This time the game was being made in-house by ACES Game Studio ( Microsoft Game Studios) known for its long line of Microsoft Flight Simulators, as a part of the " Games for Windows" initiative.
#Msts marias pass simulator
On January 19, 2007, Microsoft announced the relaunch of the Microsoft Train Simulator project. We remain focused on the simulations category with successful, platform-driving franchises such as "Microsoft Flight Simulator." Microsoft Game Studios has halted the Windows-based game "Train Simulator 2.0." The decision to halt "Train Simulator 2.0" was made some time ago and was based on a long, hard and difficult look at our business objectives and product offerings. Possibly due to its age, sites like UKTrainSim have released thousands of amenities such as trains, routes and patches. The Game is also distributed in Britain by Xplosiv, and can be found for a budget price in many video game retailers. Ubisoft also distributes MSTS1 in small quantities in Australia.
In the European Union, the game is distributed by Empire Interactive and Ubisoft. Since then, the game is distributed in the US by Atari as value software. Microsoft stopped publishing MSTS1 in the United States in 2005. It is also possible to purchase community CDs of add-ons from them. host a vast amount of content for the simulator, along with another thriving forum community. This site is where Port Ogden and Northern and Sea View 5, famous routes, originated. In terms of non-commercial add-ons, has become the hub of the sites, with up to five new files daily and a thriving forum community. These include: The Glacier Express, The London to Norwich section of the Great Eastern Main Line (Train Simulators flagship route), The Scottish Capital Express route from Edinburgh to Glasgow, the London to Bedford section of Midland Mainline, the London to Brighton Express, London and the South East railways, Mideast UK, the Nene Valley Railway, the Severn Valley Railway and many more. The main producers of commercial add-ons are: These include route, activity, scenery, locomotives and rolling stock add-ons to the game. This version added a few items of British and American rolling stock, namely the British Rail Class 50, British Rail Mark 1 Coaches, an EMD SD40-2 and general US freight cars.Ī range of commercial and non-commercial add-ons for MSTS are available. In many instances, out-of-place error messages, usually for missing files, will cause a highly undesired crash at the wrong time. The game is also notoriously unstable with unusually high tendencies to hang, crash without giving reason, and display error messages incorrectly and/or at the wrong times. Some of these bugs could be either removed or avoided by applying "unofficial" user produced patches to the program. There are also issues with the signalling and AI dispatching. For example the "front coupling bug", where the locomotive's front coupler would not work, the "white void bug", where the route scenery disappears, leaving a white void, and the "end-of-the-line bug", where the locomotive, if it crashes through the last buffers on the route, would fall into an empty void. The original version contained many bugs.
New routes, trains, sounds, cabviews, and other Train Simulator accessories are available either as freeware or payware from various websites and companies. Various third party modifications were made to add other locomotives and rolling stock. Users could also create activities for any route, create custom cabviews, or edit the default ones. Included with Train Simulator was the Editors & Tools program, which allowed the user to build routes. The original game featured the Arlberg railway in Austria in the 1930s, with the Orient Express, the Settle to Carlisle Railway line, with the Flying Scotsman, the Northeast Corridor in the United States with Amtrak's Acela Express and Metroliner, the Northern Transcon (referred to in-game as Marias Pass) in the United States, and the Odakyu Odawara Line and the Hisatsu Line in Japan. Players need to stop and start the train, couple wagons, using the computer keyboard or a third-party add-on to operate the controls. The simulation allows players to drive a train on various routes in Europe, Asia and the United States.
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