A brand new Cities: Skylines 2 dev diary is right here, shedding mild on how zoning instruments and choices will work within the hotly-anticipated upcoming city-builder. The trailer additionally reveals the brand new Signature Buildings characteristic, which ought to give your metropolis an much more iconic and distinctive look.
This new trailer is a part of an ongoing collection that has additionally featured deep dives into transportation, visitors, and street enhancements. After all, roads could be nothing with out buildings to go to, and that is the place zoning is available in. As Paradox’s new trailer says, zoning is how you will “create and sew…collectively” your metropolis.
As with Cities: Skylines, you will have entry to residential, industrial, and business zones, in addition to places of work. You possibly can both drag over an oblong space to zone it or zoom in and zone a neighborhood “cell by cell”. How your zones look might be dictated by the kind of map you select; you will both have a North American or European aesthetic, however it’s also possible to combine and match for added aptitude.
Beginning off with residential zoning, there at the moment are six sorts of zone. High and low-density housing return from Cities: Skylines, however you now even have entry to medium-density row housing, medium-density residence buildings, and low-rent housing, in addition to combined housing, through which residents can reside above retailers.
Industrial zones are, as you’d anticipate, the place residents will do their buying, however they’re going to additionally have interaction in leisure actions like dancing, watching films, and extra. Industrial zones, in the meantime, include warehouses and different buildings on which distribution networks rely, and workplace zones include, properly, places of work (each low and high-density variants).
Lastly, the brand new Cities: Skylines 2 trailer offers us a have a look at Signature Buildings, that are distinctive for every zone. You may unlock them as your metropolis grows, and so they convey distinctive advantages to your metropolis. They’re additionally free to construct, but it surely’s nonetheless vital to construct them in good locations so surrounding districts can reap the benefits of their bonuses.
Cities: Skylines 2 is scheduled to launch on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Collection X|S on October twenty fourth. You possibly can learn extra about zoning and Signature Buildings within the new trailer’s accompanying Steam deep dive.
