Cities: Skylines 2 builders are rolling out a patch to handle the problems that arose after the sport’s launch. Yesterday, on Oct. 25, Colossal Order devs posted their goals and plans for Cities 2‘s extreme efficiency issues. Right this moment’s patch tweaks the precise settings labeled as troublesome of their assertion.
The Cities 2 builders posted as we speak, Oct. 26, on their standard platform, the Paradox Interactive discussion board, asserting the primary in a collection of patches geared toward poor efficiency. Although this doesn’t deal with all the present points and bugs, CO says it wished to push this replace out as quickly as attainable to doubtlessly enhance the sport’s construct.
In keeping with Colossal Order, the patch will solely be out there for Steam customers, with a counterpart coming to the Microsoft Retailer model at a later level. The fixes launched within the patch concentrate on main points, similar to crashing and stuttering, however will even tweak troublesome settings, such because the depth of area, LOD, and world illumination. The patch addresses the next:
- Modified LOD to be unbiased of rendering decision to get extra constant efficiency with excessive resolutions
- Minor optimization with fog
- Depth of area optimizations and tweaks
- International illumination tweaks
- Optimized stutters when buildings spawn/stage up
- Optimized numerous stutters throughout all methods
- Mounted crash after upgrading wind turbine
- Mounted crash when automobile crashes into nonetheless hidden automobile with trailer
- Mounted crash with mesh loading (that occurs with low settings largely)
If gamers encounter any points throughout gameplay, CO advises them to go to the next link and report their findings.
Cities: Skylines 2 was launched on Oct. 24 and confronted a massive review bombing spree attributable to the sport’s instability and abysmal efficiency. Gamers on Steam, even these with state-of-the-art gaming {hardware}, complained that Cities was extra a PowerPoint presentation than an precise sport. FPS within the single digits, fixed stuttering, and a sea of bugs had been reported throughout the board. This triggered the sport’s Metacritic rating to tank, and it’s now lagging severely behind its predecessor.
The sport itself is being universally praised when it comes to content material and gameplay, however its stability and efficiency points proceed holding it down. Right this moment’s patch is undoubtedly a step in the appropriate course, and seeing how quickly it’s come, we’re more likely to see much more within the following weeks.
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