Planet Coaster

So I pre ordered from the frontier store when it was £20 for the standard edition and I emailed in last week asking when I will recieve my steam key and got this response:


Hi James,

Thanks for getting in touch in regards to the problems you have been experiencing.

Steam keys for Planet Coaster pre-orders will be rolled out next week and should arrive in time for the Alpha weekend event. This starts on the 6th of October. You'll get an email with details how to claim your key, the process will be similar to the one used for the alpha version a while back.

From the 6th to the 10th, all Thrillseeker Edition owners will be able to play the current Alpha version of Planet Coaster.

As your order was placed before Thrillseeker was available, we have upgraded your order to Thrillseeker status automatically. Thank you for your early support of the game :)

Please let us know if you had any more questions, we are happy to help.

Best regards,


Ride Inspector Vega
Planet Coaster Customer Support


Happy days :)
 
Xire said:
So I pre ordered from the frontier store when it was £20 for the standard edition and I emailed in last week asking when I will recieve my steam key and got this response:

Happy days :)
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Awesome, I got the £20 version just before it was removed, Glad I did now :)
 
It was well known before the cut-off that it this was happening, they were adding the game to steam and transferring the whole process to that platform rather than their own, and its probably more hassle than its worth to give us the standard version, also sell a deluxe version, and add a £3 upgrade option for early backers. Im also sure they'd always said it'd be £30 on release... its £27 for basic, £30 for deluxe, so it could be argued that the expected saving wasnt what they'd promised, but i cant imagine anyone noticed and cared, we're still getting a great deal.

I hadnt heard the beta was starting next week though, bit poor that its such a short timeframe IMO, could understand if they were having 2 betas but not sure what reason there is not to make it a week long thing at least, theres 7wk till release, 6 when this happens, so not like its being launched a couple weeks later. I've not heard of it including new features, ie v4, but i'd assume it must be more than taking 'alpha 3' and just renaming it 'beta', but it'd be nice if there was more of the core game in there, the creation stuff is amazing, but it still seems the core management aspect is missing meaning a key aspect cant be evaluated. Sandbox looks fantastic though, can imagine spending a lot of time in there, but the 'game' element, the challenge, we've not seen yet, so i really hope thats on show.
 
Will this run on a 2600k, gtx 670 and 8GB RAM? Might be the first game that pushes me to upgrade in a long time. Used to spend way too much time on Roller Coaster Tycoon.
 
robj20 said:
Will this run on a 2600k, gtx 670 and 8GB RAM? Might be the first game that pushes me to upgrade in a long time. Used to spend way too much time on Roller Coaster Tycoon.
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I'd imagine so, but you'd likely need to keep the parks relatively sensible, and not Silvarret degrees of complexity. Steam will have the minimum specs, just to be sure, but of course minimum doesnt mean you'll be able to go mad with details and get 60fps on high etc.

I also found out that this 'beta' on 6th to 10th is just an unexpected *alpha* access, with the beta coming early in November, so this version wont be any different to the current build.
 
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PaulC2K said:
...but of course minimum doesnt mean you'll be able to go mad with details and get 60fps on high etc.
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Apparently no one is close to getting those kind of frame rates on this game. There are people with i7's and 1080s that are getting teen digit frame rates on loaded parks. Everyone is hoping for significant optimisation before release.

Looking forward to the coming alpha weekend. I also preordered for £19.99.
 
Yeah, sounds about right, personally 60fps isnt essential to me in many games, if theres not a competitive element to it then i can happily live with less, in Ark (PvE) ive locked my frames at 20fps just to keep temps lower than at 30fps (think i get about 45-50fps otherwise). It shouldnt excuse the fact that a decent system should be capable of filling up a map to a reasonable degree of intricacy while maintaining a stable 60fps, but its one i can imagine i'd lock to 30fps regardless of future optimisation.
 
danlightbulb said:
Apparently no one is close to getting those kind of frame rates on this game. There are people with i7's and 1080s that are getting teen digit frame rates on loaded parks. Everyone is hoping for significant optimisation before release.

Looking forward to the coming alpha weekend. I also preordered for £19.99.
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I easily reach that frame rate now, especially after the last update.

Prior to the last update... SLI was broken... at 4k I was getting about 50fps with a single card and 55fps but heavy stutter with SLI enabled... now I'm seeing about 80-90FPS in basic park and 60-70fps with heavy content in SLI.

It's not the best performance... especially when my specs are so high... but it's not too bad for an alpha... I can't imagine anyone struggling at 1080p or 2560x1440 with a GTX1080

In a game like this though... 30fps or more is plenty good enough.
 
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