Colossal Order announced that it will no longer be working on Cities: Skylines 2. Iceflake Studios will handle its post-launch support and development.
I dont know why they chose to chase graphics, it wasnt important for the first game, it wasnt going to be important for the second. I suppose it could have been Paradox controlling decisions.
We just wanted more systems and simulations.
I hope that CO can move on and make some great games.
They didn’t chase graphics. Yeah the lighting system is better and the Civs having over 1000 polys is overkill for something you’re gonna focus on for 0.1% of playtime. CO failed by choosing an architecture that was not ready for production use. There was a few devlogs where they straight up said they were using pre-release versions of Unity that were half baked to develop CS2. They were testing some technology Unity was supposed to release in the future. Because of that they had to write a bunch of tools FOR UNITY themselves. In doing so they couldn’t get ahead of technical problems that kept popping up because it meant they had to fuck with Unity(the software and the company) more and more.
The biggest example of this is the asset importer. Why in a video game built with modding in mind does this game have not have an asset importer almost 3 years later? Why did it take 2 years to release a DLC that was supposed to be out in the first 6 months? Why did it take 2 years to “fix” the economy part of the sim? They’re never gonna fix the busted ass traffic. CO built this game on a half built foundation and they’ve been paying for it since day 1.
Fair enough. Seems like my hope for them is slim, I was expecting similar corporate practices anyway, but seems they have bigger problems with development decision making.
Yeah, the hope for this game died when they released that development documentary and the CEO of CO blamed Unity for causing all sorts of problems. It was an incredible act of transparency that ultimately sealed the fate of this game to never living up to the standards of the first. Citystate Metropolis is our next hope for the genre.
I dont know why they chose to chase graphics, it wasnt important for the first game, it wasnt going to be important for the second. I suppose it could have been Paradox controlling decisions.
We just wanted more systems and simulations.
I hope that CO can move on and make some great games.
They didn’t chase graphics. Yeah the lighting system is better and the Civs having over 1000 polys is overkill for something you’re gonna focus on for 0.1% of playtime. CO failed by choosing an architecture that was not ready for production use. There was a few devlogs where they straight up said they were using pre-release versions of Unity that were half baked to develop CS2. They were testing some technology Unity was supposed to release in the future. Because of that they had to write a bunch of tools FOR UNITY themselves. In doing so they couldn’t get ahead of technical problems that kept popping up because it meant they had to fuck with Unity(the software and the company) more and more.
The biggest example of this is the asset importer. Why in a video game built with modding in mind does this game have not have an asset importer almost 3 years later? Why did it take 2 years to release a DLC that was supposed to be out in the first 6 months? Why did it take 2 years to “fix” the economy part of the sim? They’re never gonna fix the busted ass traffic. CO built this game on a half built foundation and they’ve been paying for it since day 1.
Because they basically had to rewrite the entire game after Unity pulled the rug out from underneath them.
Fair enough. Seems like my hope for them is slim, I was expecting similar corporate practices anyway, but seems they have bigger problems with development decision making.
Yeah, the hope for this game died when they released that development documentary and the CEO of CO blamed Unity for causing all sorts of problems. It was an incredible act of transparency that ultimately sealed the fate of this game to never living up to the standards of the first. Citystate Metropolis is our next hope for the genre.