About This Game A-Train 9 - Better Than EverA-Train 9 has had many major upgrades to the feature set and gameplay options over the years, with this version, Japan Rail Simulator, being the new pinnacle of the game.What Is A-Train 9?The biggest and best city builder, transport simulation game returns with a host of new features. Drive a train! Actually step inside the cab and take control. New control options. Speed restricted track ensure your trains arrive when they are supposed to Vehicle groups give you the vision you need to control up to 200 trains New track layout options. The offset X junction, very handy for your marshalling yards and control of the entrance to sprawling muti-platform stations New road flexibility. City blocks and roads that run at 45 degrees to add greater flexibility to your cities and allow more realistic city-scapes to be built.With more trains, buildings, trackside objects than ever!What’s New in A-Train 9 V4.0 : Japan Rail SimulatorThe new version of A-Train has a stack of new features that focus on the two most important aspects of gameplay: realism and control.Enhanced RealismA-Train is about creating working, profitable cities built around a strong transport network. Over the years we have seen our players create some fantastic cities, the scale and scope of which is staggering. Whether it is the painstaking re-creation of 100 km² real-life cities, or imaginative sprawling utopias, A-Train has always allowed the player to use their imagination. The latest version increases the scale and scope of the game 100%. Twice as many vehicles can be placed on landscapes with twice as many art assets. More road and track-side features with new levels of flexibility in the way that road and rail are built. The player can now use these tools to create more realistic and involved cities either from real-life or from their imagination. This extra realism is balanced by some great new control options which work at both the individual vehicle level and the management control level of the game.Become the DriverHave you ever wondered what it might be like to actually drive one of your trains? To actually experience the challenges the engineers may face in keeping to the speed limit, providing a comfortable ride, and delivering the goods and passengers on time? Well, in A-Train 9 V4 Japan Rail Simulator, it's now possible to step on the footplate and take control. Either from the first-person engineers point of view, or from a bird’s-eye 3rd person viewpoint, experience your cities like never before. It’s not just trains. Jump on board a car or boat and see your creations from whole new perspectives. Ever wondered what it would be like to be a citizen or a worker in your city? While now you can find out.Double the VehiclesDoubling the number of vehicles in the game adds a massive amount of scope and scale to the game, and that brings with it its own challenges. It might be overwhelming to have 200 trains running simultaneously. Understanding what they are all doing and how to optimize their timetables and routes with so much going on would be a challenge for anyone. Plan Your RoutesA-Train 9 V4 Japan Rail Simulator adds new features that bring you control from the transport planner level. It's now possible to sort and filter your vehicle by type and group them into color-coded teams. How you use these features is up to the player. You may want to group your trains by the routes they travel, or perhaps separate them into long distance and commuter trains. It might certainly be a good idea to colour code passenger and freight trains separately, but that choice is yours and with the filter and sort options it’s very easy to set up. The control is there, and the choices are yours. Experiment and develop your own system using the new tools provided, and then see at a glance how your network is operating. Precise Layout ControlThe new version of A-Train offers more control than ever. Track laying has been improved, trains can now have their own custom consist and speed settings, land can be raised and flattened within the game itself (at a cost).It's your world, creating the perfect rail and road transport system has never been more satisfying.Assets to Create Realistic EnvironmentsHundreds of new art assets are included in the game. From roadside elements such as post boxes and bus stands right up to suspension bridges, landmarks airports. You can now create detailed and interesting worlds alive with detail.Realistic or Model ScalingMassive areas of land to expand in to. View it all in 4K resolution (with a suitable monitor) and decide whether you want to use the new 1:1 scale modelling in the game which adds a new level of realism. Whether it's the big image or the fine details, A-Train 9 V4 Japan Rail Simulator has scale covered.Degica – Here To Support YouDegica brings a new level of support to the worldwide release of A-Train. With effort spent on localization before launch and our commitment to continue to support the game with updates, and improvements after launch, you can feel confident that this is the definitive version of A-Train.Massive Train and Rolling Stock UpdateMore Than 40 New Trains!The world of A-Train moves up a step with the introduction of our free DLC pack. Adding more than 40 new trains, you can now create worlds more diverse than ever. Each train has its own strengths and weaknesses. Should you choose the slow powerful work-horse capable of pulling large numbers of carriages over long distances economically? Or is the light nimble local commuter the right tool for the job?Did We Mention – This is Free?This huge update is completely free to existing owners of the game! It will be added to your Steam account automatically on release day.Highlights from this DLC include:303 Series Commuter A passenger friendly local commuter built to cope with a shortage of trains. Cheap to operate 415-1500 Series A light stainless steel engine designed for passenger comfort 485 Krishima With re-introduced green livery. The work horse of the Nippo Main Line 721 Commuter Efficient and temperature regulated. A short stop sprinter for the busy Sapporo suburbs 883 “Renewal” Livery A tilting EMU. Handling sharp curves and rapid but comfortable acceleration and deceleration are the strong points of this light, fun vehicle.A-Train 9 Japan Rail Simulator. The Ultimate A-Train 9 ExperienceA-Train 9 V4 Japan Rail Simulator is the latest and greatest version of the game, having all the benefits of all previous versions and these great new features added here. Whether you are new to the game, or a returning player, there has never been a better time to ride the A-Train. 