OpenRCT2 Changelog

OpenRCT2 constantly adds new major features to the game. On top of that there are frequent bug fixes. This page is auto-updated with the latest known changes from the latest development build.

Updated yesterday: 25 Sept 2022, 18:38:52.

0.4.2 (in development)

• Feature: [#6326] Ability to load .SV6 files from RCT Classic that have more than 9601 guests.
• Feature: [#6570, #10860, #17929] Fully support RollerCoaster Tycoon Classic as a RCT2 base install path.
• Feature: [#13634] Add ability to sell merchandise in random colours.
• Feature: [#16164] Add new track elements for Flying Coaster and Lay-Down Coaster and add paint code for more elements.
• Feature: [#16283] Added parkinfo command line tool to list objects in a save file.
• Feature: [#16662] Show a warning message when g2.dat is mismatched.
• Feature: [#17107] Ride operating settings can be set via text input.
• Feature: [#17638] Added Zero G rolls, medium loops and large corkscrews to the Hybrid and Single-Rail coasters.
• Feature: [#17821] [Plugin] Add API for track subpositions and vehicle subposition.
• Feature: [#17877] Add three real-life flying roller coaster colour schemes.
• Feature: [#17900] Add “Classic Wooden Coaster” with shallow banked turns.
• Feature: [#18057] Staff members now wait for passing or stalled vehicles before crossing railway tracks.
• Feature: [objects#198] Add additional pirate roofs.
• Feature: [objects#205] Add additional glass roofs.
• Feature: [objects#209] Add the Steel Roller Coaster train and 2-across Inverted Train from RollerCoaster Tycoon 1.
• Improved: [#15358] Park and scenario names can now contain up to 128 characters.
• Improved: [#15589] Numpad Enter can now be used to close text input.
• Improved: [#16819] Don't prompt to “Save game as” when saving a loaded saved game (excepting autosaves).
• Improved: [#16840] Add support for rectangular heightmaps.
• Improved: [#17575] You can now search for Authors in Object Selection.
• Improved: [#17806] Added warning when using RCT1 objects without RCT1 linked.
• Improved: [#17868] [Plugin] You can now change active tab of a custom window programmatically.
• Improved: [#17909] Track elements that are not supported by any train are now hidden by default.
• Improved: [#17924] Improved performance when loading JSON object images from a .DAT file.
• Improved: [#17955] Modifying ratings via in-game console is now multiplayer-safe and also freezes the ratings.
• Change: [#9104] Calculate maze support costs.
• Change: [#17319] Giant screenshots are now cropped to the horizontal view-clipping selection.
• Change: [#17499] Update error text when using vehicle incompatible with TD6 and add error when using incompatible track elements.
• Change: [#17655] Lower default price for the Crooked House.
• Change: [#17745] Make maintenance cost of Mini-Golf more balanced.
• Change: [#17762] Use vertical tabs in the New Game dialog.
• Fix: [#5141] Headless server is counted as a player.
• Fix: [#7466] Coaster track not drawn at tunnel exit.
• Fix: [#10535] Guests getting stuck at specific level crossings.
• Fix: [#14337] Guest blocking ride entrance after ride price changed to be unaffordable.
• Fix: [#15328] Wooden Roller Coaster incorrectly draws a railing on the first station piece (original bug).
• Fix: [#16392] Scenery on sloped surface is placed at wrong height.
• Fix: [#16476] The game sometimes crashes when demolishing a maze.
• Fix: [#17312] (Flying) Inline Twist appearing under the surface when placed on ground level.
• Fix: [#17339] Distorted visuals when changing scaling factor between integer numbers in OpenGL rendering mode.
• Fix: [#17394] Six-seater Hyper-Twister Trains focuses ride window camera on Car 2 rather than Car 1 (original bug).
• Fix: [#17430] Possible crash when toggling tile element visibility in multiplayer.
• Fix: [#17444] “Manta Ray” boats slowed down too much in “Ayers Rock” scenario (original bug).
• Fix: [#17503] Parks with staff with an ID of 0 have all staff windows focus on that staff.
• Fix: [#17508] Grid doesn’t disable after setting patrol area.
• Fix: [#17532] Object Selection window allows unselecting all station types.
• Fix: [#17533] Missing audio when specifying ‘--rct2-data-path’.
• Fix: [#17535] Multiplayer desync when placing rides with scenery.
• Fix: [#17541] Station style not correctly saved to TD6.
• Fix: [#17542] Stalls will autorotate towards paths outside the park.
• Fix: [#17544, #17754] Visual glitches in Invention List window.
• Fix: [#17553] Crash when moving invention list items to empty list.
• Fix: [#17571] All researched tracked rides show up as new vehicles in .park scenarios.
• Fix: [#17600] Notifications are not properly cleared when loading a park.
• Fix: [#17605] Crash when opening parks which have had objects removed externally.
• Fix: [#17639, 17735] When building upside down, the special elements list contains many items twice (original bug).
• Fix: [#17703] (undefined string) when building on invalid height.
• Fix: [#17776] “Other Parks” tab uses separate lists for SC4/SC6 and .park scenarios.
• Fix: [#17784] Colour preset RNG is biased (original bug).
• Fix: [#17788] Guests could leave queue if another guest rejoins it from the entrance building.
• Fix: [#17834] Finance window becomes blank after 4096 years.
• Fix: [#17816] Option to pause game when Steam Overlay is active is not greyed out when using the OpenGL renderer.
• Fix: [#17897] Guest can get stuck on tiles with construction rights outside the park.
• Fix: [#17904] Trees are removed at no cost to make way for ride entrance/exits.
• Fix: [#17905] The chain button in the map window is enabled for rectangular maps when (re)opened.
• Fix: [#17931] The in-game command ‘count_objects’ crashes the game.
• Fix: [#17865] With difficult guest generation, tested but unopened rides still contribute to the guest cap.
• Fix: [#17866] [Plugin] Wrong Soft Guest Cap at start of new game.
• Fix: [#17980] Queue lines of track designs mess up existing queue lines if dragged through them.
• Fix: [#17959] Areas marked for dirty drawing are too large.
• Fix: [#17963] Some marketing campaigns can’t be started after Finances window tab has been on Research.
• Fix: [#17966] Reversed steel trains do not properly import from S4.
• Fix: [#17973] Bins and lamps overlay parts of the land (original bug).
• Fix: [#18008] Steeplechase S-bends has multiple gaps visible in the tracks (original bug).
• Fix: [#18009] Visual glitch with litter at edge of sloped path.
• Fix: [#18025] Fix land ownership in Six Holland, Six Flags Magic Mountain, North America - Grand Canyon and Asia - Great Wall of China Tourism Enhancement scenarios.
• Fix: [#18026] Park rating drops to 0 with more than 32k guests, total ride excitement or intensity.
• Fix: [#18032] All non-interactive widgets (labels, groupboxes) produce sound when clicked.
• Fix: [#18035] Favourited servers don’t get their online status updated.
• Fix: [#18051] Visual glitch with Mine Ride's large unbanked turn (original bug).
• Fix: [#18059] [Plugin] Width and height of custom window not changeable via script.

