Thoughts & Discussion on Career Mode!: Parks and Restoration Part 3 - Planet Coaster 2

[@mgunter]

The game should force you to learn schedule management and zoned areas early on to help people out because it's being played like PC1.

[@Channel5Gaming]

I agree!

[@billkeithchannel]

Zoning your staff and making sure the entire path to get somewhere is within that zone is very RCT2-ish. I can't count how many times I was not having staff fix something and was using the picker to drop an unassigned mechanic or janitor in. only to realize one non-highlighted square was causing the actual area to be inaccessible.

[@1979Beyond]

i dont mind the speed build with jump cuts for parts like coaster and stuff that would normally take a while to do. that makes sense for sure. But i would definitely maybe lower the difficulty of the campaign. You could still be giving us the content you want us to see, but i think you wouldnt have to put so much time into it to do it. i am sure you could finish the easier difficulties with more ease.

[@Channel5Gaming]

thanks for your thoughts! Think I found something I like for the future episodes! :D

[@skylarguimond]

To be honest, I am just happy to see someone playing the career on youtube. I have played through about 75% of career and I can say that there will be a quite a few stars that will be easy to zoom through during a level. I think a lot of the videos could be unedited, and the jump into speed builds for the longer builds like how you did with the first episode if I remember correctly. I would also say that almost all of the platinum stars will require a park rating of 4.5 - to be honest, that's going to be really hard to translate to video. I would suggest only doing bronze, silver, and gold as a let's play - and then maybe do the platinum star as a stream, so you can take suggestions on how to get to 4.5 park rating.

[@skylarguimond]

I would also say that I would be more than happy to watch you play the levels on medium difficulty to actually have you enjoy the builds.

[@Channel5Gaming]

Thanks for your thoughts! I'll consider all of this going forward! Als oglad you're enjoying the career lets play!

[@yaboikd100]

@ 5:11 …In that very same area, i built a pool, decorated it, put the game in pause….Over 2500 guests..I pick some up individually and placed them over the pool..once satisfied, I unpause the game..they made a big splash, and everyone immediately swim to get out..I didn’t know this was possible..ahhhh good times 😂😂

[@Channel5Gaming]

haha thats great!

[@billkeithchannel]

That sounds like Marcel Vos OpenRCT2 shenanigans there.

[@msryllo]

I am really enjoying you playing the game itself. I am on chapter 4 and I feel I have learned a lot through the career mode and it was fun to meet the challenge. It has been nice to watch and see how you solve the situations. I do think some of the wording at times made it difficult to understand exactly what was needed bt over all a good experience. Keep on keeping on I am here for it

[@Channel5Gaming]

love it thanks!

[@m.hreels9822]

Yeah, I will say the campaign mode has been quite hefty. I've been sinking a ton of time into each level sterilizing each park. But I will say there is a fair amount of drag and dropping and putting things down. I've seen several people easily get through the campaign levels just by doing that. But I end up spending about three or four days on each level and I've been enjoying it more than the sandbox mode. So I'm pleasantly surprised!

[@Channel5Gaming]

This is great to hear! Ive enjoyed spending many long hours on RTC scenario maps in the past. I find a nicely crafted terrain and objective much more inspiring to build on. Happy to hear you are playing 3-4 days on each level. I hope to do the same!

[@evandelaalquarame4171]

Yeah, the campaign has been fun with some major exception on each park I've played so far except for the first tutorial (all in normal difficulty.) Forewarning: in the renewable energy one, the terrain combined with the pathing tool made adding paths into their premade flat building areas impossible, so now I dread "intersecting terrain" messages and maps with interesting terrain but no pre-positioned paths. Maybe the original paths were too steep? Either that or they can't cut into a hillside? It really needed more testing; the terrain tool didn't even help much. The tutorial instructions didn't line up with the types of waterslide they accepted if you wanted to use any additional options, so the handholding left me completely stuck building many slides until I found the magic combination they wanted. This one was the best of those I tried so far with just the $200,000 and 4.5 stars goals feeling tedious. Now I know to start decorating and multiplying rides earlier because each platinum requires 4.5 stars at the very end so far. I couldn't find enough mythology flatride variety on the workshop even with your videos providing some codes, so hopefully they improve the search filters soon.

[@Channel5Gaming]

Appreciate the comments! And yes I agree the filtering on the workshop is bad. this problem is caused when I tested saving a blueprint myself. It just auto-tagged everything that was detected. Basically if you use 1 viking piece the Viking tag will be included. The community needs to be more thoughtful and reset the tags and manually pick the proper ones.!

