(link) Another set of captures from a multi-set documentation of a 70mile TSC drive. (link) The drive itself occurred weeks ago. I'm spacing individual set postings so as to not overwhelm my TSC Forums audience (such as it is).

(link) Screenshot from the beginning of a stopping passenger service on Chatham Main Line route, the train pulled by a GAD-enhanced DT LSWR Adams Radial Tank steam loco. (link)

When not driving steam locos in Train Simulator, I'm mostly playing 4-suit Online Spider Solitaire.

Decrepit, nice shots. Great to see you're still enjoying the train sims.

Star Wars: Rebellion


In the final stretch now; one more sector to conquer and then I OWN the galaxy!

Hit a snag in Elden Ring. Sure after my flawless victory against Rykard the game got mad at me and decided to put a pause on my Elden Lord conquest. I'm down to three difficult bosses:

Maleina-I swear she gains more health and gets stronger the more you lose to her. It gets more harder trying to get to her second phase with each loss.

Maliketh: This dude is strong AND fast! Black Knife Tishe might be the only way to fight him.

Dragonlord Phanax: Tough secret boss but doable with the right set up.

Today saw the last session of this playthrough. Last sector only had two systems I had to take, and one of them had the rebel base so I didn't really have to assault it, just bombard it and then the credits rolled.

Good playthough but as with most it seriously lacked a good fight between two massive fleets. I had twelve Super Star Destroyers when only about five would have been enough. I must have changed how I play because back in the day I used to have many space battles against huge rebel fleets. That's why I have so many SSD:s these days so as to not be overwhelmed.

Anyway; Emperor Palpsie is back at Coruscant which also hold all rebel captives and I left Vader in command of the Main Fleet. And with the rebel base destroyed and all its leaders captive, order has once again been restored to the galaxy.


Thank you and good night!

My sister got me the Steam version of Hogwarts Legacy. So far I'm loving it, it's a beautiful game and very relaxing. Hell I might have to retire or put Elden Ring on the back burner for awhile.

I'm still ensorceled by Dragon's Dogma here... Gosh, that game is good... Not huge or endless, and yet... just can't stop playing it. Must be a binding curse.

Well, you said it yourself:


That'll be it

Coming soon Microsoft flight simulator for PC/Xbox and Valis Legacy Collection 2 for the Switch.

Finally I can play the true Valis IV!

Demonicon surprised me today. It's an old game with old graphics and slightly clunky movement, and I was ready to turn away from it after 15 minutes, but then something nudged me to try again a few hours later... Been playing it for the most of the day. There's something about that game... Is it blood magic? Demonic powers? Reminiscences of Dragon Age? Who knows. Remarkably, my feelings about it are very well reflected by the reviews: 5 stars and 1 star at the same time.

Good for people who love conversation, lore, codex, long unpronouncable names and an abundance of deities. So why am I still playing it then..?

Hogwarts Legacy is everything I ever wanted in an open Wizarding World rpg.

Khajiit is losing his mind. Currently working on four different games at the same time. First, I’m getting back into Fallout4, trying out the Sim Settlement 2 mod. Second, I’m playing Divinity Original Sin 2 every Wednesday with some friends online. Not the way I like playing games, and the story seems kinda dumb, but fighting stuff is fun. Third is Castlevania: Symphony of the Night on PS4. It’s part of a two game compilation called “Requiem” which also includes SotN’s prequel [i]Rondo of Blood. I’ve been trying to get into this game for a while, but it’s so different than my beloved Super Castlevania IV that it just hadn’t grabbed me. Then a couple of days ago, it just clicked. I’m enjoying it much better now! Lastly, after mowing through the Goldeneye rerelease on Switch, I dug out my PS2 and started playing Timesplitters: Future Perfect again. The story is cheesy and some of the humor hasn’t aged well, but it’s just a fun game and I love it!

The Timesplitters games were so so good. Miss that series.

Timesplitters...

I spent so much time in the mapmaker modes of TS1 and 2. I love stuff like that, which is probably why I like Fallout4’s building features so much. I didn’t actually play a lot of TS:Future Perfect so I never really got a good grasp on the upgrades the mapmaker got. I’m looking forward to spending some time with it!

The rights to the TS franchise were bought by THQ Nordic last year or the year before and they supposedly put the old Free Radical Design team back together, but I haven’t heard anything about a new TS game.


Lol indeed. Were you a fan Reaps?

I was anyway. Played that game in the middle of the night at a friend's house back in the early 2000s. After watching a movie and eating pizza of course

They were excellent “party games”. Much like their predecessors, Perfect Dark and Goldeneye 007 before that, the multiplayer modes offered so many options and playable characters to run around as. Of course if you wanted to play on PS2 with more than 2 people you had to buy one of those “multi taps”.

Oh, yes. So much fun was had with the map maker, trying to make something that made sense and where you could drive around. That was always my main goal; to be able to use a vehicle

The mapmaker in FP had vehicles?! Neat!

Well, at least when out of the maker and playing your map. It was always then I realized what dumb mistakes I made

Also, I don't remember which Timesplitters I played.

It sounds like you played Future Perfect (the third game). I don’t have as much experience with that one as I did 1 and 2.

Samesies. It's been a while since I have, but I still bust out the Gamecube once in a while to play it.

Huge fan of Time Splitter 2. Spent many hours making custom maps including the USS Enterprise. I wish I could have played Future Perfect.
My favorite characters in TS2 where "Elvis" and Venis Starr.

Yeah I can think of two BIG reasons Venus Starr could be many people’s favorite

Which brings me to my next point. Fans of the series understand that the oversexualization of *some* of the female characters specifically is parody of media in general, but this aspect of the series’ humor would probably not fly today.

