Cities Skylines II is an absolutely beautiful game
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I've been playing a ton of Cities Skylines II since its release a week ago. After building a 230k population archipelago I started playing around with the in game cinematic video tools and this is the result.
This is 100% in game footage and effects using the Photo Mode. Recorded using the Microsoft/Xbox Game Bar, only editing was to trim the start and end.
I'll wait until they hammer out the graphics and performance issues. The original ran great on mediocre hardware, but this one won't get above 15fps on the Deck right now.
The original didn't run fine on my then low-mid range desktop when it came out. It's heavily CPU-bound and I specifically upgraded to an i7 4790K at the time because even in a mid-sized city, the simulation would slow to realtime.
It runs alright on today's mediocre hardware, but that's amazing hardware by 2014-2015ish standards.
Well, depends on the other factors at play, but I had the original running on a low-end Athlon, and a GeForce 870m with only 2GB vram at the time on an old school HDD and it was stellar.
This was why I favoured console gaming over PC. Having a standardised hardware always meant you don't have the heart ache of a game not performing well. With the introduction of the Steam Deck hopefully that will become the new baseline for future games.
Tell that to Switch owners
Can't be disappointed by gameplay if you can't play the game!
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Somebody didn't play Cyberpunk on a console at launch....
Ah yes, we all know that performance problems on consoles are unheard of. And CS2 runs really badly even on some of the most popular and powerful hardware, so that argument makes no sense here.
Misread of the century
Thank you for paying money to drag everyone down :)
This is the catch 22 of PC gaming. On the one hand you've got people complaining that the latest games require high end hardware to run on release day - and simultaneously at the other end of the spectrum people are complaining that supporting low end hardware is dragging a game down?!
I’m just amazed at the level of detail and complexity of the game logic. Can’t wait for graphics to be at a place where you can build your city and then walk through it in highly-realistic VR, interact with civilians, and explore
I remember you could walk around your park in the old roller coaster tycoon, and ride the rides. would be cool to add VR to that
City skylines vr allows you to do exactly that
I'd actual prefer they avoided going for photo realism, it always tends to fall short. The art style they've developed works really well - realistic detail and form but with a plastic sheen and strongly saturated colours.
I agree completely. Another poster said the water looks fake, big waves. I've thought, the game is supposed to look miniature.
This seems like an idea that is about 25 years away but someone probably gonna do it in 5 or 6
Enscape provide real-time photorealistic VR rendering for architectural software ( https://enscape3d.com/features/architectural-virtual-reality/) so with some conversion of the geometry from unity the only missing link is interactivity.
It's a good game that was pushed out far too early by suits. There's a lot of room for basic optimization to be done for one and it should never have been released without it.
You just described Paradox's last 5 releases
Age of Wonders 4 earlier this year was fine afaik.
Does anyone else think the water just looks... Strange? I think their wave texture is just too large? Needs to be more smaller waves.
I've thought it makes the city and people feel more miniature.
Anti-aliasing? Pop-in on textures and geometry? Shadows? Looked like some z-fighting there too.
There was a nice-looking model train, though.
This has been rendered in real time in a game engine. I find it quite impressive how good it works and how versatile the tooling to create such animations is.
I've got pretty low standards when it comes to graphics. The first game had AA issues too, but generally looked much cleaner and more polished.
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but yeah, I quite like it
It's going to be amazing, once they fix the bugs and performance. Right now it's a full price early access. Almost every system of the game has at least one bug. A lot of the simulation currently is working with fall back scripts. I really really want to recommend the game, because it's fun, but it's also rushed out the gate.
Full price? I've had over a week of gameplay for just a £1 Game Pass trial. Usually I tire of games after just 3 days or 30 hours or so for me and I'm sure many other casual gamers it's great value.
I'm on my second city after learning a lot about how the game works. I haven't played a simcity type game in ages and this one is very intuitive. I play 4k on a 4080 on medium settings and it only stumbles here and there. Trying to figure out budget now, I'm always running a deficit and relying on the money from leveling.
I've never understood 4k. Surely it's better to play high settings on a QHD screen than medium on 4k?
It looks grainy at lower res on my 4k
It’s not
I can’t wait for them to fix the performance issues. If it was great on release I wouldn’t have picked up Anno 1880 for $13 and developed a horrible addiction.
I wanted to like that game so badly but CS1 feels so much better imo.