Cities Skylines II

[maflynn]

Looks like a major update is inbound.

I have no idea when its going to land, but it completely reworks the economy. From the video, it seems that with CS:2 you can't go broke - You keep getting government grants to cover any and all shortfalls. I can't really comment on this as I've not played CS:2 enough

 

[Huntn]

Looks like a major update is inbound.

I have no idea when its going to land, but it completely reworks the economy. From the video, it seems that with CS:2 you can't go broke - You keep getting government grants to cover any and all shortfalls. I can't really comment on this as I've not played CS:2 enough

Is that a difficulty setting?

 

[maflynn]

Is that a difficulty setting?

I'm not sure to be honest, I think it was a safety measure put into the game for new players, but as people complained they said without the risk of failure there's really no reason to play.

From what the video stated, the completely removed the government grant feature of the game, though if you like to play with unlimited money you still can (CS:1 has this as well)

Another aspect of the can't fail mentality is traffic, Biffa mentioned it in his video where you really cannot mess up traffic, cars just despawn when traffic gets heavy and he said the same thing. The fun is trying to overcome the challenge and having a risk of failure. I don't think this update is changing the traffic heuristics just the economy.

 

[Huntn]

I'm not sure to be honest, I think it was a safety measure put into the game for new players, but as people complained they said without the risk of failure there's really no reason to play.

From what the video stated, the completely removed the government grant feature of the game, though if you like to play with unlimited money you still can (CS:1 has this as well)

Another aspect of the can't fail mentality is traffic, Biffa mentioned it in his video where you really cannot mess up traffic, cars just despawn when traffic gets heavy and he said the same thing. The fun is trying to overcome the challenge and having a risk of failure. I don't think this update is changing the traffic heuristics just the economy.

I like challenge but I also like playing some scenarios in creative mode. For a city simulation, there is satisfaction setting up a city that is functional and prosperous.

 

[maflynn]

I like challenge but I also like playing some scenarios in creative mode. For a city simulation, there is satisfaction setting up a city that is functional and prosperous.

Same, that's why I'll play with unlimited funds from time to time

 

[LeeW]

Is this playable now? I have avoided it due to all of the negativity since its release.

 

[Isengardtom]

Does anyone have experience with Cities Skylines on a cloud gaming platform? How does it perform?

 

[diamond.g]

Is this playable now? I have avoided it due to all of the negativity since its release.

ehhhhhh

I'd wait until the economy is fixed cause it makes the game unfun.

 

[maflynn]

Does anyone have experience with Cities Skylines on a cloud gaming platform? How does it perform?

Reports were CS:2's performance suffered greatly even on high-end hardware - there's no way that it would be feasible to play this using a streaming service.

 

[maflynn]

Here's the current players numbers (top) compared to Cities:Skylines 1 (bottom).

CS1 is almost back to the pre-CS2 hey day, where as CS2 seems to be settling in at the 4,500 player mark. Not horrible news, but not great. I think CO needs to start slowly building upon that player base and try to get that to grow.

 

[Isengardtom]

Reports were CS:2's performance suffered greatly even on high-end hardware - there's no way that it would be feasible to play this using a streaming service.

That's a shame - It's a game I'm very interested in (after they fix its broken parts)

 

[diamond.g]

At first launch the game was (and probably still is) extremely CPU limited. I think at some point they were going to fix the issue, but I have not seen any reports of it yet.

Honestly most of those issues don't become super apparent until you have a fairly large city with lots of inhabitants/traffic. I wished I had captured when I demolished a bunch of buildings and had a million people walking around trying to find housing (I rezoned). My FPS dropped into the single digits and more or less crashed my PC.

 

[LeeW]

Honestly most of those issues don't become super apparent until you have a fairly large city with lots of inhabitants/traffic. I wished I had captured when I demolished a bunch of buildings and had a million people walking around trying to find housing (I rezoned). My FPS dropped into the single digits and more or less crashed my PC.

It's annoying that they must have known this yet released it anyway.

 

[diamond.g]

It's annoying that they must have known this yet released it anyway.

At least I didn't have to pay for it (directly) played the game via pc gamepass.

 

[maflynn]

It's annoying that they must have known this yet released it anyway.

From the reports floating around the interwebs, Colossal Order fought tooth and nail at NOT releasing the game, but the publisher forced them. Paradox Interactive had some poor game releases and thought this would give them a positive quarter. They now see the error of their ways.

In many respects SimCity as a franchise failed under similar circumstances, and that opened the door for Cities:Skylines, not sure if they will be able to recover to be honest.

 

[Homy]

Cities: Skylines 2 woes continue with console ports delayed indefinitely due to missed "stability and performance targets"

Colossal Order will review the ports again in August

www.gamesradar.com

 

[diamond.g]

Cities: Skylines 2 woes continue with console ports delayed indefinitely due to missed "stability and performance targets"

Colossal Order will review the ports again in August

www.gamesradar.com

This isn't surprising.

 

[Reverend Benny]

I haven't tried Skylines 2 but kinda got the urge to fire up Skylines 1 again and start building.
I know there is a PS5 remaster (played it on PC earlier) and might give that a try if I'm not getting myself a new PC.

Edit, just saw its available on Mac, might fire up my M1 air so and see what its like to play on that machine