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Ahead of the city builder's release on October 24, the devs want to "manage expectations on performance."

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm more worried about it being a traffic simulator more than a city builder like the first one without any expansions. I would like to design a city I want to live in. It's good to be honest about performance at least.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Have you watched any of the feature highlights and accompanying dev talks? Visually speaking, the game looks worse in a lot of really bizarre ways, but the actual city simulation gameplay looks like it’s been much improved. There really wasn’t anything groundbreaking, but they added a lot of the depth that’s been seen in older Sim City titles, as well as what looks like an actually currency based economic model, as opposed to the shallow approximation of an economy that existed in Cities Skylines. They also added the frankly crucial changes to traffic AI that was added to CS1 via mods, into the base game. It looks like as far as the city simulation goes, CS2 will be a solid improvement and there have been a couple well known CS1 YouTubers that seem to confirm that.

That being said, I fully expect this game to look rough and maybe perform even rougher at release, but it does at least look like I definitely wouldn’t recommend anyone buy this at launch unless they pull some big improvements out of their asses which judging by this statement, they don’t plan to, but it is also releasing on gamepass…

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Nope, I don't follow any gaming media other than what I see when browsing all in Lemmy. I just noticed a new Cities Skylines game under Steam's top seller list so I only know what I saw from the previous game. My main hope is I can make walkable cities.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Well check out their YouTube channel, the videos are very informative.