New Germany DLC adds new map, engines and tradable goods

Kalypso Media’s hit rail management simulator, Railway Empire, is laying down tracks into Deutschland with the new Germany DLC pack, available now for Steam-PC.

The Germany DLC introduces the historic country to the game with 59 new cities and reworked city buildings to add to players’ extensive rail networks. Conductors will play through the new Patchwork scenario (1850-1870) and the new concession feature, where players buy concessions to access new building grounds. There’s also access to ten historical engines including the Adler and the Rhein to power the trains across the German countryside. Also available are twelve new tradeable goods, including canned kraut and cuckoo clocks, to increase revenue and eight music tracks to make the journeys across the German countryside all the more enjoyable. A new gameplay trailer is available showing the new German DLC in action.

In addition to the new DLC, Free Content Update 1.8 is also live now for all platforms.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wvc88fY4ajA


Information
Title: Railway Empire: Germany
Platform(s): Windows PC, PlayStation®4, Xbox One, Linux
Developer: Gaming Minds Studios
Genre: Simulation, management
Release: Out now
Hashtag(s): #RailwayEmpire
Code requests: Keymailer

https://store.steampowered.com/app/884143/Railway_Empire__Germany/

Tycoons!
Today we will release the free Community Update #1 (version 1.8) on all platforms.
The new update adds many community-requested features, including new buildings and functionalities to the game.

More details:

• Terminal station (4 tracks)
  
• Terminal station (4 tracks) with signaling control
  
• Train station (2 tracks) with signaling control
  
• Warehouse (2 tracks)
  
• Warehouse (2 tracks) with signaling control
  
• Maintenance station (4 tracks) with signaling control

• Confirm with “Enter” key while in track construction or accepting a dialogue.
  
• “Delete” key can now be used for deleting the selected train (confirmation required), or planning (no confirmation required).
  
• “Backspace” key will cancel various actions.

• Difficulty for tasks
  
  • Regular
    
  • Professional
    
  • Trainiac
• Increasing option for costs for tracks / bridges / tunnels
  
  • 100%
    
  • 150%
    
  • 200%
• Increasing construction costs (This option lets you decide if the construction of railroad stations and businesses should become increasingly expensive over time)
  
  • Off
    
  • 100% … 200%
    
  • 100% … 300%
• Income from transports (With this option, the income for freight, passengers and mail can be reduced)
  
  • Regular
    
  • 200%
    
  • 300%
• Innovation points (This option enables the reduction of monthly innovation points)
  
  • Regular
    
  • 75%
    
  • 50%
• Service costs
  
  • Regular
    
  • 200%
    
  • 300%
• Stealing staff
  
  • On/Off
• Mergers
  
  • On/Off

• Main menu theme can now be changed in the graphic options.
  
• The task list now shows if tasks have been completed in half the time.
  
• The minimap now shows if a new building can be constructed in a city, and if more than one tycoon has a train station in a city.
  
• Tracks may be deleted, even if a train is currently using it. Affected trains are set back to their origin city.
  
• The maximum number of warehouses and parallel tracks allowed has been raised.
  
• Setting the amount of wagons to maximum or minimum can now be done with one click.
  
• If a station is deleted and a new station is placed at the position of the old station, trains that went to the old station will also travel to the new station. But only, if the new station was built 3-12 months after the old station was deleted depending on the duration of the game.

Fixes:

• Fixed: Q and E keys had no function, when a non-rotatable building was selected.
  
• Fixed: Show name of good in tooltip at freight station.
  
• Fixed: Duplicate money type letter in localization, when player buys 100 % share of competitor.
  
• Fixed: Set employees to state noticed, if hired with bulk hiring. Because of this, no star appeared in the train dialog at a personnel button, if there are no unnoticed personnel.
  
• Fixed: Description was not updated, when train route was changed, while loading wares.
  
• Fixed: Bug that occurred, when cloning trains, which had names ending with a number.
  
• Fixed: Sometimes highlighting was broken when factories were deleted.
  
• Fixed: Town and farm icons were sometimes displayed during ride-along camera.
  
• Fixed: Controller Pad navigation in train list has been reworked.

• Combined European tech tree:

All engines from “Mexico”, “Crossing the Andes”, “Great Britain & Ireland”, “Germany” and “France” are playable on European maps, if the appropriate DLCs are selected.


Additionally, we have updated our development roadmap accordingly:

Attention passengers, your next Railway Empire journey to Germany begins on March 1st 2019 on Steam!

Travellers without a valid ticket for ‘Germany’ will still receive a free content update (Community Update 1.8) on the same day as the DLC launch, adding new buildings and features to the game.

