On March 7, P held its own new game press conference, in addition to strategy games such as "Steel Commander" and "League of Lanterns", the most surprising thing for players was the finale "City: Skyline 2". Although there is no real screen in the trailer, from the information that has been announced, this game will not only be more realistic in terms of graphic style, but also the game will have further improvements in details such as the rotation of seasons, natural disasters, urban traffic and transportation.
For veteran players who have already spent a lot of time and energy in Generation 1, what is more exciting than launching a sequel is another thing - they can play more fun and awesome mods.
Mod is a P Club game feature that had to be tasted
Playing mods is not new in today's PC games, as long as you have the technical power, as small as changing the appearance of the character, as large as fixing the official game bugs, or even the whole completely different "new" game under the original framework. But it's not easy to get players to "generate electricity for love" by making mods.
In addition to the quality of the game itself and the official attitude towards mods, a good community atmosphere is also very important. After all, if a community is full of scolding, stomping, and confrontation all day long, then the players in it are afraid that it is too late to run, how can they create with peace of mind?
Fortunately, for P Club Games, the active community is not only their best "achievement", but also an important factor in raising the upper limit of P Club games represented by "City: Skyline" and maintaining the long-term vitality of the game.
When City: Skyline first met players in 2015, the game, which combined the best of its predecessors such as Megapolis and SimCity 2013, was well received. It not only has a comprehensive game framework such as blocks, economy, and policy, but also has a high degree of freedom in the transportation system such as road construction and material transportation.
Although the game received good results at the beginning of its release, as a game focusing on business simulation and construction, City: Skyline also has a good threshold to get started. There are no officials, not so smart AI, comprehensive but slightly rough game systems, completely insufficient tutorials and other issues, it is easy for novices who have just entered the game to be caught off guard by a large number of sudden unfamiliar concepts and imperfect game systems, and then directly dissuaded by "traffic jams" and "lack of clothing and food" and other problems.
At this time, the good community tradition has been passed down since the "Four Moe of P Society", and it has played an important role in how to retain players.
When "City: Skyline" was not officially Chinese at the beginning, players began to spontaneously form one discussion group after another on Tieba and Steam, and lowered everyone's threshold for getting started through the Chinese mods and Chinese patches of the Workshop. A year later, with the official launch of City: Skyline, the number of players in the country began to grow, and the community of the game began to gradually become standardized.
In the sticker bar of "City: Skyline", you can check the "Encyclopedia" post that has been updated for 7 years at any time to familiarize yourself with the operation of the game step by step, and you can also feel the infinite possibilities of simulation construction games from the advanced operation sharing of the big guys from time to time. In addition to these tutorials, it is naturally essential to enjoy this highly free game, high-quality mods, and a stable and convenient community platform.
P is also well aware of this, so they have always been open to mods and the underlying framework of the game, and this has become an opportunity for players to let go and create many mods that can improve the game experience and even redefine the gameplay.
Classic practical mods such as Move It, TMPE, Find It and so on, which can directly move plots of land and plan traffic rules for roads, have basically become the default game mechanics for most players. After cooperating with the CSUR made by players in Shangguo District, this high-end mod that can completely restore the appearance and function of transportation facilities such as roads and elevated roads in reality has almost ushered in a wave of huge changes in the underlying logic of the entire game. Vehicles will begin to obey traffic rules instead of simply looking for the shortest route, and citizens will no longer stage any strange scenes of "pants pulling out their crotches", which makes the originally busy city more real and perfect.
In addition to these functional mods, beautiful mods such as maps, facilities, and buildings are also another attraction in the City: Skyline mod. As long as you are willing to delve into it, take the time, restore a metropolis in reality with the help of mods, or use different styles of buildings to create a city that does not exist in reality, it is not a problem...
In addition, similar to the most famous games of P Society, City: Skyline, which is very realistic, is also the object that players use to diverge and "live". In addition to the "regular" operation of putting the entrance to the park on the sidewalk to make money and using the road with nine turns and eighteen turns to make NPCs dizzy, the high degree of realism of the game has become the biggest highlight of this community event under the official P club and the small such as NGCreation. Not only can you admire the magnificent or magnificent city works of the contestants, but you can also feel the unique charm of the simulation construction game from one after another exquisite and beautiful design.
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With the joint efforts of players and officials, the game's content output and mod updates have gradually stabilized, and the community has continued to be popular in updates and community events, and "City: Skyline" has unknowingly begun to become a leader in today's simulation construction games that cannot be ignored.
epilogue
Therefore, the attention of "City: Skyline 2" today is closely related to the continuous popularity and good atmosphere of a generation. For players, although the trailer of the second generation is not long, in addition to the changes of the seasons at a glance, the fine processing of water surface and mirror reflection in the clip, more details of buildings and facilities, and the appearance of taxis, buses, passenger planes and other transportation vehicles mean that some problems that need to be solved by playing mods in the past are likely to be thoroughly improved or even solved in the second generation, which also makes people look forward to the final appearance of the game.
After traditional themes such as "Ruler: Rome" and "Crusader Kings 3", today's P companies not only need to think about how to find a new direction in simulation management games, but also have to find a way to create a new benchmark that can support their own products after the "P Society Four Moe". Judging from the new game press conference, the finale appearance of "City: Skyline 2" is likely to be the answer that P has high hopes for. As for how far City: Skyline 2 can go under the dual expectations of players and officials, it remains to be seen.