Stop sending me the length of the map, please | Train Life part 9

[@dacop]

Imagine telling the Colonel he can't make material out of anything when he once had us staring at a foot path for 41 minutes

[@captbirdseye4594]

Hi Colonel, Capt here, I've just maxed out to level 30 so I though I'd pass on some info to anyone just starting in the game 1) with AI turned off you can go on any line in any direction and ignore lights because they don't mean anything at the moment 2) Forget freight, pay and XP sucks, Go to a service centre and in "Game Mode" set yourself up to do postage, then add 5-6 postage wagons 3) when you exit the service centre Set yourself a route of 5-6 warehouse's and send it to your GPS then start to travel to your first service centre.....Remember..... you must ask for permission to enter first and then request postage pickup/delivery in that order or most times it will not work correctly 4) When you arrive at your next delivery/pickup location you will see the BLUE V, you must have already done your radio comms, if you haven't, reverse back out and complete your comms and then go back in again, From the BLUE V regardless of whether you can see the RED V for load/unload spot or not you must follow the green switcher, It will always take you to correct place if you have followed the above, Then just rinse and repeat and you will earn bundles 5) If you exit the game, with a mission ongoing, just scrap that mission and start again, I refer you to the Colonel's previous video if you want to know why 6) and Lastly, You are OK to speed if you choose providing you keep it in the yellow and there is no fines that I have seen for going slow

[@project1003]

Crash your train in order to refuel for less money? GENIUS! The Colonel channels his inner Spiffing Brit.

[@paulcampbell7826]

I have often wondered where the Colonel’s patience would end and I believe we have just witnessed his limit!

[@chriscox3109]

So glad you're playing this game so that I never have to, it would have me smashing my PC to smithereens with rage, how can they make it so damn hard to just pick up passengers, it's bonkers!

[@fndjfgsdk]

I mean... It is like... Version 0.5 so, one should expect most elements of the game to be broken in some way shape or form. Maybe come back in 2 or 3 years when they're closer to 1.0

[@YoChocoTube]

It might have helped if you would have driven into the track that the gps wanted you to go - check 4:30 - you took the red turn at the points just before you entered the station.

[@maidenminnesota1]

That's the exact same thing that happened last time. I'm not blaming the game at this point.

[@NarturArkano]

@@maidenminnesota1 There seem to be a lot of "frustration decisions" going on in this video and the last. The game is not nearly as buggy as it seems to be based on the commentary.

[@davefuelling7955]

It might help if you follow the AI's track designation all of the way into the station when picking up passengers, every time you take a different track the AI would then have to reroute your train and it might not be able to do so and keep the designated boarding area active. Case in point, when you were looking for the postal pick up point, the AI showed a red right points direction for the next set of points, so it wanted you to change it to left, you ignored it and went right, and subsequently found that the designated pick up point was on the left track that you didn't take. Same thing happened when you were approaching the station the first time to pick up passengers, at 4:34, the AI changed to a red right points indicator, meaning you were to go left at the next set of points to get to the designated platform, at 4:42, you didn't switch the points and went to the right, so now you were no longer following the route to the correct platform.

[@NortheastRailfan3985]

So picture this just got home from getting some oral surgery done I’m high as a kite on anesthetics and then after this wonderful video we get The Outro. Safe to say my high brain had a panic attack because I couldn’t understand telepathy

[@tomhelveticus2876]

Not sure how far ahead you are, or how much you've recorded in advance, but you can pick up other items whilst you're carrying out a contact. Eg if your driving passed a forestry, you can pick up loose trucks and them take them to a sawmill on your way. Massively boosts income

[@imsvale]

Here's another thing. You don't need contracts. You can go pick up cargo wagons wherever you like (provided they have some) and just take them somewhere appropriate (as per the cargo chain --> Codex), so you get to choose the to and from. If anything it pays better than contracts, especially when you get to take more than 2 flippin wagons.

[@andrewathomesimfan2118]

I've given up with this game for now. I'll wait for a release that isn't so buggy. Life's too short to put up with the many frustrations presented by this (too) early access version.

