Recent reviews by Zephery

Truly both horrifying and hilarious at the same time!

This is an incredible breath of fresh air for me, especially after the release of New York - Trenton. I love the implementation of Indusi for the DB BR 365, and I thoroughly enjoyed learning the signage, signal aspects and schedule of the 1992 Niddertalbahn. There's minimal bugs to this route, the scenery is fantastic and I love the implementation of the whistle boards with the AI. For Train Sim World, it's a great step in the right direction for immersion to have the AI respond to such signage. For the first time in a long time, I'm incredibly pleased to own this DLC. The makers of this DLC deserve a round of applause and then some. Also just as a side note, the ominous haunted route scenario for the 365 was a fun and goofy experience, even if it could've been a little crazier!

There is a possibility that with updates my opinion will change, however as of writing this I'm very disappointed. So many of these issues shouldn't be present upon launch for how much this route costs. That can be said about a lot of releases DTG makes, it's a clear and irrefutable pattern. I'm aware humans make mistakes, and that's okay. But rushing out these routes and making many avoidable mistakes caused by RUSHING shouldn't be acceptable, especially if it happens over and over again like with DTG's case.

I waited with much anticipation to be met with bug after bug after bug. AI rail traffic drive with their pantographs down and marker lights off, a section of track the Acela drives on doesn't have overhead wires, the ATC/ACSES system is bugged in the ALP-46 and generally acts strange in *every* locomotive, the radio in the Bombardier cab-car is broken, there's lighting artifacts in the NY Penn tunnels, random floating pieces of rail near the stations, and for one of the "densest passenger" routes and "one of the busiest lines around the world", the timetable is laughable at best. Many of these issues are going to be addressed, however the biggest irk for me is that DTG will most likely *not* be addressing the lackluster,
and desolate timetable.

This, along with the heritage liveries for the Sherman Hill route are obviously rushed. DTG has a habit of releasing content even before all major bugs are hammered out. An example of that is Spirit of Steam for Train Sim World 2, when they released the DLC even when they were aware of a vacuum brake issue in the freight scenarios where you had to uncouple and couple back to the rolling stock to get the brakes to respond.

Y'all need to slow down, or stop making overly ambitious promises. Although I understand that's not what you really want to do because you just want to make a quick buck off people who have no other outlet for their interest other than your monopoly, so disregard that as you always do.

Edit (20/04/2023): It has been 2 months, Dovetail. You have not fixed any of the major aforementioned issues. The COVID-era timetable (which is such a lazy reference to use), the pantographs on the ACS-64 and ALP-46, the rolling stock clipping through the stations. I have absolutely zero faith in this company. This is just a disgrace to the Northeast Corridor and to game development.

In the vanilla game, A.I tends to be a little wonky and the sleep hitboxes for long trailers are also a little wonky, but other than that it's a really solid game with rather solid scenery that I've enjoyed spending time on. :> Would recommend.

The route itself has very nice scenery and great looks, but I can't really recommend it for a pretty annoying reason. This route takes place in the 1970s, and none of the trains are equipped with remote control throttles or banking comms. There has been at least one scenario in my time of playing (probably more) where there are locomotives at the back of the train which need to be there for the extra power. The problem is, due to the remote control not existing, those engines just become dead weight. The game does not find a way to accommodate for the lack of remote control via automatic helpers or something of the like. The game just expects you to manually teleport to the back of those trains and throttle them up yourself. This is extremely janky gameplay and while it can be done, it is probably the biggest turn off of this whole scenario and makes it incredibly hard to recommend. DTG had a good idea, but executed it awfully. I hope in the future (but also doubt it'll happen) they fix this janky gameplay, and also don't repeat it in future routes.

While it's fun and all to play with your friends you've met over the internet, constant game crashes just make me want to play physical Uno.

Among The Sleep is definitely a unique horror game. Putting yourself into the mindset of a child is something that I've never thought of doing. It's scary what a child can make up inside it's mind, even when it's only slowly developing. I am a really big fan of this game, and the recent "Enhanced Edition" version of this (given to for free, since I've owned the game from before) involves retextures and new sound effects, as well as new dialouge, and much more! This is a game that I LOVE playing over and over again from time to time. I especially enjoy visiting the museum after it is unlocked at the end of the game!

Amazing sound, amazing graphics, and amazing cars. Retextured tracks are amazing, and Codemasters has made the tires less glossy than before. This game is truly #1 on my most favorite games so far. The only problem I have with the game is VR support. You should definitely allow VR! It would give plays an even more in-depth F1 experience as they would be able to move their head while they're in the cockpit more freely then they can with a joy or a steering wheel!

I recommend this game because out of all my racing games I have so far, this one is probably my favorite. It's got such great graphics, and sound effects, and modeling, and it's really worth 60$.

This game is honestly the best first person zombie shooter I've played (so far). The game is quite fun and can even be hilarious. Left 4 Dead 2 in my opinion is not the best. I've only seen gameplay, I haven't played it myself. But this game is an original. So it's not like I expect a 2nd game to be better.