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  • BakuOP
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    15 days ago

    If anyone is looking for a decent train simulator, I highly recommend Derail Valley. IMO it’s so much better than TSW/the rest of the Dovetail Games BS they put out. It’s not based on or specifically modelling any particular route or even country. But it’s by a small indie team in Serbia who’ve done a remarkable job, unlike DTG who are basically EA if EA only made train sims (buggy, poorly optimised garbage, with every single thing being locked behind expensive DLC, not even taking into account the games are like 80 bucks)

    /rant

    It’s an amazing game though. Apparently it is loosely based on Yugoslavian/Balkan railways in the 80s/90s, but takes design elements from everywhere. It’s also a lot more featured than TS/TSW. You can buy trinkets to modify your train (which requires you to drill/solder things), or you can take it stock. You also get to buy licenses for different types of cargo. And I’ve just discovered it has radios/boomboxes. You can buy cassettes from little shops around the map, or just listen to the radio (which i don’t believe is themed, because it was playing me Avicii music. But also Tina Turner and Nelly Furtado)

    Oh, also, you can blow things up

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      15 days ago

      Realised I didn’t post my own explosion:

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      15 days ago

      The little train is kinda cute, and I’m sure my parents had that cassette player 😂

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        15 days ago

        She’s only a lil shunter! Just meant for moving stuff from one track to another

        Managed to climb up a hill with like 8 fully loaded petrol tankers. She didn’t do too well, couldn’t get past 20km/h and started overeating. But we made it there in the end

        After taking the 40k from the company whose tankers I dropped off, we rammed into them at 75km/h repeatedly until they blew up 😂