So the May update made me finally a bit more optimistic (kerb toggle, glass pieces, path improvements) so I decided to give the game another try. I haven't been playing much in 2025 so I think it was the first time in 4 months. I have a lot of experience with Planet Coaster 1, I would call myself a veteran, I have a few hundred hours in the first game but not a professional like some others with thousands of hours. Anyway, here are some things that I immediately noticed when playing Planet Coaster 2 again for first time in a while. I think most of these options are not a lot of work to implement and I would really ask Frontier to please consider them for the May update as they are a huge improvement especially for PC-users.
- Heatmap button
Unfortunately there is still a big Heatmap button on top of the screen which is a little bit distracting. I'm not sure if this can be moved or turned off.
- Interface scale
The interface scale does not go lower than 70% which does not look good on my 4k 32" monitor. It is just way too big. I would rather have it set to 50% I think or even lower.
- Interface color
The interface colors are still only bright colors. Which does look nice and colorful and should be the default obviously for all players, but I would also like some dark colors like grey or black for those midnight gaming sessions. Or preferably just give us full control and let us pick the RGB of the color of the interface just how we pick colors of the scenery items ingame. I understand that the text also needs to be in a different color then (light text on a dark background and dark text on a light background).
- Cant zoom out far enough
We cannot zoom out far enough. Especially compared to the first game. I'm not sure if this is done for console/performance reasons. But please let us zoom out again so we can see our park like we could in the first game.
- Multi select tool is not selected by default
First we have to go to the multi select tool to select multiple items. We can't just shift click like we could in the first game which is just something you can't get used to. These extra steps work very counter-intuitive. I understand for console players it might be needed, but for PC players it absolutely is not needed.
- Custom angle rotation snap
I was trying to make a big circle using smaller scenery items and immediately noticed the lowest degree we can use is 11.25 degrees. I would very much like if we could click on this value and enter a custom value ourselves like 5 degrees. Yes I know its possible to change this in the config, but we would have to restart our game every time for the chances to take affect.
- Electricity and power management
Electricity is still a bit unclear to me. I'm more of a sandbox person and never play the (tutorial) levels and notice it is still a bit confusing how it works exactly. When a ride doesn't have power you can click on a button to place a power facility. But there is not much explanation what to actually do with it. Because you need a distributor too and also connections. But it doesn't tell you exactly how to do it, where to place them, how many facilities and distributors to place because it's not 1:1 and so on. Some extra guidance would be handy. I usually just turn the power settings off for this reason.
- Water management
Water I have no experience with yet since I never really got to building a big water park yet, but I assume it is also a bit unclear from what i've seen.
- Extra biomes
As already stated in another thread, I do miss the City biome a lot. I always used it in the first game because the visual background of the city and cars as well as the sounds really made the game feel alive. Where in Planet Coaster 2 all maps are in the middle of nowhere and it feels more artificial and fake. I made a custom map myself with some tunnels to make it feel more alive and realistic that cars can actually reach the park, but a nice city backdrop and ambient sounds would be great to have again. I know people ask for beaches too which would also be great.
- Steam Workshop
This is really a must if you want this game to still be as big and popular some years from now. More people will enjoy it, more people will play it, more people will want DLC for the game this way.
I think that's about it for now, these suggestions are mostly from the very first thing I notice after playing it again after a while. I haven't done much playing yet, this is mostly just first (or second in my case) impression stuff that just makes the game good before you even start playing it. I will try to play some more soon, but I think giving this feedback as a 'returning' new player with experience with the first game would be usable.
Thanks a lot!
- Heatmap button
Unfortunately there is still a big Heatmap button on top of the screen which is a little bit distracting. I'm not sure if this can be moved or turned off.
- Interface scale
The interface scale does not go lower than 70% which does not look good on my 4k 32" monitor. It is just way too big. I would rather have it set to 50% I think or even lower.
- Interface color
The interface colors are still only bright colors. Which does look nice and colorful and should be the default obviously for all players, but I would also like some dark colors like grey or black for those midnight gaming sessions. Or preferably just give us full control and let us pick the RGB of the color of the interface just how we pick colors of the scenery items ingame. I understand that the text also needs to be in a different color then (light text on a dark background and dark text on a light background).
- Cant zoom out far enough
We cannot zoom out far enough. Especially compared to the first game. I'm not sure if this is done for console/performance reasons. But please let us zoom out again so we can see our park like we could in the first game.
- Multi select tool is not selected by default
First we have to go to the multi select tool to select multiple items. We can't just shift click like we could in the first game which is just something you can't get used to. These extra steps work very counter-intuitive. I understand for console players it might be needed, but for PC players it absolutely is not needed.
- Custom angle rotation snap
I was trying to make a big circle using smaller scenery items and immediately noticed the lowest degree we can use is 11.25 degrees. I would very much like if we could click on this value and enter a custom value ourselves like 5 degrees. Yes I know its possible to change this in the config, but we would have to restart our game every time for the chances to take affect.
- Electricity and power management
Electricity is still a bit unclear to me. I'm more of a sandbox person and never play the (tutorial) levels and notice it is still a bit confusing how it works exactly. When a ride doesn't have power you can click on a button to place a power facility. But there is not much explanation what to actually do with it. Because you need a distributor too and also connections. But it doesn't tell you exactly how to do it, where to place them, how many facilities and distributors to place because it's not 1:1 and so on. Some extra guidance would be handy. I usually just turn the power settings off for this reason.
- Water management
Water I have no experience with yet since I never really got to building a big water park yet, but I assume it is also a bit unclear from what i've seen.
- Extra biomes
As already stated in another thread, I do miss the City biome a lot. I always used it in the first game because the visual background of the city and cars as well as the sounds really made the game feel alive. Where in Planet Coaster 2 all maps are in the middle of nowhere and it feels more artificial and fake. I made a custom map myself with some tunnels to make it feel more alive and realistic that cars can actually reach the park, but a nice city backdrop and ambient sounds would be great to have again. I know people ask for beaches too which would also be great.
- Steam Workshop
This is really a must if you want this game to still be as big and popular some years from now. More people will enjoy it, more people will play it, more people will want DLC for the game this way.
I think that's about it for now, these suggestions are mostly from the very first thing I notice after playing it again after a while. I haven't done much playing yet, this is mostly just first (or second in my case) impression stuff that just makes the game good before you even start playing it. I will try to play some more soon, but I think giving this feedback as a 'returning' new player with experience with the first game would be usable.
Thanks a lot!
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It's very placeholder/demo/temporary looking. Hoping they get round to this as it would add the 'finished' polish the game needs to be legitimate on pc.
