Summary
Paradox Interactive has issued a new timeline for all the updates coming toCities: Skylines 2. Fans of the city building simulator will be glad of the new features coming toCities: Skylines 2, although further delays might result in these changes arriving later than expected.
Cities: Skylines 2has had a troubled development since it was released in October 2023. Many gamers found Colossal Order’s city management sequel to be plagued with bugs and technical issues.The lack of mod support at launch was a further source of discontent, as was the recent Beach Properties DLC. Many players found the paid DLC’s content to be lacking, especially when many of the game’s existing issues had still not been fixed. To the publisher’s credit,Paradox Interactive has issued refundsto everyone who purchased the Beach Properties DLC and instead offered it as a free download.
Despite the game’s turbulent launch, Paradox and Colossal Order seem committed to improvingCities: Skylines 2. The publisher has just issued a newstatementdetailing the game’s upcoming patches and content. Featuring an overhaul ofCities: Skylines 2’s economic mechanics, the next major update is scheduled for release sometime between June 3 and June 19. With this rework of one of the game’s fundamental systems, Paradox hopes to “increase the importance of managing the economy, increase the challenge, and make it clearer to the player how the economy is affected by your choices.” The update will also feature some other requested improvements to the building upgrade system.
Cities: Skylines 2 Update Roadmap
Following the economy update, the developers are working on subsequent patches to add more free content to the game, such as new service buildings and vehicles. Other upcoming features include a “surface tool to allow more freedom to paint the areas around buildings,” new Creator Packs, andan asset editor which will be invaluable to modders inCities: Skylines 2. However, these later updates have been postponed until after summer. While some gamers have praised the publisher’s transparency over these updated timeframes, others are disappointed at having to face yet more delays.
Fixing these crashes and improving the FPS is the highest priority when it comes to the console builds.
Paradox is also working on updates to addressCities: Skylines 2’s performance issues on consoles. Despite being originally set for a day-one launch on Xbox Game Pass and PS5,Cities: Skylines 2’s console release has been postponed multiple timesdue to optimization and performance issues. Paradox says that “fixing these crashes and improving the FPS is the highest priority when it comes to the console builds.” The console launch is currently scheduled for October 2024, although the publisher confesses that “the window for an October release is shrinking and it might have to be delayed further.” Despite these potential further delays, Paradox and Colossal Order seem invested in achieving the game’s potential, so hopefully players can hope for a more polished experience whenCities: Skylines 2finally releases on consoles.
Cities: Skylines 2
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