0.4.1 (2022-07-04)

• Feature: [#12237, #17217] Add FLAC and OGG/vorbis as supported audio formats for ride music objects.
• Feature: [#12328, #17418] Add vehicles for the Hybrid Coaster, Single-Rail Roller Coaster and Classic Mini Roller Coaster.
• Feature: [#16825] Add Alpine Coaster track type.
• Feature: [#17011] Option to show ride vehicles as separate entries when selecting a ride to construct.
• Improved: [#7983] The red colour in the ride stat screen and the ride graphs now corresponds better to negative effects on a ride’s stats.
• Improved: [#13966] Music Style dropdown is now sorted by name.
• Improved: [#16978] Tree placement is more natural during map generation.
• Improved: [#16992] The checkbox in the visibility column of the Tile Inspector has been replaced with an eye symbol.
• Improved: [#16999] The maximum price for the park entry has been raised to £999.
• Improved: [#17050] Transparency can be enabled directly without needing see-through enabled first.
• Improved: [#17059] Show Tile Inspector usage hint when nothing is selected.
• Improved: [#17199] Allow creation of Spiral Slide reskins.
• Improved: [#17242] More natural looking shorelines in map generator.
• Improved: [#17328] Parks can now be resized into rectangular shapes from the map and map generation windows.
• Change: [#16952] Make “Object Selection” order more coherent.
• Change: [#17002] Weather no longer resets when converting a save to scenario.
• Change: [#17294] New ride window remembers scroll position per tab instead of highlighted ride.
• Removed: [#16864] Title sequence editor (replaced by plug-in).
• Removed: [#16911, #17411] Residual support for pre-Vista Windows systems.
• Fix: [#13997] Placing a track design interferes with other players building a ride.
• Fix: [#15787] When deselecting "Show banner text in upper case", the banners remain upper case for 10 seconds.
• Fix: [#16539] CustomListView header not clickable when listview is scrolled.
• Fix: [#16799] Browsing “Up” in the Load Save window shows no files, only folders.
• Fix: [#16934] Park size displayed incorrectly in Park window.
• Fix: [#16974] Small scenery ghosts can be deleted.
• Fix: [#16989] Re-focusing maximised window triggers a restore and maximise.
• Fix: [#17005] Unable to set patrol area for first staff member in park.
• Fix: [#17017] [Plugin] Crash when using tile element properties that require a valid ride to be linked.
• Fix: [#17073] Corrupt ride window and random crashes when trains have more than 144 cars.
• Fix: [#17080] “Remove litter” cheat does not empty litter bins.
• Fix: [#17099] Object selection thumbnail box is one pixel too tall.
• Fix: [#17104] Changing map size does not invalidate park size.
• Fix: [#17157] Crash when browsing “Up” to folder with CJK characters in its name.
• Fix: [#17187] Text input window does not resize correctly.
• Fix: [#17197] Segfault when extracting files from the GOG installer.
• Fix: [#17205] Map generator sometimes crashes when not all standard terrain objects are available.
• Fix: [#17221] Object ghosts and tooltips follow invisible cursor when moving the viewport by right-click dragging.
• Fix: [#17255] Cursor position is incorrect when adjusting terrain and water height.
• Fix: [#17257] [Plugin] Add tertiary colour to large scenery scripting API.
• Fix: [#17261] Hand cursor position is incorrect when dragging items in the Inventions List window.
• Fix: [#17292] Rows in shortcut key list stay highlighted when cursor leaves list.
• Fix: [#17295] Pause status not cleared when loading a scenario made from a converted paused save.
• Fix: [#17310] Reversed reversible vehicles not imported properly when loading RCT1 parks.
• Fix: [#17335] [Plugin] Documentation has an incorrect type for PixelData ‘data’ attribute.
• Fix: [#17337] Air Powered Vertical Coaster trains not imported properly when loading RCT1 parks.
• Fix: [#17346] Surface height markers are concealed by sprites of same surface.
• Fix: [#17369] [Plugin] ‘Car.travelBy()’ moves other cars as well.
• Fix: [#17377] When building the park entrance before opening the Footpaths window, the path will be invisible.
• Fix: [#17381] Air Powered Vertical Coaster stat penalty is wrong.
• Fix: [#17399] Guests never generate the being watched thought.
• Fix: [#17433] Wrong T-shirt colours for guests on a Twist ride.
• Fix: [#17450] Ducks can swim on three-corners-up land tile.
• Fix: [#17461] Footpath Railing tooltip showing incorrect tooltip.
• Fix: [#17464] Green Tarmac footpath is not available in the Track Designer.
• Fix: [#17466] New object types not packed in save files.
• Fix: [#17481] Roto-drop cars try going up to top pieces that are ghosts or belong to other rides.

