The BEAR interchange is OVERPOWERED in Freeways!!

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  • Freeways part 11 where I try the best traffic fixing techniques from my real life highway design experience to see if they work in Freeways! This time I go back to my childhood to use a highway interchange layout inspired by a teddy bear!!
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Комментарии • 389

  • @frederf3227
    @frederf3227 2 года назад +1224

    The difference between a civil and military engineer is one designs in a hostile, dangerous politically-chaotic apocalyptic battlefield and the other works for the army.

    • @danthiel8623
      @danthiel8623 2 года назад +10

      Haha 😂👍

    • @jwalster9412
      @jwalster9412 2 года назад +17

      The difference between a hat and a bowl, is one is used for food, drink, and chip holding, and the other doesn't have a edge you can hold stuff on and is usually chrome or plastic.

    • @UtopssAKAPJ
      @UtopssAKAPJ 2 года назад +2

      you're not wrong 🤣

    • @mello9586
      @mello9586 2 года назад +3

      @@jwalster9412 wat

    • @jwalster9412
      @jwalster9412 2 года назад +1

      @@mello9586 Boler hats are ok, but a has a sombrero larger brim that can be used to hold stuff.

  • @oliverlovestrains
    @oliverlovestrains 2 года назад +365

    i bought freeways because i saw you playing it, so glad to see you playing it again!

    • @elm5424
      @elm5424 2 года назад

      .

    • @Baolis
      @Baolis 2 года назад +1

      @@elm5424 .

    • @sper1585
      @sper1585 2 года назад +1

      Same here.

    • @bertil0424
      @bertil0424 2 года назад

      Same here but mini motorways

    • @801russc
      @801russc 2 года назад +1

      AmongRBLX: Yeah same here, I ended up getting really far but I still love to watch someone else play.

  • @marcor815
    @marcor815 2 года назад +146

    Funfact about the turbine interchange: a few years ago in grammar school during some booring french & english classes I started to think about how to optimize a highway interchange and came up with the turbine as the best solution. But unlike the one Matt shows at 0:38 my left-turns moved from inside out.
    Needless to say im now studying civil engineer

    • @jwalster9412
      @jwalster9412 2 года назад

      What is your opinion on roundabouts?

    • @marcor815
      @marcor815 2 года назад +12

      @@jwalster9412 roundabouts work great for medium traffic. But only single laned (with split right turn). As soon as it is two laned, too many drivers use it wrong. And as soon as there are multiple lane streets involved, I‘d go with traffic lights.

    • @nyandoesthings
      @nyandoesthings 2 года назад +5

      @@marcor815 I like this opinion. I don't do anything with civil engineering, however...as a driver in an area that adds about a roundabout every year, the amount of people in two lane roundabouts who have no clue what they're doing and just cut across the other lane/switch lanes randomly is terrifying.

  • @ameliajales5307
    @ameliajales5307 2 года назад +318

    Here’s a few different bits of advice:
    •cars follow the way you drew the road exactly, and also take the shortest connected route to their exit. Avoid making sharp turns as that will cause vehicles to slow down massively.
    •2 layer roundabouts can actually beat a lot of levels, but as you can imagine they suffer in efficiency due to the amount of concrete used. Do them if you’re having trouble in a symmetrical level, you can always go back later.
    •segregation can sometimes help in certain levels, and while merging usually causes a loss of efficiency, if all arrows are equal it actually won’t matter so long as they all merge just before the exit.
    •drawing a bridge into an exit that hasn’t been connected yet will automatically bring it to ground level.
    •you can have a third layer for your bridges, but they cost three times as much concrete as ground level. Keep them as short as possible.
    •If a level has an unlockable photo, it means there is an intended solution. The first clover you made was a prime example.

    • @jwalster9412
      @jwalster9412 2 года назад +4

      So grids are OP irl, but I. This game there not?

    • @LeakyTrees
      @LeakyTrees 2 года назад +19

      @@jwalster9412 grids aren't good for actual road design, because it's easy to make lots of traffic. They're good for city design, since streets are easy to identify, and there's lots of space.

