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CITIES: SKYLINES END OF THE YEAR RELEASES - 2022


Hello City Builders!
Welcome to an end-of-the-year Cities: Skylines Frenzy!
We're so thrilled to announce our newest upcoming mini-expansion Financial Districts, along with new Content Creator Packs, Radio Stations, a massive free update, a free-to-play weekend on Steam and a World Tour Kick-off.

Find below our release schedule for the rest of 2022.

HEARTS OF KOREA - CONTENT CREATOR PACK
[h3]RELEASE DATE: 15TH NOVEMBER 2022[/h3]
Expand your City with Heart of Korea, a fresh, South Korean-inspired Content Creator Pack by Content Creator Elvis. Explore new cityscapes and get inspired by 60 new assets including service buildings, growable buildings that expand as your area develops, and 8 new unique buildings.

[h3]Heart of Korea features 60 assets, including:[/h3]
  • 29 Growable low-density residential
  • 17 Growable high-density commercial
  • 6 service buildings
  • 8 unique buildings


SKYSCRAPERS- CONTENT CREATOR PACK
[h3]RELEASE DATE: 15TH NOVEMBER 2022[/h3]
The only way is up!

Touch the sky with the “Skyscrapers” Content Creator pack by Feindbold. Enjoy 24 unique skyscrapers and high rises and their 20 variants inspired by iconic buildings from all over the world.

[h3]Skyscrapers Content Creator Pack Key Features:[/h3]
  • North America: Four buildings reaching up to more than 200m, inspired by iconic structures from the late 1900s.
  • Europe: Ten skyscrapers from countries all across the continent, including Germany, France, Italy, the United Kingdom, Spain, and Poland.
  • Asia: Four buildings based on modern structures from Japan, Singapore, and Taiwan.
  • Australia: Two skyscrapers reaching up to more than 250m inspired by landmark Sydney buildings.
  • Africa: Two buildings higher than 200m based on South African structures from the late 20th century.
  • South America: Two skyscrapers inspired by high-rise buildings in Brazil and Argentina


K-POP STATION - RADIO STATION
[h3]RELEASE DATE: 15TH NOVEMBER 2022[/h3]
Get in the groove with some K-pop tunes! Straight from South Korea, K-Pop Station arrives to energize your city-management skills.

[h3]K-Pop Station features 16 songs for more than 45 minutes of music![/h3]

80’s DOWNTOWN BEATS - RADIO STATION

[h3]RELEASE DATE: 15TH NOVEMBER 2022[/h3]

Feeling the asphalt melting under your feet? Got stuck in a traffic jam? What about stepping on a cramped train? Breathe in the modern City! Put your headphones on and lace up your roller skates with the 80’s Downtown Beat radio.

[h3]The Radio Station includes 16 songs for more than one hour of music![/h3]

ROADS & VEHICLES - A FREE UPDATE
[h3]RELEASE DATE: 15TH NOVEMBER 2022[/h3]

Follow along on our socials & forums for more information on the free update.

FINANCIAL DISTRICTS - MINI EXPANSION
[h3]RELEASE DATE: 13TH DECEMBER 2022[/h3]
Boost the economy of your City with a financial district, and use your funds to invest in the best industries for your population. Financial Districts is a mini-expansion from Colossal Order that adds the new feature “Investments” and more than a hundred assets to the game.

[h3]Financial Districts’ key features include:[/h3]
[h3]Investments[/h3]
Invest your money wisely and improve the lives of your citizens.
Many sectors await your support such as deathcare, healthcare, oil, ore, farming, generic industry, and logistics. Keep track of your investments with the new stock trading tab.
[h3]Stock exchange[/h3]
Level up your investment funds with the stock exchange. This new building also unlocks the tax income bonus for office zone buildings in its area.
[h3]Bank buildings[/h3]
Money, money, money! Banks add a new service to your city and improve its safety thanks to their transport vans that, while collecting cash from commercial zone buildings, decreasing the criminality rate in the area.
[h3]Financial District Specialization [/h3]
Unlock a new district for office zones when you reach the “Big Town” milestone.
Financial Districts feature a new visual style, and generate higher taxes than basic office zones but decrease happiness.
The tax income bonus increases if a stock exchange is nearby.

MAP PACK 2 - CONTENT CREATOR PACK
[h3]RELEASE DATE: 13TH DECEMBER 2022[/h3]
Get some new inspiration and build more diverse Cities with “Map Pack 2” from the community modder Sidai. This Content Creator Pack adds 10 maps that represent different biomes such as Boreal, Desert, Tropical, and Temperate.

AFRICAN VIBES - RADIO STATION
[h3]RELEASE DATE: 13TH DECEMBER 2022[/h3]
Influenced by traditional African music, this Radio Station will inspire every city planner with 16 tracks and more than one hour of music.

