new tracks)
• Fixed schematic map for coal mine showing wrong track name

World

• Various fixes of tight tracks and terrain glitches
• Added a tunnel leading from Harbor towards Farm (F6k4)
• Fixed trees growing through bridges
• Somewhat reduced rocks on tracks
• Reduced ballast gaps
• Fixed floating machines in Sawmill
• Fixed typha plant not showing (again)
• Fixed building LODs switching too soon

Misc

• Updated game icon
• Updated splashscreen company logo
• Oculus integration tweaks and fixes

Debug

• Added new console commands

• Player.GiveEssentialItems - Respawns essential items to inventory if missing for any reason
• Debug.DestroyBuggedObjects - Potential fix for short tele-grab beam bug
• Debug.SleepAllItems - Debug only, forces physics on items to sleep
• Debug.DestroyAllItems - Debug only, probably game-breaking
• Debug.ChangeSwipeSensitivity - Adjusts touchpad sensitivity (0-2)

Start of an era - Early Access

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Build 46

11 January, 2019

Optimization

• Heavily optimized physics on cars not next to player
• Fixed leaking unused audio sources created by coal
• Job booklet and job report render texture resolution tweaked for better performance
• Job reports will get deleted when not close to player
• Disabling of job validator, load machine and refill station when player is not in range

Gameplay

• Updated job type names and colors
• Cargo mass is added to car's mass (WIP mass values)
• Fixed telegrab being unusable in some situations

Physics

• Reworked couplers to prevent rogue derailments
• Loaded cargo now has functional collision colliders
• Fixed cars bouncing away when lightly touching each other

Vehicles

• Added LOD to all vehicles (performance improvement)
• Fixed shunter wheelslip being too sensitive since last update
• Fixed shunter windows breaking as soon as you derail
• Fixed shunter engine audio and power not using engine rpm (bug introduced in last build)
• Fixed steam locomotive missing occlusion on its left side
• Fixed steam locomotive having blurry exterior details
• Fixed injector rotating the wrong way

  UI

• Finished shop art, improved interface
• Fixed items falling when taken out of inventory
• Fixed items not being grabbed after being pulled by telegrab
• Grabbing items from the inventory is no longer possible if something is already grabbed
• Telegrab visuals are no longer active during the pause
• Tweaked inventory colliders for better UX
• Improved controller material
• Fixed map having inverted backface
• Added total train mass info to job booklets
• Fixed whistle rope not being released after grabbing with both hands

Items

• Added hat item (can't use yet)
• Fixed z-fighting on map

World

• Yard switches now lead through by default
• Fixed tracks going under terrain in Steel Mill
• Fixed entrance turn to Harbor being too tight
• Updated distant terrains (no more floating radar)
• Fixed floating rail piles
• Fixed a small house being inside Farm office
• Reduced view distance of detailed ground textures
• Added collider to castle ruins

Jobs

• Fixed bad comma placement on description of job booklet for jobs with more than one cargo type
• Payment for shunting jobs increased 5 times

Console

• Fixed various warnings and errors that spammed the console

Build 45

28 December, 2018

Optimization

• Cab controls physics are now only active when player is inside the cab
• Simplified cab graphics when player is not inside the cab

Jobs

• Added empty car haul jobs
• Grouped shunting jobs into two main types, loading and unloading
• Job booklet now describes job purpose
• Increased amount of available jobs/trains per station
• Payment amount is now generated based on job distance and train length
• To discard a job, throw it in a trash bin
• Fixed jobs with autorack cars missing a booklet
• Job booklets now show cargo icons on cars
• Job booklets now show train length
• Added missing car icons
• Added "& Town" to names of industries with towns
• Fixed formatting errors in job booklet and job report
• Removed licenses from booklet as they aren't used yet
• Fixed potential FPS drop when entering and exiting job rendering range

Vehicles

• Increased steam locomotive water/coal capacity x3
• Increased shunter temperature gain
• Reduced braking power on all cars
• Potentially fixed cars moving after spawn
• Fixed whistle rope not working
• Increased steam locomotive rolling resistance
• Reduced shunter mass
• Fixed teleporting to tank car messing up player camera
• Removed lower-floor destination points on autorack car
• Fixed shunter horn not playing a strike sound
• Tweaked shunter headlights reflectivity and color
• Fixed wheels slightly rotating on stationary vehicles

Controls

• Steam locomotive now spawns coal lumps which can be picked up by hand
• Fixed crouch sometimes getting stuck when playing in smooth locomotion

UI

• Improved inventory UX (feedback, colliders, graphics...)
• Menu and Recenter are now accessed through buttons in inventory
• Added new cover page for station map
• Station map now defaults to landscape orientation
• Fixed menu drifting away if opened before the first teleport
• Fixed essential items getting forever lost (very rare)
• Items dropped in a full inventory slot will be added to the next empty slot
• Fixed money slip text breaking when having many digits
• Updated menu texts and formatting (WIP)

Debug

• Press "i" to toggle train ends, when spawning cars to an existing train
• Fixed map teleport sometimes failing to teleport player while in smooth locomotion
• Added Debug.MaxJobsPerStation console command so you can change max number of jobs that can spawn in stations
• Fixed manually deleting pre-spawned locomotives causing errors

World

• Finished harbor industry (yard WIP)
• Finished oil well industries (yard WIP)
• Fixed some railway bumps, floating yards and building collisions
• Fixed some floating buildings and objects
• Fields now feature tree lines again
• Updated service station positions
• Added left turn from southwest forest region to City SW
• Reworked harbor area and increased yard size (WIP)
• Tweaked birch leaf color
• Fixed office floor colliders sometimes letting items fall through
• Replaced coal piles with iron ore piles in some industries
• Fixed tunnels being shiny inside
• Further lifted iron ore loader hopper
• Added "you are here" flags to office maps
• Fixed board tack LOD

Railway

• Tweaked track types (IDs) in stations

Build 44

14 December, 2018

Optimization

• Somewhat reduced world stream loading time (more TODO)
• Various slight performance improvements

World

• Fixed terrain going over the railways
• Fixed tunnels not working and being misaligned
• Fixed switch animations not working
• Fixed landmark structures not being visible
• Reduced amount of rocks on tracks
• Lifted industry hoppers so trains won't hit them
• Fixed an industrial building not having colliders
• Changed player starting location

Gameplay

• Fixed jobs always being the same on game start
• Added service prices
• Increased payments
• Added medicine, gas, tools, and cars cargo types (cars not visible yet)

