Planet Coaster

[Jay Jay The Jet Plane]

considering buying a Windows PC just for this game, where would be the best place to get one from seeing it's not coming out on Mac?

[pin142]

Computer store in parts where you get the fun and accomplishment of building it yourself?

[Reanimated35]

Yep, you shpuld almost never buy a premade one. DIY. If you can build Lego and follow instructions you shouldn't have any issues at all. Hardest part will be getting the front panel inputs right, mainly because they're so fiddly. 

[downunder196]

14 hours ago, The_Ninja_59 said:

considering buying a Windows PC just for this game, where would be the best place to get one from seeing it's not coming out on Mac?

I'm running bootcamp on my Mac and it works fine

[Jay Jay The Jet Plane]

Ok so I got a new Windows 10 computer recently, downloading the game now as I'm speaking

[Jay Jay The Jet Plane]

after spending hours playing the game holy shit the game is fantastic, highly recommend it

[Whombex]

Great to hear!

Sadly my "main" park is killing my PC, it's only half built and not going to be that big of a park. My Graphics card is a year old, but my CPU/mobo/RAM are almost 4 years old and letting me down. It's got me running at under 10 FPS as the CPU can't deal with the processing of 1200 individual guests' decision making, path finding etc. The alpha currently inserts 200 guests per ride into the park. Thinking of deleting rides and focusing on themeing instead.

 

Might just make a new park, but think Aussie World in size, not Disney.

 

Edited May 1, 2016 by Glubbo

[Reanimated35]

Nice work. 

I'm waiting for the next alpha on May 24th to get back into it. Currently playing 7 Days to Die. 

What's your PC specs?

[Whombex]

A lot of the pros are keen for Alpha2. I coincidentally have that week off work.

My graphics card is the Radeon R9 200 Sapphire. My CPU is the weak, WEAK (don't laugh!) part of the system, a duo E8400 @ 3.00 GHz and only 4GB of ram. I'm looking at my Tax Refund for a CPU/motherboard/RAM upgrade. I'm using a SSD and that helps only so much..

Here's my list of players to MUST watch. Links to their YouTube channels:

• Silvarret
• Kukamonda
• Skye Storme

Others I check in on occasionally:

• Flabaliki
• Deftoneish
• ConflictedNerd
• Jurre van den Heuvel
• Fluxtrance

Lots of good stuff out there, check out the Planet Coaster Forums, the Planet Coaster Reddit and YouTube.

Planet Coaster post on Twitter and Facebook.

[Jay Jay The Jet Plane]

update on my park, took these on my phone 

[Reanimated35]

4 hours ago, Glubbo said:

A lot of the pros are keen for Alpha2. I coincidentally have that week off work.

My graphics card is the Radeon R9 200 Sapphire. My CPU is the weak, WEAK (don't laugh!) part of the system, a duo E8400 @ 3.00 GHz and only 4GB of ram. I'm looking at my Tax Refund for a CPU/motherboard/RAM upgrade. I'm using a SSD and that helps only so much..

Here's my list of players to MUST watch. Links to their YouTube channels:

• Silvarret
• Kukamonda
• Skye Storme

Others I check in on occasionally:

• Flabaliki
• Deftoneish
• ConflictedNerd
• Jurre van den Heuvel
• Fluxtrance

Lots of good stuff out there, check out the Planet Coaster Forums, the Planet Coaster Reddit and YouTube.

Planet Coaster post on Twitter and Facebook.

Ouch, only 4gb ram??!?!

3 hours ago, The_Ninja_59 said:

update on my park, took these on my phone 

Looks good. 

[Jay Jay The Jet Plane]

Cheers reanimated, here's an update on the park

Edited May 1, 2016 by The_Ninja_59

[jjuttp]

Is there an actual full guest POV mode?

 

Or do you just hijack the persons head like RCT3?

Edited May 1, 2016 by jjuttp

[Reanimated35]

Do you mean third person view?

 

[jjuttp]

Nah, in RCT3 you could get a ground view of the park through the guests eyes, but it was limited as to where they wanted to go, unless you used the car cheat. Is it the same, or is there a full you-control guest cam?

[AllegroCrab]

1 hour ago, jjuttp said:

Nah, in RCT3 you could get a ground view of the park through the guests eyes, but it was limited as to where they wanted to go, unless you used the car cheat. Is it the same, or is there a full you-control guest cam?

There's a free view camera mode, where you can fly around and see the park from any angle you like. If you want, you can roleplay being a guest with this camera.

[Reanimated35]

1 hour ago, AllegroCrab said:

There's a free view camera mode, where you can fly around and see the park from any angle you like. If you want, you can roleplay being a guest with this camera.

Except it seems to be buggy as and a pain in the ass to use. 

[Whombex]

I've had no issues with jumping into a guest's head and looking around as they walk. The "1st person" mode is available, but the movement speed is not limited to guest speed, it's still at park design overall mode speed. Being in this mode won't lock you to guests' head height, if your angle of view is up or down you'll move towards that altitude.

 

Here's some fantastic work, the creator has even recreated an art piece of old docks in the game.

[Whombex]

A stunning resort hotel added to the game. This is stunning for 1st Alpha. Next alpha is May 24-25ish. More theming, coasters, amongst other things.

[downunder196]

For anyone who saw the live stream, it looks like a Suspended Twin Hammer is incoming. Also, curved stairs and natural paths look cool. Just paths in general have been improved massively.

[AllegroCrab]

Paths look like they're easier to use, but I'm still really hoping for a way to make plazas in any shape I want. Pretty much just the ability to have square edges or sharp corners, as well as a way of connecting two areas of path together. For instance, in that livestream they have two shops next to each other, and the paths leading to them are separated. It'd be great to be able to fill that in and just have one flat surface.

Same goes for huge plazas, having to fill in the pointless gaps with plant beds when you want to build a plaza fatter than the thickest path is getting time consuming.

[Whombex]

Agreed, and I'm sure they'll do something about it before Beta. Probably by giving the option for up to 30m wide paths.

You can make square edges to paths, by switching 90degree snap on and length=1.

 

Q & A from last night.

[Whombex]

Stunning.

 

Alpha 2 is 25 May our time, iirc.

[Whombex]

NO MORE ROCKS AS MOUNTAINS!!

No more cannons hidden in chimneys!

 

MUCH better scenery placement, just hope that control system extends to building pieces...

 

Also a forum chat regarding the amazing audio in the game.

Edited May 15, 2016 by Glubbo

[Whombex]

What?