An Excellent START! - Let's Play Cities Skylines 2 [REALISM] - Ep.1

[@littlebear274]

Pity the moose doesn't actually interfere with cars. Imagine trying to figure out your traffic problem and zooming in on a problem intersection just to find a moose hanging out blocking the road.

[@GoGsApostle]

Moving back to Alaska in less than a month, I miss the big bastards

[@ignoredseeker154]

Did you make it? ​@@GoGsApostle

[@Chiefy27]

I believe you can double click on a road to create a node when doing instead of having to delete the road and put it back in.

[@Veyrah64]

@@monkey1371 I wish they gave us presets for the building tools

[@Scott_Burton]

It is worth mentioning that you misread/misspoke about leveling up residential buildings. Their upkeep increases. The truck carrying rock at 1:09:10 cane from the smaller highway off map and went to the major highway. Building your city here just connected the two highways, so you may see a lot of that. (to quote a popular GPS App "We found a faster route")

[@Arphaxad17]

Enjoyed the start of your new city. You can get rid of street parking by adding trees or grass also, not just wider sidewalks.

[@tobbakken2911]

This is my favorite CS2 series by fr, you're just so chill. Hope this series is gonna last several months at least. When Paradox mods open so much exciting things can be done, and on release date there will be 8 theme pacs for free to download there.

[@Kreemerz]

Like an undo button

[@francissurinejr9263]

PLEASE MAKE A COLLAB CITY WITH REAL CIVIL ENGINEER

[@I_am_cheeseman]

Yea fr

[@I_am_cheeseman]

This should blow up

[@user-0rang3]

City Planner Plays is the guy he should collab with. He's a real city planner too!

[@kingblade6563]

Finally a left hand drive city. And you are not constantly talking to chat.....this is the channel I'm going to follow

[@FinW.]

love that you used left hand drive, not many do and as i live in the uk it’s a breath of fresh familiar air 😭💙

[@samlackey1157]

absolutely love how meticulous and detail oriented u are. so satisfying to watch!! keep it up!!

[@GotCMilk]

Congratulations on passing your driving test! My dad didn’t get his license until he was in his 30s too, that shit doesn’t matter. Congratulations! ❤

[@Qwekkeboom]

I just want to say that the editing around the sped up parts/time lapses with your voice over are done really well and I really like them. Keep it up

[@mateuszkunda9400]

So happy to see UK-inspired build! Will be watching the whole series closely! Great start and so nice to know there are already 2 more videos for me to watch! :)

[@jrjaxon]

Let's go! Couldn't watch the streams live much but have been catching up on the vods. Can't wait to see how you plan this new city.

[@connormckinney9346]

Great start to the series 🎉 pacing of the video is great for newbies and seasoned Darren veterans! I look forward to watching Blackwaters development!

[@WhatDarrenPlays]

Thanks for the kind words!

[@naawi90]

Yeyyy, a new series. I've watched some videos of other content creators and even though they know a game better they always rush it. I like how you take it slow, think it through and make it realistic. It's been fun to watch. Like the idea of renaming people and following their lives. Also, you beed to find a house for you and Rosie 😂

[@user-0rang3]

You should watch City Planner Plays, he's much like this content creator.

[@user-0rang3]

City Planner Plays also plays Cities Skylines 2 and he's a real City Planner irl!

[@TheDudeRehan]

You can really see your organisation and OCD 😂😂 I’m the same LOVE IT!

[@I_am_cheeseman]

You really can

[@itsmesimen]

Hey, i just want to say thank you for all the tips. I've played this game for 4-5 hours and i already got some answears to my problems with just this video. So thank you!

[@bvkes9986]

ive never been this stoked to see a series start

[@daviddoyle7103]

Fantastic Stuff Darren. Watching your videos are so helpful and enjoyable. Keep up the great content.

[@WhatDarrenPlays]

Thank you!

[@fudatheman8198]

I love how neat you are with everything and it's very easy to follow along relative to other cs2 youtubers.

[@stykz5475]

I’d love to see the city be built to be less car-dependent. I feel like many people (including me) allow their cities to be more car-centric, I think it would be cool to see a well run city that utilizes more public transportation and actually prioritizes public transport over cars. Great video!!

[@dekuistic]

Keralis, another youtuber noticed that most upgrades to service buildings are 6 tiles, keep that in mind when your placing them! :)

[@WhatDarrenPlays]

Thanks for the tips!