[@j0hnf_uk]

'proceed to the indicated track..' Single pixel changes colour behind a pillar on an unnamed platform, 4 kilometres away from where the train is.

[@huseyx2]

No no no, the white zone is for loading and unloading only. There is no boarding in the red zone

[@TrayceAttitudeUltras]

No dude...the red zone is for boarding, the yellow zone is for loading and unliading and there is absulutely no stopping in the white zone. Btw: Parking is only allowed in the blue zone.

[@SeanMurrellRTS]

Instead of contracts do delivery! I learned this the hard way and that will give you cash for those wagons that are sitting around. You can then take it anywhere they take the commodity.

[@erikspyro9801]

13:10 Makes sense - I have seen the universal business model for train maintenance including something like this.

[@ParanoimiaUK]

They really need to make the markers a lot more visible, and from much further away - too often you don't see them until you've already passed the points you need to get to them. I appreciate it's early access, they're a relatively small team, and they are working to fix the issues... but some of the issues, like this one, seem too obvious to have been overlooked even at this early stage. A more detailed map is coming, so that may help. That said, I still think this game shows a lot of promise, so I hope they don't get discouraged.

[@christiangunther7128]

Saarbrücken! My hometown... can't wait to watch this later

[@KawaiiSoulB42]

FYI I found out that some stations are bugged for passengers only two stations can only pick up passengers. I just found that out last night. Thought you should know

[@Baleur]

And probably above your 2 hour refund time, isnt that lovely =)

[@JimWall]

If you only watch one Colonel Failure video this year, my I highly recommend this one just to witness the Colonel in full on sarcastic mode. Absolutely bloomin brilliant.

[@BritishRail60062]

I have recently just bought the game and I have noticed at Berlin is that the highlighted platforms has a bronze coloured section with a V at each which most of the other stations are fine but the Berlin one is bugged because it will only let you unlock the train doors which the train is only half way into the station. Yet others that I have been to tend to work fine with the whole train in the station. Very odd behaviour in my opinion.

[@NarturArkano]

You could always take loose wagons wherever they might utilize them, if you don't like the contracts offered.

[@cabe_bedlam]

It’s also worth grabbing the same wagons if the have spares when doing a contract to top up the cashy monies.

[@DoctorMagdaki]

I have a feeling it may soon be wood chipper for Train Life. Literally.

[@ericarndt4402]

I just stopped doing contracts so I didn't get sent all over the map. I'm picking up loose wagons from various stations if they're available.

[@stephenmurray9850]

When you went to pick up the passengers you didn't follow the green marking for one set of switches and chose your own platform... of course it's not going to work .. anyway your always fun to listen too.. It has to be better than Derail valley once they get the AI trains back up and running.. good luck with your delivery .. hope you make tons of money .

[@atcrds]

CF , you know that it's working just fine .... ya , you know , juuuust fine 😅

[@marcusfowler8544]

The problem is that you have to follow the switch display. It'll go green when it's pointing you towards the right platform for pick up

[@martinvranovsky7085]

Exactly. Found that out yesterday. Just follow the light(s)!

[@aircooledorion]

I'm starting to get to know this section of Birmingham/ berlin very well [ we have been up & down that piece of track so many times watching this episode ] and next time I have to go there I shall turn off the sat nav and try to remember all those landmarks, I know this is early access game but dogged determination deserves more than a medal from the devs. I also hope that when you get to Leipzig / Luton you get paid.

[@TeamWolfmountain]

Berlin seems to be bugged

[@craigtw1984]

I think that there is a bug with old Berlin, as it will not let me pick up passengers from Berlin but it works with all other stations! :)

[@Murph9000]

Braking is worse running "light engine", as there's just less friction available to stop the heavy loco. E.g. British Rail Class 43 (HST) power car isn't allowed to do 125 mph when running alone, only when hauling at least a couple of coaches. It would do the speed just fine, probably good for about 160 mph on its own (they can do 144 mph with 5 coaches and passengers, or 148 mph on a special test run with experimental coaches). It's the stopping that matters, as you have a heavy loco with just its own axles or all the lighter coaches as well.

