Can a Highway Engineer become a TOP 1% Freeways player?

THE FINALE! Freeways part 14 where I try the best traffic fixing techniques from my real life highway design experience to see if they work in Freeways! This time I take on my old designs using everything I've learned so far in Freeways!
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[@sangeetagrover4328]

I love how every time he makes these videos, he explains the rules as most of us have never seen this series before

[@Melissanoma]

that;s just good youtuber practice. every video is someone's first on your channel.

[@Coppyrightt]

@@Melissanoma Too true, love a good “So if you’re new here -” or a “If you’re new to the channel -“ followed by explaining something for the newbies, it really sells the video because then more people can enjoy it

[@codingkriggsofficial]

Correct. I discovered this channel via a random episode of Freeways, and I really applaud the practice. After all, the one I clicked on was recommended by youtube, and you never know when you're uploading which one will go viral, so might as well treat each one as a visitor's first. Also, seeing him explain it each time has not gotten annoying to me at all because he manages to introduce each concept the moment it comes into play in the video and not a moment sooner.

[@sangeetagrover4328]

@@codingkriggsofficial same here

[@gingerfurrdjedi6211]

@@Melissanoma I wholeheartedly agree! Even though I've watched for a while I like that he still does a quick intro on how the game works.

[@shadowraze7628]

Truly the end of an era. I discovered RCE thru Freeways, so it's kinda bittersweet seeing its conclusion. Still hooked up with a lot of the other series, ofc!

[@SitharaRoy]

Same!

[@jennythegurl3695]

Me too

[@mihailmilev9909]

Same bro same

[@mihailmilev9909]

Actually the first I saw was minecraft but this got me hooked

[@codyspradley6277]

same here though I am late to the party and my main takeaway is this man loves roundabouts

[@darkfrei2]

Fun fact about Freeways: the best score is about *46k*

[@jamesknapp64]

over 30k is quite impressive itself.

[@mihailmilev9909]

Oh nice, was wondering to see that layout

[@Satseful]

@@mihailmilev9909 that 46k is my map and it can be found from Freeways steam community guide section. At least I don’t know anyone else to got over 46k. KZbin removes my comments with link to there, so can't give straight link.

[@thedutyfree-tdf]

@@Satseful screen recorder and upload it to YT

[@LikwidKat]

So you're saying 42069 is possible then?

[@konstantinavilov1192]

Level 78 seems to remain "unsimulated" and, hence, unscored. To become more "1%-ish", you need every pinch of score!

[@bobbys332]

Maps that have only one entrance and one exit don't get simulated. This is why the "strongest shape" road he did at the beginning and the one in the top left that bridges out over the ocean along with a few others I believe don't have a score. There is no simulating them because there is no traffic jam issue to calculate against.

[@im0b]

@@bobbys332 first level is simulated though 228 is its score.

[@eeme7092]

@@im0b nope that is the one below that

[@bsnook981]

@@eeme7092 It even says 1 next to the 228.

[@bsnook981]

I'm glad, I'm not the only one who noticed that. He probably got too distracted by his amazing road design to run it.

[@magiwastaken]

Rest in Peace to a great series. I'd love to see some more FlyCorp!

[@melkeradahl2545]

Me too

[@KarhuThePlayer]

Yes! More FlyCorp

[@Sumirevins]

Man, I'll miss this series this was my second favorite series by matt second only to timberborners.

[@MilkBeforeTheCereal]

yes me too

[@CamoSquid]

4:17 this shit is why I watch these videos. Love how efficient he always makes his road designs. It's why I love this series, why I love infraspace, cities skylines, and any other free designing games he plays

[@Kevin-fj5oe]

Ah yes, he's coming back from work to playing a game simulating his work.

[@fastenough3287]

I'm in San Antonio and we have soooo many 4 level stack interchanges. Most of them in very popular areas so they're not very symmetrical, but usually pretty efficient. I was told they build so many bridges here cause they don't have to worry about freezing much

[@earthling_parth]

Car ridden dystopia, Texas is....

