I spent 200 hours building the most realistic railroad in Transport Fever 2 

Welcome to RU-vid. And Train Sim Genre in general.

i agree

Thank you very much :)

Would be a cool feature if the let you drive the vehicles in the game.

Thanks! As for junctions at stations only thing I can add, is that I inspired real layouts. Mariupol Terminal is heavily modernized real Mariupol station, Sartana is a little modernized copy of real one, and Aslanovo is a partial copy of Budapest Keleti (without shunting/depot tracks).

I actually have a question, if you look at 33:47, 33:50, you can see two opposite traffic lights at the middle track. Does it cause any conflicts or actually allow trains to go either direction?

Those traffic lights are actually just an assets. Every station should have entrance traffic lights (the one with 4 lenses or more) on each track, including the oncoming tracks, where trains usually go in opposite direction. So yeah, this two lights are assets that have to be there to make it more realistic. They don't affect game logic. And you can notice it's the same before and after every station, e.g. 11:08

Thank you very much! I recommend you to check two other videos on my channel, one is this map before Mariupol rebuild with high speed passenger route. And the second with a calm scenic ride along the reservoir. I've spent a lot of time and effort on those as well :)

Thank you very much 😊

Thank you! I'm working on a new video, I hope it will be ready in another 3 months. As for now, maybe you should check other videos on my channel :)

Thank you very much 😊

Yeah, that would be very cool Thanks :)

Thank you! I wish I could do anything with those glitches, but they are just happening when you move from South to North or vice versa. On east - west and back it looks fine. Miracle..

Thank you! I'll try to record some building process with commentary, but can't promise anything as I never did such thing

The map is 12x52km. The biggest one 1:5. And as for the PC, I have pretty powerful laptop, nevertheless I configured performance tuning mod to almost lowest possible settings, plus there is no more than 1-2 people in building. Less population, better for cpu. Btw, you can find full ride from top to bottom in my other video "Cab ride in the east of Ukraine"

Спасибо большое!

A little history. I created this map as a representation of the actual route between Volnovaha and Mariupol in (mostly) 1:1 scale, including stations layout. In real life 1st main station was "Mariupol" after that "Sartana freight station" 11km later, and than "Kalchik" 18km after that. You can check what it looked like in first two videos on my channel. This video is start of my experiment, what a modern high-speed line could look like (Line B), and so I had to modernize some tracks along the way, and also create "Mariupol Central", which responsibility is to merge 2 lines into one. My point is, it is placed so close to "Mariupol Terminal", that there is no way it could be considered a main station in real life, it's only like 6km away. In real life on this place there was a simple stop.

Yes, it's third mod in list

Спасибо) ну не все сразу, если б я ещё домики отдельно выставлял, совсем бы замахался)

Их теперь не только в игре не хватает...

Thanks! Map is megalomaniac 1:5. Part on video is smth like 1/4 of it I guess. And I didn't record any construction, so I guess I have nothing to suggest. Maybe I'll add some flyby in the next video, idk.

Well, I have lags. Very good noticeable when approaching Aslanovo, but performance tuning mod definitely helps. Still not enough to have stable 30fps everywhere :(

Спасибо! Думал об этом, но не знаю как сделать так что б было и понятно и интересно. Может как нибудь дойдут руки

To answer your question you'd better watch some other videos where people actually play game as it is intended to be - building lines, transporting passangers and cargo, etc. My video is not very representative in this sence because my main goal is to make a realistic looking line, with a bunch of mods, completely ignoring game economy, scale, and just how it's intended to be played in a first place. But anyway, considering overall game reviews, being 9/10 on steam, most likely you will like it.

Thanks :) No, just mods

@@metathron6307 thats unbelievable. great job dude.

@@metathron6307 this build deserves a series of its own. the amount of details are amazing. are you thinking anything like that?

you mean series like "Hello guys, in last episode we built this station and now let's continue build line to Volnovakha"? Or just recording another routes on this map?

@@metathron6307 yeah, like build and then a recording of the route you built

I have Lenovo legion laptop with 13900, 4080 and 32gb ram. Nevertheless I tweaked performance tuning mod to very low values 100m, 0.2, 5000m. Plus heavily decreased population - each building has maximum of 1 person living in, to reduce CPU load.

Is there some specific cool route? Maybe you could share the link? I don't know much about it

There is a mod list in a pinned comment, I'm not sure what else I can say. For switches there is a mod "Blades and levers"

I have Lenovo legion laptop with 13900 and 4080.

It's build manually from blocks with "joefried_viadukte". Same as a bridge before and bridge after it. I want to warn you though, it has not very "user friendly" interface. And thank you! I hope such kind comments and likes will help this video to become more popular.

@@metathron6307 oh i have this mod already, thank you. But yeah it is not very user friendly that’s why i didn’t recognise…

Both mods (for catenary and for the wire) have an OffsetX slider. I went to their source code and added similar slider for OffsetY. (although seems like new version of wire mod has this slider already, but I didn't try it) And so you place one catenary and wire -0.25m, next +0.25m and so on and so on

@@metathron6307 Wow that’s a ridiculous amount of work you put into that. I’m literally impressed that it „only“ (take that as a compliment) took you 200 hours to build the map. I actually would have thought that catanery only would have took 100 hours plus.

Well placing catenaries is complicated only at stations, especially Aslanovo. But between them it's not that hard. I mean for example 5km of track - catenary every 50m, so it's 100 catenaries and 100 wires, basically 200 clicks and some wheel scroll. It can take 10 minutes I guess? idk, maybe 20

@@metathron6307 Seems like I need to find some kind of routine for me as well :D

Thank you! As for curves transition, at some point I remembered about and tried to implement it in a couple of places, but not rebuilding what I had already. It's good noticeable on turns starting from 15:45

Step 1: manually place all roads as you like with "player ownership" enabled, so game can't add new or modify existing. Step 2: using "sandbox" game mod place as many cities side by side as needed, so they look like one big city.

