Of all the secrets that had to be kept during the first year of development, this is the one that killed me the most to not be able to share... "GUYS JUST LISTEN?!?!"

@TheOofertaffy

11 ай бұрын

It's ok Hyce. Now you are able to post it and all of us can experience eargasms!

@Armageddon_71

11 ай бұрын

Hearing the awesomeness now that must have eaten you up from the inside.

@WasatchWind

11 ай бұрын

Worth the wait. These are probably the best whistles I've heard in any train game. Hopefully they feel just as good to quill in game.

@lizzard3699

11 ай бұрын

THIS IS LITTERALLY THE COOLEST THING OMGOSH

@legdig

11 ай бұрын

Now I wanna know if you have a whistle for each single note so we can line up in the yard and play at being a calliope!

That echo simulation is wicked good.

@mudman3022

11 ай бұрын

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@Etienne_H

11 ай бұрын

Just some normal reverb

"Patent-pending sound software" that's when you know that the devs are some of the best is when they patent something entirely new in the process of making a game.

@joeclaymore

Жыл бұрын

Actually a lot of software companies are careful about saying they have a patent. Gives competitors the oppotunity to reverse engineer your tech. Albeit, this is damn cool whistle tech.

@moqube

11 ай бұрын

i don't know. didn't some patent an arrow pointing to a mission objective? and didn't nintendo try to patend being able to look at stuff or something like that?

@machintrucGaming

11 ай бұрын

Good thing software patents don't apply in europe then !

@connormclernon26

11 ай бұрын

@@moqubeBandai Namco patented interactive loading screens and it only expired in the last five years

@idemanddonuts

11 ай бұрын

I bet they're using a physics simulator to simulate the sounds.

Hearing the Huber 6-Chime made it smile so much. Knowing how proud Mark is of his own whistle is joyful!!

im so glad yall had it so you see the steam from the whistle before you hear it at a distance, because light is faster than sound

@andrewhofmann5453

11 ай бұрын

I was thinking the same thing.

@WhitzWolf92

11 ай бұрын

These crazy fools modeled the speed of sound...in a video game...for whistles. LOVE IT!

@TheSmokyMountain1495

11 ай бұрын

That was such a good touch, just…… *yes*

@CakePrincessCelestia

11 ай бұрын

@@WhitzWolf92 Probably for everything, to be fair. And I love it. That was one of the things that made my jaw drop like Linus drops hardware back in the day when Rise of Flight was released in 2009. Which BTW also had pretty well done trains, especially since it's a flight sim...

@Nafinafnaf

8 ай бұрын

​@@CakePrincessCelestiayeah, if you already have the basic frame of implementing the speed of sound you can basically add it to every directional sound in the game!

The commitment to little details like actually changing the whistle model to be accurate is beautiful.

My first thought was "Ah, good to see Hyce's been able to use all those whistle recordings he made for other games" but no, Hyce has taken a page from his grandpappy's book and made technological advancement.

I fully expected Mark to go “What’s up guys, this is Hyce” at the beginning but using his real name threw a curveball at me. 😂 Also the fact you put a Powell 3 chime in is just awesome. It’s one of my favorite whistles up there with the N&W Hooter. I can tell I’ll be using either whistle interchangeably when I get my hands on the game. That Powell is such a part of my childhood, watching the Thunder on the Rails VHS tape at my grandparents house.

@supernintenjoe974

11 ай бұрын

No way! I had that tape growing up too!! My mom bought it for me from a thrift shop when I was fourteen lol I loved that tape ❤

@JPofCT

8 ай бұрын

My god...I had it too, but forgot what it was called!

Man, I have never been happier to support a project than this one! Can't wait to see the final results!

The instant he said “simulate whistle” i was impressed. It sounds so real too!

The fact that you have created an entirely new sound system for this game is phenomenal and the fact all of the whistles are simulated is amazing! It sounds just beautiful, and not to mention that heavenly reverb!

I have the biggest, dumbest grin on my face hearing these whistles! So excited for this game!!!

