City-builder Cities: Skylines is getting a free update on November 15. The Roads & Vehicles update will add more variations to roads and vehicles that you can have in your city.
The new vehicles which include new articulated buses are part of the base game- so every player gets them in the free update. Some of the vehicles previously appeared in developer Colossal Order’s previous game Cities In Motion.
There are also new vehicles for one DLC. There are now more tram varieties if you have the Snowfall DLC, which added the mass transit system.
The new roads, however, will require you to own some of the previous expansions. If you have the After Dark, Snowfall, and Plazas & Promenades expansions, you will get the new roads, some requiring a combination of DLCs to be available- a first for the game.
Here’s the list of new vehicles available with the Cities: Skylines Roads & Vehicles update:
Base Game
- Bus (bus01) – Capacity 22
- Bus (bus02) – Capacity 30
- Bus (bus03) – Capacity 25
- Double Decker Bus – Capacity 60
- Double Decker Bus – Capacity 65
- Articulated Bus – Capacity 50
- Articulated Bus – Capacity 70
- Articulated Bus – Capacity 80
Snowfall
- Tram – Capacity 90
- Tram – Capacity 80
- Tram – Capacity 65
- Tram – Capacity 70
- Tram – Capacity 72
- Tram – Capacity 105
- Tram – Capacity 132
- Tram – Capacity 110
- Tram – Capacity 140
- Tram – Capacity 114
- Tram – Capacity 130
- Tram – Capacity 116
Here are the new roads available with the Cities: Skylines Roads & Vehicles update (and what DLC they require):
After Dark
- Two-Lane Road with Median and Bicycle Lanes
- Two-Lane Road with Grass Median and Bicycle Lanes
- Two-Lane Road with Median Trees and Bicycle Lanes
- Three-Lane One-way Road with Bicycle Lanes
- Four-Lane Road with Decorative Grass and Bicycle Lanes
- Four-Lane Road with Decorative Trees and Bicycle Lanes
- Six-Lane Road with Decorative Trees and Bicycle Lanes
Snowfall
- Six-Lane Road with Median and Tram Tracks
- Four-Lane Road with Tram Tracks and Trees
- Two-Lane Road with Tram Tracks
- Four-Lane Road with Tram Tracks
- Six-Lane Road with Tram Tracks
- Six-Lane Road with Decorative Grass and Tram Tracks
- Six-Lane Road with Decorative Trees and Tram Tracks
- Two-Lane Road with Median and Tram Tracks
Snowfall + After Dark
- Six-Lane Road with Bicycle Lanes and Tram Tracks
- Four-Lane Road with Bicycle Lanes and Tram Tracks
- Two-Lane Road with Median, Tram Tracks and Bicycle Lanes
- Six-Lane Road with Tram Tracks, Bus and Bicycle Lanes
Plazas & Promenades + Snowfall
- Small Sandstone Pedestrian Street with Tram Tracks
- Small Bluestone Pedestrian Street with Tram Tracks
- Small Cobblestone Pedestrian Street with Tram Tracks
- Large Sandstone Pedestrian Street with Tram Tracks
- Large Bluestone Pedestrian Street with Tram Tracks
- Large Cobblestone Pedestrian Street with Tram Tracks
These cross-DLC requirements are due to the way the different modes of transport are added via separate DLCs. After Dark added bike lanes, Snowfall added Trams and the latest DLC Plazas & Promenades added pedestrian-only streets.
This change means that players won’t get all the content tied to DLC as it now requires a purchase of another DLC to fully unlock the content you technically paid for. For example, the four new roads that are added if you have Snowfall and After Dark DLCs, you own that content if you have Snowfall installed, but it is locked until you have After Dark.
But having cross-DLCs like this will see more ways to combine the new systems available in separate DLCs together without any arbitrary reason anymore. A road with bike lanes and tram tracks sounds like something that should exist -there’s even a mod for that already.
Having these added as post-launch free updates rather than a selling point for an upcoming DLC sounds like a smart move- we don’t want a situation where a DLC requires another DLC to fully unlock all its content (like what The Sims 4 did that one time).
The Roads & Vehicles update for Cities: Skylines goes live on November 15. The full patch notes can be found here.