I feel like the modular system of the buildings is under utilized in the game right now. I wish they follow your advice a bit more soon after release, and super excited to see what the modding community does with it!
The farms. The farms!!! they have these buildings spawn in the middle of the farmfields while the module system just sits there laughing at the silos without a street connection.
@@benp9442 For me green pastures would be enough for the livestock farms. Maybe some variations to the field colour of the grain farms too would be amazing.
Came here from the City Planner Plays video, where he shouts you out, and found it really cosy that you referred to watching his videos as well. Love the video!
Yeah! I just commented about the seemingly lack of regular/small sized train station options in their Dev Log entry on trains and railways; turns out I was on the mark with my concern. I knew it! They don't have normal train stations!
@@Charles_Anthony no doubt. Thats why I think a lot of content is missing from CS2. Thats intentional because they're going to sell it later. I love this game, but that makes me not want to buy it. Or it makes me want to buy it, but then playing a pirated copy that includes all the DLC. I know I'm not the only person who feels this way. In my opinion, if they want to make a lot of money, they should just focus on making a great game, not making part of a game and then selling the rest as DLC. Thats like microsoft flight simulator releasing with 3 planes and only one HD city, only day time, 1 weather presets, then selling the rest of the sim. Paradox is very aggressive with this.
Loved the video! There is actually is a way to control sprawl in CS2. If you increase taxes for that residential type, the demand will go down and vice versa. You can even lower the taxes into the negatives AKA subsidize residential to increase demand
Hey! The taxes are set on an education level basis, so I don't think there is a way to discourage low density residential I think. I'm a bit disappointed by how the density functions but I guess that's more realistic and it should look more organic when the city gets bigger.
You talking about that forestry industry area you placed next to your city center, with that backstory of once having owned more land but having sold it for houses, reminds me so much of just how many pine plantations there were dotted all around my home city's 'CBD' in the inner/urban suburbs on the 1950s-ish print of its old tram/trolleybus routes I have. It can honestly be so fascinating looking at old labelled maps and seeing all the land uses that once called the center of a city home.
i appreciate your style of play so hearing your perspective on the base game is great! i too play pretty modded and detail oriented but still want to give vanilla a shot when it comes out! this helps me prepare for that! also love the layout of the city! can't wait to see part 3
Don’t knw if someone brought this up already, but for me seeing building under construction, all of them have cranes including row houses and single family houses lol. They should remove the cranes for small developments.
Happy to see one of the FBS builders is still making video's! Watching yourself, Flux and Strict used to be a daily routine back in the day. Great video too, I'll be waiting for future CS2 content! Keep it up, love to see it!
I could watch you build infrastructure all hecken day and your narration over everything. What a phenomenal build! Every single video I learn so hecken much! What an absolutely amazing video!
Great video, this gets me very excited for C:S2. It's good too see that you don't withhold criticism which is important in the late stages of pre-release, it feels authentic and honest.
Man amazing Video 👌 I would consider rethinking the road layout of the farms especially when u buy the missing tile 🤔 or u could continue the pattern 😂
Loving your frank thoughts and observations. The devs are listening, so please keep calling out what you need / want to see! I am not 100 per entry sold on every choice they’ve made (props, for example, and the different cities seem to look very similar to one another atm) but I’m still super excited, and it’s clear they’ve tried to listen to the community and address the complaints with CS1. If they need more time to perfect it I hope they delay until it’s ready
I'm happy to know that developpers are listenning to players ! maybe one day a player of City Skylines will have the opportunity to be heard for the creation of a real life city in Japan or somewhere in the world ! It will prove that players that understand that you need to have an equivalence of your games in reality to have an impact on people can make the world a fun place !
Definitely hyped about the game. Given BSQs critiques I feel like they should create a more detailed demand bar so it tells you exactly which subtype of zoning is in demand; industrial demand can be both manufacturing and office, just separate it into two bars of different shades. Same thing with commercial demand; shops, tourism, leisure. Same thing with housing, low density, medium density, high density. And just make the shades different enough so that you just have to glance at it and come to an easy conclusion as to the demand.
The new roads mechanics are amazing, but I do wish that we had more variety in building sizes. I don't tend to build major metropolises but rather tourist areas, university towns, rural areas with many smaller towns, not huge cities. I hope that our fantastic workplace creators will quickly give us more varied options for these mandatory buildings. For examples, look at Georgetown University in the US where on Google Maps you can't tell if it's a university building or city building unless you zoom in because it built up by buying individual buildings or land for them as it expanded. Or a university like Virginia Tech with many, many buildings spread out over a huge campus with lots of open spaces and the town surrounding it but not integrated with it. I want that variety, those options.