@YoLo-bb2vc

11 ай бұрын

mine came at 5:11 because like hyce im biased to his wihistle its just such a powerful noice that announces your arrival

@buckduane1991

11 ай бұрын

@@YoLo-bb2vc the Powell 3 Chime did it for me… Nevada Northern #40 aka “the Ghost Train”, because during WWII the copper mining company had decided to scrap her since she was a 1910 10 wheeler… but the railroad crews loved her too much, so at night when they found out a scrapper search crew was going to check an area in the morning, they would fire her up and with all lights off and the firebox covered with planks to hide even the light from that would run her to a new location and camouflage her with anything not nailed down to hide her-causing the locals of Ely, McGill, Ruth, and Keystone, NV to say the railroad was “haunted by a ghost train” when they heard that whistle at crossings in the night but it was dark and no lights were visible, since the crews didn’t want to risk local lives as they moved her… needless to say, the locals of course recognized the whistle after 30 years of hearing it and were all in on it, but to the corporate goons who didn’t live there, it made them scratch their heads and spooked them in the night a few times. They did this over three years until the war ended and Kennecott Copper Corporation gave up the search. It’s the only thing that saved her and why we still have her today.

I'm so incredibly excited to be able to share this with you all! It's just too dang good!

@michaelbarrett5149

11 ай бұрын

I sure would love that game on nintendo switch that is if it becomes avaliable

@CakePrincessCelestia

11 ай бұрын

@@michaelbarrett5149 If only Switch wasn't running on 2012 silicon... anyway, being able to play this on handhelds decently sure would be great! That and VR.

I think my favorite thing about this is the long-distance shot where you can see the delay between pulling the whistle lever and the sound reaching the camera.

Hearing those whistles and the fact there's no audio files for them feels so spoiling, like this game shouldn't exist because there's no way somebody would go through those details and yet here I am watching a video of the people making that game, it's so awesome I'm so hyped for this game

If the whistles sound this good, I wonder how good a loco pulling a heavy freigh uphill will sound from the other side of the canyon

This game just bleeds passion. This is like with music, where you can tell just how much genuine love is being poured into it. I think this and BG3 are going to be the games with the most soul in them for the last 4 or more years.

These whistles are Beautiful. Absolutely breathtaking. I cant wait to try these whistles myself

0:55 Excuse me, *_WHAT?!!!_* That's so cool! I love it! It sounds so authentic, too, which just adds to the experience! That is amazing, and the two whistles I've heard already sound great. Amazing job, all of you!

That "Southern Pacific 6 Chime." ❤❤❤❤ It almost sounds like Hyce took inspiration from it when coming up with his own 6 chime. 😅😅

I love how you captured the CNJ 3 Chime ie. the whole changing chords aspect. And the Hooter squeak.

Now I want to see a train run. Everything looks amazing and those whistles, they're perfect. Easily my most anticipated game

@STLSF

11 ай бұрын

If you want to get a taste of what this game has to offer, be in Denver between 8/30/22 and 9/2/22. ;)

@Ferit2813

11 ай бұрын

@@STLSF unfortunately I live in NZ

My question is, are diesel horns simulated the same way? As someone who worked on a shortline for a few months, the air horns on the old diesels (like the White Pass ALCOs in your trailer) have almost as much character as a steam whistle.

@ironeh

11 ай бұрын

I had this very same thought and would love to know the answer as well. I would kill to hear a BC Rail K5H/K5L properly simulated. No horn sounds better in my mind.

@user-hs1ct7qv4g

8 ай бұрын

might be i saw a diesle in the end of the game trailer

2:51 Kudos on replicating the exact pattern...

I'm super curious as a programmer myself how the heck you managed to do that! That's freaking AWESOME!!!

@BrooksMoses

Жыл бұрын

Yup. I am totally ready for that to go from "patent-pending" to "patented" so I can read the patent.

@penguinproductions1056

Жыл бұрын

@@BrooksMoses absolutely

@Etienne_H

11 ай бұрын

Reverb?!

Hearing the lunkenheimer whistle from down the mountain gave me a stupid wide grin. I am so excited for this game.