Vehicles

• Added autorack car

• Features 4 color variants

• Balanced shunter fuel consumption, temperature gain, engine damage
• Some stations can now spawn a random locomotive, on "P" tracks
• Fixed steam locomotive valves turning the wrong way
• Reduced braking power on cars
• Fixed info plate mass value text having wrong color
• Cars now apply brakes when uncoupled
• Fixed spawned cars sometimes having brakes stuck
• Improved tank car colliders
• Cars no longer play couple/uncouple sounds when spawned/deleted

Vegetation

• Improved vegetation colors
• Added bushes
• Added typha plant
• Reduced draw distance

UI

• Added industry chain diagram to all stations
• Fixed schematic map booklet not working
• Improved map texture (higher resolution, grid pattern...)
• Slightly improved steam manual
• Updated cash register sounds
• Updated floating yard track sign IDs

Controls

• Fixed shunter not reacting properly to teleport
• Increased player recenter tolerance in steam loco, when using smooth controls
• Fixed shovel being offset when taken out of inventory
• Manual car spawning will now find first free space to spawn car on closest track
• Increased inventory hover range
• Tweaked cut-off behavior to reduce chance of breaking the limit
• Items taken out of backpack are now properly aligned
• Fixed teleport beam getting stuck sometimes
• Potentially fixed telegrab beams not working sometimes

Debug

• Added teleporting via map

• Hover hand over hand-held map to point at destination
• Click to teleport

• Spawner now aligns cars one in front of another, making it easier to create coupled trains

• Tip: Spawn rear car first, locomotive last

• Added console commands

• Physics.Toggle
• Debug.NumCars
• Debug.ToggleTrackIndicators (removes white signs above railways)

Build 43

28 November, 2018

Railway

• Rebuilt entire railway network

• Totals 150+ km
• Features both medium and low speed sections

• Added 15 freight stations/yards
• Remade track building tool

• Very fast and reliable track editing
• Easy to modify
• Remade curve modelling: realistic, no sudden twists

• Remade terrain modification by tracks (WIP)

• Much faster editing
• Improved cuts shape
• Less chance of terrain sticking through tracks
• No more trees growing on tracks
• Fixed steep slopes next to tracks having grass/ballast material

World

• Added 15 industries, one at each station

• Features 50+ detailed unique building models
• Features various environment props and details

• Added 15 station offices

• Features 7 unique models
• Equipped with jobs, job validator and generic furniture/items
• Each features a world map (missing "you are here" pin for now)

• Added various city buildings
• Added 3 landmark objects

Jobs

• Available at station offices on all 15 freight stations
• Added realistic industry chain (iron ore -> steel mill, steel -> goods factory, etc.)
• Added 30+ types of cargo
• Finished un/loader machine

• Pull lever to load/unload
• Screen displays which cargo and cars were loaded/unloaded

• Fixed a bug in job generation sometimes spawning excess cars in stations
• Fixed cars spawning too close to the switch

Money

• Added wallet

• You can see your balance on a paper slip sticking out of wallet
• Money brought next to the wallet or inventory gets added to your balance
• If shaken, wallet will drop coins

• Added paying

• Bring wallet or money to cash register money slot to deposit money
• Press buy button to complete transaction (green)
• Press cancel button to retrieve the money (red)
• If overpaid, cash register will return change

Interface

• Added world map item (in inventory)
• Added booklet containing schematic maps of all 15 stations (in inventory)

Inventory

• To open/close inventory, hold menu button, or

• In misc options choose to short-click for inventory, hold for menu

• Added 3D item previews
• Essential items (radio, shovel, wallet...) will respawn in inventory when lost
• Added item name above inventory, when hovered
• Fixed train controls going to inventory
• Fixed items disappearing when added to full inventory via "backpack"
• Fixed "backpack" incorrectly positioning itself when rotating head weirdly
• Fixed inventory sometimes spawning too close, too low or too high
• Fixed being unable to take items from inventory in a moving train
• Fixed booklet animation always glitching when taken out of inventory
• Improved item orientation when taken out of inventory

Shop

• Added shop logic (graphics TODO)

• There's only one present now at the starting location (Food Factory)
• Press a button on shop item slot to select it
• Pay at the cash register to obtain item
• Displays title, description, stock amount and other details

Controls

• Fixed teleport sometimes going through terrain
• To recenter in seated mode, hold both menu buttons

• This can be disabled in misc options

• On Vive, touchpad teleporting no longer works on the strafe controller, to prevent clash
• Fixed teleport beam sometimes flashing red or white
• Potentially fixed switch remote not working for some players

Vehicles

• Added refrigerated boxcar
• Heavily reduced tender coal and water capacity
• Fixed info plate missing on some cars
• Improved player colliders on shunter exterior

Items & props

• Added support for "safe space" where stored items will not despawn (to be used later)
• Fixed lighter not working properly in recent builds
• Lighter can be opened/closed by motion once again
• Lighter now respawns in inventory when thrown in firebox
• Fixed bug with items making collision sounds when touching cars (e.g. shovel + tender)
• Fixed electric stove texture glitch
• Added colliders to 3-axle bogie
• Added colliders to toilet

Build 42

27 October, 2018

Jobs

• Jobs are now procedurally generated
• Possible job types are:

• Shunting Inbound, Shunting Outbound, Loading, Unloading, Freight Haul

• Successful completion of a job will automatically generate a successive job

• e.g. Successful Loading job will generate a Haul job of the same train

• Every station now has at least one job to offer (don't need to start at the first one)
• Currently there are Pipes, Logs and Furniture cargo types present

UI

• Added inventory

• Press teleport button when pointing up to open inventory (same to close it)
• Physically place items in inventory slots, or take them out
• To quickly add an item to inventory, release it behind your head/back
• To quickly take last item from inventory, reach and grab behind your head/back

• Fixed job booklet page flickering since previous build
• Added orientation arrow to destination marker
• Fixed shunter manual booklet showing wrong page number on cover page

Items & props

• Added various new cargo props including logs, planks, pipes, rails... (not present)
• Fixed lighter sometimes falling through firebox and not lighting fire
• Added LOD to plastic bottle
• Fixed LOD settings on a few new items

Trains

• Added visible cargo

• Includes logs, planks, steel, pipes…
• Containers are now flatcar cargo, no longer car types

