Expanding and Perfecting Every Detail in Cities Skylines 2!

[@rustyredbeard]

I'm really glad you're sticking by CS2 while they get it sorted, it shows integrity, and that's an important example to set. I have every confidence the game will get sorted and you'll have been a part of that. Good man Biffa.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

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[@Cableguy72]

Shouldn't alleyways run perpendicular to roads so providing a shortcut for pedestrians from one street to another. Back alleys are fine for looking like a terrace where you put your bins etc but you would always have alleyways between them so you don't have to walk to the end of your road every time.

[@maidenminnesota1]

Depends on where you live. In America, most of them run parrallel to the houses like he has them here.

[@PerfectAlibi1]

@@maidenminnesota1 Maybe even a bit of both, a main allay way behind the buildings for service access And some smaller connecting ones from the the actual street street for pedestrians

[@WatchmanEvan24]

16:25 hey Biffa, the "unoccupied buildings" thing means that the houses that are already built arent full - meaning there's a few houses without residents living in them. You'll have to wait for people to move into those houses first before new houses can be built.

[@sully_skylines]

With the lowering grass into ground, you don’t need to use the transform menu. Anarchy now has a set elevation tool, you can use negative values. And you can also lock the elevation using anarchy too. So it can be done very quickly 👍

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Good tip! Thanks Sully 😁👍

[@piotrfijoek1095]

Good to see another City Skylines 2 video :) Regarding that park-like area at the 5-minute mark, I'd guarantee it would have seen no use in real life because the concrete would turn that place into a frying pan during Summer. We had in my city a similar place, despite people saying to keep it green as much as possible, the city authorities placed stone and concrete. No one used that place. Only now, it's being ripped apart to plant trees, and bushes and place lawn.

[@marcuskintz]

I wish SO BAD that the extra props would actually be used. That would bring the "real feel" up a ton!!!

[@stxejn]

I absolutely love doing a row of low commercial along a street to get 7 gas stations side by side. Deleting and hoping RNG gives nice variation is a feature at this point.

[@unkl115]

Hey biffa. A great use of space is to create a cricket field! Picket fence all the way around the outside, grass texure for the field while sand works well for a pitch. line decals for the pitch markings and infield circle, a stand and a couple of shaded sports seat thingys for the players on the outside of the field, even blank billboards for sight screens. Wish I could post a pic here of my build, but youll work it out. It's a great idea for a build and makes things look pretty. Add a few parks around the outside and you have a great area. Cricket is the second largest sport in the world, it's time cities gets a cricket pitch!

[@tigonologdring9189]

I'm working on it... ;o) Transparent decal for marking a 22-yard strip, maybe a couple of scuffed up ones to mark used pitches. Could throw in a 30-yard ring marker too I suppose... forgot about those (we don't use those in our league)

[@ondrejkratochvil4589]

We have some green space here - let's put concrete over it! Yeah, that's sadly how most of the public spaces is "reconstructed", "revitalised" etc. these days :'( Why to bother with maintaining the lawn and just build couple of paths, resting areas etc., when a sweeper run over the concrete twice a day is everything you need to maintain it... BTW it could be pretty interesting if CS2 could simulate the city heat distribution, taking into account density and materials used in places, and generate a heat map based on the current weather, and eventually have people complaining when it starts to get bad :)

[@LordofSyn]

I agree. A Heat map would be cool for recreating cities like Phoenix Arizona.

[@skriks1]

Yeah, my heart immediately broke with all the concrete - could've been such a lovely park space. Good thing it's just a game, but still it shows an upsetting tendency 😔

[@tristanleidig7720]

glad that this get mentioned... unfortunately thats the common aproach to public spaces ;/ Also the water drainage is a problem since we tend to seal everything

[@OpalDruscilla]

As soon as he put down that concrete I felt hotter

[@DrakeGamer85]

Biffa, you might want to adjust the park fencing along that alleyway to the backyard parking - its sticking out into the tarmac and pavement rather awkwardly. I noticed it when you did it, and noticed you hadn't adjusted that by the end of the vid!

[@theaveragefoodcritic4459]

This was eating at me when I saw it..

