The patch brings general improvements and bug fixes for roads and texts

Mar 23, 2013 14:41 GMT  ·  By

Electronic Arts and Maxis have just released a brand new update for their recently launched SimCity game, in the form of patch 1.8, which can be downloaded via Origin or the game's launcher, and brings general improvements as well as fixes for road and text issues.

SimCity came out earlier this month and, while many fans were eagerly awaiting the new city-building simulator, it ended up disappointing many because of its mandatory online connection requirement and the problematic servers that couldn't handle the influx of users.

Since then, Maxis and EA have been working to improve the game and have just released a brand new patch, in the form of update 1.8.

The patch, which can be downloaded via the Origin digital distribution service or via the game's launcher, brings a variety of different improvements to the whole game as well as fixes for bugs that affected roads and the different texts displayed in the title.

Check out the full changelog, via EA, below.

General  - Police station can no longer hold more prisoners than the capacity. - Added missing roof texture for certain commercial building. - Added completion moment cinematic for Great Works. - Visiting police cars have avatar of neighbor above them. - Arcology Population reflects the population of the Arcology, not the city. - Fixed a clog in the pipes where sewage would sometimes get backed up and act jittery. - Region Wall will pop up when a new chat message has been received.

Road

Improvements

- Improvements to cases when connecting a new road to an existing road that goes over uneven terrain. - Tuned some of the road snapping priorities to address some edge cases where it wasn’t behaving as desired - Fixed a case where a new road would sometimes cause an existing road to change its shape drastically. - Made Upgrade Roads mini-tutorial appear at appropriate time. - Fix to four lane bridge to improve divider line placement.

Text

Improvements

- Clarified alerts about residents not moving in because of high taxes to state if it is residents, commercial businesses, or Industry that won't move in because of high taxes. - Improved text and icons on cities in region view. - Updated text for "Become a Suburban City" mission to improve clarity. - Updated requirements text for HazMat garage for clarity

The new patch is already rolled out across the game's different servers.