Cities:Skylines

[Syt]

So, quick feedback.

In 2160p the menu is sluggish for me. On high settings the game interface becomes stuttery, and while on medium performance is tolerable (at least when starting a new city), the pop in when zooming in/out is quite notable.

in 1080p on high it's running fairly fluid for me, but obviously things look a bit blurry/murky on my 32" 4k screen (first world problems). Might change when city grows larger.

Takes some getting used to that I have to connect pipes to roads, not buildings. "Why can't I connect sewage to the sewage pump???" .... "Oh." Public buildings are huge. My 65 person village unlocked the cemetery. Which is about half the size of my settlement. And has room for 5000 "residents."

This is on an i9-10900X CPU @3.7 GHz, 32 GB RAM, RTX 3080 gfx card.

I feel my eyes hurt a bit now, though.

[Syt]

I will say C:S2's performance is better than C:S1's in one respect - I re-installed C:S1, just vanilla (but with all DLC content) on the weekend and noticed that the in game radio would stutter every few seconds. It was incredibly annoying. C:S2 doesn't seem to suffer from that issue for me.

[Zanza]

This will not run on my machine, so I guess I will wait until I either get a stronger rig or they bump performance a lot.

[garbon]

Just saw someone post this on p'dox forum.

I saw a restaurant in my city. I zoomed in and was reading the menu on the window with my 1070 ti. Most of my three hours with the game so far has just been looking at all of these new assets. They are quite detailed imo.

Is that true? Feels like and odd choice given that even their life simulator (Life By You) doesn't appear to be going for that level of detail.

[Josquius]

I so hate the thought of updating my computer, though realistically my processor and motherboard are approaching a decade now.
It just feels so wasteful.
But...I'll want to play this someday.

[jimmy olsen]

Just saw someone post this on p'dox forum.

I saw a restaurant in my city. I zoomed in and was reading the menu on the window with my 1070 ti. Most of my three hours with the game so far has just been looking at all of these new assets. They are quite detailed imo.

Is that true? Feels like and odd choice given that even their life simulator (Life By You) doesn't appear to be going for that level of detail.

https://twitter.com/tombomp/status/1717641500891238536?t=soWZNsAilED0upnRlDw_xg&s=19

apparently one of cities skylines 2's many performance issues is that it uses high poly models for each of the thousands of people walking around your city. including their individual teeth

[Crazy_Ivan80]

Seems like a case of too much detail. It's not dwarffortress

[Solmyr]

And somehow, those people still look terrible up close.

[Solmyr]

So apparently the simulation part is... not actually entirely there: https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/im-export-bug-hints-symptoms-and-causes-all-resource-management-in-the-game-is-a-deception.1604434/

[garbon]

Dev update was um yeah this is one of our many bugs and here are a few things we looked at but need to look at it more.

[FunkMonk]

Sounds like a great game that was certainly ready to have a public release

[HVC]

Sounds like a great game that was certainly ready to have a public release

Paradox would never do something like that.

[Jacob]

Game dev is such fun 

[Syt]

Game dev is such fun 

Sitting on the other side of the equation for the past few years, having to manage user expectations, struggling against deadlines, wrangling external teams to deliver something that fits our requirements, and seeing all the things that could be improved in the product if only you had the time in money, I have become a lot more sympathetic to the developers/producers point of view.

[Sheilbh]

Sitting on the other side of the equation for the past few years, having to manage user expectations, struggling against deadlines, wrangling external teams to deliver something that fits our requirements, and seeing all the things that could be improved in the product if only you had the time in money, I have become a lot more sympathetic to the developers/producers point of view.

I had a hospital check-up last week and I'd had an email about some new data system the hospital have got. I dutifully filled in my details.

But then most of the check-up was spent with the consultant doing data entry and moaning heavily about the system

I am sure in the long run it will be very good and a lot better than the ancient looking system they used to use but... yeah.