• Widened flatcar
• Widened hopper car
• Remodeled hopper car cargo area to be more realistic
• Added window texture to passenger car windows
• Fixed info plate positions on all vehicles
• Added info plate to both sides on locomotives
• Fixed shunter cab floor collider being slightly too low

Build 41

19 October, 2018

Booklets

• Added steam locomotive manual
• Reworked shunter manual
• Fixed being able to see between pages on booklets

Trains

• Finished car info plate design
• Fixed locomotives sometimes becoming inoperative when idling or when using pause
• Fixed car spawner not working since the last build

Controls

• If using "Use grip to teleport" option on Vive, grip will also be the use key

• To auto-hold with use grip enabled, press touchpad

• Fixed being able to teleport with the hand holding an item using auto-hold

Build 40

12 October, 2018

Controls

• Improved telegrab graphics
• Improved telegrab pointer collision precision
• Fixed telegrab not working if button was pressed too quickly
• Fixed telegrab using touchpad button, if set in options to use grip instead

• Switch remote doesn't work properly now, WIP

• Fixed locomotive teleport points not working
• Fixed getting off train via strafing not making it possible to point back inside
• Fixed moving away from teleport point via strafing not making it pointable again
• Fixed being able to teleport on an invisible collider next to refill station
• Fixed "back" button missing in menu
• Fixed touchpad click sometimes rotating player

Items & props

• Added several new items and a toilet prop
• Improved a few item collision sounds
• Reduced barrel and desk size
• Fixed items falling through locomotive floor

Gameplay

• Added new repair sound to service machine
• Added new service maxed out sound to service machine

Steam locomotive

• Tender coal model now changes to reflect actual coal amount left (6 steps)
• Tender water now looks like water
• Added boiler leak sound
• Boiler leak amount now increases when body damage is greater than 70%

Shunter

• Added smoke when engine is damaged more than 40% (placeholder particles)
• Added smoke when engine is overheating (placeholder particles)
• Damaged engine will now do less RPM at full throttle
• Using engine rpm for traction torque calculation instead of throttle position
• Fixed shunter becoming unresponsive after sitting with no throttle for a long period

Vehicles

• Updated car info plates (WIP)

• Displays ID, type, length, mass, current cargo, cargo mass
• Found on both sides of cars
• Uses placeholder graphics and placements

Build 39

5 October, 2018

Performance

• Fixed job texture rendering memory leak, causing performance drop over time
• Fixed pause causing locomotive to dismember

Controls

• Reworked telegrab

• Now has visual indicator beam
• Aim at item by holding grab button
• Attract it by pressing use/teleport button

• Fixed falling through ground when near water
• Fixed being unable to go through doors in smooth locomotion
• Fixed trains able to be damaged during pause

Shunter

• Throttle position now dictates top speed

Items & props

• Fixed money amount text flickering
• Improved colliders of most props and items
• Updated sizes and colors of some props and items
• Added LOD models to containers
• Added new sounds to item collisions
• Removed "Items respawn when dropped" behavior (for those who had it enabled before)
• Fixed some items disappearing on game start

World

• Added more buildings and silos
• Updated office position and wall material
• Added "Station Office" sign to office
• Fixed holes on non-transparent building windows not being black
• Added reflectivity to one of the building window types
• Added bogie prop

Job system

• Job booklets that have been completed now disappear when validated
• Fixed booklet unable to be validated without leaving the office and coming back again
• Fixed job report payment listing time bonus if said deadline wasn't met
• Added station type on haul job booklets
• Fixed job booklet page numbering bug
• Fixed job booklet bonus time limit not being shown in minutes
• Fixed job booklet cover page layout to fit all job types
• Fixed job report total payment line breaking the text
• Fixed job report not showing payment currency
• Fixed location colors on job booklet and job report

Build 38

28 September, 2018

Controls

• Fixed falling through ground when teleporting or moving
• Removed non-VR again (same error as in build #33 now prevented running on Vive)

Job system

• Added job validator model and sounds

• once inserted a job booklet, it will print out a job report
• if job is successful, it will give money (unusable currently)
• Job report features a separate page for payment details

• Added banknote bundle item (WIP)
• Added wallet item (WIP)

World

• Added several generic industrial building models

• Includes ~40 new textures

• Added 40+ new scenery props and items

Console

• Fixed not being able to open developer GUI

Build 37

21 September, 2018

Items

• Items will no longer disappear when dropped outside of locomotives
• Job booklets can now be telegrabbed

Cars

• Fixed colliders in passenger cars, making them enterable
• Added teleport points to seats in passenger cars
• Fixed passenger interior being too dark

Non-VR

• Brought back non-VR, same as it was in Build #32

Console

• Added commands for changing graphics settings
• Added commands for taking screenshots
• Added command for enabling developer GUI for controlling locomotives
• Added command for restarting the game
• Added command for changing time scale

Build 36

15 September, 2018

Controls

• Added smooth locomotion

• Enable it in options
• Features smoothed out, high-fidelity movement
• Features teleport and camera rotation, as before

• Features suboptions:

• Direction input device (controller or headset)
• Swipe to turn 180 toggle
• Camera rotation angle
• Comfort tunnel toggle
• Headbob toggle (WIP)
• Walking and running speed
• Easing acceleration/deceleration and linearity

UI

• Menu now pauses the game
• Added new options and submenus (WIP)
• Added Quit Game button
• Removed Restart button (to be replaced with something similar soon)

Gameplay

• Added mission system (WIP)
• New job booklet design, with step by step instructions (WIP colors and names)
• Booklets are now generated by the game
• Current missions are handmade tests, to be generated procedurally eventually
• Related art assets are placeholders
• Pick up a booklet on the white boxes (they simulate office desks)
• YOU MUST INSERT the booklet in the "Take a job" box to assign it to yourself
• Then at any point insert it to a "Job Validator" box, which will report job's status
• If the job is complete, Validator will confirm it and spawn another job booklet
• Cars and tracks will have respective IDs written

Cars

• Added passenger car interior

• Colliders are not done, so it's not possible to get inside yet

Build 35

7 September, 2018

Steam locomotive

• Increased power by 100%
• Decreased coal burn rate
• Tweaked blower and draft effect on coal burn rate

Shunter

• Removed exterior markings
• Disabled sun reflection on windows

Cars

• Increased brake strength

Build 34

31 August, 2018

Debug tools

• Added debug console

• Press "~" to open/close (or "`", button below Esc), Shift + "~" to full-screen
• Type "help" to see available commands
• Added commands for controlling vegetation

