Cities Skylines ll

25/10/2023

I have played Cities Skylines ll now for a few hours and the graphics are a big problem for many users of the game. You have properly seen my computer on the home page or system steep page and will see straight away it’s not a cheap computer. It’s an expensive high-end computer and Cities Skylines ll performed badly in the high graphics settings. I could not believe what was happening to the game. The textures started going crazy like snow was on the vehicles and the trees had square leaves. I thought what going on it’s not a flight simulator that requires a lot of graphics memory. I had a 325 population and not much on the map and it was like what going on? So I had a look at the graphics setting and experimented with different settings on the advanced mode and it did nothing only made things worse. In the end, I set the graphics to medium and that solved the problem then it started again. I rebooted my computer and started the game and that helped. I think think Paradox should have spent more time tweaking the game for performance. It’s also missing a few functions like undo on the land editing feature so when you make a mistake you cannot undo it and that can be a pain in the neck. It missing the main editing feature but they will arrive later this or next month. There is no Workshop because they have abandoned that and are going to use their platform which will be much better. The game itself is enjoyable and challenging if you do not have unlimited money or unlock all milestones switched on. It’s best to have those on if you are a beginner or experimenting and learning all the functions of the game then when you feel happy enough you can start a new map with them switched off. Would I recommend the game to anyone?  I will say yes with caution because if you have a very low-end computer you might have a lot of problems with the graphics.  I will give the game three stars for now and in a few months I will update this review.