Cities skylines 2 came out and it's not lookin good...

Anyone else feel like this is just every game now? Every single game I've been following for months now has run like doo doo on all systems. I already only play mostly indie games but it's getting hard to be excited about anything. Especially because the actual quality of the games this year has been overwhelmingly great.

Just logging in to tell you all that if you ever plan on playing paradox games, only buy the base game. Pirate the dlcs and load them with cream.api.
This allows you to still play online, get all the updates with no hassle and use the workshop, without wasting 1000's

What's wrong with the game?

Just play Workers and Resources: Soviet Republic instead. If that game was slightly more approachable it would improve over CS in every possible way.

The snapping is weird, it's like it doesn't snap. There are no bikes. There are pedestrian roads though, so that's good. It works like it did in CS1 except without the special zoning or services.

It does look better, graphically. I do experience stuttering. I'm not sure if I like the architecture. It looks like something a very liberal city would create to be modern while also being cheap for building associations. Houses look like boldly colored, giant chicken coops. I'd much rather they let you set that stuff up with the themes, which probably will come eventually.

Selling resources seems like ez mode for money management. You can have a poorly designed economy but still make money just by selling your water and power. I expect a balance patch.

More capitalist innovation; less features and runs worse.

This is normal for paradox, unfortunately. After 70 DLCs and $1000, it’ll be critically acclaimed. Of course, I will spend $0 and still get access to the entire game.

This is 9/11 for urbanist nerds

The success of the cities skylines series has shown me that I really had the completely wrong idea what people want in a city builder.

PC games are always better when you get them 2-5 years after they come out, and you can play them on the hardware they were developed on.

That's two games today

What's the other one?

Can someone explain what the promise of CS2 was? I only caught glimpses of it, but it seemed mostly the same except some parking simulation, streamlining stuff like power/water, and a dlc reset.

What was the killer feature?

https://www.eteknix.com/cities-skylines-2-shows-abysmal-performance-in-early-benchmarks-less-than-30-fps-on-a-4090/amp/?fbclid=IwAR1_pJVQ2K7-VZKbx0U69Kwv-wmTqENP68hD3nrkP2o5f_CIitLhwGbkpIg

Sub 30 fps on a fking 4000 dollar machine lol

It’s more likely that they’ve hit a driver bug, or accidentally pushed a build with some debug junk. They wouldn’t intentionally release game that runs 15fps on 4090.

What was the other game?

It's great, people are whinging because they don't get perfect 60 fps on day 1 and didn't have every kitchen sink idea ever thrown into a c:s 1 dlc. Anyone who complains about DLC pricing on paradox games is a rube anyway, it's all in there and all you have to do is flip a software switch to get it all for free. Ground floor, let's go.

My big annoyance with the game right now is how big the friggin schools are compared to everything else. Look at the size of this elementary school! It's the size of a city block and is like fives stories tall while also being two stories! You could fit several single family homes in its roof volume alone.

Also outbuildings and upgrades for stuff have to be directly connected instead of nearby. This is a problem for stuff like the high school's sports field, which conceivably could be across a small road or some distance away because it's also frickin huge.

Kerbal Space Program fans Cities: Skylines fans

oof

I never played the first one as just the base game, but I have to imagine that with so much DLC, it's probably a fairly different game. Mods also helped to fill in a lot of the gaps. I had a feeling this would happen. I wasn't wowed by any of the early gameplay that I saw. I'm just hoping that it will evolve into a good game in a year or two.

Or maybe it's just high expectations of the early adopters and it is a good game. I would pick it up just to try, but I've heard the performance is pretty abysmal and my computer is well past due for an upgrade.

i have a 4090; dropped graphics to 4k resolution, low settings and turned off all the post process crap. mostly runs at 120fps now

Gotta wait a couple of months until they fix perfomance

RTX 3070, Ryzen 3600. 1080p with some settings turned down a bit. Early game has been smooth. The negative reviews aren’t wrong but i don’t know… If you really want to play I think you might still enjoy it

That is sad, but I'm still gonna try it out with Gamepass. Really enjoyed the first a ton