Wedge Plays OpenRCT2

Named and somewhat styled after Lucio’s Epic skin, here is Auditiva. 

Another experiment result from me trying to practice at Mini Roller Coasters. The excitement rating is just about the average level of good for this type of ride, but it’s a solid design for enhancing with scenery and has a solid setup for its trains (as I try to utilize block sections as much as possible to help mitigate brake failures).

Auditiva

Mini Roller Coaster

Continuous Circuit Block Sectioned

5.93 Excitement

6.63 Intensity

Since I’ve gotten adept at making good coaster designs as of late (in no small part due to better understanding banked curves and avoiding awful G-forces) and gotten used to most of the various types, one thing I’ve been starting to practice is increasing excitement ratings.

In most of my designs, I average somewhere around 6.0 - 6.5 for most of my designs, taking advantage of some simple ways to boost that afterward, such as making tracks that are easy to deploy mirrored next to itself for the easy synchronized bonus and by using scenery (when playing a scenario).

But I want some higher base ratings. So I started by practicing with the most basic roller coaster, the Mini Coaster. While my final design is just below a 6, for this specific coaster, that’s actually very good as most designs will hover around a five due to its lack of more complicated pieces and high lift hills.

With lots of open loops to place scenery in, this ride could be an easy seven in an actual scenario, and I decided to stick to my current theme and title it after one of my favorite recent additions to Overwatch: Orisa.

Orisa

Mini Roller Coaster

Continuous Circuit Block Sectioned

5.93 Excitement

6.63 Intensity

And to start the blog off, one of my practice roller coaster designs, Slipstream.

I usually have trouble thinking of names for rides, so I tend to do one of two things: Naming everything with alliterative names like Mario Kart tracks of Donkey Kong levels or naming everything after a series or property of some kind.

As I spent time testing out roller coaster types I didn’t use much when I was younger, I needed some names and Overwatch-related titles seemed to have the right kind of energy for coasters. So here was one of my first, a Tracer-inspired mirrored dueling coaster based on her Slipstream skin (from the Overwatch: Origins digital deluxe).

Slipstream

Looping Roller Coaster

Reverse-Incline Launched Shuttle

Synchronized

6.46 Excitement

7.45 Intensity

Starting a sideblog here for my various Rollercoaster Tycoon park and ride designs as I play through a mostly-fresh “playthrough” of OpenRCT2, which is to say replaying the original RCT levels and trying to get through all of the expansion and RCT2 levels.

That’s going to take quite a long time, especially since I spend so much time playing my own scenario maps (on No Money) and practicing building in the coaster designer.

But I want a place to show what I’ve designed and my progress as RCT2 is one of my games to calm myself down with.