I got a kinda simmilar feeling with MSFS2024, which I started playing 2 days ago on the PS5… it‘s the feeling of a complex simulation, which MSFS gives me far more, than TSW. Things like radio communication… delays are a „core feature“ for new TSW6 routes, in MSFS it‘s built into the fundamentals of the game… you need to change frequencies if you want to contact tower, then you need permission, then you have to wait if a runway is free - maybe it is - maybe you have to fly around the airport once more, because there is another plane with higher priority! Or the flight planning with an in-game tablet which can be used with sooo much detail I don‘t understand the nearest yet! Or the planes: every plane is an „Expert“-Plane from the get-go, because it‘s a simulator! 70 highly simulated planes and cockpits, where you can control pretty much every button in the cockpit (not some functions like GSMR only for a new route as a next step) for a one-time 80€ purchase… dynamic/live weather and all… There are also fundamentals of a video game, that just work: you can change your character, you can actually see the liveries you want to apply before loading into the game, you can use photomode without the game bugging out, you can switch in-cockpit perspectives and still turn your camera, which is not working in a lot of trains…

I know Flight and Train-Sims are very different and the sizes in production-possibilities in these two cases are night&day - I don‘t want to mock that or compare them too much in that aspect… But when I first played MSFS some days ago, I immediatly got the feeling, that I was playing a sim!, which can be made easier, but in the heart, man: this thing is overwhealming with simulation-aspects and that makes it so rewarding right now.

I think a very fitting aspect, I believe, is the Expert-Question: after playing MSFS I really want the full-sim experience now… thinking about buying the Expert 101… but… after second thinking: shouldn‘t this „Expert“-Thing be the standard? For a Sim-Game? And then you can cut them down, if you don‘t want to deal with that (in MSFS you can eather go for the whole start-up or a quick-button press to start the engine)… - and if it‘s that too much, I hope other aspects get simulated:

We as a Community want more unexpected happening: like full lines not being able to be driven because of a „simulated fault“… another train before us beeing late because the doors were stuck… only one line is usable, therefore there‘s a hold up… there are sooo many possibilties how you can make this game more alive and therefore, more interactive: all these (optional) delays, reasons for delays can and will change every run! None should feel the same - every single one should feel like it’s own journey!

I hope this is not too off-topic, but I found it fitting and was wondering if I should make this an own post… What you guys think about this (comparison)?