Yes Rico, Kaboom | Boiler Explosions, Water Sim, and more Whistles in Century of Steam

More whistle-isms, water sim, oil burning sim for reals, and, then the ramifications of that...
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[@Hyce777]

I mean, did you guys *really* expect no kabooms?

[@Christian_S1]

I knew it had to come eventually!

[@UmoadoGaming]

It had to come sometime

[@AGSGuy]

I would've been disappointed if there were no booms

[@npk765fan]

It’s not a hyce game with no kabooms

[@davidkaiser7510]

I'm glad you added the "kaboom? Yes Rico, Kaboom"

[@lukemendel8197]

"The town of Ponderosa is now gone"

[@kleetus92]

Ponder-roast-ahhhhh!

[@brillbusbootcamp2320]

After watching back the highlight reel of explosions here, Mrs. Brill had a great idea for you: You need a “Yes, Rico. Kaboom” Mode, where everything explosive will go off uncomfortably easily, and with randomly multiplied explosive force.

[@Hyce777]

I will neither confirm nor deny that multiplying the explosive force by about 100 will yeet the loco off of ponderosa entirely and it is hilarious

[@chalismaximus1046]

8:25 "Can I toss my whistle on your engine?" is not a euphemism I thought I'd ever hear.

[@Tyrope]

Toss a whistle on your engine... 🎶

[@SuperAWaC]

it happens all the time at meets

[@flintswenson8234]

The truck spinning like the outatime license plate from Back to the Future. That had me in hysterics.

[@FutureRailProductions]

Timestamp?

[@CountvonStaffordofVirginia1607]

@@FutureRailProductions28:27

[@FutureRailProductions]

​@@CountvonStaffordofVirginia1607 thank you!

[@hunskyway]

You made a time machine....out of a steam train!?

[@Mechann0257]

I thought the exact same thing! Then I saw this comment

[@JohnTK]

The sound design for everything in this game is just the best in the industry. You can’t find a train game with better sounds than this.

[@joegiusep]

Having grown up with microsoft train simulator, this game looks like all of the things I could have ever wanted when I was a kid. What a difference 23 years makes in simulation tech!

[@balaclavaboi7785]

“KABOOOM” -Demoman

[@UmoadoGaming]

0:20 Yes more whistles! 0:40 Beautiful ten wheeler 1:07 I love how much detail goes into modeling the whistles 4:31 that’s amazing. 8:18 I would definitely like to see a video of just all of the whistles. 19:40 That was intense and really neat to see simulated

[@meow6939]

28:28 that truck is break-dancing hard 🕺🕺

[@GP30_Foamer]

BOILER EXPLOSIONS?! Oh this is gonna be great! Edit: Okay, those were absolutely insane lmao, but I have one major suggestion. I don’t know if it’ll be possible and I understand if it’s not, but I think it’d be hilarious for the in-game soundtrack to suddenly fade into the climax of Kenosha as the boiler starts to fail.

[@southern207hobbies]

A big boom 💥

[@AuraKnightTheLucario]

or at the very least on any "you died" screen that may be implemented

[@southern207hobbies]

@AuraKnightTheLucario or right as the crown sheet goes dry a fast coris of Kenosha ques up before kaboom

[@inspectorjohnnywolfergad4149]

Oh you locomotive murderers

[@genevarailfan3909]

Yes, that should absolutely be an option!

[@aerofiles5044]

Those whistle sounds are absolutely magnificent. The only complaint here is that it seems that they sort of "glitch" when they're pulled on quickly. Minor detail but other than that great work! I'd also love to see that whistle supercut.

[@Hyce777]

One of those nagging oddities of the player... Bugs me too. We've been working on it.

[@OutbackCatgirl]

No idea how the audio is simulated, but it might be possible to fix it with a smoothing function applied to the *input* itself (the number attached to how far the cord is pulled) that kicks in hardest when the input variable varies relatively little. A sort of hysteresis on top of that might also help.​ @@Hyce777

[@MrJustinator3000]

@@Hyce777 Came looking for exactly this comment, I love following this, great stuff

[@pinecone01]

The New York Central did indeed have air horns on some of their steamers, so as cursed as it is, there is a precedent for it!

