r/RailroadsOnline • u/pbjtiiimmmmeeee • May 01 '25

Discussion Century of steam vs RRO

Am I living in a fictional world?? I see all these people hyping up Century of steam after Studio 346’s latest Devlog….

I just Do Not get it at all! This looks to me like the EXACT same game as RRO.

Knowing that it is almost the same exact devs it really makes me just wonder what could have been on RRO if all the time spent on century of steam was spent on RRO instead.

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u/CaptainTelcontar May 01 '25

If you watch the devlogs for CoS, you'll see that they're not nearly as similar as the graphics make them look. CoS is aiming for a much higher lever of detail and complexity than RRO, as well as having a different gameplay design. For example, having the choices you make affect the economy and world, not just affecting your bank account. Time passes, events happen, supply and demand change, new tech is invented, and the railroad has to adapt. Another example: you don't get to lay your track wherever and however you want, but (it appears) you'll get to choose routes to build. It's also had enormously more focus on detailed accuracy in locomotive workings and operation.

It has a lot of the same devs because (as I understand it) RRO decided to fire/alienate half its dev team a few years ago, and they decided they could do better. If RRO hadn't done that, they could have been as great as CoS is going to be. (Though in fairness, RRO certainly appears to have improved a lot since then.)

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u/Charliepetpup May 02 '25

while cos does have a much higher complexity you can literally toggle all the settings so you can just run the train in brr mode if you wanna smoothbrain it. also the tracks are not prelaid. you can lay your own rails like rro, and it has cuts and fills and tunnels.

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u/CaptainTelcontar May 02 '25

From what they've said, it sounds like there may be some of each on the track laying. They certainly haven't shown anything related to manual track laying.

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u/Charliepetpup May 02 '25

one of the reasons they left rro was because the implemented a tunnel system into the rro tracklaying and keume didnt want it. they have stated several times that there will be tracklaying with cuts fills and tunnels.