Beta 12 is now available for download! The full change log is at the end of this post.

Devlog

During this months Art Stream, Garret added a set of new generic building pieces and deco items that should fit into most parks. Here’s a preview of some of the new pieces:

Changelog

Beta 12:
- big audio overhaul
 * added stereo sound
 * added crowd sounds
 * added music volume slider to ride settings
 * fixed a bunch of audio pops and sounds not playing
- added new path styles
- added custom colors to some normal paths
- added new building pieces (spires, dormers, windows, door, clocks, stepped walls)
- added lights to Power Surge, Top Scan, Plane Carousel, Gyro Drop Tower, Star Shape
- added new ride music song (Coffee Pirates)
- added up helix to Go-Karts
- reduced RAM use
- improved performance in parks with many tracked rides
- improved TV images
- fixed guests disappearing when closing tracked ride
- fixed not being able to replace queue handrails on stairs
- fixed some path attachments missing in blueprints (only for new blueprints)
- fixed some fences not adapting to sloped paths when built from blueprints (only for new blueprints)
- fixed a case where huge parks would not receive as many guests as they should

Garret added two nice new path styles:

And we made it so these new paths (and some of the existing old ones) can be recolored, so you’ll have much more options for path styles now :)

The audio team from A Shell In The Pit has been working on another bigger audio update for a while. Rachel has been adding some new sounds and fine-tuning volumes of existing ones, and Maris has been working on removing the weird pops and cut-off sounds we sometimes had. There’s also stereo sound now, making everything sound a bit less “flat”, and some more subtle crowd sounds. They’ll keep tweaking, but generally everything sounds a bit nicer now. Here’s a quick video to give an impression: