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I've been playing a ton of Cities Skylines II since its release a week ago. After building a 230k population archipelago I started playing around with the in game cinematic video tools and this is the result.

This is 100% in game footage and effects using the Photo Mode. Recorded using the Microsoft/Xbox Game Bar, only editing was to trim the start and end.

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[-] just_another_person@lemmy.world 55 points 2 years ago

I'll wait until they hammer out the graphics and performance issues. The original ran great on mediocre hardware, but this one won't get above 15fps on the Deck right now.

[-] azertyfun@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 years ago

The original didn't run fine on my then low-mid range desktop when it came out. It's heavily CPU-bound and I specifically upgraded to an i7 4790K at the time because even in a mid-sized city, the simulation would slow to realtime.

It runs alright on today's mediocre hardware, but that's amazing hardware by 2014-2015ish standards.

[-] just_another_person@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Well, depends on the other factors at play, but I had the original running on a low-end Athlon, and a GeForce 870m with only 2GB vram at the time on an old school HDD and it was stellar.

[-] shootwhatsmyname@lemm.ee 39 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I’m just amazed at the level of detail and complexity of the game logic. Can’t wait for graphics to be at a place where you can build your city and then walk through it in highly-realistic VR, interact with civilians, and explore

[-] Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I remember you could walk around your park in the old roller coaster tycoon, and ride the rides. would be cool to add VR to that

[-] Bonsai53@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

City skylines vr allows you to do exactly that

[-] StudioLE@programming.dev 16 points 2 years ago

I'd actual prefer they avoided going for photo realism, it always tends to fall short. The art style they've developed works really well - realistic detail and form but with a plastic sheen and strongly saturated colours.

[-] JustZ@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I agree completely. Another poster said the water looks fake, big waves. I've thought, the game is supposed to look miniature.

[-] p5f20w18k@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

This seems like an idea that is about 25 years away but someone probably gonna do it in 5 or 6

[-] StudioLE@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Enscape provide real-time photorealistic VR rendering for architectural software ( https://enscape3d.com/features/architectural-virtual-reality/) so with some conversion of the geometry from unity the only missing link is interactivity.

[-] Kushia@lemmy.ml 34 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It's a good game that was pushed out far too early by suits. There's a lot of room for basic optimization to be done for one and it should never have been released without it.

[-] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 24 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

You just described Paradox's last 5 releases

[-] kby@feddit.de 8 points 2 years ago

The game looks really nice, but knowing Paradox’s DLC policy, I am not sure if I can afford this game over the next five years. Release incomplete game, release DLCs for missing base features... the Paradox way. Bleugh.

[-] shrugal@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

Age of Wonders 4 earlier this year was fine afaik.

[-] Nighed@sffa.community 16 points 2 years ago

Does anyone else think the water just looks... Strange? I think their wave texture is just too large? Needs to be more smaller waves.

[-] JustZ@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I've thought it makes the city and people feel more miniature.

[-] Icaria@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago

Anti-aliasing? Pop-in on textures and geometry? Shadows? Looked like some z-fighting there too.

There was a nice-looking model train, though.

[-] EarMaster@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

This has been rendered in real time in a game engine. I find it quite impressive how good it works and how versatile the tooling to create such animations is.

[-] Icaria@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I've got pretty low standards when it comes to graphics. The first game had AA issues too, but generally looked much cleaner and more polished.

[-] Send_me_nude_girls@feddit.de 9 points 2 years ago

It's going to be amazing, once they fix the bugs and performance. Right now it's a full price early access. Almost every system of the game has at least one bug. A lot of the simulation currently is working with fall back scripts. I really really want to recommend the game, because it's fun, but it's also rushed out the gate.

[-] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

slideshow*

but yeah, I quite like it

[-] netburnr@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

I'm on my second city after learning a lot about how the game works. I haven't played a simcity type game in ages and this one is very intuitive. I play 4k on a 4080 on medium settings and it only stumbles here and there. Trying to figure out budget now, I'm always running a deficit and relying on the money from leveling.

[-] StudioLE@programming.dev -1 points 2 years ago

I've never understood 4k. Surely it's better to play high settings on a QHD screen than medium on 4k?

[-] JimmyMcGill@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago
[-] netburnr@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

It looks grainy at lower res on my 4k

[-] Spacecraft@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

I can’t wait for them to fix the performance issues. If it was great on release I wouldn’t have picked up Anno 1880 for $13 and developed a horrible addiction.

[-] Jumi@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I wanted to like that game so badly but CS1 feels so much better imo.

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