Recent reviews by Tuxenus

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Cities: Skylines 2 presents an engaging city-building experience until it's plagued by an onslaught of debilitating bugs, which gives the impression that the developers skipped critical quality control measures altogether. Glaring issues, such as malfunctioning garbage processing leading to bizarre instances of garbage cloning, illogical air pollution representation through the heat map, non-logical demand for build zones, non-functional cargo trains disrupting the city's economy, post sorting office not working and an inexplicably unintelligent AI causing absurd traffic jams, economic panel showing nonsense, i could go on and on. It all underscore the lack of basic gameplay testing. Astonishingly, many of these bugs could have been easily identified within the first 20 hours of gameplay, raising questions about the developers' commitment to ensuring a polished gaming experience. Furthermore, even on high-end machines, the game struggles to maintain a stable frame rate, further exacerbating the disappointment. These persistent bugs and performance concerns significantly disrupt the gameplay, leaving players frustrated and disheartened. Not really counting that there is less content than in the first game, obviously. In light of these issues, I strongly advise against purchasing the game in its current state and urge others to wait until the game is thoroughly fixed and optimized to avoid similar frustration.

TLDR: Yet another half-baked product.

Pretty damn awesome

Great relaxing adventure game. A bit overpriced for what it has to offer so i recommend to wait for a sale.

Good game but...
I bought it for the multiplayer.
Multiplayer is unplayable.
My disappointment is immeasurable.

Disclaimer: These are my thoughts after almost 100 hours of playing. This experience is purely multiplayer because I never play alone these types of games.
I'm not not telling you what to do nor imposing you my opinion.



To start, I've never played more broken game in my entire life (apart from fallout 76 but that's a different story) and I have hundreds of them in my library. It's kinda sad when you buy €78 game (the more expensive edition) and you get this mess. Although I really like FS22 there are issues that are stealing the joy out of it and discouraging me to play this game.



The netcode:

- A minor thing but why does the game pause when somebody is joining and freezes for a bit when someone is leaving. A lot older games can do it without a lag, why this one can't?

-I don't know if it's a netcode thing but a pallet limit? Really?

Especially when the game urges you to manage such enormous amount pallets (if you do it all manually as you should when you want to make the best profit).

- Again I dunno if it's a netcode thing or engine issue... What the hell is happening with ingame physics?

Pallets are so broken that there is a huge possibility that at least one will send you to space when you move them everyday. No matter the vehicle, no matter the type of goods, no matter anything, it just happens and I have a full folder of clips to proof that.


The settings:

-Why do I always need to go into menu to change the smallest thing of my graphic settings?

- Correct me if I'm an idiot and didn't find the fps limiter but in order to unlock FPS I had to turn on the console window.


The bugs:

A buggy mess this game is. I'm a fortunate person to find most of the bugs in most games. As a result these are the most annoying:

- Pallets, pallets, pallets. The pallet god will always mess with you because he can. As a result you or the pallet will end up in space.

- Some cultivators not folding correctly.

- Cotton bale front loader not working.

- You can enter every building when you park your vehicle near them and get out of it.

- Neighbor AI not working when sleeping instead of accelerating the time. So every field that's not yours will be left withered.

- Terrain adjustment isn't working as you would need especially when you're placing a building on uneven terrain.

- And some more that you can find on this sub that I haven't described.

- Graphical glithes


Something about ingame mechanics:

- There should be an option for production buildings to stop dropping pallets, especially when it's capped.
Animal buildings have no direct storage so they are dropping pallets directly and are not working when the assigned place for it is full.

- Steering wheel is bad because there is no force feedback only a central spring. Ughh...

- Horse riding...look I'm not expecting Red dead redemption experience but as it is now, it's terrible. Very user unfriendly.



While all of those separate things might seem minor things to you as a whole they are not.
No matter all the cool vehicles, tools and functions that are present, the technical state of this game is a disaster.

You can say I'm whining, too harsh, it's okay but all those things are true and if the devs won't fix it it will end badly.

And the last thing I wanted to say is that moders shouldn't be the one fixing games. I agree if it's temporarily but not as a permanent solution, fix it or pay moders for it I don't care. And if you think it's okay you're allowing devs to be lazy and do ♥♥♥♥ about that.

All these things considered, this doesn't really look like a finished product, especially not in this price category, more like beta.

If devs can't do anything about it, they should probably fire some people and change the game engine as it is not up to todays standard at this state.

Looks good but please add at least all the vehicles from red dragon.

I like showering enemies with pepper spray.

The best and the worst game i have ever played.

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