August Beta

Hi all!

If you'd like to take an early look at the upcoming update you can now give it a try. Please note that this is a potentially unstable version, if you find any issues I'd appreciate if you could post about them in the forums or Discord.

Click below to see a full list of additions and changes:

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Tram A classic tram is now available as a train style. It combines a train and one passenger carriage into a single unit, and supports all the customisation options available for the standard train.

Cab Toys This update adds a new section to the Scenery menu which gives you the choice between a whistle or a bell on your train.

Utility Poles Utility Poles are a new decoration class which automatically attach wires between each prop you place. To start with there are two styles: Telephone Pole and a large Electricity Pylon

New Decorations There's a wide variety of new decorations including 10 new houses, 3 new passengers, and several large buildings like a sports stadium and motel.

Train Highlighting Certain actions could get awkward when you had a lot of trains. Now when you look at a train (or its carriages) you'll see a little arrow appear on top of it. With a train highlighted, any train-related actions will automatically apply to that train such as:

• Left Mouse click / Press T to drive it without opening the train menu

• Style options in the Scenery menu

• Adding carriages from the Toybox

Other changes:

• Replaced the font used for Latin and Cyrillic languages

• Tracks, Roads & Rivers now create unique crossings when they meet a variant of other type.

• Added pop-ups with key reminders and tips when using certain decorations for the first time

• Added the Hungarian language option back into the menu

• Several UI and quality of life improvements

• Fixed a crash on the tutorial when playing in Korean

• Improved the game's start up time and memory usage

• Optimised and reduced the size of the Sci-Fi DLC

• Fixed an issue when F5 is pressed

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Accessing the beta:

• Right click on Tracks in your Steam games list and click Properties

• Go to the **Betas **tab and choose the public_beta option from the Beta Participation dropdown menu (you don't need to enter a code)

• Steam will start downloading a new update, and Tracks should have a [public_beta] tag in the games list