I love listening to her moaning lol.

Oh lawd lol

Decided to buy Comrade Bioshock last night. Seems like an interesting game.

It did not get better. It just got so much worse.

The enemies continued to be generic space zombies and the creators clearly mistook frustration and repetition for scariness. I was genuinely shocked at how bad it was. Like, it was made by one of the Dead Space creators and I know Dead Space wasn't a fluke of a game. It was SO good! But Callisto Protocol was just a zombie with its arms hacked off and teeth removed. I was so disappointed in this game. I bought it for myself as a treat for finishing the calTPA but instead, it was what I should have bought myself as a punishment if I didn't pass.

The Mortuary Assistant is genuinely terrifying. You play as a woman hired to do autopsies and it turns out demons are involved. You need to find out which body is possessed and there are clues that appear as you progress with each body. There also seems to be some mental stuff for the main character to sort through as well and it's so horrifyingly done. I love it. I have a specific stuffed animal to clutch while I play.

That.... honestly sounds gross

I saw a video of that a little while ago. It was definitely creepy!

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Khajiit is currently playing something he never expected to. Yesterday, Mrs. Khajiit’s brother just gave us a copy of Star Wars: Jedi- Fallen Order for PS4. Now, this is a title that Khajiit avoided purchasing because it is, A.) categorized as a Souls-like game, and B.) the player character seemed uninteresting and worse, he is visually modeled after his voice actor who played a very memorable character in the Fox Batman prequel show Gotham that came out some years ago. Everytime Khajiit sees this guy’s face he sees that other character and there’s just a disconnect. Anyway, couldn’t really turn down a free game and so decided to give it a chance.

You play as a young man named Cal, who starts the game as a worker in a starship scrapyard where they are breaking up the big capital ships from the Clone Wars era for the Empire. It’s a bit sad to see all those Jedi Cruisers just getting junked. Just, thrown away, much like the Jedi who once commanded them. The scrap yard serves as the tutorial level where the game gets you accustomed to the controls. You traverse the world in a similar way as the Assassin’s Creed games. You can sprint, climb short ledges, particular surfaces, and ropes. Even run along walls eventually. The combat is very defensive based. Blocking and parrying is paramount to success in battle, at least at first. not sure how force powers will change that dynamic but the combat really does seem to be built around defense, which this one supposes fits the Jedi just fine. We found that deflecting blaster bolts feels especially good in this game, in our opinion. There’s a weighty thud as the bolt slams into your lightsaber blade, and a simultaneous “pew” sound as it screams back into the stormtrooper that shot it. Khajiit hasn’t made it that far into the game but so far we are liking it. We’ll see how much we like it when the difficulty ramps up.

Shadowrun Returns, chummers!

*Sees post about Fallen Order*
Yeah that didn’t take long to abandon

Slot it and run chummer.

Just remember: shoot straight, conserve ammo, and never, ever, cut a deal with a dragon.

Thought I'd download the Serpent Riders Trilogy from Steam (Heretic, Hexen and Hexen 2) and play them later on in the day.

Also, geek the mage first!


I remember playing one of the Hexen games a long time ago. I remember it being like a Doom game but with melee weapons and magic. Is that right?

Yep! Used the same engine as Doom and Heretic. The controls take A LOT getting used to as you can move and turn with the mouse and press <> keys to strafe and ? to jump. It's playable and fun.

I'm sure I once owned both Hexen and Heretic. Checking the ancient PC games housed on a high-up shelf in my computer room closet found neither. I must have trashed them at some point. Or maybe I didn't own the entire games but instead had demos of them on a floppy disk included with one of several PC gaming magazines I once subscribed to.

Man I used to love getting those demo cds in magazines! There was some pretty good stuff sometimes!

Same with my game of choice at the time; CyClones. Still have the game, box and everything that came with it. Don't think anyone is surprised


Those demo CD's were the best!

I think the only demo disk I ever played had Metal Gear Solid for the PS1. Had fun playing it and got me into the Metal Gear series.

Played some NES now. Took samples of Track and Field II, TMHT and Ice Climber, the last one being the actual cartridge from my childhood.

Just bought Hollow Knight on the Nintendo Switch for under $10. Since I’m still in the middle of my Shadowrun Returns playthrough, I only played a little bit of it. So far, I really like its mix of eerie and cute visuals, and its gameplay feels great. I can definitely see why it’s so highly regarded. With The Last Case of Benedict Fox coming out at the end of the month, April is looking to be a big Metroidvania purchasing month for me.

The Last Case of Benedict Fox. Classic “Metroidvania” gameplay wrapped in a Lovecraftian mystery. I’m loving it so far.

My primary PC recently decided to behave itself, thanks to nothing I did that I'm aware of. Yesterday afternoon, in celebration, I drove my first lengthy TSC QD ages. Below is a collection of images captured during the run's early phase:

(link) TSC: WCML: Trent Valley, Stafford to Rugby stopping passenger service. (link)

I think the ability to have a train from around 1900 run a 2000’s route is the best part of this. I didn’t know that the Greater Britain class, which at least looked familiar to me, even if I couldn’t name it without help, were so short-lived. Built 1892 to 1894 and all scrapped by 1907. So known only from models, physical or digital, as none got into museums or other collections.

Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.

Diablo II: Resurrected (and ESO of course).

Tiny Tina's Wonderlands.

Shoot and loot set in the world of the "Bunkers & Bad-asses" fantasy RPG. (Which doesn't exist outside of the Borderlands game, as far as I know). Currently playing as a multi-class Stabbomancer/Clawbringer.

I'm playing Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. It's an okay game.