    • @jerodast
      @jerodast 2 года назад +2

      Some arrows are more equal than others.

    • @Somya_Moonat
      @Somya_Moonat Год назад

      ​@@LeakyTrees 😅

  • @notw41k3r
    @notw41k3r 2 года назад +561

    He told us to ignore the strongest road
    he really is turning into an architect

    • @kmo556
      @kmo556 2 года назад +8

      Yes. yes he is

    • @AverageAsbestosConsumer
      @AverageAsbestosConsumer 2 года назад +24

      i think he meant the traffic jam

    • @lamb-mz2sd
      @lamb-mz2sd 2 года назад +11

      come to think of it, it's the jamming that makes it strong...

  • @saquoiafighter
    @saquoiafighter 2 года назад +42

    Some of your designs (like in 5:05) are quite simple & effective. I remember when I did the level, I had a tunnel vision about using overpasses, direct routes, and not using curves as much as possible. And yet you get scores in the high 500s with ease. Cheers to you.

  • @Kj_Gamer2614
    @Kj_Gamer2614 2 года назад +27

    I’ve mentioned this before, but if you press on the yellow car/helicopter when zoomed out, it gives you a cinematic camera that follows a car which can be nice to see.

  • @kariemmostafa7932
    @kariemmostafa7932 2 года назад +84

    2:26 You know if you go into an exit with bridge mode, it will make you a nice down ramp automatically.

    • @lululolly
      @lululolly Год назад +3

      he couldve just done it anticlockwise

  • @ready7307
    @ready7307 2 года назад +8

    RCE: Red Me: Orange!
    RCE: Pink Me: Purple!
    Love your content

    • @emilyesnyman
      @emilyesnyman 2 года назад +1

      Okay but I agree with you😂😂

  • @TheDallyboor
    @TheDallyboor 2 года назад +17

    There's no way I just binge-watched this whole series. Keep it up, I can't wait for next episodes!

  • @ExaltedDuck
    @ExaltedDuck Год назад +2

    That photo... that's a really famous junction in LA. The 105 and 110 or Century Freeway and Harbor Freeway. It was opened in the early 90s and at the time, was the highest freeway junction that had ever been built, with some of the ramps as high as 130 ft over ground level (13 stories or 40 m). It's also where they filmed the famous jumping bus scene in the classic film Speed. If you're headed onto the NB 110, it gives you a great view of the LA skyscrapers. Which is nice because once you're on the 110 within 3-4 miles of downtown, having something soothing to reflect upon will help pass the hours you'll spend wading through griidlock.

  • @McBuff
    @McBuff 2 года назад +33

    I want real highway engineers to watch this series and take notes. I would love to drive these roads.

    • @Shenaldrac
      @Shenaldrac 2 года назад +5

      You say that right until your taxes go through the roof because they keep having to scrap everything and start from scratch at the smallest mistake due to a lack of undo button :V

  • @ronniemokeev3322
    @ronniemokeev3322 2 года назад +10

    Envirobear is actually the dev's previous game! It's the most realistic bear driving simulator in the market and it's free! highly recommend.

    • @JeyPeyy
      @JeyPeyy 2 года назад

      omg it's the same dev? 😂 I love this dude so much

    • @katanah3195
      @katanah3195 8 месяцев назад

      Bear driving sim? So you're a bear driving a car? Adorable!

    • @ronniemokeev3322
      @ronniemokeev3322 8 месяцев назад +1

      @@katanah3195 Yes! You play as a bear driving a car trying to get ready to hibernate! It's kind of cute in a weird way :D

    • @katanah3195
      @katanah3195 8 месяцев назад

      @@ronniemokeev3322 AWWWWW I need to find this game! Sounds super cute!

  • @CC-ke5np
    @CC-ke5np 2 года назад +7

    Using a graphics tablet and a ruler makes it much easier to draw roads neatly. also one of the "bendy rulers" used to draw mathematical graphs helps a lot, especially to draw roundabouts.

