This guide will be showing you the list of hidden in-game settings in Cities: Skylines 2. At the same time, you will also be able to learn some of the most useful cheats that you can use in the game.
Setup
Short disclaimer, these all require you to have developer mode on, so your game may break.
- Go to your Library
- Right Click on Cities Skylines 2
- Click Properties
- Put this code into the Launch Option section
--developerMode
- Load your save
- Press Tab
Edge-scrolling
- Navigate to the Camera Tab.
- Toggle Edge-scrolling off.
Weather Effects
- Navigate to the Climate Tab.
- Adjust the Precipitation slider to your liking.
Change Season
- Navigate to the Simulation Tab.
- Expand Weather & climate.
- Drag the slider to change the season, unpause to make the changes come into effect.
Extra Speed Options
- Look for Sim speed in the top half of the menu.
- Adjust to your liking from, 1/8x, 1/4x, 1/2x, 1x, 2x, 4x, and to 8x
Cheats
- Navigate to the Gameplay Tab.
- Here you can Unlock all, Get 200XP, Skip to the next MS (Milestone), get 500k Money, change fee amounts as well.
- Navigate to the Simulation Tab.
- Expand Economy
- Here you can, get Superfast Building spawning, Superfast leveling, Reset Trade costs, Reset Land value, Reset Rents, Reset Services,
- Expand Pollution, here you can Reset Pollution, change the pollution radius, Multipliers, and how much plants “fade”
- With the developer panel open, you can press on a building and level it up.
- Expand Electricity & Water
- Here you can Disable Water & Sewage generation.
Fun
- Navigate to the Simulation Tab.
- Expand Triggers, here you can Create Chirps
- Expand Start event
- Here you can, Make a Lightning Strike Happen, Make it Valentines Day, Make there be a Flood, Tsunami, Tornado, a random building collapse, Forest Fire, Hail storm, Building Fire, etc.
Performance/Appearance
- Navigate to the GameRendering Tab
- Expand Shaders
Disable Cims
- Toggle Didimo/HDRP/SG_CharacterSkin (Skin on Cims)
- Toggle Didimo/HDRP/SG_GenericCrowd (Eyes, and Teeth)
- Toggle Didimo/HDRP/SG_CharacterCloth (Clothing)
- Toggle BH/Characters/SG_HairCardsDyed (Hair)
- Toggle Didimo/HDRP/SG_CharacterGeneric (Accessories)
Disable Shiny Tire tracks on roads
- Toggle BH/Decals/CurvedDecalDeteriorat
That's everything we are sharing today for this Cities: Skylines II guide. This guide was originally created and written by nxl. In case we fail to update this guide, you can find the latest update by following this link.