Once we had built our perfect urban enclave, we’d raze the whole thing to the ground by creating natural disasters, then see how long it took us to repair the damage.Ĭities: Skylines lets you relive those glory days with the Natural Disasters expansion.
Maybe we’re a bit sadistic, but some of our favorite memories from the golden days of playing SimCity 2000 were disasters. With these infrastructure projects, you can customize the layout of your cities with even more traffic flow options. In addition to building the public transportation utopia of every urbanite’s dreams, Mass Transit also includes several new road types, bridges, and canals. Not only does it add new public transit options like cable cars, monorails, ferries, and even blimps, but it lets you connect all of these types of transportation options together using the new transit hub buildings. Because there is so much to choose from, Sidegamer wanted to take a look at Cities: Skylines’ best DLC. Since its release back in 2015, Paradox’s epic city-building sim has seen a flood of amazing new content. Building efficient public transport systems are easier to do now, but still challenging to master, so buy this pack and practice away! 2.Much like actual cities, Cities Skylines is a living, breathing experience that is ever-changing and expanding. I always enjoying planning bus and train lines, and it’s great having the hubs for Cims to transfer between lines at. More public transport leads to less traffic congestion on your roads, more income, and happier citizens. This pack is a pretty great one and a must-have for any sprawling city. There’s also small quality of life changes, like being able to name your individual streets and change the rules of the roads (both of which were available with mods, prior to the pack being released).
The Mass Transit expansion pack gives you more options for transportation in your city you can now add ferries, blimps, cable cars and monorails, and also build mass transit hubs for Cims to transfer between transportation. But if you’re looking for a challenge, this pack is a great addition to the game.ĭealing with traffic is probably the most challenging part of playing Cities: Skylines, and you learn fairly soon that having efficient public transport (just like in real life cities) is quite important. As someone who spends HOURS meticulously planning (and re-planning) each of my cities, the last thing I’d want is for my hard work to be washed away by a tsunami, so I always play with the disasters off.
I don’t necessarily think this pack is bad, but it’s not a must-have for me. You can plan your city to handle them with warning systems and emergency routes, and even build shelters. The Natural Disasters pack does give you the ability to turn on (or off) natural disasters in-game, allowing for random disasters to occur earthquakes, tsunamis, forest fires, tornadoes, thunderstorms and more. Anyone who came to the game from playing the old SimCity franchise is all too familiar with causing an earthquake or tornado just to wreck their own perfectly planned town, so it seemed odd that C:S didn’t have the same options. I remember when Cities: Skylines was first released one of the major complaints from players was that there were no natural disasters, or ways to destroy the town.