You know a game's gonna be lit when the devs create a whole new program for sound

All of these whistles sound incredible!

My goodness, that's absolutely spectacular work. I hope the patent gets granted, I could see it being an entirely new way to do model railroad sound decoders.

That is amazing. The thought and quality put into this game is remarkable. It is going to be amazing when it gets finished.

Congratulations on such a wonderful invention. Recorded whistle looping had gotten good, but naturally always required a good clean recording, this is software engineering and railway engineering coming together at its finest, and what a commendation you deserve. The attention to detail from my perspective a historian is also most tantalising for your game. It is my hope your lineup of whistles will include a Baldwin 3 chime flat top for “as delivered” and South American sounds, and most of all a sweet sounding IRCA 3 chime, how the late Jorge Diaz could make 205 and 204 sing coming out a rock cut, and 40 sounds quite melodious at the Loop.

Those whistles sound nothing short of gorgeous! Genuinely tear worthy, especially the fact this is possible to hear in a game. 👍

LOVE the ECHOES!! Can't wait to hear the chuff reverbs!

One small thing that would make this game more unique would be speed of sound simulation. As seen on the far away shot you hear the whistle instantly along with the effect but having the sound and reverb delayed more or less depending on the distance between the player and the whistle would be quite neat. Other than that I am quite hyped to see and play the first release. Also good luck at the narrow gauge convention thing, I won‘t make it sadly.

More tears! Those whistles are just divine! AND YOU EVEN ACCOUNTED FOR LIGHT VERSUS SOUND TRAVEL SPEED DIFFERENTIAL!!! (like you see a firework explode before you hear it, same with the steam plume and whistle) Wow! You folks have done such a beautiful and thoughtful....work of passion and art.... wow

This has gotta be one of the coolest things I've ever seen. They all sound absolutely beautiful. I can't wait.

This game already looks beautiful.

HyaSynth sounds like it would be a revolutionary technology for DCC model trains.

This will be a literal experience not just a game.

I remember hearing the whistle eco months back and being amazed it’s still incredible

OK after accomplishing the very difficult task of putting aside how incredible this sounds and how exciting it is, can we talk about how fucking beautiful the draw distance and lighting are? This is probably the most excited. I have been about a train game since my dad and I picked up Trainz 2004 at circuit city. The level is just like… I don’t want to name names, but it’s like you look at the current landscape, and take all of your grievances of “why can’t they just do this?“ and you’re building an entire game that is entirely all of that stuff.

This gave me goosebumps and warm fuzzy feeling. The whistles sound amazing.

If I had to choose a whistle to use on all of the steamers, I'd pick the Huber 6-Chime. With the Big Boys, I'd make an exception because of the fact those whistles uses superheated steam instead of normal steam. That's a nuance worth leaving alone.

I have to admit, CoS is now my favourite Train game ever the whistles are amazing including Hyce's 6 chime i can not wait for the games full release

Unbelievable job to all the devs and everyone working so hard to make this happen! These whistles sound absolutely INCREDIBLE so far & can’t wait to get my hands on the game. If there’s any chance that CP 2860 “The Royal Hudson” could make it on there, I and my childhood self would go insane!!

This is the game version of those old cds with like 30 hours of train vids. How i begged for those growing up lmfao, itll never get old

You made my day when you used the N&W class A hooter whistle! Glad to hear 1218's whistle again.

You need to license this whistle tech to one of the DCC sound decoder manufacturers. Preferably TCS as they make the best steam sound decoders currently.

@WasatchWind

11 ай бұрын

Man that'd be sweet.

Listening to this, on ear buds at max volume, I find myself deaf. But it was worth it to hear these whistles, and watch Hyce playing other train games with poor whistles choices and I understand the pain of not having access to the better whistles! Can’t wait to see what’s coming for this project!

