SimCity's 'first significant update' coming Monday

EA is preparing a major update for SimCity, which will come with a few small feature additions and a huge list of fixes and updates to make the game run smoother.

Steve Watts

April 19, 2013 10:30 AM

SimCity is getting its version 2.0 patch on Monday, a major update that will make quite a few changes and fixes. EA calls it the game's "first significant update," and says it will pull the game down for approximately two hours at 1 PM PST to issue the changes.

A post on the EA Forums detailed the new features. The HUD will color-correct when set to colorblind mode, and data maps will show a filtered color when enabled, except when in colorblind mode. You can also drive your helicopter, limo, or sports car to work, because Mayors get to do that sort of thing.

The list of fixes and updates is much longer than the list of new features. The region filter will sort ones with available spots at the top, and invitations to regions should transfer more quickly. Various fixes are coming to casinos, education systems, transit, air pollution, recycling, and more as well.

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April 19, 2013 10:30 AM

Steve Watts posted a new article, SimCity's 'first significant update' coming Monday.

EA is preparing a major update for SimCity, which will come with a few small feature additions and a huge list of fixes and updates to make the game run smoother.
- kelerian
  
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  April 19, 2013 10:31 AM
  
  This smoothness patch brought to you by: SKIPPY'S smooth peanut butter! Just place the factory in your city and enjoy!
  - MondayJBlack
    
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    April 19, 2013 1:49 PM
    
    Crap, I came here to be clever and you beat me to it. Better too.
  - Beady
    
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    April 19, 2013 2:45 PM
    
    Nah, KY Jelly
    
    Makes taking it up the ass from EA easier too.
    - Madwacker
      
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      April 20, 2013 10:44 AM
      
      Costco pack.
- pizzaput
  
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  April 19, 2013 11:17 AM
  
  Unless it fixes the game by giving it offline play and larger build-space, don't waste my time. My copy of the game will continue to sit in digital decay. Get a damn vision that actually fits with Sim City.
  - Deathlove
    
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    April 19, 2013 11:21 AM
    
    You knew about the city size and the no-offline-play before you bought it - why did you bother?
    - Ambient80
      
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      April 19, 2013 12:40 PM
      
      Because internet.
    - Bamtan
      
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      April 19, 2013 12:46 PM
      
      The first reviews alleviated the fear caused by small city size. The first 20-30 hours you play in wonderment, and then begin to realise why the small city size does matter. I would like a larger city, or at least a circular one.
    - pizzaput
      
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      April 24, 2013 3:15 AM
      
      Who said I bought it?
  - djustifier
    
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    April 19, 2013 12:41 PM
    
    Whose vision of Sim City? Yours or the owner of the IP?
    - senor135
      
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      April 19, 2013 10:50 PM
      
      you're right "the owner of the IP has the right to do whatever they please with their property" but i think it's hard to argue that EA hasn't ruined the original vision of the Sim City IP.
    - pizzaput
      
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      April 24, 2013 3:16 AM
      
      The vision set forth by the original games. SC5 is a monstrosity of bad game design.
- AroundTheFur1380
  
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  April 19, 2013 12:31 PM
  
  Apparently getting it to work wasn't significant.
- MondayJBlack
  
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  April 19, 2013 1:50 PM
  
  I know this is typically frowned on these days, but seems appropriate:
  
  "Is this the patch that makes it good?"
  - p34nk
    
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    April 19, 2013 2:00 PM
    
    The problem is that I dont think you will find an acceptable answer, but I'm going to go with "Hell NO".
- LoioshDwaggie
  
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  April 19, 2013 3:13 PM
  
  That fix list looks like 'how the game was supposed to work'.
  - Bill32399
    
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    April 19, 2013 8:33 PM
    
    Exactly what I thought when I read it.
  - nagenift
    
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    April 19, 2013 10:48 PM
    
    Yeah, regions with open slots appearing first in search results? Wow, wtf. How is that not the first thing you do with the search ui? I think I would feel embarrassed if I had to publish a change log with something that's so obviously a bug being touted as a feature. The entire change list consists of shit that should have been there from day one.
    
    I knew it would be like this and I still bought it. I will stfu about this now, because I'm the idiot.
    - senor135
      
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      April 19, 2013 10:53 PM
      
      that's ok, we'll allow EA to take this opportunity to impress you by realizing "hmm, people gave us the money anyways, that was big of them... let's return the favor and really put in some effort on our end"
- bigimp
  
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  April 20, 2013 7:40 AM
  
  2.0? More like v0.9. Game sounds like it's almost ready for a v1.0 now (but still isn't really...)
- DRFUCKYOUALL
  
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  April 21, 2013 7:56 AM
  
  Unless you give me expanded city size, forget about it.
- dlr(2)
  
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  April 21, 2013 4:38 PM
  
  Can wait to get in a traffic jam driving my sports car.
  - dlr(2)
    
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    April 21, 2013 4:39 PM
    
    Can => Can't