Cracking video, nice to hear some more input. Also ur train station is awesome 👌 way better than what id do 😂 theres alot of room for improvement but its a great foundation going forward.
the more i watch, im super wxcited about the POTENTIAL of the new network flexibility, modular buildings, drawable areas and other improvements/changes. but it continually feels like they have stripped out a lot of content they know we want (and has already been proven in C:S1), to sell it to us later... i believe the new game should include the equivelent of all the best DLC that many of us already purchased, and the new game ahould atart where the old game left off.
In response to the bit where you're talking about the Stations, Something i always wished for in CS:1 was scenic tourist Train lines that have Steam Engines, Britain has many old Steam line where you take the Family out for the day & have a train ride maybe to a Castle or a Small coastal town for the day, Sometimes it's a famous engine or Thomas. Japan has the 7 stars railway which is a super luxurious Train. I don't know how they'd get a Turntable for the Steam engine to work though. but the'yd really add some character to our cities.
The way you and other creators describe the issues with demand, jobs, and production sound exactly like the kind of problems real cities have to deal with.
I would love to just see everything zoomed in on. All the videos I have seen of this game seem to show everything but the up close details of the cars people and buildings.
the neighborhood across the bridge desperately needs a second bridge across the river. you normally wouldn't force every resident of a neighborhood on and off the highway just to get to their schools that are very closeby. A small second bridge for local traffic would help them get downtown as well as reduce traffic on that big interchange/intersection
Do we know if they are going to let you keep these builds/saves, or will they be lost forever? I would love for this one and some of the other streamers' cities to be uploaded to Steam when the game is live!
YES. 10000000% down for metro-like, middle-of-nowhere train tracks with nothing but a tiny overpass! Ideally, I'd like for them to have Tram-like station markers to train tracks, with near-zero capacity by default, and the ability to add capacity by increasing the length of or adding platforms. That way I'd be able to re-create ANY train station I've seen in real life, from both simple ones to very complex cross-lined transfer stations (e.g. Akihabara Station in Tokyo, Japan)
Question: When terraforming, did you get the feel that the terrain mesh is any higher poly than in cities 1? The relatively low detail terrain mesh (compared to, say, Transport Fever 2) was one of the limitations that modders were never able to alter in cities 1 and it would be nice if that improved. Seeing those auto-generated underpass areas makes me think it did.
Perhaps what you are saying with the “quibbles” you’re identifying, is you are seeking the ability to down-scale assets. I do appreciate CO showcasing new vanilla assets in the upcoming version. But I think what it needs is the ability to allocate game functions to designed or downloaded assets. Make a platform beside a train line & allocate it a game function of a train station/stop. CS1 had RICO mod, correct. You added a function box to an asset. Well CS2 needs the same - but for ALL game functioning asset types.
Great video. Just ignore all the winning children and their comments really appreciate your videos. CS2 is an excellent game and is only going to get better.
I mean in mostly every video i see the same, players just slapping down stuff after stuff, make new areas put down parks and new zones. Could we get some more actual footage of what the growth, building and people look like, i want to see more graphics and activity in the city instead of this mindless building.
I'm new to the channel and also not from the U.S.; can anybody tell me what kind of accent bsquiklehausen has? I can't place it but it sounds really familiar.
i hate the car centric designs. the train stations should have an option between either a car park, a small park, or some market stalls around it instead of being stuck with only a car park
After my initial buzz for the new game turned to frustration when I discovered there was no support for the Mac platform I'm interested to know if anyone with early access is playing on Mac using Parallels or any other interface. I want to invest in the game- I've played CS1 since launch date back in 2015 and invested heavily- financially and time wise in the game over the past 8 years. I'm keen to hear any feedback from fellow Mac players.
yeah ... the graphics in CS2 are dark ... with no life ... all the cities i've seen ... look like a ROBOT city ... the buildinds all seem the same ... the size of some are Gigantic !!!!!! that Hight School STADIUM !!!! come on !!!! the Cemitery ... looks like a temple !!!!! ... not realistic at all i hope they add some color to the buildings ... make the option to have grown trees ... and more "beauty" props ... so we can make out own city ... so good contrution tools ... but they forgot ... that in the end its a game ... and a city is wanted to be beautiful ... hope till realease CS2 can see the SUN ....
Massive fail. It's literally nothing but the worst aspects of Sim City games. For instance, it's got a lot of Sim City 2013 in it like the weird modular buildings and has the Sim City 3000 aesthetic... not good choices.