@CakePrincessCelestia

11 ай бұрын

Earbuds... tell you what: My neighbours listened to this because of my 5.1 setup cranked to eleven :)

@stormworksgamer922

11 ай бұрын

@@CakePrincessCelestia jeez

THANK YOU for adding Canadian whistles. BTW Newfoundland Railway was also 3 for narrow gauge so maybe a little flavor from your northern neighbors would be neat

My favourite whistle is either the Hyce/Huber 6 chime or the Star Brass 5 chime. Great video!

Finally, someone has paid attention to the important nuances of the steam whistle in a game. Those sound perfect, that Powell is as haunting as the real thing.

Hoping whatever whistle ET&WNC #12 (Tweetsie) has will make it in.

@Yardmaster_Media_110

11 ай бұрын

Well, if Mark said that over 60 whistles will be available in game, I would think that a Baldwin 3 chime would be in there somewhere. I’m a big fan of that whistle myself.

@Rushyboi1

11 ай бұрын

@@Yardmaster_Media_110 same

You guys need to loan this to the guys who are making ocean liner games, I'm sure it could be upscaled to use for old steamship hooters.

That Lunkenheimer 3 chime brings back memories when I was down at my grandparents. They lived near Cass WV, and I could hear the 3 chimes from the Shays echoing through the hollers and over mountains. Gorgeous, spot on.

Are we gonna have actual, chest pounding chuffs and hisses?! I think this means yes! Sound is so important to steam sims. I’m so happy Mark and the crew is doing this.

60 whistles already and y’all are basically in alpha-ish by the looks of it. Keep up the good work, hope to see some good horn options for the diesels as well!

Dude, the realism is literally making me so happy, they sound so good I can't even find words to describe it

This is insanely cool. You can really tell how much love and effort yall have already put into this, and we appreciate yall for it!

they sound just amazing.

Long comment time. 1) Mark Huber? Talking about whistles? Well, I never. 2) Pretty cool how the first devlog is on whistles - you could have started with the basics, but this isn’t a basic game. The focus is on the details. 3) Looks like I was right when I asserted S346 wouldn’t accept anything less than their best 4) I think it’s unfathomably cool that your grandpa developed one of the first audio systems for model trains, and now here you are, however many years later, spearheading a patent-pending system for virtual model trains. 5) Whistle designer please (I want to try and be as cool as you)

The echo is awesome thru the headphones like you are there in person hearing it.

I love that you implemented the speed of sound, that you can see the delay of steam coming out and then the sound coming later when viewed from far away. Just make sure guys, that game pla fun doesn't get lost under all the details. I wish you the best of success!

This is looking so good, let’s hope I can come to the convention and play a little bit of it

Of course the Lunkenheimer 3 was used to show off the echo at a distance- I'd expect nothing less from the team. Seriously though, this little preview of the whistles alone is fantastic, and I'm extremely excited to see development continue. I wish good fortune to all of Studio 346 with this project!

I love the obsession with whistles

I’m so happy to see the “Hubert” 6 chime will be coming. Super happy

Wow. The way you were able to recreate the echo was chills inducing. Absolutely stellar work. I hope this eventually makes its way into the model railroad industry as well. Sounds fantastic.

Amazing! Sound makes everything come more alive!

W o a h. Absolutely wicked, WICKED cool. I never knew I could be so blown away by whistles in a video game until now. And the scene shown is positively gorgeous. Can't wait to see what else you have in store!

I wanna start off by saying that this game looks amazing already, and I am so excited for what's to come! And I also wanna say thank you to Hyce and the Studio 346 crew. It feels so good to see a group of people who KNOW railroading, and who care about it- who care about the little things, the details, the realism, making a game for not only railfans like myself, but for everyone young and old to enjoy! A game that brings the true experience of railroading to the virtual world. I feel like a game of this quality is (sadly) long overdue and that the Train Simulator industry has been cornered and misrepresented by the money-minded folks at (*cough* *cough*) Dovetail Games. I am genuinely excited for Century of Steam's release and I want to thank EVERYONE from Studio 346 for working so hard to bring the world something good. - Laken (Your fellow railfan 😊)

I cant wait for this to come out boy it sounds and looks so damn good!

