Cities: Skylines II

[HomerJ]

reviews on steam seem to be mixed for this as well, seems poor optimisation is the main bone of contention

Cities: Skylines II on Steam

Raise a city from the ground up and transform it into a thriving metropolis with the most realistic city builder ever. Push your creativity and problem-solving to build on a scale you've never experienced. With deep simulation and a living economy, this is world-building without limits.

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so much so the devs put out an official statement

Cities: Skylines II - Performance - Steam News

We’d like to give some context to the issues the game is currently facing, what we’re doing to address them, and what you can do if you experience performance issues.

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Cities: Skylines II - Tips: Our Guide to Optimize Performance - Steam News

Cities: Skylines II is a performance-heavy game, and with the diverse array of hardware you as a player use, you might find this guide helpful.

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[AccidentalDenz]

The range of PC hardware out there will always mean there's going to be a degree of PC optimisation that will be difficult to achieve when developing games, so developers do have my sympathy to an extent. Colossal Order's a company of 30 people, so for them to have done the Cities In Motion games and followed up with Cities: Skylines is pretty impressive. The sequel seems to have been a step too far at this point, but I'm sure they'll get it right in time.

 

[TonyCarter]

So this is what the latest Threadripper Pro is for...not MSFS2024

 

[stegor]

£42 for early access. No thanks.

 

[Cully.ie]

Yet another unoptimized game to ad to the ever growing list it seems.

 

[HomerJ]

The range of PC hardware out there will always mean there's going to be a degree of PC optimisation that will be difficult to achieve when developing games, so developers do have my sympathy to an extent. Colossal Order's a company of 30 people, so for them to have done the Cities In Motion games and followed up with Cities: Skylines is pretty impressive. The sequel seems to have been a step too far at this point, but I'm sure they'll get it right in time.

i think what can annoy players is a game is released and for the money spent it is treated as as beta to begin with, just goes to show the virtue of waiting for games to improve via updates.

 

[HomerJ]

this has also received mixed reviews for optimisation issues

ARK: Survival Ascended on Steam

ARK is reimagined from the ground-up into the next-generation of video game technology with Unreal Engine 5! Form a tribe, tame & breed hundreds of unique dinosaurs and primeval creatures, explore, craft, build, and fight your way to the top of the food-chain. Your new world awaits!

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ARK: Survival Ascended - Achievement Unlocked: Your first day… - Steam News

Congratulations Survivors! You (and us too) survived a full day and night on the ARK! And what an eventful day it has been. A lot’s been going on, and we thought it would be good to wrap up the day with a quick update regarding the state of the game and our plans over the days and weeks ahead...

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[AccidentalDenz]

this has also received mixed reviews for optimisation issues

ARK: Survival Ascended on Steam

ARK is reimagined from the ground-up into the next-generation of video game technology with Unreal Engine 5! Form a tribe, tame & breed hundreds of unique dinosaurs and primeval creatures, explore, craft, build, and fight your way to the top of the food-chain. Your new world awaits!

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ARK: Survival Ascended - Achievement Unlocked: Your first day… - Steam News

Congratulations Survivors! You (and us too) survived a full day and night on the ARK! And what an eventful day it has been. A lot’s been going on, and we thought it would be good to wrap up the day with a quick update regarding the state of the game and our plans over the days and weeks ahead...

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The original ARK game was like that from what I remember and took a while to get sorted. It did get sorted eventually though!

 

[HomerJ]

The original ARK game was like that from what I remember and took a while to get sorted. It did get sorted eventually though!

one can hope a few patches get released

whats denz looking forward to for xmas



im guessing gaming, family be like, "put this steam code in and be done with it"

 

[AccidentalDenz]

whats denz looking forward to for xmas

Family time to be honest. My nan comes and stays for a few nights and my sister will probably also come home (with her puppy!), so that should be fun!

 

[HomerJ]

Family time to be honest. My nan comes and stays for a few nights and my sister will probably also come home (with her puppy!), so that should be fun!

puppy also comes to play the latest steam releases #denzownseverything

 

[TonyCarter]

TL;DR - "Will it play CitySkylines2" will become the new meme.

Tech Jesus has spoken...

...amen!

 

[AccidentalDenz]

i think what can annoy players is a game is released and for the money spent it is treated as as beta to begin with, just goes to show the virtue of waiting for games to improve via updates.

There is definitely a lot of truth in the paid beta approach from so many games now. I'm not buying CS2 for a while yet (backlog's gonna backlog!), but I'm a little more forgiving on the paid beta approach from such a small company as I said in my first post in the topic. When studios backed by the likes of EA/Sony/Microsoft/etc do the paid beta thing, I'm less forgiving as they could clearly have delayed release a little to sort the issues out.

 

[HomerJ]

Cities: Skylines II - Patch Notes for 1.0.12f1 hotfix - Steam News

Hi everyone. We have another hotfix for you today with improvements and bug fixes, see the list below for details. The patch is going on out Steam today, and we're working on bringing it to the Microsoft Store as soon as possible. Please note! With existing save games, most simulation fixes...

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[HomerJ]

Cities: Skylines II - Patch Notes for 1.0.13f1 hotfix - Steam News

Hi everyone. We have another patch for you today with a bunch of gameplay fixes addressing the garbage issues and stray pets Mariina discussed in Monday's CO Word of the Week. We continue to investigate the issues you have reported, but we wanted to bring you these fixes right away. Please note...

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