Build 33

24 August, 2018

Controls

• Temporarily removed non-VR mode due to build not working on Oculus

Gameplay

• Added ability to choose direction when spawning new car

• Pressing "O" while in spawn mode will flip direction

• Added notification for service machine limit reached notification

• Will blink light bulb and play sound when resource reaches 98% capacity

• Fixed bad junction next to the service station, was causing sound glitches and getting derailed/stuck
• Locos braking force increased 30%
• Updated text layout for service machines and cash register
• Fixed bug with camera going crazy after bridge

• Also reduced the origin shift range from 1km to 100m intentionally - for testing, however this will cause vegetation "blinks" more often

Steam loco

• Steam consumption lowered by 25%

Shunter

• Fixed unbreakable windows bug when shunter was spawned via CarSpawner
• Repairing Shunter loco's body over 95% will now also repair broken windows
• Engine temperature gain lowered 25%
• Fuel consumption when engine on idle lowered 75%

Build 32

17 August, 2018

Non-VR controls

• Early preview, can only run and jump around, can't drive trains
• Press Tab to switch to non-VR mode, WASD, Shift, Space, T to enter car
• Game might start lagging after toggling back to VR, no vegetation, etc.

Shunter

• Doubled engine temperature gain
• Engine cooling is boosted by movement only when going forward (radiator)
• Engine temperature will no longer drop into blue area while engine is on
• Halved sand consumption
• Increased fuel consumption
• Decreased oil consumption

Steam locomotive

• Added tender water amount indicator

• Open top hatch to see water level (WIP graphics)

• Added tender coal amount indicator (WIP)
• Can no longer get water or coal from tender if one is not coupled

Trains

• Fixed cars sliding infinitely after derail
• Fixed cars wheels dropping through ground after derail
• Increased wheel friction on all vehicles

World

• Fixed brightness of distant world textures
• Added field tree lines
• Made service station objects a bit larger, updated text layout

Debug tools

• Fixed car spawner spawning a bugged steam locomotive (whistle rope TODO)
• Fixed car spawner allowing spawning cars inside other cars

Build 31

15 August, 2018

World

• Fixed reflections missing
• Fixed trees wind behavior
• Added cars and locomotives to yards

Controls

• Fixed tele-grabbing not succeeding to grab items sometimes

Build 30

11 August, 2018

World

• Fixed tree LOD not working properly, causing lo-fi graphics
• Added a few placeholder industry models
• Updated trees (colors and wind behavior WIP)
• Added birch tree type
• Fixed viaduct bridge misalignment
• Fixed river leaking water when viewed from distance
• Tweaked terrain textures and shader

Railway

• Added several new branches and 3 yards
• Added new buffer stop model
• Fixed sharp curves and bumps
• Improved signal light flare shader (not used yet)

Trains

• Added refill station

• Park locomotive next to it
• Pull resource lever to refill or repair locomotive
• Free to use, for now

• Increased fuel and oil consumption on shunter
• Added labels to steam locomotive valves
• Added new headlights texture to shunter

Controls

• Fixed major bug with train controls not working after entering tunnels
• Fixed coal not being reachable by shovel in steam locomotive
• Teleport gizmo can now be seen through objects
• Added valid/invalid teleport gizmo models
• Teleport arc is no longer invisible if the angle is too high

Build 29

4 August, 2018

Vegetation

• Fixed major bug preventing vegetation from being used in the last couple of builds
• Improved stuttering when transitioning between world tiles
• Remade grass models
• Remade all vegetation settings
• Added bushes (WIP) and flowers

World

• Added 13km of railway
• Fixed river and main lake being jagged

Steam locomotive

• Slightly updated interior texture

Items

• Fixed lighter flame movement being broken

VR

• Changed teleporting behavior - when teleporting from terrain into a car, player will be teleported to closest teleport point in car to where teleport arc end was pointing at

All cars

• Updated colliders and tweaked teleport points and surfaces

Build 28

20 Jul, 2018

World

• Introducing world tech v3

• Includes work in progress world and 12km a test track
• 23 terrain textures, now with detailed organic blending (WIP)
• Allows river creation
• Bridge and tunnel support (WIP tunnel holes)
• Smoother terrain edges
• Immensely higher world area usage
• Full developer control over terrain and updating
• Better area flattening control (not used for now)

• Added trackside objects (landslide walls, fences...)
• Updated viaduct bridge UV and texture

Simulation

• Finished brake rework

• Similar usage, more accurate/detailed behavior

• Updated wheelslip behavior on both locomotives (harder to induce)

Steam locomotive

• Less coal needs to be shoveled to get firebox full now
• Increased steam consumption
• Added new draft lever sound

Shunter

• Redesigned dashboard once more for clarity and better visibility

Items

• Added hand-movement inertia to lighter fire
• Added lighter sounds
• Fixed lighter respawning with open lid

Railway

• Forced switching (non-radio) now makes a less aggressive sound
• Added new buffer stop model

Code

• Updated whole project to Unity 2018.2

Build 27

29 June, 2018

Physics

• Fixed windows breaking when derailing
• Fixed derailed trains hitting ballast after derailing
• Fixed a bug with derailed train getting teleported back on tracks, flipped
• Added colliders to bogies on all rolling stock

Sound

• Fixed major bug with most sounds coming from wrong direction
• Fixed shunter engine sounds originating from outside the engine
• Fixed steam loco making weird sounds when accelerating in the 0-5 kph speed range
• Tweaked joint sounds to make them clearer
• Reduced pitch range on wheelslip sound

Trains

• Changes to brake (WIP)

• Cylinder pressure (brake strength) now only releases when the brake lever is at min. Position
• Added cylinder pressure exhaust sound
• Brake air flow sound now only plays when there is pressure equalization
• Pressure equalization happens too fast at the moment, WIP
• Improved air flow sound (not noticeable at the moment)

Steam locomotive

• Fixed being unable to shovel coal while the locomotive is moving
• Modified simulation so that moderate coal maintenance rests at medium temperature (WIP)

• To reach high temperatures use draft/blower valves

Items

• Added lighter flame
• Fixed lighter closing when thrown (physics disabled, use swipe/click only)
• Fixed lighter jumping when spawned

Build 26

22 June, 2018

Damage system

• Shunter windows can now be broken on hard collision with another train

• Features flying shards, new art, sound
• Removes cab enclosure effect on sound
• Updates colliders so you can throw stuff through the windows

