Cities Skylines II

[Caim]

Sequel coming this year.

 

[Perkel]

cgi trailer thanks for nothing

 

[Mazisky]

Achivement lists confirm seasons and natural disasters

 

[Alienman]

I'm hoping they fixed the economy and made making money a challenge, but I doubt it.

 

[Alfgart]

No gameplay and zero info for a game that's coming this 2023. It will be either delayed or a barebones piece of shit with no new content over CS1, or both

 

[Raghar]

They are claiming they would add "fully-realized transport and economy systems".

 

[Keshik]

Using UE5 apparently, so that's something. Probably will still run like ass somehow.

 

[Dr1f7]

*NOT ACTUAL GAMEPLAY*

 

[RobotSquirrel]

I reported the steam page, I think there's an element of suckers that won't read the very tiny print "not actual gameplay" and assume the pre-renders are screenshots. They shouldn't even have the pictures on there its totally misleading the trailer is fine as a placeholder as is.
Very dodgy way to start off Paradox. If its not ok for Indies to do this they shouldn't be allowed to either. It seems that using bullshots goes against TOS but I've only seen it enforced on indies, usually they just let the AAA publishers get away with it (Creative Assembly I'm looking at you).
As of 2016 (NoMan'sSky) this has been against TOS for Steam as far as I'm aware that is still the case.

 

[Perkel]

Using UE5 apparently, so that's something. Probably will still run like ass somehow.

And it means modding will be dead. Probably as Paradox wanted it as mods for CS were too big of a threat to their shitty DLCs.

 

[GrafvonMoltke]

OMG GET HAYEP

 

[flyingjohn]

Using UE5 apparently, so that's something. Probably will still run like ass somehow.

-Stutters ahoy
-No mods
-Huge gamesize
-Denuvo since unity denuvo can easily be cracked
-Shit realistic graphics with too much effects

Maybe some autist will make a unofficial cities II in Godot.

 

[RobotSquirrel]

Maybe some autist will make a unofficial cities II in Godot.

I mean sure but by the time it was done CS3 would be out. Honestly better idea would be just do a 2D Isometric game in the style of SimCity2000/SimCity4, as Godot is far better suited for that style of game. The tilemap functionality in Godot is some of the best I've seen, its very performant and everything is built into the core engine. I haven't performance tested Godot 4 yet though so I don't know how far reasonably you could get with crowds and persistence, for things like that Unity might be better because of DOTS (not saying DOTS is a silver bullet, the documentation for it frankly sucks so most developers won't be able to access it). It'll be interesting to see what compromises they had to make for Unreal 5 because I'm not expecting this to run very well, Tropico 6 was dreadful so Unreal has a history of not really doing City builders well, it can do them but with some pretty major limitations on performance and its got nothing to do with visual impact from experience they're actually very cheap visually due to the reuse, city builder AI and pathfinding is weighty.

 

[Malbrouck]

The trailer for this SUCKS, saw a funny parody of it though https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dN6RwjNxx8

 

[Beastro]

The trailer for this SUCKS, saw a funny parody of it though https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dN6RwjNxx8

What I loved about playing the first at launch was the water pumps. If abused in mass numbers they would let me to drain rivers, lakes and the ocean allowing me to build cities below sea level protected from flooding by a wall of the sheer SUCKAGGE that kept the waters back. It was fun for a city-builder to actually allow true terraforming, not just changing the landscapes height.

That makes me think given that the most fun of these games is abusing them: Someone should make a dystopian city builder game. Basically, you're a 40k planetary governor given a world and it's up to you how you'll make it a functional nightmare. You could make cities from gouging out and hollowing mountain ranges or build towns by acid swamps and reap the economic benefits as reproduction keeps above the morality rate, etc.

 

[Caim]

That makes me think given that the most fun of these games is abusing them: Someone should make a dystopian city builder game. Basically, you're a 40k planetary governor given a world and it's up to you how you'll make it a functional nightmare. You could make cities from gouging out and hollowing mountain ranges or build towns by acid swamps and reap the economic benefits as reproduction keeps above the morality rate, etc.

Me buying Cities Skylines 2 hinges entirely on whether you can build another poop volcano.

 

[Mazisky]

GAMEPLAY TRAILER (IN-GAME FOOTAGE)



Confirmed bigger maps, modular buildings, traffic AI, parking, in-depth economy, medium density, seasons and weather

 

[Fedora Master]

No gameplay and zero info for a game that's coming this 2023. It will be either delayed or a barebones piece of shit with no new content over CS1, or both

It'll be a DLC platform.

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

holy shit it's the same engine =_=

 

[Voids]

I'll just keep playing SC4, thanks.

 

[GrafvonMoltke]

GAMEPLAY TRAILER (IN-GAME FOOTAGE)



Confirmed bigger maps, modular buildings, traffic AI, parking, in-depth economy, medium density, seasons and weather

Yeah looks pretty good, no wonder codexers hate it

 

[Mark.L.Joy]

If they made better tools for road building autism.

 

[Caim]

GAMEPLAY TRAILER (IN-GAME FOOTAGE)



Confirmed bigger maps, modular buildings, traffic AI, parking, in-depth economy, medium density, seasons and weather

Still no option for poop volcanoes.

 

[Keshik]

Slightly more complex electrical grids is a nice change.

 

[Caim]

I know a thing or two about electrical grids so I think it's kinda funny that their idea of "low" voltage is in the ballpark of 10kV. Sure, this could be fixed by having the larger transformer station be placed near the power plant, have the above ground high voltage cables moved be carried by pylons and have underground high voltage cables connect to smaller stations that turn the high voltage into low voltage. Such stations are barely the size of two parking spots, and can automatically hook into the low voltage network built through the road system. Such stations have an action radius of a few hundred meters, so you'll still need to build them to keep your city running. Add in some minor redundancy (connect the stations in a ring shape instead of a straight line) and bob's your uncle.