Overhauled Changelog - Build #80
Derail Valley: Overhauled - Build #80 will launch in less than 5 hours, at 17:00 UTC.
In the meantime you can browse the full changelog here:
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
In the meantime you can browse the full changelog here:
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