[@StrassenMaSt]

That looks like the Bundeswehr

[@hunterlewis5798]

There’s some that are even more than 4 levels if I remember correctly. I lived in San Antonio, well a subdivision called Cibolo for a summer. Right next to a huge 8 lane highway. I think it was like 34 or 35 I don’t remember but I remember the interchanges being huge

[@Dangerwiggles]

"usually pretty efficient" Unless you're 35 - 410 or 1604 - 35. At least they finally did an interchange for 1604 - 281.

[@5Andysalive]

The one in the image also looks like the cross thing on german military vehicles.

[@n8dagr881]

This is a good ending....im glad to be apart of the freeway journy. Now we just need a 10 hour screan saver of following a car through his interchanges

[@Snommelp]

It's funny that, in that final level, you went for various 4-way interchanges when I, an American, immediately thought "roundabout!"

[@cathygrandstaff1957]

RCE’s a bad influence.

[@lordmctheobalt]

@@cathygrandstaff1957 good*

[@anlumo1]

At least in Cities Skylines, roundabouts are only good of medium-level traffic. Once it gets too much, everything clogges up and slows to a crawl.

[@EEEEEEEE]

Can you continue this series by optimizing every level?

[@user-cy7em3up9l]

he will never optimize the first most efficient road.

[@WelcomeToCJWorld]

Probably not because it is supposed be like that. It's not a esport neither he is speed runner or esport player , he is just guy who loves and enjoys playing games just like us. Games are supposed to be enjoyed no matter what , if you play bad or good , what matters is enjoying it. Also, he need to make content on variety of games if he wants to reach new heights.👍

[@queenthot1438]

@@WelcomeToCJWorld freeways is such an iconic and fun series, so it’s so disappointing that it’s gonna end. that’s why op wants to find ways to extend the series. the purpose isn’t to actually maximize efficiency in the game, but to make the series longer. i don’t think he should try to maximize efficiency to extend the series, tho. personally, i’d like to see videos of him using ridiculous and silly interchanges and seeing if he can still get a good score.

[@Nuke-MarsX]

No its getting old

[@Stealth_Robot]

@@user-cy7em3up9l well yes... you literally cant edit that first road, you don't have an option to redo the level

[@alessiobenvenuto5159]

Would love a sequel to this game, with mini motorways's controls, and an ERASE BUTTON My world efficiency is only 29800 😢

[@matteomangioni3160]

It would also be cool if cars accelerated on "straight" pieces of road and braked realistically: then you'd really have to think about traffic and sensible road designs

[@alessiobenvenuto5159]

@@matteomangioni3160 yeah, but only with a better building system. As it is now, thank god cars don't care much for tight curves and such

[@ianmoore5502]

Bold gameplay design choice

[@tonyfweb]

I've spent quite a few hours on this game trying to optimize my roads and have managed to get to 28K and you just casually finish the game with over 30K. Lol. Fantastic job

[@RJ_Eckie]

I could 1000% do with a new series where we go through all levels again optimizing for the highest score!!

[@Desslosh]

Man, I'm really going to miss these series. I watched every episode, and it's basically the only series I really like in this channel. I hope a new series like this one starts soon.

[@jennythegurl3695]

Yes absolutely, me too

[@monhi64]

Lmao the subtle maybe not so subtle roast

[@lungilengwenya1061]

love how Matt goes wide to leave space, yet makes the tightest junction possible at any point.

[@bugle-clowncar]

Amazing Series. In November 2021, Episode 01 of Freeways was the very first video of yours that I watched... and then I binge watched all of your other videos! Every day I look forward to the video du jour. Awesome job Matt!

[@marcelk4559]

3:16 I live near this nice roundabout... Maybe nothing special but fun to see that in a game and your video 😀 But unfortunately there is a bridge in this picture, a little bit above the interchange. Unfortunately, this was destroyed in the floods of 2021. Just 1 or 2 months after the completion of the construction work... RIP Bridges of Ahr Valley 😞And more than 40 bridges were also destroyed... Just search Ahrtal Flut B9 Brücke, but there are many more innocent Bridges killed

[@blocknugget8617]

😢 the bridges.

