ZuSi for professionals

[Edwin]

with the man behind the program himself
and a very nice full size control desk in front of him

[seagoon]

Translation of the intro text on the YT video........

"Sitting on a locomotive yourself and driving a train along the route - and doing it exactly like on the real train, that's the dream of many hobby railroaders.
This dream can be fulfilled, there are now some train simulators. But ZuSi is a very special one, because it is also used on simulators for real engine driver training.
Railway romance met the ZuSi inventor, Carsten Hölscher, at the North German Railway Technical School in Braunschweig.
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[Edwin]

expensive set up though, ranging between 60k and 100k Euros

[NorthernWarrior]

It's still £55 (GBP) on Steam which is a little rich for my taste. Also topically, given what's happened with TSW3 though hopefully soon to be rectified, you cannot save a run in progress. If it ever went on sale at 50% off I might try it, but thus far it's never received a substantial discount.

[haverfordwest]

Not my cup of tea, German railways.

Mike.

[seagoon]

It's still £55 (GBP) on Steam which is a little rich for my taste. ......

Mine too, Vern....and considering that (AFAIK) there is no English translation, it's not for me.

[WesternDivision]

Originally Posted by NorthernWarrior
If it ever went on sale at 50% off I might try it, but thus far it's never received a substantial discount.

Save your money Vern. I brought Zusi 3 over a year ago and used it for about 2 days, uninstalled it and deleted it from my steam library. Despite the physics and amazing advanced signal systems, it's basically drive from point A to point B on a scripted timetable that has some random variation.

It does have a scenario editor but doesn't have freedom of movement to explore routes and throw switches like Run 8 or even Trainz for that matter. The ability to have switching activities for freight trains and interacting with industries is none existent.
From memory it did come with some English translated manuals which where in the main folder. Zusi 3 has only been updated once in the past year, not what I would call good support for a program that is expensive.

Cheers
James

[NorthernWarrior]

Thanks James. I have also heard it doesn’t play nice with 4K/UHD displays, the old fixed sized font problem where it looks tiny and can’t be adjusted.

Will probably save my sale money for Trainz 22.

[haverfordwest]

Will probably save my sale money for Trainz 22.

What what !!! well how very dare you young man

Mike.

[ex-railwayman]

Will probably save my sale money for Trainz 22.

It does look good, and you can do what you like in the game with the editorial tools, and manually switch points on every route, of course, however, having purchased thousands of dollar's worth of British, European and North American locomotives, wagons, and routes, since 2006, plus other 3rd party DLC, I doubt any of it will play in this new version, I'm not sure their backwards compatibility will stretch to 16 years, and I'm positive every asset will need repairing beforehand, and that'd take months to do, so, there's no point in obtaining it, really.....

Cheerz. Steve.

[NorthernWarrior]

What what !!! well how very dare you young man

Mike.

Only if it's £30 or less Mike...

[haverfordwest]

You miser, hahahahahaha. I wouldn't buy Trainz off Steam at any cost Vern.

Always preferred to buy direct and as you probably know. I am not a big fan of Steam, under any circumstances, buddy.

As to faulty assets, the DLS has had a big updating of faulty assets and nothing that N3V sells is faulty.

Of course third part purchases are another matter. Depends on their level of care for their customer base.

Mike.

[seagoon]

Are we talking about ZuSi or Trainz?

[haverfordwest]

Trainz, Zusi is soooooooooo yesterday darling

Mike.

[NorthernWarrior]

In my case both, Bruce, though I’ve rarely seen Zusi 3 on sale with more than a 20% discount.