A-train 9 v5 is releasing on steam in English. THIS IS IT.

>buildings are constructed instantly
yawn

>>2062184 (OP)
>A-train
is it better than openttd? kinda been wanting to play it.

>>2062184 (OP)
so how autistic is this game? That one screenshot from the Steam page kinda scares me

>>2062184 (OP)
>He needs the translation
Lmao

This game is pretty cool, but progress is VERY slow. By slow, I mean that each of the 47 scenarios will take, I don't know, like 30 hours if you're fast, 50+ hours if you are detail-oriented.
The problem is that nothing really makes much profit in the beginning, even with a thriving company you'll still see your resources rise very slowly, and then taxes eating up a good chunk of your profits...

>>2063594
It doesn't have much to do with OpenTTD. Neither in terms of objectives nor train management. The goal is simply to move passengers and construction materials around your city, with an almost total focus on trains (buses and trucks aren't that useful). You don't work with signals, but with timetables, so you have to do a lot of math if you want to perform complex operations. The Japanese players often use external software to calculate train timetables.
The highlight is that the train simulation is decent, so you can create very detailed operations if you're crazy enough to do so.

>>2064726
It depends. Playing the scenarios can be reasonably easy if you understand the mechanics. You don't really need to use all the features the game offers, so just doing the basics is enough to win.
But if you just want complex train operations (usually guys use the map editor for that), then the autism is infinite, because you have to calculate the timetables by hand, like deciding the departure times of each train from each platform of each station, and things can get as complex as you want.
Doing complex things in this system is a total nightmare, by the way.

>>2063594
It's crap actually. Very streamlined and dumbed down from what you'd expect.

>>2066968
>dumbed down
It's the opposite, actually. It's a game more focused on hobbyists who want to build their train lines in detail.
You have the normal gameplay part, which is relatively accessible and fun enough in my opinion (I can't play Transport Fever 2, for example, after playing A-Train), but then there's the second layer where you can do things freely, and that's where the hobbyist part comes in.
I don't know if there are any games focused on passenger trains where you can edit timetables in such detail on this scale, and then see the result in a simulated entire year, minute by minute. This part is pure autism and only suitable for those who take these things really seriously.

This is the kind of guy who really takes advantage of what A-Train 9 has to offer:
https://youtu.be/TiS3RDW0h0Q?si=HNc6x5RBUKd-uzVd

>>2066966
>The Japanese players often use external software to calculate train timetables.
wtf

>>2066979
>>2066966
well isnt openTDD also about moving stuff around with trains?
lack of signals is interesting ill try it anyway coz it looks cool

where do i download this?

I don't really get the point of these games where you ONLY build the logistics but not the rest of the city, or is this one where you build everything like in Workers and Resources ?

>>2066979
>Those station names
草

Speaking of, I still don't understand why all of the western train sims avoid adding Japanese units and systems as DLC.
Seems like an absurdly obvious way to spice up the game but instead it's always the endless trove of >American >trains and some German trash peppered throughout as if it wasn't all the same shit anyway.

>>2073181
You can build from a blank map or create your own