RCT2 Ride Overview - River Rapids

Water rides are a great way to add variety to your park, and so is the river rapids. In this video I discuss everything you need to know about it.
River Rapids designs: drive.google.c...
Live ride measurements plugin: openrct2plugins...
Join my Discord server: / discord
Follow me on Twitch: / marcelvos
Follow me on Twitter: / marcelvos96
Join my subreddit: / marcelvos
My second channel: / @marcelvods2630
Ride price calculator: rct2calc.shott...
Table of stat requirements: / rct2_table_with_the_mi...
Background music: RCT2 Gentle style
Outro music by Panorrrama:
Outro Music: • RollerCoaster Tycoon g...
Spotify: open.spotify.c...
KZbin: / @mengersponge

[@kingkuma4112]

I think this is one of the prettiest rides in rct. It was always my favorite water rids as a kid.

[@qwopiretyu]

Both to build and in real life

[@mart555rct]

And especially the sound 😄

[@jonnnnniej]

Yes! Especially when you lowered the lands so the water would be at the same level!

[@Phonochirp]

I think one of my favorite things about Marcel's videos are just the random cursed things happening in the background that are never mentioned, or brought attention to.

[@jefffinkbonner9551]

Just casually thrown in as apparently innocuous visuals, until you realize what’s actually going on

[@unexpected2475]

I knew that the Rapid Transit ride from one of his livestreams would make it in here.

[@paulholleger8538]

Has anyone made a 1/4-tile water piece of custom scenery that has a curve that fits into the river rapids curves? I could see that being very handy for those sunken designs.

[@fetuffani]

You can use the tile editor to hide the track and disable the clearance check to build the track on the water. I don’t think it it’s cheating since it does not impact on the game mechanics, just the aesthetics

[@paulholleger8538]

@@fetuffani yeah, but doing that also gets rid of the rushing current effect that the ride track provides. Having a custom scenery object as I describe should allow the track to still show without having a weird divot.

[@Samuel_Hearfield]

I’m fairly sure it does. Just check New Elements, it’s likely going to be there.

[@gavinseipelt6091]

i used to put a bush or a small barrel scenery object in the corner to fill it in.

[@KBC7050]

"How in the name of Chris Sawyer?" You know you're on the good side of KZbin when this is said.

[@0rnery0verwatch]

I know there are plenty of other RC2 channels, but man this one just strikes a chord with me... I can't put my finger on it. Every time I watch a new Marcel video it's like I'm transported back in time, like I'm playing the game for the first time. Great content!

[@apb123]

Marcel does it best

[@Gr3nadgr3gory]

There are!?

[@0rnery0verwatch]

@@Gr3nadgr3gory Yeah just go to Marcel's channel and scroll down and check out all his recommended RCT channels.

[@StefanVeenstra]

Don't care if elements only give one bonus, it's one of the most fun and aesthetically pleasing tracks to play with. As for the corner pieces in the water: in Openrct2 you can disable clearance check and build through the water.

[@MasterCrash123]

9:03 Marcel: *Casually explaining* Guests in the background: "Guess I'll explode now..."

[@ProdyP]

9:05 what's with the guests randomly exploding at the top?

[@GraafBerengeur]

they vibin'

[@HasekuraIsuna]

I would be more concerned if something _wasn't_ exploding in one of Marcel's park!

[@Paintplayer1]

Haha the trolley log flume followed by the mega drop river rapids was excellent. Also, how do you determine the stat requirements?

[@MarcelVos]

You can test for them and see when the stats get cut in half, but they're also in the code.

[@Paintplayer1]

@@MarcelVos thank you!

[@PhoenixRoseYT]

What you didn’t hear was the “tikatikatikatikatikatika” that goes with the tram rapids 😄

[@mtz2273]

@@PhoenixRoseYT definitely heard it in my head 🤣

[@Enoxix.]

Always loved the Rapid Rivers. The Piranha at De Efteling is one of my favorite rides there! You must know it Marcel!

