{"id":38142,"date":"2023-11-04T18:00:17","date_gmt":"2023-11-04T18:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/cities-skylines-2-hotfix-removes-offensive-radio-advert-while-working-to-improve-performance\/"},"modified":"2023-11-04T18:00:17","modified_gmt":"2023-11-04T18:00:17","slug":"cities-skylines-2-hotfix-removes-offensive-radio-advert-while-working-to-improve-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/cities-skylines-2-hotfix-removes-offensive-radio-advert-while-working-to-improve-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"Cities: Skylines 2 Hotfix Removes ‘Offensive’ Radio Advert, While Working to Improve Performance"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Cities: Skylines 2<\/a> developer Colossal Order has released a new hotfix for the city builder that attempts to improve overall performance on PC while fixing numerous bugs, and removing an “offensive” in-game radio advert.<\/p>\n

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Among the many improvements introduced in the hotfix was an update that reduced the resolution of unnecessarily large character textures for the game\u2019s digital citizenry, which were taking a toll on performance. <\/p>\n

The developers had previously admitted that the character models needed addressing after a Reddit post went viral for suggesting the game was rendering individual teeth for members of a city\u2019s simulated population. Colossal Order subsequently told IGN that the teeth wern’t the cause of the performance loss<\/a>, but admitted that the citizen models did have issues with their level of detail (LOD).<\/p>\n

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Other performance improving tweaks included optimizations to lighting and changes to the way the game prioritises rendering assets. The developers also addressed a number of problems plaguing the simulation\u2019s economy, businesses, and utilities. For example businesses should no longer order resources when they don\u2019t have enough space to house them, and elsewhere a bug was removed that prevented certain assets from being consumed.<\/p>\n

Colossal Order also used the hotfix to remove the \u2018Spasm Electronics\u2019 advertisement from the in-game radio stations, after members of the community took issue with the sound effects used therein, which they argue mimic the sound a person makes when experiencing a seizure.<\/p>\n

The developer has warned that it will take a little while for the fixes to take effect for players continuing with existing save files. A full list of the hotfix improvements can be found below, courtesy of Paradox Interactive<\/a>.<\/p>\n