The "Shin-Shonan Railway" DLC is out now!
The second DLC for Railway Dispatcher Simulator is here. One railway covers four areas with very different characters, from a downtown stub-end terminus to a seaside branch line.
■ Four New Maps
Shonan — A branch line spanning four stations. The track dead-ends at a switchback, so arriving trains reverse and carry on to the terminus. A light service makes this a gentle place to start.
Gyoen — A stub-end terminus with three surface platforms and two underground. Every train that arrives turns back here, and each move takes a pair of routes rather than one.
Shin-Kitazawa — A junction where the main line meets the subway. Turnbacks via the two stub tracks come one after another, and the morning peak is the busiest in the DLC at 157 trains.
Fujiko — Two stations joined by quadruple track, plus a single stub. Sorting express from local services is hard enough before the shunting is layered on top. The toughest area in the DLC.
■ What's New
Every area includes Morning Peak, Daytime and Evening Peak — 12 scenarios and 919 train workings in total.
Switchbacks, a two-level terminus, subway through services and overtaking on quadruple track — track layouts the base game never asked of you.
Eight new train classes, from the 1000 Series to the 70000 Series (eleven counting car-count variants), plus a class running through from the connecting subway operator.
■ Announcements (Japanese and English)
Arrival, non-stop, terminating and out-of-service announcements newly recorded in both male and female voices.
Announcements are spoken in Japanese and English. Set the game to English and the service type, car count and platform are all called in English.
■ On-screen text in five languages
Menus, departure boards and the timetable diagram are available in Japanese, English, Korean, Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese (spoken announcements are Japanese and English, as above).
Map guides are published in all five languages too.
These layouts ask something different of you. Take the controls of the Shin-Shonan Railway!