[@jonnnnniej]

As a kid I was always so afraid to get in there, no idea why, it wasn't like I was afraid to melt from the water (we're Dutch after all haha)

[@MusicalRadiation]

@@jonnnnniej je bent toch niet van suiker gemaakt ;)

[@jefffinkbonner9551]

@@jonnnnniej Well, that cavalier attitude is how it gets you. The Dutch, in fact, do melt from the water, and that is why they’ve been so aggressively at war with the very seas for a thousand years.

[@Krasbin]

But the main question about the river rapids goes unanswered: does the rapids special element make the boats go faster. I.E. does including more rapids (track piece) in the river rapids (ride) yield more rapid riding?

[@MarcelVos]

I've never thought about that but I tested it and it does go slightly faster on rapids. It's only a small difference though, if you remove all the rapids from the river rapids in Six Flags Holland the ride time goes from 1:59 to 2:02.

[@Krasbin]

@@MarcelVos Nice. 👍

[@timgeurts]

@@Krasbin You ask, he delivers. In less than 12 hours. Jeez..

[@doedelzak3914]

@@MarcelVos Did you know that Six Flags Holland is Walibi? Are you gonna build all the extra rides that the park has made since this game came out?

[@james64ibm]

@@MarcelVos That's actually not the whole truth. The boats go about 15% faster on rapids than in normal water, but more importantly, they KEEP their speed much longer (basically by a factor of two) after going down a drop, so you can reduce the ride time substantially while giving the ride much more flow (pun intended). Personally, I basically only use rapids instead of normal water nowadays for this reason.

[@xoeleox2079]

I'd be interested in seeing you rate pre-built designs. Not all designs are created equal, and in fact some are pretty bad in my opinion. Taking a ride type and then going through its pre-builts to point out particularly good and bad designs could be interesting.

[@SurriSama]

"Oof Owie My Bones" good lord I laughed so hard at that. Excellent stuff lol

[@Xython88]

Would love a video on pathing ! Specifically efficient pathing & stopping complaints of “guest can’t find exit”

[@seaborgium919]

This is honestly one of my favorite rides. Both to build and ride. I had some excellent like 8x8 builds in some old files

[@radishpineapple74]

9:04 >random explosions Hold up, wait a minute, something ain't right.

[@ImTMZ]

No day's a bad day when Marcel releases a video

[@firockfinion3326]

I feel like tricking the game to think a ride is longer than it actually is effectively gaslighting the game itself. XD

[@nameless5413]

i always felt like rapids and flume should have access to each other's pieces - i mean rapids only has tight turns and flume only has medium ones :/ Very helpfull video tho, this is one of rides i struggle with the most, length was not something i thought about as being big problem but clearly that is where i always go wrong.

[@Gameprojordan]

Log flume boats are too long to be able to take such a tight turn. Also real life log flumes have the same wide turns like the in-game one does

[@Dabeaux]

I’m a ride op on one of these irl, fun ride to operate and it’s cool it’s in the game

[@PokemonJura]

Love your content, Marcel! Question: Do you ever intend to do a video about RCT's way of storing sprites? I always wondered whether rides like the River Rapids store guest sprites specifically for the round boat from each angle or whether it uses a database of sprites that are shared between rides and so on. Or do you think that is not what this channel is about?

[@CouchPotator]

oooo, I'd like to know too!

[@notarealname1881]

Each ride type has its own set(s) of guest sprites. There are guest sprites for every angle of the ride vehicle. In the case of the river rapids, the game takes advantage of the rotational symmetry of the car - you only need to store enough frames for 1/4 of a rotation, then loop that animation four times for a full rotation. The spinning wild mouse stores a full 32 frame spinning animation for every possible vehicle position, so it has a lot of sprites. Guest sprites are drawn on top of the ride vehicle, so parts of the guest sprite that should be hidden by parts of the ride vehicle need to be blanked out of the sprite, otherwise it would look wrong. Therefore, guest sprites generally cannot be reused from one ride to the other - although there is an amusing bug with one of the expansion railway cars, where they reused the peep sprites from the base game covered cars, resulting in the peeps being headless. Guest sprites generally consist of a pair of guests - so for a ride vehicle which can take four passengers, there will be two rider sprites for every vehicle sprite. The only exception is cars which can only take a single rider.