[@blueskull6789]

I will never ride public transport again 😮

[@coolbreeze8547]

Not all stations have passengers for other stations.

[@box1444]

The switch indicator will direct you onto the correct track/platform to pick up passengers at the station. You didn't set up a new route to accept the passengers once the original contract failed. if the switch indicators are both red then you don't have a route.

[@sparkieT88]

The colonel has turned into the old salt in this one.

[@Tinhare]

Best outro to date. A tad wordy but great.

[@TRNHardy]

You have to request to drop them off like you do cargo and you requestdrop off before entry to the station, ask for entry second or you overrides the delivery request. So ask for entry then ask to drop off passengers.

[@slatethesnepsol1198]

i don't know why you're having so much trouble with the passangers, since it all works. when you're going into the station you have to keep an eye on the switches, keep them all on green and you will be directed to the right platform. you have to stop at the platform near the passangers. and that's it! it's as easy as that.

[@davidy7004]

At 4:40 the GPS thingy was suggesting the train needed to go Left, but the train went with the red-coloured Right. This may not have helped?

[@davidy7004]

And again at 9:52 ...

[@davidy7004]

And again at 21:00 ...

[@matthewwierzbowski1697]

2:23 as well

[@maidenminnesota1]

Yep. Exactly what happened in the previous video. "Colonel Failure: Does not take direction well."

[@rickboivin7732]

Remember, we've discovered that the GPS painted route isn't showing the route to the exact detail, it's showing the shortest route in distance from A to B. That's why it highlighted the wrong Berlin Main platform today: it mearly picked the platform on the inside of the curve. That platform was the wrong one as we all saw.

[@charlesfranks1902]

it's inevitable that your worker gets arrested first day on the job.

[@atcrds]

Fmt , Don't follow signals between station , but strictly follow it in station , I got a million doing that so far .

[@hillestadkringle]

I like the look of that shunter, I believe it must be modeled on the Vossloh G6. But why they have only modeled it driving "backwards" escapes me, it has two driving positions...

[@xsaucecherryx]

so close yet so far away Colonel.

[@nickharper3137]

For the passangers ask for the station access first and then ask for the passanger boarding ,passangers game mode seems broken atm

[@gregorysanchez5722]

Passengers transport modality not ready yet to play. lol

[@ExiaLennelluc]

what the upgrades do Train Parts Bogies + Braking Performance + E-brake Performance + Slippage Protection Chassis + Locomotive Weight + Locomotive Durability Engine + Power + Max Speed + Acceleration Fuel Tank + Fuel Capacity (fuel also has weight)

[@Veloxyll]

There;s no actual way to see it for your train in game. You can see it for your minion drivers, but not when buying the upgrades. Which is a little frustrating.

[@delroy8278]

Haven't played this game and it definitely needs more work but two thing about your passenger problem 1.) your habit of ignoring signals and setting your own route might have something to do with it and 2.) when you pull into Berlin Main you always pulled up well past where the people were waiting on the platform. It seems logical that the boarding area would be where the people are waiting to board. Just saying.

[@Sargon_of_Cincinnati]

This early release game, totally and completely fits your entertainment style! 😂 The 🍒cherry, would be your Captain’s announcement to your passengers. To the indicated platform…Time and time again. 😆 EDIT : I saw the indicator over the track also. 🤔 🤨And then… 😶 There it IS! 👏

[@alexaviation8107]

