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Doorknob Slobber
Sep 10, 2006

by Fluffdaddy

Dareon posted:

You're forgetting the half-dozen flat rides that are just carousels with different vehicles. Cars, pickup trucks, airplanes, boats, motorcycles...

they just need to put vehicle customization like RCT had, one flat ride with a billion customization options

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SLICK GOKU BABY
Jun 12, 2001

Hey Hey Let's Go! 喧嘩する
大切な物を protect my balls


I spent a stupid amount of time (and drank a significant amount of whiskey) building this coaster layout and started adding some rocks too it. It is pretty well times, both tracks switch positions during the layout! Going for a more xtreme mine ride style! It has the reverse booster section inside the rocks.



Moridin920
Nov 15, 2007

by FactsAreUseless
Wanna ride that coaster.

Admiral Joeslop
Jul 8, 2010




I made so many Go-kart tracks in RCT1. Gonna make me a park with no coasters, just Go-karts.

roy harder
Jul 14, 2005

The things I've seen...
Yay! I finally managed to beat the King Coaster challenge. Making a coaster with at least 8 excitement, at most 5 fear and a 100 meter drop was difficult and took a long time, so I feel I must share it with you:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNgbfBprx-g

Le0
Mar 18, 2009

Rotten investigator!
Still working on my stupid temple :)
This game is like a therapy, very relaxing.

Dogcow
Jun 21, 2005

I was going for a big scary mansion and kind of ended up with Fantasy Swedish Consulate but whatevs it was fun (that blurry rear end thing in the foreground is a bird):



It does look a bit spookier at night:



Xanadu on the workshop, my other crapola ITT also:

The Birdhouse

Hey, It's A Castle!

Le0
Mar 18, 2009

Rotten investigator!
Nice build, I like Swedish Consulate :)

Scaly Haylie
Dec 25, 2004

Dogcow posted:

I made me a castle









...yeah I was high

We should all be so high.

Dante80
Mar 23, 2015

During PAX East, Frontier did a couple of livestreams for PC, showing some of the features coming on the next update. They also uploaded a number of videos on their channel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41AHX9V86No

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nb6r2ZQYdzI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkjUFhEwkng

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdqc2wJ14X4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xc8_w8V_8Uw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmzxf4LzxKw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZefN-XNXU4

Dante80
Mar 23, 2015

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzH2WD6WrMU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id147hLw0Lo

And the two livestreams.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrG8IQO4DSo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnHzL-YYf1U

SLICK GOKU BABY
Jun 12, 2001

Hey Hey Let's Go! 喧嘩する
大切な物を protect my balls


Hope you can speed up those Go Karts a bit, they seem painfully slow.

3 Action Economist
May 22, 2002

Educate. Agitate. Liberate.
I wish they'd figure out the tech to allow dark rides without terrain fuckery.

Galaga Galaxian
Apr 23, 2009

What a childish tactic!
Don't you think you should put more thought into your battleplan?!


Feels like all it would need as a toggle on wall/ceiling that blocks light. Leave it off by default (as it is now) to save on processing power. Then you can build your darkride exterior with them and everything else can be like normal.

Le0
Mar 18, 2009

Rotten investigator!
Worked on the jungle

HopperUK
Apr 29, 2007

Why would an ambulance be leaving the hospital?

Le0 posted:

Worked on the jungle



Gorgeous!

CLAM DOWN
Feb 13, 2007




Le0 posted:

Worked on the jungle



Holy cow that looks amazing!

Dante80
Mar 23, 2015

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OAQmZ43qzc

quote:

MASSIVE Pages and pages of patch notes. A lot was not covered due to them going way over on time.

First NEW features:

New Scenarios
Go kart challenge park
Old antique park
Downtown City park scenario
Prestige re-visted, balanced.
Menu optimizations
Blueprints fall into the appropriate sections now (Coaster blueprints are now in Coasters as an example)
Searching is very fast now
Items load on screen faster
Rides no longer age unless the ride is open and game is unpaused.
If you refurbish a ride, it brings it back to a previous state/status but will get to classic state slower.
DUELING COASTERS (Syncable coasters, all coaster types)
Security Cameras have camera controls so you can look at guests through the cameras with a cool overlay
Security Cameras can be wall mounted
Security guards will eject guests from the park if they are caught
Pickpocketers (I think is what they said) wont ride rides, they are just in the park to steal your guests money
Vandalism/Pickpocketing can be turned off if you do not want it.
Camera Controls can be controlled via a game controller to create awesome videos/fly throughs etc
Camera Control via game controller can also be controlled with the onride camera
New doors/scenery items revealed
Boomerang Coaster Revealed...TRIDENT - and its GORGEOUS! (Cars are not heavily themed, very generic but Vekoma inspired - Passes through station once because of the catch car)
BAKASURA (Giant Boomerang) Gorgeous.
The details on the supports/mechanicals on the boomerangs were INCREDIBLE.
Steel Hydra Coaster (details were technically difficult to make it due to the piston mechanisms/dampening systems)
Elixir flat ride is crazy nauseating but BEAUTIFUL! The lighting is spectacular at night as well.
COLLISION TOGGLE!!!!
Disable ride collision
Disable scenery collision
Disable coaster collision
New Scenery Items
New Blueprints
New Audio effects

They actually ran out of time... and have a lot more features that they didn't have time to show off.

Things that we know of that weren't shown off in details: - Go Karts - New Signs - Fences

Doorknob Slobber
Sep 10, 2006

by Fluffdaddy
need to add a competitive park multiplayer mode

Internet Explorer
Jun 1, 2005





So is Planet Coaster worth getting if the last theme park game you got was Rollercoaster Tycoon 1 and you enjoyed it? Or am I going to have to spend way too much time building custom coasters?

