Cities: Skylines 2 News, Tips, Tricks & Ideas

Alongside offering a lengthy apology for the state of Cities: Skylines 2 as well as its recently-released Beach Properties DLC, CEO of developer Colossal Order, Mariina Hallikainen, and Paradox Interactive deputy CEO Mattias Lilja, have revealed that the console release of the city builder is being pushed back.

Less than a month after having released the Beach Properties DLC for Cities: Skylines 2, Colossal Order CEO Mariina Hallikainen and Paradox Interactive deputy CEO Mattias Lilja have taken to the game’s forums to offer an apology for the state of the game, as well as for the poor state of the DLC. The DLC, which at the time of writing currently sits with aggregated Steam user reviews of Overwhelmingly Negative, with only 4 percent of reviews being positive, is being turned into a free DLC and those who purchased it are being refunded.

Cities: Skylines 2 developer Colossal Order has posted a clear apology over the current state of the game and is issuing refunds for the recently released Beach Properties DLC, which went down like a lead balloon with the community. The console release of the game has been further delayed as a consequence of a renewed focus on improving the base game on PC.

The launch of the new Beach Properties DLC for Cities: Skylines 2 has sparked a significant wave of discontent within its player community. Despite eager anticipation for fresh content, many gamers are left disheartened as they delve into the first DLC for Cities: Skylines 2.

Developer Colossal Order has released a the first post-launch asset pack for Cities: Skylines 2 titled Beach Properties. The asset pack is available on all platforms, and is priced at $9.99. The Beach Properties asset pack is also available as part of the Cities: Skylines 2 Waterfronts Expansion Pass, as well as the game’s Ultimate Edition release.

Cities: Skylines 2 is introducing modding support, its first-ever asset pack, and another DLC on March 25. The addition of mod tools is bound to ennoble the game's replayability, while also addressing some common complaints that the fandom has previously aimed at Cities: Skylines 2.

Cities: Skylines 2 developer Colossal Order has announced that they are delaying planned premium DLC while they continue to work on optimising and fixing their recently released city builder and management sim, as well as putting a priority on getting mod support added in.

Cities: Skylines 2 developer Colossal Order has announced that they are delaying planned premium DLC while they continue to work on optimising and fixing their recently released city builder and management sim, as well as putting a priority on getting mod support added in.

Developer Colossal Order has revealed its roadmap for post-launch content for Cities: Skylines 2, also announcing that it is delaying the game’s DLC to 2024. The release roadmap reveals that the first piece of DLC for the game, the Beach Properties Asset Pack, is planned for release in Q1 2024.

CEO of developer Colossal Order, Mariina Hallikainen, has revealed in a new blog post that the cadence for updates for Cities: Skylines 2 will be slowing down. As a result, new features for the game have been significantly delayed. This includes the mod creation tools for Cities: Skylines 2 that the studio is developing.

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.

Developer Colossal Order has revealed its plans for post-launch support of the recently-released city builder Cities: Skylines 2. In a post on the game’s official forums, community manager c_avanya kicked things off by talking about how the performance issues suffered by Cities: Skylines 2 are “not deeply rooted in the game’s foundation.”

Having been out on PC for a couple of days, Cities: Skylines 2 has been suffering from quite a few performance issues, which developer Colossal Order had warned about prior to the title’s release. In a recent Reddit AMA, the studio revealed that its performance target for the city-builder was a frame rate of 30FPS.

While it’s less common to see these days, there’s countless instances throughout history of people simply deciding to up sticks and not just move to another town or city, but actually go and found a brand new one. It might well be time to do exactly that for city builder fans, leaving of a game that’s eight years old, and jumping across to the shiny new development and greener pastures of Cities: Skylines 2. It’s a sequel that comes with a lot of mod cons built in from the start, but will old hands miss some of the creature comforts of DLC left behind?

Paradox has revealed that Cities: Skylines 2, while featuring support for mods, will not be making use of the Steam Workshop to distribute its mods. Instead, the studio is opting to use its own Paradox Mods platform, which is a cross-platform library.

Games launching with performance or technical issues has become quite a common thing now, unfortunately enough, but very rarely do we see a developer warning players ahead of a game’s release that it will have said issues.

Collosal Order delivered a fantastic city builder with Cities: Skylines and anticipation for the sequel is definitely high. In a recent interview with PCGamer, the developer has shed some more light on the development of the game and how the sequel has incorporated fan feedback.

Colossal Order and Paradox Interactive have delayed the console version of Cities: Skylines 2, pushing the PS5 and Xbox Series X|S release date back to Spring 2024. The PC version of the game is still expected to launch on 24th October 2023.

Cities: Skylines 2 is one of several major titles set to launch in October, though the city building simulator’s launch has been hit with a delay- partially at least. Though the game will still launch towards the end of the month on PC as planned, its console versions won’t be getting a simultaneous release, and will instead launch next year.

Colossal Order and Paradox Interactive have delayed the console version of Cities: Skylines 2, pushing the PS5 and Xbox Series X|S release date back to Spring 2024. The PC version of the game is still expected to launch on 24th October 2023.

In a new development diary, developer Paradox Interactive has revealed new details about the cinematic camera and photo mode in the upcoming city builder Cities: Skylines 2. Alongside details in the post itself, the studio has also released a new trailer showcasing the photo mode and cinematic camera.

When you think of city builders over the last decade, there’s only one name that still comes to mind: Cities: Skylines. The breakout success for Colossal Order and (at the time) the biggest game launch Paradox Interactive had ever seen, it’s effectively came to represent the entire genre, as other city builder franchises faded away. Having gone hands on with the game, Cities: Skylines 2 looks set to repeat the feat and cement itself at the top of the genre.