Cities Skylines 2 Patch Improves Garbage & Blocks Unsafe U-Turns On Highways

A new patch for Cities Skylines 2 has been released for both Steam and Microsoft Store which introduces even more fixes for the various issues that the game has.

Cities Skylines 2 Patch 1.0.13f1

Patch 1.0.13f1 has been released for Cities Skylines 2 which primarily covers the content which was discussed in the previous Word of the Week primarily around garbage collection. With this patch the garbage production and accumulation calculations have been balanced, garbage trucks no longer accidentally add garbage load when calculating the amount estimate for their paths, and the garbage resource “trade value” no longer shows a negative value.

Something I’ve noticed from browsing related subreddits is that many users are complaining about cars making unsafe U-turns on motorways when merging from a split-lane motorway into a connected-lane motorway. This issue has been patched with a pathfinding penalty increase alongside a fix for lane-changing behaviour when one or more lanes merge from the left side. The traffic in the game is quite chaotic at times and I hope to see more fixes, though some could say the chaos accurately reflects real life with some of the idiots on our roads. Unfortunately, my game pass subscription has expired so I won’t be playing for a while, but when more fixes come along I’ll grab another month’s subscription or maybe even the full game if it drops under £30.

Patch Notes

• Balanced Garbage production and accumulation calculations
• Fixed garbage truck accidentally adding garbage load when calculating garbage amount estimate for the path
• Fixed garbage resource “Trade value” showing negative value in statistics
• Balanced Incinerator Plant electricity output
• Fixed various character clothing issues
• Balanced stray pets in the city
• Increased pathfind penalty for unsafe u-turns on highway
• Fixed incorrect traffic lane-changing behavior when one or more lanes are merged to one from the left side
• Balanced Water Consumption of multiple City Service buildings
• Fixed wrong zoning grid offset when opposite side of pedestrian street, alley or gravel road has retaining wall. (This can cause some zoning issues that cannot be automatically fixed if this type of location is already zoned in a save)
• Fixed cars signaling wrong side when leaving roundabout with left-hand traffic (Takes effect on existing saves only after touching roads near the roundabout with road tool)
• Fixed parking fee policy available for subway stations even though they don’t have parking spaces
• Fixed an issue with randomization of radio ads per brand influence in a city
• Fixed faulty unicode and non-alphanumerical characters support to Microsoft cloud saves
• Fixes various occurrences of randomly bright windows on vehicles
• Matched Transportation infoview stop legend colors to stop icon colors
• Performance optimization to polygon area triangulation and validation
• Fix for potential error: Inspector failed to parse HTTP data on connection