Cities: Skylines – Natural Disasters
Natural Disasters features a catalog of catastrophes to challenge mayor-players everywhere, including planning with early warning systems and emergency routes, devastating and destructive disaster effects, and caring for the populace as they struggle to rebuild. The expansion will also update Cities: Skylines with a new scenario editor and gameplay mode, allowing players to finally win – or lose – the game on their own terms. Deep, Impactful Gameplay: Keep your city going through the devastation of several possible doomsday scenarios, from towering infernos to the day the sky exploded. Natural Disasters includes Earthquakes, Thunderstorms, Tsunamis, Forest Fires, Tornadoes, Sinkholes and Meteors With Great Power Comes Great Response Abilities: Plan for, and respond to, disasters using early warning systems, countermeasures, and new disaster responses such as helicopters and evacuations – finally, a Paradox game where “Comet Sighted” actually means something
Steam User 10
Some dude complained that there weren't enough parks around even though he lived right next to a park. I set the park on fire, extinguished it with a tsunami, and then nuked his whole block with meteors.
10/10 would recommend.
Steam User 3
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Pros:
Misc:
Fun: Like, nothing else to it, so cool
Buildings and structures:
There is a monument, it usually doesn't fit in well in most cities, but it can be used well
There is a load of cool structures that can revamp your city, such as radio towers, you can use structures in this game with a big industry vibe, it makes your industry areas look so much cooler
Mechanics:
Nothing specific to mention, but it's good
Cons:
Nobody cares that Natural Disasters destroy your city, like, oh I'm sooo surprised, BUT here is the issue:
Minor but can be severe issue:
You don't get disaster response immediately, and many many many cities I make, have disasters before I hit that point, so you are screwed if that happens.
BIG BIG ISSUE:
This can DESTROY your city if it is centralized city, or if you have a lifeline road, unless you always have the ability to replace it at all times, if you spent a ton of money, and then it gets destroyed, the only way to come back is by using cheats to rebuild it, which leads to the biggest issue, that you CAN'T stop
**HUGE** issue
Disasters strike beyond city limits, including highways, and it can destroy a highway outside your city, and then you are dead. Over. Gone. You are powerless to stop it unless you have 81 tiles WHICH IS BROKEN, OR you can buy the tile which usually you can't
Annoying Thing
You can't go back and say "wait wait wait, I see a 10.0 tornado coming, and it will obliterate my 75,000 pop city, wait wait wait, don't do that please" disasters always come, even if you reload the game, or disable them, once a disasters spawns, it will go. So just make multiple save files
Steam User 1
Cool addition, it adds some trouble into the otherwise serene gameplay
Steam User 1
Do you like suffering? Then this DLC is for you. Youll forget you even installed it until the game throws a category 69 Tornado at your city and destroys it all, glitching any and all bus lines you had set up and killing 70% of your population (because of course you didnt build shelters that, now that youre aware of their existence again, cost a whole bunch of space, money and upkeep-)
Jokes aside. Can be pretty fun. Would not recommend for any relaxed playthroughs. This DLC will shove Disasters so far up your city youll wish you didnt install it.
Steam User 0
Helicopters are both cool and useful. Disasters are actually pretty rare, so your city will unlikely get completely wiped off the map. You can even adjust random disaster frequency. Watch out for Earthquakes and especially Tsunamis those will fuck you up good.
Steam User 0
the DLC is very fun just if you are making the perfect city remember to turn of natural disasters because the game lodes the disaster way before you hear about it and always get every rebuilding building in the DlC or you will have no chance of rebuilding also do not put on auto save because you do not know if you have saved a city ending disaster. you mite think that I can just rebuild but with a flood your city just gets collapses under the water if your city is near the cost but the flood comes from the start of the map so just be stay safe.
a disaster happened to my perfect city and i saved the game but i built walls to stop the flood and only the cost was cleaned from the earth but if this happens to you do not give up.
Steam User 2
This DLC is pretty fun. I figured out how to SET FREQUENCY in options.
Now i'm ok and love seeing a disaster happen once in a long time.