Train Simulator: DR BR 86 Loco Add-On
A hand-fired German tank engine for people who consider shovel timing a puzzle. Everyone else will bounce off it in twenty minutes.
GamerScout Verdict
Worth it only if you already run Train Simulator routes and genuinely enjoy hand-firing a boiler.
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About Train Simulator: DR BR 86 Loco Add-On
Twelve minutes into a short freight run, my boiler pressure dropped below the line and the injector started fighting me, and I realised I had been shovelling on instinct instead of on a rhythm. That is the whole loop here. This 2-8-2 tank engine from Dovetail arrived in 2015 as an add-on for Train Simulator, and its appeal is entirely in the manual fire management: coal placement, damper and blower settings, water level, and the constant balancing act between having enough steam for the next grade and not wasting it sitting in a loop waiting for a signal. The honest limitation is scope. You get one locomotive, a handful of scenarios, and whatever the Workshop community has built, which for a German branch-line freight machine is not a deep well. Steam reviews sit mixed at around 60 percent positive across a tiny sample, and the complaints are the usual add-on ones: thin scenario count, and cab detail that varies depending on which route you drop it onto. There is no tutorial that teaches hand firing properly, so newcomers should expect to read a forum thread before their first successful run. If you already own the routes and enjoy the fireman's job more than the driver's, this is a good few evenings. If you want scenery and schedules, look elsewhere in the catalogue.
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System Requirements
Minimum
- Processor
- 2.8 GHz Core 2 Duo (3.2 GHz Core 2 Duo recommended), AMD Athlon MP (multiprocessor variant or comparable processors)
- Memory
- 2 GB RAM
- Graphics
- 512 MB with Pixe…
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Game Info
- Developer
- Dovetail Games
- Publisher
- Dovetail Games - Trains
- Release Date
- Oct 20, 2015
