Cities Skylines II

I see Cities Skylines 2 is floating on the seas since around 8pm.

Given how poor the reviews on steam is might give this a try first.
 
I see Cities Skylines 2 is floating on the seas since around 8pm.

Given how poor the reviews on steam is might give this a try first.
I was really excited for it but I saw monster PCs getting 6FPS just in the menu, I think it's a wait for a year for patches and then buy cheap on sale game.
 
I was really excited for it but I saw monster PCs getting 6FPS just in the menu, I think it's a wait for a year for patches and then buy cheap on sale game.

Yeah I see reports that a RTX 4090 can't get 60 FPS.... Wow
 
Busy downloading the game. Will be trying it out later :D Very excited. I saw performance is a major issue, but hopefully they'll be able to fix it soon.
 
Considering that the base game of CS1 looks like it is submerged in an algae infested fish tank, how are the visuals this time round?
 
Downloaded on gamepass
Was very excited to get cracking on a new city

Slideshow gameplay

Uninstalled

Installed on SSD made no difference.
Disabling fog and depth of field helps, but when you need to disable settings to get a city builder to run kinda okay, you know they screwed up and just wanted to get it out the door

Wait for patches
 
Tried it last night on Gamepass, it was running ok on my system but holy hell after about 40 minutes my GPU and CPU started running extremely hot. Definitely not optimized, hopefully something they'll fix soon as it does seem like a decent city builder.

I must say though, it does not look like a game that should be taxing a system this much.
 
My son started this up yesterday, he was getting around 30fps on 1080p with I think an AMD 6600, and he was getting around 30fps after turning down some settings. He was excited for this game for the last year :/
 
Apparently the devs did target 30FPS, which I guess for a city builder is fine but the issue is the game doesn't even look crazy, it just looks like any generic city builder from 5 years ago.
 
How on earth did they manage that?

I was also looking forward to this game for a long time, what a letdown.

Well I think if he could put the settings to high it would probably look a lot better. I mean he doesn't have the strongest PC but it was able to run Cities1 at 60fps no problem. But as it is, yeah... not happy. Considering to get him Anno 1800 which I hear is really well optimised.
 
Was looking forward to this game but won't support a game that was released with developers knowing it wasn't ready. I will wait for a big steam sale.
 
Apparently the devs did target 30FPS, which I guess for a city builder is fine but the issue is the game doesn't even look crazy, it just looks like any generic city builder from 5 years ago.
Or that is their excuse now cause of how poorly optimized it is.
 
The Devs had an AMA on reddit the other day and were upfront about missing their performance benchmarks.


I played it for a solid 6 - 8 hours yesterday (albeit with my graphics turned down from high to medium), and it's still Cities Skylines, I do miss the industries DLC though, the roads tool is so much more difficult to use - my grids constantly break, and buildings and the terrain don't seem to work as well together

Edit, actually now that I think about it, the game feels a bit empty without the DLC, anyone else think the same?
 
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The Devs had an AMA on reddit the other day and were upfront about missing their performance benchmarks.


I played it for a solid 6 - 8 hours yesterday (albeit with my graphics turned down from high to medium), and it's still Cities Skylines, I do miss the industries DLC though, the roads tool is so much more difficult to use - my grids constantly break, and buildings and the terrain don't seem to work as well together

Edit, actually now that I think about it, the game feels a bit empty without the DLC, anyone else think the same?
I've downloaded it, but haven't had a chance to play. Will hopefully get to play later today or by the weekend.
 
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