• Added damaged engine sound (shunter)
• Added damaged wheels sound
• Added 4 new collision sounds (all 6 now sorted by impact velocity)
• High impact can now shut the engine off (shunter)
• Tweaked damage parameters for realistic behavior
• Increased wheelslip and wheel damage effect on derailment by a factor of ~5

Steam locomotive

• Chuff sounds at low speeds are now loops rather than individual sounds

Shunter

• Fixed smoke coming out of turned off engine (again)

Controls

• Updated lever limit hit sound with a new one
• Shunter reverser can no longer be moved while throttle is applied

Physics

• Locomotives will no longer remain stuck in wheelslip when derailed or put in neutral

Sound

• Reduced reverb/delay effect on external sounds
• Added sound to coal (WIP)

Build 25

15 June, 2018

Controls

• Lots of under-the-hood changes with how interactable items work:

• coal chunks can now be picked up & tele-grabbed
• grabbed items are now kept stable when rotating/teleporting (including shovel & coal on shovel)
• everything else should behave as it did so far, keep an eye out for newly introduced bugs

Shunter

• Fixed emitting smoke when engine is off
• Alarm bell indicator not ringing when temperature drops from high to mid
• Service lamp will be activated when engine damage is above 50%

Damage system (WIP)

• General loco damage types and damage modifiers:

• Body - influenced by collision
• Wheels - influenced by wheelslip, braking, stress in curves

• Shunter additional damage types:

• Engine - influenced by forcing engine rpm on cold engine, engine usage without oil, engine start, engine usage over time, collision

• Damage impact:

• Wheels - easier to derail when wheels are damaged
• Shunter engine - when engine damaged above 80%, it has a chance of turning off, affects engine power, chance of engine turning off after big collision

Build 24

8 June, 2018

Trains

• Implemented sand

• Works on both locomotives using respective controls
• Changes wheel to rail friction (prevents wheelslip)
• Has sound

• Added wheelslip sparks (WIP)
• Added a warning bell sound that plays when an indicator value reaches a "critical value"

Shunter

• Reworked engine logic to use RPM as input for oil, fuel, smoke and temperature
• Engine temperature affects power output (80% power when cold)
• Engine cools down somewhat faster when moving
• Wheelslip is now easier to induce
• Fuel consumption on engine idle
• Fuse light indicator now works properly
• Increased temperature to which the engine naturally warms up to
• Wheelslip light no longer blinks

Steam locomotive

• Thickened table collider, to prevent lighter from falling through

Physics

• Temporary workaround for trains twitching/uncoupling when teleporting

Build 23

1 June, 2018

Physics

• Added wheelslip

• Features sounds
• No sparks yet

• Somewhat decreased train friction when derailed

World

• Temporarily replaced world with test track (new world is WIP)
• Fixed terrain not being loaded on start (not visible in this build)

Shunter

• Re-balanced engine power
• Added engine ignition

• Requires all fuses to be flipped up to turn on engine
• Use "Engine on/off" rotary switch to turn locomotive on/off (with all fuses up)
• Features sounds (ignition WIP)
• Flipping any fuse down will shut down the engine
• Hitting "Emergency engine off" button will shut down the engine too

• Added engine temperature simulation

• Shows on engine temperature gauge
• Warning light low level indication
• Engine shuts down when overheated

• Added fuel consumption simulation

• Depletes based on RPM
• Shows on fuel gauge
• Warning light low level indication
• Engine shuts down when out of fuel

• Added oil consumption simulation

• Shows on oil gauge
• Warning light low level indication

Steam locomotive

• Re-balanced engine power
• Prolonged steam lifetime (slower generation, less consumption)
• Water level now looks like water
• Slowed down water injection
• Starts with some water in boiler by default
• Fire now shines over the firebox door frame too
• Slightly reduced blower steam consumption
• Increased water dump sound volume
• Fixed a bug with teleporting in-cab in seated mode altering player between two heights
• Made shovel longer

Cars

• Added two new color variants to passenger car
• Added two new color variants to hopper
• Fixed brake hose position on tank car and hopper
• Added brake wheel chain on tank car and hopper
• Added brake piping 3D model to all flatcars

Railway

• Added stone bridge model (WIP, testing procedural generation)
• Going over switches in reverse now switches them accordingly

Controls

• Fixed Unity bug preventing levers from playing limit hit sound
• Added shovel sound when inserted in coal
• Changed teleport hold-to-extend-reach feature to 3 sec (WIP)
• Fixed lighter holding position on Oculus Touch
• Disabled valve tooltips in steam loco (to be replaced by a manual)

Build 22

11 May, 2018

Controls

• Track ballast can now be teleported onto properly
• Improved teleporting to cars (WIP)
• Removed delay when teleporting out of loco

Cars

• Added passenger car (WIP)
• Made wheels rotate on all rail vehicles
• Added wheel sounds to cars

• Unoccupied cars will play simplified wheel sounds (optimization)

• Added static car physics optimization
• Added static car sounds optimization

Steam locomotive

• Increased power and top speed
• Added safety steam release valve
• Fixed wheels sound (electric motor can no longer be heard)

Build 21

4 May, 2018

Controls

• Improved coal shoveling behavior
• Fixed sound bugs with levers hitting their limits

• Drag sound volume now also changes dynamically based on dragging speed

• Modified angle of telegrab aim, to be more intuitive (straight)
• Increased haptic vibration strength
• Lighter can be clicked to use, in addition to swiping

Steam Locomotive

• Throw lit lighter in firebox to start fire

• Previous temporary valve control for fire ignition was removed

• Improved steam particle effects
• Added whistle steam particle effect
• Fixed a bug with chuff sounds not playing correctly when going in reverse
• Fixed a bug with locomotive consuming steam even when not moving
• Fixed firebox coal clipping outside of the locomotive
• Removed old coal lumps next to the firebox
• Updated locomotive and tender exterior texture with rivets
• Added smokebox tubes texture to firebox

Cars

• Added teleport areas to all cars (broken, WIP)

Build 20

27 April, 2018

Controls

• Added shoveling

• Supports optional two-handed control
• Coal sticks to the shovel for improved usability
• No sounds yet, WIP

• Added tele-grabbing

• Grab objects from distance (might not work well for some items on Oculus, WIP)
• Coals spawned by shoveling from tender can't be tele-grabbed, WIP

• Added more teleport areas to locomotives

• Must enter locomotive first to become available

• Improved mass/resistance of all handles/levers/cutoff
• Fixed levers abruptly moving when grabbed
• Fixed player height in roomscale mode when teleporting to sloped terrain