[@AlryFireBlade]

9:05 What explodes there on the Path O.o

[@theweddingsinger1970]

Don't have the chilli, that's all I'm saying

[@PhoenixRoseYT]

A guest

[@katier9725]

Pooh, no that's not honey that's the River Rapids! Oof, ouch, ah my bones!

[@Chewierulz]

Unfun fact, we had one of these at Dreamworld in Queensland, Australia. A pump failed and stranded one raft on the conveyer where another raft collided with it. 4 people fell into the conveyer and were killed horrifically.

[@RocketHarry865]

2 of the 4 people were crushed while the other 2 were trapped under the other raft and drowned

[@aaronying4989]

The rapids look cool but I always struggled with efficient designs lol. Mine were always too long and always so slowly moving.

[@jefffinkbonner9551]

I did notice in the closing montage that when the boats go down a hill followed by an equally tall hill, the boats are able to glide up the typically slow lift hill off of their own momentum. Perhaps the simple fix is to go down then up instead of up and then down, which is the mindset of building a typical roller coaster.

[@aaronying4989]

@@jefffinkbonner9551 thanks Jeff!! I appreciate it. I tried that and it’s better. Before it seemed so boring. Haha. Rapids usually are fast and exciting. Easy to make it go in for too long.

[@billyshears2032]

Make station 1 elevated to negate the long lift hill and another station ground level for exiting. Will cut down ride times big time

[@DeathKontrol]

On the micro design I would imagine it's better to build the station, turn, drop, then all the special elements after the drop so that the rafts move faster overall and the ride has higher throughput.

[@TheAmazingRacoon]

Wait whuttt. Trams?! :D 3:27 So funny

[@boxesoftacos]

I was listening to this in the background and boat happened to glance over again at 3:26 and was mighty confused

[@OptimusSubPr1me]

that's so funny, I did the same thing. I was listening along and glanced up right as that happened.

[@hendriktabak7036]

Love the tram rapids 👍

[@S4Meow]

What is the flame/explosion happening on the path at the 9:08 scene (Last scene)? Looks like fireworks or jumping fountains but instead its flames! Very cool video about the river rapids, I always enjoyed that it was not only useful for making money but also made parks look good/realistic.

[@beez1717]

This ride is super fun to design every time!

[@JakeTerch]

Now that I think of it, I wish all water rides had access to diagonal track pieces. The River Rapids could’ve at least had small curves instead of tiny, but Open RCT2 tricks mitigate this.

[@greg5095]

So long as you don't name your park Dreamworld it's probably safe to use

[@TheShinyFeraligatr]

Or Action Park.

[@XanthinZarda]

Maybe I've given myself a false memory, but I seem to recall a way you could place a waterfall element above another element, and there'd be a smaller waterfall that would trickle down onto the element below it.

[@QDude24]

Can we just talk about the fact that Radja River in Six Flags Belgium is build the wrong way around in rct2?

[@Davtwan]

It’s also one of the best rides to look at to see how it plays out. :)

[@The213pr0ductions]

*slams into another raft going Mach 3* “Oof owie my bones”

[@daveworley]

Always one of my favourites to build, Marcel. When I got older and visited theme parks I recognised most start with a small drop and then on around the ride to a big climb - hard to replicate in RCT but I still try

[@Tharronis]

Would enjoy seeing a video about things you would change about RCT2 if you could, maybe.

[@MechWarrior894]

9:05 why are guests exploding?

[@TubeCody]

This is going to be Monsterbux’s favorite video

[@veggiet2009]

You should do a scenario challenge, and give yourself the extra challenge that all rides must be unique. Repeated ride types should have some difference, not that they can't be similar to one another, but they can't be simple copy pastes

[@MarcelVos]

There are so many different possible coaster designs that it wouldn't be very difficult. You see, normal coaster designs are still very effective, so you only need to copy/paste if you need to optimize as much as possible or save time.