The thing you said about train stations is so annoying! In CS1 I always wanted more train station options and thankfully there were smaller ones on the workshop, so many train stations in the suburbs are normally very small with one set of tracks and the thing is, that's what you'd be using most train stations for, suburbs! Why is the smallest option 3 sets of tracks? Could they have not utilized the same system that buses and trams have by just adding a stop? Then we can just run a road near it and have a functioning train station? Also imagine a town of like 2000 pop with a huge train depot, like the expansion feature could help add more tracks too but instead it just adds more buildings like bruh. Hope the final release has more train options.
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I feel like the modular system of the buildings is under utilized in the game right now. I wish they follow your advice a bit more soon after release, and super excited to see what the modding community does with it!
The farms. The farms!!! they have these buildings spawn in the middle of the farmfields while the module system just sits there laughing at the silos without a street connection.
@@LittleMissSmallPawthat just looks so bad. I hope they change that at one stage
@@benp9442 For me green pastures would be enough for the livestock farms. Maybe some variations to the field colour of the grain farms too would be amazing.
Came here from the City Planner Plays video, where he shouts you out, and found it really cosy that you referred to watching his videos as well. Love the video!
The crazy interchange is very reminiscent of the hated Grants Pass triangle. I hate driving through it so much lol
Almost *too* reminiscent, you might say...
Glad to hear that it doesn't work in real life as much as it doesn't work in game.
@@bsquiklehausen If you want more bad ideas the "Olskroksmotet" in Gothenburg is just a giant mess of roads that functions somehow.
the fear i felt seeing him lay the roads inside of the farm squares at 22:00
I'm so glad I'm not the only one
yeah honestly it was a blessing that he didn't buy that other square
I started sweating lmfaooo
Yeah! I just commented about the seemingly lack of regular/small sized train station options in their Dev Log entry on trains and railways; turns out I was on the mark with my concern. I knew it! They don't have normal train stations!
Probably coming in a DLC later on lol
How much I want compact urban freight rail depots! 😩 New York high-line warehouse please!
@@anony88: You know they'll milk us for every penny.
@@Charles_Anthony no doubt. Thats why I think a lot of content is missing from CS2. Thats intentional because they're going to sell it later. I love this game, but that makes me not want to buy it. Or it makes me want to buy it, but then playing a pirated copy that includes all the DLC. I know I'm not the only person who feels this way. In my opinion, if they want to make a lot of money, they should just focus on making a great game, not making part of a game and then selling the rest as DLC. Thats like microsoft flight simulator releasing with 3 planes and only one HD city, only day time, 1 weather presets, then selling the rest of the sim. Paradox is very aggressive with this.
Loved the video! There is actually is a way to control sprawl in CS2. If you increase taxes for that residential type, the demand will go down and vice versa. You can even lower the taxes into the negatives AKA subsidize residential to increase demand
Hey! The taxes are set on an education level basis, so I don't think there is a way to discourage low density residential I think. I'm a bit disappointed by how the density functions but I guess that's more realistic and it should look more organic when the city gets bigger.
You talking about that forestry industry area you placed next to your city center, with that backstory of once having owned more land but having sold it for houses, reminds me so much of just how many pine plantations there were dotted all around my home city's 'CBD' in the inner/urban suburbs on the 1950s-ish print of its old tram/trolleybus routes I have. It can honestly be so fascinating looking at old labelled maps and seeing all the land uses that once called the center of a city home.
i appreciate your style of play so hearing your perspective on the base game is great! i too play pretty modded and detail oriented but still want to give vanilla a shot when it comes out! this helps me prepare for that! also love the layout of the city! can't wait to see part 3
Don’t knw if someone brought this up already, but for me seeing building under construction, all of them have cranes including row houses and single family houses lol. They should remove the cranes for small developments.
Happy to see one of the FBS builders is still making video's! Watching yourself, Flux and Strict used to be a daily routine back in the day. Great video too, I'll be waiting for future CS2 content! Keep it up, love to see it!
I could watch you build infrastructure all hecken day and your narration over everything. What a phenomenal build! Every single video I learn so hecken much! What an absolutely amazing video!
Wow this was the best video on cs2 I've seen. Underrated 😀
I want a closer look at the traffic lol. I hate traffic in real life obviously but I think it’s satisfying in a video game.
Great video, this gets me very excited for C:S2. It's good too see that you don't withhold criticism which is important in the late stages of pre-release, it feels authentic and honest.
