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Planet Coaster 2 could have endured some ups and downs when it launched again in October, however Frontier Developments’ post-release assist for its theme-park constructing sequel has been as regular as a lazy river. January introduced improved flume simulation to the sequel’s all-new waterslides, whereas February added video billboards gamers can create their very own customized adverts for. Now, Frontier has unveiled its roadmap for the subsequent few updates touchdown over the spring, and there are some substantial new options being added to the administration sim within the coming months.
The most imminent replace, which lands later this month, provides much more flexibility to flume development. Update 3 will increase the number of motion of friends and rafts on particular flume items, improves the looks of friends jettisoning off flumes, and provides “inflatable deformation”, so rafts will bend and squash in a plausible method as they whizz round a slide. On high of this, it additionally provides “round-bottomed flumes”, a phrase which immediately triggered a sure, similarly-named Queen music to start out taking part in in my head, like activating a sleeper agent obsessive about seventies glam rock.
April’s replace 4, in the meantime, brings a complete new function to Planet Coaster 2—in-park eating places. Players will be capable of construct eating places of their park to take a seat alongside the smaller meals stalls, which is able to “fulfill a number of friends’ wants and tolerances”. The description is considerably obscure, however since guests purchase food and drinks individually from stalls, it is doable consuming in a restaurant means they will get each on the identical time, which would offer the mechanical impetus to assemble a extra complicated consuming institution.
This is not every little thing the updates will add. Both patches will deliver new rides to Planet Coaster 2. Alongside a bevy of inventory coasters, replace 3 will let gamers construct the Vector inverting suspended rollercoaster, whereas replace 4 will add an as-yet unrevealed trip alongside its eating places. Update 3 additionally heralds the return of the ‘Western’ park theme from the dusty plains of obscurity, letting you construct a rootin’, tootin’, coaster shootin’ park simply as you possibly can within the authentic Planet Coaster. Both updates will even make “ongoing” enhancements to efficiency, stability, financial system administration, alongside extra particular components of the simulation like trip attendants.
There’s a video that includes Frontier devs speaking via the roadmap and replace 3 which you could view above. April does not symbolize the top of assist for Planet Coaster 2, with additional, unspecified adjustments and additions coming in May. For now, although, you possibly can count on replace 3 to land on March 20.
