Hi Everyone,

This week at Colossal Order: Happy! Tired. Excited! And we can't wait to hear what you think of the Scenario editor and Natural Disasters! I know you are mostly eager to read the patch notes, so here they are below.

Come say hi at Paradox Fan Gathering on Friday if you are there!

Cheers,
Mariina

1.6.0-f4

Paid content Cities: Skylines - Natural Disasters Expansion

• 7 disasters
  • Tsunami
  • Tornado
  • Thunderstorm
  • Earthquake
  • Sinkhole
  • Forest fire
  • Meteor strike
• Building fire now spreads
• Random disasters in sandbox play
• 5 scenarios
• New services to counteract disasters
  • Space Radar
  • Weather Radar
  • Tsunami Buoy
  • Earthquake Sensor
  • Firewatch Tower
• Re-building systems for disaster aftermath
  • Disaster Response Unit
  • Pumping Service
  • Large and Small Shelter
  • Tank Reservoir
• Helicopters for some existing services and helicopter depots
  • Fire Fighting Helicopter Depot
  • Medical Helicopter Depot
  • Police Helicopter Depot
• Planning escape routes for Shelters
• New Chirps
• 3 new Chirper hats
• 6 new unique buildings and a new monument
• 12 new Steam achievements
• 5 new policies
• Fresh Water Outlet (new Water Service building)

Free content for all players:

• Scenario editor and ability to share scenarios in the Workshop
• 3 radio stations
• Game engine upgraded to Unity 5.4
• Load/save/new -panels now support sorting asset list by name or modification time
• Extra buildings available also in the European theme
• Paradox Store logo is now Steam logo
• AssetImporter:
  • Imported asset scaling textbox is automatically set to match template mesh size to prevent confusion with very small models
  • Fixed preview camera showing building tiles for vehicles
• Warnings for badly optimized or very large custom assets added
• Sub building serialization + sub building tool in asset editor
• Prop/tree variation serialization + asset editor tool
• Asset importer prop/tree templates
• Asset editor props more organized
• Ambulance and police car siren volumes tweaked
  
  
• Fixed: After Dark: Collision: Citizens sometimes walk in mid-air to reach the restaurant pier.
• Fixed: Landscaping: None of the new props are localised in any part of the game
• Fixed: Snowfall: Trees don't have a thumbnail picture in their tooltip on winter themed maps
• Fixed: Snowfall: After the Christmas tree burns down the tree is unscathed.
• Fixed: Snowfall: Tool names partially overlap their corresponding icons
• Fixed: Stadiums: Juventus Stadium and Camp Nou are very brightly lit at night
• Fixed: Stadiums: Football Stadium model doesn't look burned down after having burned down
• Fixed: Stadiums: "Burned Down!" signifier is placed inside the Football Stadium
• Fixed: Stadiums: Football Stadium gets an "already built" icon when it shouldn't
• Fixed: Paradox account: Wrong password error message is ambigious
• Fixed: Paradox account: Missing translation in the Paradox account error message.
• Fixed: Asset Editor: Asset Importer category icons have no tooltips
• Fixed: Asset Editor: An intersection with roads from both expansions could have both badges displayed.
• Fixed: Asset editor: Impossible to import OBJ meshes for new assets
• Fixed: Content Manager - Unsubscribing too many workshop items at once leads to a crash.
• Fixed: Memory errors when over 16gb installed in Linux
• Fixed: The save games in the "Load Game" menu are strangely sorted instead of just sorted by date
• Fixed: Gameplay: Budget sliders create low land value
• Fixed: Park prop assets should have an indicator that they come from a specific DLC or mod
• Fixed: Milestones: Boom Town: Placeholder text displayed when hovering over the tram icon.
• Fixed: Bus: Missing translation for "Modify Line" and "Lines Overview".
• Fixed: Total line count in the public transport details panel is missing localization for other languages than english
• Fixed: Asset Editor: Saving a new asset with some default templates for vehicle assets displays a warning message

 

[ma2412]

after update am getting this
A Mod caused an error [System.Exception]

Details:
System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation. ---> System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
at NetworkExtensions.Mod.OnSettingsUI (UIHelperBase helper) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
at (wrapper managed-to-native) System.Reflection.MonoMethod:InternalInvoke (object,object[],System.Exception

me too, massive of those errors...
cars are sliding back and forward along the streets (looks funny, but seems to be a bug)

i guess, i have to wait many days till all my mods are updated for this latest release...

 

[metacritical]

after update am getting this
A Mod caused an error [System.Exception]

Details:
System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation. ---> System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
at NetworkExtensions.Mod.OnSettingsUI (UIHelperBase helper) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
at (wrapper managed-to-native) System.Reflection.MonoMethod:InternalInvoke (object,object[],System.Exception

see this post in the proper forum to post this.

