Answering Your Questions - My Experience Playing Cities Skylines 2 

You should keep this city and do a series after launch so we can follow your first CS2 build.

Please keep this city as a save file and upload it later onto the workshop! It would be so much fun to play around with the city from the trailer

I'm so glad you confirmed the mixed zoning 🎉

5:18 EU and USA flags for European and American building styles. Nice, just like in the last game. However, I had also hoped for an Asian building style in CS2. Because right now I'm fascinated by Japan and building a Japanese inspired city. But they don't really have any low density asian buildings in CS1. The way how I feel that it works that in CS1, generic building style is mostly inspired by American (for low density buildings) and Japanese (for high density buildings). But they don't have a lot of low density asian buildings. I would have loved CS2 to have such a style like that. And don't just stop at Asian, Southern American also has a lot of beautiful architecture that could have been featured. It's not like I expected these things to be in CS2, but I do hope they will add more exotic building styles, not just assets nor content creator packs, in the future

i hope they will add a feature "walkthrough" where you can walk around your city and just be amaze in your city, or drive around your city so you can experience first hand about the traffic or is the road you layout is really needed or not really , i'll tell you its gonna be really helpful specially in planning road networks and transportation, i really hope so they add it!

Did they fix the heights of docks and piers? CS1 drop offs to a boat are crazy.

The game is so advanced now, you could even use it for school and University, for example for urban planning

This game seems like a HUGE breath of fresh air. I mainly play FPS and to be completely honest those games have gone completely downhill, at least the mainstream titles. The developers for those games have almost completely cutoff listening to community feedback for game updates or future titles. CS2 Seems like the embodiment of building upon what works and taking into account what the community has asked for. As I've always had a knack for sandbox games like CS1 or Minecraft, its relieving to see a developer listen and embrace its community in 2023. I cant put into words how excited I am for this game.

The main thing i worry for is the lack of improvement when it comes to the Water. in CS1 all water if its moving basically acts like an ocean with waves meters high so if you place anything near it you need to have an obsurd high wall or pier poles that are a mile long towering above any boats that might be part of it. (unmodded) And so far in the CS2 trailers it seems the water is the same. i live in the netherlands.. and just like how you want to make American style cities i want to make cities similar to Amsterdam. basically lots of water rivers and housed next to water filled ditches.. only i don't like to stack mods to much. hoped CS2 would make it easier but no hint of that yet.

Well, all things considered, at least he kept it a two dollars twenty

I think Guest Builds and Community contests might be a good idea to fill in the big blanks in Oceania and Sunset City. They're always fun to engage and watch at the same time, while giving both projects the quality and love they deserve. There's no hurry to finish CS1 for good once CS2 comes out, but leaving the projects uncompleted would certainly be a bummer.

I'm still curious about the population scale. The trailer showed a small mid-rise with 15 households which seems about realistic, but are skyscrapers re-scaled too, or will a 200-story office building still only employ 100 people?

Shedding a small tear for Sichuan Province among the C:S2 hype. It was great while we had it!

I hope they wont add 100 more dull services you should manage (ie new cemeteries etc), but will add sophisticated simulation which will shape your city

I think people need to remember that the game is a new game, so it will be stripped back right to basics. Of course, we see some of the CS1 features and potential mods introduced, but not everything will be included. Also, my add not everyone can/wants to play with mods and assets, so they have to make sure they can add feature ls and do things so everyone can play. This may be why map sizes are not as big as people thought etc One of my guesses for 2 expansions could be a remoddle of of Mass Transit and a potential DLC based on universities. The Mass transit one may add the airport dlc content as well as new transport types like monorails and trolley busses as well as tranist hubs. The one based on universities could expand into high schools, etc.

There is one thing I am concerned about: performance. How does this game perform? CS1 would start really well until you start building a little, then the FPS and lag are in their homeland. How does this compare so far with CS2?

This and Starfield just incredible months in Sept and Oct.

Hey man! I remember watching you I think when you had twenty thousand subs or lower, I remember watching the Springwood series when I was relatively young (I must have been a freshman or sophomore in high school -- now I am going into my college undergrad sophomore semester(s) and its just great to see you where you are now! From making really beautiful realistic cities in Cities:Skylines to your work and designs being the first thing we see of Cities Skylines 2 is just incredible! Really happy for you, keep up the good work. I think I contacted you over discord a long time ago as well, you might not remember (I barely did!) as Bendy Snowball. Anyways, take care and thank you for the content!

Thanks for the extra info! Great build by the way. When CS2 hits it's R.I.P CS1 for SURE! Too much to discover in CS2, time to move forward.

i think with the different sub zoning tools its pretty reflective of how societies have largely started to use more mixed zoning in real cities now

First game I ever bought was Simcity 2000 and I have spent countless hours playing these city simulators over the years including of course Cities Skylines. Looking forward to this new one. The only bad thing about it was that with the 81-tiles mod it always got broken at some point. Really hope this new one doesn't need buggy mods like that to play a big map.

I really wish there is a road designer. Choose a road -> adjust parameters (things like: road width, road material, sidewalk width, material, benches, streetlights). Also to save this as a template. Also: I hope the logistics via the water are overhauled and made realistic.

you didnt lie about the rant damn, my dude started talking about filing cabinets and kitchen shelves haha kidding awesome vid.

I really wish this was coming out now, not 4 months from now. I look forward to summer, so I don't want it to go by quickly, but I've been waiting at least 3 years for this game to come out.

Thanks so much for picking and answering my question. You made my whole week! :)

I feel like the name "New Dollarton" has a lore on the channel now, you gotta keep the name! It's famous!

You said it best. The interest in this game has only risen and i believe it. The creative culture from an actual city builder is hard to resist haha. All the way back to the original sim city, ive been hooked. The world requires a city builder and i think this is going to be by far the best one weve ever seen!

I agree re over detailing. My last map build I really tried to moderate my detailing to just what was important to tell the story then I moved on to more urban development. I like building the interconnection between the smaller towns and larger cities. Amway I a rambling on too! Love your videos and content cant wait for CS2.

I think it would make a lot of sense to gradually transition from CS1 to CS2 as the latter game develops further. New Dollarton would be a great way to introduce the game and show off its new features, but there's no reason to kill off Oceania and Sunset City straight away, especially since people will still keep making mods for it. Who knows, maybe in a couple of years' time you'll want to remake them in CS2, but bigger and better than ever?

Thanks for sharing what you can nice to hear what you thought about it. I'm excited to play

I think you should try to wrap up your current cities so they're finished up by October and then focus on CS2 going forward. But because there won't be as many mods and assets available at the start, I think you should also try to strengthen your gameplay skills and making things in the game functional rather than purely visual. You're already really great at the detailing part, but it's a little unfortunate when you turn icons on and everything is in a state of emergency lol

Awesome stuff dude! Thanks for the info for our long unanswered questions!

You’re soooooo lucky! I’m happy they let you post this video!

Thanks for the video. Really excited about the game

Even though I liked Oceania a lot, I think it would be better to quickly wrap it up in july and then focus on SC and its storyline until November. No matter what, I'm sure you'll give us great content!

Ooo Awesome stuff. Look forward to future projects.

I think a great example for a DLC that is gonna expand in a new way upon the game is "themes". I can totally see them release a DLC that adds a japan theme with all the roads and buildings. This IMO is the best part about C:S 2. Planning in these kind of expansions that they KNOW the community will love and get value out off from the start and building the game in a way around it that just makes sense. I think all the extra menus with mods make it a little cluttered at times so having even the UI be prepared for this is just great to see.

You're the perfect person to try the new game. I honestly trust you when you saying that this is a good game

I wish you answered the "build on slope" question everyone asked. Also i didn't see anything built on water. Not going to lie, i hate how high the docks are compared to the height of the water.

I feel happy that you were the creator select by colossal order to be part of cs2, been following you since your first videos and the first days of cs on youtube and see all the progress and all you have done is pretty good, keep the good work!

> mixed use zoning is in game LETS FUCKIGN GOOOOOOO

I am REALLY excited about the fact that you said that it was not always easy to zone residential, or a type of residential area. That means so much and it prooves a lot of depth in the simulation. I'm hyped !

Thank you for this video!!

Thanks for rambling!

Make sure you get lots of fresh air before the launch. Take a break. Relax. Rethink the city. Great video. 👍

At some point I think you will move over to CS2 completely, but would still hope to see CS1 videos for another year now that I have found your channel. It's like a builder used to using mods trying to go back to vanilla. It's hard but do-able. I like seeing how but also love to hear the why of decisions as cities are being planned. So I prefer videos which focus on planning, decision making, and big picture over fussy detail. Thanks for saying yes to CS2 which brought me to your channel.

I didn't even know there were feature videos, and road tools (which I am keenly looking forward to) is tomorrow! Hoping for lane-by-lane road creation..

Looking forward to it, can't wait

9:19 Thanks for answering my question, mate!

One thing that would probably add more challenge in CS2 is a more complex economy. In "Cities XL" ,even though an unpopular game, the complex economy/trade system where you needed to pay a lot of attention on balancing supply and demand is what could keep you playing for ours.

I can see that Real Time mod is being implemented in CS2, judging by the clock system in the lower left, then Precision Engineering, as well as expanding upon Snowfall. I hope the map editor also allows for tropical areas that have only rainy and sunny weather all year round. I also just hope Metro Overhaul Mod is also implemented in CS2

So excited for this. Will be my excuse to upgrade my pc after 10 years.

I'm happy to hear that this game offers a meaningful challenge.

One of the things I struggle with in C:S1 is building a functioning traffic network, maybe it's because I don't drive but my city gets to a decent size and it all goes to hell, then I'm watching reading tutorials/watching videos to try and get roadway hierarchy, lane mathematics, etc. into my head. By which time I've lost a lot of enthusiasm. I don't know if there's a good solution or if it's even an actual problem outside of me, but I hope they don't just lean on the online community to pick up the slack that a good in-game tutorial would cover.

My only question is what are you going to build for us next. Your Cities are always epic journeys with a history and a culture and I'm looking forward to seeing that on this new engine. I was disappointed that the Sichuan Province city ended where it did, I lived in Chongqing for a while and that project connected with my lived experiences. I hope you revisit an Asian theme in the new game at some point. Maybe something based on Tibet, Vietnam or somewhere else in Asia might inspire you one day.

Great to hear everything!

I started playing CS in 2018 when there had been a lot of mods, and videos of those heavily modded players looked another game to me...However, as I played and learnt, I mastered those mods (esp. PO). Those video started to make sense to me and I became able to build a city like they did. I have never had that great a sense of achievement by playing a game!

5:35 Oh, this is a really interesting comment. I think most of us play reactively, since that's kind of how this genre has always been since the first SimCity. And by that, I mean grow your zones and then respond to what's missing--service coverage, parks, schools, etc.--when in reality those kinds of things are planned in advance to encourage growth from the outset. I like this idea that you kind of have to map those aspects out first, before anyone will even consider moving to a new neighborhood you've built.

Question: what was the system specs you used for playing? How did the game feel (e.g. fps, load, etc.). Also, for your CS1 build series: keep it going, but set an end goal to celebrate. e.g. a "complete city". Just a thought.

So I have a thought on your quandary over adding tons of detail vs expanding your city. If you want to focus on expansion, you could find another content creator and collaborate. You build out a city and then your collaborator could detail the areas you build out. Another way is you could do contests where you make your city shareable and then have viewers detail a particular section of it and you pick your favorite and add it into your city. That could be an ongoing way to detail your city and create engagement as well.

I'll be honest, I was gonna buy one or two DLCs for CS1 (I've played without any DLC all this time) and that's when the trailer dropped.

I think there'll still be some time before the community of asset and mod creators catch up with the new game, unless there'll be an easy way to seamlessly transfer all/most of them. I doubt that though... So what I'm saying is it still leaves plenty of room for your highly detailed builds like Sunset City and Oceania, I know I'm not the only one who will continue to watch them alongside new game's content.

Great video keep the great content up

Hype 🎉

I don't think you need to be so hard and fast with picking cs1 or 2. If I were you I'd wind down cities skylines 1 content as you wind up cities skylines 2 content! Take it easy and evaluate as you go along. No rush :) But yes of course we would love to see more from CS1, especially Oceania for me!

I can't wait to see what creative cities the community builds with this new game.

I’m here for Cities Skylines 2 content, because the trailer and your subsequent videos captured my interest and imagination. Never played Cities Skylines 1.

I would love to see both.especially for those that don’t have 2.

One of my favorite things from simcity that I really hope is im the game at some point is regions A lot of people already play the game like that. With multiple places on the same map. But being able to build a country was something else

I'm too excited for this...

The only thing I am concerned with is the limit of city sizes.... I was so bummed out when attempting to making a life size exact copy of Seattle, I hit a object limit that could not be overcome and was forced to abandon the project. I hope the new game engine has no such built in limitations.

This gaming year is crazy. My two favorite game series of all time is 1. Final Fantasy. 2. Zelda. Both gets new big games. My Game series I spend most time in is Sims/Cities Skyline together with Heroes 3 and Diablo 2 and we got both a City Skyline 2, Age of Wonder 4 and Diablo 4. And then all other games as Starfield Re4 Remake etc

Really hoping Oceania gets finished

Would love to see Sunset City sprinkled in with CS2 content when the time comes!