[@DrakeGamer85]

Every time I hear the city name, a smile crosses my face. Apart from the strip mall suggestion I put out in the last video (or the one before that), how about a American styled suburb of cul-de-sacs, with a throughfare curving through it - a place called Sweet Teeburb? Oh! And if you get a City Hall, why not give the politicians of New Brewburgh a pleasant park or plaza space, with plenty of tables and parasols, and maybe a little hut serving beverages, so they got somewhere to talk city business while enjoying a nice cuppa!

[@mastersuntzu]

In the area where you built your own parking lot, the fence on Chestnut Lane is in the road. I still don't think the stairwell buildings have enough people assigned to them. As someone who grew up living in apartments like that there was certainly more people in them. Great build as always! Cheers!

[@mateuszkunda9400]

Nice one! CS2 starts looking like fun - once there's an opportunity to add assets (plus Region Packs are finally released) it will finally be a really enjoyable game!

[@ma-eu-ch8944]

Idea👍🏿: It would be a good idea if at most three episodes from now you build the first small skyscraper that has been bought by a rich person to build offices and stuff there.

[@whitlcj1]

As purposefully as you make 90 degree perpendicular roads, purposely make all perpendicular roads less than 90 but greater than 79 degrees in your next new area. I think that should be great fun.

[@VinceP1974]

By definition perpendicular means 90 degrees.

[@joeyd0923]

Hey Biffa, great video as always. Not sure if you saw it or not, but there is now a Grates and covers decal pack that lets you plop down tree box decals as well as sewer grates, etc. Hope this helps for your tree designs and landscaping.

[@IdentityAcaSi]

The biffa beauty strikes again , the city truly feels alive with all these little places

[@DanS_0136]

Just an idea to vary the type of trees in a line just so it looks a little less generated?

[@Aeonsoulful]

Love the Build so far I noticed in the mod store that there is a NA Medium density wall to wall type builds upgrade for the residential zoning so that they all go wall to wall but taller buildings

[@JDKempton]

"Let's try and make some traffic" making traffic has never been an issue for me🤔👍

[@YHY88]

05:47 'Crazy Colibri' sounds more like an arcade and bowling than restaurant

[@capedkat]

Them big murals on the sides of the mixed use buildings are excellent 👌 So are the parks. Big fan of the parking lot in that area as well. It's always nice to see instant usage of parking lots. Everything you do manually is an improvement on the monotomy that's haunting this game. Random question: Can building colors be adjusted?

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Not yet, but I made the suggestion 👍

[@charlesingram9471]

you could let a few grow away from the build area and then get on with something else and go back to them later and see if you get any you want and then just move them with move it.

[@amaresch66]

Add a playground and ploppable kiddie rides (if you have them) to your cafe street. Maybe bike parking racks and kiosks also to fill the space. Glad your staying with the game.

[@tigonologdring9189]

I like that you've thrown in a kids' football pitch. Unless it's an artificial pitch you might want to grub it up a bit with some mud and stains, for that Extra touch. have to admit to a chuckle when you built the car park at the back of the shops... shop owners go "Great! Parking for our customers!" only to be disappointed when a big fence goes up stopping the direct access from the car park to the shops. Hehehe... Think Sully should go above me though, no way I'm above him. Like the wall though. Has an "Extra" quality about it...

[@Hallmiester]

Still enjoying the CS2 content. Thank you for not giving up on it Biffa ❤

[@yellowcraion]

'it adds a bushy look to the bottom' such a great line out of context, well done! XD (at 11:18)

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

😅

[@IOSARBX]

Biffa Plays Indie Games, Your videos always brighten my day, so I subscribed!

[@TheSparkVG]

You should use random rotations on bushes and trees to look natural when making line

[@mantabloke8141]

This is starting to look like the CS we know and love :)

[@marcrubin9359]

Definitely used the fixed length option for your tree lines! It makes the line tool unimaginably better. Love the video!

[@infiniteVidz]

I love both this city and the CS1 city😄 Can't wait for the next episode!

[@jimhearsonwriter]

Re: the corner mixed-use whack-a-mole, there were gaps in the construction hoardings on both streets it was on... isn't that usually the sign that it'll be a corner building?