[@Stooltoad5017]

I believe the Milwaukee Road had air horns for their streamliners as well.

[@gearandalthefirst7027]

Duplex has entered the chat

[@pinnedthrottle7690]

The SP Daylights had some too. At least in the models I’ve seen (both in games and in my live steam hobby) they have a pair near the front under the smokebox.

[@yogabumm]

the PRR S1 did too I think.

[@TheBeeMan1994]

@@pinnedthrottle7690the real daylight has a single chime Leslie A200

[@C.I...]

Rumour has it that there's a revenue stream in career mode inspired by the "crash at crush". You'll be down two locos, but at least the traffic increased, and you put on a great show (for those who weren't injured).

[@HLTrains5003]

Is it bad that I want a little stuffed animal of the goat in the thumbnail? Nah, it cant be...can it?

[@WasatchWind]

Ha ha, Rocky is the game's main mascot, so who knows what they might do if the game is successful. 🙂

[@LolLol-xy4rh]

Well I’m from Victoria and I was so happy to hear a whistle from my state

[@Admiral_Ellis]

I cannot express, in any possible way, how happy this makes me. Please let us turn on the "You Died" screen if you're standing too close. It's all I've ever asked for.

[@RailMachanic1]

"There was a kaboom! An earth shattering kaboom!"

[@johnkuzma7066]

Having grown up in Truckee and now going to school in Golden I really appreciate that you guys avoided making the Sierras look like the Rockies so many maps of donner pass and lake tahoe just look like colorado with big lakes ignoring the sagebrush flats and long valleys that are so common in the siarras.

[@WingsStrings]

Several team members live in the sierras, they have been providing in-person reference for everything from tahoe to donner and martis valley

[@SternLX]

Indeed. I grew up in Reno but we spent a lot of time in the great back yard that is the Tahoe/Sierra foothill area's. They've really captured what the area actually looks like.

[@C.I...]

Don't know about the US, but in a lot of UK locos, there are stripes behind the sight glasses; The refraction of the water makes the stripes go the opposite way behind areas with water making it easier to see. Might be hard to program that in.

[@samgineer9857]

It's pretty much just a change in the texture on the sight glass but we did not have those here in the US. Stripes in the sight glass were also prevalent on mainland Europe locos.

[@onnelli]

I think what could be fun, albeit not too sure how much in the realm of possibility this is, would to get KaN on to help showcase the multiplayer running of trains, given how Mark and KaN have a history of playing train games together

[@Idaho-Cowboy]

I love that you died screen with DRGW font. So looking forward to this game.

[@nottelling8129]

The moment this game comes out, I’M FUCKING BUYING IT

[@takemasu45]

Hearing the Victorian rial 5-chime modelled digitally, in a game, and by Hyce... This is unreal. Childhood fantasy becoming reality. Mark, thank you for including this. You'll never know how special this is to us Victorians!

[@jakevg12]

Its just a whistle

[@ozinAdelaide]

I can no longer make the 20+ hour flights to CO to enjoy the real 3 footers and am just hoping i get some time to enjoy this. Looks beautiful, sounds stunning just need to get hands on it 😂

[@nstrainfanyt]

DID SOMEBODY SAY BOOM 😃💥

[@loficampingguy9664]

The explosions caught me so off guard even though I knew they were coming. Sure they might not be realistic but it's _way_ more fun this way! Also the waffling on and getting distracted by the details to make the cars explode felt like a legitimate Hyce moment. I assume Mark was acting in order to show off the explosion, but it felt super smooth.

[@sockenbullegaming]

19:20 wait whats it doing now, why is it making that so- HOLY S**T THAT ENGINE WENT FLYING i just made the conclusion that unhealthy trains are scary (in more ways than a boiler explosion)

[@sockenbullegaming]

btw what is the player supposed to do with all the broken vehicle bits once it has blown up?

