Train Valley 2 News

Level of the Month April 2021 edition is here, looking creative, fresh and fun to play!

"... to redesign the system for better maintainability or to produce a copy of a system without access to the design from which it was originally produced." - me on reverse engineering after good 10 minutes of googling :)

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2461727621

@ishKiia created a level brilliant to its core — you disassemble ready to ship cars into basic components to smuggle through a wall of Customs stations that won't let through anything complex to later reassemble said components into cars again! A complicated multistage process while in reverse (see what I did here?) proves to be even more processing power consuming :)
Why? A hostile takeover, power play among car factory owners, some questionable practices, profit to be made.
How? That is a good one :) 15 minutes, Do Not Reverse Trains and Do Not Allow Any Train To Arrive At The Wrong Station. You do have fastest engines from the start though.
Where? Quaint grasslands valley landscape with a waterway. Divided layout suggests several stages to this operation, limited space dictates any crazy track layout you can think of that helps you succeed is the way to go.

An enjoyable game all around, the comments section sums the experience up way better:
"My brain can't keep up with this level. but so fun!!" - @hika

Congratulations @ishKiia, your €30 Steam gift card is on its way!

Train Valley 2 community and developers want you, reader, to bring out your level editor and show us train driving complexity levels we never knew even existed. Build, create, compete. Having fun is a requirement.

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Hello friends! Every Friday 17:30 UTC/GMT we hold a “Let’s play together” competition. During next 24 hours everyone is welcome to try and score the best time in a preselected level. Join our Discord server and keep Discord running while playing — your results will be automatically published in the #lets-play-together channel. You need to get 5 stars to qualify.

Glittering prizes include:
1) Top 3 winners receive one random card each. Collect 18 locomotive cards and advance to next set of 6 all new cards! Complete that second set and enter a final tier of 2 very special and super limited cards! Assemble 26 cards and receive a special prize. Easy!
2) Every player registered by our Discord bot has a chance to get a card. The number of cards depends on the number of participants: one additional card for every 10 train connoisseurs on the list. More players means more prizes!

Visit our Discord server (#lets-play-together channel) to learn more.

A level we are playing this week is
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2431464702
Just open the game - there's a link right in the main menu.

Good luck everyone!

Hello friends! Due to the fact that many people are now forced to be at home in quarantine, we decided to add another Let's Play Together competition in the middle of the week. This is an experiment. There can be different crazy levels. There will be no prizes. Perhaps this will last only for the period of forced isolation, but if everyone likes this extra competition format we will make it permanent.

The rules are the same: log in to our Discord server, keep it running, play a competitive level, complete it with 5 stars and have fun!
Visit our Discord server (#lets-play-together channel) to learn more.

This week's level is

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2405093668

Just open the game - there's a link right on the main menu screen.

Good luck everyone!

A fine selection of Train Valley 2 Workshop levels and level series is presented to you by Choo-Choo Weekly. Choo-Choo Weekly — try them out today!

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2481093881
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2481082881
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2481066610

@Jack created something extraordinary this time - a set of three levels that is simultaneously very completable, deeply enlightening and maximum enjoyable. Believe it or not there is a competition going right now, players from around the world are fighting to shave off nanoseconds and come closer to the top. An unusual entree but a very welcome one!

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2480737981

Recycling is the future and there's money in it too! A classic by @Gelledee, Scrap has it all — booming wildlife, colourful scenery, a couple tricks down the local railroad track layout's sleeve and just enough time to accept defeat.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2479111410

Train Valley 2 and @LittleBear launched a new crypto currency - ChooCoin. With current circulating supply of appr. 1.935 mil and release rate of 18000 per trainful of coal we expect to triple our maximum supply and acquire a new 3 425 000 TV ducats office on an island with at least 5 helipads in the next 15 hours after this issue of Choo-Choo Weekly release. Keep the trains busy and the energy running :)

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2480296212

An easy to beat, hard to optimize level by @Gatebase claims to flip the swimming in money by the end of a typical TV2 level principle around — with particularly high degree of freedom, simple and clear goal and plenty of time to explore and probably complete the level. Just don't go straight for the PC factory like I did >_>

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2480591272

An outstanding level by @Tuskaparaati is here to make your day way busier by offering a Passenger Flow only challenge - there's only train upgrading economy-wise, rather simple track layout (just kidding :) and passenger trains departing everywhere. A bit hectic at the start with a big and scary rush hour closer to the end of your shift, Busy Day arrives at Best Level Of The Week station right on schedule :)

@Tuskaparaati, outstanding work! A €10 Steam gift card is heading your way right now :)

Don't forget to tell us about your TV2 workshop adventures and visit our Discord server for an upcoming LPT challenge. Until next week!

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Train Valley 2 Workshop is going strong — brimming with new puzzles and brainteasers. Try them out right now, in no particular order! :)

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2472856992
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2474181508

A two part series to start this chart off, Color Factory maps by @ishKiia teach us how colors are made at a Color Factory. Your task as an hired Engineer is to up the production rate and later to clean up the mess the last Engineer left behind after experimenting with Black color (they say he fell straight into the pit never to be seen again). Oh well. A creatively colo(u)rful and challenging gameplay, unusual and different. Thank you, ishKiia! :-)

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2472124090

Another rules bending more-than-meets-the-eye entry by @Thomas — a simple task of connecting two villages becomes anything but simple too fast (drowned tracks in the middle is a substantially sized nope by the way :), nevertheless an enjoyable challenge for seasoned train drivers and newcomers alike.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2475631565

You're invited to a party — and you need money, presents and candy to enter (the best kind of party if you're an owner of a massive logistics company. The entry fee is very affordable but you will easily spend tenfold getting some fresh chocolate and most recent decorations designs and exclusive gifts — funds will be your smallest problem because there's always Do Not Destroy Track Tiles as well as the archenemy of many Do Not Pause objective :) Cunningly paced gameplay, picturesque surroundings, top joyous railroad delight of this week's chart.

@Sprieltje, outstanding work! A €10 Steam gift card is heading your way right now :)

Don't forget to tell us about your TV2 workshop adventures and visit our Discord server for an upcoming LPT challenge. Until next week!

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