This game MOCKS my profession... Sebil Engineering! 

Thanks so much for playing my game!! Was so much fun watching. Also, most people I've seen play it end up in the negative. Your final score was pretty impressive!

Can confirm: this is exactly how people drive in LA. Only been here for a few years and driving is easily the biggest adjustment when you get here.

This game is the embodiment of "doesn't need to look good to be fun" XD

Surveyor speaking, that instrument on tripod in the game is called "Level". It serves to calculate heights of points. You also mentioned "Total station", taphat is more sofisticated instrument. It measures angles and distances by electromagnetic pulses and thanks to trigonometry (sin, cos, tan, Pythagorean theorem) you can calculate coordinates X,Y,Z and then calculate volumes, areas, check construction process, etc. But "Levels" are just used for heights. It holds the horizontal plane and by adding reading on levelling staff to known height, on one point and then by counting out reading on levelling staff on another point, you get final height. Also digital "Levels" are very precise, the best one can get to 0.01 mm reading error. These are used for very precise works, such as measuring settlements of steel constructions, BRIDGES, etc.

"Raise that down one more.." one of my favorite quotes so far lol

you see, the problem is that you're a "Real" Civil Engineer, and this game is a "Realistic" Civil Engineering game

This game was made just for you. Just love the triple-a quality.

“So you can see problem here, someone been an idiot probably some architect” As a civil engineer, its so relatable 🤣

As a mechanical engineer I can confirm these car physics are 100% accurate

You know why I like RCE. He doesn't seem like he's faking. He really sounds enthusiastic and confused and surprised and ... it's just real

I'm a landsurveyor in the Netherlands, and I work with totalstation and (digital) level (that device in the game). In the scope of that survey disvice, there are 3 horizontal lines. One in the middle and one above it and under it. And if you take the hight you read from the lower line, and you take that of the hight of the upper line, than you van calcutlate the distance between the device and the person who's holder the meter stick. Example: Let's say you read the hight of 1500mm of the top line, and 1344mm of the bottom line. If you subtract those numbers and multiply it with 100, (1500 - 1344) × 100 = 15600mm = 15,6m Also with those numbers from the upper and lower line, you can check if you read the correct number of the middle line. (1500 + 1344) ÷ 2 = 1422mm. This means that where the man is standing with his meter staff, is standing 1,422m lower than the level device, at a distance of 15,6m from it. Now days its all digital, and you just press a button😅

Watching this instead of doing my actual civil engineering job! This counts as educational material right?

For angles: theodolite, for elevation: levels, for distance steel tape or electronic distance measurement with a prism (usually on a total station). There's also robotic total stations that track a prism on a rod, GPS total stations with a receiver on a rod, laser levels with a level rod that has a bar code pattern, and 3D laser scanners.

RCE, I'm gonna need you to play some Factorio. Make it happen, one engineer to another!

Loving seeing a mini-map of LA and the accurate driving.

11:50 is pure engineering cleverness.

Have you ever heard about the game: Space Engineers

Real Civil Engineer: searching for games suitable for engineers Search bar: architect torture game

I really hope they finish this game. I could watch this all day. 🤣

I’m a mechanical engineer, sitting at his desk doing electrical engineering work while watching a civil engineer play games

RCE: Play game about his job. Me: I wonder how quickly he will kill himself. RCE - Died in less than 5 minutes. I was not disappointed haha.

This reminds me of how we used to play Pontifex back in the day: making a bridge that completely collapsed after the car passed was the height of sophistication. This feels like a whole game made in that mindset.

