Useful Hidden Settings

Cheats, Weather/Disaster Control, More Speed Options, Place Props, Anarchy, Disable Cims & More!

Setup

Short disclaimer, these all require you to have developer mode on, so your game may break.

• Go to your Library
  
  
• Right Click on Cities Skylines 2
  
  
• Click Properties
  
• Put

  --developerMode

  into the Launch Options section
  
  
• Load your save
  
• Press Tab

Edge-scrolling

• Navigate to the Camera Tab.
  
• Toggle Edge-scrolling off.

Weather Effects

• Navigate to the Climate Tab.
  
• Adjust the Precipitation slider to your liking.

Change Season

• Navigate to the Simulation Tab.
  
• Expand Weather & climate.
  
• Drag the slider to change the season, unpause to make the changes come into effect.

Extra Speed Options

• Look for Sim speed in the top half of the menu.
  
• Adjust to your liking from, 1/8x, 1/4x, 1/2x, 1x, 2x, 4x, and to 8x

Cheats

• Navigate to the Gameplay Tab.
  
• Here you can Unlock all, Get 200XP, Skip to the next MS (Milestone), get 500k Money, change fee amounts as well.
  
• Navigate to the Simulation Tab.
  
• Expand Economy
  
• Here you can, get Superfast Building spawning, Superfast leveling, Reset Trade costs, Reset Land value, Reset Rents, Reset Services,
  
• Expand Pollution, here you can, change the pollution radius, Multipliers, and how much plants "fade"
  
• With the developer panel open, you can press on a building and level it up.
  
• Expand Electricity & Water
  
• Here you can Disable Water & Sewage generation.

Fun

• Navigate to the Simulation Tab.
  
• Expand Triggers, here you can Create Chirps
  
• Expand Start event
  
• Here you can, Make a Lightning Strike Happen, Make it Valentines Day, Make there be a Flood, Tsunami, Tornado, a random building collapse, Forest Fire, Hail storm, Building Fire, etc.

Performance/Appearance

• Navigate to the GameRendering Tab
  
• Expand Shaders
  

  Disable Cims

  1. Toggle Didimo/HDRP/SG_CharacterSkin (Skin on Cims)
     
  2. Toggle Didimo/HDRP/SG_GenericCrowd (Eyes, and Teeth)
     
  3. Toggle Didimo/HDRP/SG_CharacterCloth (Clothing)
     
  4. Toggle BH/Characters/SG_HairCardsDyed (Hair)
     
  5. Toggle Didimo/HDRP/SG_CharacterGeneric (Accessories)
     

  Disable Shiny Tire tracks on roads

  1. Toggle BH/Decals/CurvedDecalDeteriorat
     

Prop/Building/Network/ Anarchy

• Navigate to Simulation
  
• Look near the top, and toggle Bypass validation results

Add Props/Surfaces/Decals

• Press Home
  
• You may now place any Surface, Prop, or Decal you want.

Outro

Thank you very much for taking your time to read my guide, if you found it helpful, or think others would find it helpful please do consider liking this guide. If you find anything interesting in this panel, put it in the comments and I may put it in this guide, with credit of course.

[RMG]

Despite having some type of Nvidia software. This PC is sh!t. Its old and worth 700 despite being worth 1.2k 5 years ago. So Enabling ray tracing or "trying" just fked my game harder than my father does that to my mother. oh well

[General Zod ™]

This won't make your simulation accurate and the high population will crumble in the end with abandoned buildings, overcrowded schools and never-ending issues. The real solution is to just plan carefully and build slowly. The end result will be much much better. We do need simulation improvements that's for sure.

[qualiall]

you can also add resources-but it's hit or miss if I can get it to work. Open up your specialized industry menu, tab to open dev tools and click simulation. Click right arrow a few times and you can get to the option where you can paint in oil, ore, fertile land, underground water. I can get this to come up maybe 2/3rd of the time, but sometimes it won't get you to that option-you have to try, reload the game, shut down and reload ect to get it if it happens

[XsoLax]

Helpful guide, thank you for your time.

[TajemnikTV]

There are some settings for ray tracing and some NVidia specific options like DLSS even. I wonder whether they'll add support for these soon-ish lol

[DareDevyL]

this still does not allow trees/bushes placement anywhere? What is 'home'

[razz]

No disable vehicle despawn?

[Moondog548]

> Toggle Didimo/HDRP/SG_GenericCrowd (Eyes, and Teeth)

I'm counting on this to free up at least 40% of my CPU usage.

CIMS DON'T NEED TEETH 😬

[Mr.Heisenberg]

Has anyone found a way to disable infinite money?

[hannebambel002]

The developer settings help in the current game; the pollution can be set to zero, but it is not persistent. When the saved game starts again, the original values ​​are active and the pollution starts again.