  • @JackTheRifter07
    @JackTheRifter07 2 года назад +7

    What's funny about the LA picture and the comments about how it's built so you can keep speed, that's only feasible like 30% of the time in the depths of the night, due to traffic in general.
    Also, that first coastal map after you were done with it reminded me a lot of PCH or Pacific Coast Highway which is a highway that follows the entire coast of California.

  • @neilkingston8474
    @neilkingston8474 2 года назад +20

    I want to see the route a car would have to take to get from one side of the world map to the other.

    • @MouseGoat
      @MouseGoat 2 года назад +4

      make a racing game based on the finished design :D

  • @PMX
    @PMX 2 года назад +24

    14:27 the reason this one was better than the one immediately after: look at how long it takes for a car on the bottom to get to the left side in this small roundabout vs the large one after.

    • @Humulator
      @Humulator 2 года назад

      this needs to go to the top

    • @Satseful
      @Satseful 2 года назад +1

      Amount of time to go from a to b does not matter in this game. Only speed matters. So longer route with higher speed is always better than shorter route with lower speed. Total efficiency can go down with longer route only if it uses more concrete.

    • @semitendinosus
      @semitendinosus 2 года назад

      It probably is more of an issue of the sharp turn on the right side of the roundabout that slows traffic down substantially.

  • @Thirdbase9
    @Thirdbase9 2 года назад +14

    After being really frustrated on the turtle-bear level, I just drew a bunch of perpendicular roads and got 297. ☹️

  • @K29B08L19A92D
    @K29B08L19A92D 2 года назад +21

    Would be really cool to see how you design road layouts in your real job👍🏻

  • @Cory_Springer
    @Cory_Springer 2 года назад +22

    I love this series! I also like how RCE sees details I never noticed when plauing the game (lolipops, bear cheeks, crashed ufos etc).
    Still waiting for him to discover the helicopter veiw from the main menu though...

  • @ger128
    @ger128 2 года назад +21

    The lesson I'm taking away from this video series is, "Roundabouts are the solution to every problem"

    • @Aperson156
      @Aperson156 2 года назад +1

      As long as you only have one lane of traffic lol

    • @aldrichemrys
      @aldrichemrys 2 года назад +1

      @@Aperson156 and that traffic are evenly distributed to different roads.

    • @Shenaldrac
      @Shenaldrac 2 года назад

      So are you blacking out every level he solves with non-roundabouts? Because there's plenty of levels where roundabouts don't work.

  • @dannypipewrench533
    @dannypipewrench533 2 года назад +1

    5:36 I remember watching Tom Scott assemble/dissect one of those. Very interesting design.

  • @FakeThunder11
    @FakeThunder11 2 года назад +2

    I saw that L.A picture and was like,"I swear ive been there in gta5." Lol

  • @alexanderzippel8809
    @alexanderzippel8809 2 года назад +2

    I love how the picture for the bear just says "Los Angeles". No description of that chaos. Just LA. Its enough description

  • @Arto91
    @Arto91 2 года назад +3

    As someone from the UK I really wish we did not have so many roundabouts. They were built in a time before traffic existed and can no longer support modern day numbers, at least it seems that way in my area.

  • @dreamerofthorns
    @dreamerofthorns Год назад +2

    I love how the descriptions for all these photos actiually say something.
    And then there's Los Angeles.

  • @joschaellersiek1260
    @joschaellersiek1260 2 года назад +2

    8:36 Speed-limit on Motorways? Greetings from Germany…😎

  • @misterfoldy
    @misterfoldy 2 года назад +2

    Hope you return to Freeways soon! Would love to see you complete the map.

  • @Luges_
    @Luges_ 2 года назад +3

    8:35 „what ever your local motorway national speed limit ist“ … german people: „what speed limit“ 😂😂

  • @TheEverydayMax
    @TheEverydayMax 2 года назад +4

    Small hint: if you have completed a level but still want to improve, there is a way to roll back to previously saved solution. Simply resize the game window and it will return you to the map without saving the level. Ofc you have to play in window to be able to do that.