Steam locomotive

• Added fire

• Grows with temperature

• Added firebox coal

• Changes color with temperature
• Rises as more coal is added and drops as it is depleted

• Smoke is now changes properties, including color, depending on simulation
• Cutoff now reflects ratio between power and speed

• Neutral position: Max top speed, min power
• Max position: Min top speed, max power

• Added coal to tender (WIP, doesn't visually deplete)
• Added water dump valve (first from left)
• Added steam dump valve (second from left)
• Added blower valve (third from left)
• Added steam effect to valve gear / steam dump (WIP graphics)
• Water level now shows 70-80% range of boiler volume, as should
• Draft has notches now
• Added temperature gauge
• Added sand gauge

• Interactable, but no purpose yet

• Added headlight switch lever, lights button

• Interactable, but no purpose yet

• Added lever mechanism to whistle pull cord (and bell WIP)
• Added tender water tank shaft and interior (water-level TODO)
• Fixed cut-off wheel easily pushed over the limit
• Firebox door can now be grabbed by the stem

Cars

• Added new tanker variants and improved textures
• Added new boxcar variants, improved textures and small issues

 Items

• Added shovel model
• Added lighter model

• Flick with hand or swipe touchpad up to open the lid
• Swipe down to light when lid is open
• WIP particle effects, fire has no effect yet

World

• Moved player to different yard
• Placed new cars around the yard

Unity

• Updated Oculus Audio

Build 19

13 April, 2018

Teleport

• Remade teleport graphics and updated behavior

• Hold to increase teleport range (WIP)
• Hold short to exit loco (WIP)

• Fixed a bug with teleporting underground
• Fixed a bug with teleporting to switch sign
• Fixed a bug triggering bad origin shift when teleporting to depot

Shunter

• Added lights to gauges (turn on Cab Lights to activate)
• Added values texture to gauges
• Implemented fusebox dependency logic

• Can't turn on master switch, until slave switches are on
• Turning off slave switches will turn off the master switch

• Engine On/Off logic implementation (WIP)

• Has no impact on the train power, nor visual/audio cue for now
• Fuses turn off engine in logic
• "Emergency Engine Off" button turns off engine in logic
• Engine on/off button turns engine on or off in logic

• Fixed gauge glass visibility
• Slightly improved look of dashboard lights when lit

Steam locomotive

• Functional draft lever (WIP, also works in steam engine simulation)
• Cut-off wheel improvements
• Now bounces off when hitting the limit

• No longer gets stuck when going over neutral position

• Added coal models
• Added firedoor sound (WIP)

 Misc

• Fixed missing friction sound after derailing

Build 18

5 April, 2018

Steam Locomotive

• Added actual steam engine simulation (very WIP), instructions:

• Insert coal placeholder model into firebox
• Rotate valve above firebox to start fire (will be replaced with matches eventually)
• Placeholder boxes in firebox represent coal amount and firebox temperature
• Add water to boiler using injector valve
• Monitor water level and boiler pressure indicator
• Apply throttle and cutoff to move

• Added sounds to cutoff and valves (WIP)

VR

• Point anywhere on the locomotive to teleport inside (WIP)
• Brought back small controller sphere collider (WIP)

• Makes it possible again to precisely press buttons (e.g. fuses)

• Oculus Touch now uses grip for grabbing

Buildings

• Added new depot model (WIP)

• Features a reusable modular buildings system
• Includes various new models and textures

Cars

• Added boxcar (WIP)

Sound

• Potentially fixed a bug with wrong direction of sound sources

Shunter

• Fixed broken shunter dashboard switch

Other

• Disabled headlights because of major performance bug

Build 17

30 March, 2018

Debug tools

• Actually working this time (see controls below in Build #16)

Shunter

• Dashboard light bulbs working
• Added audio effect when toggling switches

Steam locomotive

• Fix steam loco coupler device knob direction

Cars

• Fixed missing derail and collision sounds on multiple cars

VR

• Teleporting area indicator on cab floors is now missing due to WIP stuff (which is: proper teleporting onto moving cars)

Build 16

23 March, 2018

Buildings

• Added preliminary modular depot test (WIP)

Debug tools

• Added preliminary car spawning functionality (WIP)

• 'Enter' to select closest car

• 'Backspace' to cancel
• 'Enter' again to delete selected car

• 'P' to enter spawning new car mode

• '[' and ']' to select car type
• 'Enter' to spawn car
• 'Backspace' to cancel
•  'P' again to update spawn position

Shunter

• Fixed lighting on lights and gauge glass
• Fixed ambient occlusion being too dark
• Brought back reflections to windows

Cars

• Updated bogie model for realism

Items

• Fixed junction radio bug where it'd think it's still pointing at a switch after pointing away

Build 15

16 March, 2018

VR

• Teleporting in cabs is no longer spot-based, free to teleport to any point of the cab floor
• Always use arc teleport pointer (previously a straight pointer was used while in cab)

Shunter

• Revamped shunter gauge cluster
• Functional brake gauge needles
• Added fire extinguisher (decoration, non-usable)
• Fixed window misalignments

Cars

• New tanker car (3 variants, texture WIP)
• Remade bogie model
• Remade buffers
• Fixed mesh and texture errors on flatcar and hopper

World

• Added 3 new tanker cars behind steam loco

Items

• Remade radio model (WIP)

Build 14

9 March, 2018

Shunter

• Fixed coupler knob to not have rotation limits

Steam locomotive

• Preventing coupler between loco and tender from breaking
• Coupler device is now usable

VR

• Fixed teleport/UI pointers drifting while in moving loco

Misc

• Upgraded from Unity 5.6 to 2017.3:

• Reclaimed performance drop incurred when upgrading from 5.5 to 5.6

Build 13

25 December, 2017

Steam locomotive

• Finished exterior model
• Added valve gear animations
• Finished valve gear sounds
• Improved cutoff wheel behavior (WIP)
• Added animation to regulator lever
• Fixed missing derailment friction sound
• Wheels are now rotating
• Increased gauge values font size
• Changed gauge pressure units to bar

Shunter

• Engine piston sound is now only present when accelerating
• Fixed missing reflection in Shunter

Upgrades

• Coupler model is now a separate object

• Black variant is added to steam locomotive (inoperable yet)

Audio

• Reworked code for locomotive-specific audio (WIP)
• Brakes now squeal only at low speeds

