10 Custom Maps You NEED to Start a City on in Cities Skylines 2 🤯

Cities Skylines 2 is about to EXPLODE with so many new and amazing maps! With the launch of PDX mods, I dove through 100 maps on PDX to hand select the best of the best! Think a map should have been included? Let me know in the comments!
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MY RADIO Moonbeam ~ NIGHTMODE DMCA SAFE: mods.paradoxplaza.com/mods/77...
Map Texture Replacer: mods.paradoxplaza.com/mods/76...
Extra Landscaping Tools: mods.paradoxplaza.com/mods/75...
Extra Lib (dependency for ELT): mods.paradoxplaza.com/mods/75...
Better Bulldozer: mods.paradoxplaza.com/mods/75...
Water Features: mods.paradoxplaza.com/mods/75...
Arid Map Theme: mods.paradoxplaza.com/mods/76...
Home of Chamëleon TBN Theme: mods.paradoxplaza.com/mods/76...
529 Tiles: mods.paradoxplaza.com/mods/74...
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Anarchy: mods.paradoxplaza.com/mods/74...
Tree Controller: mods.paradoxplaza.com/mods/75...
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TOP 15 MAPS
ABQ Basin: mods.paradoxplaza.com/mods/76...
Black Dragon Canyon: mods.paradoxplaza.com/mods/76...
Cape Kelvin: mods.paradoxplaza.com/mods/76...
Draconia: mods.paradoxplaza.com/mods/77...
Fort Brag: mods.paradoxplaza.com/mods/76...
Lake Onoke: mods.paradoxplaza.com/mods/75...
Uskumru Bay: mods.paradoxplaza.com/mods/75...
Spring Valley: mods.paradoxplaza.com/mods/76...
Spring Valley with Snow: mods.paradoxplaza.com/mods/76...
Tarama Island, Japan: mods.paradoxplaza.com/mods/77...
Windy Meadows: mods.paradoxplaza.com/mods/77...
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OTHER COOL MAPS
TOP 15:
Northwest Arkansas: mods.paradoxplaza.com/mods/76...
Volchoria: mods.paradoxplaza.com/mods/76...
Pikeperch Valley: mods.paradoxplaza.com/mods/77...
Elysian Heights: mods.paradoxplaza.com/mods/77...
Dnipro Fields 1:2: mods.paradoxplaza.com/mods/76...
OTHER GREAT MAPS:
Breeze Bay: mods.paradoxplaza.com/mods/76...
Cape of Merchents: mods.paradoxplaza.com/mods/76...
District of Mackenzie: mods.paradoxplaza.com/mods/77...
Dnipro Fields 1:10: mods.paradoxplaza.com/mods/76...
Fraser Valley: mods.paradoxplaza.com/mods/76...
Gasparilla County: mods.paradoxplaza.com/mods/77...
Great lake Plateau: mods.paradoxplaza.com/mods/76...
Jasper: mods.paradoxplaza.com/mods/77...
Madison Indiana: mods.paradoxplaza.com/mods/76...
Penobscot Bay: mods.paradoxplaza.com/mods/77...
Shoalwater Bay: mods.paradoxplaza.com/mods/76...
Tagaytay PH: mods.paradoxplaza.com/mods/77...
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CHAPTERS
00:00:00 Intro
00:00:52 Video Details
00:04:37 ABQ Basin
00:11:27 Black Dragon Canyon
00:19:55 Cape Kelvin
00:27:30 Draconia
00:32:37 Fort Brag
00:38:01 Lake Onoke
00:42:47 Uskumru Bay
00:49:57 Spring Valley
00:57:09 Tarama Island
01:03:51 Windy Meadows
01:07:11 Outro
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#citiesskylines2 #citiesskylinesii #citiesskylines

[@CriticalCentrist]

There needs to be a way to control water levels as it's extremely frustrating to see a city reach 50K, 75., 100K then you decide to terraform to make more space for residential and then your entire city begins flooding, people move out and it's easier just to start a new save.

[@ThorinWolf]

45:57 this actually feels divided up like I would expect places here to be, bravo!

[@ThorinWolf]

For more info, look at the boroughs of London, you'll see very similar shapes in places. Also, general UK city-street layouts would feel very much at home - taking a tile, semi-grid and work with the terrain to fill, and moving onto the next.

[@Paulie820]

Bookmarking this video for when the asset importer is released, would love to build on new maps but the assets are painfully samey after 150 hours. Power to you for continuing to play man

[@ririplayscities]

Epic! 😂 Thank you, Cody!