In the stations you could just follow the GPS lol 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@zekrom6537]

trust me the game is way too broken... i did the same line as he tried to do aka Berlin to Leipzig and guess what? i did follow the green left/right ui it did bring me to the right track but NO INDICATORS AT ALL you go in blind like make the track fucking flash like crazy with red or anything so people can understand where to go but anyway guess what? the boarding area text pops up on one very specific spot on that same track if you stop too early or go too far its not good enough for it already, so i went a bit too forward cause i brake too late and i didnt overshoot the station but i did overshoot the stupid INVISIBLE BOARDING AREA then i had to roll back a few meters til the stupid text finally changed back to "press the button to open the doors...." so far so good right but my adventure aint stopping here... i drove all the way to my other station to deliver them i followed the green left and right things i went to the right track i was there 1 and a half hours early ingame yet the text to unboard the people never appeared and im 100% sure i did everything well i talked to the station ahead of time that im delivering the passengers so yes the game is bugged or maybe its just specific stations but berlin and the leipzig are the worst, actually leipzig might be the worst fucking station in the game because all the tracks have these overhead things so you cant see the track from any of the camera view properly, oh and good luck turning around in leipzig its a fucking dead end, and the worst thing of them all is that the game has no camera that shows a view from the end of your train lol, its hard to estimate with 3 wagons already but imagine having a 12 or later longer train then you have no camera option to see the end of your train lol wtf are these devs thinking?

[@zekrom6537]

so far i managed to do 0 passenger transport, were you ever successful with it and if yes how? or which stations?

[@robertblaylock1353]

Maybe the boarding area is the black dot on the map?

[@jayzo]

6:00 you may miss details on the screen but I can assure you I don't, and I'm as stumped as you are here.

[@dreweboygaming]

Can you come back after the huge update in 3 days I want more videos!!! I bought the game today after watching your videos!! Please don’t stop playing this

[@yellowcake1994]

The switch choosing thingy stays on the last chosen direction. That explains the "constant changing" of the switches

[@zekrom6537]

switches dont actually switch because its not moving at all haha, the left and right thing is just to chose the direction its really stupid thats not how train switches would work because there is no option to: just go straight, so when you on mainline and you try to go forward but there are tons of switches to the left and right you literally have to play a minigame of press right (to not take the left track) now fast press left (to not take the right track) and right again just to stay on the fucking main line which just goes straight forward because the stupid ui only lets you pick left and right there is no off mode, forward option is needed asap or they need to make switches be actual switches that remember the last position it was in and dont just easily get switches by that stupid left/right ui

[@yellowcake1994]

@@zekrom6537 Just this indeed! Actual direction of the switch should be the case instead of the last chosen direction on your "points direction device"

[@brosert]

If you want to take freight less than the length of the map you might need Euro Truck Sim :P

[@garrisonsan]

That outro bit reminded me of the farting preacher video 😂

[@papasmurfette007]

The Tale of Derek and Juegen: Game Developers, on their first job since been fired after developing LingoBlend Zwei...

[@vgor7868]

Berlin's 'indicated track' is not indicated for whatever reason, so the only way to find it is to follow the green switch displays inside the station. You missed the left switch at 4:40.

[@superuberviewer]

Did you think about requesting station access BEFORE requesting access for passengers boarding? Seemed to work the last time!

[@williaminman3811]

Colonel I am surprised that you ignored the solution given in the comments of the last video. You must first ask for access to the station then ask to board passengers (wrote this after stopping the video at 5:45).

[@colonelfailure]

Why would that surprise you?

[@josebrandao9866]

I think you need to ask permission to enter on the station and then the permission to pick-up the passengers. Maybe thats the only issue.

[@NarturArkano]

If you ask permission to pick up passengers, you don't need to ask for station access. Station access is mostly for traveling through stations with no bypass tracks. Otherwise, asking permission to pick up passengers or to take contracts, etc. will act as station access permission.

[@chrisrodgers5787]

Apparently you have request access when waiting at signal they will assign you a platform

[@jasonmorgan9745]

I'm assuming since the AI trains have been removed from the game, signals are now more or less completely redundant?

[@NarturArkano]

For the most part, yes, although they will direct you to the correct platform when approaching a station (barring some weird bug).

