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Written 7 years ago
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Being halfway the scenarios, I think I've seen enough to do a review. The scenarios are pretty fun to drive. The freight scenarios have no timetable; You start with 1000 points and have one job; reach the destination without making any mistakes. This allows you to take a more cautious and careful approach. The passenger scenarios I've seen so far have OK timetables. I've arrived on-time on all stops, sometimes even minutes too early.
The ÖBB1044 is IMO the best locomotive in the whole DLC selection. The AFB is your friend here; it'll prevent you from overspeeding and it'll slow you down carefully when a speed limit is near.
And that brings me to the only flaw I can find: The ÖBB1116. A Dovetail product, and the AFB on this engine sucks; When going downhill it won't brake enough and will overspeed (I've reached 70km/h while the AFB was set to 65km/h). When reducing the AFB speed, it'll brake so fast you'll get penalized for your bad driving quality. Basically, you're best of driving the ÖBB1116 without AFB, which means micro-managing your brakes and throttle the old fashioned way.
They should've made more scenarios with the ÖBB1044, and less with the ÖBB1116. Other than that, awesome pack of 10 career scenarios, which can get you up to 10,000 XP for your career profile.
EDIT: Just completed all scenarios.
With two of the passenger runs I had to hurry to reach in time on a few stops. Arrived 30 secs late, but that was fast enough not to score any penalty. Usually the timetable offers enough time, so you can catch up a small delay.
The last scenario starts with 800 points, and at the end I scored an additional 192 "Accuracy Bonus". No clue how accuracy bonus is calculated and what I should do to score 200 points.
