Cities Skylines II gets Modding and Beach Assets in new Update

There’s nothing like a good day at the beach. There’s also nothing like modding your favorite game and making it serve your needs. Now, it seems that Cities: Skylines II’s latest update is bringing both of those things to your PC.

Cities: Skylines II – Beach Properties is the first asset pack made available for Cities: Skylines II. It is currently available for $9.99 and offers a variety of new content. Check out what the press release has to say about the pack here.

“Paradox Interactive and Colossal Order today launched Cities: Skylines II – Beach Properties, the first post-launch asset pack for Cities: Skylines II. Bringing new buildings, a new zoning option, and more to the sequel to Paradox’s best-selling city-builder game, Beach Properties is available now from digital retailers for a suggested retail price of $9.99/£8.49/€9.99, or as part of a bundle in the Cities: Skylines II Waterfronts Expansion Pass or Ultimate Edition. The game has also been updated today with the first in-game modding options, allowing players to create, share, and play with Map and Code Mods through the free Paradox Mods platform.

Beach Properties allows players to beautify and build a better beachfront, including a new Waterfront zoning option dedicated to waterfront buildings, new growable and signature buildings for both European and North American themes, and new trees to inspire creative coastlines. The Asset Pack is available today, alongside an extensive update to Cities: Skylines II that includes beta implementation of the editor, performance improvements, fixes, and community requests.

Today also marks the launch of the Cities: Skylines II Modding Beta, with immediate access to Map and Code mods. Using the Paradox Mods platform, also integrated into the Cities: Skylines II experience, creations can be played locally and shared globally.

The platform also allows players to discover and curate other available mods, organize their preferred mods into one-click Playsets, and more. As of today, mod creators have already created new versions of some of the most popular Cities: Skylines mods for all players to download and try immediately. Asset modding and improvements to the toolset will be made available later this year.”

It’s nice to see that the dev team is creating more improvements and content for Cities: Skylines II. Hopefully, as time goes on, they’ll address the issues people have had with the game compared to the original. There’s no word yet on what we’ll get next in the roadmap, but I’m sure we’ll find out soon.