Cities Skylines 2 lackluster launch can be mostly attributed to the growing pains of a small studio.
It was probably never possible for a small studio like Colossal Order to deliver a fully functional successor from scratch when they were adding features for 10 years CS1 in parallel.
The only way it would've worked was if they could have used the same code in CS2. But clearly, they weren't able to, as it's missing most of the DLCs they built for CS1.
Wczoraj do Cities: Skylines 2 wpadł patch 1.1 i w sumie nie zmienił chyba nic. Słyszałem że poprawia wydajność zwłaszcza na słabszych sprzętach, ale jakoś tego nie widzę, może 2-3 fps ale to może by błąd pomiaru tak naprawdę. Wsparcie modów przez Paradox mods nie pomaga, zwłaszcza że większości przydatnych modów nie ma, ponieważ autorzy ich jeszcze nie przeportowali. Ciekawy jestem jak to się wszystko rozwinie, bo na chwilę obecną grania w to nie polecam.
Kwestię dlc pominę, bo to kpina że za takie rzeczy chcą pieniędzy...
Honestly, I pirated #CitiesSkylines2 and I feel a little ripped off.
It's just mostly just #CitiesSkylines with more realistic cars and human shaders.
There are a few QoL improvements that probably make it worth a buy; like being able to buy smaller squares of land, or how water pipes run under streets now.
Are there four of you out there in the #Fediverse that are generous enough to help a hobbyist #YouTube#VideoGames#Creator hit that magical 1000 subscriber? If so I'd really appreciate a sub. Happy to swap subs as well if you're in need of some.
The #TombRaider Remasters are pretty important to me - the original TR game was the first game I got on my PS1 way back in the day - it was also the first game I played on my channel when I first started it! #ShareYourGames
I want to play #CitiesSkylines2 but from what I've heard, it doesn't run worth a crap on even the highest end gaming computers. Cities: Skylines on my Steam Deck already suffers, although from what I've heard it too is practically unplayable if you have a complete city (I do not). I doubt CS2 would run well enough even on cloud gaming. And I really don't want to waste my money to find out.
J'ai tenté de redonner sa chance à #CitiesSkylines2.
Les performances sont meilleures qu'à la sortie du jeu, ce qui le rend un peu moins frustrant. J'ai aussi regardé pas mal de vidéos sur le jeu ce qui m'a permis d'éviter des erreurs bêtes en early game. Après 4-5 heures sur ma nouvelle partie, ça se passe pas trop mal, mais je commence à souffrir des problèmes de circulation donc il va peut-être falloir refaçonner pas mal de routes et je sais pas si j'ai le courage 😭
A quick preview of what you can expect in tomorrow's Cities: Skylines II - Azure Delta episode, "The 6 Ps"!
In the episode we develop a new medium-high density mixed use area, a new suburb and an industrial area based around the rail yard we placed down last week - we also work on some fixes from last week's comments! #Screenshots#CitiesSkylines#CitiesSkylines2#VideoGames#ShareYourGames
I’ve been really enjoying Cities Skylines 2, but the more I play it the more I realize how buggy it is.
So far nothing game breaking has come up for me, but it’s noticeably buggy. I’m not very picky so I just shrug and keep playing. I’m fairly confident the devs will fix it up eventually, but if you’re expecting a bug free game give it some time before you pick it up.
Sieht auf den Bildern so aus als würden Autobahnen (und hoffentlich auch Gleise) in #CitiesSkylines2 endlich so gebaut werden können dass Auf- und Abfahrten auch vernünftig funktionieren und aussehen.
Wenn ich mir in 7 Jahren vielleicht einen PC leisten kann auf dem das Spiel rund läuft wäre es vielleicht eine Überlegung wert es zu kaufen 🤭
I am beginning to think the traffic AI for #CitiesSkylines2 will be the death of the game, or rather force Paradox to do a repatch and relaunch and all the other fun stuff we all know from No Man's Sky and Cyberpunk.
It is laughably bad.
Well that and the performance.
(Btw as a publisher: If the streamers you have long standing cooperation for the first game with and you send free review codes to give "Can NOT recommend" reviews on Steam you are not in a good place).
#citiesskylines2 I think I figured out how to satisfy low density residential demand in the game. It basically operates on the concept of Induced Demand. Just like adding a lane to a highway incentivizes people to use the highway more, leading to the same congestion problems. If you constantly zone low density residential in an attempt to "chase the demand bar," what you're doing is increasing the supply of houses. Meaning, driving down the COST of housing. Meaning more citizens can afford a house, meaning they buy up that supply, so they demand more... it's a feedback loop, like acquiescing to a child who only ever wants to eat chocolate.
So, counterintuitively, you need to IGNORE their demand. By keeping the supply constant, and with demand increasing, the cost of the housing goes up. This prices out some of your citizens, and so they will begin demanding lower-cost options. Enter, medium density housing. You start with row housing, then medium density, then mixed-use. This doesn't happen fast, let alone instantly, so you kind of have to plan this strategy from the founding of your city. At one point I had a 15k pop with almost exclusive demand for medium density housing.
As your citizens get more educated through college and university levels, they'll be able to afford those suburbs again, and the demand will return. But they'll also be young enough that living "in the big city" will be desirable and they'll start demanding high density apartments close to shops and offices. Beware the Low Rent zoning type! Despite being high density, if your citizens are too well educated and make too much money, they'll abandon these buildings the moment they can afford nicer places. But I guess they're a good stopgap measure between medium density and regular high density.
So Induced Demand is a double edged sword: you want to avoid inducing demand for low density suburbs, and purposely induce demand for higher densities.
Okay I am... troubled by the stuff coming out from reviews of #CitiesSkylines2 , it sounds just like Sim City all over again (minus forced multiplayer).
It is cheaper to import every single city service than to build it yourself, except for water and electricity.
The RIC is busted, just like in Sim City and only shows demand for residential
Goods export and import does not work, nor distribution to stores and industry. It is all faked, like in Sim City.
Okay so datamining of models suggest that the details of cims are way overworked with 40 000 polygons or more for details you cannot see in the game (you can't zoom in that far).
The performance of the game is... not good for a lot of players that struggle with framerate dips down to <10 fps on 30-series NVIDIA cards.
I don't know much about gamedev or 3D modelling but this seems like an odd choice.