0.4.0 (2022-04-25)

• Headline feature: [#10664] New save format with increased limits.
• Feature: [#714] Allow up to 255 trains per ride.
• Feature: [#2253] Path surfaces and railings can be mixed and matched, like in RCT1.
• Feature: [#2766] The Fruity Ices Stall can now be recoloured, like in RCT1.
• Feature: [#4933] Allow map sizes of 999 × 999 (up from 254 × 254).
• Feature: [#7660] Custom music objects that are distributed with the save.
• Feature: [#8407] Ride platforms can be made invisible.
• Feature: [#12793] Add Excitement/Intensity/Nausea ratings to Ride List view with sorting.
• Feature: [#13858] Flatride bases can be made invisible.
• Feature: [#14676] [Plugin] Allow plugins to store data in .park files.
• Feature: [#15367] Individual track elements can now be drawn as another ride type.
• Feature: [#15901] [Plugin] Add ‘map.getAllEntitiesOnTile’ to API.
• Feature: [#16029] [Plugin] Add ‘TrackElement.rideType’ to API.
• Feature: [#16097] The Looping Roller Coaster can now draw all elements from the LIM Launched Roller Coaster.
• Feature: [#16132, #16389] The Corkscrew, Twister and Vertical Drop Roller Coasters can now draw inline twists.
• Feature: [#16144] [Plugin] Add ‘ImageManager’ to API.
• Feature: [#16707] [Plugin] Implement intransient plugins.
• Feature: [#16707] [Plugin] New API for current mode, ‘map.change’ hook and toolbox menu items on title screen.
• Feature: [#16731] [Plugin] New API for fetching and manipulating a staff member’s patrol area.
• Feature: [#16800] [Plugin] Add lift hill speed properties to API.
• Feature: [#16806] Parkobj can load sprites from RCT image archives.
• Feature: [#16831] Allow tertiary colours for small and large scenery objects.
• Feature: [#16872] [Plugin] Add support for custom images.
• Improved: [#3517] Cheats are now saved with the park.
• Improved: [#10150] Ride stations are now properly checked if they’re sheltered.
• Improved: [#10664, #16072] Visibility status can be modified directly in the Tile Inspector’s list.
• Improved: [#16251] Plugin API handles null values better.
• Improved: [#16251] openrct2.d.ts: mark ‘callback’ argument of queryAction and executeAction as optional.
• Improved: [#16251] openrct2.d.ts: change ‘network.status’ to ‘network.mode’ in network API docs.
• Improved: [#16251] openrct2.d.ts: added previously undocumented ‘GroupBoxWidget.text’ property.
• Improved: [#16251] openrct2.d.ts: removed unused ‘LabelWidget.onChange’ property.
• Improved: [#16258] Increased image limit in the engine.
• Improved: [#16408] Improve ‘--version’ cli option to report more compatibility information.
• Improved: [#16740] Allow staff patrol areas to be defined with individual tiles rather than groups of 4x4.
• Improved: [#16764] [Plugin] Add hook ‘map.save’, called before the map is saved.
• Improved: [#16925] The queue length of 1000 guests is lifted, and a warning for too long queues is added instead.
• Change: [#14484] Make the Heartline Twister coaster ratings a little bit less hateful.
• Change: [#16077] When importing SV6 files, the RCT1 land types are only added when they were actually used.
• Change: [#16424] Following an entity in the title sequence no longer toggles underground view when it’s underground.
• Change: [#16493] Boat Hire and Submarine Ride support costs now match their visual appearance.
• Change: [#16710] Changed default view of Guest List to ‘Thoughts’ and selected tab will default to ‘Summarised’ (when opened from the menu).
