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Greetings, Mayors! Please note: This update is fully compatible with existing save files and should not disrupt your current mods. Following our recent update, we received significant feedback regarding extended startup loading times. We sincerely appreciate your patience and detailed reports as we worked to identify the cause. We have now deployed a hotfix to...
Greetings, city builders! We have been actively addressing the extended loading times experienced when using mods, and we are eager for your assistance to gather additional data. We have launched a Steam-exclusive beta branch that allows you to preview and test the hotfix currently in development. To participate, ensure you own the game on Steam,...
Greetings, Mayors! Patch 1.5.7f1 is officially live. We are eager to hear your thoughts on these latest adjustments. Should you encounter any technical hiccups while playing, please don’t hesitate to submit a bug report via our official forums. We’ve also implemented substantial improvements to Paradox Mods. Previously, the in-game interface required users to wait for...
Greetings, Mayors! With the last traces of winter snow finally retreating from Tampere, Finland, the timing couldn’t be better to unveil our latest update: Spring Cleaning. This patch brings a fresh wave of content, refined gameplay mechanics, UI enhancements, and visual polish. True to the “Spring Cleaning” theme, we’ve also scrubbed away a variety of...
Greetings, Mayors! In this edition of City Corner, we are pulling back the curtain on the technical architecture of Cities: Skylines II. We sat down with our lead programmer and technical director to dissect our current performance landscape. We will be exploring the two primary categories of performance bottlenecks, our roadmap for future optimizations, and...
Greetings from the Paradox Mods team! Welcome to our inaugural developer diary. Over the past few months, we have been hard at work crafting several powerful new features. We are thrilled to offer you a preview of what is coming in our next update, currently slated for release by the end of this month. Our...
Hello everyone, I’m Titan. Many of you within the community might recognize me—I’ve been a dedicated asset creator for Cities: Skylines since its inception. From contributing to the German Region Pack for the sequel to sharing my process on YouTube, my passion has always been expanding the visual toolkit of our cities. Today, I am...
Greetings, fellow urban planners! I am Bad Peanut, and I’m thrilled to present the developer diary for my debut Creator Pack for Cities: Skylines II. For those familiar with my work, this project marks a return to my creative origins: public transportation. I began my journey in the Cities: Skylines modding scene back in 2015,...
Greetings, Mayors! The Cities: Skylines franchise officially reaches its 11-year milestone this month. To commemorate this landmark occasion, we are rolling out a special Anniversary Patch. While this update may be modest in scale, it introduces a significant new asset and several highly requested gameplay enhancements. Beyond the immediate changes, we also want to provide...
A Message from the Cities Team Eleven years of architectural mastery, boundless creativity, and a community that never stops dreaming bigger. What began with the placement of a single road has blossomed into a global phenomenon of sprawling metropolises, intricate transit networks, and vibrant neighborhoods. Cities: Skylines is celebrating its 11th anniversary this month. This...
