Ciantic, to citiesskylines
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Cities Skylines 2 lackluster launch can be mostly attributed to the growing pains of a small studio.

It was probably never possible for a small studio like Colossal Order to deliver a fully functional successor from scratch when they were adding features for 10 years CS1 in parallel.

The only way it would've worked was if they could have used the same code in CS2. But clearly, they weren't able to, as it's missing most of the DLCs they built for CS1.

#CitiesSkylines #CitiesSkylines2

frabcus,
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@Ciantic It sounds like it is an Early Access, just not called that. The fans I know are quite happy with this - e.g. have bought it but will sit for a year before seriously playing it.

Ciantic,
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@frabcus It feels and plays like an early-access game. It was not marketed that way and that is a big problem. It raised the expectations through the roof, which is the issue.

However, I do think they will recover, as there is no competition. AAA studios are busy making their FPS games, and the simulation genre seems to be a niche.

I think they wrote a deal with Paradox to deliver it by X-date, and can't admit it was unfinished to not break the contract. Making communication very awkward.

aarchangl, to Games Polish
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Wczoraj do Cities: Skylines 2 wpadł patch 1.1 i w sumie nie zmienił chyba nic. Słyszałem że poprawia wydajność zwłaszcza na słabszych sprzętach, ale jakoś tego nie widzę, może 2-3 fps ale to może by błąd pomiaru tak naprawdę. Wsparcie modów przez Paradox mods nie pomaga, zwłaszcza że większości przydatnych modów nie ma, ponieważ autorzy ich jeszcze nie przeportowali. Ciekawy jestem jak to się wszystko rozwinie, bo na chwilę obecną grania w to nie polecam.

Kwestię dlc pominę, bo to kpina że za takie rzeczy chcą pieniędzy...

aarchangl,
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@wonziu niestety problem polega na tym, że to nic nie zmieni a przykładem idealnym dla tego jest sytuacja z dodatkami do The Sims. Wszyscy klną na to że za 5 ubrań i dwie szafki płacisz 69zl ale i tak mnóstwo ludzi to kupi

wonziu,
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@aarchangl dodatki nie są problemem imho - jak ludzie lubią grę to zapłacą, by ją wspierać.

Problemem jest to, że w obecnym stanie nikt nie ma ochoty jej wspierać ;]

schizanon, to citiesskylines
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thevglibrary, to citiesskylines
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Finland's amazing success story as a small nation of great game studios and talent hasn't gone unnoticed.

#AngryBirds, #CitiesSkylines #AlanWake

This book interviews 11 award-winning Finnish Gamedevs about their design philosophy, tips, and more!

👉 https://www.thevideogamelibrary.org/book/game-designer-confessions-insights-from-finland-s-top-game-designers

#RemedyEntertainment #Remedy #AlanWake2 #AlanWakeII #Control #CitiesSkylines2 #VideoGame #VideoGames #Gamer #Gaming #Games #Game #Book #Books #bookstodon @bookstodon #MaxPayne #QuantumBreak #Housemarque #Returnal #Resogun

schizanon, to citiesskylines
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My city of West Mansfield is going well;

#citiesSkylines #citiesSkylines2 #videoGames

a massive metropolis

bouncing,
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@schizanon Something that kind of bugs me about CS1/2 is that there’s no way a city of 100k has a bunch of skyscrapers. But it’s also pretty much impossible to have a city of a 1 million or more.

schizanon,
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@bouncing yeah, there's WAY more than 120k people walking around in the sidewalks too

schizanon, to citiesskylines
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A herd of MOOSE just walking through my city 🤯

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bobdendry, to Youtube
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We're back with a new episode of . Today we continue expanding our high density downtown area, incorporate a wooded CBD park area, and face off with disaster as a bush fire burns through suburban Azure Delta! https://youtu.be/Kxdb54IXw9E

schizanon, to citiesskylines
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Honestly, I pirated #CitiesSkylines2 and I feel a little ripped off.

It's just mostly just #CitiesSkylines with more realistic cars and human shaders.

There are a few QoL improvements that probably make it worth a buy; like being able to buy smaller squares of land, or how water pipes run under streets now.

#gaming #videoGames

schizanon,
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Air Pollution is a bigger deal in ; having your major residential area downwind from the now larger garbage dumps sucks.

Some maps set you up for this; Tampere for example puts the start of the map downwind of the first area you'd want to expand into.

San Francisco is ideal, the wind prevails east, so it blows your pollution off into the bay!

schizanon,
@schizanon@mas.to avatar

What are there all these doggos at the Bus Terminal just waiting around for?

schizanon, to citiesskylines
@schizanon@mas.to avatar

Well I finally got bored enough to do it; I'm playing #CitiesSkylines2!

Give me your tips for my first new city!

#citiesSkylines #buildingGame #videoGames #gaming #cityBuilder

schizanon, (edited )
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In general my goal is always to max out the population until it brings the simulation to a crawl.

In that's hard to do because it actually limits you to a certain number of citizen simulations internally. The population can keep going up but the internal representation stays the same.

I wonder how that works in

bobdendry, to fediverse
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Are there four of you out there in the that are generous enough to help a hobbyist hit that magical 1000 subscriber? If so I'd really appreciate a sub. Happy to swap subs as well if you're in need of some.

https://youtube.com/

bobdendry, to Youtube
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Heya everyone! Hope the start to your week has been good. Today I'm back with a new video. Today the name of the game is reducing weak points in our infrastructure by adding redundancy to key connections and choke points. Hope you enjoy https://youtu.be/PwIplwJafGc

bobdendry, to Youtube
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Last time I post this because we're oh so close - less than 10 subscribers left until I hit the magical 1,000 subscribers mark over on !

I'm currently playing , and will be starting a series over the weekend.

The Remasters are pretty important to me - the original TR game was the first game I got on my PS1 way back in the day - it was also the first game I played on my channel when I first started it!

WhyNotZoidberg, to gaming
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A wave of BIG Cities Skylines creators on YouTube are coming out with videos criticizing Cities 2 and the devs decisions.

I find it tragically ironic that Colossal Order is in exactly the same place PR wise as EA / Maxis was a few months after the ill-fated reboot of Sim City that laid the ground work for their own success. and doing a lot of the same mistakes like taxes being irrelevant for example.

Example video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyPwbOEG0Lc

nickycolman, to random
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Today is my birthday.

I have the day off so I’m gonna spend the entire day playing on ☺️

tldr,

@nickycolman Happy birthday!!

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