• Change: [#16859] Guests with umbrellas no longer always avoid going into a Maze.
• Change: [#16912] Tired or nauseated guests will no longer jump in a Maze.
• Fix: [#3588] 1920’s Racing Cars get stuck on turns.
• Fix: [#6767] Black screen after Alt-Tabbing back into the game.
• Fix: [#11752] Track pieces with fractional cost are too cheap to build.
• Fix: [#12556] Allow game to run without audio devices.
• Fix: [#12774] [Plugin] Scripts will not be re-initialised when a new scenario is loaded from within a running scenario.
• Fix: [#13336] Can no longer place Bumble Bee track design (reverts #12707).
• Fix: [#14155] Map Generator sometimes places non-tree objects as trees.
• Fix: [#14674] Recent Messages only shows first few notifications.
• Fix: [#14920] Ghosts for rides and shops do not auto-elevate when obscured.
• Fix: [#15413] Modifying park rating with plugins desyncs park rating history from actual park rating.
• Fix: [#15571] Non-ASCII characters in scenario description get distorted while saving.
• Fix: [#15830] Objects with RCT1 images are very glitchy if OpenRCT2 is not linked to an RCT1 install.
• Fix: [#15909] Text can overflow in ‘Select ride design’ windows.
• Fix: [#15947, #15960] Removing a flat ride results in an error message and duplicate structures.
• Fix: [#15998] Cannot set map size to the actual maximum.
• Fix: [#16007] Scenario Editor “Entry Price” appears to the right of the value field.
• Fix: [#16008] Tile Inspector can select elements from last tile without reselecting it.
• Fix: [#16024] Go-Karts with more than 32 vehicles do not colour themselves correctly.
• Fix: [#16026] Newly created rides with “Disable vehicle limits” cheat always get 32 trains with 12 cars each.
• Fix: [#16063] Object Selection preview for objects with glass is broken.
• Fix: [#16075] Exporting track designs saves scenery in incorrect locations.
• Fix: [#16087] The Looping Roller Coaster booster is now always drawn correctly.
• Fix: [#16140] The ‘Follow this’ option is now disabled when the ride view is set to ‘overall’ or a station.
• Fix: [#16162] Go Karts speeds are not correctly randomised, they only go very fast or very slow.
• Fix: [#16188] Medium-size banked turns on the Twister and Vertical Roller Coaster have incorrect support placement (partly original bug).
• Fix: [#16264, #16572] Placing saved track design crashes game.
• Fix: [#16308] Crash when trying to place down a ride on Android.
• Fix: [#16327] Crash on malformed network packet.
• Fix: [#16449] [Plugin] Viewport doesn’t hide when switching tabs.
• Fix: [#16450] Banner style not copied when using tile inspector.
• Fix: [#16535] Entering construction mode unblocks all paths.
• Fix: [#16542] “Same price throughout park” status not correctly imported for RCT1 saves.
• Fix: [#16572] Crash when trying to place track designs.
• Fix: [#16591] [Plugin] ‘setInterval’ and ‘setTimeout’ is not disposed when map unloads.
• Fix: [#16711] [Plugin] ‘Car.rideObject’ overflowing with more than 256 ride types.
• Fix: [#16779] Fix case where title music doesn’t unmute properly.
• Fix: [#16808] Incorrect track design serialisation causing vehicle object replacement.
• Fix: [#16869] Soft Toy Stall cannot be recoloured, but shows a recolouring option anyway (original bug).
• Fix: [#16995] Native Linux dialog windows do not open if the path contains single quotes.
• Fix: [objects#165] Glitch when Bengal Tiger Cars go through a corner.