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Final Up to date: April 1st, 2022 We’ve spoken about Cities: Skylines and the way widespread it’s right here at WePC earlier than and have checked out the potential of Cities Skylines 2 and whether or not it’s truly on the horizon or not. What we haven’t talked about to date, is that this new VR model which has a launch date confirmed now for the tip of April on the Meta Quest 2 (I do know, I do know, it’s the Oculus Quest to you and me, however for the sake of protecting the peace with Zucks…). Unusually, for a recreation the place you suppose you would nearly expertise the skylines of your cities for themselves, the Skylines moniker has been dropped from the sport, leaving us with simply Cities: VR. Cities VR – how does it work? From the gameplay video we will see the dev displaying off among the controls and the way laying out roads and pipelines will work earlier than the buildings then begin to spring to life and folks start to maneuver into your metropolis. Solely time will inform if that is truly as pure as utilizing a mouse – it type of looks as if it has the potential to be slightly clunky as you map every little thing out out of your hovering God-like spot within the sky. The graphics are additionally extra colourful and fewer detailed than we’ve got come to count on from the PC model however that is the trade-off of the low-end {hardware} of the Meta Quest 2. Finally, as any VR aficionado is aware of, you don’t want 4K graphics to get a full immersion right into a recreation. My 200+ hours in Elite Harmful are a testomony to that. The picture above appears to be like fairly cartooney and largely texture free however taking a look at VR screenshots on excessive–finish screens isn’t consultant of the general expertise within the slightest. How is Cities VR completely different from Cities: Skylines? Moreover the aforementioned dip in graphical constancy the scale of the cities you may create can also be vastly smaller – that is being pitched as to create a extra “intimate” expertise, however it’s extra wish to be the extra intimate capabilities of the Snapdragon processor within the Quest 2 headset. At launch, we aren’t going to get pure disasters or terrain modifying however it’s potential these will arrive sooner or later, though we aren’t how experiencing a full-on earthquake in VR will make us really feel. Cities VR gameplay trailer Developer Quick Journey Video games has now shared a four-minute walkthrough video that provides us some pointers as to what we will count on on the finish of the month. Quick Journey Video games are an organization that makes a speciality of VR and has been given the duty by Colossal Order to reimagine its child in digital actuality type. Cities: VR Launch Date Cities: VR is obtainable to be pre-ordered on the Meta Quest Retailer (which nonetheless reveals as Oculus.com for us, however, nicely, meh) priced at £22.99 with a ten% low cost for leaping in earlier than the discharge date
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