[@WasatchWind]

​@@sockenbullegamingI'd guess something like what railroader does, where on easier difficulty you have an imaginary winch to get everything back to the track, then get a helper engine to pull it back to the shop for repairs, while on harder difficulty you might need to bring some sort of crane over and an empty flat to put the busted loco on. Hard to say cause boiler explosions, like he said, are going to be only on the hardest difficulty.

[@TheRealArtist2228]

You guys have gone really far with this game and hopefully there’s a video about release expectations and a video on Shay locomotives

[@modelrailwaybackshop]

So I will say it's not exaggerated at all. That is very much what happened in many of the boiler explosions in the book Train Wrecks I have. There was an explosion where the boiler flew for 2 miles onto someone's backyard. Again, not unheard of.

[@WasatchWind]

I think they're referring to how these smaller narrow gauge engines aren't under as much boiler pressure

[@Hyce777]

Big engines would be like this, the small engines, probably not quite as much. Definitely a violent event.

[@sambrown6426]

I think it was during a Kan/Hyce Railroads Online video a long time ago, but Hyce casually mentioned that (And I forget which railroad it was, though it may have been D&RGW standard gauge) the tail end crew in the caboose were just chilling, a mile or so back from the head end, when suddenly the train went into emergency, and came to a screeching halt. Now this was before radios, so the tail end crew walked up to the head end to see what happened, only to find the wheelset of the locomotive, with the boiler a couple hundred feet away, the cab and crew completely missing, and the rails under the loco's wheels bent downwards. Apparently, the boiler exploded at the rear, causing the entire boiler to flip forward, tearing right off the cylinder saddle, and wrecking the cab, with the actual explosion being powerful enough that it pushed the wheelset into the rails with enough force to bend them downward. Because apparently, they were far enough back that they didn't hear their head end go boom. There's a reason that after 1908ish steam locomotives were no longer allowed to operate within New York City limits.

[@alastaircross4713]

@@Hyce777 little engines could generate some big bangs though, though to do their worst they needed a little help. CIP, a boiler explosion on a vertical-boiler contractor's locomotive at Waiareka Junction near Oamaru (NZ) on 22 May 1876 where the crew had tied down the safety valve in an attempt to get more boiler pressure. While I'm not sure what the normal operating pressure was, or what pressure it got up to before Kenosha, the aftermath blew pieces of boiler nearly 100 meters away from the remains of the engine and launched the body of the contractor's clerk nearly ten meters into the air. For a small engine, that's pretty impressive in a macabre way...

[@Hyce777]

@@alastaircross4713 yowza. That's impressive. What I'm figuring is we leave the boiler explosions as they are, and scale from the other ones

[@ayayaybamba3445]

I love how you can hear the different whistle pitches echoing at different times.

[@JanTonovski]

I really like the massive amount of work you guys put in to this game! I can't wait to play it someday! Maybe in the extreme long run you could add a German hoot or 2 on the whistle list? Those are very special for me because my first time hearing a whistle was one of those. I've got a few videos with the whistle playing, so if you guys want to try it someday (when you have the time of course), I would be happy to send those over!

[@dereklinkous9214]

As far as whistles go, I'd love to see a supercut. I was also wondering if there was a chance we'll hear the 6-chime the 489 wore thru the 90s. It was always my favorite whistle to hear while I was still living in Chama.

[@onion1772]

G'day from Australia! I'm very excited to hear a VR five chime being added, it has made my day!

[@oriontaylor]

In the world of incongruent sounds, I found an LP a while back with period recordings of NYC locomotives, including one of an S-1b Niagara barrelling at high speed towards the recorder with the westbound Mohawk near Buffalo - then the single-note WABCO E-2 speaks!