[@doctoronboard7542]

Love the handmade football field there. Hopefully no one kicks the ball too high and break windows 😂

[@essexexile]

Only 35mins noooo 😱 Waiting for a new video on this build is like when you used to have to wait for a new episode of the X-Files or Star Trek but unlike those Biffa never has a filler episode 🙌 Do you feel like the housing density is realistic in CS2? Or is there tweaking to be done? Personally I’m looking at those flats and thinking there should be a lot more dwellings in each of those.

[@martyburgess341]

It's god to se they fixed therparking A.I. I found funny to see vehicles teleporting to the spot of phasing through other cars. 🤣🤣

[@marcrubin9359]

Also demand issues are another thing for the next time you speak to CO. The amount of medium density demand early game is wild. You should really be able to build out a low density area somewhat large until you need medium density.

[@VinceP1974]

Just because there's a demand for it, what is forcing you to zone it?

[@fateunleashed9680]

What kind of brew is Brewburgh? Are we talking a Imperial Stout, Stout, Amber Ale, Bitter, American Pale Ale, or Wheat Beer?

[@auto_revolt]

Tea, definitely tea. Black tea with milk, a lovely brew.

[@maidenminnesota1]

@@auto_revolt And lemon. Gotta have the lemon.

[@kelseygoodmanson7160]

Do you think they will expand the game to MAC like the original game?

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

They said maybe in the future 👍

[@carriegarrisonvos4433]

Looking really good!! Enjoying the series! 🤩

[@Tolgarific]

Biffa you don't need floodgates at the end of the 2 little waterfalls you already have a dam there the water won't fall over the edge it would keep your water level at 0.75 at all times the gates are pointless and are creating more trouble than good

[@sadbear101]

All those new residents, how are the schools holding up?

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

I'll check!

[@littlextraveler]

Enjoying both your cs1 and cs2 videos 🎉

[@College-Builder]

Great to see another CS2 video! Appreciate your work as always.

[@macaidwin]

Marvellous building again, mayor

[@peterb7549]

Hi biffa I was wondering if you would do a rundown area. With a couple of tower blocks lots of concrete some overgrown flower beds crappy kids park etc. A different detailing idea.

[@EternalGamingNet]

That filled in so nicely! Great video as always.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Thanks again!

[@SnyperMK2000JclL]

Lol so what im really hearing here is the mod makers need to make some customizable asset database mod with save/load/copy/paste funtionality for the player to create their own assets... For example... Tree + ground color change + lowered bush undergrowth = custom asset which could be saved and used like any other game asset and placed all over the place. And maybe for an extra little bit of sauce on top add a functionality to save a "variable asset" where, lets use the above example again, the tree could have some minor variations, the shape of the color variation on the ground could have some variation, and the bushy undergrowth could also have some variation... then when pasted around each "custom tree setup" would be slightly different much like they game automatically does as you paint random trees in.

[@salemprompthous3820]

❤ the Football pitch

[@Tony1975uk]

You'll never guess what I just saw an ad for during this video.... actual Biffa 😂😂 Confusion for at least 6 seconds 😂😂

[@DadOmega]

BOOM! Keep up the great work! I greatly appreciate it

[@PawlovsDogg]

I gave it another shot because of the mods. Started 2 cities to see how things work at the beginning and went to do a "serious" one. While I understand that using Mods increases the chances of the game crashing or bugs occurring, the whole stick of not doing it in steam was compatibility issues and decreases in incompatibility. And while I still can work with a crashing game, when a bug appears in which I can't bulldoze streets anymore and it persists when reloading the game and save, it is game breaking. Or at least motivation breaking. Because my motivation went -100 the moment, I imagined that happening after 200 Hours in a city. But maybe they fix it? Yeah maybe, and even if they did it does not guarantee your save to be working. And I am not the person to load the game first thing to test if the save files are working again. What is this? alpha phase? I give it another shot in 2 months, maybe.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Bugs in mods are nothing to do with the game devs and would appear even if the mods were on steam. I've not come across that particular bug but using a mod manager like skyve (also on pdx mods) is the best way to sort any mod compatibility issues 👍

[@vickirothe3761]

I have a question. Seeing that fencing is considered a network, are you concerned about the amount of nodes being used by the fencing being laid within this build long term?

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

No node limits in cs2 👍

[@vickirothe3761]

@@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines I didn't know that! Thanks so much for the information!

