How I beat Amity Airfield in just 49.8 seconds

How fast can you beat RollerCoaster Tycoon 2's most infamous scenario: Amity Airfield?
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[@MarcelVos]

Edit: In several comments I take credit for the discovery of the lift glitch that SparkiL used, and while that is true, Sparki did independently discover the glitch for themselves as well. To everyone saying that the fastforward category is unfair because people with beefier PCs can win: You're absolutely right. But that's ok, as it's not that serious and we just run for fun. The vanilla category still exists if you want to play without any speedups, but the speedups allow for so many more crazy strategies to exist. The lag also only shows up on scenarios that require quite a lot of guests, so something like Electric Fields with a 700 guest goal is entirely fair.

[@honorarymancunian7433]

For fun?! Roller coaster tycoon is serious business 😡

[@robertlupa8273]

@@honorarymancunian7433 Well it certainly is business... park owner business. :)

[@LucasCunhaRocha]

so, that video "how to open your park" really came in clutch for this speedrun

[@countluke2334]

I like the "this is a good rule, since i wrote it" part. Made me chuckle.

[@WackoMcGoose]

5:55 _wirtual voice_ "But on the 28th of April, 2024, Marcel got... _this_ run."

[@TheWatchernator]

I thought it was a nod to Karl Jobst.

[@davidthecommenter]

i thought that was summoning salt

[@daninda1665]

I now want a "History of RCT Speedruns" video

[@TestOfInsanity]

@@davidthecommenter ​ @TheWatchernator I've heard all three use variations of it. That specific wording became a meme on Wirtual's channel talking about a player nemed Hefest.

[@physetermacrocephalus2209]

I think Marcel might actually be the the greatest roller coaster tycoon player to ever exist now. Nothing is out of reach for him.

[@blauw67]

I don't think he's the best player, I do think he's both an amazingly good player and great content creator.

[@Irobert1115HD]

so you say that hes the roller coaster tycoon that is mentioned in the title of the game?

[@kinghrath]

​@@blauw67 who would you consider the best? I'm curious to know of someone better than Marcel. Not an aggressive question, actually curious about your opinion.

[@alexritchie4586]

Marcel is an excellent player, no question, but like all speedruns there's a whole community working away behind the scenes to find new exploits and shortcuts 😊

[@hoo2042]

@@kinghrath If only there were leaderboards for the best and fastest players with various different rulesets across various scenarios... TL;DR: Look at the folks near Marcel on the speedrun charts, watch some of their stuff, and decide for yourself. The question of who is "best" is extremely subjective (best by what criteria? How do you weight knowledge vs skills? Should you include glitch / strategy pioneers even if they are mediocre at execution? Etc).

[@SparkiLambda]

Thanks lord the glitch is no more. Even though I used it in my runs (due to being pround since I found it) it didn't really feel right. Now it's useless :D

[@MarcelVos]

Wait you found it? I remember discovering it too and actually being annoyed by it because I was doing some other project when I found it and it was screwing with it. Did we discover it independently of each other?

[@iTroysGhost]

Good on you for being a sport about it.

[@nitiratp]

This is why speedrunning is the epitome of gaming: the communities share their techniques rather than horde them. True sportsmanship.

[@flaivcadarn]

well they kinda have to anyways. Otherwise, people won't be able to prove that they did it legitimately. Also, the epitome of gaming is actually playing games just for fun in my opinion. Of course, your definition of fun may vary.

[@ambercheshire6881]

Cutting a record in half when it’s already under 2 minutes is damn impressive, even when it’s not one of the huge speed games. Fantastic work!

[@gloweye]

Video idea: Queue length philosophy. How long should a queue line be under non-exploit circumstances? How much time worth of guests do you want to wait for it?

[@tails183]

According to Disney, about two hours.

[@zaxlor]

@@tails183 Did RCT3 get a "fast track" queue line at all? I've always been surprised that RCT1 or 2 never had those, to allow you to earn more money. Maybe Chris Sawyer didn't want to cut the normal queue lines in two, or thought having two queues side by side would look weird?

[@MrGhosta5]

Depends. If you don't have a guest goal and are pay per ride park then short ques with a high throughput to max income. It doesn't mater if your guest spend all their cash within 10 minutes of entering the park. If you do have a guest goal then long ques to trap the guest in the park and reduce overcrowding to prevent them from leaving. If you have the cash machine to keep guest from leaving because they're out of cash then short ques with a couple of longer ques just to reduce overcrowding. For pay to enter parks with a guest goal long ques to trap the guest and prevent overcrowding. If it doesn't have a guest goal then it doesn't really mater but ideally you want guest to leave soon so more can spawn to pay to enter.

