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The terrain tools, the way devs listen to community and make new parts based on the feedback, the fast response, the amount of things, detail and interconectivity of those things... I'm astonished! This is the ultimate creative sandbox! It just needs to have user content support confirmed, and I'm giving it the title of "Best game of all times".
Please, someone pinch me, I'm deffinitely dreaming!
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Alpha 2 livestream just ended... It's just an alpha and its already deffinitely getting first place on my GOTY list! The terrain tools, the way devs listen to community and make new parts based on the feedback, the fast response, the amount of things, detail and interconectivity of those things... I'm astonished! This is the ultimate creative sandbox! It just needs to have user content support confirmed, and I'm giving it the title of "Best game of all times". Please, someone pinch me, I'm deffinitely dreaming! |
*slaps you with a fish*
Pinching you wouldn't wake you up from this real-life fantasy.
Seriously though, this is JUST Alpha. Literally every coaster, ride, park, city, ever will be possible to make with the tools they've given/will give us. I wish that they could team up with one (or all) of the theme park giants in the US to recreate a flagship park from each as a scenario, but I'm sure plenty of users will do that anyways.
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I have both Parkitect and Planet Coaster and my life is now consumed by them :lovestruc I was surprised by amount of customization in Parkitect, building stuff is almost comparable to Planet Coasters piece by piece building system, even more so after I downloaded custom building assets, lights, plants, no decor collision mod and such. Of course, Parkitect has more old school visuals and is more grid based, but some stuff I see on shyguysworld or Parkitect nexus continue to blow my mind. Parkitect also has surprising amount of content at this point. If you count mods, there's probably more flat rides than in RCT1/2 and only a few rollercoaster types missing. No water rides (except log flumes) though and sandbox mode only, like currently in Planet Coaster.
I couldn't possibly choose one game over another, they are just games for different moods. Planet Coaster when I want bit more freedom and realism, and Parkitect when I feel nostalgic but don't feel like launching old RCT's or miss isometric view (I'm not a good builder, so usually I feel more comfortable building with grids in isometric view, even if it is a bit restrictive). Parkitect also does not melt my computer which is a definite plus
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Also, I've totally forgotten about gameplay aspect of the game. I hope Frontier doesen't end up focusing on creative features only. What made RCT franchise fun was the interaction between you, park and the guests. I need to see something on the gameplay soon.
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I'm really waiting for proper scenarios, but also a bit scared. PC runs surprisingly smoothly on my computer as long as I don't go completely overboard with the scenery items, but the guests seem to wander pretty much aimlessly at the moment. They probably don't even have any kind of needs, or preferred rides at the moment, they just randomly visit food and toilet stalls and flock to rides which happen to be on the way. I hope my computer will not start to lag once all the needs, routing etc are properly simulated.
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"You can do refraction by raymarching through the depth buffer" (c. Reddeyfish 2017)
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BTW, have they fixed anything about paths?
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Terrain is actually kinda easy, at first it's a learning curve (the game as a whole is) because of how advanced it is but once you get a feel for it and play around you can begin to create some decent things!
I sttarted from scratch and attempted a volcano again, very pleased with how it has turned out so far:
Just gotta keep chiseling away at the sides to give it a more "eroded" feel, and work on the interior/tunnels a bit more.
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Also, observation. While watching at the third picture, I noticed that the grass textures have bump maps, but that's not what's important. The textures look like random noise. It is possible that they used procedural generation for textures and LOD (probably paths too). That explains why game runs so smoothly.
But, like caolve said, there is also no routing and A.I. so there's almost no strain on the processor.
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"You can do refraction by raymarching through the depth buffer" (c. Reddeyfish 2017)
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I think I'm getting the hang of this?
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WARNING! : Mild adult content! XD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3Hhpy3EUKY
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So, MINIMUM requirements are 8GB RAM, 3.2GHz CPU, and an average GPU. Mine are 4GB DDR, 2.8GHz CPU and bellow average GPU ( I don't really understand how GPU's work). But my PC can stll run it!