Man amazing Video 👌 I would consider rethinking the road layout of the farms especially when u buy the missing tile 🤔 or u could continue the pattern 😂
Loving your frank thoughts and observations. The devs are listening, so please keep calling out what you need / want to see! I am not 100 per entry sold on every choice they’ve made (props, for example, and the different cities seem to look very similar to one another atm) but I’m still super excited, and it’s clear they’ve tried to listen to the community and address the complaints with CS1. If they need more time to perfect it I hope they delay until it’s ready
I'm happy to know that developpers are listenning to players ! maybe one day a player of City Skylines will have the opportunity to be heard for the creation of a real life city in Japan or somewhere in the world ! It will prove that players that understand that you need to have an equivalence of your games in reality to have an impact on people can make the world a fun place !
Definitely hyped about the game. Given BSQs critiques I feel like they should create a more detailed demand bar so it tells you exactly which subtype of zoning is in demand; industrial demand can be both manufacturing and office, just separate it into two bars of different shades. Same thing with commercial demand; shops, tourism, leisure. Same thing with housing, low density, medium density, high density. And just make the shades different enough so that you just have to glance at it and come to an easy conclusion as to the demand.
Love your way of making videos man. Quite enjoying your style!
We'll be expecting a lot of assets including other train stations from you and the mod community 😂
CO really holding back in some parts :/
Like the interchange! Great build, Bsq!
The money is most likely credits. Nice city, looks like what I'm planning to build once I get my hands on the game!
The new roads mechanics are amazing, but I do wish that we had more variety in building sizes. I don't tend to build major metropolises but rather tourist areas, university towns, rural areas with many smaller towns, not huge cities. I hope that our fantastic workplace creators will quickly give us more varied options for these mandatory buildings. For examples, look at Georgetown University in the US where on Google Maps you can't tell if it's a university building or city building unless you zoom in because it built up by buying individual buildings or land for them as it expanded. Or a university like Virginia Tech with many, many buildings spread out over a huge campus with lots of open spaces and the town surrounding it but not integrated with it. I want that variety, those options.
Cracking video, nice to hear some more input. Also ur train station is awesome 👌 way better than what id do 😂 theres alot of room for improvement but its a great foundation going forward.
the more i watch, im super wxcited about the POTENTIAL of the new network flexibility, modular buildings, drawable areas and other improvements/changes. but it continually feels like they have stripped out a lot of content they know we want (and has already been proven in C:S1), to sell it to us later... i believe the new game should include the equivelent of all the best DLC that many of us already purchased, and the new game ahould atart where the old game left off.
In response to the bit where you're talking about the Stations, Something i always wished for in CS:1 was scenic tourist Train lines that have Steam Engines, Britain has many old Steam line where you take the Family out for the day & have a train ride maybe to a Castle or a Small coastal town for the day, Sometimes it's a famous engine or Thomas. Japan has the 7 stars railway which is a super luxurious Train.
I don't know how they'd get a Turntable for the Steam engine to work though. but the'yd really add some character to our cities.
Polygonal districts, finally ditching the painted zones from all the way back in Cities in Motion 2 is exciting
Hey @bsquiklehausen! Looking forward to what you do with the next milestone.
The way you and other creators describe the issues with demand, jobs, and production sound exactly like the kind of problems real cities have to deal with.
I would love to just see everything zoomed in on. All the videos I have seen of this game seem to show everything but the up close details of the cars people and buildings.
As a great man once said: "A little bit of everything all of the time! Apathy's a tragedy, and boredom is a crime..." Burnham, Bo (2021)
Under appreciated comment/quote right here 😂
the neighborhood across the bridge desperately needs a second bridge across the river. you normally wouldn't force every resident of a neighborhood on and off the highway just to get to their schools that are very closeby. A small second bridge for local traffic would help them get downtown as well as reduce traffic on that big interchange/intersection
24:40 I find that zoning over existing zoning absolutely infuriating.
Do we know if they are going to let you keep these builds/saves, or will they be lost forever? I would love for this one and some of the other streamers' cities to be uploaded to Steam when the game is live!
YES. 10000000% down for metro-like, middle-of-nowhere train tracks with nothing but a tiny overpass!
Ideally, I'd like for them to have Tram-like station markers to train tracks, with near-zero capacity by default, and the ability to add capacity by increasing the length of or adding platforms. That way I'd be able to re-create ANY train station I've seen in real life, from both simple ones to very complex cross-lined transfer stations (e.g. Akihabara Station in Tokyo, Japan)
Like the old MOM (Metro Overground Mod iirc)?
Raise low density residential taxes until the demand drops! Want it back? Lower the taxes. You can manipulate demand this way.
Nice job cutting it right at 30:00 (:
I love your style of content!
8:47 Man talking about he's pretending to know what hes doing when he actually knows what he's doing.
Don't underrate urself, great video, appreciate the content.
Insane that CO didn't put contour lines in the game when CS1 had them.
