Thanks to your ongoing support, we're proud to present the Transcontinental Content Update [Version 1.2] for Railway Empire! After you've downloaded the new update from Steam, you'll be able to enjoy the following features:
New Transcontinental North America Map
- Playable in Free & Sandbox Mode
- Build your railway empire from coast to coast
New Centennial Era
- Expand your empire over 100 years from 1830 to 1930
- Research and develop all available locomotives in a single game
- New and specifically balanced tech tree spanning 100 years of scientific progress
- Dynamically growing markets introducing new goods and commodities over time
Improvements and Tweaks
- Added: Demolishing tracks and stations now gives a refund
- Added: Hotkey "C" to center camera on selected train
- Added: Game speed can be modified at any time in options menu
- Added: Town list overview
- Added: New wheel menu layout for gamepad mode
- Added: New GUI elements and icons for construction mode and train status window
- Added: New option to list all trains for a selected station
- Added: Rotation speed modifier in building construction mode (CTRL)
- Fixed: Locomotive speed error in Sandbox Mode
- Fixed: Renaming trains in gamepad mode
What comes next?
In the next couple of months, you will be able to look forward to a selection of further free updates, which will include the random map generator, enhanced AI, X-crossings and other general improvements and free content inspired directly by player feedback.
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We hope you will enjoy the new features! Thank you all for playing!