Cities: Skylines 2 launched in a lower than very best state, and a lot of the speak across the recreation has centred round how Colossal Order intends to repair varied points with the sport’s efficiency. Now, the studio has resumed its weekly “CO Phrase of the Week” function—final sighted in 2018—to maintain gamers up to date on its progress. Particularly, a minimum of for the primary publish, its progress on rubbish patches and roaming gangs of stray canines. What is going on on over there, you guys?
Written by Colossal Order CEO Mariina Hallikainen, at present’s Phrase of the Week focuses on the sport’s launch, which “was overshadowed by technical points which prompted disappointment, and rightfully so.”
These points—which had been unhealthy sufficient for the devs to warn gamers about earlier than launch—manifest within the type of “random FPS dips, slowdowns and hitches, together with visible points like irritating shadow-flickering on sure buildings,” per Chris Livingston’s Cities: Skylines 2 evaluate right here on PCG, and that is with a beefy 40-series RTX graphics card.
Hallikainen says the devs are engaged on it, and says they’re investigating “how we will pace up the patching course of so we do not have gamers ready for these vital fixes longer than crucial.” The CEO continues to say that, though the primary patch for the sport included some tweaks to LOD ranges, the crew remains to be engaged on it and that “discovering optimum LOD ranges is a balancing act between visible constancy and efficiency,” and that extra fixes would come quickly, “together with the characters and their tooth!”
So it appears like there’s nonetheless some technique to go earlier than Cities: Skylines 2 performs prefer it must have carried out on launch, and that work needs to be carried out along with the same old fixes and tweaks to the precise gameplay. That is, if you happen to ask me, essentially the most tantalising a part of the entire publish. Not solely is Colossal Order engaged on fixes for UI bugs and the economic system, but it surely’s investigating a bug that is inflicting residents to “[abandon] their canines leading to an enormous canine pack simply stranded within the metropolis.”
I am no well-known recreation designer, but it surely strikes me that the true repair for that concern is to lean into it. Let me flip my metropolis into some form of post-apocalyptic wasteland dominated by roving packs of feral canines, like Denver in Fallout.
Alas, nobody listens to my glorious concepts about these items. Nonetheless, Colossal Order is clearly very eager to reassure gamers that CS2 will, someday, be in a state match for enjoying, which actually raises the query as to why it could not be delayed earlier than launch. The reply is, most definitely, some boring monetary factor to do with Paradox stockholders, which is a disgrace for the devs who labored on the sport and the gamers who purchased it.