Full steam ahead!

Tycoons!
The free Community Update #1 (version 1.8) will add many community-requested features, including new buildings and functionalities to the game.
More details as follows:

New Railway Buildings:

• Terminal station (4 tracks)
  
• Terminal station (4 tracks) with signaling control
  
• Train station (2 tracks) with signaling control
  
• Warehouse (2 tracks)
  
• Warehouse (2 tracks) with signaling control
  
• Maintenance station (4 tracks) with signaling control.

New Hotkeys:

• Confirm with “Enter”- Button, while in track construction or accepting a dialogue.
  
• “Delete”- Button can be used for deleting the selected train (confirmation required), or planning (no confirmation required).
  
• “Backspace” - Button will cancel different actions.

Advanced settings for ‘Free Mode’ have been added:
Those include:

• Difficulty for Tasks. Three difficulty settings
  
  • Regular
    
  • Professional
    
  • Trainiac
• Increasing option for costs for tracks / bridges / tunnels. Three different settings
  
  • 100%
    
  • 150%
    
  • 200%
• Increasing construction costs. Three different settings
  
  • Off
    
  • 100% … 200%
    
  • 100% … 300%
• Income from transports. Three different settings
  
  • Regular
    
  • 200%
    
  • 300%
• Innovation points. Three different settings
  
  • Regular
    
  • 75%
    
  • 50%
• Service costs. Three different settings
  
  • Regular
    
  • 200%
    
  • 300%
• Enabling/Disabling of stealing staff.
  
• Enabling/Disabling of Mergers

Other Features:

• Task list now shows, if tasks have been completed in half of the time.
  
• The minimap now shows, if a new building can be constructed in a city and if more than one Tycoon has a train station in a city.
  
• Tracks may be deleted, even if a train is currently using it. Affected trains are set back to their origin city.
  
• Maximum allowed number of warehouses and parallel tracks have been raised.
  
• Setting the amount of wagons to max or min can now be done with one click.

Note for DLC - Owners:

• Combined European tech tree:
  All engines from “Mexico”, “Crossing the Andes”, “Great Britain & Ireland”, “Germany” and “France” are playable on the European maps, if the appropriate DLCs are selected.

Feel free to share feedback in the exclusive public beta community hub on Steam:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/503940/discussions/7/

Tycoons,
We have released a new hotfix for Railway Empire version 1.7 and the Great Britain & Ireland DLC.

• Fixed a bug that deleted supply towers when tracks were being deleted.
  
• The mini map now shows both owners of stations in a town.

• Fixed Union Jack in the main menu artwork.
  
• Added ‘Big Ben‘ (today’s Elizabeth Tower) in London.
  
  • A new game needs to be started in order to see this change/addition.
• Now the golden eagle has replaced the white-tailed eagle.
  
• Pound currency will now be shown instead of dollars.
  
  • However, the dollar-sign ($) is still used as symbol for the universal “buy” action.
• Only steel and stone bridges will now be used, instead of wooden bridges.
  
• Increased the probability of bad weather.
  
  • Sometimes it is supposed to rain in the British Isles, right?
• Removed American wooden huts in cities and have replaced them with more British-looking residences.

We are planning further improvements based on community feedback for the Great Britain & Ireland DLC as well as the main game for next year.

In addition, we are sticking to the development roadmap we have recently released.
Console players will receive the changes of this hotfix at a later date, most likely with the next major update.

Hit rail simulation’s Euro tour begins with huge map expansion plus new trains, goods and scenario

After laying down thousands of miles of tracks in North and South America, Kalypso Media is letting tycoons loose across Europe, starting today with the launch of the Great Britain & Ireland DLC for Railway Empire.

In Great Britain & Ireland, players will travel to the home of the first steam engines in an age of unprecedented progress and technological innovation. Industrial city centres are booming and the streets and waters are no longer enough to keep up with the ever-changing landscape of commerce. Locomotives are the future but not everyone sees it that way, and you’ll have build respect and social standing as you battle rival companies to the top.

The new DLC includes the ‘Great Britain & Ireland’ map expansion for Free Game and Sandbox modes, and tasks players with a new scenario. New music tracks and reworked city buildings are accompanied by 10 new historical engines (including the Rocket 0-2-2 and Firefly 0-2-0, 13 new tradeable goods like cider and whisky, and 45 new cities to explore.

