Patch 3.0.16
Performance Fixed multi-second freezes on big automation maps and when closing the build menu on large saves Train labels and panels no longer rebuild the UI every frame Smoother spawn/despawn bursts, distant train sounds culled, slow frames no longer snowball into stutter Mainte
Performance
- Fixed multi-second freezes on big automation maps and when closing the build menu on large saves
- Train labels and panels no longer rebuild the UI every frame
- Smoother spawn/despawn bursts, distant train sounds culled, slow frames no longer snowball into stutter
Maintenance and service locos
- Service loco can now couple a train broken down at the mouth of a Coach Yard (loading an affected save unsticks it)
- Service loco with nothing to couple at a Coach Yard turns around instead of parking there for good
- Service route Reverse step now reverses where placed
- Service loco re-entering from a border at the same platform no longer collides with itself (was a game over)
- Route editor no longer reports "missing signal" for valid signals near tunnel-crossed platforms
- Resuming a pushed broken-down train no longer teleports it behind the coupled service loco
- "Stopped by player" badge clears immediately on Start for a dwelling repaired train
Fixes
- Map editor: Edit Map no longer crashes after a session where a contract was rejected
- Happy Passengers: demand no longer turns unhappy one departure early
- Audio: tunnel and auto block pass rumble now follows Master and Ambient sliders and mutes in the background
- UI: Waypoint and Auto-block build buttons now have distinct icons
- Fixed a board switch refresh error when rebuilding a switch with one side unconnected
Sometimes a train picks a path you did not want. Two lines run between the same stations, and the express takes the slow one. Waypoints fix that. A waypoint is a small marker you place on plain track. Add it to a contract in the schedule editor, and every service must pass through it, without stopping. No dwell, no timetable entry, no lost travel time. Just your trains, on exactly the line you chose. Each waypoint gets its own name and color, so a busy map stays readable. It is a new Tier 2 system upgrade in the base game, free for everyone.
Until now, every repeating contract repeated once per hour. Take it or leave it. In 3.0 you set the period yourself: from 10 minutes up to 4 hours, in 10 minute steps. A commuter line every 20 minutes, a heavy freight every 3 hours. Your timetable, your rhythm. Also a Tier 2 upgrade in the base game.
Your railway is not equally busy all day, and now your contracts know it. Define named time windows, up to eight per game: "Morning rush 06:00-09:00", "Night freight 22:00-05:00". Assign a window to a contract, and it runs services only inside it. Together with custom periods this is real timetable control: a commuter line every 15 minutes, but only in the morning, and the same platforms free for freight at night.
The depot can maintain your network without you. With the Service Automation upgrade, the depot learns service routes. You draw a route once in the route editor: click destination after destination, signal by signal, add a reverse move where the loco should change direction, save. From then on it is a single Dispatch click. A free loco rolls out of the depot, drives the route on its own through your auto signals, repairs everything it passes, and comes back home. You can even put a route on a schedule and let the depot run the morning sweep while you run the morning rush. Manual signals stay yours. The loco waits there for your word, like any other train.
Rail Route: Expect Delays is coming on July 24.
This DLC adds the kind of trouble every dispatcher secretly fears: slow orders, failures, incidents, weather, and maintenance problems that build up if you ignore them for too long.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4540370/Rail_Route__Expect_Delays/
Nothing ends your run. But things will go wrong, and you will have to deal with them.
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