[@dekuistic]

@@WhatDarrenPlays Ofcourse!

[@suahueNmiT]

I really like the detailed work and would actually like you to keep this style. Thank you for the beautiful video!

[@mackenzieoakes5661]

Hey Darren, been a long time channel view of your satisfactory content. Some past life situations have spoiled a few of my favorite hobbies one of them being Cities Skylines. You got me back into it man, so thank you. Keep it up!

[@ParagonZeno]

I heard in CS2 you can give you buildings alley access. I think a few alleys among the row houses and businesses would look great when you set North American themed.

[@Pampskoen]

Great City Build. 👍 to stop cars parking use the No Parking Signs, instead of bigger sidewalks 😊

[@brandonsheffield9873]

Row housing, the bane of existence. I prefer custom homes and large plot of land. Something so nice and relaxing having an actual yard to run around in on my bicycle, quad and still have my garden, chicken coup, pig pen and beef cow field.

[@alixlarisa8592]

Binged this whole series, now re-watching while I build as I've run out of episodes! Great tips, especially the one about pathways to fix zoning!! also HIIIIII + Thanks (because you said you see new comments!) : )

[@WhatDarrenPlays]

Hiiiiiii back! And thanks for the kind words!

[@giarc0]

That’s a really nice crematorium building….I hear people are “dying” to get in there! I will see myself out.

[@TinkerManMick]

That validation feels good hey 😂 laughed and subbed as soon as you said that

[@chrisbaeyens4513]

Hi Darren, great to see you are making a proper series for this game. I tried to watch as much of the live streams as I could, but those are just too long for me to keep up. So really with the 1 hour series format 👌 Great start!

[@gage.feraud]

Look forward to the series. I've been a fan of yours for a while, man. Hope you hit a 100k soon

[@WhatDarrenPlays]

I appreciate that!

[@jonnymartin3694]

You asked, I subscribed. Frostpunk was my first series I watched of yours.

[@michalma]

Great start of a new series. Let it be as long as your Anno one :)

[@Enigma0.00]

Great start and layout for a new city. Looks good 👍

[@manuakasam]

This would be the most enternaining series I've seen so far, if it weren't for you brits being so weird by driving on the wrong side of the road all the time xD

[@WhskyTangoFxtrot]

I like the subtle nod to CityPlannerPlays (Edit: about respecting the topography) :D I've been watching a lot of his series and think I may start checking out your videos as well as I expand to get some ideas for my own gameplay. This is the first video of yours that youtube recommended to me.

[@WhatDarrenPlays]

Cool, thanks!

[@smlwst]

Really enjoyed this, for more realism, pipes and cables should likely always follow roads! wherever possible, and if you think about it, youll need road access to sewage outlets so on and so forth. Good first ep, nice work!

[@ranalloatl2]

that's interesting: the traffic logic in the car parks changes for left hand drive, but none of the markings change to match

[@johnlawrence7386]

When starting a city for power I go for a wind turbine to start, but do not connect it to the outside so I still get the subsidy. I only build services, schools etc when I have too as I am aiming to get the geo-thermal power plant. You might think this is expensive, especially at the start, yes it is expensive but once up and running you will be exporting a load of power, my money tab was in the red and showing that I was losing 7,000/9,000, but, I was still making money at the end of the day. Don't ask me how as I have no idea. That one power plant will produce enough electricity to power your city for ages, plus it does not give off air pollution so residents down wind will not complain. After a week playing this way I I had to get another power plant when I had 50,000 pop, no problem with 102 million in the bank, my highest income per game hour was 56,000 which means I was earning over 10 million per day while playing, in fact it is more than that as I have paid out millions to get rail yards, subway yards, hospitals etc. With the two power plants I have now I am exporting 400 KW and the money just keeps rolling in.

[@michajastrzebski4383]

51:00 if you build low offices, you do indeed get software dev studios :) games included

[@Noobsted]

Great video as always Darren, excited to see more of Blackwater!

[@trik.8]

red dead redemption refrence

[@CaptainCompton]

Blackwater?!? Where’s the money??

[@bruurq]

Thats what i thought

[@henriquesennapacci]

at 19:05 minutes, when you put the energy cables underground you won my sub, I HATE THE CABLES and i didn't know that that was possible.

[@bharathnaikkorra]

i really loved these long videos, keep doing them and also a new breath of fresh air from satisfactory this series gonna be good

[@InzGames]

Love it, honestly have you on a pop up window while I'm working. Relaxing city build.

