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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.

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

City skylines vr allows you to do exactly that

[–] StudioLE 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I agree completely. Another poster said the water looks fake, big waves. I've thought, the game is supposed to look miniature.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This seems like an idea that is about 25 years away but someone probably gonna do it in 5 or 6

[–] StudioLE 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

You just described Paradox's last 5 releases

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

The game looks really nice, but knowing Paradox’s DLC policy, I am not sure if I can afford this game over the next five years. Release incomplete game, release DLCs for missing base features... the Paradox way. Bleugh.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Age of Wonders 4 earlier this year was fine afaik.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does anyone else think the water just looks... Strange? I think their wave texture is just too large? Needs to be more smaller waves.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I've thought it makes the city and people feel more miniature.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Anti-aliasing? Pop-in on textures and geometry? Shadows? Looked like some z-fighting there too.

There was a nice-looking model train, though.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

slideshow*

but yeah, I quite like it

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] StudioLE -1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I've never understood 4k. Surely it's better to play high settings on a QHD screen than medium on 4k?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

It looks grainy at lower res on my 4k

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I wanted to like that game so badly but CS1 feels so much better imo.