World

• Moved player position to south yard
• Added cars to yards, repositioned locomotives
• Flipped default direction of derailing mainline switches

VR

• Attempt at preventing "teleport under terrain" bug

Known issues

• Coupler device knob has limited rotation

Build 12

28 November, 2017

Steam locomotive

• Finished interior model
• Moved wheel axles apart (not a visible change)
• Added whistle sound and pullable rope, WIP

• Known issue: it's possible to cause the rope to get stuck to the controller

• Firebox door is now openable
• Updated cutoff wheel behavior

• Allows for more than 1 revolution (now set to 4 full revolutions, 2 in each direction)
• Known issue: turning motion and flicking arent't always behaving correctly, will be improved

• Updated smoke effect appearance and added chimney chuff behavior
• Working cutoff, speedometer and brake pressure indicator needles
• Added colliders to the cab, WIP
• Derail sounds are now played correctly when steam locomotive gets derailed
• Added sounds to throttle regulator and brake levers
• Added junction remote

World

• Removed one steam loco from the map since it was causing game to crash

Misc

• Brake/throttle should no longer get automatically applied when loco is on slope
• Re-enabled airbrake pressure audio
• Known issue: shunter interior is too dark, fixes itself after pressing "Restart" from main menu

Build 11

4 November, 2017

Steam locomotive

• Made steam loco drivable - simple "just push throttle to drive forward" controls, reversing doesn't work
• Made regulator, cutoff, brake and 4 valves interactable (cutoff and valves do nothing)
• Added exterior models and materials to loco and tender
• Added exhaust smoke, WIP
• Added audio effects, WIP

World (exhibition-tailored tweaks)

• Changed player starting position
• Steam loco is parked ~2 minute ride away from the starting position
• Added some rocks to cut walls areas
• Removed branching railways and their yards from the map, left only main loop with 2 yards
• Added one extra shunter to one yard and one extra steam loco to other yard

Misc

• Added highlighting of cab controls (left/right/down keyboard arrows) - an aid for demoing to new players, will be removed later
• Increased rails culling distance to 1.2km to prevent invisible rails
• Disabled airbrake pressure audio temporarily until we make it not annoying
• Made the (invisible) area of teleport destinations 4m tall for outside spots (shunter loco porch spots and steam loco spots)
• Moved teleport spot in front of controls in shunter loco a bit forward
• Fixed being moved out of map when teleporting onto some rails after loco has derailed
• Tweaked position of radio when held to be centered better

Build 10

21 October, 2017

VR

• Fixed camera rotation being reset every time you teleported to another spot in cab
• Added play space aware teleporting:

• In roomscale, play space will be aligned with cab when teleporting from terrain onto loco
• In seated, play space will be aligned cab every time you teleport onto spot in front of cab controls,

•       and also when using "Re-center view"
• Changed swipe rotation behavior to prevent camera drift:

• In seated mode camera will always rotate around play space center that was set via "Re-center view" in main menu or via "Reset Seated Position" in SteamVR
• In roomscale mode camera will still be rotated around player vertical axis

• Changed teleport arc behavior and appearance to one used in Valve's "The Lab"
• Reintroduced "lock hold on short trigger click" and "lock hold on grip click" controller mechanics

• "short click lock hold" now works on all items, in demo it was disabled on cab controls, might be changed in the future

World

• Fixed gaps in far terrains
• Fixed visible incremental loading of far terrain after starting the game
• Fixed problems with traversing the world on foot:

• Player will now correctly trigger level loading when going on foot
• Player won't get stuck below the map when on foot (when moving loco used to trigger level loading)

Misc

• Fixed coupler device buttons stop working after being touch by a non-controller object
• Fixed everything being wobbly until first terrain loading kicks in
• Improved hiccups due to terrain streaming
• Improved initial loading time
• Fixed switch remote display arrow staying on when not pointing at switch
• Fixed remote shaking when brought outside of loco and loco is still moving
• Disabled collisions on remote while it's being held

Build 9

16 October, 2017

VR

• Fixed camera stabilization going haywire and wobbling the camera too much

UI

• Fixed Options menu sometimes displaying wrong checkbox values

World

• Fixed one junction causing derailment
• Using new tree billboards technique:

• Using pre-generated mesh billboards again like in build #6 (reduces game startup time)
• Billboards now use streaming loading, like terrain (in build #6 all billboards were loaded)
• Added billboard fading, reduces popping in far distance when trees appear, improves near popping a bit

Misc

• Fixed cars not being able to derail

Build 8

13 October, 2017

VR

• Allow aborting of accidental teleport by pointing controller up before releasing the button
• Changed radio and teleport control on Oculus Touch from joystick press to X/A button
• Added option to use Grip button for teleporting on Vive

• Vive's touchpad is known to not click properly for a lot of people, so this is an alternative

• Fixed bug with toggling seated/roomscale while in moving loco causing camera to move a kilometer away outside loco

UI

• Fixed and re-enabled main menu (keyboard shortcuts still work)

World

• Fixed terrain causing derail at a specific point
• Slightly reduced conifer tree size

Shunter

• Fixed floor being covered with a brown polygon

Audio

• Added new air brake sound

Build 7

8 October, 2017

VR

• Fixed accidental "swipe back" after teleporting on HTC Vive
• Fixed teleporting/rotating sensitivity on Oculus Touch
• Accidental teleporting out of locomotive is now prevented
• Increased teleport range
• Fixed missing orientation-lock when grabbing items (e.g. radio)
• Changed how camera recentering works, WIP

UI

• Main menu is removed temporarily, to prevent game breaking behavior
• Added keyboard shortcuts as a substitute for main menu:

• Insert - Recenter camera
• Home - Toggle seated/standing mode
• PageUp - Restart level
• Delete - Toggle respawning items when dropped
• End - Toggle camera stabilization

World

• Made a new world

• Improved hills arrangement to maximize usable area
• Includes a flat area
• Two lakes

• New railway

• Features cuts (less steep, WIP)
• Significantly wider curves (increased avg. speed from 40 to 70)
• Cliffs are now right next to tracks (8x increased terrain resolution)
• ~30km long (incl. a loop and 3 branches)
• 5 yards (1 new)

• Added a conifer tree
• Added 2 new field plants (crops)
• Fixed floating line above grass
• Fixed distant mountains popping in
• Using 1km tiles in this version, compared to 2km used in Build #6
• Billboards generated during play, compared to pre-generated meshes in Build #6