Question: When terraforming, did you get the feel that the terrain mesh is any higher poly than in cities 1? The relatively low detail terrain mesh (compared to, say, Transport Fever 2) was one of the limitations that modders were never able to alter in cities 1 and it would be nice if that improved. Seeing those auto-generated underpass areas makes me think it did.
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Perhaps what you are saying with the “quibbles” you’re identifying, is you are seeking the ability to down-scale assets.
I do appreciate CO showcasing new vanilla assets in the upcoming version.
But I think what it needs is the ability to allocate game functions to designed or downloaded assets.
Make a platform beside a train line & allocate it a game function of a train station/stop.
CS1 had RICO mod, correct. You added a function box to an asset. Well CS2 needs the same - but for ALL game functioning asset types.
If you have a beach city will citizens actually use the beaches? I can’t seem to find this answer anywhere
Дарова впрочем всё нормально но видео почаще выпускай 😄
That highwau traffic really isnt that much, but since there is not traffic manager mod you cant time it properly
if they want low density just give em 2x2 lots, then rezone once demand goes up hahahaha
Random question but is the background music yours or from the game?
Great video. Just ignore all the winning children and their comments really appreciate your videos. CS2 is an excellent game and is only going to get better.
I mean in mostly every video i see the same, players just slapping down stuff after stuff, make new areas put down parks and new zones. Could we get some more actual footage of what the growth, building and people look like, i want to see more graphics and activity in the city instead of this mindless building.
I'm new to the channel and also not from the U.S.; can anybody tell me what kind of accent bsquiklehausen has? I can't place it but it sounds really familiar.
It's called the "bay-area regional tongue" or BART for short.
Can you turn off the industrial smoke/steam?
any chance there will be multiplayer for this? or a mod
Is it based on Grant Pass, OR?
Imagine if we get Grammercy Season 2
How often are episodes allowed to be uploaded?
bro has 3/4 of a symbol of luck for his farms.
I’m not a fan of the forced sprawl nor the fact that row housing takes up medium density demand. Ideally both change before release.
miss u
i hate the car centric designs. the train stations should have an option between either a car park, a small park, or some market stalls around it instead of being stuck with only a car park
como jugaste el cities ya?
25:20 what happen for the roads ?
Крутой голос:) жду видео я теперь твой фанат
Its not sluggish enough. I dont know if I can handle this level of optimization from a city builder. LOL.
After my initial buzz for the new game turned to frustration when I discovered there was no support for the Mac platform I'm interested to know if anyone with early access is playing on Mac using Parallels or any other interface. I want to invest in the game- I've played CS1 since launch date back in 2015 and invested heavily- financially and time wise in the game over the past 8 years. I'm keen to hear any feedback from fellow Mac players.
big L that you use the imperial system. The video overall is a W
wtf with the interchange?
14:10 What is that monstrosity?😂
can't you just raisr taxes on low density developments to decrease demand for it?
Жалко что в Steam для России нельзя купить, придется играть в пиратскую версию......
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First!!!
yeah ... the graphics in CS2 are dark ... with no life ... all the cities i've seen ... look like a ROBOT city ... the buildinds all seem the same ... the size of some are Gigantic !!!!!! that Hight School STADIUM !!!! come on !!!! the Cemitery ... looks like a temple !!!!! ... not realistic at all
i hope they add some color to the buildings ... make the option to have grown trees ... and more "beauty" props ... so we can make out own city ...
so good contrution tools ... but they forgot ... that in the end its a game ... and a city is wanted to be beautiful ...
hope till realease CS2 can see the SUN ....
The have been a rash of sequel games that have less features than the first game with big stable mods. This is just lazy
the other stations will be in overpriced DLC
Cities skylines 2 is a piece of crap The old version of cities skylines is sigma
These games always feel anti-Semitic. They never include synagogues or Jewish people in the game.
A little bit of everything and whole lot of nothing in this game. such a disappointing sequel
Massive fail. It's literally nothing but the worst aspects of Sim City games. For instance, it's got a lot of Sim City 2013 in it like the weird modular buildings and has the Sim City 3000 aesthetic... not good choices.
The thing you said about train stations is so annoying! In CS1 I always wanted more train station options and thankfully there were smaller ones on the workshop, so many train stations in the suburbs are normally very small with one set of tracks and the thing is, that's what you'd be using most train stations for, suburbs! Why is the smallest option 3 sets of tracks? Could they have not utilized the same system that buses and trams have by just adding a stop? Then we can just run a road near it and have a functioning train station? Also imagine a town of like 2000 pop with a huge train depot, like the expansion feature could help add more tracks too but instead it just adds more buildings like bruh. Hope the final release has more train options.