Cities Skylines II DLC now wrecks the main game, fix will take weeks

The primary premium DLC enlargement for Cities Skylines II continues to be a humiliation for Colossal Order’s in any other case main metropolis constructing collection. Already the developer and writer Paradox Interactive determined to pull the DLC from sale and issue refunds to any who purchased it.

Now, it appears that evidently a title replace dealing with the elimination of the DLC, pending its free addition to the principle recreation, has induced near-fatal visible glitches that wreck gamers’ cities. It might take as much as three weeks to resolve this new difficulty, Colossal Order informed followers.

Official forums and the subreddit for Cities Skylines II are alive with complaints that present buildings have both been changed with grey “tombstone” place-holders, or just worn out altogether.

“Sadly, on account of variations within the packages bought, some entitlements are at the moment inactive and inflicting a difficulty the place the participant can not entry the property,” Colossal Order wrote in an replace to an FAQ initially revealed on Thursday. “We’re on the lookout for a short lived repair for this, however the difficulty might proceed till the patch is launched.”

The developer stated the patch is already within the works and “we intention to ship this replace to you inside 2-3 weeks, earlier if doable.”

Followers are upset with the ham-handed response to the underwhelming Seaside Properties DLC, whose property gave the impression to be no nice shakes for a chunk of premium content material, however no less than nonetheless labored. Now those that purchased it are discovering they’ve a damaged recreation in the interim.

“I’d give them a day or two earlier than they stroll again and launch an emergency hotfix,” said one Redditor. “Nobody appears to be accountable for this firm, all the things simply appears so poorly coordinated and arranged.”

Cities Skylines 2 has had issues from day one

Cities Skylines 2 launched in late October, and had noticeable efficiency points and different issues that led critics, and lots of followers leaving consumer critiques, to blast it as feeling unfinished, even like an early entry recreation.

Then in November, Colossal Order’s chief govt apologized to followers and stated it might delay improvement and launch of the sport’s premium Growth Go content material to be able to deal with bettering the bottom recreation and launch a extremely anticipated, and likewise overdue, Mod Editor.

A beta model of mod help launched on March 25, together with the now-infamous Seaside Properties asset pack. The sport is at the moment obtainable for Home windows PC by way of quite a lot of marketplaces. Its PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X versions are anticipated later this 12 months.