The level and total station you're referring to are also known as- Fixers of Engineers Mistakes. Love, A Surveyor

The device in the game is a Theolodite or Transit. It basically is a level with a scope on it, so the cross hairs show you what's at the same level it is at. The Theolodite adds a scale around the base in degrees, so you can record angles as well. They are used a lot by contractors and such to do small projects, rough work, etc, because they are cheap and easy to use. For instance you get a grade stick that has large numbers in length units painted on it, and then you have your assistant place the bottom on a reference point (surveyors hub, corner of the house slab, etc) and the guy at the transit reads the marking at the cross hairs, and then they move to other locations and he reads the numbers that line up with the cross hairs there as well,, and then you do the math to tell what areas need to get filled in or cut down or whatever. Also very useful setting concrete forms so you can check that they are all level or in framing a house to mark a level line for wall trim or whatever. These days a laser transit system is more commonly used, with a beeping receiver box on a telescoping stick, but they are large and heavy and expensive, so a lot of smaller projects or operations they use an optical transit instead. The Robotic Total Station that was shown in a picture is what surveyors use, and in addition to being very expensive, it's very useful! It has a laser in it and optical scanning and tracking systems, and the entire head will rotate and swivel up and down. Most these days have GPS built in as well. It works with a corner cube prism that will generally be mounted on top of a 6 foot tall pole. So you set the Total Station up over a bench mark or hub so it's in a known location, and the exact height above the hub (a rod put in by the surveyors with a little metal button on top that has been surveyed to an exact position and elevation, usually written on the surveyors stake next to it) is entered into the system. Then the surveyor takes the prism and sets the pole on top of another bench mark or hub, and the laser moves around and searches until it finds the prism, and by pulsing the laser and timing how long it takes to return, it can measure the distance to the prism within a fraction of a mm. Now the Station knows its exact location in 3 dimensions, and so now the surveyor can walk around anywhere within sight of the Station, and the station automatically, roboticlly, follows the prism, and whenever the surveyor wants to record a measurement he sets the pole on the surface, gets it perfectly vertical, and pushes a button on the remote unit he has on the pole, and by measuring the vertical angle, the horizontal angle, and the distance, the total station is able to precisely locate the prism in 3d space, which means that since the pole height is exactly known, and it's vertical when the reading is taken, the location the bottom of the pole is sitting is known exactly. After going around and taking all the readings, then the surveyor can download the data into a computer and use software to turn the point cloud into a survey map. Then they can come back later, after overlaying the blueprints over the survey data, and they can shoot the grade at any point, and see how it compares to the plans. On US construction sites, generally the surveyor will come in and do an initial survey, marking out the corners of the pads, or the curve of a road, and then putting stakes and elevation hubs along the sides of the project, outside the work footprint. Then during the project the construction crew can set up their laser transits and transfer the elevations from the surveyors hubs out into the work zone to keep track of the project. The hubs will be marked on the plans, and if you are building say, a dam and you want to check that the slope is correct, you take a long tape measure and measure out from two different hubs to the spot you want to check, and then you use the ruler on the plans to measure to the same spot, and you look at what the elevation is supposed to be. Then you set your laser transit measure stick to one of the hubs, and measure the vertical height differences between the hub and the point on the dam, and now you know how close it is to the plans Then periodically through the project, the surveyors will come back out, check everything, replace the hubs and stakes that got run over, and let the crew know what needs correction. And while checking grade with a total station is MUCH easier than the way I just described, they also paid the surveyors MUCH more than they paid me when I used to do that, and a laser transit only costs a couple grand, and is construction worker resistant! Oh, and if you are using a total station to do a new survey, you may not have a bench mark or hub to set it over, so you can set it anywhere, as long as it's within sight of a couple of landmarks, previous hubs etc. So you drive a new hub in the ground and set up the RTS, robotic total station, over the hub, and then walk back to the previous hubs and shoot both of them by putting the prism pole on them. The RTS now knows it's exact distance to both of them, and the vertical and horizontal angles to both of them, and so it now knows exactly where it is, and you now can mark the hub beneath it, and then go put new stakes in on the other side of it, extending the survey out. These days with high precision GPS using all the different GPS systems from the different countries, you can get within a few mm with GPS alone, when combined with a fixed base station to correct for GPS drift, and so even the RTS is being replaced in a lot of situations where the extra precision isn't needed. And on key projects like freeways I mean motorways, bridges, etc, there will generally be a survey crew on site the whole time making sure everything is exact, from the height and slope of the asphalt, to the beams on a bridge being vertical and in the correct position. They can also use total stations to monitor and measure if a building or bridge tower leaning, or if the bridge deck is sagging. They often will install corner cube reflectors on key points on the structure, and then they can take periodic shots to measure change, or even program the RTS to constantly scan the points and record the measurements. But in this video, the most precise instrument used was the Eyecrometer!