Good luck to the dev team can’t wait for the game great job so far

Pretty neat. This software could be useful for filmmakers unable to get real recordings of certain railway whistles and create them for whatever project they're working on with as many calls and variants as they need. By any chance is the Great Smoky Mountains Railway 1702's whistle from 1992 among that catalog of whistle compositions? I've read in an article that it's a Kansas City Southern Nathan 5 chime whistle, according to Diversified Rail Services' Gary Bensman.

My favorite whistles are the western Maryland J1 3 chime whistle because it sounds scary and the L&N Shay #5 3 chime passenger whistle because it sounds like an angel train.

Have you mad lads also fractured in the speed of sound in that distand echo shot?

Bloody heck that demo scene looks awesome. At first I thought it was a static render with aftereffect stack smoke until you moved the camera. Holy Shay that looks soo good. The foliage, the rock texture and detail..

Those whistles are untouchable, invincible, un-friggin-believable. My heart aches with each one. If this is the kind of effort you're going to on the sound, I'm looking forward to seeing what you do with the rest of the game. Of all the new train sims coming out, this one has me very excited and I can't wait to see how y'all are going to add to the community.

Love the almost ghostly echo of the whistles. Nicely done :)

Mark and whoever else is involved with this project... you guys are absolute madlads. The synthesized whistles idea was something I was thinking about a lot recently because of the whistle from "Steam Engine Simulator". Looks like y'all have pretty much mastered it!

They are the best in game whistles I have ever heard. And you have some echo as well. Bloody awesome from Australia,The land down under.

HOLY AMAZING BATMAN! OMG! This made my day! Best of luck, be happy to support you guys! This is really really beautiful! The sim I thought would never happen! Here you guys are making it behind the scenes!

The Hyce 6-Chime lives eternally

This is awesome. I'm really hyped for this. I recently got into train games, and have been looking into derail valley. Which led me to Hyce's channel, which led me to this.

That's absolutely incredible. The whistles themselves are fantastic, and that echo is just unreal.

This might be some of the best sound design ever put into a train game. Hell, any game. Keep it up!

Dear god, this is incredible.

This is insane. Easily the best whistle audio I've EVER heard in a game. Hyped to say the least!

Hyce, this stuff is absolutely amazing! Seriously game-changing in the RR sim world. Keep up the good work, cant imagine what else might be in store for us

Ooh, ho ho HO! Now is this is some promising stuff. We can certainly tell the team is putting in the effort because WOW. Keep up the good work and I hope you get some attention at the narrow gauge convention ❤

just stopping by to see how the game coming and dam them whistles sound Fn awesome and the fact u made ur own audio simulator is amazing i want the game just to play with choo-choo sounds

I’m crying tears of JOY for this game. I have NEVER been more happy to hear or see something like this. I don’t care what the price of the game will be once it fully releases. I’M BUYING THIS MASTERPIECE

how can you tell a studio that just started up is dedicated? 1: is made up of a bunch of nerds that would do darn near anything to accomplish their goals 2: make custom sim software and go to get a patent for it

Great variety, interesting new technology, still missing that slight steam hiss at the beginning of each quill and echo could be improved. Solid 8/10, audio man approves. 👍

Really nice work. The Powell really sounded like the one that Cumbres and Toltec 489 carried for years. The real game changer is the echoes and tonal change at various distances. Quite nicely done.

Did anyone else see a quick glimps of smoke box text over tfe screen when Hyce hovered over it? I wonder if they kept it in as a little sneak peak

Must say hearing that reverb, the amount of whistles, the ability to really quill the whistle. I can't tell you how excited I am for this. I was grinning extremely wide hearing that whistle echo. Keep up the good work you wonderful people. Side note: anyone else notice the smoke box pop up at the end as hyce/mark went around the loco? *insert devilish grin*

Probably the best train whistle sounds I've ever heard through this headset! They sound like I'm just up the valley from an oncoming train

OMG i love it your custom made whistle you built a while back sounds really good man good for you man keep up the great work the whistles sound amazing

I love the Hyce 6 chime! It was so cool watching you make that and I was hoping it would make an appearance!