SimCIty Offline Play Update Finally Getting Released

The impossible has now become very possible.

Maxis has released a new update to SimCity which will finally allow people to play the game in offline mode, something which they once said was an impossibility.

The full patch notes for the update are as follows.

SimCity Single-Player Mode:

• Enables Offline Play.
• Single-Player Mode includes multi-city play, regional interdependence, and city specialization. Regions are saved locally and there is no limit on number of save games.
• Autosave can be disabled in Single-Player Mode in order for players to experiment and load their regions at a previous save point.
• Save As a copy feature. Players can make copies of their regions at multiple save points.

Performance:

• Optimizations in the simulator to improve performance of both Multiplayer and Single-Player Mode.

Friends:

• Friends Search now uses the Origin friend search.

It remains to be seen whether this will be enough to persuade people who weren’t originally keen on the game to jump in, but it’s certainly good to see Maxis adding a feature that quite a few people were asking for.

Source: CVG