[@pearcejohnathan]

I am all for multiple episodes per level and watching you go through everything. The speed build is great for coasters, but the playthrough during the rest is better IMO.

[@Channel5Gaming]

My thoughts to speed it up a little bit is more because its a slower paced game. If im to do 2-3 episodes a week between spotlights and features, i feel it will take years to complete the campaign. So some sort of speedup is required, and even then I feel i'm waaay behind on the campaign than everyone else playing it.

[@matthewmoore8270]

My biggest gripe with the game so far, the day/night system is more realistic, but that's not actually how the time system works. The built date for rides shows this. How many times in a day can a ride require refurbishment due to deteriorating conditions? I get some people not wanting to sit through the time required for a more accurate timing system, but I'd love it if you'd have to sit through an in-game year before realistically being able to build a new ride, maintenance having to do checks on rides before opening, guests leaving overnight, but still having those hours as possible work hours for cleaning/maintenance, etc.

[@Channel5Gaming]

agree

[@ThalienTrin]

Career will be so much better once the staff and few guest problems are fixed. Gonna wait for december 1 to get back into it. I got to awesome summit but that just started to get real buggy with rides not able to set prices and staff gettin stuck on rides. I'll need to restart it. Thanks for the vid

[@25157707]

I think you should play through your campaign, finish your park. Then give us a park tour

[@Channel5Gaming]

Love it. Unfortunately with this level, the process just defeated me and I hated my park in the end. The next one im working on is a lot more creative and feeling much more like a park now! So that one i'll be happy to do a "park spotlight" on! :D

[@m.hreels9822]

Yeah, the notifications get annoying. That's my only big gripe about this game in the career mode, and it's really hard to make sure your maintenance staff, the vendors, and janitors are doing their jobs correctly. I've even gone as far as going into the menus and arranging all their schedules, and that seems to help, but it's so convoluted and confusing how they have it set up. It takes far too long to do it, so it's not really worth it. I wish they made that part of the game with the management aspect a little bit more intuitive and easier to understand. But every single person I've seen play this game has the same issues when it comes to the mechanics, the janitors, the vendors, and shopkeepers. It's just kind of a headache.

[@billkeithchannel]

I thought there was something that needed to be researched (or bought and placed) that helps fix that?

[@citizentrucker]

i wish they made the whole staff management part a lot easier, especially for PC users. its just too much clicking if you even want to assign someone to a zone, stuff like that should be right at the front so you can manage your zones easier. and if you dont start thinking about your zones and assigning them when you only have a few staff, youre never going to catch up with it later cause you have to do each worker one by one, each one involving multiples of clicks to get to the zoning assignment. i dont know what they were thinking when they did that lol

[@Channel5Gaming]

couldnt agree more!

[@billkeithchannel]

One would think you could just highlight an area and assign staff to it.

[@Murkharto]

I don't think staff are working properly at the moment. I made a new park completely with staff management in mind because I had the same experience in this campaign, I planned out every single staff members schedules so that every ride has a mechanic attending it every hour of the day, even went as far as to have another mechanic scheduled just during their 1 hour break but I still get service badges expired every 5 minutes it's super frustrating.

[@wolfnonys550]

You choose how you want to do it. Their not sandboxes and tbh live stream everyone has an opinion but I think if u do live you can make it slow mode and subscription based chat too

[@TheNTD06]

I like this speed and chat version! If this is easier for you overall, I love these type of videos.

[@Channel5Gaming]

great to hear! thanks!

[@ScarletLunarLove]

I certainly did not like the limited space on this one. I am finding in certain levels, I have to build coasters and delete them to build new coasters once I gain my medals to pass the next objectives if that makes sense. I do really enjoy some of the levels, especially the ones where I can expand the parks. And is it just me or do the rides degrade quickly? I feel like I am constantly calling mechanics to service rides. There are a so things I do love about the campaign and I have definitely learned a lot.

[@Channel5Gaming]

yeah things break down way to fast especially if you consider how long the days are. 20 rides per day breaking down seems incorrect lol.

[@msryllo]

Oh also not all campaigns take so much but some you might need to focus on one star per episode. I never used the zones or schedules lol I still not sure how to do that.lol

[@onieyoh9478]

A lot of Minecraft lets players are actually highlights of streams cut together with voiceovers, look at channels like Smallish Beans. You could try the same showing your favorite parts of the build, jokes from the stream, and a tour of the ride at the end. Just a suggestion.

