Train Valley 2 News

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=2733424481
Just open the game - there's a link right in the main menu.

Good luck everyone!

Another week-another preview!

We give you the Pass Limiter station:

Complemented with armor on alert as well as some new cargo types :)

Quick facts:

• A Pass Limiter station lets trains through in both directions-without a toll.
  
• Every passing train uses 1 Pass Limiter charge.
  
• After all charges have been used up, a Pass Limiter becomes unavailable for a certain amount of time-until it recharges.
  
• A Pass Limiter can be recharged unlimited number of times.
  
• While recharging a Pass Limiter will not let trains through and will reverse any incoming train's direction automatically-no explosions or money loss.
  
• Both recharging times and number of charges can be defined in the Editor.
  

Do you have any level ideas for this new station already? Tell us in the comment section, and we are looking forward to meeting you during this Friday's LPT challenge! Good luck!

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=2726819002

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

Good luck everyone!

Nearly 1800 Workshop levels and approximately 240 Let's Play Together challenges later the time has come to choose a level worthy of the Level Of The Year 2021 title. It goes without saying that picking a single Workshop submission out of many, many wonderful train valleys is...problematic.

During the course of 2021 with your valuable feedback in mind we have added new objects and mechanics to the game, some still available only in Workshop levels. We are bringing these never-before-used by our level design team mechanics back with another official campaign as well as improving on these ideas and introducing brand new objects, buildings, stations-some are making their way into Train Valley 2 very soon. All that would not be possible without you and your unfailing interest in train puzzles. Flazm Interactive would like to express gratitude to every Train Valley player. You all are brilliant.

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

A process or method through the application of which one attempts to understand through deductive reasoning how a device, process, system, or piece of software accomplishes a task with very little (if any) insight into exactly how it does so.

A fine example of our player's ingenuity that indeed resulted in a new building soon to be introduced to the Editor, Reverse Engineering by @ishKiia is a story of betrayal, hostile takeover, power play among car factory owners, some questionable business practices, heavy duty train deliveries and disassembling ready to ship cars into basic components, smuggling resulting components through many Customs stations filled with officials that are not prepared for a heist of that scale and reassembling cars using smuggled resources after. A complex multistage procedure on its own, while done in reverse requires exponentially more processing power :)

A quaint grasslands valley landscape divided by a waterway suggests several stages to this operation, limited space dictates any crazy track layout you can come up with is the way to go. 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.

@ishKiia, outstanding work! A €50 Steam gift card is heading your way right now :)

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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https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2716030614

A yellow episode of petronille_marie's series of coloured levels-terraforming, fields on naturally occurring wild yellow biplanes and watching your engines delivering components to the yellow potion Lab through yellow flowers populated hills. DNRT.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2717128899
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2720380669

Familiar layout yet different gameplay? @petronille_marie delivers-two different DNSAT levels with same lay of the land: attractive lake setting with islands rising from below the lake and revealing additional production buildings to connect to your supply chain.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2721437868

A terraforming puzzle spiced up with DNSAT, Lost Mines has multi-level terrain that turns every delivery into a separate journey of planning railway network extensions with extra care. With demolition team unavailable and 14 minutes on the 5-star timer, this valley is a formidable challenge.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2715965783

Indeed, we have just 60 seconds on the timer, but combined with Earn 28 000 TV2$ and Blow Up 1 Train objectives Very Short presents a puzzle with curiously higher replayability potential :) Dubbed "evil" by the Workshop commenters, this submission is a different experience.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2720425883

Potion-making, Customs stations, complex railway junctions, unexpected shortcuts, autofactories and unconfirmed reports of some LPT-tier tricks involved. A fine recipe that gives a taste of true train puzzle challenge and strength to enhance on it with your own Editor creations :)

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2720368222

A multi network level with quite some multitasking and almost no changing zoom level and moving your camera around. Compact design that houses two separate supply chains is to be united into one with a trivial 350 000 TV2$ construction project. 40 minutes on the clock and at least 200 track tiles to build.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2717265752

We are breaking into a snowman bank/stronghold. We are to rescue snowman crews from under the water, but the Earn At Least 2 700 000 TV2$ objective and seven separate entry points we can blow up to gain access to the shiny treasure indicate we can...pursue additional venues while we are at it :) We have highly trained spiders, dynamite factory ready to go, no idea where the next terrafoming event will take place and 20 minutes on the timer. Enjoy your ride!

Congratulations on your well-deserved award @LittleBear! A €10 Steam gift card will be delivered by our contact ASAP.

Tell us about your TV2 workshop adventures and visit our Discord server for an upcoming LPT challenge. Until next week!

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*Do No Stop Any Trains
*Do Not Destroy Any Track Tiles
*Do Not Reverse Trains
*Do Not Use Pause

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