Planet Coaster 2 | Update 2 Highlights
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I wouldn't so much say make up for it, a few things could have been done better for sure, but overall the game was and is pretty solid I think. We missed things from the first game yes, but got lots of new things too.
The free updates were always coming, it's a fundamental pillar in the way Frontier do things, it's a great way to do things as the games always have something new to come back to long after release. They release, then nurture their games post release with free updates partially based on player feedback. It's been their modus operandi for a long time now. Well over a decade, if not longer.
Going back to the update (sorry I drifted somewhat off topic), it looks great. Well done to the devs, the video makes it clear they have the passion for the game, I wouldn't expect anything less from Fdev to he honest. I'm intrigued to see the list of bug fixes too, out of curiosity more than anything else.
I just wanted to make sure, that this isn't missed in the discussion BUT for PC players Adam and Rich said in the highlights video, that it is now only necessary to press and hold left mouse-button and drag to activate the multiselect tool.
Your number 4 – that's what I thought too! Its absolutely nice that there are now standard and themed versions, so the future is bright for additional trainsCan't wait for the update!!
It brings back some of the most requested features! Amongst them is my personal favorite, custom music! The game is rapidly improving and will soon surpass the greatness of Planet Coaster 1 in my opinionVery well done!
I noticed 4 things that were unannounced but were very nice surprises :
1. More screens (very nice!!)
2. Train scenery as custom pieces (It's only a handfull, but very cool to have them as loose pieces to use in different places! Especially the bird one is very cool!)
3. Ability to synchronise slides. I hoped this would be a thing but since it wasn't confirmed im glad it's in the game! This means we can now make dualling slides as well!!
We could even recreate the 8 slide racer from Rulantica! Very cool!
4. A bit of a weird one to be hyped about but the ability to add trains without adding a new coaster!! I hope this opens up possibilities for the future where we can get more trains or different kinds of trains without getting a total new ride. (Could be part of free update or DLC)
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1) We have people who post valid criticism and want bug fixes and first game content and quality of life features
2) We have people that only want new additions that we didn't have in the first game.
3) We have people that are happy with everything and tell everyone to stop giving any suggestions and feedback because Frontier is working on it.
I count myself in the first group. Yes we understand "they are working on it", so all this is WITH ALL DUE RESPECT, but still, multiple months to almost half a year is a long time when it comes to this. Too long if you ask me, so I honestly do not believe i'm being unreasonable in any way. We paid top dollar for this game that honestly is not even an improvement over the first one. Except for the addition of pools and water slides it's a step backwards. Okay we can attach scenery to rides and coasters, okay we have a foliage brush, okay the pathing is in some ways an improvement but in other ways it's also a huge step backwards. This game wasn't even tested by anyone on the PC. I legit refuse to believe there has been any quality control by an actual experienced PC user.
It simply is a, early alpha, maybe beta test game still to this day. A poorly-done console port (which is clear in every way, the UI, the controls, multi select still doesn't work properly and is extremely tedious, do the people at Frontier even play PC games?). We are the paying customers and also the loyal supporters of the first game and all the DLC. We have also posted on this forum for years trying to steer this game in the best direction and many suggestions here over the years posted by the community have been added which also helped turning the first game into a succes. So we have every right to voice our opinions and honestly I think we should because without many of us there wouldn't even be quality.
So about Planet Coaster 2 and these updates: That stuff takes time is only logical. Yes we understand it isn't as easy as copy paste so the fanboys can stop mentioning that at every piece of criticism being posted. But to be honest, the excuse why something very basic that the first game had is still not added doesn't matter when you look at simple facts and that is that the first game had it and the second game didn't and that we paid top dollar for it and that months later we still am waiting for basic functionality. We should just have a right to expect for basic quality which is first game + more or better. It's that easy. It has been this way for decades in the gaming industry whenever a sequal came out. It's not any different now.