[@SimonSideburns]

My current world efficiency after building all 81 screens is just shy of 31 thousand but with a load of optimisations still to do, and I've managed to unlock all pictures also. On the instructions screen the left and right hand side shows all the pictures you can unlock. You can see in the video that when you were on that screen one picture was darkened on the left hand side. Look around 14:26. I've got a list somewhere of the order of the pictures and which screen they were from. I've watched "Biertier, ze German engineer" play this and he's got over 40,000 world efficiency from what I recall by optimising so much it's unbelievable. It's well worth looking at to see how much the screens can be improved.

[@cj719521]

Found the channel this morn, binged all the Freeways videos and now it’s lunch. Wicked series. Cheers!

[@LazySmurf]

Optimize the efficiency! I’ve loved this series, keep pushing that number upwards! I’ve seen a guide on Steam community about it perhaps you can further improve it’s designs :D

[@Satseful]

You asked how did I do. Well, I've got over 46000 points for world efficiency and I am pretty sure, it is world record for this game. It have been nice to see your journey through these levels. Thanks for this series.

[@LordDragox412]

Oi mate, my score is 69420, so how 'bout you world record deez nuts instead. /s

[@Satseful]

@@LordDragox412 oh, youtube removed my comment, probably because there were link. I'd like to see map of that score XD. It must need to use so many times strongest shape. Jokes aside and my score and level solutions can be found from Freeways steam community guide section, and there is also my proof of that score.

[@willguggn2]

How many times did you erase a map only to make it worse? :D

[@Satseful]

@@willguggn2 too many :D. Untill I learned that resizing window does not save the try, and I could keep my points which I had before. And even after that so many times.

[@MidnightBlade22]

Hey RCE, you should look into scrap mechanic. It's got a challenge mode that i think you will enjoy, and its got a steam workshop to play challenges your fans can build for you! There's even mod support

[@YT-Lucas]

This was the series which started the whole RCE ride for me. Thanks for finishing it out!

[@drjekku]

What, not a single bridge review in the whole series? I'm astonished. I really was hoping to see one, because those are the best!

[@theshyammonite8372]

If you're looking for a new game, I would recommend Rail Route, a game where you become both a railway designer and signaller

[@flaviodijkstra2437]

Id love to see 1 final episode where you try and squeeze every last point out of all the levels even if that makes thedesigns a little les strong shape etc.

[@alexrowaan7326]

I JUST watched the previous video in this series, and then I got this notification! Very excited to watch this

[@ClaudioTheGoat]

what a series that was, it was great fun watching you building every one of those intechanges

[@Autotrope]

That graphical issue actually does affect flow because other cars on that bridge stop to give way to the car that glitches through.

[@Faillord1]

How About Sim Airport? Building and upgrading an airport to it's most efficient point sounds nice :D Great Series btw. I've been watching a lot of your videos lately and Freeways was my first video of yours that I watched.

[@MortenBarklund]

But, you never simulated level 78 so you didn't get a score for it. How can you leave us hanging like that? Wasn't it the perfect layout? Don't you dare see your score?

[@simonrauscharijon]

That level has not score! cause it's too easy

[@ojosshiroy8544]

@@simonrauscharijon yep

[@bluefirewizard]

I went on a vacation recently and got to drive over a diverging diamond for the first time. Made me think of this channel lol.

[@chigookafor710]

Thank you for taking us on this journey with u to complete the game

[@smithm026]

This was one of my favorite series

[@Tall_dark_and_handsome]

How did he not see the perfect set up for a roundabout on level 79?

[@LAFORGUS]

Thank you! You just made me procrastinate a whole afternoon at work watching this whole playlist...

[@MotoCat91]

After watching every single episode in this entire series I have FINALLY decided to purchase the game for myself Wish me luck

[@artemis6828]

how's everything going so far

[@MotoCat91]

@@artemis6828 I don't commit much time to gaming these days so I've only done around 12 levels. I'm glad I watch this channel because it helps significantly.. but it's still harder than it looks

[@darioschottlender]

@@MotoCat91 How is it going?

[@MotoCat91]

@@darioschottlender .... I have brought shame to my family Haven't touched it since the last update -.- But I have been getting in -some- gaming time, slowly working my way through Witcher 3 now with the new update If I don't stick with it though I fear the same thing will happen there and I'll end up never seeing how the story ends

[@rohangm5377]

So how's it going?

