Cities Skylines II

This is unfortunate... after SimCity just crapping the bed, City Skylines pretty well was able to step in and take over the genre. This should be an easy release for them. Like others have said, they just needed to release a game that worked and then sell DLCs over the next few years. I think people were really looked forward to this and they just didn't deliver. I'm sure it will be fine but it just sucks that we thought we were saved from SimCity's disaster just to be hit with some disappointment.

Playing around for a bit and seem mostly fine with settings turned down, then hits 4k ish size, and it ground to a halt.
Given how shit this is, it really begs the question of what reason there is to play this over the first one?

Damn. This was to be my beer and relax game for the next couple years.

After playing around for a bit, I'm not sure I like their development tree system. Seems like just a finicking and annoying way to upgrade things. seems like you're just going to end up with everything eventually as you play long enough.
I would have much preferred it if it was a true tree, where you use it to shape and customise your city into a certain style.
and I know city builders in general are primarily sandbox games, but I would have loved to see more guided / challenge option. My favourite city builder atm is Against the Storm, which is more focused on that, though probably more of a supply chain builder than a city builder

So is it like the last few sim cities, where if you build one coal plant, you melt the ice caps and doom the earth? While tiny wind mills put out tons of power. Or is it slightly realistic

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So is it like the last few sim cities, where if you build one coal plant, you melt the ice caps and doom the earth? While tiny wind mills put out tons of power. Or is it slightly realistic

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Wind farms should have a flock of birds periodically fly down and the exit out the other side as red mist. And solar farms should take up 10x the space of any other structure in the game and be as much of an eyesore as possible (which should be easy to accomplish in the game's current state). Add in frequent brownouts in the city if you choose to use "alternative" energy and you've got your peak realism.

meStevo said:

Decreased quality because I yolo'd it up onto this other site, but this is the lighting/shadow stuff that bugs me. Instead of it being kind of striking everything becomes a quivering mess.

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My shadows are even worse than this. Granted, I haven't messed around with settings too much yet, but the shadows are horrible. There should be an epilepsy warning. I'm getting around 45 fps on an empty map, so better than I expected. The game is definitely in need of some work before it's fully playable though.

Qhue said:

Cities Skylines 2 players expose high-poly teeth as the reason for performance issues - Dexerto

One of Cities Skylines 2’s performance issues has been exposed as due to high-poly teeth being constantly rendered.

www.dexerto.com

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Why the fuck do they have teeth

It's a race, who fixes it first. The developer or mods.

Kind of crazy though, that as soon as you are out of "zoomed in mode", all the sims and such just don't go into very low detail mode, until you want to take a close look again.

So my decision to wait and buy later, once its all fixed(by devs or mods), is looking better by the day.

Which is a shame, I was looking forward to the game, I love sitting back and just relax play these types of games.

This makes me just wanna play anno again for a while heh