Coming September 16th...Update 7

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Improved path building tools

3-axis grid rotation

Challenge Mode and more!

Update 7 is coming September 16th, news on an upcoming "Magic" update or DLC coming on the 9th.

The 3-axis grid rotation is useful, but they mainly showed in rotting vendor shops...how can those be 'useful'???

Tweaks to path building always welcome. Personally the 'Challenge Mode' doesn't do anything for me.

Not sure if the 'magic' theme is a replacement for the 'horror' or Halloween themes, nor whether it's a free update or paid DLC.

I think the 3 axis rotation now means individual wall pieces themselves can be rotated. But perhaps not. Ruins, crooked houses, I can think of a few ways this could be nice. Remember what a struggle Dorothy's house was? 😀

I think the "Magic" DLC is the old Spooky one, with some new pieces. Anything new is welcome!

I also like the new rotational animation piece. They showcases a cauldron, but I can think of dozens of uses.

Fully recolorable paths and square corners on paths is terrific!

No mention of new rides though.

Edited September 2Sep 2 by citytrader

Grid pieces may also be scalable now too. Looking at the video, the scale icon is not greyed out when they are rotating the grid based objects. Not sure though, as these objects contain vendor shops, which certainly couldn't be scaled. Although that would be pretty cool, especially for your Wizard of Oz park. You could gave munchkin vendors. 🤣

47 minutes ago, citytrader said:

No mention of new rides though.

There's a tease of a new coaster in the last scene. 😉

13 minutes ago, shyguy said:

Grid pieces may also be scalable now too. Looking at the video, the scale icon is not greyed out when they are rotating the grid based objects. Not sure though, as these objects contain vendor shops, which certainly couldn't be scaled. Although that would be pretty cool, especially for your Wizard of Oz park. You could gave munchkin vendors. 🤣

the scaling option is always there. for example i can select a building group with nongridded and gridded items, yet when i scale it it only affects the scaleable pieces.

regarding the update. i honestly dont know what to think about it. rotating gridded pieces is nice, however this was something i expected to have been in the game anyway since release. same goes for recoloring paths. yeah its great but like cmon this is nothing groundbreaking realy :/ same for the square queue paths. we have been left with what we had for 11 months now, we found ways to work with what we have and even resorted to using stamps. i cant get myself hyped for basic stuff like this. yes its cool and will make our lifes easier in a way but yeah its just that for me realy. the hint towards swing launches is exciting however i fear we gonna get one coaster model and its gonna be limited to that one model and thats it, just like the switch tracks etc.

i cant stop thinking about where we would actually be if the game didnt release in the state it did and if frontier didnt had to "waste" 11 months of times and ressources to bring the game up to par with the first one and truly make it feel like yes this is the second entry to the franchise and takes everything from the first and makes it better

Excited to see what they have for store, cautiously optimistic though.

Crap and reused old stuff to pay for...

32 minutes ago, Danny420 said:

the scaling option is always there. for example i can select a building group with nongridded and gridded items, yet when i scale it it only affects the scaleable pieces.

That's pretty much what I figured. I just hadn't opened the game to check for myself, but now I don't have to.

I'm actually pretty happy with this update. It shows Frontier is willing to change things and give players more freedom to do what they want without the many restrictions put on the building tools at launch. Yes, progress on this has been really slow, and many of the things we've gotten over the past several months should have been in the game from the start. But the alternative would have been for Frontier to have waited a year to release the game, instead of releasing it prematurely as they did... which is the mindset I've been in, as I've considered this an early access game and I've put off really getting too far into creating anything significant as I wait for them to get all the features ironed out.

This gives me a bit of hope for the future of the game, but I'm still very cautiously optimistic, as Plokoon says. Still waiting to see just what the DLC will include. They're really going to have to hit this out of the park to win back a lot of players who aren't as encouraged as I am.

18 minutes ago, CKM Cardesign said:

Crap and reused old stuff to pay for...

You could be right, but honestly, it's a bit premature to make any comments on the upcoming DLC, as they really haven't shown us anything.

3 hours ago, shyguy said:

There's a tease of a new coaster in the last scene. 😉

I should have specified, no hint of new flat rides. I noticed the coaster.

We really honestly, sincerely, and urgently need a boatload of additional flat rides!!! 😁

I'm a bit happy with this update as well. I do really think some of these features are being added to help support whatever is going to be in the Spooky/magic pack. Tilted structures, and that new animation box...seams good for moving headstones, Skeletons, floating objects, etc.

Edited September 2Sep 2 by Wowman

I'm waiting to see what the DLC and the update will actually contain before I make a full judgement on this news. I'm more interested in the bug fixes than the flashy stuff to be honest.

I guess I'm just happy to even see an update and word that there is at least one more update/DLC still coming.

Is anyone talking about the glowing green smoke rising from the cauldron? Presently, none of the smoke effects show up at night in PC1 or PC2 from what I recall.

1 hour ago, shyguy said:

Is anyone talking about the glowing green smoke rising from the cauldron? Presently, none of the smoke effects show up at night in PC1 or PC2 from what I recall.

I do hope they've resolved that issue, currently it's almost pointless to attempt a dark ride.

18 hours ago, shyguy said:

Is anyone talking about the glowing green smoke rising from the cauldron? Presently, none of the smoke effects show up at night in PC1 or PC2 from what I recall.

nice observation

Well, NOW we can have Yellow Brick Roads without making them in TMTK...

That will be a nice feature to have along with square queues. I assume they'll have fixed the bugged out trigger sequences in this update aswell. Hopefully anyway.

20 hours ago, Wabigbear said:

Well, NOW we can have Yellow Brick Roads without making them in TMTK...

Wait, are you saying we have to do another OZ park?

Maybe an OZ ATTRACTION...of course it would end up being an entire park... LOL!