Thanks for this, I will try it

Ok, I'll try to add something in the next video, thank you.

@@metathron6307 cool, thanks and I like your music choices aswell!

I'll add mod list to a video description in the next couple days

@@metathron6307 Thank you!

Времени много занимает да, но не могу сказать что я с ним мучаюсь, нормально по чуть чуть идет. Тем более если провода самому тянуть, не надо OffsetX подгонять под каждый столб, а это самый большой гемор. Я его еще немного под себя построил, что б сдвиг по Y был и зигзагом можно было прокладывать, что немного все усложняет, но все равно нормально. Пробовал еще сделать так, что б вместе со столбами автоматически тянулись провода ЛЭП, но там такой бородатый код, что я не справился. И да, спасибо большое за мод! Чисто из интереса, у тебя случаем нет планов добавить в него новых моделей? Например таких, у которых 2 подвеса, что б не нужно было по 2 столба рядом ставить на каждом участке?

mod list in a pinned comment :)

Спасибо) пока нигде, постараюсь выложить со следующим видосом как порядок наведу, в особенности в модах

@@metathron6307 круто) спасибо)

Thank you! I tried placing all buildings manually (my previous video), but that just takes to much time, so I don't plan to do it anymore. Also can you recommend some other fences mod? I would be happy to use something better

@@metathron6307 I don’t know the exact names on all of the mods but on the workshop there are a lot of great ones. I think there is a Russian pack names like VK fences which fits in well here. Also in the pack you already have there are a lot of other types of fences you can use. Remember that fences are one of the best detailing this to make it look alive along with vegetation. But you have made a good job with your world, I am kinda jealous.

Yeah, that's true. If only they created some "hard mode", where shunting is a necessity and you have to switch locomotives, uncouple loco to change direction, combine several trains into a big one as in real sorting yard, all this big stations would start to make sence, and gave much more depth to a gameplay. As a hard mode only though, as not everyone would like to bother with it. And besides that scale of everything is too small, and I wish they changed it in a next game. Unfortunately, I'm pretty sure that won't happen. First one because it's too complicated, and second because of performance impact.

@@metathron6307 I won't expect something like that, tbh, but I was always a bit disappointed that the TF modding community is so fixed on visuals, compared to Cities Skylines, for example, where some mods really changed the ways you design your networks. But from Urban Games, I'd be satisfied with a game that looks more coherent, more natural.

It's not really that it's fixed on something, it's just that you are very limited as to what you can change with mods. For example you just can't create tmpe or intersection marking tool in TF2

@@metathron6307 fixed by necessity, then. ;) Anyway, I hope future games are more open.

1. Based on reality. This map was initially (you can find in my previous videos) based on a real Mariupol city - same station layouts, similar city and overall railway layout, etc. Now I tried to modernize it to check how it could look if city had a lot of money and had a task to create high speed railway, but anyway. 2. Scale. In TF2 everything is scaled down, cities are small, stations are small, trains start and brake much faster than irl, they go through corners much faster, you usually have trains coming right one after a other to transfer more cargo. I tried to revert all of this - city is the size of a real city, I adjust acceleration and breaking speed, cargo train is ~800m long as it would be in a real life, etc. 3. Railway tracks. Every switch has a blades at the end pointed in a correct direction (unlike base game). All catenaries and wires are placed manually and they have a meaning - you can try to follow every wire and you'll find a place where it starts, where it ends and why. Also wires are placed in zigzag like in real life to have less wear on pantograph and are split on 1km long sections, where ones are replaced by another. Also if take a look at ballast (especially at stations) it is much smoother and not just cuts as if it's some H0 model. 4. Overall level of detail. Along the tracks there is various grass, some bushes, trees of different sizes, fields, houses, factories etc. With base game it's just a track and a green grass around. 5. Sound. What you are hearing is a samples of real ukrainian or russian (I'm not sure) passenger wagons, and even though it doesn't always fit, I still find it better than clacks from the base game. And just overall level of immersion, with adjusted FOV, these sounds, some added blur, when train goes 140km/h to me it feels like it's really pushing speeeeed. Maybe saying "the most" is too much, but I've never seen videos with so many little details (maybe such exist, and I would be happy if you could share the link). There are plenty of more realistic screenshots, but not videos (and it's easier to make a good screenshot, because it's only one exact frame you need to make good, not 30 minutes).

@@metathron6307 based

That is my own modification based on sounds from this mod. Should have included it, but forgot as it's technically not in my mods list. steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3123347962

I'll try to it with the next video, because it would take a lot of time I don't have right now.

@@metathron6307 waiting for it bro btw love your work

yep

@@metathron6307 That's amazing. I enjoyed the video

I think it's from the game music list

Yes, it's Admiral James T - Plawn Movie, from the game list.

Thank you! Although for the next video I'll have to use RailJet or something, as there are no mods for Ukrainian high speed trains

yep, except buildings.

@@metathron6307 because my game just have a small city, how can you build a big cities?

Don't worry. Mariupol is being rebuilt at a really fast pace... This is amazing. :D

@@msebastien24 oh, russian news’ boy. You know better sitting in France.

@@thegldfnch There are a lot of videos on RU-vid. New videos are published everyday by locals. Thanks to that, I can follow the reconstruction almost in real time.

@@msebastien24 for sure 👍

@@msebastien24 пришли, повзрывали дома, теперь отстраивают. Нам работы меньше будет.

next video will be on this map as well, I'm planning to do long high speed ride

Not yet, maybe I'll publish it with the next video.

@@metathron6307 thanks!