Frustrations with Cities Skylines 2 are starting to boil over among city builder fans and content creators alike: "It's insulting to have a game release that way"

I love that the game is such a CPU hogging mess that LTT used it to test over clocking a brand new AMD thread ripper and the game still ran like garbage even on one of the fastest and most multithreaded CPUs that exist.

I love Cities Skylines but whatever is happening in 2 is a three alarm fire and needs to be fixed.

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They seriously blamed the customers, anybody but themselves for this boondoggle.

Then don't buy it? I really don't understand the online community.

Oh the irony... SimCity sucks, now Cities Skylines sucks.

Can we get a good SimCity now EA? It's your chance...

This game has a lot of potential and I haven't given up on it yet.

That said the biggest pain point is still the lack of official mod support. That needs to fully arrive before we see any DLCs. Paradox/CO have only themselves to blame that people are getting impatient for the slow progress on getting out the thing that made Cities 1 so good.

It would help with scenery variety, community-made fixes, community-derived balance changes, better UI and exposing of important game variables (logistics), etc., which would address a lot of the current shortcomings.

That's a shame. I played tons of the original game and must've got most of the DLC over the years, but while 2 looked awesome in demo clips, the system specs were outrageous. Above my pay grade lol!

I wonder where the performance bottleneck lies? Is it graphics or modelling the city? I know in the demos it looked almost photo-realistic, but tbh I don't need that. The new gameplay elements like better control over traffic at intersections were the interesting part to me.

As a big fan of cities Skylines 1 (>400h), I only decided to get the sequel after I saw creators play it and there was a promotional sale.

The performance issues are bad and I get 40fps at 1080p medium on my system, with a 40k city. But the game really is better than vanilla C:S 1 in a bunch of ways. In particular, the way lanes are handled and the size of the map is better.

It takes time to make something great. I bounce between both games at this point, and just play other games. I now have 28h in the sequel so I say I got my money's ($36 due to the sale) worth. I'm patient. There are so many games and mods for other games on my backlog, I can just play those until Cities Skylines II has fixed its major issues.

I stick with CS1 and mods.

So how long until Cities Skylines 2 becomes the new Crysis for modern hardware?

I'm more annoyed that the underlying gameplay hasn't improved, there's still zero challenge and you have to actively go out of your way to bankrupt yourself. It's the same road builder as Cities In Motion was.

I use it to heat up my room when I'm cold

Why anyone would buy a Paradox game during the 1st year of release is beyond me. This happens literally every time they put out a game. Give it a year or two and it'll be the best city builder out there.

I just wanna play Simtown and SimCity2000.

Is there an alternative software for designing cities?

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Don't forget to pre-order CS3 when it's announced so we can do this all over again.

Sure, I wish things were different. But, CS1 took years to become what it is. They started again from the ground up, it's going to take a while to get there. I'm giving it some time.

The consumers should blame themselves for buy it.

And then there's me, who is content with the game and just wants TM:PE. Pre-ordered the deluxe edition at a discount, have enjoyed since day 1, knowing the game wasn't ready for release.

This 'article' is just butthurt crybabies expecting a product that was clearly not ready, throwing a fit that, surprise suprise, the game isn't ready and still needs some time to reach maturity. Hard pass - the rest of us are enjoying it.

E: hello, butthurt crybabies 👋😊