Cities Xxl Steam Reviews

@MuxLee ! You think @The Funky Monk was a cheerleader for FHI?
You seem to forget about the time before CXXL, it was Funky and others
who were the most critical ones about CXXL. Maybe this is also the reason
why you guys do perceive the game so differently: Funky could just have had
worse expectations than you, and now is rather enlightened about the outcome.

Maybe you just buy the game and then either play the hell out of it or throw it
into the garbage can? People who have been really critical about CXXL tell you
that it is better than they had thought it would be, what more do you want?
Hell, if I was not busy building one of the most scenic cities the old game has ever seen,
and learning for exams, I would buy it. And you say you are or have been a software
engineer? I would say you have more monetary resources than me to buy
the game without any care.
And, please, don't be offended by what I said.

 

I have the funds of course , but it is the principle . Selling a bug fix as a new game is just not on. One other thing to add is funky is not paying for his copy so he does nt have that issue. Hes just chuffed hes got his name on the credit screen, tbh FHI should be grateful to the community.

The vanilla game is crap, the buildings are ugly, the roads are useless textures breaking up, stupid traffic , lag, trading bugs,crap ui . Yes I know there are MODs but surely all these should have been fixed in a new version especially if they re asking for full price for new users that's OK but half price for a working copy of the title I bought a few summers ago.
How many new buildings in the vanilla release?

I ll give funky or any one else a few headers to see if it is new game .

New industrial buildings ?
New Commercial Buildings ?
New Blueprints ?

Roads
Furniture
Transport functions

gameplay


Performance


Aesthetics

 

I'm in the holding pattern, atm.

Right now for me the biggest issue is compatibility with some mods that are must have for me.
Like Realistic Highway Mod (RHM2) and the one with promenades and other shore pieces (forgot it's name...) and Also some modular xxxxx mods.

I will see what will happen in that department.
Also just for feedback, it would be cool to see those things/changes:
- trains, with different models, normal inter city, bullet train and such
- bigger maps, like someone mentioned, to have more freedom with placement
- some furniture/plopables packs, I did some killer graveyards with those

 

I really don't think people appreciate how much work is required to change a piece of software to enable it to use multiple cores. It's not a patch by any stretch, it's a big undertaking of programming.

 

no mate I looked in the taskbar and saw citiesxl .... bit of a give away really. on the other hand why don't you write a full review that's what people want. if you have a copy can you stick up the perfmon graph ? and or cpu usage , you can also set affinity to different core and see what happens?

 

just stick up a review attacking me will get you nowhere

why do you have remove your mods - its realtime ???

 

It really can be horrific at times. I've had a Steam account for years and I've got over 650 games but I really get embarrased at how some people act on there.

 

Just wondering if the same bashers of CXXL on Steam are the same who bashed the pre-released videos and screen shots of Cities: Skylines...?

Oh wait a minute....I truly don't care...

P.S. -- I write comments about the games I actually play the same way as the movies I actually watch....key word being "actually"...

One of my all-time favorite quotes: "Hey, I have access to the internet...therefore I have an opinion...!"

 

@skullz well we can compare your optimised version vs vanilla ......

what an excuse LOL

 

I am seeing the same performance, no mods. The spikes on the other 3 cores are from when selecting zones and roads; they just jump to 100%. This is on slow update speed in windows task manager btw.