I genuinely think they should have locked those settings to a lower default until they can patch them. I get what they're trying to do by being transparent, but... yeah, I don't think it worked out for them or the people interested in the game.

I've been playing a bunch, I now have a large city going on and it's still very playable, at the cost of worse lighting and slow-loading textures in close-ups. Honestly, at this point I'm more annoyed by some UI and sim quirks than the performance, but here's hoping they keep improving all of the above.

[–] JustZ@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Also, compared to any other city builder, there really is no competition. Even if the launch was truly botched, the game was unplayable, nobody got about 12 fps, there's not another full feature city builder. Not since SimCity blew it's brains out.

[–] MudMan@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Straight up SimCity-likes, I suppose not, but there certainly are lots of games aiming to scratch some of that itch.

Honestly, CS2 is mostly competing with CS1. Or with my endless instinct to go back and play more SimCity 4 again.