Gamescom Cities: Skylines 2 Livestream Impressions

[tom_mai78101]

Anyone wanted to share their impressions of the Gamescom gameplay livestreams there? They are dangling the livestreamers on a crane.

[ebrumby]

There were technical difficulties: delayed start, continued problems with microphones. One person's game went black - not sure why. The gamers tried, but had no idea how to play the game. Some finally decided to just build random stuff or spam the roads. I had hoped to see people playing seriously, using the economics and progression. Still looks like a beta version of the game (I hope!). VERY disappointed. All in all - a failed marketing attempt imo.

[bish0p23]

I thought it was terrible and childish. I watched Ambigousamphibians for a bit, but got frustrated with his lack of focus.

I don't speak Japanese, but this was the best video I saw for CS 2 today. I believe it was recorded from the streamers home.

https://www.youtube.com/live/bbdCZvATRto?si=EiaavTJzQdizvEJg

[Ghostrider]

Yeah I watched a minute or so, but the quality of it was bad so gave up.

[Hinkel]

Today in 4 hours we have actual gameplay of Streamer, who played CS1 for years. So it will be bettet to follow.

[Ghostrider]

Originally posted by bish0p23:

I thought it was terrible and childish. I watched Ambigousamphibians for a bit, but got frustrated with his lack of focus.

I don't speak Japanese, but this was the best video I saw for CS 2 today. I believe it was recorded from the streamers home.

https://www.youtube.com/live/bbdCZvATRto?si=EiaavTJzQdizvEJg

Thank you for the link, watching a bit of it now and seeing actual gameplay, gives a better sense of how the game will be.

[joluc1000]

Putting someone 50 meters up in the air, completely unshielded from the strong sun and wind absolutely destroyed the presentation of the game. I will buy it but I do not think I will play it on a crane.

[¿?]

I managed to watch no more than 4 minutes skipping through the diabolical connection issues and expletive riddled confusion. Not a good advert for a splendid game. Who thought is was a good idea to get toilet mouth (literally) to promote this game. I'm reconsidering my purchase now....

[Mntoes]

Honestly, you are invited to play a game online and all you can think to do is print a rude word across a map? I hope he is never asked again, how disrespectful to Colossal Order.

[General T.Montana Tropic Thunder]

Originally posted by bish0p23:

I thought it was terrible and childish. I watched Ambigousamphibians for a bit, but got frustrated with his lack of focus.

I don't speak Japanese, but this was the best video I saw for CS 2 today. I believe it was recorded from the streamers home.

https://www.youtube.com/live/bbdCZvATRto?si=EiaavTJzQdizvEJg

Thanks for sharing the video :)

[Ø Τhe Яaven Æ]

I only caught the last 3 seconds of the stream before it abruptly ended.
One of the streamers was doing the stupidest ♥♥♥♥ possible while playing the game and didn't show the game off in a good or professional way.

I'd recommend watching ambiguousamphibian's stream as its the only one that isn't laggy and you can see how the game performs real time and is the best chance to see the most of what the game has to offer. He doesn't spend the whole time doing stupid stuff.

The colour pallet of the game looks quite bland. The grass is such a boring colour of green, the roads are all a grayish colour, and the buildings generally add to the grayness of the road. The roads themselves don't look very detailed compared to what was shown in the
Compared to Cities skylines 1 is just seems less interesting visually. I'm not expecting the greatest graphics of all time but I'd at least like the colour pallet to stand out and not look so washed out.

Comparing it to the Announcement Trailer (Not actual gameplay) footage it doesn't look anything like the trailer. Things may be a bit more detailed but not to the extent of the trailer. The buildings do look better compared to cities 1 but they don't match what is in the trailer.

Ignoring graphical stuff, the game seems to perform very well. It seems better designed for building a bigger city compared to cities 1. And there are a lot of new features part of the base game the original game doesn't have.

I wish they had given keys out to content creators like Biffa, or city planner plays or people who make content for cities skylines and who are much more likely to play the game correctly and show off the features of the new game. And who would've had a much better internet connection for the play through.

I hope they consider giving keys out to the youtube community as this gamescon showing was terrible and now has a many reconsidering buying the game. At this point, it would be worth biting the bullet and showing off whatever progress has been made up to this point but having content creatures that will play the game properly or at least show off features that everyone would be interested in seeing.

Here is a link to ambiguousamphibian's stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cgwxaUsJrQ&ab_channel=ambiguousamphibian

[General T.Montana Tropic Thunder]

Originally posted by bish0p23:

I thought it was terrible and childish. I watched Ambigousamphibians for a bit, but got frustrated with his lack of focus.

I don't speak Japanese, but this was the best video I saw for CS 2 today. I believe it was recorded from the streamers home.

https://www.youtube.com/live/bbdCZvATRto?si=EiaavTJzQdizvEJg

Love the video at 1hour44, with the traffic and parking lots filling up. 😀

The game isn't even launched, yet already all menu's and street names are localized.

Graphics look crispy, menu's are informative, can't wait to play the simulation.

Gotta love the snowed up cars :D

This looks fun to play, so many details to discover.

[dan0812]

I think the game looks bad and am disappointed it hasn't been improved on since the first look. Almost everything is one shade of grey or one shade of green. Nothing seems to blend together.

Where's the texture, shades and imperfections in the concrete, where's the gravel for the train tracks? Looks like plastic city builder.

[Mntoes]

Originally posted by dan0812:

I think the game looks bad and am disappointed it hasn't been improved on since the first look. Almost everything is one shade of grey or one shade of green. Nothing seems to blend together.

Where's the texture, shades and imperfections in the concrete, where's the gravel for the train tracks? Looks like plastic city builder.

Your'e right hadn't noticed that.

[BoraBora]

Originally posted by Ø Τhe Яaven Æ:

I'd recommend watching ambiguousamphibian's stream as its the only one that isn't laggy and you can see how the game performs real time and is the best chance to see the most of what the game has to offer. He doesn't spend the whole time doing stupid stuff.

He still takes time to spell "ballz" with the road tool. Is he into fart contests, too? Jeez...

[General T.Montana Tropic Thunder]

Originally posted by dan0812:

I think the game looks bad and am disappointed it hasn't been improved on since the first look. Almost everything is one shade of grey or one shade of green. Nothing seems to blend together.

Where's the texture, shades and imperfections in the concrete, where's the gravel for the train tracks? Looks like plastic city builder.

It's a point, but CS1 also has the synthetic plastic floor tennis court look, with intense colors.
I like it.

I'm pretty sure there will be some eye candy mods, like in cs1 - To drag the fps right down to a grind :D

The game "Endzone 2" looks really gritty, like in the first title of that series.