Ducks in RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 

To all of you saying that it's not a "deep drink" but that they're actually eating, blame the OpenRCT2 devs who called that function DoubleDrink lol. Maybe it was already called something like that in the original code as well, in which case we all blame Christ Sawyer! Or blame me because in hindsight I should've realized that it's eating rather than drinking.

Ducks are well known to care about land ownership

Only Marcel would do a full analysis of the behavior of ducks in a 22 year old theme park management game

"100 attempts to spawn ducks" is such a delightful phrase. It implies true commitment.

Marcel really is the only person who can make a 7-minute video on ducks in RollerCoaster Tycoon

LAVA DUCKS!

Everything I learn about this game makes it more endearing lol. Chris Sawyer really was one nerd pouring his heart into this labor of love. None of this was necessary to gameplay, the ducks have absolutely no impact on the game mechanics at all, but they're cute and fun and Chris Sawyer totally just sat down at his desk one day and thought to himself, "you know what would be cute and fun? Ducks. I'm gonna put ducks in the game." And then he did! On a different note, one thing I think could make for an interesting video is reviewing the prebuilt designs for all the different coasters available! Are they actually well-designed, do they have good stats, which are better than others, which will give you the most bang for your buck? The wooden coasters might need to take up an entire video all on their own lol, but most of the different coasters only have a few available, if any at all, and I've always been curious if any of them are secretly amazing/terrible.

I had no idea there was a bug with duck spawning in vanilla RCT, this is truly one of the greatest things OpenRCT2 fixed I also remember in RCT3 you could make the ducks' feathers fly off by clicking on them enough, that was a funny detail

Ok, NOW you have DEFINITELY covered everything there is to cover about RCT2. Except I think that every time. And every time I turn out to be wrong!

QUACK QUACK QUACK We should be able to charge ducks to enter the park.

"DEEP DRINK", I know it's eating, but this just sounds so good. "A DEEP DRINK"

Now I know how to put all my ducks in a row.

Game was unplayable until the duck glitch was fixed. This is the content I have been waiting for!

5:03 My head cannon is that when enough ducks show up, they clog the water jets with their filth and all the feathers they leave all over the place soften the landing of any coasters that go flying off the tracks. They will also viciously attack invading balloons and rob the guests.

"Orange water will not spawn ducks ever". Me: "Makes sense. I don't think we've discovered lava-resistant ducks ye-" Marcel: "in OpenRCT2, you can spawn LAVA DUCKS!!" That piqued my interest! 😄

I wish there was a mod that about every 50 quacks replaces the duck sound with the animation and sound of klicking the red balloon ...

I am glad there is an in-depth duck spawning system. Even more glad open rct2 buffed the ducks to 1600.

The "deep drink" isn't drinking, but eating. Ducks will push their head under water (which is depicted surprisingly realistically here, considering the limited graphics) to either filter mud through their beaks in search of food or to "graze" on waterplants.

"Ducks Ducks Ducks Ducks Ducks Ducks Ducks" - Video description Thank you, very cool.

I love this about Rollercoaster Tycoon - that Chris Sawyer can go to the lengths to create behaviours for something that has no relevance to the gameplay and is just there purely for aesthetic purposes. And great work @MarcelVos bringing all this to RU-vid for everyone to see!

5:06 So if there's enough jumping fountains, you won't see any explosions when there's a collision? That's an idea to play around with.

I used to name guests "A duck" before picking them up so I'd get the message "A duck has drowned"

Chris Sawyer has put so much heart and passion into this game Well deserved that the comment sections here are still full of fans, decades after the first entry released

Just what all my parks needed: coaster trains capable of bird strikes.

This is content made just for me

This is the quality content we want to see 🫡🦆

And Chris Sawyer coded all of this duck logic in Assembly.

rct2 was never about theme parks but breeding ducks and studying duck ecology i get it now

as a birb myself, i appreciate this video. answers all the most important questions

I always like it when you have the OpenRCT2 logo to the side to represent OpenRCT2-specific features or gameplay. Feels like whatever you're talking about is a specific advertisement for it. "Come play OpenRCT2, we allow for over five times as many ducks as well as ~LAVA DUCKS~!"

Cant kill ducks, can you Marcel?

Whatching this on a slow mobile connection, and I have to say the video compression of the clips with hundreds of ducks in 360p is just _chefs kiss_ 👌

It was a nice touch for Sawyer to include these roller coasters and rides in his Duck Simulator game.

I think by now Marcel Vos knows EVERYTHING in rollerCoaster tycoon 2.

