These 2 person raft slides need changing

[MARK1]

Hi Frontier,
I'm having a blast playing your game and the potential is massive! I would just like to bring your attention to the 2 person raft slides, as you tamper with and fix the animation issues with raft slides.

At the moment you have the rafts behaving like this... freely rotating around the flat basin of the slide:

While there is a small amount of these slides that do this, the overwhelming majority of these slides DO NOT behave like this in real life! They are always forward facing, and swing left and right up and down the slide basin when encountering turns.

The actions are actually a lot simpler than how they behave in PC2!

Also for the rocket/conveyor belt section, there is an arbitrary flat piece needed to make an uphill slope, which is just unnecessary!!!

Rocket slides look like this:

The conveyer (which these days are actually a blast of water rather than a conveyer belt) happens as part of the hill, there are no flat sections!

Anyway, continue with the great work, it's an awesome game! Thankyou for coming to my TED talk.

 

[MrHappy]

Many complained that there was no realism in the way guests and rafts go down the flume. Frontier only just changed it very recently to make the rafts spin.

 

[MARK1]

Yes unfortunately they misunderstood what we were wanting I think. They just need to do a bit more in-depth research!

 

[MrHappy]

Sometimes they must have no idea what to do. For example. On this very forum, we have had people complaining that not all rides are present in the game. But we also have complaints that DLC doesn't look up to scratch. Well they certainly won't if all rides had been included as it leaves nothing to add in DLC. To me it just seems that whatever Frontier try to do, somebody is going to complain. Keep your eye on it though, in the road map released yesterday, It looks like another big flume upgrade will happen over the next couple of months.

 

[rct-uwe1]

I guess some of them have never have been to a theme park or water park...

In case of the 2pax raft I'm really irritated about the ability to spin inside the flume... I've never seen this (doesn't mean that those don't exist somewhere).
I'm pretty sure that 99% of complaints about guest behaviour on flumes are meant to add some g-force calculations for turns instead of staying just in the middle of the flume. Spinning (in 2pax rafts) is a strange conclusion...

 

[MARK1]

Yes don't get me wrong, I know they have people from all sides making demands with a lot of expectations... I think the slides are awesome overall! However I think they got feedback that users wanted the rafts to do more and be more dynamic, and somehow translated that as spinning. I think users wanted the rafts to oscillate up and down the slide walls more, rather than spin. I only brought it to light because it's a really glaring issue that can easily be fixed! Hopefully their announcement about the raft slides includes this.

 

[Robert K]

The March update I think will get rid of the flat inside bottoms on slides. Maybe some raft animations will be fixed then as well. The outsides of the slides are round, but some slides currently have a flat bottom on the inside which is not prototypical. RCT3 slides are curved on the inside and physics are better.