Feedback with regards to the Spring Roadmap

Vampiro · Jan 20, 2025

Up untill now I always had a feeling like I had to choose between Planet Coaster 1 and Planet Coaster 2 as both games had it's pro's and con's :

Planet Coaster 1

Custom Music / Billboards
Hotels
Synchronised Coasters
Broad range of shops
Virtually unlimited scenery pieces with TMT
Broad selection of rides including Rocktopus, Power Moves, Quick Draw (shooting ride), etc
Interchangable trains
Classic Theme Park Themes (Western, Pirate, etc)
Stable and relative bug free

Planet Coaster 2

Water Parks
Sticking Scenery on rides and moving objects
Lacking diverse shops (not even fries!!)
New rides
New themes
Better Mixmaster
Weather
Many bugs and unstable behaviour
Real darkness inside buildings

All in all I feel that Planet Coaster 2 feels like it has a lot of potential into the future, yet at the current state I don't feel its a better game then Planet Coaster 1 currently is. If I want to play Planet Coaster I usually have to think about which of the 2 games I want to start up depending on what I want to do. In the end I usually start neither but rather wait for a time where all pro's will be united into 1 game.
I remember an Interview before release stated that Planco 2 could not be seen as an add-on, but rather a new game alltogether. While it sounded nice at the time, it turns out that many of us regretted this decission. Planet Coaster 1 was an amazing game, and it should have kept all (most) of the elements that made the game so amazing. (Don't get me wrong, Planet Coaster 2 is still an amazing game imo)

I was VERY pleased to see the spring roadmap as it seems like both Frontier and the community agree we want/need most features from the original game back!

Custom music / Billboards
Synchronised Coasters
Interchangable trains

All above were announced to make a return very soon, and even (some) classic themes were hinted as possibly making a return (YES!!). As a Planco fanatic my wishlist is never ending but I'm very happy and relieved to see the path we are currently taking! I hope we will continue down this path of adding both missing features from Planco 1 and NEW features into Planet Coaster 2.

Just my 2 cents

lilibat · Jan 21, 2025

I just hope they don't wait till September/Oct to release spooky. :-(

rct-uwe1 · Jan 21, 2025

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Vampiro said:
Up untill now I always had a feeling like I had to choose between Planet Coaster 1 and Planet Coaster 2 as both games had it's pro's and con's :

Planet Coaster 1

Custom Music / Billboards

Hotels

Synchronised Coasters

Broad range of shops

Virtually unlimited scenery pieces with TMT

Broad selection of rides including Rocktopus, Power Moves, Quick Draw (shooting ride), etc

Interchangable trains

Classic Theme Park Themes (Western, Pirate, etc)

Stable and relative bug free

Planet Coaster 2

Water Parks

Sticking Scenery on rides and moving objects

Lacking diverse shops (not even fries!!)

New rides

New themes

Better Mixmaster

Weather

Many bugs and unstable behaviour

Real darkness inside buildings

All in all I feel that Planet Coaster 2 feels like it has a lot of potential into the future, yet at the current state I don't feel its a better game then Planet Coaster 1 currently is. If I want to play Planet Coaster I usually have to think about which of the 2 games I want to start up depending on what I want to do. In the end I usually start neither but rather wait for a time where all pro's will be united into 1 game.
I remember an Interview before release stated that Planco 2 could not be seen as an add-on, but rather a new game alltogether. While it sounded nice at the time, it turns out that many of us regretted this decission. Planet Coaster 1 was an amazing game, and it should have kept all (most) of the elements that made the game so amazing. (Don't get me wrong, Planet Coaster 2 is still an amazing game imo)

I was VERY pleased to see the spring roadmap as it seems like both Frontier and the community agree we want/need most features from the original game back!

Custom music / Billboards

Synchronised Coasters

Interchangable trains

All above were announced to make a return very soon, and even (some) classic themes were hinted as possibly making a return (YES!!). As a Planco fanatic my wishlist is never ending but I'm very happy and relieved to see the path we are currently taking! I hope we will continue down this path of adding both missing features from Planco 1 and NEW features into Planet Coaster 2.

Just my 2 cents

The add-on thing is something to see different.
While an add-on is like a dlc, but mostly adding completely new features (like RCT3 + add-on Soaked + add-on Wild). In PC1 it was dead in development very soon because of the game engine version. It already was clear that a possible PC2 has to be done with a new engine version (like for PZ).
In gereral, PC2 is PC1 with new features and developed with a newer engine. Most of it's content is from PC1. So the title PC2 is absolutely correct and not a "different" game.

The question is why as much stuff in PC2 isn’t working (which was working in PC1)?

Vampiro · Jan 21, 2025

rct-uwe1 said:
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The add-on thing is something to see different.
While an add-on is like a dlc, but mostly adding completely new features (like RCT3 + add-on Soaked + add-on Wild). In PC1 it was dead in development very soon because of the game engine version. It already was clear that a possible PC2 has to be done with a new engine version (like for PZ).
In gereral, PC2 is PC1 with new features and developed with a newer engine. Most of it's content is from PC1. So the title PC2 is absolutely correct and not a "different" game.

The question is why as much stuff in PC2 isn’t working (which was working in PC1)?

Thanks for your reply!

Technically you are 100% correct. Under the hood the game made a lot of changes so Planco 2 could have never been an add-on.

I was more speaking content wise where an add-on would still give you everything you already had + more. People were thrilled that the game was a new game technical wise, but didn't realize this ment that a lot of what we had would be taken away with uncertaincy if it would (ever) come back. What I ment was that both fans and Frontier now seem to realize people don't want to lose the features we all enjoyed

Thats why I'm very glad to see the current direction in which features from the first game are being broad back in high pace.
Again, technical wise you are 100% correct, maybe my terminology was a bit strange as I was more talking about the content

Wagi · Jan 21, 2025

Vampiro said:
People were thrilled that the game was a new game technical wise, but didn't realize this ment that a lot of what we had would be taken away with uncertaincy if it would (ever) come back. What I ment was that both fans and Frontier now seem to realize people don't want to lose the features we all enjoyed

I totally agree with this observation. And because both PC1 and PC2 are so similar stylistically, that made the expectations that PC2 would just build on PC1 but with a better engine and additional water park content more common among many people.

rct-uwe1 · Jan 21, 2025

Wagi said:
I totally agree with this observation. And because both PC1 and PC2 are so similar stylistically, that made the expectations that PC2 would just build on PC1 but with a better engine and additional water park content more common among many people.

Exactly!

smoothcriminal · Feb 3, 2025

I honestly just don't understand the concept of releasing a successor to the original game, but not have the same components which made that game a success. It honestly feels half baked - the new stuff we have should be new, not instead of.

_Tilly-Tony_ · Feb 3, 2025

I basicly want a mix of pc1, pc2 and pz hahaha. I want pc1 feature set and items, pc2 scaling, ray tracing and pools and pz gift shops (Minus having to create a custom floor layout. So i can dd gift shops to my exsisting builds). Thats kind of what i was expecting at launch tbh. The best of pc1 and pz mixed into one game.