7aa9394dea Title: A-Train 9 V4.0 : Japan Rail SimulatorGenre: SimulationDeveloper:ARTDINKPublisher:DegicaRelease Date: 21 Oct, 2015 A-Train 9 V4.0 : Japan Rail Simulator Activation Code And Serial Key One of the best sims pierod. Very complex so the learning curve is steep, but once understood it's one of the best sims!. The gameplay, apart from being translated, is left untouched, so the experience is still authentic. Recommended for those who cannot read Japanese and can care less about the missing trains in this release to play this game. Just keep in mind that many JR trains, amongst more from private Japanese railway companies, are not available in the international release due to potentially inhibiting licensing fees and\/or reasons undisclosed by the publisher of the International Release.On the other hand, for those who can actually read Japanese, know Japan enough to lust for the missing trains, and has enough knowledge to buy the download store version from the ARTDINK online store, BY ALL MEANS GO THERE INSTEAD. More trains are available there and trains from JR Central can be added via the JR Central Addon Pack.. A-Train 9 V4.0 is not about instant gratification. A-Train 9 V4.0 does not care if you feel daunted or confused. A-Train 9 V4.0 has no time for such trifles as tutorials. A-Train 9 V4.0 makes actual city planners tremble and weep.And, I love it!To start, calling A-Train 9 V4.0 a mere rail simulator is like calling a pizza nothing more than a kind of bread. Oh, no no no. AT9v4 is a full on city builder! It focuses around rail transport (be it cargo or passengers). But, soon (very soon!) you will find yourself managing truck routes and distribution centers, setting up passenger bus lines, playing the stock market, and even taking a leisurely cruise around the nearest ocean bay or scenic lake on your yacht.Never before has learning to juggle been so much fun!The initial challenge is learning what menus offer which commands. And. there be menus aplenty! Some menus are quite obvious, lining the top and sides, and bottom of the game window. Other menus are only found by clicking on various vehicles, buildings, and intersections. Yes, I said intersections. Did you know you can change the stoplight settings for each individual intersection? Well, you can. Because, all those menus equal player control. And, AT9v4 seeks to give the player as much control as possible.It does take some time to get used to using all that control. Setting up train speeds and truck routes and laying out rail lines and roads and setting up factories and telling everything where to go and when can be a lot to churn through. Oh, yeah, this is all while trying to remember to buy low and sell high on the markets and make sure there are enough power stations to keep the lights on and making sure supplies are evenly distributed sufficiently so that all your cities and towns and villages and suburbs have the resources they need to go about building and whatnot.Yes, by the way, your virtural AT9v4 denizens will grab available supplies and build up the city organically and on their own, in addition to the buildings you place yourself.Does it all take time to become familiar with? Yes, quite a bit. Can it feel a bit overwhelming at first? Meh, only about as much as getting a 747 off the ground with no prior flight experience. But, once you sort it out (there are plenty of helpful videos online!), is it rewarding? Absolutely!Hands down, this is one of my favorite simulation games ever. Period. Whether I want to strive ever onward towards a grand, profitable, and aestehtically amazing metropolis, or if I just want to sit back and take a leisurely ride on one my trains watching the scenery pass by, AT9v4 pretty much does it all.PROS:- Unparalleled levels of player control.- Great attention to detail (watching the little tiny brake lights light up on the little tiny trucks always makes me smile).- Very accurate Japanese theme.- Infinitely customizable maps.- Many ways to approach and play the game (just play it in map creation mode if you don't want to worry about resources, for example).- Interconnected systems that work dynamically together (rail, road, manufacturing, etc.).- Good environmental effects.- Automatic, organic growth of population and structures.CONS:- Steep learning curve.- Will require a pretty solid PC rig to get the most out the game.- Lack of tutorials or in-depth, in-game explanations for the many features (there is an online instruction manual that will launch in your browser).. A-Train allows me to reproduce the same failures than Transpennine Express in UK. 11/10. On the fence but no can not recommend this game sadly, especially at this price point. Some say it's rich and complex, yet when you begin to peel back the layers, at least I find that's not the case. The AI builds randomly in a hodge podge of buildings mixing in residential with industry and industry with agriculture resulting in not being able to build a realistic city; that is without without reserving all the land and placing buildings yourself or building directly in the editor. If I wanted to place all my buildings I'd be playing another city builder that also includes transport, 3 come to mind. Realistic growth is not possible from the AI and that's a shame, in fact it's a game breaker for me. For those that think I did not give it enough time I was a version 3 owner, so familiar with the basic of the game from the start, frankly I had the same complaints with the prior version but had not played it in so long had forgotten why I disliked it.Scheduling trains and laying out track and roads is where the meat of the game is, but once you realize you have little control over how your city develops all the fun goes away, sure you can supply parts of the city differently with goods and passengers but the ai is still going to build randomly regardless. I'm not looking for simcity zoning here, but an AI that follows my lead at least a little when I place a subsidiary is what I would like to see. A moderator or dev here mentioned making some videos, should those show my points wrong I will gladly change my review. If you don't mind placing all your buildings yourself or using the editor to build cities then this game may be for you, but if you want your city to grow organically around you in a semi-realistic manner I'd have to say look elsewhere.. Relaxing game.Lots of building/station structure variety.Nice to have automatic city development configuration and watch the city develops automatically.Could develop underground station/depot.
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