Trains

• Increased braking force on cars
• Optimized CPU usage of idle and faraway cars

Other

• Fixed a bug with booklet pages disappearing

Build 6

2 October, 2017

World

• New map, using new Large World system

• 16x16 km of hilly world including meadows, fields and forests
• 64x larger than the demo world
• Using terrain streaming (needs to be tweaked to not cause hiccups)
• 3 new large train yards
• ~20km of railway
• World is in "tech demo" stage with missing signals, signs and other props, WIP

• Remade trees (4 new models)
• Remade grass (9 new models)
• New nature environment sound

VR

• Added teleport locomotion

• Player can exit the train and move around the map by teleporting
• In-cab teleporting now uses teleport spots on the cab floor
• Rotate the player by swiping the touchpad (Vive) / flicking the joystick (Oculus Touch, needs to be improved)

• Recentering and switching Seated<->Roomscale is temporarily disabled due to bugs

Trains

• Added inoperable heavy steam locomotive

• Nearly finished interior, rest is TODO

• Fixed buffer height (and general proportions) of shunter and all cars
• Temporarily increased power and braking force of shunter

Railway

• Added right-diverging junction (sign is WIP)
• Fixed trains sinking through junction ballast when derailed
• Signals now detect occupancy earlier
• Fixed ballast gaps (incorrectly blended cross-sections) found on very short tracks (e.g. between junctions)
• The procedural track ends will now always be perfectly aligned to the connected tracks' ends
• Sleepers and anchors are now evenly distributed on tracks and do not have differently distanced gaps between segments
• Fixed issue where track joints would be more dense on curves, especially tight ones. Joints are now distanced by length
• Optimized bogie and track generation code
• Changed junction sign backside to white

Audio

• Interior sounds are now correctly spatialized
• Fixed issue where car collisions would play many times at once
• Added placeholder sound to reverser lever

Code

• Updated to Unity 5.6

Start of an era - Closed Beta

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Build 5

30 June, 2017

VR

• Camera dampening

• Head no longer follows cab as it moves over bumps
• Game adjusts amount of dampening based on where the player is looking
• Can be enabled/disabled in options

• Added hold-lock

• Press "grip" button to hold-lock an item (currently works on booklets and radio)
• Can short press trigger to hold-lock too (off by default, can be enabled in options)

• Added thumbpad touch indicators and haptic pulse feedback when touch moves across teleport quadrants
• Moved default seated position 20cm backwards

Gameplay

• Added booklets

• Booklets have multiple pages that can be flipped

• Redesigned paperwork

• They are all booklets now
• They are larger and better visible in VR
• Missions are now laid out one job per page
• Tutorial is now laid out one step per page
• Each yard now features a schematic map

• Remade missions

• New car locations
• New, more relaxed deadlines

• Start screen now shows all controls via booklet

Trains

• Added hopper car
• Added new fictive logos to containers

• Updated MSI logo with the latest design

• Cars can now spawn already coupled
• Reduced coupler range distance to 75cm

Shunter

• Inertia now affects objects in the cab
• Added booklet stand to table
• Removed map from table
• Derailed cars now blink on coupler LCD
• Reduced brake pressure release by 30% (quicker release)
• Added dead bees
• Fixed a missing handrail polygon

Railway

• Added signals

• They change between green and red, based on segment occupancy

• Added speed signs
• Added yard track name signs
• Added cant / corner lean (not used anywhere yet, WIP)
• Remade sleeper models
• Remade anchor models
• Updated ballast shape
• Fixed locked switches being switchable (e.g. outbound)

World

• Replaced truss bridge placeholder with finished model
• Trees no longer pop suddenly when switching between LODs
• Remade start screen scene
• Permuted switches on passing loop

UI

• Improved Main Menu

• Improved menu animations
• Redesigned graphics
• Restart no longer leads to start scene
• Menu now opens on short menu button press
• Press and hold menu buttons on both controllers simultaneously to recenter camera
• Selection laser is now always shown

• Added floating tooltips
• Added Altfuture splash screen on game start
• Occluded controllers are now less distracting visually (e.g. when holding radio)

Audio

• Improved track joint sounds
• Remade cabin reverb
• Fixed audio not initializing (Updated Oculus Audio plugin to 1.1.4)
• Fixed tunnel reverb not working

Misc

• Added anti-aliasing levels 2x, 4x (default) and 8x

• Accessible by holding Shift while running the game exe file

• Added keyboard shortcut: pressing Enter or Space while in starting scene starts the game
• Added mission state auto-save (this is probably just a temporary aid)

• Mission progress (positions of train cars) are saved on every successfully achieved mission goal
• Only saves if all previous goals were successful too and no cars were derailed in the meantime
• State will be loaded when pressing "Restart" button from main menu
• State is only remembered during same play-session, won't be remembered if the game is exited

Known issues

• Light at the end of the tunnel flickers sometimes
• Derailing is too sensitive when pulling many cars (about 10 or more)
• Certain sounds are clipping in some cases

Start of an era - Demo

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Build 4

22 February, 2017

Bugs

• Fixed trains unexpectedly derailing at certain spots
• Fixed hitting invisible tunnel walls after there has been a derailment
• Fixed derailed cars getting stuck on track ballast

Interface

• Added camera recentering to room-scale mode
• Moved controller collider forward
• Interaction sphere now lights up when in range of an interactable item
• Added controller vibration feedback to coupler buttons

Art

• Changed old map on the wall to a changelog newspaper bulletin
• Added bottle to the cab

Audio

• Improved wheel squeal sounds
• Improved rail joint sounds
• Slightly lowered volume of electric motor at low speeds

Code

• Updated SteamVR plugin to 1.20
• Updated Oculus Audio plugin to 1.1.3
• Updated NewtonVR

Other

• Made changelog for build backlog

Build 3

7 February, 2017

Code

• Remade start screen UI to use text instead of texture
• Tweaks to get the game ready for Steam demo launch

Build 2

19 January, 2017

Bugs

• Fixed car getting stuck in forest tunnel
• Fixed mission car mismatch
• Fixed levers rarely disappearing when teleporting while holding them
• Fixed coupler selector rotation direction

Interface

• Added room-scale
• Made junction animation more responsive

Art

• Remade tunnel entrance
• Better tunnel bloom effect

Audio

• Added junction switch sound

Physics

• Tweaked cabin collider mesh

Code

• Remade rail track system
• Updated to Unity 5.5

Build 1

15 December, 2016

• Initial version of the game (MSI VR JAM submission on WEARVR)