[@fndjfgsdk]

Nearly all the signals have nothing to do with other traffic, they're telling you about speed increases and decreases. So they're not redundant at all, just confusing and poorly positioned. Only the searchlight signals, the ones that show danger too late for you to do anything about it, are for traffic. @Nartur Arkano - None of the signals do any routing or anything, unless you're referring to the switch indicator

[@NarturArkano]

@@fndjfgsdk I am referring to the switch indicator, yes.

[@EuropeanOnion]

Damage… might have been the buffers… Might have been the fact that YOU SET THE WAGONS ON FIRE at the end of the last episode 🤦🏼‍♂️

[@rattyfus8218]

Batman? You’re no even Betty Boop!

[@KG-xt4oq]

Does the typical German workday start at/before 6am? Sure is a lot of traffic for 4:30-5am...

[@alameachan]

No, but this game is hardly showing your typical Germany. Could be Germany on the moon for all we know.

[@reservetruls]

Not to poop on your upcoming victory there Colonel, but are we sure that workers aren't considered AI?

[@NarturArkano]

Nobody changes the points except you, Colonel. You're not so much switching the . . . switch as you are choosing which way you're going. There is absolutely no physical aspect or memory of previous directions to which way the switch is going, so whatever direction you're driving, if the selector says "left," you're going left, regardless of which way you went before. Realistic? Maybe not. It's simple gameplay, though.

[@Veloxyll]

Yeah, someone mentioned the same last video. Essentially you're setting your point radio to switch every set of points you approach to left or right.

[@rickboivin7732]

Also he's complaining about the turnout behaving differently when he reverses through it versus going through it points leading. In railroading, it's called a Spring Switch. In this game, it's just missing code. They may or may not include for more realistic operations when the game is finished.

[@NarturArkano]

@@rickboivin7732 I'm not even sure it's missing code as opposed to a design choice. It simplifies things significantly to just make it a choice for the player rather than worrying about which way the switch was previously facing when you only have seconds to determine which way you're going (such as in a station). I do wish they'd fix the "shortest distance" signal algorithm and prefer right-side driving unless the track ahead is blocked. Lots more work to be done on the game, for sure, but it's fun as it is.

[@zekrom6537]

yep but good luck trying to go on a mainline that has many switches to the right and left then its a true minigame of : can you press left right left fast enough to stay on the mainline cause there is no: go forward option so if there is a switch to the left then another to the right very close to each other you better ready your fingers to press the opposite aka right left really fast else you gonna take one of those sidetracks

[@rickboivin7732]

@@zekrom6537 I've seen that in these videos. I think they put way too many crossovers in this game.

[@brucebaker810]

So boardin in Berlin is a mistaken No-shin?

[@brendabrown4807]

Stop sending me this

[@mrnar6293]

You need to get a contract first. It's no good BT turning up to fix my phone line if there is nothing wrong with it!

[@cabe_bedlam]

Berlin is cursed for passengers, but the employee drivers don’t seem to have an issue so make them do it :)

[@NarturArkano]

My biggest problem in Berlin was that there's absolutely no place to turn around. Best not to make it a final destination on a route (as opposed to certain other stations which are terminal and kind of annoying to have to turn around in.)

[@zekrom6537]

@@NarturArkano ah wait til you went to leipzig haha where colonel wanted to head to, its a literal dead end station haha

[@NarturArkano]

@@zekrom6537 Oh, I've been to Leipzig in the game. I planned a route (poorly) that had two terminal stations in the middle of it with a train that isn't "passengers-only", so turning around was a pain.

[@mainframe3978]

The black dot indicates loading zones you missed the switches you were doing well then you missed two points follow the points and the black dot is there no way to zoom in to see exactly where it is track number s

[@talis84]

Even with your level of game play I can see this one is rough around the edges.... and rough in the middle..

[@masterzedric]

Tbh I think Berlin main is just broken.

[@Mass_hole508]

At 4:40 it wanted you to go Left you went Right. So the point you made at 6:12 isn't exactly true. Just saying

[@lesley-annemclelland857]

Is the passenger loading zone actually where the passengers are standing on the platform ... any platform by any chance?

[@CGA111]

I believe you're right, that's where I would be stopping. The Colonel always stops far away from the crowd.

