Smiles and Cries
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downloading on PS4 played this on my MacBook until it stopped working due to mods I guess I can try a mod free run on PS4
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Cities: Skylines - Console Version |OT| Straight to your living room!
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Retro Edge
Member
Ok here we go, welcome to Edgewood.
It started with this:
And got bigger very fast. Were people live, there needs to be an industrial area and i decided to make it on the left.
It's small but people enjoyed this little village.
At night:
It continued to grow to the north, people want a nice place at the water.
Now on the right side to the north.
And its growing.
Until i had no more place left. At the very top there is a big shopping area as well as in the middle of the map.
And this the point where i am right now. Maybe i will build a bridge and continue on the left side of the map, we will see.
It started with this:
And got bigger very fast. Were people live, there needs to be an industrial area and i decided to make it on the left.
It's small but people enjoyed this little village.
At night:
It continued to grow to the north, people want a nice place at the water.
Now on the right side to the north.
And its growing.
Until i had no more place left. At the very top there is a big shopping area as well as in the middle of the map.
And this the point where i am right now. Maybe i will build a bridge and continue on the left side of the map, we will see.
spawnsniper
Member
Fuck you! now after work I'm buying this game. Congratulations, you win.
suddenlyissoon
Member
Now I wonder if the Xbox version will be optimized for X or if I should just get it for PS4 Pro and hope for the best.
hamauzu kaito
Member
I have been playing for about 5 hours or so. I'm really enjoying the game. I wish that some of the mechanics were explained a bit better, but overall the game does a good job. I'm approaching 20,000 and have gotten few trophies. I will probably post some pics later (my city is ugly though 
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).TheJollyCorner
Member
Anyone else playing this with the SNES SimCity OST playing in the background?
Spukc
always chasing the next thrill
That is fucking cleverAnyone else playing this with the SNES SimCity OST playing in the background?
OmNomKnight
Member
This is totally on my radar now, wow those screens look really cool.
Out of curiosity, about how large is the maximum city size?
Out of curiosity, about how large is the maximum city size?
Retro Edge
Member
You saw my city? I was using a quarter of 1 tile. You can see what i mean on my picure:
You can have 9! of them. 9 tiles. You start with one and you can expand later.
OmNomKnight
Member
Aaaaaand now I'm totally sold. Thanks, that's really freaking awesome.
N° 2048
Member
Anyone else playing this with the SNES SimCity OST playing in the background?
Best suggestion ever. Fits so well.
Good Guy Gone Bad
Member
Having lots of fun with this so far, but they're going to have to add the Snowfall/After Dark/Mass Transit expansions to complete this package.
N° 2048
Member
It comes with After Dark DLC!
There's a video interview with the devs I saw a couple days ago and they said they are bringing it to consoles they just need to figure out how to "launch it".
https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/foru...dox-interactive-console-fans-rejoice.1039696/
I will gladly pay for DLC.
I can't believe I played this for seven hours today, that's how you know I like a game.
Mega Man's Electric Sheep
Member
Uh, I thought it launched on PS4 with after dark? It says it does on amazon/psn.
N° 2048
Member
It does indeed have After Dark on XO and PS4.
Retro Edge
Member
Holy shit, I think that's the first time ever they address DLC on console and to my surprise, really say it's coming. Plus they said:
I can't wait! That's worth to be added to the OT later.
Deaf Spacker
Memb
I played it for most of yesterday afternoon/evening.
The controls work really well, within half an hour I was pretty comfortable moving around and laying roads etc.
It looks nice but it's not as good as the PC version, the textures don't look as great, there's no tilt shift effect and at times the pop in and slowdown is really noticeable so I'm slightly disappointed because I thought that the Pro would handle this easily.
The controls work really well, within half an hour I was pretty comfortable moving around and laying roads etc.
It looks nice but it's not as good as the PC version, the textures don't look as great, there's no tilt shift effect and at times the pop in and slowdown is really noticeable so I'm slightly disappointed because I thought that the Pro would handle this easily.
Me too. I mean i bought this game at such a discout price and i love every minute so far. I'll gladly support the devs with more .
Good Guy Gone Bad
Member
Oh I'm an idiot and I mean the natural disaster dlc, lol. I had a brain freeze.
But I'm glad the devs are going to bring it to consoles. Great news. I'll also be okay paying for it.
But I'm glad the devs are going to bring it to consoles. Great news. I'll also be okay paying for it.
Deaf Spacker
Memb
Nope, doesn't look like the console version supports mods either.
Smiles and Cries
Member
wow I went from a city of 153,000 to one with 17,000 after going bankrupt
not sure if I can salvage this negative 4 million
not sure if I can salvage this negative 4 million
Retro Edge
Member
I also have to find out again how to get and keep a good amount of money. I'm at 3000 people now and I'm always at zero and only gain (right now) 2000-3000 a day. Do I just have to sim more? Cause I always play with the slowest speed.
shiftplays
Neo Member
Played a few hours last night and had my town of 5,000 population almost covered in garbage due to a traffic problem. Solved with some demolition and road maintenance. Now want to start another town tonight.
Loved the game on PC and surprised how well it runs and control on console (Pro).
Loved the game on PC and surprised how well it runs and control on console (Pro).