  • @taphan117
    @taphan117 2 года назад +2

    Love your videos man!! Started with architecture in college and now do civil engineering in Colorado!! I've been converted!!!

  • @reversev9778
    @reversev9778 2 года назад +1

    You still need to add this video to the freeways playlist!

  • @Intrafacial86
    @Intrafacial86 2 года назад +3

    Level 60 (5:23) was another one I struggled with to get the picture until now.
    I took inspiration from your bear/hamburger design (hambearger?) and squeezed out 346

  • @sreenath2539
    @sreenath2539 2 года назад +3

    OMG I was waiting when the next episode of this and infra space would come

    • @emilyesnyman
      @emilyesnyman 2 года назад +1

      My two favourite games on this channel!

    • @sreenath2539
      @sreenath2539 2 года назад +1

      @@emilyesnyman me too hi fi 🙌🏻

  • @JUST_GAUNT_GET_ENOUGH
    @JUST_GAUNT_GET_ENOUGH 2 года назад +1

    Super happy to see some of this series again.

  • @Jefe_rust
    @Jefe_rust 2 года назад +1

    I’m so glad this series is back!!!

  • @thegrimpaipear
    @thegrimpaipear 2 года назад +6

    To answer the thumbnail, I see ENGINEERING

  • @phillbanks4103
    @phillbanks4103 2 года назад +3

    Awesome vid as always mate and I know what junctions you’re responsible for the M8 in Glasgow and the M57 in Liverpool

  • @E1ns_2wei
    @E1ns_2wei 2 года назад +4

    It would help if he did more counterclockwise roundabouts. But I don't blame him, he lives where they're driving on the wrong site.
    I mean, i know he does them. But just look at that first one.

    • @willofhope2561
      @willofhope2561 2 года назад +1

      The first one was clockwise because of the traffic Priority, all the traffic wanted to go to the next road clockwise, so that's the direction he made it

  • @skeeo8882
    @skeeo8882 2 года назад +3

    Yeah freeways
    What the hell!

  • @der.Schtefan
    @der.Schtefan 2 года назад +4

    Actually a 4 prong is usually 3 phases and earth.

  • @blackbird1665
    @blackbird1665 2 года назад

    „Or whatever your country’s Motorway speed limit is“
    Evil German Autobahn laughter

  • @sedontane
    @sedontane 2 года назад

    Those blop noises on the Diamond of Doom reminded me of Captain Geering in Allo Allo. Klop!

  • @tommsey_ttv
    @tommsey_ttv 2 года назад +1

    One of my favourite things to do in this game is a sort of vertical merge, where you merge roads where you bring a bridge to grade. Completely unrealistic of course, but in my experience it's more efficient with curves (so no carnados), concrete use and space! Give it a try next time see what you think ☺️

  • @eriel-fu4305
    @eriel-fu4305 2 года назад +2

    15:29
    He drew my favourite shape! Pantiboi!

  • @zacharygrouwinkel1534
    @zacharygrouwinkel1534 2 года назад +1

    5:30 Matt those are clearly 2x2 legos.

  • @lucaswooldridge8810
    @lucaswooldridge8810 2 года назад +1

    Missed this game

  • @RondallaScores
    @RondallaScores 2 года назад

    I liked that cousin of roundabout 4:28 WhateverThatIsAbout.

  • @whadofgum
    @whadofgum 2 года назад +2

    also for ya'll who don't know a Civil Engineer is an actual kind of engineer, they build bridges, tunnels, freeway interchanges and other stuff for traffic flow, which is really cool.

  • @pensfan044
    @pensfan044 2 года назад +2

    RCE... watching you play this game always makes me wonder.. are you colorblind lol?