[@S1mL1fe]

Nice work putting temporary pathways in. I never knew that would smooth out the buildable squares like that

[@craigmurray5355]

Blackwater you say? *Dutch breathing in planning mode*

[@miaterix_and_painting8400]

the parking on the road is because mid level housing does not have car ports, but they will move to a nearby parking lot.

[@rocsaltjohn]

If you'd like to be able to add just a section of a road to make it symmetrical, simply add a path at the point you'd like to install a node.

[@MissMunkii]

I’ve come here from Real Civil Engineer and when you make a 4-lane crossroads or grids for residential, all I can hear is RCE going “no!” 😂

[@saugustus1]

when you put down the pathways, you blew my mind

[@ankiratv]

I subbed within 5 minutes just because of the way you talk and your approach to the game. I will binge your content while I work this week :D

[@kellyrgames]

Your my favorite city skylines youtuber! Got me back into city skylines and I love your gameplay ☺️

[@quilledeouf]

GET DARREN TO 100K BOYSSSSSSS

[@jaded9436]

I watch all these lets plays to learn new strategies for my own playthrough and how to make interesting layouts. And then I end up making grid city v654

[@zeeksparrow9020]

Qhahaha as do i

[@alexhentschel1080]

Once you get to 40k population the garbage will start to become an issue. i put in an incinerator and recycling center which solved it and gives a boost of power production. Also one way you can discourage street parking is jack up the roadside parking fee, in the policies tab, and then make the lot parking fee much lower.

[@WhatDarrenPlays]

new patch should fix garbage stuff hopefully! forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/patch-notes-for-1-0-13f1-hotfix-steam-microsoft-store.1608490/

[@aliceinbunnyland]

36:30 a median on the 4 lane road should properly align the lanes so that there is no small awkward turn. also please turn of the in game radio. its a bit distracting to have you and the radio guy talk over each other. Edit: adding a median is also an alternative way to get rid of parking :)

[@WhatDarrenPlays]

If there’s no radio there’s no music. Ads are unchecked but news bulletins still happen. Will try avoid though

[@Lake_Filter]

Nice start to a brand new series. I would love to see some land allowance for service building expansion. Perhaps reemergence of the electricity pole in the future for realism's sake.

[@debjitmondal5281]

' Blackwater '🤌🏻💯 , hope Dutch and his gang will find peace

[@spatrompete2601]

What I really like is the possibility to upgrade buildings like fire stations medical centre schools etc

[@mver191]

You can get rich of the roadside parking. At some point you unlock the ability to ask roadside parking fees which gives you even with a small town an easy +50000 a month.

[@Somber.Killer]

Green spaces for the little irregular shaped spots. Paths and trees.

[@Shinom4ever]

I would love to see the Chicago Map, I don't think too much people have that map, so a future series on that map would be cool.

[@cammymillard7385]

I bought the first CS a couple weeks ago, a lot to learn but the main thing I struggled with was roads, they made 0 sense to me. Today I learned that you can make them drive on the sensible side of the road, this will make it much easier to design my A roads and hopefully less congestion with outgoing lorries :D

[@TheCreat]

The patch that is supposed to fix Garbage (generation and distribution) should be live now, so with any luck you should have a much better experience with it now than you may have had with any previous saves (or this save so far).

[@orbismark7947]

Finally been waiting for you to make a CS2 video I'm so excited for the series!

[@jamesbreda8213]

Nice use of the word obfuscate. You are the 4th person I’ve ever heard use that word correctly in a sentence. Great content. You’ve earned a subscriber.

[@WhatDarrenPlays]

I appreciate that! I did unfortunately say copious like 5 times in 2 minutes in the next video 😅

[@jamesbreda8213]

@@WhatDarrenPlays you said it a copious number of times.

[@JohnnyRayThompson]

That was a cool suprise, Town I use to live in is Blackwater.

[@arthurbouwens2203]

Congrats on passing your driving exam !!

[@Leonart93]

love your gameplay! such a cool and calm game play. thanks alot.

[@spatrompete2601]

The cemetery is one of the most beautiful asset looks a bit like a huge park use it more like a centre place

[@RedTwig2707]

You should have not added the road maintenance depot. Potholes are part of the British identity😂

[@katieobrien7581]

Your OCD tickles my brain

[@chrisfussell1478]

Congrats on passing your test 🎉

[@sauori]

Love watching all the planning, looks great and learning alot ❤

[@WhatDarrenPlays]

Thanks so much! 😊

[@SparkyTheSKUM]

I see you using developer mode, why not go all in and get some quality of life mods? Road tool extender, line tool and landscaping tool extender are great and stable.