FREE TO PLAY WEEKEND

[h3]LIMITED TIME ON STEAM [/h3]
[h3]Dates & Time: 19:00 CET, 10th November 2022 - 19:00 CET, 14th November 2022[/h3]

Cities: Skylines - Plazas & Promenades expansion is out now

Making the best city-builder even better, the Cities: Skylines - Plazas & Promenades expansion is out now.

Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/09/cities-skylines-plazas-a-promenades-expansion-is-out-now

Cities: Skylines | Plazas & Promenades! | Available now!

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Plazas & Promenades Expansion is NOW AVAILABLE! 🏗️

Build your own unique walkable cities and say hello to pedestrian streets, car-free areas & modern plazas. Let your citizens walk freely on pedestrian-only streets while you build brand new city-service buildings and 3 new special districts.🌆

Get excited for the brand-new wall-to-wall specialization and a whole collection of new buildings, assets and props to detail your cities. Create, manage and progress your pedestrian areas, small pedestrianized neighbourhoods, park & bus plazas and huge downtown commercial strips just to name a few!

Accompanying Plazas & Promenades are two unique Content Creator Packs, 2 Radio Stations & a free update!

Plazas & Promenades Dev Diary #5

Hello again city-builders! Plazas and Promenades is almost here, and I’m so excited that you will soon be able to enjoy it. As with every major expansion, we have a little something for all players who own the base game, and today’s Dev Diary is all about the free content!

Let’s start with a convenient new feature, Quit After Saving, which can be enabled when saving your city. As you may have guessed from the name, it will quit the game once it finishes saving, allowing you to skip the process of saving, waiting for it to finish just to select exit and get a warning about losing progress if you haven’t saved. Very handy when you’re done playing and just need to save and quit the game.

Check the box before saving to quit automatically

[h2]New roads[/h2]
As roads are a central part of any city, we are expanding the options even further with 18 new roads. We had a look through the road types you have wished for over the years and added as many of them as we could in this patch. This includes a series of roads with bus-priority lanes, which can be used by other vehicles if they need to turn, and for the first time ever bus-only lanes and roads!

In the Small Roads category, you can soon find the new small road with wide sidewalks and small one-way road with wide sidewalks, as well as small roads with a concrete median, grass median, and tree median. For the busier parts of the city, you can grab the small 4-lane road or the 4-lane road with bus lanes, or expand your one-way road system with the 3-lane one-way and 4-lane one-way roads.

Stylish and practical selection of new roads

New in the Large Roads category are the new large roads with medians, featuring 6 lanes in two directions separated by either a concrete median, grass median, or tree-lined median - the latter of which comes in both a regular version and a bus-priority lane version.

Expand your busy roads using these new options

Lastly, we have a handful of new Highways for you using the all-new bus-only lanes. Create a high-speed bus network with the two-way bus-only expressway which comes both with or without sound barriers, or integrate bus-only lanes into your existing highways with the highway with bus-only lanes, both with or without sound barriers. And to connect them all you can use the bus-only expressway ramp.

Build a bus rapid transit system using the new highways

We look forward to seeing how your cities will benefit from these new options and which ones will be your favorites. And while it isn’t a road we do have another network for you, namely the new one-way metro tracks, allowing you more control and customizability over your metro network.

Now, all there’s left to do is check out the tutorial video by Overcharged Egg, have a look at the patch notes below, and wait for Plazas and Promenades to release. We hope you’ll enjoy the new content!

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[h2]Patch notes for 1.15.0-f5[/h2]

Paid content Plazas & Promenades expansion
  • Pedestrian Area
    • Service Points
      • Pedestrian Area Service Point
      • Large Pedestrian Area Service Point
      • Garbage Service Point
      • Large Garbage Service Point
      • Cargo Service Point
      • Large Cargo Service Point
    • Pedestrian Streets
      • 5 Small Sandstone Pedestrian Streets
      • 5 Small Bluestone Pedestrian Streets
      • 5 Small Cobblestone Pedestrian Streets
      • 5 Large Sandstone Pedestrian Streets
      • 5 Large Bluestone Pedestrian Streets
      • 5 Large Cobblestone Pedestrian Streets
    • 10 Pedestrian Area Plazas
    • 4 Policies
  • New City Service Buildings
    • High-Capacity High School
    • High-Capacity Elementary School
    • High-Capacity University
    • High-Capacity Hospital
    • High-Capacity Police Headquarters
    • High-Capacity Fire Station
  • New Public Transport Stations
    • Elevated Train Station
    • Elevated Metro Station With Shops
    • Parallel Underground Metro Station
    • Large Underground Metro Station
    • Compact Bus Station
  • 6 New Unique Buildings
    • Pedestrian Street Market Hall
    • Museum of Post-Modern Art
    • Sunken Plaza Shopping Mall
    • Residential Zone Landmark
    • Commercial Zone Landmark
    • Office Zone Landmark
  • District specializations
    • 48 Residential Wall-to-wall Buildings
    • 48 Commercial Wall-to-wall Buildings
    • 48 Office Wall-to-wall Buildings
  • 5 New Maps
  • 2 New Chirper hats
  • 3 New Steam achievements
  • New Chirps


