There's A New Release of OpenRCT2 and it's awesome!

Gardiner Bryant -

There’s a new build of OpenRCT2 to grace us with a new free and open source re-implementation of RollerCoaster Tycoon 2. It’s version 0.4.24 and has some new features, improvements, and fixes.

Let’s review the details!

First up, Vanilla scenarios now have previews in the scenario selection window.

They’ve also added the ability to scroll the map with gamepad sticks.

The other improvements are listed here:

  • Improved: The limit of 2000 animated tile elements has been removed.
  • Improved: Landscape edge doors now animate opening and closing and play a sound.
  • Improved: Notification settings have been made into a tab of the Recent Messages window.
  • Improved: Add ten additional translations to the Windows installer.
  • Change: Scenario options are now disabled rather than hidden when disabling money makes them non-applicable.
  • Change: Disable all base colours on non-remappable WW/TT vehicles, change black to light_blue.
  • Change: Remove erroneously enabled WW/TT third remaps.
  • Removed: “Pause game when Steam overlay is open” feature (already broken for a long time).
  • Removed: Grouping by difficulty (instead of per campaign) in the scenario selector.
  • Fix: Rightclicking on track piece when there is construction below does not work.
  • Fix: Animated tile elements do not always redraw when there is over 2000.
  • Fix: The slope of new land surfaces is only correct on one side when shifting and resizing the map.
  • Fix: Obsolete official .DAT files can be loaded accidentally.
  • Fix: Scenery wall doors get stuck open if the game is saved and loaded whilst they are open.
  • Fix: Zoomed out vehicles on the ride window tab can sometimes draw incorrectly.
  • Fix: Vehicles in the ride window vehicle tab are offset differently than vanilla RCT2, and the sprites are cut off at the bottom.
  • Fix: It is possible to edit open rides in certain circumstances.
  • Fix: Music tab doesn’t fully render in multiplayer.
  • Fix: Blank strings in Windows installer.
  • Fix: ‘Divide by zero’ error when updating boat hire acceleration.
  • Fix: Viewports that only follow sprites (e.g. in the Ride and Guest windows) can be made to unfollow them.
  • Fix: convert console command always crashes with a segmentation fault.
  • Fix: convert console command rejects files with an SV7 extension.
  • Fix: ‘Italian Police Ride’ has a non-functional first remap colour.

You can check out the release notes here and find the download link.