Cities Skylines 2 Patch Notes (CS2) December 2023

Cities Skylines 2 is a complex game with a lot going on, so when there are any new updates, you should definitely know about them. Below, I will regularly list all the patches and hotfixes Cities Skylines 2 receives.

Latest Cities Skylines 2 release notes

CS2 Patch Notes - Update 1.0.18f1 Hotfix, December 14, 2023

Winter Treat - 2 New Maps

• Sunshine Peninsula
• Corral Riches

Performance

• Added LODs for characters and selected assets
• Optimized geometry layout for all assets
• Decreased Virtual Texturing pressure with assets that don't use emissive maps
• Disabled VSync for default settings
• Disabled volumetric lighting calculations where it was mostly invisible

Gameplay

• Improved lane-changing behavior for vehicles
• Fixed: Traffic accidents that last forever (and improved resolution of the accidents)
• Improved cargo air transport by:
  • Increasing airplane cargo capacity from 50t to 100t
  • Increasing airport cargo terminal capacity from 100t to 720t
  • Adding all resource types to Airplane Outside Connections
  • Not allowing cargo terminals to store garbage resource

• Storage fixes:
  • Improved storage buildings to consider both current storage and future storage (to include cargo already on its way)
  • Fixed: Cargo terminals import garbage
  • Fixed: Companies can buy the input resource from commercial companies
  • Fixed: Export can happen when output resource amount is below 0
  • Fixed: Resource amount might become negative when transport vehicle loading a large amount of resource (negative amounts reset to 0 in existing saves)
  • Fixed: Airport can import goods from Road Outside Connection when there is no air cargo route
• Economy fixes & improvements:
  • Replaced money buffering system with a new system that directly deducts the money (city’s income should be more predictable now)
  • Fixed: Income awarded twice
  • Fixed: Unknown profit during storage transfer
• Fixed: Pedestrian navigation issues with train station’s subway upgrade (requires the building to be rebuilt to take effect)
• Fixed: Pedestrian walking through the air between elevated/lowered/raised/tunnel networks and buildings
• Fixed: Options search text can overlap with the delete symbol
• Fixed: Sometimes pathfinding for resources does not include cargo loading locations
• Fixed: Saving and rebooting the game gives extra XP based on the number of residential buildings in the city
• Fixed: Four Seasons and Spiderwebbing achievements cannot be earned
• Fixed: Pressing "M" while in photo mode removes the UI permanently for that session
• Added missing localization for Photo Mode and Options menu

Graphics

• Added line color to passenger ships, cargo ships, and cargo train engines
• Improved quality of character model variations
• Fixed: Visual glitches with metallic/smoothness maps on character clothes
• Fixed: Light props on Grand Bridge float in the air after connecting a road
• Improved lights on forest machinery
• Improved propping for several buildings
• Fixed: Spawn point for cargo trucks is not inside the warehouse as expected
• Fixed: International Airport roads are not inverted with left-hand traffic
• Fixed: Crosswalk looks broken when pedestrian path bridge is connected to ground pedestrian path through a road

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CS2 Patch Notes - Update 1.0.15f1 Hotfix, December 1, 2023

Gameplay

• Mail fixes:
  • Fixed: Citizens do not have destinations in their Selected Info Panel when Sending Mail
  • Fixed: Post van not delivering/collecting mail from target building if the path accesses the lot in a specific way.
  • Fixed: Post van failing to collect mail from building if it's also delivering mail to the same building at the same time.
  • Fixed: Post sorting facility is unable to export global mail
• Storage transfer fixes:
  • Adjusted industrial companies' production efficiency to produce more products to increase good exports.
  • Adjusted storage companies spawning, storage companies will spawn less than storage capacity demand to increase goods export.
  • Fixed vehicle state that isn't exporting showed as exporting state
  • Cargo Stations like harbors, and train terminals will have a low stock amount at 100t, the terminal will import around 30t each time the current amount is below 100t.
  • Cargo Stations like harbors, and train terminals will have an export threshold of 200t, the terminal will export around 30t each time the current amount is above 200t.
  • Storage companies will spawn less than the current producing capacity to increase export (does not affect existing storage companies in the city)
  • Improved pathfinding to include storage & cargo stations as valid import candidate targets
• Improved moving in pathfinding. This prevents citizens from reserving homes from disconnected buildings (Or moving into the city at all if it's not connected to an outside connection).
• Increased pathfinding penalty for illegal pedestrian crossing
• Fixed: Several instances of vehicles getting stuck
• Fixed: Roads shown as inaccessible in Build menu can be used when the player has low budget
• Fixed: Hydro power plant output increases with simulation speed
• Improved water flow update when terraforming
• Fixed: Progression XP is not awarded for constructing Signature Buildings
• Fixed: Coal power plant does not import resource from nearby harbor
• Fixed: Citizens are shopping in industrial zones in factories instead of commercial zones
• Fixed: multiple issues related to constructing multilevel roads, elevated roads over water or bridges
• Improved elevated road construction (Not actual bridges) to require more pillars

Graphics

• Improved terrain smoothing for networks and large buildings
• Fixed: Forward road arrows on building lots incorrect for left-hand traffic.
• Fixed: Trees sticking out of the river in the main background image
• Fixed: Dam (net-part only) facing the wrong way when using left-hand traffic
• Fixed: Buildings missing road arrows and some other props depending on the selected theme
• Fixed: International Airport missing bus stops when using the North America theme.

UI

• Improved Selected Info Panel and Infoview panels to scale with text scale
• Improved sorting of households:
  • Citizens sorted by age in household/single-family home Selected Info Panel sidebar
  • Households sorted by member count in building Selected Info Panel sidebar
• Fixed: Customer Info view for low customers terrain color inconsistent to the terrain color of other RCIO Info views
• Fixed: UI forwardRef error which was appearing sporadically when loading a save

Other

• Fixed: Now They're All Ash Trees, Out For a Spin, The Size of Golf Balls, Groundskeeper, Up and Away achievements, and Four Seasons achievements
• Fixed: Prefabs not unlocking correctly
• Fixed: Cinematic camera data is not resetting when loading a save or starting a new one
• Fixed: Object base mesh not visible if the main object is out of camera viewport
• Fixed: Forestry Area's Forest Forwarder was not playing the engine sound
• Increased all emergency vehicle siren sound distances
• Improved cached progress for Achievements
• Added 2 new steps to Education tutorial
• Added missing translations
• Optimized XP calculations
• Improved error and crash reporting tools

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