Tracks - The Train Set Game

Hello, We've just made live a new patch for Tracks! Take a read of the patch notes below for details. Changes Passengers have had a revamp with new animations, sounds and improved pathing to platforms Passengers can now be placed directly on a platform to wait for the train Passengers now board the carriage closest to them on a platform Platforms can now be deleted regardless of whether passengers are walking to it Improved responsiveness of the Toybox & Scenery menus "Fullscreen" in the graphics menu is now real fullscreen and not 'Borderless Window' Please let me know if this is annoying Reduced game start up time and memory usage Reduced file load time and memory usage Model and texture optimisations Bug fixes Fixed various issues with certain achievements Fixed sounds for the boosters/brakes Fixed a crash and other issues with Tower Cranes Fixed the Tractor facing the opposite direction to other vehicles Fixed the Toybox sometimes creating a Small House when you opened/closed it Fixed the Toybox not closing after clicking a category without picking a decoration Fixed looking directly downwards reversing your movement direction in some environments F

6th September 2024: Fixed decorations being unpickable in the toybox if no DLC was installed Fixed level crossings being placed at the point you’re looking instead of at the track intersection Fixed the circus not allowing trains inside Fixed a crash from using the Recently Used row in the toybox with a controller Fixed Jump to category in the toybox in Grid mode Fixed Jump to category in the toybox not working correctly when the search bar was in use Fixed terrain blocks affecting the scale of decorations which were restored with undo Improved autosave behaviour Fixed variants being deleteable multiple times while they were being deleted Fixed some decorations having the wrong colour values saved if they were restored with undo Fixed bushes having an arrow when highlighted 10th September 2024: Fixed autosave not working correctly when the Save/Load menu has never been opened before Fixed Overwrite file creating a duplicate entry in the list Fixed autosave not correctly choosing to overwrite another autosave based on the same file Fixed the autosave timer not always starting 1st October 2024: Fixed being unable to go through tunnels backwards with carriages Fixed the 1969 achieveme

Hi all, For this update I decided to focus all of my time on code, doing things I've needed to do for *years* so no new decorations today, but hopefully you'll enjoy this update all the same for the many new features and improvements that have been made! Autosave & Quicksave Your building progress can now be automatically saved as you play. Autosaves don't overwrite your manually created saves, instead there are three rotating slots dedicated to it. You can choose how frequently it happens in the options menu, or disable it if you prefer. Additionally, you can now press a key (F5 by default) to trigger a save. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/29269006/9eefa16d9081ff25a11c6ae9006609e3c35f9db5.gif Large world optimisation Several low level aspects of the game's code have been upgraded to improve the experience for players building gigantic worlds with a large number of decorations: (Comparison numbers from the world below (by TGC_Cris) with 82,000 decorations on my PC) Greatly improved loading times for large saves ( 28 seconds -> 5 seconds ) Saving large files is much faster ( 9 seconds -> 0.4 seconds ) RAM usage has been slashed ( 3.5GB -> 1.1GB ) Eliminated hitc

Hi all, A new beta is now available for anyone who would like an early look at the next update and is willing to try a potentially buggy version. Accessing a beta on Steam: Right click on Tracks in your Steam games list and click Properties Go to the Betas tab on the left and choose the public_beta option from the dropdown menu (you don't need to enter a code) Steam should start downloading an update, and Tracks should have a tag in the games list If you find any issues please report them on the forums or discord. You can see a full list of changes below: For this update I decided to focus all of my time on code, doing things I've needed to do for *years* so no new decorations today, but hopefully you'll enjoy this update all the same for the many new features and improvements that have been made! Autosave & Quicksave Your building progress can now be automatically saved as you play. Autosaves don't overwrite your manually created saves, instead there are three rotating slots dedicated to it. You can choose how frequently it happens in the options menu, or disable it if you prefer. Additionally, you can now press a key (F5 by default) to trigger a save. {STE