[@daffers2345]

@tails183 WAIT TIME 168 MINUTES

[@SadMarinersFan]

@@zaxlor RCT1, 2 and 3 never had a fast pass system, RCT1 because Fast pass was literally first implemented the year the game came out, and Id imagine Chris Sawyer would have to do a lot of reworking the guest code for RCT2 if he wanted to implement it. No answer on why it wasn't in RCT3.

[@thenameipicked]

It seems like if lag becomes an issue with these speedruns, that we'll need some way to enforce tick rate (for a given speedup) across all computers, so that it doesn't become "Who has the beefiest computer".

[@XCVGVCX]

I'm wondering if GameTime% would make sense as a category. It would be very different, though, since the setup time wouldn't really be a factor.

[@MarcelVos]

@@XCVGVCX GameTime% is essentially just the vanilla category. Get the ads and natural guest generation rolling as quickly as possible, and then build some queue line trap or something to trap 100% of the guests coming in. Except you'll see a lot of pausing at the start to save game time while rolling out the ads.

[@DrSpaceman69]

Marcel in a couple of years: “how I beat Amity Airfield without existing in physical reality”

[@lagg1e]

I achieved speeds so that I could lure super mario from 4 different parallel universes to the park, securing me an additional 4 guests.

[@breadleywheatler9242]

This man is the "pannenkoek (mario 64 half A press guy)" of Roller Coaster Tycoon.

[@hoo2042]

Here, I'll be the TJ "Henry" Yoshi of this comment section: YoU cAnT hAvE hAlF aN a-PrEsS, yOu EiThEr PrEsSeD iT oR yOu DiDnT

[@SlotMachineGun777.]

One of these days we'll reach a point where we get a comment like "But, a park opening is a park opening. You cant say its only half" and then get an hour explanation on how to open half a park

[@Robbedem]

"I'm still the first to do it under a minute." LOL :)

[@Kwioresma]

My GF would heavily disagree

[@Atmapalazzo]

Sometimes Marcel needs to take a break from murdering guests by casually breaking open the entire rct speedrunning strategy

[@houdin654jeff]

I’ve played video games since I was 3, I’m approaching my 40s in the next few years, so more than 3 decades of it. Speed running is something that still fascinates and amazes me, the amount of inner working knowledge one needs of certain games, the mechanics, the randomization, the utter skill and planning each run takes… it’s truly awe inspiring to behold and see the process of. Keep it up Marcel, can’t wait for more.

[@Davtwan]

At this rate, the setup time will be faster than people can pronounce the scenario.

[@FlandPark]

This is so ridiculous, I love every single second out of the 49.85.

[@blauw67]

At 7:30 you say that there are 2 reasons for the lift as the transport ride; sheltered and can't breakdown. But isn't it also the only transport ride with a prebuild?

[@MarcelVos]

That's sort of true. You are allowed to use RCT1 prebuilts in FastForward% (FF%) runs, and with RCT1 deluxe every transport ride gets one u(xxxx) prebuilt. You do still need to build the entrance and exit buildings on those, but that doesn't take more than a second or two. The fully built Sky Tower is still faster though.

[@blauw67]

@@MarcelVos oh yeah the u(xxxx) builds, I forgot about those, didn't know there were transport rides that had them

[@davidromeroblaya7920]

A perfect excuse to scream "ENGAGING HYPERSPEED!!!!" while I play the game.

[@daffers2345]

Aw, you don't need an excuse to scream that! ;)

[@legswithsnake9915]

Maybe the real guest distraction was the speedrun strats we found along the way

[@KernalGohd]

Man its kinda cool all this youtube challenge stuff you've been doing had a genuine impact on your speedruns

[@MattStandley589]

I wish I knew 1 thing in life as well as Marcel knows RCT

[@DanielGonzalezL]

"I think it's a good rule, as I wrote it" LOL

[@MaxArceus]

"Which I think is a good rule, as, I wrote it" bruh "Hm yes, I like your opinion, but I think I agree more with my opinion." xD

[@HiroTeaShi]

That's pretty awesome! Congrats on getting the WR, Lord Marcel. It's always awesome to be able to nab a top spot while also staying true to what you feel is right.

[@ChatHistory]

Just reminds me of when I used to get my park to a "decent" size and would leave it go as I did other things. Only to come back to a 100 park rating and a failed objective 😢

[@LetustheDragon]

If I got a nickel for playing Haunted Harbor without buying land nor using population bombs at the very moment Marcel Vos uploaded a video, I'd have one nickel.

[@mirjanbouma]

That's not a lot.

[@LetustheDragon]

@@mirjanbouma yeah, but it was weird that it happened.