[@caldwellbutler236]

Of all the things I expected from this channel, a Madagascar Xmas short reference was not one of them

[@NovicetechGames]

For whistles I hope that the L&N 3 chime or 5 chime and possibly the "Satan's Wail" whistle from the Casey Jones show will be in game at some point. I've loved how far the game and Hyasynth has come. I hope we all can enjoy it whenever you and your team release it. -Novicetech

[@Zankoran]

The VR 5 chime might be prototypical. The VR NA class of Narrow Gauge engine was a narrow gauge Baldwin designed tank engine and it's design is very simular to other tank engines you already have. The apple green lining of the pre-1906 engines is my favorite. A bunch of the locomotives service today as the Puffing Billy Railway from Belgrave to Gembrook.

[@themanformerlyknownascomme777]

God that Boiler failing aound is absolutely horrifying.

[@adambegg4381]

I love the VR whistle! I hear it regularly living close to Steamrail's depot, even just yesterday. It sounds very familiar!

[@TheSmokyMountain1495]

The smile on my face when I heard the Princeton 3… Y’all are doing Gods work

[@TSMGL_Youtube]

Where's the Earth-Shattering Ka- oh there it is 😂 Loving the progress!!

[@Umbhaki]

Listening to you talk about timbre makes me realise this game is in good hands. Attention to these kinds of details are so lacking in games these days! Really appreciate the level of passion going into this project, looking forward to the release!

[@austinmilich648]

I’d love to see a second rendition on the VR 5 chime, they tend to be a lot more throaty, a love addition nonetheless

[@Holy_Moley]

Looking absolutely amazing. Loving ALL the technical details.

[@AOGWardog1229]

Can't wait for this game Hyce, this is my most anticipated RR game to add to my collection.

[@WalschaertsVG]

Please keep the 'YOU DIED' screen and the little sting that plays, I laughed so hard hahaha great update

[@laminatedsamurai]

"You can run on some pretty cursed railroads." I swear, I could hear a "...kAN" at the end of that.

[@weekendrailroader]

"You Died" in Grande font is perfect. ❤

[@josephanderson3451]

Love it! Dang excited for this game! Love the steam realism aspects you don't see in any of the current railroad games.

[@mintyfallout]

Seriously, with every update, y'all continue to impress.surprise me. I cannot wait for this to be out.

[@trainsforrobert]

To Hyce CDO of the ES&D This wreck in which you are responsible for cost the lives of 20 people riding on the train when you blew up the boiler on a bridge. The wreck also cost about 2 million dollars in damages to the train and bridge . The CoS railroad safety administration

[@jerrysgardentractorsengine2243]

Attention, trainsforrobert: Mark Huber, president & CEO of the East Salida & Denver Railroad Company (a Studio 346 subsidiary), regrets to inform you that we are in no way affiliated with the Eat Shit & Die or the Eat Shit & Die Trying and their Chief Destruction Officer (CDO), Hyce. Any safety complaints directed for the aforementioned railroads can be directed to Derail Valley/Railroader debt collector, John Doe or the 94 Chevy Z71 Asset Protection Agency. We thank you for any concern, Jerry Riddle Public relations director- office of the CEO East Salida & Denver Railroad Co.

[@94_Chevy_Z71]

​@@jerrysgardentractorsengine2243 To Jerry Riddle, East Salida & Denver RR Public Relations Officer, We appreciate the mention of the agency, but we must clarify that we do not handle safety complaints. The 94 Chevy Z71 Asset Protection Agency simply keeps debt collectors like John Doe from being able to repossess assets from people like Hyce. And Hyce has been putting us to the test as of late, racking up debt and breaking the ceiling every video, but we still fight back against Mr. Doe to ensure Hyce entertains the masses for years to come! Sincerely, 94 Chevy Z71, Owner, Founder, and CEO of the 94 Chevy Z71 Asset Protection Agency P.S. If yourself or Mr. Huber find your company in the same situation as the Eat Shit & Die (Derail Valley) or the Eat Shit & Die Trying (Railroader), do not hesitate to contact us. We are looking forward to do business with you.

