Tracks - The Train Set Game News

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Hi all!

Thanks for your patience waiting for this new update, and thank you to everyone who tried the beta and reported the bugs they found. Here's a complete list of new content and changes:

Tram
A classic tram is now available as a train style.
It combines a train and one passenger carriage into a single unit, and supports all the customisation options available for the standard train.

Cab Toys
A new section of the Scenery menu gives you the choice between a whistle or a bell on your train.

Utility Poles
Utility Poles are a new decoration class which automatically attach wires between each prop you place.
To start with there are two styles: Telephone Pole and a large Electricity Pylon



New Decorations
There's a wide variety of new decorations including 10 new houses, 3 new passengers, and several large buildings like a sports stadium and motel.



Train Highlighting
Certain actions could get awkward when you had a lot of trains. Now when you look at a train (or its carriages) you'll see a little arrow appear on top of it. With a train highlighted, any train-related actions will automatically apply to that train such as:

• T to drive it without opening the train menu
  
• Style options in the Scenery menu
  
• Adding carriages from the Toybox

Other changes:

• Replaced the font used for Latin and Cyrillic languages
  
• Tracks, Roads & Rivers now create unique crossings when they meet a variant of other type.
  
• Added pop-ups with key reminders and tips when using certain decorations for the first time
  
• Added the Hungarian language option back into the menu
  
• Several UI and quality of life improvements
  
• Fixed several piece configurations not suggesting the proper junction piece
  
• Fixed a crash on the tutorial when playing in Korean
  
• Improved the game's start up time and memory usage
  
• Optimised and reduced the size of the Sci-Fi DLC
  
• Fixed an issue when F5 is pressed

Hi all!

If you'd like to take an early look at the upcoming update you can now give it a try.
Please note that this is a potentially unstable version, if you find any issues I'd appreciate if you could post about them in the forums or Discord.


Click below to see a full list of additions and changes:

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Tram
A classic tram is now available as a train style.
It combines a train and one passenger carriage into a single unit, and supports all the customisation options available for the standard train.

Cab Toys
This update adds a new section to the Scenery menu which gives you the choice between a whistle or a bell on your train.

Utility Poles
Utility Poles are a new decoration class which automatically attach wires between each prop you place.
To start with there are two styles: Telephone Pole and a large Electricity Pylon



New Decorations
There's a wide variety of new decorations including 10 new houses, 3 new passengers, and several large buildings like a sports stadium and motel.



Train Highlighting
Certain actions could get awkward when you had a lot of trains. Now when you look at a train (or its carriages) you'll see a little arrow appear on top of it. With a train highlighted, any train-related actions will automatically apply to that train such as:

• Left Mouse click / Press T to drive it without opening the train menu
  
• Style options in the Scenery menu
  
• Adding carriages from the Toybox

Other changes:

• Replaced the font used for Latin and Cyrillic languages
  
• Tracks, Roads & Rivers now create unique crossings when they meet a variant of other type.
  
• Added pop-ups with key reminders and tips when using certain decorations for the first time
  
• Added the Hungarian language option back into the menu
  
• Several UI and quality of life improvements
  
• Fixed a crash on the tutorial when playing in Korean
  
• Improved the game's start up time and memory usage
  
• Optimised and reduced the size of the Sci-Fi DLC
  
• Fixed an issue when F5 is pressed

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Accessing the beta:

• Right click on Tracks in your Steam games list and click Properties
  
• Go to the Betas tab and choose the public_beta option from the Beta Participation dropdown menu (you don't need to enter a code)
  
• Steam will start downloading a new update, and Tracks should have a [public_beta] tag in the games list

Hello there,
I’m sure many of you have been wondering what's up with the lack of news / Tracks updates.

I won’t go into details but long story short I’m now back to working on the game and I hope to do an update in the near future.

As always, if you’ve got any suggestions you can post them to the forums/discord, I'll be a lot more active than I have been.

Thanks for your patience!

[h3]Steam Deck[/h3]
I'm happy to confirm that Tracks is now working very nicely on the Steam Deck!

As part of this work, the game now uses the Steam Input keyboard whenever you need to enter text (if playing with a gamepad) which allows for a much bigger range of characters and has better support for languages besides English.

We've submitted the game to Valve for their approval, though if you find any issues with it please post about them on the forums.

[h3]Other Improvements[/h3]

• Added Korean language support
  
• Overhauled the language selection menu
  
• Improved accuracy of Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese and Japanese translations
  
• Fixed various small issues relating to the Steam Deck / gamepad support