Cities Skylines 2 leaves its predecessor far behind in terms of map size

The builders of Cities Skylines 2 have talked in regards to the sport’s map dimension for the primary time in a weblog put up. Your cities can get larger than ever earlier than

Hah, what a ache it all the time was to have such a gorgeous metropolis mapped out in your head in Cities: Skylines…. With magnificent monuments, tranquil residential districts and gigantic motorway intersections – after which all these grand plans failed as a result of one limiting issue: the map dimension.

Within the first a part of the favored city-building simulation, you can solely unlock 9 of a complete of 25 doable map tiles on the most growth stage – which naturally restricted your freedom in metropolis constructing in some unspecified time in the future. With a tile dimension of 1.92km², this resulted in a most buildable space of solely 33.18km². Extra was solely doable with mods.

Cities: Skylines 2 desires to do issues in another way right here. (In a blog post) the builders have now spoken in regards to the new map system for the primary time and, along with the dimensions of the map, have additionally revealed some necessary adjustments to the map tiles. We’ll clarify it to you:

What’s totally different?

Within the second a part of Cities: Skylines, the person map tiles shall be smaller than within the predecessor. Nevertheless, it is possible for you to to unlock virtually the entire 441 tiles in the middle of the sport. This leads to a complete doable dimension of 159km² in your metropolis, round 5 occasions as a lot as within the predecessor.
As well as, the tiles on which you need to construct now not need to be instantly related to one another. This implies that you could construct suburbs and different small settlements that aren’t instantly adjoining to your metropolis, however lie like remoted islands someplace on the map.

The peak restrict… has additionally been elevated. Theoretically, your metropolis can proceed to develop on plateaus or within the mountains even in case you have already exhausted all free constructing land on the plains.

What else did the builders reveal?

After all, the Paradox workforce has much more new data for you. Parallel to the weblog put up, the builders printed a brief YouTube video by which some additional improvements are proven. You possibly can see the video right here: