11 Things I LOVE About Cities: Skylines 2 (More than C:S1) 

CAN I GET THE 24 HOUR HYPE GANG TO CHECK IN HERE?!

I haven't played the game yet but I'm glad to see the tree growth being mentioned in a more positive light, since I already anticipated it would be more satisfying to see your little saplings grow than to just plop full grown trees. I hope they don't get rid of it because of the initial negative reaction, or at least make it togglable.

The tree mechanic also shows the age of different sections of your city. That well established suburb will have large grown tree while a new development will only have saplings.

Thank you for being one of the few content creators out there that doesnt complain about the tree growing mechanism, and understand the value of delayed gratification.

The increased details around zoning, education and economy is really exciting. There were some mods to use in SC but nothing like what is coming in less than a day!

I like the idea of being able to specialize a town in a particular industry. Once a surplus is gained, it looks like you can use that industry to bankroll things like education. Some US states use their resource extraction industries like oil to pay for public services like college scholarships, so it will be interesting to see how much you can rely on industries to add flavor and pay for services.

Some great changes. Can’t wait to play it in a few hours.

Re-name things = cheeky fun! I love that term, Every good game should have an element of Cheeky Fun. I love the trees as well, but a row of close together trees can look a bit like they are all cloned, I saw someone else planting trees, rotate each tree slightly so when they grow they appear slightly different. Another great informative video, thanks for sharing, 5⭐'s

I like the tree growth mechanic as well.

Yes I totally agree with you about education and how everything impacts each other! And the sounds in the game! Fantastic! I actually prefer the sounds over listening to the in game radio stations!

The tree grow mechanic is good, feels more real to me. "I want decorate with that tree" Ok, you need to wait the tree grow. You think twice before delete the map trees

It's been interesting watching the pre launch videos and the different takes. I think part of this which relates to your hot takes, is that the streamers largely make cities that need to be visually appealing as that's what is necessary for videos. Where as most people playing a game our doing so for game play mechanics. Which leads to some interesting choices. The trees favor the game play mechanics side but the new zoning options favor setting the appearance of an area unlike, say, chossing a Sim city 4 zoning option where anything upto the max density for the zone can appear which feels more like a game and less like a city designer option.

"you name it... and, well... you can name it" bless you toadiez

I would be more excited if I know that I could play the game without lag on my two year old mid/high end gaming pc! 😅😂

5:57 the production chain is kinda weird tho. If there is no access to a buyer (either thru gridlock or lack of road/train/boat/plane connection), the seller's vehicle despawns and the goods are teleported to the buyer, and the producer's storage doesnt lose any tonnage. Some vehicle-using services work like that too, but i think you still need a pedestrian connection ? (it gets pretty funky). If you never build these services, then outside connections will fulfill the request, but they'll never spawn their vehicles within the map boundaries (since there is no road access, they almost instantly fulfill the service request from outside the map boundary)... Kinda useful if you were to have massive traffic issues i guess.

the meta seems to be building a power station with geothermal plants asap and exporting the power. and oh btw building a workers town around it so that it works at full efficiency.

Everything takes so much space getting ready to restart my playthrough again

I love the tree growth mechanic as wel

I just wish I could force what industry or office buildings produce like cities skylines 1. For example having food producing buildings near the farms looks so pretty, but it's just random and I have to bulldoze a concrete making building 10 times before I get the industry I want.

so much AWESOME stuff in CS:2... can't wait to play it... but there is also some criminally BAD things... the random buildings and stuff placed on farms, mines etc. it looks ridiculous that buildings are just tossed randomly around the fields... NOT realistic... and having a digger drive around with the shovel deep in the ground is horrible... if anything have it drive out, then dig about, then move to another spot, dig about etc.... and the loader driving out and all the way back over the asfalt with the blade down is just BAD... they failed big time to make the extra barns and stuff on farms ploppable so we could place them where we wanted and with some dirt roads between them etc. and the fields looks a bit "bleeh" (guess mods might fix it/better it) the road tool looks AMAAAAAAZING and I can't wait to build all sorts of cool roads with it... also the foresty needs stuff like log yards etc. we can place so it isn't just a hermit shack in the woods and tadaa "logging business"... the houses etc. looks GREAT... the CIMS looks horribad... but in general love it

That kid's got a heck of an alpha walk animation

Is "aboot" a canadian thing or just your thing?

about the trees, they still need to add option to disable tree growth.

