Cities: Skylines 2 hotfix brings first performance improvements

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provides a considerable amount of tools that enable players to build and create unique cities or attempt to recreate places from the real world in the game that can be intricately detailed. The city-planning game is intricately crafted to provide beautiful graphics and an AI for things like traffic patterns and even individual sims walking around the world, giving it a sense of realism. The large skyscrapers, unique special buildings, and the Developer Mode tools give users the ability to be as artistic as they want, or simply play the game and let the city build itself as it will.

Today, Ascendant Studios released a small Immortals of Aveum patch (version 1.0.5.5) that adds a few performance improvements across all platforms. Here's the changelog:

has proven essentially unplayable for many people, and a potential reason for the situation is strangely granular and more than a little bit silly. As a follow-up to the hugely successful city building simulator, the newest game from developer Colossal Order Ltd. had some major shoes to fill. It's possible that the game will be able to live up to its predecessor, but it's difficult to have a conversation about features and improvements when performance is getting in the way of doing much of anything.

Cities: Skylines 2 has got off to a bit of a rough, with many players complaining of performance issues following this week's launch on PC. But while publisher Paradox has been forthright in acknowledging these problems (even prior to launch, somewhat unconventionally), it now wants to make it absolutely clear that, no, technical issues aren't because the game is trying to render the teeth of every single person in your city.

You can now download Cities: Skylines 2's first patch on Steam, fixing various problems with the city-building game while also addressing concerns about the title's performance. 

Every road network I ever constructed in Cities: Skylines had deep-rooted performance issues I'd then spend dozens more happy hours trying to unravel. I hope Colossal Order are having a similarly fun time trying to fix the performance issues present in Cities: Skylines 2, which launched earlier this week. The first patch is out now and it includes optimisations for rendering, fog, depth-of-field and more designed to make the citybuilder's framerates less gridlocked.

The first Cities: Skylines 2 patch is now out on Steam, and while developer Colossal Order says it's not going to fix all the issues in the new city building sim, it's a start.

Colossal Order has released their first post-launch update for Cities: Skylines 2, a small hotfix patch that is designed to target a few small game crash bugs, and implement the first few performance optimisations. Cities: Skylines 2 patch 1.0.11f1 is out now on Steam, and coming “as soon as possible” to the Microsoft Store.

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