Unreal Engine 5 used for Cities: Skylines II

[Steven Spencer]

In the press conference Paradox confirmed that the developers abandoned Unity engine and switched to Unreal Engine 5 in the game Cities: Skylines II

[Lyfestyle]

Hopefully no trouble for MODS.

[VeeTHis]

That's nice to hear. Unreal is so much more optimized than the old ass version of Unity CS1 uses. Unity is not made for games like this.

Edit: thanks for the free points y'all

[BoostHungry]

They did? I missed that note. That's huge and I want to hear more!

If they want the graphics and reflections they showed in the announcement trailer (was any of that in-engine?), then I get why. I just expected them to stick with Unity maybe with use of DOTS/ECS for a more performant simulation.

[Martinspire]

would be helpful to get somebody to confirm this as its pretty big news for the business side of things. I hope its true but we'll see.

[Mich-666]

Unreal 5 would be huge trouble for the mods.

I don't think UE5 is a thing here, even the announcement trailer was CG rather than gameplay.

[Nico Tin]

"Unity is not made for games like this."
Yeah and we all know Unreal Engine is the go-to engine for making city builder games, such as the famous Unreal Tournament: Skylines.

[IamJames]

Of course there will be trouble with mods! Why is everyone shocked about this, the first game is 8 years old! Games need to move on ffs.

[Steven Spencer]

Originally posted by BoostHungry:

They did? I missed that note. That's huge and I want to hear more!

If they want the graphics and reflections they showed in the announcement trailer (was any of that in-engine?), then I get why. I just expected them to stick with Unity maybe with use of DOTS/ECS for a more performant simulation.

Announced trailer uses the Unreal Engine 5 game engine used in Cities: Skylines II

[Pol]

I can't find the source of that. Does anyone have a link ?

[Steven Spencer]

https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/949230/ss_99ce61b574a62702a70b5b68bb8f2e05e8489c63.1920x1080.jpg?t=1678123950

Screenshot from Cities: Skylines II. There is no actually gameplay in it, but you can see what the graphics will be in the game based on Unreal Engine 5

[Pol]

How do you know it's Unreal ?

[Steven Spencer]

Originally posted by James Gordon:

https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/949230/ss_99ce61b574a62702a70b5b68bb8f2e05e8489c63.1920x1080.jpg?t=1678123950

Screenshot from Cities: Skylines II. There is no actually gameplay in it, but you can see what the graphics will be in the game based on Unreal Engine 5

Steam rules forbid the use of CGI graphics in screenshots of game descriptions, so this is a 100% screenshot from the game

[Nico Tin]

Originally posted by James Gordon:

https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/949230/ss_99ce61b574a62702a70b5b68bb8f2e05e8489c63.1920x1080.jpg?t=1678123950

Screenshot from Cities: Skylines II. There is no actually gameplay in it, but you can see what the graphics will be in the game based on Unreal Engine 5

No it's not, it's just a frame from the render trailer

[Mich-666]

Originally posted by IamJames:

Of course there will be trouble with mods! Why is everyone shocked about this, the first game is 8 years old! Games need to move on ffs.

Please learn to read first and formost. Unreal Engine is bad for mods IN GENERAL, huge downloads, user-unfriendly, no editor (you basically have to learn whole Unreal Suite make a mod), no working loadorders etc.

IF they manage to provide meaningful asset editor too, I would be very surprised.

[Steven Spencer]

Originally posted by Nico Tin:

Originally posted by James Gordon:

https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/949230/ss_99ce61b574a62702a70b5b68bb8f2e05e8489c63.1920x1080.jpg?t=1678123950

Screenshot from Cities: Skylines II. There is no actually gameplay in it, but you can see what the graphics will be in the game based on Unreal Engine 5

No it's not, it's just a frame from the render trailer

Steam rules forbid the use of CGI graphics in screenshots of game descriptions, so this is a 100% screenshot from the game