ICE-T "Snowy Winter's Day" Scenario

[Janine]

It's part of one of the 99 achievement scenarios, and since I love driving the ICE-T, I gave this one a shot. But oh boy, this one is not human. Getting to Harburg is not the problem, even though you can only break at 22% power, and suddenly after raising to 35% power. If you break harder, you get wheelslip, so yeah ... have fun stopping this train from 200 km/h to nuffin. The arrival time of Lüneburg is simply not possible to achieve. Funny however is that you get plenty of time between Lüneburg and Ülzen ... if you drive well, you will be one minute early in Ülzen. So why couldn't they just move the arrival time at Lüneburg back by two minutes, from 22:29 to 22:31? Then you could be on time at every station.

There is another thing which brought me to frustration: Sometimes, the LZB changed to a red light and "000" speed and then the entire Christmas tree started blinking and beeping. Five seconds after, it changed back to the usual trackspeed and green light. I always thought I have to start braking, and once it even stayed for quite long and I had to brake more than 35% to be able to stop before the fake red light which changed just half a kilometer before I reached it, back to green. Of course I got wheelslip, and I already had penalties for the late arrival at Lüneburg. Eventually, I finished the scenario with 774 points, silver star ... a large gap away from a gold star and the first time not reaching 1000 points except in that really hard second Surfliner scenario where I got 988 out of 1000 points.