RCE, watching you walk up to the cars on the PEEKZA HUT stage reminds of rally fans getting as close as they can to the cars : ^)

This is what happens when you get a bunch of engineers take over the planning/ design phase of a project. Let it be known, just because something technically works, doesn’t mean you should stop constructing it….. Food for thought.

The quality of this game is perfect. Please do more episodes!

This game is actually a masterpiece designed specifically for this channel, pure gold!

6:20 I am completely certain that they consulted real civil engineers in the making of this game

11:00 we used them in artillery positions too, to make sure the parallax between the guns are parallel to a small enough margin and to make sure the guns are pointing the exact correct way as a baseline, you can also use them to calculate the distance between two points or height and a bunch of other things.

Matt.... You should play Oxygen not included... I'm totally gonna keep bugging you until you play it. Also more super auto pets!! :D it's so fun to watch you play. Also keep thinking about that face cam ;)

I'm studying for my Sebil Engineering degree. I would love for you to make this a series, watching you solve these is very educational.

This was delightful; more please!!!

I've use the tri-pod(we called it a transit)to make sure that septic lines "fall" at a gradual slope down each line.

Dutch serveyor here :) work with a Leica TS16 and a Leica CS20 daily. And learning to start using the Leica RTC360 3D scanner. At 10:50 you mentioned a level. And it's used to measure height between 2 points. It could also be used for distance measurements but that's really complicated. A total station is like a "can do everything" machine. It measures height, distance and angle based on various known points. With this you could basically do anything you desire, may it be just a simple house. Or drive an entire bridge onto it's place with 0.01mm accuracy. (Got a video of it on my channel ;) ) I've seen other comments about this, and it's amazing to read those how other serveyors work in the field!

I’ve been obsessed with your channel since I found it, watching your videos late into the night! Makes me wish Civil Engineering worked for me.....

Now I understand Civil Engineering. Infra was a good beginner course, but this is the good stuff. Real down in the trenches engineering: dodging speeding vehicles while reworking roads on a shoestring budget and cutting every corner imaginable.

I do survey work for sewer and drainage design for a city in Canada, I mostly use my robotic total station but occasionally I use my level, you were correct in the end. You did call surveyors bean counters once, but that’s not as bad as being an architect 😜

Hi i just want to say i stumbled upon your channel and enjoy your content and also the fact that you basicly have given me more games to try out.

This is basically simulating chaotic engineering (chaotic means looks random but is specific)

10:30 I can't speak for the UK, but in Canada we call that particular tool a 'level' and the electronic one is a 'total station'

In southwest Pennsylvania we call that piece of equipment a transit level or construction transit. Don’t know how many others use this term

12:00 when your physics teacher tells you that you can ignore friction

You sir bring a whole new meaning to Task Failed Successfully here.

This was amazing! Part 2 for sure

These daily videos are great mate! Keep ‘em up

As someone who has worked in survey in the past. Site levels aren't used anymore but they are still carried around just in case. Also the site level is really useful in building steel leveling because they are really fast to set up.

Isn't often I comment on your vids, but this one made me laugh, definitely continue it!

I honestly just love listening to your voice... Brings this calm/warm feeling inside... It's a nice feeling... Sometimes I even sleep to your videos lol .. don't know if that's weird..

3:50 I literally thought your editor edited in the figure and its voice in the video. Up until here, I didn't realise it was a part of the game.😂

Hehe I’d love to see more of this iv missed your content I don’t realy like how RU-vid uses your most watched and puts your other subscriptions behind the ones you watch cause I completely forgot about your channel and I adore it

Definitely want to see more of this!

14:30 those cars are so fast that our brains cant comprehend their speed

Would love to see more of this

I'm no civil engineer, but I frantically enjoyed this at another level, being a software developer by trade and videogame developer by passion. Loved it and would like to see more videos from you of this game.

9:50 I feel like u could have done that by shotgunning the cars coming(I'm not quite sure tho)

10:54 Pretty sure that Total stations do fuel as well.

