Tracks - The Train Set Game News

Hi all,

Firstly thank you for all of the support for the Sci-fi DLC!
I wasn't sure how everyone would respond to the slightly wackier theme but I'm glad to see people enjoying the new decorations.

A summary of small fixes for the latest content:

• Fixed the Alien Plant pulsing wildly if placed on an elevated surface
  
• Improved Crater texture
  
• Fixed Craters in different areas of the level not updating when the floor texture is changed
  
• Fixed Craters loaded from a file getting stuck on their initial texture
  
• Fixed some issues on the splash screen

I'm aware of an issue with trains not saving their styles and carriages, I'll be working to fix that asap.

Hello all,

We're happy to announce that Tracks - The Train Set Game: Sci-Fi Pack is available now!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1296900

The pack includes:

• Over 30 new decorations including unique buildings, rockets, asteroids and a crater terrain block
  
• 10 new passengers
  
• A rocket-themed style for the train and carriages
  
• A new environment
  
• New achievements

The Moon environment features low gravity, allowing the train to jump much further and higher, as well as debuting the new volumetric fog effect to give lights a nice 3D look when fog is very dense.
It also has a unique floor texture, a planetary sky theme and new music.

We hope you enjoy this new pack - as always, let us know your thoughts! We're excited to see what you all get up to with the new decorations!

Hello all,

We're happy to announce that Tracks - The Train Set Game: Sci-Fi Pack will lift off on 26 June!




Return to the rails with Tracks - The Train Set Game: Sci-Fi Pack! Expand your toybox with over 30 items to use in your worlds.

Look to the stars and take your train set further than ever before with new buildings, passengers, vehicles and a rocket train. Why not create an uncharted world with the new space rover, UFO, asteroid and alien? Perhaps take a giant leap for mankind with the new moon base, flag, craters and moon lander? Tracks' already expansive toy sandbox has just got bigger.





This pack will be priced at approximately $3.99/£2.99. Add it to your Steam wishlist:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1296900

We're looking forward to seeing how you all put the new items to good use!

Firstly, thank you for all the kind words and feedback on the latest update!

If you find that you can't place Suburban decorations and the icons don't load, try restarting the game,
installing the DLC while the game is running currently isn't supported.

12th June 2020:

• Fixed the train not updating position when it wasn't on-screen, sometimes resulting in it appearing to be invisible
  
• Fixed the lighting on the lamp in Modern Apartment (Night)
  
• The Twitter/Discord links no longer activate with B/Y on gamepads
  
• Removed the recolour icons from some decorations which aren't recolourable
  
• Fixed the barrage of placement sounds you get when loading a large save

1st June 2020:

• Fixed decorations having an odd rotation after using the passenger brush
  
• Fixed passengers being sunk into the bed on Bedroom
  
• Fixed skyscrapers not saving their custom colours
  
• Fixed train wheels sometimes being rotated 90 degrees
  
• Fixed an inconsistency with level selection when using a controller

30th May 2020:

• Fixed certain bushy decorations leaving a phantom model that you can't delete or interact with
  
• Fixed rail crossings not letting you build track through them
  
• Fixed Fancy passengers having no icon or label in Passenger mode
  
• Fixed passenger labels in Passenger mode not being localised
  
• Fixed some base game passenger icons being stored in the Suburban DLC files

[h3]Suburban DLC[/h3]
This update introduces the first content pack, Suburban, available right now and for free!
In total it contains over 30 new decorations including buildings, passengers, vehicles and animals.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1278630

[h3]Optimisations[/h3]
Players with weaker PCs or very large worlds should see some nice performance improvements.
As part of this, MANY decorations have had major (hopefully invisible) reworks so if you notice anything odd about existing decorations please let me know! There are also several new tools in the options menu to improve performance even more.

[h3]Achievements[/h3]
There are now 10 Steam achievements to earn, with perhaps more coming in future updates.

[h3]Sprint[/h3]
You can now hold Shift to move faster in build mode, very useful for big creations.
If you have previously made changes to key bindings you might need to open the Controls menu and manually assign Sprint to a key of your choice.

[h3]Passenger changes[/h3]
The "Single" and "Group" system for passengers in the toy box has been replaced.
There is now one option per passenger style. Placing a passenger with a key press will put down one just like the "Single" used to, and holding the key will quickly place up to 30 passengers in a circle.



[h3]New menu options[/h3]

• Tutorial toggle The tutorial will no longer automatically appear when this is off
• Save game reminder toggle Hides the "Time since last save: " pop-up
• Motion blur toggle Removes the motion blur effect for people who don't like it
• View distance scale An option to change how quickly objects will reduce in quality/disappear at a distance. Decrease it to improve performance or increase it for a better view
• Simple materials Replaces certain materials (like the snow effect and landscape textures) with simpler alternatives. The difference is subtle but it can improve performance quite a bit.

[h3]Improvements[/h3]

• Improved train physics so speed affects how far you can jump
  
• Bug fixes
  
• Several existing decorations have been upgraded to support recolouring
  
• Expanded the floor in Clear (Night) to be the same size as Clear
  
• Specular highlights now become more diffuse in heavy fog
  
• Emergency vehicles now cycle through lighting states when clicked, instead of being all on/all off

That's not all. In June, we'll be launching the Sci-Fi Pack, featuring 30+ new items and a new train type.



Look to the stars and take your train set further than ever before with new buildings, passengers, vehicles and a rocket train. Why not create an uncharted world with the new space rover, UFO, asteroid and alien? Perhaps take a giant leap for mankind with the new moon base, flag, craters and moon lander?

This pack will be priced at approximately $3.99/£2.99. Add it to your Steam wishlist:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1296900