In CSL1 after 2 years of playing it I didn’t realize how Op the fishing industry was.

You should consider finishing the CS1 series through the end of the year and wrapping up in December!

I hope they use new dollarton for some type of gameplay scenario. The map looks awesome

I have an idea! Maybe build a city in CS2 and then build another one in CS1 so that you could feel the comparison right then and there and possibly you’ll find out something new about CS2 (maybe some details that weren’t in CS1 and so on)

Something I would like to see is being able to do something with the little spaces in between lots that are too small to place anything on and end up being just left as grass (this is particularly and issue on curved roads and non-right angle intersections). Besides placing the random trees or park props, it would be nice if you could paint over those areas to make them look like brick pathways or alleyways, because seeing undeveloped grass lands in the center of city downtowns hurts my immersion.

I think you should keep with the current series for a while. I believe CS1 will yet be more versatile and complete for a while until we can have in CS2 all the complexity of the DLCs, like industry etc.

I'd love to see you work on the Sunset City airport (IF you can afford it)

CS2 is the first game in my (almost) 40 years of life i actually pre-ordered. So hyped!

3:02 that car just drove over the curb lol

Shots like those at 9:51 give me hope that there are some single-cell zone-able road choices.

This game is going to be revolutionary

how are the tiles unlocked is it based of population like in CS1 or are they already unlockable but they are just expensive or something

Hi! I really want to do a futuristic green city sort of thing. Renewable energy, lots of trees (and ideally green buildings but I'm fairly certain that that's too much to ask for), focus on public transport and bicycle lanes over cars, maybe waterways within the city, etc. I saw the trains and trams and I'm assuming that there will be solar panels as an alternative to the power plant. How realistic is it for me to hope these other things will be in the game? I know part of gameplay is reducing pollution. Do you think the modding community might do them? I never played CS1 so I don't know what the modding community for the game is like. Thank you, -Alex

I think you should try and incorporate and area like Disney world outside of Orlando and how it’s shaped the whole state 23:36

Good to know there's European style as well in CS2. What's very important is whether we get like a full European package or just some zonable buildings but the rest (like roads, signs, all the ploppable buildings like schools, hospitals etc) remains random ie American. That's what can make me buy CS2 quickly or wait quite a long time until mods and (European) custom content is there.

Hopefully this next game has things like golf courses and mansions. I want to do a LA inspired city

Great video on laying out your experiences with CS2! Very very excited (along with the millions of CS1 players). I have upgraded my PC over the years specifically to cater to my ever growing love for CS and its mods (CPU, RAM, GPU) only to find out that theres some CPU core limitations due to its use of the game engine, (something like 8 cores). Like Im just locked at 20-30fps when I zoom in to the max in certain areas of my city despite having a high-spec machine. I zoom out and I'm playing at 100+fps or something. Did you experience any of these issues with CS2? Are all your PC's resources being used to its highest potential? like no simulation slowing down cause the Cores are all getting used up or something like that. Also saw on Steam recommended settings with the 2080ti 11GB. Will VRAM be much of an issue? #qanda Im planning to build a new PC by this year and I want to account for CS2 and how much CPU cores it can handle. Like is it better to get a CPU with few "fast" cores or one that has a many "average" cores? Cheers mate, always great seeing the detail in your videos.

Please finish both series! You could try reduce the size of the planned area but still try to make it Look realistic

My biggest wish for the game I to be able to have separate grids for power and water and they have their own tracking. It's the hardest part of doing an entire county of cities bur not being able to see specifically which population needs aren't being met. It would be a dream for me

8:44 look at that black vans on the left bottom of screen, it looks like traffic AI is really good lol

really wanted a way bigger map, one where you can have multiple big cities like sim city 4

I got a CS2 advert while watching this 😂

I am hell bent on re creating NYC. Had done it at least 4 times. I hope the new one will allow us to do that. I also wonder about the workshop and adding mods and assets to CS2. Would be cool if we could port or some way add existing assets to the game. It would suck having to re create all those assets made for CS1 workshop.

If you still have it, I would upload all the raw footage or speed up montage of New Dollarton after CS2 comes out.

You have to to Tampa. Cause why not, you mentioned it in the first episode. Might as well

hey 2.20$ what GPU and CPU combo did you used to build the city?