SHINY plastic roofs/walls/pillars dont exist anymore in the game

[SPRidley]

Yeah, so my old park, that used this in a lot of places, looks bad now, but I thought, well I could change it in the future if I want to upload it again in the future.

Then, with the park I was bulding now (an alpha 3 park that I want to continue on beta) the same object, that I used on small decorative fountains as water (you cant sadly use real water for this becuase they are too small and have different elevations) becuase it was recoularable and shiny, it turned into some concrete piece.
I said, ok, no problem, will look for the new metallic pieces and change them back.

But nope, they dont exist anymore. Theres not even a shiny piece that resembles it even, so small decorative fountains dont look good anymore (the shiny bit is the important thing here, I could use geometrical shapes, but they dont shine so they dont look like water).

So it would be nice to have the shiny plastic back, and also the concrete one stay.
Also it would be nice if the new concrete piece could be recoularable.
Here is a screen of the same piece in Alpha 3 and in Beta, so you can see the change (that wouldn't matter if the old plastic pieces were still there, but they just dissapeared form the beta game).

Alpha 3:

Beta:

 

[Serpentrax]

Yeah what is up with that? The infamous blue walls were the most generic ones available int he first alpha and the closest thing we had that resembles water. I think they were meant to be plastic, and in a later update they actually reflected nearby geometry a bit. Those walls were the first on my list when the flexicolor feature was announced, but I can't remember if that actually happened. Instead, they now turned into an entirely different material that is not even flexicolor supported? I am not amused by my new concrete buildings.

 

[Lullibert]

Hi,

same happend to me.

Regards

Lullibert

 

[FuddyWoodie]

They removed the shiny walls? Why would they do that? They were go to scenery items!

 

[Nemmie]

This is the one thing that's actually got me a little peeved.

Have the concrete walls as a separate set. An extra set is always a good thing. But the plastic walls have been here since the start so no doubt, they've been one of the most used. There'll be thousands of items in the workshop with them. And the white panelled walls seem to not have the option to be re-coloured again.

If the problem was that the shininess and reflective quality of the plastic walls couldn't be made to work properly, why not just make them less shiny? But to replace them entirely seems totally illogical. This was one of those sets you always went to if you wanted some vibrant colour.

I'm totally gutted. My Blast Point Main Street has gone from a vibrant colourful place to a grey one. I had structures where the colour and tone varied from the top to the bottom and my hotel looked modern and stylish. I spent a lot of time on the buildings.
It's gone from this:

To this

All the concrete makes it look a bit 80s Communist state. Now do I have to destroy all my hard work and start again or do I wait for a fix?

Please sort this Frontier.

 

[EmSay]

Wow Nemmie, Your park has gone old. [haha]

 

[Periocus]

That makes one fear about release. What they will take out next.

Alpha 1 Coasterbuilder - gone (at least the total freedom of buidling tracks and the banking ring)
Old Victory - gone
Plastic walls - gone

Nice town by the way.

 

[SPRidley]

I feel you Nemmie, I cant upload the Parque Warner recreation anymore because nearly every building changed to awful concrete grey.

The plastic pìeces NEED to come back, the sooner the better.

 

[Asteroidcrusher]

Even though i didn't really use them alot, the Alfa shiney pieces were a good useable addition.
That is obvious from the screenshots above, please bring them back.[up][up][up][up][up][up][up][up][up][up][up][up][up][up][up][up][up][up][up][up][up][up][up][up][up][up][up][up][up][up][up][up][up][up][up][big grin]

 

[Lullibert]

Hello,

I used the plastic pieces alot in my alpha 3 blueprints and now 70% of my former workshop items are ruined. some dev please say that this is a just bug and will be fixed as soon as possible.

Regards

Lullibert

 

[Crowdpleaser]

There are a lot of Pieces missing since Alpha and i can't for the life of me think of a Reason why. It's silly that on one Hand we gain more Freedom (Coloring Walls) and on the other Hand lose Freedom for no good Reason (changing Pieces, taking Pieces out).
There were so many useful Items, now they are gone

 

[Lullibert]

Hello,

I am really wondering if this thread was accidentilly overseen by the devs or if they just don't want to answer it. We just want to know if this is a bug or feature. However, did someone open a ticket about this topic yet? Just wondering.

Regards

Lullibert

 

[Periocus]

Is the flat metal roof gone or am i just blind?

 

[Tricky1]

That makes one fear about release. What they will take out next.

Alpha 1 Coasterbuilder - gone (at least the total freedom of buidling tracks and the banking ring)
Old Victory - gone
Plastic walls - gone

Nice town by the way.

What happened with the old victory? it looked better

 

[EndDays]

Please, please bring these walls back.

And while we're talking about shiny... Could you bring back some of the shiny reflective shaders to some of the materials. We have screen space reflections but they are so subtle on anything that uses them. In alpha 1, there were shiny materials that reflected the world. It really made those materials pop.

 

[redrum]

It's not that bad guys!

The blue plastic walls have gone, but we've gained metal alloy which is probably the best replacement. Just change your building, why is that a problem? Doesn't take long to swap out a few wall pieces.

Honestly, the blue plastic wasn't the best looking wall and didn't tile that well...

As for the roof tile to simulate water, just replace it with "panel roof flat" and change the colour to your liking. There's a seem down the middle of each piece which is not great, but from a distance you can't notice that...

And finally, here's all the alpha walls pieces....

And beta walls pieces. So many more! [yesnod]

 

[Periocus]

What happened with the old victory? it looked better

It was redone actually. Let's press fingers the other will be back next week. It is still there. But only in the Alpha build.
If i knew how i would just copy the folder into PC-Thrillseeker.

There are a lot of nice walls in. That's true, but i just started to use the plastic walls.

 

[SPRidley]

It's not that bad guys!

The blue plastic walls have gone, but we've gained metal alloy which is probably the best replacement. Just change your building, why is that a problem? Doesn't take long to swap out a few wall pieces.

HAHAHAHAHAHAhahahahahahah....

Yeah, no. It would actually take a bunch of time replacing more than 20000 plastic pieces in one of my old recreations that was pretty popular on the workshop on alpha 3. Probably even impsible in some of the places because of how I used them (hard to click them now).

 

[redrum]

I can understand the roof pieces might be missed and annoying that they've changed to grey, but the plastic walls? Think of it this way, do you really want your buildings to have plastic walls? Not me. I'm glad it's gone, now my buildings are made with proper materials. It's a minor inconvenience at worst.

 

[rdrunr7]

I've really been looking forward to getting Nemmie's Blast Point Main Street buildings via Steam Workshop ever since he posted a pic of them some time back. I think they're a really interesting design, great & cheerful. Well they were... I'm really disappointed so I can't imagine how Nemmie is feeling.

Hoping that this will be fixed by Frontier soon. [uhh]