I remember in rollercoaster tycoon 3 if you click on a duck to much their feathers poof off but im not sure if that was a figment of my imagination

I know this is a bit off the subject, but can OpenRCT2 make an actual "lava" type that causes guests and ducks that enter it to be incinerated? I'm thinking of all the fun that Marcel might have with this....

5:44 New single core CPU benchmark: The FPS of OpenRCT2 when 1600 ducks are on screen.

The 100 attemps to find a square with enough water tiles in it is pretty wack. Should go back in time and tell Chris Sawyer to use a summed-area table.

Five-ish years ago, I went to Europa Park in Germany. There were these ducks that were sitting in the splash pond for the water coaster. Whenever a boat would come, they'd fly away, and then fly back, only to fly away again when the next boat came.

Never closed the video about The Universe Coaster so quickly as now

Imagine Lava, Murky, or Acid ducks in real life

Great video Marcel. Never knew that about the ducks. Popping ballons and making duck quack was always a favorite thing to do in game. 👍👍

I have fond memories of the duck noise. I remember for some reason the speaker volume wasn’t working well on my old desktop in RCT1, and the rest of the game was quiet, but when I clicked on a duck the quacking noise sounded as if I had it on max volume 🤣🤣

The amount of detail in RCT is fascinating.

I never knew they could land or take off, I always thought the flying ducks and swimming(?) ducks were unconnected

RCT 1 and 2 both feel “alive” or “lived-in” and the ducks are for sure a reason why they have that feel.

Ah yes, my good friend, Biggus Duckus.

I know at least some folks have asked about the ducks before, so I'm glad Marcel has finally stopped ducking the question.

Awesome stuff. I think the "drinking" is more eating though. Not that you should give a duck...

This is definitely your best modern-day video. Good work.

literally best video on youtube at the moment, Ducks for life

Ducks. Such magnificent creatures.

Glad we finally got them in a row

Leave it to Chris Sawyer to add the migration cycle of ducks to his themepark building game.

ducks are delicious and very cute

I love the ducks. I hope there will be more animals in RollerCoaster Tycoon 6.

just what I needed to watch during my dinner. thank you marcel.

The attention to detail is amazing! Chris Sawyer one of the GOATs!

Great video! I love the ducks! I wish there was a bread stall so you can sell people bread to feed the ducks!

As a massive duck fan i approve of this game's duck implementation

a meme in my immediate friends group is "create ducks" - we played OpenRCT multiplayer and I kept spamming the create ducks button, spawning hundreds of ducks and crashing the server

I'm starting this video expecting it to end with knowledge that ducks grant a 20% increase in spending per customer but only when it's raining and Mars is in alignment with Jupiter. 😂

How have I never noticed these funky little guys before ;( Thank you for bringing them to my attention

duck me this was good

I captured a duck by removing the water around it, and then added two guests called Donald on a path next to it. It is my new exhibit with it's own special sign: "2 Donalds, 1 Duck".

the attention to detail in this game is quite staggering

I just watched some guy spend 7 minutes talking about ducks in a game I don't even play

Great video, great to see you again Marcel for a video about RCT ducks

"Quack Quack Quack!" (Translation from duck language:"excellent video and theme park! 5* rating and an extra star for the cleanest lakes)

At last, someone covers the most important apsect of RCT1/2

So the next challenge seems obvious. Keep a Duck past October, find that special little quacker.

Theme parks are great to hang out in.

This might be #1 at the top of my "most useless information taking space in my brain" list

as a proud owner of 3 ducks I can confirm, they quack

Marcel Vos the Boss!

Vanilla duck sounds delicious

My local theme park has free-roaming peacocks!

The ducks arent drinking, but eating when they stick their head underwater.

this was a ducktastic video

This is the most important video on the whole of youtube

Alfred Hitchcock's Ducks looks to intense to me!

I did find this video absolutely ducking interesting.

QUACK! Only Marcel would make a video about RCT ducks. :)

Wottorr taiyelzz

The government doesn't want you to know this but the ducks at the parks are free. I currently have 53 ducks in my basement

Every time I learn about the code behind this game my mind is blown.

This means speed runners now have a new challenge, fastest game to get a yearly duck.

Local Quackologist aproves

Haha, this video is quacking me up.

The amount of thought put into making this game is mind boggling

Whether in RCT or on RU-vid: I see ducks, I click

This is why I subscribed to your channel.

"And RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 reflects that" Water Pun?

This video raises an important point: RCT needs more birds.

Someone needs to make a remix Marcel saying "zero" with slightly different inflections.

They clearly visited the Efteling for inspiration

Holy Duck! A ducking video about ducks

Now I want to see a video on what causes the guests to jump up after leaving a ride.

There needs to be a mod involving a guest named Fabio riding a hypercoaster over a lake.

marcel's sanity has finally quacked.