It's good that they do updates, but we should not pretend they are doing us a favor out of the kindness of their own hearts, it is a business, we are the customers, its literally their obligation because they have a company and a brand to protect. Unless they stop right now with the development of PlanCo2 and call it a day and never sell any DLC again then sure it stops right here. But until then we have every right to voice our opinion and I think we should.
Now about this update: it's a step in the right direction. But for me it still feels incomplete and it's gonna be a long road before I actually get the Planet Coaster spark back.
2) We have people that only want new additions that we didn't have in the first game.
3) We have people that are happy with everything and tell everyone to stop giving any suggestions and feedback because Frontier is working on it.
I count myself in the first group. Yes we understand "they are working on it", so all this is WITH ALL DUE RESPECT, but still, multiple months to almost half a year is a long time when it comes to this. Too long if you ask me, so I honestly do not believe i'm being unreasonable in any way. We paid top dollar for this game that honestly is not even an improvement over the first one. Except for the addition of pools and water slides it's a step backwards. Okay we can attach scenery to rides and coasters, okay we have a foliage brush, okay the pathing is in some ways an improvement but in other ways it's also a huge step backwards. This game wasn't even tested by anyone on the PC. I legit refuse to believe there has been any quality control by an actual experienced PC user.
It simply is a, early alpha, maybe beta test game still to this day. A poorly-done console port (which is clear in every way, the UI, the controls, multi select still doesn't work properly and is extremely tedious, do the people at Frontier even play PC games?). We are the paying customers and also the loyal supporters of the first game and all the DLC. We have also posted on this forum for years trying to steer this game in the best direction and many suggestions here over the years posted by the community have been added which also helped turning the first game into a succes. So we have every right to voice our opinions and honestly I think we should because without many of us there wouldn't even be quality.
So about Planet Coaster 2 and these updates: That stuff takes time is only logical. Yes we understand it isn't as easy as copy paste so the fanboys can stop mentioning that at every piece of criticism being posted. But to be honest, the excuse why something very basic that the first game had is still not added doesn't matter when you look at simple facts and that is that the first game had it and the second game didn't and that we paid top dollar for it and that months later we still am waiting for basic functionality. We should just have a right to expect for basic quality which is first game + more or better. It's that easy. It has been this way for decades in the gaming industry whenever a sequal came out. It's not any different now.
It's good that they do updates, but we should not pretend they are doing us a favor out of the kindness of their own hearts, it is a business, we are the customers, its literally their obligation because they have a company and a brand to protect. Unless they stop right now with the development of PlanCo2 and call it a day and never sell any DLC again then sure it stops right here. But until then we have every right to voice our opinion and I think we should.
Now about this update: it's a step in the right direction. But for me it still feels incomplete and it's gonna be a long road before I actually get the Planet Coaster spark back.
Just to clarify - I'm absolutely thrilled and impressed with the immense number of fantastic fixes and improvements in this update. Genuinely amazing work. I was just really shocked and baffled to hear the one little most irritating thing about building (not being able to simply hold shift to select multiple pieces without having to manually go into multi-select first, like you can in other planet games) wasn't fixed since they've fixed multiple other issues about the multi-select system. I don't feel that's me spitting a dummy out because of one thing I wanted, it's just many people have expressed it's a fundamental function to making building feel seamless and up to the standard of other planet games that many people find annoying. I have so much more faith in the game's progress now as I see the intricacy of the issues they've fixed, so it surprised me this one obvious one has been omitted.
Essentially all that needs to happen is for the shift key to activate the multi-select tool. I would just re-map it but then I suspect it would interfere with raising and lowering scenery pieces
A little hidden gem in the update notes: "Added transparent versions of half pipe and pipe track pieces to Mat Flumes"!
"The camera will no longer zoom out to view a whole scenery group when a single piece is selected" - if this is what I think it is I will cry with happiness! UPDATE: It does not. It still moves the camera to focus on a piece whenever you double click it to edit the building.
