[2021] Your first look at skyscrapers from „The High Life“

We did actually explain it a bit :)

Q: The skyscrapers in the gameplay footage to “The High Life” look strange, just like extended Investor residences.
A: Many of you have pointed out that the skyscrapers prototype footage seen in the Season 3 trailer and stream look suspiciously as if someone had just “stretched” our existing investor residences higher- which is coincidentally exactly what they are! It is very common in game development to try and reach a playable prototype state for experimentation as quickly as possible by “kitbashing” any existing assets and features you already have, so you can first test a feature’s potential before wasting valuable time only to find out later that it wasn’t much fun in the first place.
This is an aspect of development that is rarely seen outside of perhaps “making of” videos and usually never makes it into a proper trailer, though in this case we chose to do so as we thought it would be cool to give you a glimpse at our third DLC that is coming this Summer.

I feel like I have heard the term "tier" used elsewhere in Anno, but I can't quite place my finger on it...

This Summer :)

Soon™

I was gonna say "This Summer?", but I guess yours works as well, Oli.

That's a good question that I am sure will be answered in a future DevBlog.

Well, the people here in the team can already play, so I guess that is technically "now"?

No, between now and September 21st, actually.

Sometime between today and September 21st.