I’ve almost exclusively played it for the past few months instead of the original, and I still feel like something is not quite right. But I can’t articulate it very well. At launch the new one was atrocious, now it’s just fine. I’d probably play the original even more if it didn’t have some weird little performance issues (such as the music doing little glitches and skips… you know? The paid music DLC that’s actually pretty good? I wish we could play it in CS2 as well, there’s so much of it and a lot of us got it bundled with other stuff.)
I’ve also discovered WRSR since the launch of the second and that’s really moved the goalposts for city management games for me. CS and CS2 are much more laid back. WRSR is almost cruel with how tightly interlocked the many mechanics are, unlike CS/SC which are really more like city painters than city management games.
You don’t magically color a square green and have ✨the market✨ suddenly materialize a wholesome high-rise building for you.
You gotta have a supply chain for gravel, concrete, bricks/prefabs, metal (rebar), and electrical stuff, and you should also have the vehicles and manpower (which is bused in) to actually turn all of that into a building. You gotta make sure water is actually pumped there, pipes aren’t magic. Sewers aren’t magic. Electricity requires network planning. It’s great. So long as the road isn’t bottlenecked by your many construction vehicles. You need more roads? Sure! How much asphalt are you producing?
And that’s the easy mode. The “full” experience has you manage the fuel supply chain and maintenance for said construction vehicles, which you can now only buy at the border instead of at the garage. You also have garbage collection, recycling, it’s a full time job that still manages to be more interesting than any job I’ve had lol
There’s an infamous let’s play of the “full” game that basically has the first hour or two completely paused just preparing the start of the game.
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I’ve almost exclusively played it for the past few months instead of the original, and I still feel like something is not quite right. But I can’t articulate it very well. At launch the new one was atrocious, now it’s just fine. I’d probably play the original even more if it didn’t have some weird little performance issues (such as the music doing little glitches and skips… you know? The paid music DLC that’s actually pretty good? I wish we could play it in CS2 as well, there’s so much of it and a lot of us got it bundled with other stuff.)
I’ve also discovered WRSR since the launch of the second and that’s really moved the goalposts for city management games for me. CS and CS2 are much more laid back. WRSR is almost cruel with how tightly interlocked the many mechanics are, unlike CS/SC which are really more like city painters than city management games.
Ohh, what’s WRSR? Sounds interesting
EDIT: Do you mean Workers and Resources Soviet Republic?
Yep.
You don’t magically color a square green and have ✨the market✨ suddenly materialize a wholesome high-rise building for you.
You gotta have a supply chain for gravel, concrete, bricks/prefabs, metal (rebar), and electrical stuff, and you should also have the vehicles and manpower (which is bused in) to actually turn all of that into a building. You gotta make sure water is actually pumped there, pipes aren’t magic. Sewers aren’t magic. Electricity requires network planning. It’s great. So long as the road isn’t bottlenecked by your many construction vehicles. You need more roads? Sure! How much asphalt are you producing?
And that’s the easy mode. The “full” experience has you manage the fuel supply chain and maintenance for said construction vehicles, which you can now only buy at the border instead of at the garage. You also have garbage collection, recycling, it’s a full time job that still manages to be more interesting than any job I’ve had lol
There’s an infamous let’s play of the “full” game that basically has the first hour or two completely paused just preparing the start of the game.