I totally agree on the treegrowth! That means that you have to preplan and also comeback to an area to check it out (also possibly re-zone), something you never did in CS1. Prop line tool would be nice though….

@8:42 It looks like a modified trumpet crossed with a diamond.

quick question uh....WHY DO YOU HAVE THE TEMPERATURE IN KELVIN???????

ive never seen this channel before but that thumbnail convinced me to watch

The education management ❤❤❤ the technical university is stunning!

Wow this is my first time listening to "aboot" so clear from a RU-vidr.

Rename everything is amazing! Even the rocks. The city noise too, so real

Played SimCity 2000 yesterday. I could build outside connections to my neighbouring town there, too. 😛 Anyway, can't wait till I can finally launch the game.

Watching this as I preload! Can’t wait!

Very sensible takes all around. Looking forward to autumn!

Jeez, renaming rocks. Who would guess the game would have performance issues? Not a waste of memory at all.

There was 1 time i was looking at a CRIME SCENE at a park. I saw 2 people sitting on a bench in this park. 1 of them had the Occupation of ROBBER lol... The Police car showed up and I was thinking "Am I going to see an arrest?". Nope. The CRIME SCENE went away, the cop car drove off, and the robber stood up and walked away. I was excited about seeing a possible arrest, and then nothing. Criminal free in my city hahaaaa So if you see crime scenes in a area you can look at your civs, look around and see if you can find the criminal. Even if your police force cant 😆

Colleges are good but the colleges do not serve enoug people like placing 3 colleges with max upgrades and still in the yellow zone

We need a line tool for trees and props. The fact that you have to wait to see them grown... ok, but force us to place them one by one is a torture.

i cant stop playing this damn game lol.

So... now the term "metric ton of software" is literal...6:21

Love that little ASMR break in your video!! I've been really enjoying watching you play and your positive outlook on the game is everything:)

I really, really wish you could see your income on the bottom right, instead of your total savings

I like the part where you can hear the invisible kids playing in the park

I am really conserned if my windows 10 can handle CS2 so would you think that if CS1 ran at 20 fps (HEAVY MODDING) Would CS2 work and lowest graphics?

I have no idea why but you sound alot more canadian in this video than other ones

Why separate Colleges and Universities? Aren't they one in the same? lol

My favorite aspect of CS2 is cars randomly stop in the middle of the road, backing traffic up! Realistic :)

Empty playground with no kids, sounds like it’s full of them. Thats lame

I really want to play it but it's a little pricey lol

you look like my social studies teacher

Aboot and not about lol. Love how that is the one thing you can tell about a canadian sometimes.

Great points. It's good to hear good things about the new game.

theres a cs board game???

"aboot"

You from Toronto by any chance?? 😏

Did you delete your discord?

wow

this mf said aboot

Honestly tree growth is good and natural, but it would be great if there was a growth step (similar to elevation step) to allow extra options. Hopefully this game gets optimzied quicker, refunded the game first and using game pass at the moment.

a finished game would have been a nice feature, but it is what it is.. in some years it will be a good game

Still going back to CS1 because I have to lower the graphics so much that CS1 modded looks and runs better on my pc. And I miss a lot of mods and assets like find it and undo and dlc stuff like bicycles. So I don’t see CS2 as a fail but better to play in 1-2 years

Who else loves that big CN tower looking building

Managment veteran here. Managing the supply chains in this game is horrible.

a boot.

Meanwhile console players crying 😢

How do you properly pronounce the word OUT, but then do the stereotypical ABOOT Canadian thing? It seems like a real kitschy thing to do.

ABOOT- CANADIAN ACCENT- ugh lol

aboot

I was the 777th like 😎