[@jerrysgardentractorsengine2243]

@@94_Chevy_Z71 To 94 Chevy Z71, CEO 94 Chevy Z71 Asset Protection Agency: Our sincerest apologies for the confusion of services. The East Salida & Denver Railroad, along with our parent company, Studio 346, would very much appreciate the asset protection services of the 94 Chevy Z71 Asset Protection Agency upon the completion of our network. Any future communications regarding our partnership can be made directly to Mr. Huber upon his return from vacation on July 13, 2024. Jerry Riddle Public relations director- office of the CEO East Salida & Denver Railroad Co.

[@jerrysgardentractorsengine2243]

@@94_Chevy_Z71 To 94 Chevy Z71, CEO 94 Chevy Z71 Asset Protection Agency: Our sincerest apologies for the confusion of services. The East Salida & Denver Railroad, along with our parent company, Studio 346, would very much appreciate the asset protection services of the 94 Chevy Z71 Asset Protection Agency upon the completion of our network. Any future communications regarding our partnership can be made directly to Mr. Huber upon his return from vacation on July 13, 2024. Jerry Riddle Public relations director- office of the CEO East Salida & Denver Railroad Co.

[@jerrysgardentractorsengine2243]

⁠​⁠@@94_Chevy_Z71 To 94 Chevy Z71 CEO 94 Chevy Z71 Asset Protection Agency: Our sincerest apologies for the confusion of services. Upon completion of our network, the East Salida & Denver Railroad, along with our parent company, Studio 346, would be thrilled for your organization to protect our assets from any potential repossessions. Any future correspondence regarding our partnership can be directed to Mr. Huber when he returns to the office on Monday, July 15. We look forward to working with you. Sincerely, Jerry Riddle Public relations director- office of the CEO East Salida & Denver Railroad Co.

[@averagepokemonfan5510]

I would 1000% love a supercut of all whistles. hope the whistle from Petticoat Junction is in game if not there's a good KZbin video of it as a reproduction of the whistle used on the show

[@DS-tj1xf]

Tweetsie’s whistle! That’s so awesome! I live near to the railroad and grew up going on rides all the time. It’s amazing the care you guys put into this game!

[@kikogitar25]

For extra effect start Smells like Kenosha at 16:24, 22:50 and at 24:56

[@cat793cdumpy]

This is going to be off the charts when you get this out into the market. Great work from you guys.

[@steamsteelproductions]

As a Tweetsie fan, that Baldwin 3 chime makes me so happy

[@schuylerschultz804]

I LOVE the deep-sounding three chime whistles. It just makes the loco sound both beautiful and intimidating at the same time

[@engineerskalinera]

"Honey, I blew up the choo-choo"

[@DragonsAuprospecting]

Nice !! I'm really looking forward to seeing this being released.. Thank You for the updates.

[@TheDoomSlayerButPettingaCat]

Clicked for deer guy on the thumbnail, stayed for trains.

[@22TwentyTwo]

I don't know if it can be done exactly, but I wish there'll be a feature to select the "original" whistle to the locomotive you have. I love having any whistle I want but I also would like sometime to keep it as historically accurate as possible too

[@HeavyTanker-vx4oq]

My only whistle Request is the N&W prototype Passenger 3 chimes, 475 has wore a replica of one once or twice, and the dimensions of them have been known for a long time.

[@jeffreylyons1531]

Absolutely stunning

[@IsaacFogarty]

If you have a whistle from Australia you could also do one from New Zealand, like the whistle found on the NZR Ka classes.

[@franky717-ux9rr]

Oh man, this is going to be very exciting when the game comes out soon. Especially with those explosions and causing chaos. Amazing work as always guys 🔥

[@jeremiahharrison9749]

LOVE the explosion sound design, very cool

[@MrBigCookieCrumble]

Lovely looking game, cant wait!

[@rgsrrofnc]

And yet the bridge remains!

[@whatusernameis5295]

the booms.might generally be bigger then irl but there has been an instance of a train car yeeting itself three quarters of a mile so it's not to insane

[@kevwebb2637]

Ever thought of trying whistles from Japan? The 5 chime that's commonly used on later JNR steam locomotives like the D-51 and C62s, and a 3 chime that's used on the class 8620 which 8630 and JR Kyushu 58654 would help with the whistle sound. The JNR 5chime examples differ from the class D51 and C56 for the whistle. Although the first diesels used air whistles and Japan still use air whistles on their diesel and electric locomotives. The Danbury Railroad Museum is recovering both of New York Central's electric locomotives, S motor #100 which is America's very first mainline electric locomotive and T motor #278 the sole member of the T motor class.

