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I really enjoy CS2. Yes there are performance issues, however I turned down the settings (taking advice from the day 1 email/guide to optimise performance) and it performs reasonably well. I am running an i9-9900K, RTX3080, 32GB Ram, and CS2 is on the M.2 drive. With this setup do I want to run on higher settings? Yes, very much so, but the game is playable. If there were stutters it would drive me crazy, I would rather lower until the game is better optimized or I have a more powerful computer (yes, I do expect to keep coming back to this game). In my opinion its important to keep in mind what CS2 is currently: it is what I would have wanted after CS1 saved the city building genre. I loved SimCity games, but they had to hand over the right to be the flagship series to CS after Maxis failed to innovate and released SimCity (2013) which was a horrible disappointment and truly showed that Maxis was not in touch with what people want in a city builder. Lets face it, CS2 is a big jump forward even with performance issues. We have a lot of features and improvements, not just in terms of baking into the game a lot of expansions that modders paved the way with, but a serious improvement to the core simulation of the game. I think Colossal Order is on the right track with this series. This is a big ambitious jump forward, such jumps dont always go smoothly! The level of detail and complexity in the simulation is incredible, so is the price-point for such a project. I know that I will pay for in the long run with the Paradox DLC machine, but I will probably do so gladly (as I do with other Paradox games). Looking forward to playing this as the game expands over the years to come!

I really enjoy CS2. Yes there are performance issues, however I turned down the settings (taking advice from the day 1 email/guide to optimise performance) and it performs reasonably well. I am running an i9-9900K, RTX3080, 32GB Ram, and CS2 is on the M.2 drive. With this setup do I want to run on higher settings? Yes, very much so, but the game is playable. If there were stutters it would drive me crazy, I would rather lower until the game is better optimized or I have a more powerful computer (yes, I do expect to keep coming back to this game). In my opinion its important to keep in mind what CS2 is currently: it is what I would have wanted after CS1 saved the city building genre. I loved SimCity games, but they had to hand over the right to be the flagship series to CS after Maxis failed to innovate and released SimCity (2013) which was a horrible disappointment and truly showed that Maxis was not in touch with what people want in a city builder. Lets face it, CS2 is a big jump forward even with performance issues. We have a lot of features and improvements, not just in terms of baking into the game a lot of expansions that modders paved the way with, but a serious improvement to the core simulation of the game. I think Colossal Order is on the right track with this series. This is a big ambitious jump forward, such jumps dont always go smoothly! The level of detail and complexity in the simulation is incredible, so is the price-point for such a project. I know that I will pay for in the long run with the Paradox DLC machine, but I will probably do so gladly (as I do with other Paradox games). Looking forward to playing this as the game expands over the years to come!