Cities Skylines 2 is Official!

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Cities: Skylines 2 announced and launching later this year

As part of today's announcement bonanza, Paradox Interactive has officially unveiled its long-awaited city builder sequ…

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I'm very hyped for this! I'll be interested to see if the stock game is better than a modded version of CS feature wise, I'm also hoping graphics will be much improved ! Can not wait!

 

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Paradox - DLC city

In all fairness I've probably spent about £60 in total for the game + DLC, that with all the mods I actually regard the £60 as great value for this game.

 

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Aka Traffic Simulator 2. There’s a reason some road infrastructure designers use it

Really ? I don't think it's very realistic of real life

 

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That will be an improvement, I find unless you're manually placing every building, you're going to end up with mess districts or all very much the same districts because the amount of themese are limited.

 

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Really hoping I have the money for this when it comes out lol as what I had set aside for the game went towards the Ally :'( and I'm hoping it'll run in the Ally!!!!

 

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If it helps, its yet another title which is going to be on gamepass.

This will be great at first, however I imagine very quickly I'll want to buy it, the Steam version is unrivaled due to the workshop, unless they do something to allow those who bought it through MS Store or have gamepass to use the workshop somehow this way around?

 

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160 square KMs, nice

How does that compared to 81 tiles mod?

 

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Smaller compared to the 81 tiles mod but with the much better asset scaling in Cities 2 it will "feel" bigger

Hmm if it feels bigger I assume technically it should be a larger area?, or if it's like the equivalent of humans over a certain KM vs ants over the same distance, and in CS2 humans are ants.

 

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People can't grasp on facebook cities skylines how having less of a overall map could be seen as a bit of a disappointment, ultimately if it feels bigger and is bigger great, if not, bit disappointing given how old CS1 and how tech has come along since then.

 

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I think it's now time to uninstall Cities Skylines. Got BG3 & Starfield occupying time and a fresh city builder that doesn't require mods to make advanced road networks etc.. will be nice, that's not to say I don't expect to fill it with mod eventually.

 

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I've uninstalled Cities Skylines. Next city builder... CS2. Will initially play on game pass but I'll end up having to buy it for mods.

 

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Can you not mod the game pass version?

Unlikely, just like CS1 on game pass. The steam workshop is essential. Unless they have a separate facility this time.

 

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Paradox will be having their own mod repository but even so getting it on Steam will still be the safest option when it comes to mods, thats why I've already preordered it on Steam (£25 from cdkeys)

Standard edition? I feel like the premium version annoyingly has some things that are worth while like bridges

 

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Every game that comes out now is Crysis. It's kind of a crisis if you think about it.

 

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Yay - finally come use for my 64GB!

I cannot see this, CS2 should almost certainly be better optimized at least memory wise! The only think that warranted extra ram on CS1 was the HUGE amount of assets you acquire via workshop, but hopefully they'll managed to get that memory usage down for lots of assets, also it depends on the quality of the assets too, think a lot of assets used too many polygons or something.

 

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Cities Skylines 2 PC performance is below target and modding tools will be basic at launch, Paradox says

Cities Skylines 2 PC performance does not reach internal benchmarks, but Paradox will still release CS2 on time, as we also learn about Cities Skylines 2 mods.

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Release will be interesting, more interesting aside from that is the new paradox mods because If there isn't going to be a workshop on Steam I won't need to buy the game I'll just use XBGP!

 

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From experience of about 7000 assets in CS1 the game ran slow like 20 to 30fps but was playable with 32gb ram and 50gb pagefile on an nvme

 

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I'm even more looking forward to the game now I know I've got game pass for £2.50 a month and I'm not getting a gimped version of Cities Skylines 2, it's gonna be awesoommmee, even if my 4080 can't really play it properly.

 

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I've shelled out for the Ultimate edition. It'll likely feel a little lacking in functionality initially before the first major pieces of DLC are added but the quality of life improvements to the base game have sold it for me. I was never happy having to install loads and loads of mods just to do the basics. I always found constructing highways and on\off ramps and roundabouts a nightmare in CS1.

I hope DLC will still be like £8 as per CS1 but I feel it's going to be £20 a go.

 

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If a 4080 can't play it properly what are the hopes for everyone not on a 4090?

Well Paradox have confirms the recommended system reqs with a 3080 are for 1080p Ultra!