The weird thing is that it runs fairly well on low graphical details, and still looks amazing. And when using an external program to take video footage, framerate does not drop. Heck, all the games that have particle system drop in framerate when fog is on the screen, but Planet Coaster has constant framerate even when spammed with around 50 VFX. It's extremely optimized.
I won't be playing it though, because it laggs like crazy on my PC. Once, when I upgrade my PC, which likely won't happen, I'll deffinitely buy this game. Hence, I'll never buy this game XD
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If you guys have any questions or requests, let me know and I'll try to get back to you asap!
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ooo - are those tram tracks? |
Yes, I made them from scratch with the in game plastic walls.
There's no transportation rides atm, but I'm assuming they'll be here in Beta along with wooden coasters.
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Thanks for that info mixa97sr - sorry to tell you but my rig hits that easily. I think I'm likely to buy. |
That sound you hear is a eager granny drooling into her Ovaltine.
Yup, yup, yup, me also set to buy come November having held back on alpha, though they look fantastic.
How you doing, Maxon? Still on your Georgy 'Porgy' orgy?
Granny Cupcake.
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That sound you hear is a eager granny drooling into her Ovaltine. Yup, yup, yup, me also set to buy come November having held back on alpha, though they look fantastic. How you doing, Maxon? Still on your Georgy 'Porgy' orgy? Granny Cupcake. |
@cathy_cupcake - you would not be???? Really???? OMG not heard from you in ages!
George was done a while back. I now have a serious job <sigh>.
How're you?
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@cathy_cupcake - you would not be???? Really???? OMG not heard from you in ages! George was done a while back. I now have a serious job <sigh>. How're you? |
Fighting for custody of the Zimmer Frame, but how did George turn out? Did he turn up trumps for you? And what you mean by 'a serious job?' Mac Donalds? Checkout at Tescoids? And <nervous> should we take this to a different board?
Meanwhile... I have pre-ordered PC but didn't realise until too late that I would have to wait until November so I have made a virtue out of necessity.
You know what will happen, of course? What with me having the attention span of a goldfish, wot some unfeeling and cruel female once said about my Sims hoods... By the time I get my hands on PC all those experts out there (and my Gawd, some of them are amazing) will have built bigger and better and a terrible enui will be born.
I'm Enui the eighth, I am.
But I am hugging an idea to my dropping breasts. A BIG idea. A BIG build, Genius and all those who manipulate mountains will gasp and wail: 'why didn't I think of that!'
Oh yes.
Granny
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Fighting for custody of the Zimmer Frame, but how did George turn out? Did he turn up trumps for you? And what you mean by 'a serious job?' Mac Donalds? Checkout at Tescoids? And <nervous> should we take this to a different board? Meanwhile... I have pre-ordered PC but didn't realise until too late that I would have to wait until November so I have made a virtue out of necessity. You know what will happen, of course? What with me having the attention span of a goldfish, wot some unfeeling and cruel female once said about my Sims hoods... By the time I get my hands on PC all those experts out there (and my Gawd, some of them are amazing) will have built bigger and better and a terrible enui will be born. I'm Enui the eighth, I am. But I am hugging an idea to my dropping breasts. A BIG idea. A BIG build, Genius and all those who manipulate mountains will gasp and wail: 'why didn't I think of that!' Oh yes. Granny |
Great to see you.
I'll PM you later.
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Great to see you. I'll PM you later. |
I see you. This waiting businessis having a bad effect on me, seeing what other builders have already accomplished. I mean, whatever I build is going to look pretty scrubby and I suspect that whatever I start out to do, my mainstreet will end up looking like downtown Bilston on a wet Sunday - remeber that Sims builder who gave us the Digbeth railway arches and acres of rubble and grot? A genius, she were. Crashed my old machine though, but. I do tend to gravitate towards crumbling, smokey brickwork and reeking abandoned canal basins under rusrty iron bridges.
I mean, I mean... can you really see a coaster ride called the Haunted Cut? or The Steelworks Slasher??
No, nor can I. Ah, well. Gasworks Alley, anyone? All new wizards to go there to get their first hod or shovel.
Granny - brooding darkly.
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