 

[Keltia_Vikinga]

Translated to FR / Traduction : http://cities-skylines-france.blogspot.fr/2016/11/le-patch-160-f4-natural-disasters.html

 

[muttonnoir]

As a result of previous experience with new DLC/updates I've decided to give Cities Skylines a wide berth for at least a fortnight until this man made disaster settles down and International Rescue in the guise of modders clear up the doo doo

 

[Ignicity]

While having a new money making DLC is great and all, any chance co_martsu could comment on why it's taken more than 3 months to get any traction on why Steam Offline is not allowing mods to be used? (link to thread).

EDIT: people respectfully disagree with what exactly? all the factual information I provided in this post? freak'n fanboys. If you disagree with me, why not have the balls to write a post about it, reply to me, PM me, discuss the issue you have with it.... no? just be an anonymous troll... gg

FYI: co_martsu didn't "respectfully disagree" when they responded in that thread (albeit a disappointing response)

Update on this issue is that there is no update I'm afraid. Last time this happened (in 2015) Steam fixed it quite quickly so we were hopeful they would have gotten around to it already.

 

[KnightHawkTFC]

Nice work so far, but I'm somehow unhappy to not being able to create custom helicopters the way I'd love to as it seems there is no way to change the rotor mesh or its position. I hope some feature to edit such assets (also in the wind turbine) will be added in -f5 / -f6

I'd really love to recreate some real life helos at some point

I would love to have this coming to city near me to fight crime.

 

[Burningfeetman]

I would love to have this coming to city near me to fight crime.

Why not just decriminalise drugs and tax them instead?

 

[KnightHawkTFC]

Why not just decriminalise drugs and tax them instead?

Note I said "crime" and not 'drugs'.

 

[Mca101]

Anyone know what the extra buildings in the European theme are?

 

[Adegas]

Hi Everyone,

This week at Colossal Order: Happy! Tired. Excited! And we can't wait to hear what you think of the Scenario editor and Natural Disasters! I know you are mostly eager to read the patch notes, so here they are below.

Come say hi at Paradox Fan Gathering on Friday if you are there!

Cheers,
Mariina

1.6.0-f4

May i ask something?

Since upgrading Unity to 5.4 that improves multi threaded performance, does this means the support for DX12 will be available right now for C:S or that only means that in the future we might see Cities receiving a dx12 patch?

I am asking this cause since i got my RX480 i have seen major improvements on some games that i own that have dx12, like civilization, just got a +18fps just for switching from dx11 to dx12.

I am not an expert but i would to understand more about this new api.

 

[Yokenthwate]

Great news.

Could you please start doing something to overhaul industry and trade now?

Cheers

 

[ma2412]

i love the tsunami animation: the water flows out from the harbor first - and then it comes back in full effect! well done!

question:
if i set the desaster manually, how can i set the scale (i always get a 5.5 of the scale, if i set i manually)

 

[TV3]

The new Radio and Natural Disasters patch is a disaster for me - I cannot load a game anymore - either saved or new. The loading just grinds to a halt just as it's about to be completed. Can this be fixed? It ruins the whole experience.

 

[Keltia_Vikinga]

The new Radio and Natural Disasters patch is a disaster for me - I cannot load a game anymore - either saved or new. The loading just grinds to a halt just as it's about to be completed. Can this be fixed? It ruins the whole experience.

disable mods

 

[Sanny]

Thank you for all the nice stuff. This expansion and update have rebuilt my trust in CO.

 

[co_emmi]

May i ask something?

Since upgrading Unity to 5.4 that improves multi threaded performance, does this means the support for DX12 will be available right now for C:S or that only means that in the future we might see Cities receiving a dx12 patch?

I am asking this cause since i got my RX480 i have seen major improvements on some games that i own that have dx12, like civilization, just got a +18fps just for switching from dx11 to dx12.

I am not an expert but i would to understand more about this new api.

Hi! I'm afraid there are no plans to bring cities to DX12 for the time being, but the upgrade allows to keep options open and benefit of multi threaded performances on the currently supported APIs.

 

[TV3]

disable mods

Thanks, which mods should I disable? Can I disable the Radio patch? Not a bit interested on it.

 

[co_emmi]

Thanks, which mods should I disable? Can I disable the Radio patch? Not a bit interested on it.

Hi! This reddit thread might help you with mods: https://www.reddit.com/r/CitiesSkylines/comments/5fn3o4/csl_16_mod_compatibility/
I'm afraid you can't disable the radio, but you can just let it be on Cities: Skylines channel which is the normal game music.

 

[Swiss Halberdier]

Thanks a lot to all Colossal Order employees for their huge work while creating such an awesome and deep game!

 

[muttonnoir]

Impressed by the speed of modders and asset creators in updating their content making it compatible with Disasters DLC. The new dlc is also very impressive. The radio stations are meh (especially the dodgy re recordings rather than the original hit versions on "Gold") The new building pack released was a welcome surprise too.