Railroad Corporation 2

I had been looking forward to getting this for a long time, after really enjoying Railroad Corporation. Unfortunately, I am really disappointed by this game, and I'm refunding it. A couple of differences: [list] [*]The very first time I started the game, I switched between tabs in the scenarios menu. The game froze up. I never had a crash in RC1. [*]RC1 had dozens of scenarios and dozens more in the workshop. RC2 has two! [*]RC1 had sliders to minutely adjust the difficulty of scenarios in many ways. RC2 has very little difficulty configuration. [/list] But the biggest problem of all is that RC2 doesn't have UI scaling. So almost everything is too small to read. It has no other accessibility options either. It's like a completely different development team did RC2, and left all the QOL, accessibility, replayability, and depth out of the game. And does the lack of scenarios and the workshop mean they're going to turn it into a DLC fest? RC1 did that a little bit admittedly, but the base game still had plenty of replayability. RC2 just does not stack up to it's predecessor or to other offerings. As I said, very disappointing. I don't recommend this game except at a very deep discount.

This is a really entricing game, but I can't recommend it. Trains enter stations and despawn to (un)load cargo, allowing multiple trains to exist in the station at the same time, despite there only being one track. Sandbox scenario mode: There's no way to "continue playing" when you've achieved the configured number of tasks (1-5). If you disable tasks, there will be a button in the active mission list to exit the scenario, no way to hide this one without clicking it and thus ending the game. Trains will generate warnings/alerts when they have minor issues, like slightly increased fuel consumption due to a failed part, and this notification will recommend building service depots along the route. These alerts can't be disabled, and once you have 5+ trains there will be one every 10s or so. The developer should allow disabling these notifications, but they should also make the notification a bit smarter so that it doesn't nag if there is in fact a service depot on the trains route. I've also had issues with rails not connecting properly, creating invisible no-path points on my railway. The rail-building in this game *requires* all rails to start at a station (or somewhere on another rail, whether it be the end or a snap point along it). When laying rails, you have to carefully place each one. Yes there is a "parallell track" mode, but this doesn't really work for long stretches of rail, especially when ther are bridges or tunnells involved. Usually need to add a waypoint every couple hundred meters. There's no way to remove just a tiny bit of a rail. You need to remove the entire rail between two intersections. Workaround: Create an intersection. Unfortunately, this makes it very difficult to build nice rails, as there will be random wiggle-bends when doing this. There's no way to add names or tags to railway stations. It also seems like you can only build one station per city, and you can't build railway stations outside of cities. (think: cargo reloading terminal)

Bien trop lent et compliqué comparé à Railway Empire 2

Не очень.. Может быть позднее....

UI is bad, semaphores' use is unclear, many things could use some automation / are tedious like research, lobbying etc,.. yes there is some nice economic simulation, but all the rest is unfinished, lacks info, is unclear,...

Habe das Spiel am 23. Okt. 2024 in Erwartung gekauft, das es sowohl optisch als auch spielerisch an ältere spiele dieses Genres mindestens anschließen kann. Ich fand 2024 die Graphik schon enttäuschend, aber dachte naja ist halt early-access... Für mich ist das Spiel aktuell immer noch nicht spielbar. Die Graphik und Machart wirkt wie in den 2000ern und die spiel Optionen sind, sorry, nicht ausreichend für das Geld. Es gibt wesentlich ältere spiele mit vergleichbarer Graphik die mehr bieten.