Check out the launch trailer for Great Britain & Ireland below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbIz7X-bonQ

The release of Great Britain & Ireland also coincides with the release of the 1.7 ‘Stock Market’ update for Railway Empire on all formats.
Full changelog can be found here:
https://steamcommunity.com/games/503940/announcements/detail/3222787006935439653

The update introduces new platform customizations, with stations and warehouses receiving upgradeable signal stations that give trains the option of which platform to stop at. Trains will automatically choose the platform that is least busy, reducing idle time while other trains are being serviced. The ‘Analyst’ has also been added to the staff, who will cause mayhem on the stock market by placing false reports to manipulate the value of companies! Acquiring a company has also been smoothed over, with players now able to own 100% of a company without having to follow through with a full merger.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/884141/Railway_Empire__Great_Britain__Ireland/

Tycoons,
we have released the latest free update 1.7.

• Dynamic platform choice
  
  • Large train stations and warehouses can now be upgraded with a signaling control. All trains passing or stopping at such a station will make their own choice of platform.
    Trains will then always choose the platform which is the least busy at that time, which will then reduce idle time at highly frequented stations.
    During the creation of train lines, routing to a specific platform is not available at train stations with a signaling control.
    
  • Another use of train stations with a signaling control is the ability to reduce idle times caused by maintenance of engines. While a locomotive engine is serviced at a station with signaling control, other trains entering the station will choose a different platform automatically.
    For highly frequented lines, an additional warehouse with signaling control and maintenance shed can be constructed.
    Trains that need to be serviced will stop at the warehouse, while other trains will pass the warehouse on a free track.
  
  
• New Staff member has been added
  
  • The Analyst will cause hysteria on the stock market by planting false reports to increase ordecrease the share price of a company.
  
  
• Banks / Finance update
  
  • It is now possible to acquire 100% of a company’s shares without merging with it. In such an event, the player will automatically receive all surplus of the company. It will no longer be able to expand, but will continue to do business as usual. This state can only be change by a merger with that company.

• Some seed values of random scenarios have not been processed correctly during input.
  Awards, which have already been paid out for connecting a city or a business, will not be offered again.
  
• Added a video tooltip and manual entry for the dynamic platform choice station.
  
• Rearranged building menu, such that the supply tower is on the first page.

• [Great Britain & Ireland DLC] Based on community feedback, we have replaced the flat roofs of some buildings with gable roofs.

• Dynamic platform choice
  
  • Large train stations and warehouses can now be upgraded with a signaling control. All trains passing or stopping at such a station will make their own choice of platform.
    Trains will then always choose the platform which is the least busy at that time, which will then reduce idle time at highly frequented stations.
    During the creation of train lines, routing to a specific platform is not available at train stations with a signaling control.
    
  • Another use of train stations with a signaling control is the ability to reduce idle times caused by maintenance of engines. While a locomotive engine is serviced at a station with signaling control, other trains entering the station will choose a different platform automatically.
    For highly frequented lines, an additional warehouse with signaling control and maintenance shed can be constructed.
    Trains that need to be serviced will stop at the warehouse, while other trains will pass the warehouse on a free track.
  
  
• New Staff member has been added
  
  • The Analyst will cause hysteria on the stock market by planting false reports to increase ordecrease the share price of a company.
  
  
• Banks / Finance update
  
  • It is now possible to acquire 100% of a company’s shares without merging with it. In such an event, the player will automatically receive all surplus of the company. It will no longer be able to expand, but will continue to do business as usual. This state can only be change by a merger with that company.

• Some seed values of random scenarios have not been processed correctly during input.
  Awards, which have already been paid out for connecting a city or a business, will not be offered again.

More details coming soon!

Take the high road in the mountainous new DLC expansion for Railway Empire

You’ve already taken your Railway Empire far and wide, and now it’s time to go high and low! Kalypso Media is excited to announce that the next exciting adventure for Railway Empire is available now: Crossing the Andes. In this latest DLC expansion, you’ll take on new journeys in the depths of South America in the early 20th century, where a hoard of exotic new resources are ripe for the picking and plans for crossing the Andes by train are drawing attention from investors. Unforgiving mountains and relentless jungle terrains will make this challenge a tough one for even the most experienced tycoons.

New features in Crossing the Andes include a trio of new scenarios covering the early history of railway pioneers in the Andes, a brand-new ‘South America’ map for in Free Game and Sandbox modes, more than 10 new goods including llama wool and guano, 34 new cities to discover and two new engines to power you expanding network – the Kitson-Meyer (0-8-6-0) and the Garratt (2-6-0-0-6-2).
Check out all the new features in action in the brand-new trailer below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Y_I4X5tkTo

Crossing the Andes is available now worldwide on PC, PlayStation®4 and Xbox One!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/884140/Railway_Empire__Crossing_the_Andes/
Disclaimer: Full game of Railway Empire required to play the Crossing the Andes DLC.