Planet Coaster 2's latest update adds synchronised rides, customisable video billboards, and stops guests suffering from perpetual panic

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Planet Coaster 2 has been quietly expanding its virtual theme parks since the sequel launched last November. Just before Christmas, the game'sfirst major update enhanced the simulation of its new flume rides, and improved the user interface—one of the main sources of criticism from the community on launch. Now, a second update has splashed down into Planet Coaster 2's glittering pools, letting you create your own video billboards for your park, as well as the advertisements played on them.

These billboards can be placed anywhere around your park, and they come with numerous pre-created advertisements for existing rides, food and drink brands, and mascots. Yet PC players can also upload custom images and videos to the billboards, though you'll need to ensure the latter are in .webm format to be compatible.

In a video accompanying the update, game director Rich Newbold explains some of the billboards' other features. «The billboards in your park will be playing the audio from your videos out into the park,» Newbold says. «But you have the ability to connect existing speakers [in the game] to the billboard so that it will actually play through the speaker itself.» These speakers can also play custom audio, so if you want to blast your guests' eardrums with your favourite albums from every corner of the park, you're free to do that.

Update two also brings the ability to synchronise rides, which includes coasters and flumes, so that they set off at the same time, and adds «de-themed» variants of some of the existing coasters, meaning you'll be able to place the rides in their existing layout, but customise them more easily to fit any park.

Alongside these new additions are a bunch of game tweaks and a long list of bug fixes. Regarding the former, Planet Coaster now provides greater control over user notifications, and adds filters to the multi-select tool. The most significant change, however, is to the path and pool tool. This now has a preview «which shows the path or