Derail Valley was the last thing my SSD saw

[@Railman1225]

Fun fact, what you showed is actually a specific kind of fly switching called a “Dutch drop”. The other is simply called “kicking”, where you push uncoupled cars.

[@chazbennett7771]

I was gonna say the same thing but when I asked Google they said Dutch dropping is when you leave kids in the woods and let them find their way home to build independence

[@Railman1225]

​@@chazbennett7771 I'm sorry, *_what the-?_* Yeesh...guess context is important here then. Although it appears to be a thing just with the Dutch, so outside of The Netherlands, the context isn't needed too badly, especially with railroaders.

[@justaguycalledjosh]

@@chazbennett7771 Nah, that's German IIRC.

[@SlavaArduino123]

I love fly shunting, and I am always doing it every time totally without any consequences :)

[@CookieEroy]

2:12 that's normal game behavior. Details only load in the loco when you are on it and moved a step

[@d3m3n70r]

The heat death of the storage space. There are no more bits left.

[@patriciohe9273]

That was actually impressive, i never do that kind os shunting where the train keeps going while you deliver the cargo cause i never catch the train again lol

[@OutbackCatgirl]

@@patriciohe9273 thanks! it was entirely spur of the moment, I'd planned for a stopover to pick up any cargo going the same direction but after the hill climb i was like "fuck it, i can still make the time bonus if i dutch drop it"

[@emerycottle3166]

Imma have to try fly shunting some time. That was epic.

[@shingshongshamalama]

I really want this game to simulate the metallic screaming sounds real rails make all the dang time.

[@firstlast9710]

rip in pepperonis ssd

[@jakelyon914]

Jamiroquai content, train content, train game content, a cautionary tale for a stately gentleman like myself likewise in posession of a samsung 512gb evo drive

[@TheLoneWolfling]

oof 870 evo? That model had some "minor" issues - by which I mean there were bunches of drives that failed early & catastrophically. Especially the 4TiBs. A pity as the specs aren't terrible. (Rumor is contaminated/bad NAND that didn't hold charge over time, with later bandaid-fix firmware background data refresh, but no-one outside Samsung really knows.)

[@OutbackCatgirl]

@@TheLoneWolfling take a wild guess which batch mine was from lol

[@notdoppler83]

Oh great... I think I have an 870 evo.

[@dexecuter18]

@@notdoppler83rip. Had the same one that died last year. Never doing NVME again.

[@TheLoneWolfling]

@@notdoppler83 Update the firmware ASAP and check SMART info...

[@OutbackCatgirl]

@@notdoppler83 Check the manufacture date. It's only the first few months in 2021 (or was it 2020? worth googling) that have the issue afaik.

[@maddman46]

I can’t ever fly shunt because as soon as I cut off the gladhands even with the anglecoks closed the detached cut just stops like the brakes are on emergency application.

[@OutbackCatgirl]

@@maddman46 Turn off auto handbrakes in difficulty settings.

[@maddman46]

@ I play realistic preset so I’m not sure if that’s the thing.

[@crasatator]

Should have followed osha, the ssd would still lives! :p

[@susanlua4792]

How do you tie the handbrakes without touching it? 5:17 is what im talking about

[@patriciohe9273]

The keybing for handbrake, i think is P to increase

[@susanlua4792]

@ what is it to decrease?

[@patriciohe9273]

@@susanlua4792 I don't quite remember exactly, but you can look in Setting > Advanced > Reassign Keyboard inputs, then you open the file and there you can see all the key binds

[@OutbackCatgirl]

So like Patrioche9273 said, under options -> advanced theres a thing to edit your keybinds. I have mine set to u/y throttle, i/k reverser, j/h independant brake, m/n train brake. Make sure your bindings aren't already bound (sander is by default on one of those keys i use). Also, your difficulty settings will impact how far away you can stand while operating the controls, but those can be edited from the main menu when managing saves.

[@OutbackCatgirl]

@@susanlua4792 It's semicolon (;) by default for decrease handbrake.

[@timbersrcadventures]

Dutch drop is the proper term but yea it’s not used really anymore

[@dexecuter18]

RBMN still does it a lot

[@ItIsCoMpLiCaTeDsTuFf]

Dutch drop is different, it's the backwards version of the flying drop, hence "dutch". In a dutch drop the front of the train speeds ahead, and then reverses into a siding, hopefully before the tail end of the train catches up with the front :P

[@OutbackCatgirl]

imagine if the devs added car poling lol

[@pufferknut5333]

i just want to say: you can brake faster by releasing the air out of the main air hose (just open the valve at the front and the whole train brakes), given the brakes are charged

[@OutbackCatgirl]

@pufferknut5333 yeah, that's how i used to do it before handbrakes were added :> you need at least one handbrake fully applied to hand in a job.

[@timbersrcadventures]

Also I’m wondering what caused the drive to die I’m in the dv discord and posted your video in there wondering more information. Timber is my username there

[@OutbackCatgirl]

Oh, the drive died because it was part of a bad batch and I didn't realise until it prematurely and without warning ate itself.

[@dexecuter18]

Have you ever tried Railroader?

[@OutbackCatgirl]

It's not quite as *tactile* as i prefer. Derail valley feels a lot more... like, solid, with the interactions of both physics and controls. That said there are benefits to both, it's just that Derail Valley is much more my kind of experience overall.

[@RoamingAdhocrat]

setting brakes to 1 bar (red needle on the top left gauge) doesn't do much at all - seems to need to be 2-3 bar to have any effect

[@OutbackCatgirl]

yup! i usually only set to 1 bar in preparation to react to a higher brake demand ahead as the keyboard controls can be a bit finicky.

[@alazygamer1032]

It was just mad Also keybinds look so werid to me, I never use them so when I see someone else use them it looks werid (Ive been playing this game since forever and they didnt have keybinds when I started I think)

[@OutbackCatgirl]

@@alazygamer1032 it's so useful, and I've been using custom ones since they added them (the defaults are kinda bad)