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After eight years and fifty-six DLCs, content creator packs and radio stations so far, Colossal Order are coming to the end of the road with Cities: Skylines before concentrating on the upcoming Cities: Skylines II.
However, Cities: Skylines is going out with a flourish with the release of the DLC Hotels & Retreats and three Content Creator Packs, which are Brooklyn & Queens, Industrial Evolution, and Railroads of Japan. And for all players, an update to the game. Let’s check them out and see what they involve.
Update 1.17.0.

Everyone who owns Cities: Skylines will get an update 1.17.0. It includes six new industrial vehicles, a cargo train engine, new trees and new hedge props.

For players with the Green Cities DLC, you’ll also get an advanced coal power plant and two new biofuel buses. The Park Life DLC receives three new amusement rides, the log ride, the Tarsier house, and a nature reserve museum, which all look cool.
If you own the Industrial DLC, it is updated with a few new industrial roads and an industry highway. In addition, you will also get a warehouse with a rail connection going into the warehouse. It looks terrific and is a great addition to help move your industrial goods in and out of your city.
Furthermore, if you own the Industry DLC and Sunset Harbour DLC, a new seafood factory joins all the other factories in the pack. And finally, we can now store fish in the warehouses.
More Goodies in the Update

The Sunset Harbour DLC also receives more love from Colossal Order with new trolley bus roads. There is a mixture of sizes from four lanes to six lanes. Also, new trolleybuses are included with different passenger capacities. Also, the cost of ruining trolley buses on your city expenses has been reduced, and noise pollution has also been reduced. Finally, three new Trolley Bus roads with bicycle lanes for players with the After Dark DLC exist.
The Airport DLC also receive a minor update with two decorative airport aprons. Basically, they can be placed anywhere in your city and used as a type of surface painter all over your city.
The Plazas and Promenades DLC gets an update to some of the parks with new styles you can choose. Furthermore, we can finally zone at the side of the roads in the vanilla game by implementing a zoning button. Finally, we can choose where we want zones to be when we place roads.
A small change for players with Africa in Miniature DLC, which now has its own style in the drop-down menu.
Cities: Skylines – Hotels & Retreats

As the name suggests, Hotels and Retreats add a customisable hotel chain to the game. Having hotel chains lets your city capitalise on tourism and organise events at premium hotels.
The hotels unlock once you reach milestone three, Tiny Town. The DLC also adds to the gameplay and increases the footfall of tourists to your city. Tourists fall into four categories: sightseeing, shopping, business, and nature tourists.
Each hotel and its location in your city will appeal to different tourists. For example, shopping tourists look for commercial buildings, so placing a hotel near those buildings will increase the number of tourists that visit that area. The tooltip of each hotel shows how much (if at all) a hotel can appeal to these groups, while the surroundings you place it in will fill up each bar accordingly.
Colossal Order has also added a heat mat; when you click on the Hotel info views, it automatically opens, showing the hotel’s highest potential category.
However, for the optimal location for your hotel, you can cycle through each category and choose a spot with the best overlap. You can also boost the overall popularity rating by placing public transport nearby, ensuring there is little to no crime in the area, and avoiding areas with heavy pollution.

The Hotel and Retreats DLC adds fifteen new hotels and nine new Tourism Buildings. The mechanics for managing your hotels and resorts are similar to those in Campus DLC.
Hotels & Retreats come with five new maps featuring a variety of landscapes. For example, Coastal Flatlands has a flat landscape with hills, rivers, and lakes. Emerald Cliffs is a European map with a bay stretching far inland and cliffs towering above the landscape. The Maze Valley map has a canyon carved into the landscape surrounded by extensive plains.
In addition, the Shifting Sands map is a tropical map on the edge of a desert. Finally, we have the European map, Weaving Waters, which has forests covering the landscape that are ideal for nature retreats or forestry. Who doesn’t love new maps when they are added to the game? I know I do, as it gives us more variety to choose from.
Content Creator Pack – Brooklyn and Queens

Content creator Prosper has designed the Brooklyn and Queens content pack. There is a new district style of more than sixty mid-rise residential growables and props. The theme of the creator pack is based around the building in Brooklyn and Queens, and they add more style to your city than using all the base game drab buildings for residents.
Content Creator Pack: Industrial Evolution

The Industrial Evolution Content Creator pack by Samatha “Avanya” Woods contains thirty-four historic brick factories. These are red brick old-style factories for your industrial area, and Samatha has done a great job designing them.

There are also eighteen modern light industry buildings and eighteen contemporary modern industrial buildings. I like this pack as it reduces the use of the base games terrible-looking factories and replaces them with more realistic ones.
Content Creator Pack: Railroads of Japan

Railroads of Japan is a Content Creator pack from Ryuichi Kaminogi. As the name suggests, it adds authentic Japanese railroad stations to your game.
The pack includes four Railroad Stations, two Railroad Trains, six Metro Stations, and one Metro Train. It also adds one Bus and one Bus Depot, four Parks and two Ploppable buildings, one Unique Building and one Police Station and props and one decorative n network. The railroads of Japan add plenty of new stations to improve the look of your city and the lives of the cims.
