October 8th, 2021 - Jace Talk: Repairing de-railed Trains

October 8th, 2021

Jace Talk: Repairing de-railed Trains

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CskxkIepX6Y&t=202

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    1. Jace

      There'll be a notification in the HUD, a sound will be made, and there'll be like a marker on your compass pointing you to where the train has derailed so that it makes it easy for you to know when a train is derailed and how to find it out in the world.

      Now, of course, if the trains derail, you need to repair them somehow, and we've seen a lot of, like, pretty interesting speculations of how this works, and people thinking, like, oh, we're going to be dropping all this stuff on the ground, maybe I need storage containers to put them in, rebuilding the trains, like, what's going to happen with nuclear waste?

      Is there going to be waste everywhere?

      All these, like, interesting kind of ideas.

      So that was really cool to see.

      We love, we love, we love seeing this kind of speculation amongst the community.

      It's one of the reasons why we leave a week

      before we actually give information.

      And I don't know, I get the feeling that people like doing this stuff, too.

      Like, I think you guys like getting engaged in that way, too.

      It's really fun.

      I find it really fun.

      But, yeah, I'm gonna burst the bubble.

      I'm gonna show you how the sausage is made.

      So, re-railing your trains after they have derailed is actually quite simple.

      You simply just walk up to one of the carts that's, you know, derailed.

      It could be the locomotive.

      It could be one of the freight cargo...

      of carriage things or one of the containers.

      And when you go up to it, you have the option to press E to rerail the car.

      You just press E on it and it immediately just pops back to where it had derailed before.

      So this makes the process incredibly easy.

      We don't really want this to be tedious because we don't really want to punish you too much for making a mistake with your signals.

      It's likely that when people are learning signals that there's going to be a lot of trial and error.

      We don't want to make repairing trains to be a real pain in the butt every time there's a crash, right?

      So it's actually really easy to do.

      But this does sort of beg the question, what happens if you have a train line over a ravine and everything falls off the train line and you can't get to the carts anymore?

      Well, we have a sort of backup plan.

      Now, we don't actually have...

      I can't show you this right now because it's not in the game yet, but we will have it for Update 5.

      There'll be a hologram there that you can interact with.

      And here's sort of like a mock-up of that.

      Yeah, this is not how it's actually going to look in the game.

      This is just...

      Just an internal screenshot that we've shared around that Mark made for a concept of how this hologram could look.

      And yeah, so we do intend to have that in for Update 5 before that comes out.

      And yeah, so you'll have basically two ways to repair your trains, either directly by interacting with one of the carts or by interacting with a hologram where the crash occurred.

      So that's train collisions.