This is your game! I want to see a 100% complete of this game from you.

the co-op in this going to be lit, the boys shotgunning cars into explosions while one fixes the road all in first person 🤣🤣🤣🤣

you speak about total station, i study them this morning, amazing coincidence

11:05 I took this course three months ago, and I remember how to use the equipment but I forgot the name. yes you can do distance with the level scoop thing. you use the secondary crosshair to measure the distance with angles and Pythagoras theorem math. I’m also surprised that you did not mention rocking the rod. And yeah people of using the Total stations a lot more! The higher end ones have servos and it’s remote controlled.

14:40 why am I suddenly compelled to watch other videos and subscribe

10:14 yeah I remember those we used them in construction class when I was in high school like 3 years ago

Jeeze, the "Landslide" level is more like a sinkhole than it is anything else ... XD 10/10 Would fall in again

So good. Definitely need more of this game!

This was really funny, looking forward to new episodes !

My grandfather was a land surveyor by trade. When I was a child he taught me how to use ranging rods and field glasses to align stuff in our garden - it was only when I grew older that he also told me what the _Wehrmacht_ had him do with those skills ... :/ (He was a forward observer for artillery because of his civilian training.)

grading with the tripod thing is great fro construction and fluid dynamics and stuff

Watching Matt struggle in Los Angeles is the only thing more fun than his having long time Internet friends as Dutch beavers. My 99 year old dad is an engineer so I’ve got tons of respect for those who drive on the incorrect side of the road & want their non dominant hand to shift (Matt experienced that in this game with the computer desk) heh heh …

10:25 I remember back in 2018, (and I still think the video is up on my channel) I had seen this leveler, that one of the guys working told me what it was used for. I think he called it a laser leveler. 11:02 that thing

these are the roads I drive in my nightmares, especially that last one. luckily without all the cool flips most of the time

As a land surveyor I absolutely adore that the first person, or "survey" mode, is done using a level

I hope you know I spent 20 minutes trying to pause and read the one frame message at 14:40 we love you Man you don’t have to use one frame

Love this game; makes me wish I were a sebil engineer instead of rodeo ballerina.

Yes! I'd like to see more of this game haha

This game is amazing, I’d love to see you play more

Illinois needs this man

A building: is a millimeter short Rce: architect

This game is awesome, I’d love to see you play more of it

'peekza' is a pretty good transliteration of how a lot of Spanish-speaking people get the word out. Experienced it both in the south of Texas and puerto rico

This was surprisingly fun, a really neat concept for a game!

6:09 queen kermit showed up a bit too early there, ey?

This was really fun. I can’t wait for more

I'm crying here! ^ ^ _Incredible_ how realistic this game is!

Im from america and a former surveyor, we did a lot of leveling We had to since its the coast, and the building elevations need to be higher than water level.

Trynna get RCE to say “Hello fellow architects”

Survey Transit is what you are looking for and yes they are still used mainly in marking utilities and property lines

1:36 when your friends ask your opinion on which series they should watch

You know you have made it as a RU-vidr when you get a Honey sponsorship!

Seeing RCE, who surely owns dozens of AAA games, having so much fun with this one reminds me of when you spend a fortune on some fancy toy for your child and they just play with the toy's cardboard box.

Use to be a surveyor, wanna go to school to get my license. We just called that a level lol, you only use it for elevation.if you just have to carry an elevation it's a lot easier to set that up than a total station each time.

I do love a good bit of Serral Onioneering.

Serious LoL ... at the games dialogue and yer reactions...!... As a retired Civil Servant. I find much of this game to be spot on...

You seem to really enjoy this game, would love to see more

The SFhill level was a good jump there noice!!!

I love that Škoda Rapid 130. It's great looking car from 80s. (Also it's older sibling Škoda 100R is nice looking car) And yeah, this game looks incredibly funny.

"someone has been an idiot, probably some architect." Was my favorite line. Why you always hate architects? HAHAHAHA

09:43 every road crossing should be like this. 100% safe and 1000% fun

Giving a whole new meaning to "you're crushing it"

We used theodolites in my astrophys course to try and work out our position on the earth. I'd never seen them in engineering until years later.