Cities: Skylines 2 launched in a lower than ultimate state, and many of the speak across the sport 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, no less than for the primary put up, its progress on rubbish patches and roaming gangs of stray canine. What is going on on over there, you guys?
Written by Colossal Order CEO Mariina Hallikainen, as we speak’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 have been dangerous 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 evaluation 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 are able to velocity up the patching course of so we do not have gamers ready for these essential fixes longer than needed.” The CEO continues to say that, though the primary patch for the sport included some tweaks to LOD ranges, the workforce continues 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 solution to go earlier than Cities: Skylines 2 performs prefer it must have performed on launch, and that work needs to be performed along with the standard fixes and tweaks to the precise gameplay. That is, if you happen to ask me, probably the most tantalising a part of the entire put up. Not solely is Colossal Order engaged on fixes for UI bugs and the financial system, however it’s investigating a bug that is inflicting residents to “[abandon] their canine leading to an enormous canine pack simply stranded within the metropolis.”
I am no well-known sport designer, however it strikes me that the true repair for that situation is to lean into it. Let me flip my metropolis into some sort of post-apocalyptic wasteland dominated by roving packs of feral canine, 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, sooner or later, be in a state match for taking part in, which actually raises the query as to why it could not be delayed earlier than launch. The reply is, most probably, some uninteresting 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.
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