[@PredictableFailing]

Nice to see an interchange which is only a few kilometers away from me :D The interchange in Sinzig isn't that heavily used and you can get quite easily onto the roundabout

[@Niyucuatro]

Another clasical REC series that ends. Good times were had.

[@cespen9999]

Hell yeah! I live in San Antonio. The interchange at 11:30 is the intersection for i35 and loop 410!

[@cespen9999]

And we sure as hell don’t make efficient roads

[@WERTYUIO821]

0:25 I can confirm, the owl that lives above my house replied to it.

[@Dangerwiggles]

One of the cool things about San Antonio was the massive highway interchanges. There are several that have bridges that soar over, over 100 feet tall. Giant multilayered bridges, it was actually super cool to go over some and almost look like you were taking off in an air plane, if you looked over the edge watching the city fall away. Okay, no, that was the only cool thing about living in San Antonio...

[@Quackle88]

7:50 now that would have been a good one to try the 'owl' with

[@georgH]

I've subscribed to your channel just for Infra, and then Freeways. Awesome content!

[@fishbowlliz]

I’ve literally never heard of this game, have no knowledge of highway systems, but this popped up in my recommended and I said “sure, why not.” So here I am.

[@KerbalFacile]

You sold me onto this game, and after much suffering from inadequate mouse control (and a little swearing) I reached 37422 total efficiency.

[@nicholasfolk5582]

YES I’m so excited that the last one was San Antonio, we have so many stack interchanges all over the city. They make it so easy to navigate the highways

[@RIVEXNGLE]

16:07 Such a huge traffic jam on the top left spanning across several levels. Lol

[@omminerofficial]

11:52 We have one for the M4 and the M5 in the UK.

[@rachelellis8497]

I really hope matt continues this series by Tring to increase his score a lot another thing matt should play is a mobile game called intersection controller. It isn't a bad game

[@rachelellis8497]

liking the comment might make matt see this

[@aviator8632]

"The other straight through roads are literally just straight through roads" Wise words

[@JMIK1991]

Cheers, got motivated to finish my playthrough aswell! The impossible Track 57 was now a lot easier... Drew it tens of times for 140, one 174, and required just 175 for picture. Went with 2xS roads as sharpish turns never worked out, saved some concrete with it easily. Got all achievements now and score is 27.7k.

[@MrSirSquishy]

3:23 Missed opportunity to call them "Halo Interchanges"

[@bringbacktheoldyoutube]

I never would have thought my town would have got a featured pic on this game. I drive on that specific stack interchange all the time.

[@shiina_mahiru_9067]

given the fact that Texas has some of the fastest highways in America, having a 4-level stack interchange is not a surprise. (Yes, it is a big waste of money and do nothing to reduce car-dependency.)

[@Dangerwiggles]

Texas also has one of the biggest highway budgets. The literally do the dumbest crap to keep the funding there.

[@Tauramehtar]

RCE, Instruments of Destruction just had a new update complete with a new map...with a bridge in it.

[@jbeachley18]

End of an era...I think I got hooked to this channel from watching this game. So simple but so effective!

[@kampfar111]

Always sad to see a series end

[@jaumeroca9612]

I can literally see 2 “great separated junctions” from my room's window.

[@dankart4924]

Sad to see this series end, it'd be cool if you started again and tried to finish the game with no bridges!

[@antonrudy]

Patiently waiting for mini motorways and cities skylines!

[@tadzumi4722]

Can't believe RCE pronounced it as "cactusses" and not "cacti" , what an architect thing to do..

[@DaveyKanabus]

1:11 "A thick one over to the pink". Giggity.

[@ender_gamer000]

RCE!!!! Terraforming Mars got a brand new update!!! BUTTERFLIES!!!!!🦋🦋🦋

[@taylankammer]

In the intro when you said "levels that nearly broke me" and showed level 57, I felt that. Only ever got to around ~150 and I have no idea how to improve. Could try to copy your design one to one but that feels like cheating lol.

[@ball56]

I'd love to see you play Mindustry, a resource management tower defense or something along the line, can't really explain it. You use machines to mine resources, put them on conveyor belts back to the base to create more machines and stuffs, you can build turrets to defend your base from the enemy robots and even build your own bots to fight them

[@jennythegurl3695]

I loved this series, binge watched it in like 2-3 days

[@AleksiJoensuu]

I think on some of the ones with very little traffic, you could have just done a regular old x-intersection and saved material. On the redesign front, maybe it would have been best to start with the lowest scores. There were several in the 200 range.

