Frostpunk 2 Player Crams 1 Million People into the City

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Frostpunk 2 Player Crams 1 Million People into the City

Key Takeaways

  • A creative player manages to fit one million citizens into a Frostpunk 2 city, pushing the game’s limits.
  • The overwhelming district showcased in Utopia builder mode took hours of work.
  • The player utilized game-breaking knowledge with help from the 11 Bit Studios’ Discord community.

As a seasoned gamer with decades of experience under my belt, I must admit, I’ve seen some impressive feats in my time, but the one million citizen city in Frostpunk 2 takes the cake! It’s like playing SimCity on steroids, and I can only imagine the countless hours NEF293 spent meticulously planning and executing this colossal task.

A player, brimming with ingenuity, has undertaken an unprecedented challenge in the game ‘Frostpunk 2’: cramming a staggering one million inhabitants into a single city, aiming to test the boundaries of overpopulation within the game. Launched on September 20, 2024, by developers at 11 Bit Studios, ‘Frostpunk 2’ shares similarities with its forerunner as it is a city-building game with an intriguing dystopian flavor. This game empowers players to make tough moral decisions that can significantly impact the storyline’s end result.

In the city of New London, 30 years post a catastrophic snowstorm that reshaped Earth, Frostpunk 2 presents players with vital duties to maintain harmony among its inhabitants by ensuring adequate food, power, and shelter supplies. A player has intriguingly decided to challenge the norm, opting to cram an excessive population into their city instead of cultivating a bustling metropolis.

In a post on Reddit, user NEF293 has showcased to the community their overwhelming district in Frostpunk 2‘s Utopia builder mode and how they managed to cram one million people into the game’s Horizon City map. NEF293 expressed that they were able to do this colossal task with the help of members from the 11 Bit Studios’ Discord community, who came together to help utilize all the game-breaking knowledge they had for Frostpunk 2. In NEF’s YouTube video, the ambitious player explains that the entire process took hours of work, mostly due to having to wait for the population to grow until it was stable enough to sustain such a massive city.

Frostpunk 2 Player Fills City With One Million Citizens

In the conversation, NEF293 mentioned that they emphasized adaptation and logic fundamentals to prepare their city for severe cold conditions. They also utilized some principles from the game Frostpunk 2, such as Mandatory Crowding, Dense Housing, and Crate Schemes to optimize shelter. However, despite these measures, their city was still facing a -3k shortage in shelter, meaning many residents were exposed to harsh weather conditions. Other Reddit users responded with admiration and astonishment at this daring yet impressive attempt. One user referred to the player as “legendary,” while another found the whole process “really fascinating.

Managing a city of such scale in “Frostpunk 2” is truly remarkable, yet for many players, attempting this feat might lead to the game crashing. Despite high-end gaming laptops available to run “Frostpunk 2”, NEF293 attributes their progress mainly to the Glimmer beta branch appearing to resolve an issue with DX12 that significantly improved the game’s performance and made it less terrifying.

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2024-10-15 15:43