[@user-mi8ef4qd2k]

You should add also the fact that an explosion on a bridge like that would totally destroy said bridge

[@ryanorusio1056]

I was hoping the boom would damage the bridge, creating interesting “Bridge is out situations”

[@NolanLayland]

Would love to see more CPR and CNR whistles. Great work!

[@gearandalthefirst7027]

"Derail Valley's explosions are too small. If you want something done right, do it yourself!"

[@cowboy_civ]

This is going to be the best train sim ever keep up the amazing work.

[@GreatGlynndon]

KABOOM OUI OUI YES

[@ILikeTrains844]

How about the cool whistle that you made be put in the game?

[@mgibilterra]

I mean, the big boom just makes clearing the tracks easier!

[@fabiomarca]

That handsome buck in the thumbnail is enough for my like, def going to sub.

[@nopegaming2117]

My best analogy for the sound is that after changes you felt the multiple levels simultaneously but before changes it felt like it was all sandwiched on 1 plain

[@SteamfanScott]

This game never ceases to amaze and mesmerize with just how good and detailed it is.

[@cat793cdumpy]

Hi Hyce. From Australia. The South Australian 520 and the RX class loco and the 620 class have some nice whistles.

[@ozinAdelaide]

The 620 at least, sounds like a moose being castrated with a rusty bread and butter knife. They were abysmal. SAR whistles in general are nothing to write home about ( and I am from Adelaide) Do however like the ones fitted to the Puffing Billy NA tanks in Vic or the chime on the NSW 60 Garrett.

[@tboneisgaming]

It's looking and sounding great. As for sound requests from the UK, the whistle of an A4 Pacific, Flying Scotsman. If you could add custom steam sound, it has to be the bark of a black 5.

[@XDHwilks]

WOOO VR 5 CHIME!!! Sounds great, I heard one in-person just yesterday on a K class! A whistle I'd suggest (if not yet added) would be a South African Railways 3 chime.

[@s.mittle]

That one truck that flew up in the air and came down. Really wanted to break dance 😂

[@True_NOON]

6:07 da goose:D

[@jacobramsey7624]

Speaking of whistles, which whistle did you use in the ending scene of the game's trailer? The part that shows a 4-4-0 and advertising to wishlist on Steam. I would love to know the name of that whistle used!

[@ThePainTrain765]

The "You Died" screen in the speed lettering is amazing lmao

[@Banana_Pony]

Ah man This is def. Looking like everything I want, youre the perfect person for it too.

[@QuintonMurdock]

I can’t not read the title in the Skipper voice

[@97trainman]

I was wondering when we’d see the boiler explosions.

[@margay34]

Hey team just discovered your game looks and sounds amazing! Are there any plans in the future to add any European maps and locos to the game?

[@1471SirFrederickBanbury]

You should be making DCC sound files for model locomotives Mark. Everyone would buy that up, and I would kill to have a Crosby 3 chime (pre-war LNER Crosbys too) with Hya-synth quality timbre, without having to layer tons of recordings! And yes, kaboom!

[@Deepfried_Squid]

Everything else in this game: oh this has to be so realistic! Planned to the smallest of details! Explosions in this game: Haha funi train go to space

[@737Garrus]

Great ES&D moment!

[@narrowgauge0727]

So when it comes to difficulty settings are there going to be fixed presets with certain settings, or do you get to customize each setting to your liking? on another note man yall are making the coolest train game of all time. It's like when I was a kid on train simulator 2006 with a bajillion narrow-gauge mods all over again

[@ValouryIris]

Amazing

[@dustymayfern7815]

Beautiful game design so far.

[@RailFanAthena]

We now need some isle of man 3 foot gauge whistles