[@rossdemarco922]

I live in Manhattan! And yeah, spot on with your assumptions

[@MrMarnus]

Maybe make three different districts for each tier and then put the names of members in their respective district? Maybe like tribune in industrial (lower) and then Quaestor in like financial district?

[@conormcbride3211]

I love that you build back lanes or alleys witch here where I am Vancouver Canada is what we do here huge fan you have a follower for life now

[@Instig4t0r86]

The effort you put in to your videos is outstanding

[@deonstroebel]

The hourly rate you calculated was wrong for the medical centre. $105000 per month / 30 days / 24 hours = $145.83 per hour

[@WhatDarrenPlays]

Nope, there’s 24hrs in a month for Cities Skylines 2. No days per month, so its just 105000/24

[@deonstroebel]

@@WhatDarrenPlays ah OK. Didn't know that.

[@wolfranger5526]

Just could not get into the streams. Glad to see a proper series has been started.

[@WhatDarrenPlays]

Yeah its much slower, and a lot of guesswork. Thats why these videos take longer, I actually put effort / planning into them!

[@Jan-SFR]

I’ve never learned so much in such a short period of time

[@sianhughes3704]

So satisfying watching you make a very neat city I'm struggling to add water 😂 I'm a newbie and this game is hard 😂

[@fatemeetsluck]

I just bought the first Cities Skylines on sale, I hope to get good enough at it to do this sort of thing in the sequel someday.

[@7se7en24]

Just found you, enjoying the content and you're entertaining. Dropped a sub as a sacrifice to the algoritm. Keep up the good work!

[@WhatDarrenPlays]

Hopefully this sacrifice will appease the Algo-Gods!

[@sebixx9734]

Maaaaaa, there's a Moose outside...it's okeh Lucy, pspspsps

[@Starmanw422007]

Howdie Darren, my name is Steven Whitehouse. And I'm new to the channel. Looking forward to watching you build your city. But I will watch this first then watch episode 2 to catch up.

[@dredaylarue]

Question, in city skyline one. What's the most population you've ever had? I had 260,800.

[@WhatDarrenPlays]

120,000 using the realistic population model

[@dredaylarue]

You're talking about with infinity funds turned off

[@rakshithhegdek3611]

Looking at you plan so much is soo satisfying,....especially after the stream😅

[@annorton5825]

Hi Darwin player I was expecting the first video 120 minutes the next video I expect to be in nowhere then like 40 to 35 minutes just carrying on keep up with the good content hope my spellings alright😊😊

[@edwellt]

congratulations on passing your practical driving test😆not many can cope with the UK roads

[@terakahn]

I didn't know there were pathways there. I only used pedestrian roads. This is a great series. Also never considered building along lines of elevation. Super smart. Was there any reason you went with 4x4 houses? I've always tried to use max size. I didn't know why I would do otherwise.

[@daniel_4625]

Smaller houses have lower rent than bigger houses and you can fit more of them in the same space than you could with larger houses, also for building variety

[@hanneken4026]

Complaints from the less highly educated people that rents are too high are directly related to the size of their residential plot, as well as the land value.

[@jayalstem]

I enjoyed this build. I like your authentic row house neighborhoods

[@jeremy5602]

47:50 Adding the grass blocked off the entrance to the parking lot. I wonder if that's only a visual issue or if it truly is blocked off to traffic.

[@TRPLD]

AS far as I know the plot size determines how wealthy people need to be in order to live there. So low density 2x3 is cheap, a 5x5 is for wealthier people. But be careful in the beginning when you don't have too many people, because poor people will live in expensive plot and then complain about taxes.

[@michaelcartlidge6913]

Great series can’t wait to see more!😊

[@tinysnowz]

just saying estates in the uk arent just row housin, thats the normal, estates are like 7-12 different blocks of large apartments in one area that are all connected and their own community, search up any estate

[@WhatDarrenPlays]

Of course! Estates up to the 80’s were often row houses, but not all in perfect lines

[@tinysnowz]

true, also, would u mind suggesting how I could run large cities so smoothly? like yours, do you know what GPU's etc?@@WhatDarrenPlays