Cities Skylines 2 has performance problems and missing content, 76 on meta

[Legend]

Cities: Skylines II - Metacritic

[the-pi-guy]

Jeez these pre-release benchmarks are bad.

Cities Skylines 2: GPU-Benchmarks und CPU-Leistung


An RTX 4090 at 1080p with very low settings is averaging 72 fps.

 Hopefully the launch game is better...

[Legend]

Cities Skylines 2 is on course to be the biggest disappointment in gaming this year. I have played hundreds of hours and this is my review of the current state of the game and what's gone wrong.

CS1 is the greatest city builder ever created and it took the world by storm.

— The Spiffing Brit ???? ?? Gamescom (@TheSpiffingBrit) October 20, 2023

In its current state only 7% of steam users meet the minimum requirements to run this game! Running this game is also capped at 30 FPS. The game will fluctuate wildly and you must run in low settings. Meanwhile your GPU will be setting itself on fire at 90% usage regardless.

— The Spiffing Brit ???? ?? Gamescom (@TheSpiffingBrit) October 20, 2023

This causes the issue of content to be more apparent because the argument becomes "Why should I play CS2 rather than the original I already own?".

There is NO reason you should not currently play the original over this game. The new features that make CS2 worth it can't be

— The Spiffing Brit ???? ?? Gamescom (@TheSpiffingBrit) October 20, 2023

CS2 might be the best city builder in the world. But it needs at least 6 months of more optimisation and improvement to release in a state that makes it worthy of succeeding CS1.
This isn't an improvement like CK2 to CK3. Paradox can do sequels but this ain't it. ????

— The Spiffing Brit ???? ?? Gamescom (@TheSpiffingBrit) October 20, 2023

That said there are some positives I also want to finish with.
The game is super fun to play provided you have a £4000 pc
The scale is massive and brilliant
The new mechanics are awesome and really well designed
The Devs clearly love the game and have worked super hard!

— The Spiffing Brit ???? ?? Gamescom (@TheSpiffingBrit) October 20, 2023

[Legend]

Now we just need to repeat the cycle and have a good game come in and dethrone SimCityCities Skylines.

Also funny that this and KSP2 ended up in such similar boats. At least Cities Skylines 2 will probably recover. KSP2 is dead with way fewer players than the first https://steamcharts.com/cmp/954850,220200#1m

[Legend]

It's launch day my dudes.