So, played PC2 for about 4 hours now since release yesterday, done a few of the career tutorials, and played around in sandbox. Admittedly I wasn't sure what to expect when I pre-ordered the game as there was a lot of negative posts and videos around it, especially when compared to Planet Coaster 1 and Planet Zoo (which I love both of).
Overall, I do like PC2 - there's some nice changes in it (the pathing tool, although takes some getting used to, is much more versatile than before), the ability to scale scnery pieces just opens up more possibilities, and I love the scenery painting brush - been able to quickly plonk down a forest is a great addition. The pool and water features are also great - haven't done pool slides/flumes yet - reports say the water physics on these are not quite there yet. I can see a lot of potential for the game, especially if the devs address some of the community concerns.
For me, a wish-list of things would be:
1. Animatronic people - I used to love adding backstage areas using these as staff members.
2. Decals - I love using these in PZ to bring some realism to paths and building - no theme park is squeaky clean.
3. A lot more scenery pieces - I really hope that a future (soon) update adds a lot more to it - even if the first DLC is just like £10 for like a thousand of new scenery pieces, I'd be happy. I thin a lot of the pieces for PC1 and PZ need to be added - let people go crazy with creativity.
4. Security staff and cameras.
5. More themes! Pirates! Space! Western! Fairytale! Give us a load more themes please.
6. Biomes and Scenario/Map editor. The ones included are alright but they just don't quite do it for me. Would be also nice if Biomes included obvious roads/rivers within the edges that could link to the guest spawn areas for more added realism. Also - found that in one of the sandbox Biomes (think it's the Temperate one) there's a 4x2 natural path section near the guests that you can't remove - as though it's been saved by the scenario as non-movable, very annoying.
Overall, the game is alright, but it's what happens with it going forward that will either make it an amazing game, or one that just falls by the wayside.
Overall, I do like PC2 - there's some nice changes in it (the pathing tool, although takes some getting used to, is much more versatile than before), the ability to scale scnery pieces just opens up more possibilities, and I love the scenery painting brush - been able to quickly plonk down a forest is a great addition. The pool and water features are also great - haven't done pool slides/flumes yet - reports say the water physics on these are not quite there yet. I can see a lot of potential for the game, especially if the devs address some of the community concerns.
For me, a wish-list of things would be:
1. Animatronic people - I used to love adding backstage areas using these as staff members.
3. A lot more scenery pieces - I really hope that a future (soon) update adds a lot more to it - even if the first DLC is just like £10 for like a thousand of new scenery pieces, I'd be happy. I thin a lot of the pieces for PC1 and PZ need to be added - let people go crazy with creativity.
4. Security staff and cameras.
5. More themes! Pirates! Space! Western! Fairytale! Give us a load more themes please.
6. Biomes and Scenario/Map editor. The ones included are alright but they just don't quite do it for me. Would be also nice if Biomes included obvious roads/rivers within the edges that could link to the guest spawn areas for more added realism. Also - found that in one of the sandbox Biomes (think it's the Temperate one) there's a 4x2 natural path section near the guests that you can't remove - as though it's been saved by the scenario as non-movable, very annoying.
Overall, the game is alright, but it's what happens with it going forward that will either make it an amazing game, or one that just falls by the wayside.
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