When a sale came up in April for Train Sim World I jumped on it and ended up buying the Deluxe edition on Steam (I bought one for my father as well who has been into trains and train simulations for a long time). Still, in this time of needing to socially isolate and all travel plans for the summer being cancelled, I’m finding operating a train to be a way to at least slightly satisfy the desire to travel and explore not unlike some of the flying I’ve done in X-Plane. When a train simulation comes up it all seems a little less exotic and a bit more mundane… more grounded if you’ll pardon the pun. How many of us get the chance to fly a vintage warbird or launch an F/A-18 off a carrier deck? There’s an exotic quality to the experience. I sometimes tell people in a sheepish fashion that yes I do enjoy flight simulations (and I write a blog about them) and that they let me get the experience of flying aircraft in ways or situations that I’d otherwise never have the chance of experiencing in real life.
You’re playing a train simulator? With HUD on, Train Simulator World provides plenty of cues (if you want them) on when and where to stop and what speed you traveling at. Today I wanted to look at a simulation that I’ve recently been enjoying – Train Sim World 2020. I’ve occasionally covered Star Citizen and made the odd reference to Battlefield, Call of Duty and other entertainment titles out there when I think they have something interesting to consider in the context of flight sims. From time to time I like to divert from my normal content on the Stormbirds.blog and write about something else that is maybe just loosely related to flight simulation.