CS1 OR C2

[Holttem]

I have played cs1 only a little bit on my PS4 beacuse it came with ps plus.

[MarkJohnson]

I guess your choice has been made for you. LOL

CS1 it is!

[Tsubame ⭐]

Most people would be happier with CS1. Right now is much better bang for the buck.

CS2 has some advantages, such as much better building tools and behavior, no need to build pipes everywhere, and no limits in what you can build within the borders of the map, but they are far outweighted by problems with performance issues - cities of similar size in CS2 perform much worse than CS1 - and stability issues, as in random crashes, plus more restrictive zoning and development behavior in the unmodded game.

Vanilla CS2 feels like a more complete game compared strictly to base game CS1, but then again, it is also much more expensive, and does not have the DLC and mod library that CS1 has.

[Doc001]

CS1!!
I played for years on XBox.
Glad to be on PC. Not even thinking about CS2.

[𝒞𝒶𝓈𝓊𝒶𝓁 Sinner]

Despite being related games, they're both pretty different besides the base concept. I play CS2 more, but I also upgraded my system and it is a very buggy game that modders haven't fully cracked yet.

[NameInvalid]

If compare base game alone, csl2 is a better game, much more powerful road tools, better commercial and industrial system, visually stunning out of the box (hard to run though), unlimited build size depend on your hardware power...
CSL1 advantage is on asset availability. Once csl2 asset editor release this advantage will gradually diminish.

[Tsubame ⭐]

I do not think CS2 is visually stunning at all. While I do like the overall artistic style, which is much better than CS1's, the execution is horribly done. Graphics are very pixelated, and too demanding on GPU, for the quality as it appears on screen.

[NameInvalid]

of course it looks like crap if you lowered / disabled those stuff & using upscaling (render at lower resolution). Go checkout some youtube gameplay where people aren't playing on potato settings.
It is very demanding yes, can only hope they improve it overtime.

Lets not kid ourself, base CSL1 is very ugly. Only we threw all bunch of mods and high quality assets it will looks better - and these obviously raise system stress as well.

[Holttem]

I might but c1 because its cheaper and prolly runs better on my computer. Thnaks!

[Stormfire962]

Either game is good, thanks to the mod makers. The only you really need to ask yourself. Can your PC meet CS2 recommended system requirements? If it cannot, then stay with CS1.

[Tsubame ⭐]

Originally posted by NameInvalid:

of course it looks like crap if you lowered / disabled those stuff & using upscaling (render at lower resolution). Go checkout some youtube gameplay where people aren't playing on potato settings.
It is very demanding yes, can only hope they improve it overtime.

Lets not kid ourself, base CSL1 is very ugly. Only we threw all bunch of mods and high quality assets it will looks better - and these obviously raise system stress as well.

Thanks for your unfounded assumption, the above mentioned is on the highest graphic settings possible, in a 4090 RTX, mind you.

Not the only one with this complain, from what I gathered from CS2's forums and reviews.

Demanding would be understandable if the result was not so horrible.

At least CS1 graphics are sharp no matter the resolution chosen.

[Agent Pookie]

CS2 graphics are incredible but thats about it. Also CS1 has an insane amount of options, assets, and maps due to years of DLC and modding. I think CS1 is better, CS2 is is buggy and has poor simulation. CS2 is in shambles even months after release. Yes its nice to look at but eye candy is not enough to justify the price.

[Holttem]

Bought cs1 and im atticted now. Thanks

[OldyButCrafty]

Originally posted by Holttem:

Bought cs1 and im atticted now. Thanks

Yeah, I have the same affliction.

[OldyButCrafty]

Originally posted by NameInvalid:

Lets not kid ourself, base CSL1 is very ugly. Only we threw all bunch of mods and high quality assets it will looks better - and these obviously raise system stress as well.

Some of us disagree strongly on all your points.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2899540036