Cosmetic dlc???

[Lazarus]

Hi,I just bought the complete edition of this game last night and have to say,I am loving it.however before the sale finishes,I was just wondering are there any of the cosmetic dlcs that I need to get to enhance my experience

[ValhallasAshes]

Not really. The lights cosmetics are pretty cool I guess. But it's all just flavor and useful for filling in gaps with decorations that will increase your islands attractiveness. Just look through the various packs and buy the ones you like the looks of most. But no, you don't "need" any of them. I own all of them and use most of them to varying degrees. But I only bought all of them because I wanted all of the DLC for this game including cosmetics. But I wouldn't give any of the cosmetics a "must have" rating like did to some of the mainline DLCs.

[Smokerbait]

Like ValhallasAshes said, there aren't any that you need. However, if any of them will enhance your experience is dependent on what you like.

If you are into designing and beautifying your cities, the City Lights pack is pretty good. I like being able to add street lamps, or a small food court to my museum.

My other personal favorite is the Vehicle Liveries pack, just because I like making my ships look awesome, plus you get an alternate model for the Arctic Airship which I prefer. So in my case, this one does enhance my experience, but may not for others.

Want your industrial areas and oil refineries to look more grungy and cluttered? Industrial Zone Pack.

Hate that all your houses look the same? Vibrant Cities is great. Plus I like that you have different models for the Marketplace, so that one in the middle of Investor housing looks more majestic than the one for the Farmers.

So just figure out what enhancing your experience means to you and go from there.

[ValhallasAshes]

Publicado originalmente por Smokerbait:

My other personal favorite is the Vehicle Liveries pack, just because I like making my ships look awesome, plus you get an alternate model for the Arctic Airship which I prefer. So in my case, this one does enhance my experience, but may not for others.

Yeah I use this one a lot too for pretty much all of my ships. I use it so much in fact I completely forgot I was opting into using a cosmetic pack without realizing it.

[Lazarus]

ok thanks for the advice,the one that had my interest was vibrant cities as i like the idea of having different looks to the same buidings within your cities.also the lights dlc ,forget its name at the moment .however after buying the game,i can only afford two of these if i am honest,so i want to get the vibrant cities one but would i be better off gettiing the vehicle one r lights first and waiting til i have some spare cash to pick up the other dlc

[Hundinger]

Publicado originalmente por Lazarus:

ok thanks for the advice,the one that had my interest was vibrant cities as i like the idea of having different looks to the same buidings within your cities.also the lights dlc ,forget its name at the moment .however after buying the game,i can only afford two of these if i am honest,so i want to get the vibrant cities one but would i be better off gettiing the vehicle one r lights first and waiting til i have some spare cash to pick up the other dlc

Vibrant cities is great. A simple but effective way to make your city look nicer.

[Smokerbait]

Publicado originalmente por Lazarus:

but would i be better off gettiing the vehicle one r lights first

Well, depends on what "better off" means to you, because that can vary from person to person. Right now would you rather have better looking ships that stand out from the AI's, or would you like to customize your cities even more?

If I was in your position, I'd choose the Vehicle Liveries Pack. But again, that's me, and I love having my Ship of the Line looking like a beast. You may not care about that as much.

[Lazarus]

I bought the vibrant cities and vehicles dlc and just one final question if people don’t mind.how do you enable them in game as I have my first port town now and still can’t seem to change what the buildings or vehicles look like except for the pub to a Christmas theme one.do you have to reach a certain stage in game or I am I doing something wrong.at the start I did see the option to enable dlcs but the cosmetic ones were not listed in that section ,only the ones affecting gameplay.also saw the paintbrush icon in game but except for the pub,everything has a red x when I move the paint brush over it

[Smokerbait]

Publicado originalmente por Lazarus:

at the start I did see the option to enable dlcs but the cosmetic ones were not listed in that section ,only the ones affecting gameplay

If you're talking about setting up a new game, this is normal. You don't have to enable any cosmetic DLCs

Publicado originalmente por Lazarus:

also saw the paintbrush icon in game but except for the pub,everything has a red x when I move the paint brush over it

The paintbrush icon is how you are supposed to change skins. If this is not working, first try to verify your game files. On Steam, right click on Anno 1800 -> Properties -> Local Files -> Verify Integrity of Game Files. It could have been a bad download and didn't properly install files. if any files were missing, it'll automatically install them.

[Lazarus]

Finally figured the problem out.it was that somehow Ubisoft connect was in a offline mode so it didn’t link the dlcs to me. In fact it did not even register me buying the vehicle dlc for some reason.anyway vibrant cities is activated as of now and as I didn’t even Pay for the other one,I checked my steam wallet,I can pick that up in the next sale with the lights dlc anyway,all is good.thanks for all the helpful advice