[@scottthewaterwarrior]

"Doesn't record g-forces or crash." Eh, my sense of realism still bothers me with that stuff.

[@FenNick1994]

These are one of the few kinds of rides i ever dare to go on IRL. 😗

[@daviddavis7665]

Mr Marcel, I appreciate your uploads, thankyou. Can you cover ‘profits’, my problem is, all my rides are healthy and making a profit, however my money is slowly going down, why? Does ‘total profit’ include the purchase of the ride? Confused…..!

[@nickzakos271]

Hello everyone

[@juneguts]

Hmm. What's with those spontaneously combusting guests 9:04?

[@surprisedchar2458]

“The answer is: it depends.” I see Marcel is a catastrophic injury attorney who accidentally became a youtuber.

[@codypierson4739]

Just some random exploding guests at the end of the video @9:07? 😂 Should include a drowning guest somewhere in each new ride overview and have people comment for who sees it first.

[@darkrozen4110]

i cant wait for the update when you can have trams on the river rapids

[@GlassbrainZ]

Put the whirlpools right at the end portion of your river rapids to spin your guests while they wait to hop off.

[@Shadow.Darkraven]

I would love a modern take on this kind of game because as much as I love planet coaster I get overwhelmed trying to make a nice looking park

[@chriso1373]

Random exploding guests: 9:07 Its starting to become an easter egg in these videos 😂

[@baystated]

There is a paint color that closely matches the water color and I use it when i want to blend tracks into a water surface. Lookin at your, Boat Hire.

[@JDetailingca]

9:04. Are your guests spontaneously combusting???

[@lerondgattenor]

I've RAPIDly come to this video

[@MeanBeanComedy]

Oof owie my bones

[@OrangeSodaKing]

My favorite water ride to build in the game, and ride in real life!!

[@kylev.1163]

The best part of this is that you can make gushing grannies.

[@endymallorn]

This is about the most intense ride I can take IRL. Understanding how RCT2 models it is pretty neat, especially as it's a sound addition to a park.

[@gracideaflower]

Love these ride overview videos. Any chance of one on the dinghy slide? I'd love to see some of your designs for it. :)

[@stillbuyvhs]

How much can you charge for a photo? Do ride stats change the chance a guest will buy a photo?

[@PhoenixRoseYT]

He has a video about this I’m pretty sure :)

[@ConscriptDavid]

Another advantage this ride has is that you can color it pink, add a pink monorail (with cheats) and call it Gushing Grannies.

[@thisisthelukas]

Your videos help me with my anxiety, and I just wanted to say thank you, Marcel. :)

[@AardvarkSnoot]

9:03 anyone noticed the exploding guests?

[@BADUH9]

3:27 in the name of pot what's goin on there??😳

[@meow1990_2]

I wouldn't have imagined watching in-deep analytic videos of the game I loved playing back in the late 1990's :D

[@GurschachX]

That's really surprising to see the Dinghy Slide attracts less guests than the rapids. Maybe a ride overview of that ride could explain why that is.

[@edfreak9001]

I kinda love deep dive analysis on the mechanics of games people wouldn't really think about. There's not much competitive potential in RCT games (at least i'd imagine) and it's probably not hard enough to really necessitate minmaxing this hard, but that almost makes it more interesting to see what fine details there are regardless.

[@bunnyonabunwithagunnicepun5689]

Tunnel of Love but WAY more fun 😈

[@KaaCroy]

We have one of these down at Sea World San Diego. Absolutely stunningly beautiful to ride, the pure amount of water and joy I got out of it was worth the price of admission to the park. At the end there were these massive, building sized corkscrews while the ride moved back up the hill. Was totally cool.