[@onieyoh9478]

You might also get inspiration from channels like Biffa Gaming since he does something similar with city builder games.

[@dylanjustus318]

Play the next level on medium. It’s so much more enjoyable and you actually get money. I even did one level on easy lol. Been having a blast with campaign and haven’t used zones once

[@Channel5Gaming]

yeah next level were doing later this week i try on easy and im being much more creative now!

[@originalgaige5619]

I don't mind the scenarios taking a bit of time to 100%, but both the guest and staff AI are infuriating.

[@jdrizzle96]

My biggest problem with career is that you can’t see your objectives ahead of time. They only pop up when you’re on that respective bronze, sliver, etc objective. So when you build something somewhere to complete a current objective, the objective you can’t see might be hindered by that.

[@midnightaustin9287]

the only thing about pathing i wanna talk about is, i wish we dont really need to connect path directly to a shop or toilet just like in prehistoric kingdom like we can put floor pieces or stair and the npc can walk to it as long as we got store connected to the floor or stair so it kinda give more freedom

[@juliuswy]

I had to stop th campaigns because it was destroying my love for the game lol. I'll go back to them eventually 😅

[@ashleyyandell3532]

Same, its been so frustrating trying to play. Being this early in the campaign, I shouldn't be this annoyed or spending 6 hours on one scenario

[@juliuswy]

@@ashleyyandell3532 glad its not just me. Sandbox mode until then lol

[@Channel5Gaming]

Not sure where you got too, but im really enjoying "A Shore Thing" the next level after the one I got frustrated with today.

[@juliuswy]

@@Channel5Gaming I stopped at the level you were showcasing in the video because it was so frustrating. I'll try the next level then.

[@GhostKnightTech]

Change the Campaign setting to normal or easy first, then part out the videos to each goal in each chapter, one per goal in the chapter?

[@Channel5Gaming]

yeah trying easy on the next one coming out later this week! :D

[@WhatsKnupp]

I don’t do KZbin at all so I probably don’t understand the time commitment or other things that come with it but personally I would enjoy or wouldn’t mind if you streamed and then put a recap of the stream on KZbin.

[@TylerCoolGuy88]

Speed build is fine with me. It maybe do medium or easy level so it not as overwhelming, especially if you get to the later campaign levels.

[@Channel5Gaming]

awesome!

[@treynolds94]

I find rides and generators are constantly breaking down and in need of repair. Ill do an emergancy refab within 30 mins on x1 speed litterly need to do anorher emergancy refab evwn tho my mechanics are inspecting the ride in between its getting alittle out of hand. The zones dont work they move based on how your looking at it in the camera angle. Set all my staff up and they couldnt find a staff room in zone 4 even tho zone four was literally just two staff rooms. Move the camera and the zone was sitting the ride next to it. I really dont undertand it.

[@yaboikd100]

Yeah, it’s pointless..i think so

[@ThalienTrin]

Staff is a bit broken atm, not working as intended. Fix coming 1 december hopefully. See their website for more info. They're working on it atleast. U can set the staff room manually.

[@treynolds94]

@@ThalienTrin that I did not know thank you

[@joshuaquanstrom370]

Im almoat done woth the campaign myself, that level sucked but was not the worst 😅

[@Channel5Gaming]

well glad we got the worst out of the way then!

[@shaunholt]

Planet Coaster 1 - One real time day playing = 362 years passing in Planet Coaster. Planet Coaster 2 - One real time day playing = 2 days passing in Planet Coaster. Planet Coaster 3 - 32 real time years playing = 1 day passing in Planet Coaster.

[@alexanderdiaz7345]

They need to add the coaster trains as scenery so we can build better transfer tracks!!!!

[@billkeithchannel]

Instead of a live stream set your sped up video with voiceover as a *Premier* so you can be in the chat without having the hassle of doing both talking and typing. Plus in the chat you can clarify any questions people have as you talk.

[@ercumpaleggendario4ever297]

Sorry but, there Is some Place were i can suggest some park or ride ideas for others builders? Because i'm a PlanCo builder, but not so much good, and my PC Is non ennoth strongher for a full big park, and i want tò suggest ideas for bether builders.

[@Channel5Gaming]

you can chat on discord.

[@ThunderNorse]

First?

[@KodyFurlong]

Finally, been waiting for this to go on. I not one for live streaming stuff.

[@Channel5Gaming]

Since you were waiting FYI: Career Let's plays are currently planned for twice a week, Monday & Friday. Subject to change!