  • @coolnamefgtrfdhbtrhtr
    @coolnamefgtrfdhbtrhtr 2 года назад +1

    whew, just watched all of the episodes in 2 days lmao

  • @Seanlawle1
    @Seanlawle1 2 года назад +1

    I've watched for a while now and I am going to do grafics basicle architecture

  • @redcribge6235
    @redcribge6235 2 года назад +1

    THIS is the engineering content i wanted

  • @christopherhazard8486
    @christopherhazard8486 2 года назад

    Cảm giác như mk đang đc nghe 1 bản nhạc chữa lành vậy đó. Giọng hát của đp rất đặc biệt, nhẹ nhàng tình cảm. Xem video thôi đã hay ntn r, ghen tị vs ekip qaa nghe hát live chắc hay gấp 💯lần lunn

  • @existenceisrelative
    @existenceisrelative 2 года назад +1

    Glad to see this series is still going!

  • @emmy0001
    @emmy0001 2 года назад

    Discovered your channel and Freeways last weekend and I’m so excited that you posted this!

  • @tarkalak
    @tarkalak 2 года назад

    Technically there are two grounds and one life wires. Life comes from the powerplant, then neutral goes into the grownd, but it has lot's of electricity on it. And the final grounding is there for any buildup of static electricity.

  • @equilizerray3297
    @equilizerray3297 2 года назад +2

    Love this series

  • @user-qr7zm9wo6z
    @user-qr7zm9wo6z 2 года назад +2

    You could've made an anti clockwise roundabout (or diamondabout) for the first level.

    • @flooskoo
      @flooskoo 2 года назад

      Literally my first thought. Like why criss cross ALL the ramps???

  • @MoonstoneVR13
    @MoonstoneVR13 Год назад

    For the first roundabout, you didn’t need to do bridge into the exits, you just needed to draw the roundabout counterclockwise rather than clockwise

  • @JBobjork
    @JBobjork Год назад

    2:30 It was painful. Just do a roundabout for right hand traffic (anti-clockwise) and the road does not cross :)

  • @UltimatePostman
    @UltimatePostman 2 года назад +6

    Um, Matt, your first roundabout is backwards. Saying this as I'm watching it - you should have gone counter clockwise.

    • @AFLSlasher
      @AFLSlasher 2 года назад

      This!

    • @RealCivilEngineerGaming
      @RealCivilEngineerGaming  2 года назад +11

      No, then you would have had 3 wide arrows all mixing with each other slowing them all down. My way took the main traffic directly where it wanted to go. I'll try and prove it next video if I remember!

    • @frenchfatcat
      @frenchfatcat 2 года назад

      I was wondering this. cheers!

    • @UltimatePostman
      @UltimatePostman 2 года назад

      @@RealCivilEngineerGaming Appreciated. I realized that you wanted to take people where they wanted to go faster. Sadly, there is a roundabout like that here where I live.

  • @tatecrossette2855
    @tatecrossette2855 2 года назад +1

    16:23
    Yeah..... a "nose"

  • @themissingmuffin5496
    @themissingmuffin5496 2 года назад +2

    is it just me because i get excited when rce posts a video

  • @ezraalbisurez7178
    @ezraalbisurez7178 2 года назад

    I live in l.a that picture of los Angeles was the 110 fwy Pasadena-San Pedro and 105 fwy Lax-Norwalk

  • @zurkio6179
    @zurkio6179 2 года назад

    4:40 that is clearly a Ditto-About, one of it's kind!

  • @5Andysalive
    @5Andysalive 2 года назад +2

    Seems like the fast traffic test mode kinda skips over these little back-out misdrawings.

  • @D1A6NBA
    @D1A6NBA 2 года назад

    @8:30: "These are all smooth curves so you can hold your 70 mph or what your local highway limit is"
    Me: *confused* in german

  • @chigookafor710
    @chigookafor710 3 месяца назад

    He went crazy on this one

  • @benjaminmorgan8282
    @benjaminmorgan8282 2 года назад +1

    When at the weekend I went on the real "if you squint it looks like an owl" interchange. My strongest shape may have got a bit more efficient 😂

  • @j8music913
    @j8music913 2 года назад

    4:30 A SLIPPER ABOUT!

  • @alexthemtaandr211weatherfa2
    @alexthemtaandr211weatherfa2 2 года назад

    3:05 that’s how accidents happen

  • @Toppot2
    @Toppot2 2 года назад +1

    This series is like crack to me, another!