[@OwlTowel]

oof owie my bones

[@Scudmaster11]

It just looks beautiful with all honesty... the person that did this game... all congrats... it looks perfect and beautiful with the pixle art... ❤️ it

[@betamaxblocker]

I have much more fun building one of these than I do building a log flume.

[@billyshears2032]

meeeee tooooo

[@PistolShrimpPimp]

Marcel I'd really like an overview on the Mine Train, you did one on the Mine Ride but the Mine Train is also iconic to me in RCT. Would love to see an overview on it.

[@nudibranch3037]

6:09 That river rapids looks a bit… suspicious… I don’t know maybe I’m just seeing things.

[@devilduck17]

Have you ever played planet coaster? Would most definitely watch a stream of that. Cheer and love for your videos :)

[@lahodal]

😍😍😍

What happened at 9:06?

[@thewayofbass2534]

I could watch Marcel cover every ride in the game in depth, love it! 😎, "How in the name of Chris Sawyer does that work" lmao

[@teddyyyyy]

What are the explosions at 9:05?

[@metleon]

In OpenRCT2, there's a button you can press that explodes a random guest every time you press it. The explosions may not have been intended to be in the video, as if it selects a guest that's doing something like riding a ride, they'll only explode when they get off.

[@MarcelVos]

@@metleon The explosions were very much intended to be in the video. They were indeed guests that were on the river rapids that only exploded after they got off.

[@teddyyyyy]

@@metleon Hilarious! Thanks :)

[@PhilipMurphyExtra]

Always a great day when Marcel Vos uploads a video for sure.

[@Latinblood59]

Mannn, I found your channel recently and I’ve been binging ever since 🙌🏽😅

[@OpeoAslam]

No park is complete without Thunder River.

[@allikate5180]

Hello Everyone

[@GrayBlood1331]

Is anyone else having trouble installing that plugin? I put the .js file in the correct folder (I actually had to create that particular folder). But when I start up the game, the thing is not there. nevermind, turns out I was running an old-ass version of the game from April of 2020 lol. it works now.

[@djmixerbox]

Do you write a script before making these videos? You can upload that as a .txt file in the video settings and KZbin will automatically time the subtitles for you. Increased accessibility without any extra work for you!

[@OJR5]

Hello everyone

[@odenwaldquelle8228]

You have to build an entrance and exit. So wouldn't a L-shaped, wrapped aroud those buildings, ride not be smaller?

[@laszlokiss4409]

To me, the River Rapids always felt like the cooler version of the Log Flume.

[@JeffGoldblumsChest]

River rapids rides look so cool both in-game and IRL. I'll never actually ride one again though... I've read too many stories of the boat hitting an underwater pipe, flipping over, and drowning occupants.

[@EOTA564]

The accident at Dreamworld in Australia is one of the most horrific theme park accidents I’ve ever heard about. The riders didn’t merely drown. Some were crushed or mutilated beyond recognition by the ride machinery. 😱😔

[@TS_Mind_Swept]

I know you said planet coaster isn't your thing, and to be fair it's not really mine either, but it would be nice to know what stat requirements, if any, the rides in that game have. Not sure if someone's already done that, but if not, I'd def watch the vids if you did :p

[@MrLiveWest]

can you do a video on how much money to charge? I understand their are many variables but it would be cool if you could do like a principle video

[@benjamingibson4720]

could you realisticly make a park of nothing but water rides?

[@redheadsg1]

Saying that this is the prettiest ride in RCT ... you need to get a pair of glasses. Same as wooden coaster has the ugliest supports and its tracks are also the most ugliest in the game.

[@gavinseipelt6091]

DAE hate how the graphics on the corner piece used to glitch and flicker ?

[@JessicaMary0702]

How in the name of Chris Sawyer is that possible? 😂😂😂

[@vliegtuigje16]

What about, separate in and out station, all elements between out and in, guests not going through the elements? Still get the same rating?

[@danteeightsix9069]

9:05 What is exploding? Is that a carousel or something?

[@rayizard5687]

What would the ride photos look like? For some it would be the back of their head...