[@mirjanbouma]

@@LetustheDragon 👉🏼😎👉🏼

[@joelp23]

i like to imagine what the ridiculous advertisements for the park is like: "come to our amazing park you'll love it! its two lifts! on top of each other... and thats it!!! :D"

[@philipmurphy2]

RCT King starting up the weekend nicely

[@roelercoaster]

1:30 Strictly speaking the 128x speed is a debugging feature, right? As it only becomes available if you enable debug-options. I do get it is the whole point of the FF category, as the 128x speed makes it really interesting/important how you do your setup.

[@andos2923]

Amity Airfield is a rough one. I just beat it 2 days ago. It takes a while to get the income stream flowing and I had a problem with vomit and vandalism. I spammed a bunch of the same rides and intentionally delayed the queue lines.

[@robertlupa8273]

Pay-for-entry parks are _rough_

[@RiesenpiIz]

just discoverd you again a week ago and rewatch almost all videos :D

[@Floxxoror]

I also have that from time to time. :-)

[@peperoni_pepino]

This might have been the highest video time : real time ratio we have seen in a while. It is usually significantly less than 1 for challenges, but this video has a ratio well above 18. :-P

[@Soundhound101]

All Hail! The king of Rollercoaster tycoon!

[@levifreeman4536]

Great work!

[@AmazedBunion]

you are a legend my friend

[@lekkerkoffie8605]

Dit is zo ziek whahahaha gaat veel te ver weer maat

[@BRUXXUS]

This is very impressive! Although, it isn’t really the type of speedrun other games use because the capabilities of the PC play a role in how fast it can be achieved. Someone that can’t afford a PC good enough is automatically at a disadvantage. As others have mentioned, I think in game time is the only clock that gives everyone an equal chance. Even still, this kind of run should still be recognized as its own category, because it’s still awesome. 😎

[@Syndralix]

Call Summoning Salt. We've got a contender.

[@TheOhioNews]

Marcel is just built different

[@ghostoflazlo]

Lol the salt from you 😅

[@RFGfotografie]

I love you not only beating speedrunners as easy as you do. But also explaining it for everyone to, do it to :)

[@giraty50]

I don't know what to feel after struggling Amity Airfield several times in past, only to know I need just 1 lift, 3 stalls, 1 entertainer, and infinite advertising to win....

[@RFGfotografie]

I love your vids.

[@garmo1968]

This is the shortest speedrun history video I've seen... "and then marcel vos did this..."

[@carltonleboss]

Amazing.

[@ryankohnenkamp8946]

*Summoning Salt has entered the chat*

[@HECKproductions]

not saying that i personally could do it but it could still be optimised further with more hotkeys i for one have a thumb and 4 fingers on my left hand plus moving your index finger over one key takes basically no time looking foreward to your 47.3 with these things considered marcel

[@robertlupa8273]

Wow, is it just me or did you sound more energetic during the intro? Or maybe it's just me watching too many of your old videos where you sounded bored. 😅 Either way, I like it!

[@wittacism]

this is wild

[@zechariahswenson6133]

Your back after 2 months

[@weatherby2378]

You are a madman. But in a positive way.

[@fo-ef8qo]

We must summon the summoner. SUMMONING SALT!!!!!!

[@kinghrath]

Is there a key you could bind to view the whole park? I dont know if the extreme zoom would reduce lag or not, but if it does, that could be a viable option for a timesave.

[@gymnasiast90]

Extreme zoom means having to render more land tiles, so that’s not generally something that improves lag.

[@kinghrath]

@gymnasiast90 that's true, but the entities get reduced or removed, and with guests as the main source of lag once the setup is completed, it makes sense to me to hit a max zoom out key instead of the precious few seconds where he closes all windows and moves manually. I haven't had rct2 on my PC in so many years, else I'd test it. I might still have a CD somewhere...

[@sErgEantaEgis12]

I think Marcel Vos is reaching the point where he will outwizard Chris Sawyer.

[@P1ankt0nb0y]

Is there anything more that can be done to stop guests leaving the park? Even if it took a couple of seconds it would net a time saving.

[@chadbranston9741]

Can't wait for the Karl Jobst video on this😊

[@yourhighschoolenglishteach8405]

you know its a good run when it takes you 50 seconds to do, but 6 minutes to explain

[@Tythrak]

I've heard Marcel refer to this scenario many times as difficult. I've always found it to be an extremely simple and easy scenario. There are many much, much harder ones in rct1+2. I truly don't understand the problem Marcel has with Amity Airfield

[@MarcelVos]

Which ones in RCT1 and 2 are harder? There are a few, like Rainbow Summit, Jurassic Safari, maybe Ghost Town, or perhaps Gravity Gardens, but not many. Ultimately I never had much trouble with Amity Airfield either, but lots of people do. Part of the reasons for that is that in the English version it was the fourth scenario you would encounter, after Crazy Castle, Electric Fields, and Factory Capers, which is way too early.