[@KG-xt4oq]

In previous episode the first time he stopped at the station was right next to where people were standing and it didn't work. His saved game has become borked and he needs to start over.

[@Veloxyll]

Nah, there'll be a red highlight like there was at the postal station. They possibly need to just make all platforms an auto-loading zone until they can make it more apparent which platform you're meant to be going to, similar to how freight stations operate in game at the moment.

[@GretchenDawntreader]

I don't think you are in the boarding area since it says you aren't :) You decided for roleplay/Transport Fever/Cities Skylines reasons to pull forward to the escalators? Instead of stopping where the passengers are clearly standing waiting to board something. I really want to see you try something you haven't tried, which is go to where the people are and stop there.

[@GretchenDawntreader]

also they are saying they have zero passengers and no contracts :)

[@KG-xt4oq]

In previous episode the first time he stopped at the station was right next to where people were standing and it didn't work. His saved game has become borked and he needs to start over.

[@rickboivin7732]

@@KG-xt4oq incorrect. Last Ep, every time he entered the platform, his instructions went from 'proceed to track' to 'proceed to Berlin Main' until the route timed out. This video it happened on the first attempt on the right most platform but when he entered the left most platform, It for once did NOT change instructions... until Hans inexplicably re-requested permission to board passengers instead of opening the doors. At that moment the instruction changed back to 'proceed to Berlin Main' and Hans was evicted from the station like he was the first time today. All that seems missing (bar recreating the second event and opening the doors to finish the test) is the 'indicated track' indication; a rather poorly chosen shade of dull orange. Without the platform indication, boarding and debarking passengers is a really bad minigame based on Russian Roulette. The Colonel does not want to spend this level of time and effort bug testing. He's a 'Performing Video Monkey'. His alter-ego, mild mannered (redacted), is a consultant in customer relations for Dovetail Games. He is not a coder or tester (not yet... #redlinefury). He ain't got time for this (bleeps are funny). I've been paid to create and debug code for over 25 years and I think I've had enough of debugging this program pro-bono.

[@KG-xt4oq]

@@rickboivin7732 You wasted all that time typing up that ridiculous comment (that i stopped reading after the 2nd sentence)... Please go to Part 8 (the previous episode), go to the 12:50 mark and look at where he stopped. Now re-read my comment and try to explain how what I said was incorrect? Way to make yourself look really, really dumb...LOL!!!

[@lordsanityfree]

4:42 Wrong track...

[@XCrawlFan]

Early access rears its ugly mug.

[@sethtriggs]

I'm not ready to call this 'shovelware,' but definitely after seeing these proceedings, I am thinking their UI needs a bunch of work. Still does have potential.

[@theeutecticpoint]

right?

[@mrgriply]

Wrong platform…… wonderful

[@zekrom6537]

maybe if the game wasnt a fucking guessing game and wasnt so broken maybe then people would know where to fucking stop... i struggled too and the one time i managed to do it i figured out that even if you are on the right track if you stop too early or too late you can stil be outside of boarding area which is fucking stupid, i overshot as the brakes are quite shit then had to roll back a good 100-200 meters til the message changed to open the doors , oh and you must fully stop and have emergency brakes on else the doors wont open

[@zekrom6537]

i mean why cant the game highlight the right track in a very obvious bright flashing light or whatever or why cant the game numerotate the tracks so you know which fucking track to go to by number, in real life the train driver isnt just guessing he gets very detailed instructions as to when and where to be

[@dustinhensley2375]

Its frustrating that you didnt at least try to pick passengers up where they are standing. Fyi. I couldnt watch til the end. Life.

[@Baleur]

I really wanted this to be brilliant, a train game with actual "Life" and randomized events along the track. like American Truck Simulator. But frankly this is now a pass for me. 1. No passenger animations what so ever. Boring. 2. Broken signals and pathing. Boring. 3. God knows when AI traffic comes back. Boring. 4. Only german tracks, not even that scenic, gray. Boring.