Essentially all that needs to happen is for the shift key to activate the multi-select tool. I would just re-map it but then I suspect it would interfere with raising and lowering scenery pieces
A little hidden gem in the update notes: "Added transparent versions of half pipe and pipe track pieces to Mat Flumes"!
"The camera will no longer zoom out to view a whole scenery group when a single piece is selected" - if this is what I think it is I will cry with happiness! UPDATE: It does not. It still moves the camera to focus on a piece whenever you double click it to edit the building.
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I could not agree more with you. This game is late alpha state at best, possible early beta. The update is nice, but it does not resolve any of the major issues with the game. The game was rushed out to hit the Christmas season, but it backfired and a lot of the long term fans of the Planet series (and the RCT sericer before that) are now looking elsewhere. The core simulation is still broken, the management is non-existent, guests are lifeless and still just bops around from one queue to another, never going in and never giving a reason for not going in, UI is still fighting the player at every click (it is still a huge clickfest, I can't imagine anyone playtested this on a PC before release. Seems like they only focused on consoles). They just float around. I probably will move on to other games and maybe pop in after the next few updates to see if a miracle has happened.
I just got even more issues now that I NEVER had before....This is s redicules.
Yep, it is a step in the wrong direction. More things are broken now than before. They seem to not wanting to rid flat rides anymore in my parks I loaded for test.
Who suggested that billboards would be the highest priority over fixing all the other issues?
Did anyone play test this update before release?
Who suggested that billboards would be the highest priority over fixing all the other issues?
Did anyone play test this update before release?
Same. No flatrides are used. This is just horrible. How hard can it be???? This is simply a darn joke. Im giving up soon.
I had them all on bargain and change them to custom but with same prices and that made them start to use them again.
Can you also please lower interface scale to like from max 70% to like 50% and make things look less 'smudged' and there is also a huge HEATMAP button on top of the screen
And please don't tell me "Things have to be tested and other stuff breaks down when changing the number 70 to 50"
It's like come on don't you at least have like the 10 most regularly used monitor sizes and resolutions there
And please don't tell me "Things have to be tested and other stuff breaks down when changing the number 70 to 50"
It's like come on don't you at least have like the 10 most regularly used monitor sizes and resolutions there
Like find those kind of the people who play lots of Planet Coaster 1 or the developers that made that game and tell them to just playtest everything on PC, come in contact with people who are like famous for building, have lots of workshop content, maybe youtube content, on this forum, and just stay in contact with them, watch building streams, take notes of what could be better and more streamlined and just try to fix it. Remove small things here, add small things there.. Am I really being that unreasonable? It's like that whoever does this exactly how it's done is oblivious to what's actually needed. It just feels like I dont know where to start. Incomplete, smudged, oversized, like a bad console port... I just wish someone would grab the ropes for a few months like hire that guy that can do it maybe even email Chris Sawyer lol and hire him for 3 months and give him a bonus to just take this thing to the next level give us steam workshop make this into the best possible game ever give us mod support even just make it great and acknowledge that these are PC games which require steam workshop and then also give us the option to save our blueprints not only on steam workshop but also on frontier workshop so console players can also enjoy great creations but keep this game PC focussed obviously it just doesn't work otherwise make games great again like how they used to be a couple of years ago and dont cut corners just get the diehard fans and experienced developers that know a thing about this kind of thing take lead and just do it
Update has completely broken the game on console. can no longer edit buildings. Issue raised but who knows how long it will take to fix. Unplayable right now on PS5.
I'm honestly a bit surprised that they haven't moved the heatmap notch to the side yet and that it remains at the top on PC, perhaps it was the best place for it to be on Planet Zoo console, but it looks shoehorned in on PC version, along with the full-screen grey placeholder looking pause menu. Literally a generic picture of a park would look much better and more exciting, than that full grey screen with a queen splash icon in the middle of it.
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It ´s going to be intresting to see how long it will take to adress all these KAOS disater this update created and what will brake when the fix these...
it looks like it yes