[@Beardedbroon]

Love it, you are giving me some good ideas for my next stream. I promise I won't copy too much 😉😉 Also was that the find it mod you were using to find the tables yeah? Love your level of detail Biffa.

[@bbbenj]

CS2 seems to be pleasant, now. Is it time to buy and build cities?

[@capedkat]

Take in consideration that Biffa uses a lot of mods. If your computer is a BEAST and can handle all of it, then perhaps yes 😊

[@bbbenj]

@@capedkat Ryzen 5600x and 64 Gb ram, is it enough? 🤔

[@capedkat]

@@bbbenj What I know about capable computers is that they are around 4000-5000 euro/usdollar somewhat. And need active cooling instead of a fan. There are tubes going through my computer (with liquid) that basically make it a fridge. I have seen the specs, but I find that so uninteresting that my brain doesn't absorb that data 😅 so I don't know if that's enough, but Biffa's specs are always in the description I believe 😃

[@bbbenj]

@@capedkat thanks, I'll check. Edit: nothing in the description neither on his site...

[@sandiz83]

Huzza new traffic mod

[@ninjathedeadguy2655]

Welcome back

[@Ytbinger]

It's like nothing changed! Except a lot of things lol. Good to see CS2 catching up to 1!!!

[@WhiskeyHunterVAT69]

fun build. 👍👍

[@jeremyrochet5773]

Someone knowns from which theme the grass come from?!

[@aprilgreen2006]

The graffiti ones, almost sound either a rap group or a collab of rock stars lol

[@AdamHinckley]

13:01 are the roads straight? that's maybe why they are like that

[@stevengalloway8052]

Another great video, Biffa! I heard something about Colossal Order releasing an economy rework patch...? 🤨

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Yes, coming soon 👍

[@lordzizo375]

Biffa Please explain me that: If you go germany or any other Country esxcept Britain or the USA you see all the time one gigantic Residential Zone and in the Middle is one big Comercial Zone. Why not built mixed Zoning like Comercial and Residential together even together in one Building. Like ontop people live and below there are shops

[@gottawon6415]

Biffa, what graphics/visual mods/settings are you using? Your game is looking very realistic.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

4k and mostly high in the game graphics settings 👍

[@maidenminnesota1]

Residential taxes cannot exceed 12%. No different than CS1.

[@aqpenfr]

Great video as always!

[@phill-b4j]

Why all the levelling? I was born and brought up in Wales where nothing is built on the flat.

[@bigkatalysator]

can the ploppable buildings be used without zoning the area? thought it needed zoning.

[@WillyLangley]

Nice Video!

[@leomelegari]

Man, i love your video editing hahahaha and your videos, for sure

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Glad you enjoy it!

[@AshRuv]

B-E-A-Utiful!

[@miesdaantje]

Slowly getting excited to play cs2 again!!!!

[@rileywhetstone1755]

😎

[@ryancomfy]

Another lovely vid, thanks Biffa :)

[@alwedo9828]

Thank you

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

You're welcome 😁

[@michaelkowalski407]

Have you heard anything about a console release?

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Still October ish 👍

[@natodie123]

Does this guy ever play the game as a simulator or just a detailing game

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

This guy plays the game all the different ways.

[@TroublesomeChris]

@@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines 😂

[@Lord_Void_Raven]

I kind of find it a little sad, that you would probably not find a city that looks this good in reality, or if it does, it costs an arm and a leg to live there

[@simonkgauthier]

Is there an easy way to copy and install your mods list to my game ? When I follow your mods link, I end up on a page with a never ending list (I stopped counting at 60...)

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

My latest up to date list is on my discord, your midday have had the wrong info as I've never used 60 mods in Cities 2 👍

[@Sophhx]

boss, do you still do city fixes? kina need some help (calm before the storm)

[@ic_trab]

Isn't this episode chronologically before the Paradox/Colossal Order talk?

[@thedigitalmaestroAI]

I become like cs2 again

[@Styrestian]

🫖 ❤

[@Maxwell89216]

hi

[@BootedTech]

Hello

[@Maxwell89216]

hi

[@gordonstewart4074]

Where can I download your games /maps to play

[@Daniele858585]

2000 people city??? What's the point? In a normal city simulation speed it's still terrible. Unplayable.