Doorknob Slobber
Sep 10, 2006

by Fluffdaddy

Internet Explorer posted:

So is Planet Coaster worth getting if the last theme park game you got was Rollercoaster Tycoon 1 and you enjoyed it? Or am I going to have to spend way too much time building custom coasters?

there are so many things on the workshop that you never need to build a custom anything, my biggest problem with old coaster tycoon games compared to planet coaster is that the management side is pretty bland in planet coaster esp. compared to rc1 and 2

Luigi Thirty
Apr 30, 2006

Emergency confection port.

:aaaaa: those patch notes, time to get back in again

KillaZilla
Jan 30, 2003
Not sure if this has been posted yet either way it's still awesome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3iHTQR-xOk

CLAM DOWN
Feb 13, 2007




KillaZilla posted:

Not sure if this has been posted yet either way it's still awesome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3iHTQR-xOk

:stare:

Shibawanko
Feb 13, 2013

KillaZilla posted:

Not sure if this has been posted yet either way it's still awesome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3iHTQR-xOk

Yeah this is why I never ended up buying this game. It's like stepping into an MMO where everybody is already level 110. Everything's been done and I can't keep up.

Daztek
Jun 2, 2006



Best thing of that patch, scenery can collide with the flat rides base :3:

3 Action Economist
May 22, 2002

Educate. Agitate. Liberate.
Still no dark rides. :(

Orv
May 4, 2011

KillaZilla posted:

Not sure if this has been posted yet either way it's still awesome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3iHTQR-xOk

CapnAndy
Feb 27, 2004

Some teeth long for ripping, gleaming wet from black dog gums. So you keep your eyes closed at the end. You don't want to see such a mouth up close. before the bite, before its oblivion in the goring of your soft parts, the speckled lips will curl back in a whinny of excitement. You just know it.

KillaZilla posted:

Not sure if this has been posted yet either way it's still awesome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3iHTQR-xOk

In a million goddamn years I couldn't do that.

SLICK GOKU BABY
Jun 12, 2001

Hey Hey Let's Go! 喧嘩する
大切な物を protect my balls


Of all the patch notes, the scenery collision toggle might be what I'm looking forward too the most. Adds so much more possibilities for rides!

Also, it's not mentioned in that patch note, but they are increasing blueprints to 4,000 pieces and allowing you to have up to 5 rides/flat rides saved with the blueprint.

ColonelJohnMatrix
Jun 24, 2006

Because all fucking hell is going to break loose

Man, that's one hell of an update. I'm excited to hop back in!

Asehujiko
Apr 6, 2011

Internet Explorer posted:

So is Planet Coaster worth getting if the last theme park game you got was Rollercoaster Tycoon 1 and you enjoyed it? Or am I going to have to spend way too much time building custom coasters?
All mechanics except for making pretty landscapes are extremely simplistic compared to RCT, throwing down scenery objects is 99% of the game so if it's any other aspect of RCT you are interested in, this isn't the game for you.

CapnAndy
Feb 27, 2004

Some teeth long for ripping, gleaming wet from black dog gums. So you keep your eyes closed at the end. You don't want to see such a mouth up close. before the bite, before its oblivion in the goring of your soft parts, the speckled lips will curl back in a whinny of excitement. You just know it.

Asehujiko posted:

All mechanics except for making pretty landscapes are extremely simplistic compared to RCT, throwing down scenery objects is 99% of the game so if it's any other aspect of RCT you are interested in, this isn't the game for you.
I was a huge fan of RCT and I mostly tend to cheese the scenery stuff by throwing down pre-made light poles, and I still love the game, so I disagree pretty strenuously. There's management-side stuff I wish it did better, sure, but it's easily comparable to RCT in nearly every aspect.

Shibawanko
Feb 13, 2013

I still think RCT1/2 (same game really) is the best rollercoaster game. There's something about the way isometrics and a grid limit your creativity that makes it more appealing to me, you have to work with limited tools to make something that looks cool to which Planet Coaster just seems garishly flamboyant with its windy paths and infinite scenery options that would just trigger my OCD. I feel the same way about Cities Skylines as compared to the older Simcity games.

Dante80
Mar 23, 2015

Shibawanko posted:

I still think RCT1/2 (same game really) is the best rollercoaster game. There's something about the way isometrics and a grid limit your creativity that makes it more appealing to me, you have to work with limited tools to make something that looks cool to which Planet Coaster just seems garishly flamboyant with its windy paths and infinite scenery options that would just trigger my OCD. I feel the same way about Cities Skylines as compared to the older Simcity games.

This is kind of the Fallout 1/2 vs 3 example. Personally I love them all, for completely different reasons.

CLAM DOWN
Feb 13, 2007




I personally prefer RCT2 to this for no reason other than the fact my OCD can't handle the depths and sandboxiness of this. I need more limitations and restrictions on my creativity :(

Shibawanko
Feb 13, 2013

I guess I just want a finite goal, not an infinite one.

Roadie
Jun 30, 2013
For people a little overwhelmed by Planet Coaster's infinity of options, definitely take a look at Parkitect. It's got the isometric style, and (though still in development) has more of a focus on the park-running sim aspect, including stuff like the logistics of getting supplies to your shops.

Dark_Swordmaster
Oct 31, 2011
I haven't looked at that in a long time (last update I remember was them adding the underground belts to deliver supplies to shops) but last time I did there still wasn't anything even close to a game yet.

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Boxman
Sep 27, 2004

Big fan of :frog:


KillaZilla posted:

Not sure if this has been posted yet either way it's still awesome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3iHTQR-xOk

Oh cool they managed to make the Power Run at DL Shanghai look like complete poo poo.

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