Paid content Shoreline Radio Station
  • Shoreline Radio DLC
  • 16 New Songs
  • DJ Content


Paid content Paradise Radio Station
  • Paradise Radio DLC
  • 16 New Songs
  • DJ Content


Paid content Content Creator Pack: Mid-Century Modern
  • Content Creator Pack: Mid-Century Modern DLC
  • 147 Residential Buildings, 5 Park Buildings, and 32 Props
  • New residential district style


Paid content Content Creator Pack: Seaside Resorts Content Creator Pack: Seaside Resorts DLC
29 Service and Unique Buildings

Free update for all players and DLCs owners
  • New Roads added
    • 9 New Small Roads
    • 4 New Large Roads
    • 5 New Highway Roads
  • One-Way Metro Tracks added
  • Quit After Saving option added
  • Fixed: "Allow Intercity Trains" and "Disable University Boost" buttons cannot be disabled
  • Fixed: Airplane models are not displayed properly in the Asset Importer
  • Fixed: Incorrect display of burned-down Terminals
  • Fixed: Collapse flag does not work on bend network segments
  • Fixed: Crime rate icons don't appear on Airport Terminals
  • Fixed: Chirper Balloon icon is missing in the Asset Importer
  • Fixed: Fields, pastures & tree plantations no longer randomize their type/submesh
  • Fixed: Some spelling mistakes
  • Fixed: Names in Simplified Chinese do not display correctly
  • Fixed: "Allow Intercity Trains" is missing or hidden when Simplified Chinese is selected
  • Fixed: Incorrect seating position for Modern Table Set
  • Fixed: Highway bridge towers are missing light props
  • Fixed: Duplicates RequestItemDetails sometimes causes the game to crash
  • Fixed: Vehicles are not highlighted in vehicle selection UI
  • Fixed: Citizens get stuck on large nodes

Plazas & Promenades Dev Diary #4

Greetings city-builders, and welcome to the fourth Dev Diary covering Plazas and Promenades. Today’s dev diary is all about the new district specializations and new maps, so let’s check them out.

First up we have the three new Wall-to-wall specializations that can be used for residential, commercial, and office zones. They unlock at Milestone 6 - Big Town, along with high-density zoning. Each specialization features 48 new modern low-rise buildings to create a unique area in your city. As a new feature to the game, these buildings have murals, which are randomly selected each time a building spawns to create additional variation and color in the neighborhoods.

A sprawling wall-to-wall neighborhood

The new wall-to-wall specializations don’t just look cool, but as a specialization, they also work slightly differently from regular zone types. To reflect their modern construction, these buildings have a lower risk of catching fire, but as they’re built close together, fires spread more easily between them. So make sure to keep a few fire stations nearby just in case they do catch fire.

Like previous specializations, they can be found in the Districts and Areas menu under each zone tab and are applied to a district by selecting the specialization and clicking on a district. For pedestrian areas, however, there is no need to create a district, as specializations can be applied directly to the area. If a district and a pedestrian area overlap and have different specializations applied for a specific zone, like commercial, the pedestrian area specialization will be the one used.

[h2]New maps[/h2]
Now we can’t have an expansion without new maps for you to build on! For Plazas and Promenades, we have 5 maps for you to choose from, featuring different landscapes and themes.

First is the temperate map of Cape Apple. You start centered on a long peninsula with easy access to the surrounding landmasses, creating an excellent environment for a thriving metropolis. Take advantage of the ship connections to bring in tourists or set up a bustling industry along the coast as you build your new city.

Cape Apple offers wide open spaces ready to be developed

Next, we journey to the tropics with Coastal Gem. It features long wide beaches and lots of open space to build a city on. You can expand inland to reach some of the area's many ore deposits or claim the coastline and benefit from the added land value of waterfront property.

Coastal Gem lives up to its name with its beautiful beaches

Gondola Islands is the first of our two new European maps. It is made up of a cluster of islands of varying sizes only connected to the mainland by a bridge. Whether you create island communities focused on walkability using pedestrian areas or connect the many islands using the new roads, Gondola Islands will shape any city built here.

The island cluster of Gondola Islands have much to offer

The boreal map of Oracle Lake offers a large valley filled with forests and lakes for you to build your city on. Base the city’s industry on the large forests, extract the abundant ore in the area, or focus on creating a vibrant tourist destination. The choice is yours.

Oracle Lake features many scenic views

Last but not least is our second European map, Splitz Tributary. Build your city at the foot of the mountains or along the banks of the rivers meeting here. With lots of buildable land, your city can take many forms.

Splitz Tributary is an ideal location for a new city

This concludes our Dev Diaries for the new content coming in Plazas and Promenades. On Tuesday, we’ll have a look at the free update that adds something new for everyone, as well as the patch notes so you’re completely up to date before release. Below Overcharged Egg has another tutorial for you, showing off the new content. Enjoy!

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