[@ChamblesRNG]

One thing I learned about speedrunning over the years is that someone will probably beat this tomorrow

[@Jeroen_a]

Congrats! This method is indeed better then trying to exploit a glitch....because the lift ride is not supposed to do this.

[@DoritoTime]

Marcel's voice gets sliiiighhttlyy higher pitched in every new video

[@kaidurbin]

That keyboard @ 10:29 is cursed.

[@ChamblesRNG]

Dont you have to use debug menu to enable x128 speed?

[@johnsaunders1435]

Interesting! Now imagine a cheat button for all max ads and loan amount.

[@Abgilosby]

Huh. Karl Jobst sounds a little strange today. Oh well, good speed up breakdown!

[@HazmanFTW]

You could save a few seconds as well with more optimal mouse clicks

[@coryswanson2247]

Record can be broken by slightly faster menu-ing. When reviewing in slomo it looks like you over-scrolled and hesitated at certain points and had to find your bearing to click on the correct spot. Really, really good run tho. Great work Marcel!

[@juneguts]

You ever go to like a big sports game or a densely packed concert and everything starts lagging

[@huetj39]

nice

[@mrembeh1848]

Nice

[@ApplePi3.]

Did the entertainer automatically go into the right square or did he place it?

[@brantnuttall]

YOU THE BOSS! (just so everyone knows)

[@Foggeer-von-Dreitveld]

I wish I were a guest in your park, so that I could buy suikerspin.

[@Tharronis]

I mean you could just add the caveat that bugs and glitches that are exclusive to OpenRCT2 aren't allowed, or rule on a single bug if it becomes a problem!

[@MarcelVos]

We were discussing whether we should ban the lift glitch (works with any ride but we call it the lift glitch), but it seems to be unnecessary now.

[@kaylynn4750]

HES GONE PLAID!

[@Floxxoror]

Did you get lucky on the spawn of the entertainer or will he spawn preferably on a path that is connected to the exit?

[@MarcelVos]

The auto-place feature in OpenRCT2 chooses a random guest to spawn the staff at (at least I think it's random), and when you have no guests it chooses indeed a bit of path connected to the entrance.

[@succulentegg3804]

Yeah, but can Marcel beat Goku (in 49.8 seconds)

[@Seagull512]

yes (in open rct)

[@SophieScrolls]

no contest marcel wins

[@iwersonsch5131]

What if you speed up before placing the setup?

[@alanrox1825]

Day one of me asking for a Twister Coaster Overview.

[@ApplePi3.]

Efficiency!!!

[@ADKaizenProductions]

RCT speed running getting serious. getting prideful about being the first to SP under minute. haha

[@Staarfury]

Shouldn't this be a shorter video then? 😜

[@spencerbills5567]

I know whos going to be in GDQ this year :3

[@zbigniewchlebicki478]

Why not unpause and open while constructing the setup?

[@TheWatchernator]

what button do you use to get 12 weeks on ads?

[@paradonym]

Did he do a complete openrct speed run yet? Like the entire game?

[@MarcelVos]

Yes: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qXLEoaqHfqumpNk

[@RFGfotografie]

You're a perfect example that Dutch are good in English xD

[@laszlokiss4409]

Send this video to Karl Jobst.

[@bloopahVIII]

then watch as he exposes a previous world record holder for cheating

[@jasmijnariel]

Strangly my open rct has 4speeds. Turbo is the fastest. But i think its just 4times normal speed

[@KennyKakes1]

Can I get a ride overview of Car Ride? I want to optimize car ride.

[@jasmijnariel]

Some people have waaaaay too much free time😂 (Just kidding, they only need 50seconds)

[@mjc0961]

You can't have my speedrun WR, you're not my real dad 😜

[@LimeGreenTeknii]

"You're allowed to use any features that OpenRCT2 has to make it faster" Multiplayer speedrunning category when?? Also, it'd be funny if somebody found a way that somehow playing in one of the languages that only OpenRCT2 supports somehow makes it faster, even if by the tiniest amount.

[@DylansPhotos]

ghoated

[@LeoGrossi19]

My open RCT doesn't have this hyper fast mode

[@MarcelVos]

Enable debugging tools in the options and it'll show up.

[@PSChrisDC]

isn't amity airfield known for being one of the hardest scenarios?

[@josephtattum6365]

whoever thought the lift would be useful?

[@TravelsWithATwist]

Hello everyone!!!