Cities Skylines II

[oldhat]

Only played for a couple of hours before giving up and uninstalling. The core gameplay seems fine but it's just that: a core with very little content.

The graphics are a flickering mess with many assets having far less detail then the first game. Framerate is hopelessly low considering the amount of detail. Sound and music are good.

The biggest negetive is that the game has lost all of the charm of the original.

 

[Moosedrool]

Hope they don't kerfloofl it like KSP2

 

[stefan9]

Per Steve of GN one of the worst optimized games he has ever tested...

 

[TofuMofu]

I started to play yesterday, but my setup, which isn't shitty, can't run this game well enough to be enjoyed. I'm quite sad about it. Been looking forward to it since it's announcement.

 

[TofuMofu]

I started to play yesterday, but my setup, which isn't shitty, can't run this game well enough to be enjoyed. I'm quite sad about it. Been looking forward to it since it's announcement.

I was a bit too hasty. Got it to run perfectly fine on Medium settings. GPU is running almost at max, but hey, I can play and it looks good

So far it's fun.

 

[Gaz{M}]

Turn off Depth of Field. It runs fine on my 3060ti.

My gripes with the game so far is the lack of content, especially smaller civil buildings (fire,police etc.) and the overall look of the houses (nothing looks like this in real life).

Plus the overall drab and green-tinted colour pallette. Do they not know what the world looks like in Sweden or wherever the devs live?

 

[Moosedrool]

Turn off Depth of Field. It runs fine on my 3060ti.

My gripes with the game so far is the lack of content, especially smaller civil buildings (fire,police etc.) and the overall look of the houses (nothing looks like this in real life).

Plus the overall drab and green-tinted colour pallette. Do they not know what the world looks like in Sweden or wherever the devs live?

CS never really gotten suburbs look correct. I never really understood why high land value homes stop having slanted roofs and require mods to look like real suburban areas.

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When they get the game performing again I bet this is going to be modded into its own thing. Just sad that the base game is so ugly.

 

[Brawler]

Oh well - another great game to enjoy 2 years from launch. It's the norm these days. Can't remember the last time a game was ok (not perfect) at launch.

 

[stefan9]

Oh well - another great game to enjoy 2 years from launch. It's the norm these days. Can't remember the last time a game was ok (not perfect) at launch.

BG3.

CS never really gotten suburbs look correct. I never really understood why high land value homes stop having slanted roofs and require mods to look like real suburban areas.

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When they get the game performing again I bet this is going to be modded into its own thing. Just sad that the base game is so ugly.

Probably but there is the caveat of them moving away from steam workshop to their own platform.

 

[stefan9]

A tech analysis of Cities: Skylines 2 proves it's rendering WAY too many polygons, making Cyberpunk 2077 look like Minecraft in comparison

Making games is hard but harder still when you have to use tools that are still in development.

www.pcgamer.com

 

[Hamster]

If I'm not mistaken - wife is playing, not me yet - there is a flag you can add on startup to open the game in developer mode, it gives you access to things like switching off the hair of characters etc which gives you a huge boost in FPS.

Let me check if I can find info

EDIT:

Look up some videos about the tools in developer mode that is available now, you can disable pieces of people. Turning off hair alone got me ~10 fps increase, turning off everything else got me ~25 fps increase at mid-zoom to sit arounf 50-60 at 1080p, 30k city and growing, w/ a 2070 and R5 3600. From another post summarizing a deep dive, looks like hair and body meshes have (conservatively) 2-3x more polys than they really should and that's compounded by the lack of LoDs.

Reddit - Dive into anything

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[Itsa Trap]

Question: Any way to make money or get your budget in the green, I've seen others say education is key, but I can't seem to crack it.

One other thing, but this is just a personal issue with the game, even with the first one, I've seen towns of 500 people vs 5000, for some reason the devs feel a town of 500 must look like it has 10 times the population in them. Doesn't make much sense to me.

And harking back to TTD, it would be awesome if, by CS III we can start off in the late 1800's and allow you to go through organic town growth and ages.

 

[stefan9]

Cities Skylines 2 boss says "if you dislike the simulation, this game just might not be for you," then immediately apologizes for saying that

"It's disappointing we weren't able to meet the expectations that were set by the stellar marketing campaign"

www.gamesradar.com

 

[stefan9]

Per paradox gamers are too demanding. Not their fault they released a broken game...

Players are now less "accepting" that games will be fixed, say Paradox, after "underestimating" the reaction to Cities: Skylines 2's performance woes

Paradox Interactive delayed jail management simulator Prison Architect 2 indefinitely this August, commenting at the ti…

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