Rellik
Member
Might have to be a pass for me then. I have it on PC but hated sitting at my desk to play it. Was hoping this would actually be as good as the PC version.
TrueDefault
Member
I wasn't interested, but this thread got me. This reminds me of Tropico 5, I had hours into it on the PS4.
Retro Edge
Member
Need more pictures here from other CS beginners. I always have the feeling my city does grow very nicely and naturally but I am still a little bit uninspired when it comes to uneven roads or roads that are not equiangular.
Lister
Banned
It's pretty good with a steam controller if playing this ona couch is your thing.
I use it to play on the TV with my son, as he likes to folow the buses.
Also, the haptic pad is WAY better for precision placement of roads than the joystick.
Frankly, I don't know how anyone plays this game vanilla. Mods make it.
TheThreadsThatBindUs
Member
How does this game compare to Sim City on the PC?
I have SC and have played that extensively. I've got this on PC, but could never even get a small hamlet sized town to work (didn't understand how power worked and there was no in-game tutorial... seems a bit harder than SimCity...no?
I like the district tile features mentioned earlier in the thread.
One problem I has with both SimCity PC and Cities XL Platinum (PC) was beyond a certain size city, traffic becomes almost impossible to manage. Is the same thing an issue here?
I have SC and have played that extensively. I've got this on PC, but could never even get a small hamlet sized town to work (didn't understand how power worked and there was no in-game tutorial... seems a bit harder than SimCity...no?
I like the district tile features mentioned earlier in the thread.
One problem I has with both SimCity PC and Cities XL Platinum (PC) was beyond a certain size city, traffic becomes almost impossible to manage. Is the same thing an issue here?
Deaf Spacker
Memb
I've had two hard crashes today, had to press the PS button and close it completely.
N° 2048
Member
Yes, worth it.
Devs also said they made this to prove people wrong that said city builders can't be on console. I support that.
N° 2048
Member
rofl around what population? I'm around 2,500 and am starting to see the need for transit. Scared me because I gotta re do all the roads for that.
Lister
Banned
There is deinfitley an ingame tutorial... it's been a while since I played but I'm almost certina of that.
This is not harder than SimCity in terms of city manegement (it's sadly very simplistic int his regard actually - my main complaint). It is orders of magnitue harder when it comes to traffic management.
This is basically a traffic management sim with some city building aspects to go along for the ride
If you've got a PC, then I suggest you paly it there as the mods make traffic management much more fun.
As for starting out it's pretty simple:
1. Do not over extend. You need enough funds at the start to make changes. It's easy to hit pause, build, hit play and see that you've got to build more power lines here, more pipes there, more roads over there, and you're now in the negative cause it takes awhile to get apositive cash flow, in the menatime people ar episse dso they leave. Game over.
2. So start small. One road leding from the highway, and two areas, one for residential zoning the other for industrial.
3. You need the following when starting: A water tower. Pipes covering your inital roads. A sewage dump going to the water and the pipes to connect it. Keep in midn that you want it DOWN stream from you. Either an electric plant or some wind power and power lines leading from them to your water tower, sewage plant, AND the city. It's tough with power at first because while areas with buildings transmit power, areas without them won't. That means you have to put up electric lines leading to the little clusters of buildings that spawn here and there at the start, and sometimes you can run out fo money doing this, so becareful. Try to hit one central zone as long as possible.
4. Traffic is your enemy in the mid to late game. It's what will make it hard to kepe people happy as services struggle to get to where they are needed. This aspect can be frustrating at first, but when you get the hang of it, can be a fun and creative process, especially with mods!
Here is the biggest city I made so far. I got up to around 120,000-130,000 range before calling it quits on this city. I ran into a lot of traffic problems that were basically an issue from how the city was first designed. I've experimented a with a few other towns but haven't got up to this big yet.
Need to get back into the game as I haven't played in a month or so.
Need to get back into the game as I haven't played in a month or so.
Smiles and Cries
Member
I normally raised taxes
I am starting over after hitting negative 5 million cash. I'll go much slower this time to see if I can slowly build up what I missed last time
TheThreadsThatBindUs
Member
Cheers man. That's really great advice. I'll give it another go on PC.
I think i'll be less frustrated with the mouse and keyboard interface anyway.
Pjsprojects
Member
Help needed guys.
Xbox one version of the game is not showing the box that you click on to empty a landfill.
On Youtube all the vids show pc version that has this option.
So how do I empty landfill sites on Xbox one?
Xbox one version of the game is not showing the box that you click on to empty a landfill.
On Youtube all the vids show pc version that has this option.
So how do I empty landfill sites on Xbox one?
In the beginning you can lower your budgets on water and electricity to save some cash. Just make sure there's enough budget for the amount of water/electricity needed, you can get away with much lower than 100% budget for quite some time iirc.
tomwhite2004
Member
Anyone having issues with the game refusing to save properly? Can see the save exists but the load button is greyed out. Feeling like £35 down the drain right now...
N° 2048
Member
You got enough free space on the main hard drive? PS4 doesn't save to external.
Xcell Miguel
Gold Member
From what I remember, you use the Inspector tool (first one in the bottom menu bar) and select the building, then the button should be there in the popup, even if it's not full.