[@Hannodb1961]

I am really disappointed that so many cool maps doesn't make use of the new feature of having custom shaped regions. This is definitely a very important consideration for me when I download maps, I wish there was an easy way to see which maps makes use of it.

[@CodiakTheKodiak]

Pikeperch (which is one of the extra maps in the description) also has them, although not through the entire map.

[@Hannodb1961]

@@CodiakTheKodiak It really gives the feeling that the city expand by buying up farms that was organically shaped.

[@dandomine]

My map is now 4 weeks in the making and will have a proper thumbnail when it comes out, so I hope you won't miss it when the time comes.

[@CodiakTheKodiak]

Seriously a proper thumbnail helps a TON at standing out so thank you!!!

[@JWegers]

thumbnails go a long for me checking a map or not

[@stumbleskelly]

hows it going?

[@dandomine]

@@stumbleskelly It's going OK. One more highway, then I can move on to vegetation. But I haven't worked on it this week and I will wait for next weekend. Since I use mods I want to be sure they were all updated before continuing.

[@jaredb8495]

No thumbnail and i don't look

[@RaftermanNZ]

Another great video man!! :)

[@CodiakTheKodiak]

You're just saying that so I keep including your maps /s

[@josephkile6058]

thanks for this video!!!!

[@stevekirkby6570]

Yea, love your radio mods mate :)

[@ThorinWolf]

Just looking at the Black Dragon Canyon at least, I like it! An actually hilly map that's also beautiful, that if not flattened, could create quite the interesting cities.

[@CodiakTheKodiak]

Map looks incredible with the desert themes as well and I really messed up not showing it with one of them

[@user-jx3zp7zj4y]

I would love to see a Vancouver map

[@CodiakTheKodiak]

There's a couple but I have no idea how they are: mods.paradoxplaza.com/mods/76493/Any mods.paradoxplaza.com/mods/76805/Any mods.paradoxplaza.com/mods/76734/Any

[@MugwumpSupreme]

​@@CodiakTheKodiakThe only one I've looked at is the first one by Dash. It's decent. Not how I would have centered it or the start tile I would have made. I'll have to check the other two but based on the lack of preview Images, they seem pretty low effort I MIGHT make my own Vancouver map one day. But I would be way too picky about the details and it would probably take forever 😂

[@robertmaloney1689]

24:27 Dangerous intersection on Kelvin map. Traffic from the left exiting must merge with entering traffic in the fast lane. Yikes!

[@trainerscity]

In Spring Valley the road can only be remove in the map editor but I have no clue how it's made... I have try to find how but no luck so far. If you have any tips to do it, please I will very happy to hear about it

[@Kayambo974]

Spent one entire day building my own map. When I launched it, as a new game, everything was messed up, no textures on some buildings etc…I’m desperate

[@tenntech40]

Moose Factory by Casualtorture is a good one.

[@minotaursgamezone]

Please could you have shown Black Dragon Canyon in the actual theme? It is a really beautiful map and I think that is how it should be shown. Thank you for showing us these maps!

[@LorenzFiedrich]

What is the name of the intro music? I know it’s from City Planner, but what is the name?

[@CodiakTheKodiak]

It's Boom Lake from the Northwoods collection!

[@petery4521]

I tried playing VOLCHORIA map and after a while the water disappeared. The map is very interesting and simply a place I want to live. But with this flaw I can’t use the map.

[@CodiakTheKodiak]

That's a weird bug... can't say ive heard of it happening before. Are you using any other mods, or skyve so you can see if it's spitting out an error for something like water features?

[@petery4521]

@@CodiakTheKodiak I do not have Skyve but i do have the water mod that does streams. I have tried it without that mod and it still happens. Sad it is a very pretty map. kzbin.info/www/bejne/omTdfnyHepKUeLM

[@macluk7531]

I guess links are not allowed here - so yes, I still prefer Western Valley map - i think it's the best of maps by TheActualRealChair, or at least equal to another 2 or 3 by that person. I did some comparison of some of the maps on the forums as well, just to give some missing information that almost none of these map pages have. Can't leave a link here, can I?

[@CodiakTheKodiak]

If you are blocked from posting a link, I have no way to allow it as far as I know. KZbin has been cracking down on comment links lately so that might be it.

[@macluk7531]

@@CodiakTheKodiak ah well... it simply deleted my 2 posts :D:D you can find that list on the forums for cities skylines 2 - More map information - if you were interested. Anyway, great video as usual :) Can't prise you enough hahaha.