[@burntalive]

I like how you follow a G-wagon through all the roads!

[@DivineStride]

We have so many stack interchanges in Texas. That's probably why the roads are always under construction.

[@MAIcrosoft]

Kinda feel sad it's over though, I was always looking forward for every single new episode! It was a blast man, thanks for all the fun getting me trough the weird times we had! Secretly hope they will release DLC or just straight up Feeways 2 so we can get more of this in the future! 😁

[@Studio_Hendrix]

Oof man I couldn’t look away from the two bridges glitching in #79….. made me ITCH, I was hoping you were gonna redo that, my OCD was quaking 😂

[@scottcain20051]

The last image is of my home city. Very nice!

[@bladactania]

This is my favorite series

[@xpatrstarx]

I would love to see this series continue...somehow...maybe there's mods or community levels?

[@queenthot1438]

i personally would love if he just went crazy on every level and made super ridiculous and silly roads. he gets really creative with the unscored levels, so it would be fun the result if he ignores the scores for all of the levels and just goes wild.

[@dankart4924]

Maybe he could beat levels without using bridges.

[@felixwhitty5787]

watching these videos made me look out for highway interchanges out the window of the plane on holiday

[@hufuhufu]

Binged through all of this and was a fun series!

[@idm-qp9gz]

the best series on yt

[@karolinazajac2744]

Love your laugh. It was pure happiness watching this series!

[@RealCivilEngineerGaming]

Glad you enjoyed, thanks for watching!

[@jmoss10403]

I use to work right down the road from that last picture and would pass by it all the time. Thats 37 & loop 410 on the southeast side of town.

[@senzi4935]

Now I am watching RCE, soon I will be RECE. Hoping to get that license soon

[@gamingnamehere1560]

RECE?

[@senzi4935]

@@gamingnamehere1560 electronics engineer

[@marcor815]

All this time, Matt was just analysing everything to get that nice score in the final level

[@LittleJimmyR]

Me in the last level:Airport! Matt: *super wavy flappy arm man*

[@RJ_Eckie]

Yesss a new Freeways video!! 🤩 My RCE gateway drug 😏

[@rolfstalker2986]

I'm gonna miss this series. It's been a blast!

[@ben0329]

This was a fun series to watch through

[@kthanna08]

The last episode of freeways? I’m not ready to be done with that

[@Toppot2]

I'm not ready for this series to be over! =[ Please do an optimisation video or stream! Compete againist peoples scores for levels on the Discord or something, throw down the gauntlet!

[@fazer_6]

I liked simply because "the more you know" joke. Love your videos Matt.

[@anonymizationoverload9831]

Aw, final video... I only just started playing this a few weeks ago because of your vids! Thanks for showing us this lovely game :D

[@2_Elliot]

I saw the first episode many many months ago, and now finally I am seeing the last one. We've come full circle! (No pun intended)

[@nomekop777]

I think I'm a bit late to the party, but you should check out mindustry. It's a pretty cheap (cost wise) indie game kinda like Factorio but more focused on tower defense. There's a huge tech tree, as well as a whole planet to conquer. It's really fun and pretty challenging, and I think you'd like it

[@BMWM5sarecool]

Did you know there is 2 types of grade junctions because one is higher than highway and one is lower that is under the highway RCE so that is type 1 grade junction because that one is more common

[@80sandmore]

My score 30877 - Well done to you and you are a real Engineer Matt unlike me I am not an engineer. Makes me want to drive these in real life and see how fast I could really go...without any other traffic though.

[@Ototox]

Congrats! End of another era.

[@botulismsauce]

I really like this series. I had a friend who would have loved this game. RIP Andy

[@josephmatla1743]

Haha second to last level was the strongest shape too..... Surprised mat didn't spot that one

[@not_vinkami]

4:59 "They have the little key symbols there" Literally, キ symbols

[@ShinyBow_Plays]

YES RCE has posted Again!!!!!

[@iangrasamkee-beasley2796]

I'm currently sitting at 32304, but I plan on rewatching your series to see if I can push that score.