Developer Iceflake Studios is rolling out a new update for Cities Skylines 2 on PC, bringing targeted adjustments to core simulation systems including garbage collection, residential demand, and citizen financial behavior.
Quick Facts
- Platform: PC
- Developer: Iceflake Studios
- Key Fixes: Garbage truck routing, residential demand calculator, citizen income logic, company renting priorities, and map texture/LOD upgrades.
Garbage Truck Logic and Collection Fixes
Trash accumulation and frustrated inhabitants have been a frequent pain point for players, stemming directly from faulty garbage truck behavior. Previously, trucks collected small amounts of waste from buildings along their routes, causing them to fill up before reaching their primary destinations.
With the upcoming patch, trucks reserve enough capacity for their intended destination and skip buildings with minor garbage build-up. This change applies across all buildings, resulting in fewer garbage pile-up notifications when paired with an efficient amount of processing facilities and providing a happiness bonus for clean homes.
Residential Demand and Citizen Finances
Residential demand calculations have been overhauled. The system previously failed to account for settlement size, causing demand to plummet in large cities. The updated calculator now factors in settlement size alongside the number of empty residential properties in the region.
Additionally, citizen financial behavior now relies on income rather than fluctuating wealth to determine happiness, shopping, and leisure choices. This adjustment aims to ensure happiness stats accurately reflect how well off citizens are.
Company Renting and Visual Overhauls
Company renting priorities are now determined by which businesses can produce the resources the city needs most. Essential resource producers secure locations first, while lower-priority businesses wait, leading to zoning areas that spawn more needed companies and bring down demand bars appropriately.
Visually, the PC patch includes freshly painted terrain textures on the Waterway Pass and Lakeland maps, tree LOD improvements to stop floating branches, and improved surface rendering for natural lighting across slopes. A new set of windows—including frosted and opaque options—also introduces visual variety while yielding small performance gains when rendering large numbers of building windows simultaneously.