Cities: Skylines II

Hello Mayors!It’s time for another City Corner, and this time, we will be talking about an aspect in Cities: Skylines II that hasn’t really been touched upon in our previous updates: the Asset Editor. We have started working on improving the modding tools, and there are a number of quality-of-life improvements we want to highlight in this City Corner, like smoother workflows, asset localization, and placement overrides. We will also take a look at the mod support and what our plans are when it comes to managing your mods. Let’s get started, shall we!Smoother Workflows in the EditorLet’s begin with the Editor. For our upcoming patch, we have started working on improving the tools in the Asset Editor, aimed at reducing repetitive clicks and making it easier for creators to navigate and edit their assets. First, we have added a new launch parameter -startEditor to open the Asset Editor on startup. This allows you to launch straight into the editor, without having to go through the Main Menu first. We’ve added controls to expand or collapse all components in the Inspector panel at once, making it much easier to explore an asset’s underlying structure or quickly reach a specific compone

This patch can affect some custom maps, but loading of old maps and savegames is supported.Gameplay:​Fixed a bug where citizens would always travel to the shop with the most stock, completely ignoring distance.Households now re-evaluate moving home less often, improving performance in large cities.Tourists, commuters, and vacationers now walk along highway shoulders less often when entering or leaving the city.Fixed citizens taking absurdly long trips across the entire map. Pathfinding limits are now tailored per trip type: work, school, shopping, and leisure each use a sensible range rather than a shared near-unlimited cap. Citizens who can't find a viable route now handle it gracefully: move-outs teleport off-map, workers drop their job, and leisure-seekers idle at home before retrying.Note: there is at least one known remaining issue where students may still walk too far.Office goods can now be purchased from outside connections, improving supply chains when local sources are unavailable.Fixed legal U-turn costs to allow citizens to use dedicated lanes more flexibly and lowered illegal U-turn costs to match intended limits.Adjusted commercial demand slightly lower to balanc

Summer is here, Mayors!Welcome back to another City Corner, where we will be going through the upcoming changes that will arrive with our next patch, Summer Solstice! This patch introduces improvements to gameplay, especially to citizen pathfinding, as well as a major overhaul to terrain texturing.Without further ado, let’s paint a clearer picture of what’s new in this update!Gameplay UpdatesFor this patch, we have made adjustments to the gameplay and citizen behavior, especially when it comes to pathfinding. In our upcoming patch, the citizen pathfinding has been adjusted in a way that they will make more sensible decisions when choosing stores and leisure activities, and going to work or school, which reduces the excessively long trips across the city. Pathfinding limitations are now tailored per trip type, and each type uses a more sensible range rather than a shared, almost unlimited, distance. Citizens who can't find a viable route will now handle it gracefully: move-outs teleport off-map, workers drop their job, and leisure-seekers idle at home before retrying. These changes have so far been made quite carefully, so they might not apply to every long trip that your citiz

This patch should not affect mods, and loading of old savegames is supported.After our previous patch, we received a lot of reports about being unable to save, or receiving ‘NotSupportedException’ error. We want to thank everyone who participated in testing out the open beta branch that we released related to this issue!We have prepared a hotfix that addresses the symptoms of this saving bug. Our research suggests that the actual issue was introduced by the addition of Asset Editor last year, but it stayed hidden until our recent change. We are still looking into the root cause of this issue and plan to release a complete fix for the bug in our next patch! However, in the meantime, the current fix should be enough to keep your game going and saves functioning. Misc:Fixed issue with saving old save games.Fixed issue with saving custom maps.