Colossal Order's biggest mistake working on Cities: Skylines 2? Banking on not-quite-ready Unity features

Is it just to accidental Cities: Skylines 2's improvement has been incredibly messy? I'd accidental it's fair, aft all, the crippled has wholly shifted developers successful the past fewer months, that doesn't dependable similar creaseless sailing to me. In the astir 3 years since it was released, the metropolis builder inactive has plentifulness of issues to woody with, possibly a grounds of a much manufacture wide problem. But successful a caller interview, Mariina Hallikainen, CEO of the game's present erstwhile developer Colossal Order, has spoken astir the circumstantial difficulties the workplace faced with the motor the crippled was built in, Unity.

"We wholly overestimated the engine's capabilities astatine the opening of the project," Hallikainen told PC Gamer, explaining that erstwhile the developer "started to enactment connected the sequel, we precise overmuch built each the plans toward features that were not finalized successful the engine. So, we fundamentally wanted to future-proof the game. We were each the clip reasoning that we volition beryllium moving connected this crippled for perchance up to 10 years, station launch."

According to Hallikainen, arsenic they looked into the exertion offered by Unity, doing truthful ended up being a mediocre prime owed to the information that galore of the supposedly utile features didn't really bash what they said they would. "We ended up successful a concern successful the improvement wherever we had to physique overmuch much things to either regenerate missing features oregon thing that [wasn't] working. This was thing that we precise overmuch present understand, that our mistake was to slope connected thing that was not yet proven, and that was a immense hindrance passim the improvement of Cities: Skylines 2."

One happening Hallikainen notes is that she, astatine the precise least, takes nary contented with Unity itself, saying the workplace has a "great relationship" with the motor developed. "Overall, what I perfectly privation radical to recognize is that everyone astatine Colossal Order, Paradox, Unity, we each did the champion we could nether the circumstances."

Colossal Order are presently astatine enactment connected thing new, too, but the lone happening Hallikainen said astir it is that it's a simulation game, and it's being made for PC utilizing Unity. Bit of a fork recovered successful room benignant of situation, but hey ho, that's marketing!