  • @Mrnachocheese69
    @Mrnachocheese69 Год назад

    Rce: a lot of lollypop
    Tree:am I joke to you

  • @QuantumTB
    @QuantumTB 2 года назад

    Oh I just finished watching the playlist

  • @rpgaholic8202
    @rpgaholic8202 2 года назад +2

    Wait... on the "bear" level about 6:50 ... where are the bridges?

    • @thatoneguy611
      @thatoneguy611 2 года назад

      You’ve been clickbaited. It was impossible for the cars to get on the bridge in the thumbnail anyway

  • @Delta-yk8gj
    @Delta-yk8gj 2 года назад +2

    8:39 ,,National speed limit on highways ,, me .... a German... we dont do that here

  • @snarkystack4129
    @snarkystack4129 2 года назад +1

    i didnt see a highway nor a teddybear... i saw a HIGHBEAR (btw love ur vids Matt

  • @brettrussell8468
    @brettrussell8468 2 года назад

    goated series

  • @Mike-we3rb
    @Mike-we3rb 2 года назад +1

    Make sure your boss doesn’t see your channel lol

  • @scandelis1306
    @scandelis1306 2 года назад

    God damn man, the car sound effects crack me up.

  • @qdommm
    @qdommm 2 года назад

    Love this

  • @sinmethodical1837
    @sinmethodical1837 2 года назад

    4:36 "whateverthatisabout" tee shirts when?

  • @anja0106
    @anja0106 2 года назад

    The thought of a freeway roundabout in LA gives me a panic attack. The amount of mass casualty accidents daily would be insane.

  • @SeriousApache
    @SeriousApache 2 года назад

    Ah yes. Big Fucking Weapon, everyone's favorite destination.

  • @lucakun3455
    @lucakun3455 Год назад +1

    imagine having a speed limit

  • @UncleMilosSideshow
    @UncleMilosSideshow 2 года назад

    The Amoeba-A-Bout ( patent pending) is pretty epic

  • @emilyesnyman
    @emilyesnyman 2 года назад +1

    Love this game! Thanks for making more :)

  • @AayushSingh
    @AayushSingh Год назад +1

    You could have made the roundabout in the opposite direction in the first level here.

  • @jaunusender6166
    @jaunusender6166 2 года назад

    Kind of surprised that that first diamond interchange that you did didn't end up with its own picture.

    • @jaunusender6166
      @jaunusender6166 2 года назад

      I swear I have seen it in the Minneapolis, Minnesota highways and freeways.

  • @palid11
    @palid11 2 года назад

    4:38 I'd call that potatoabout :)

  • @haydenwhite437
    @haydenwhite437 2 года назад +3

    If you design roads does that REALLY make you an engineer, or an architect 🧐🧐

    • @ameliajales5307
      @ameliajales5307 2 года назад

      He’s a civil engineer. They make roads, tunnels, intersections, bridges, etc. Look it up.

  • @Kingsly9802
    @Kingsly9802 2 года назад

    Oi Matt, ye absolute architect, this isn't in the Freeways playlist!
    PS this series is great.

  • @kanapkagaming6491
    @kanapkagaming6491 2 года назад +2

    Joe was your day guys?

  • @roblox_boosa
    @roblox_boosa 2 года назад +1

    more freeways pls

  • @UtopssAKAPJ
    @UtopssAKAPJ 2 года назад

    8:10 unBEARable 🤣

  • @earthling_parth
    @earthling_parth 2 года назад

    Yayyy, FREEWAYS!!!!!

  • @kingvill100
    @kingvill100 2 года назад

    So you’re the bastard that gets me all turned around and lost on the freeway 😂

  • @darkthunder312
    @darkthunder312 2 года назад

    I did the exact same thing on 59

  • @shademastergaming2640
    @shademastergaming2640 2 года назад

    Hi matt. I know you've said you were part of the Stone henge project in the past but you don't happen to be part of the current major work on the A303? it's right by where I live and hoenslty a nightmare for the locals!