Everything New in the FREE DECORATORS Patch in Cities Skylines 2!

[@gulgir2850]

The devs from the game Satisfactory solved "the issue" with placing objects in other objects with so called "soft clearance" and "hard clearance". Taking the bench as an example... "soft clearance" would allow you to place the bench in a garden of a house but the "hard clearance" would not allow to place the bench inside the house. I don't know if something similar would be possible within CS2 but i just wanted to point out the idea.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Good idea 👍

[@fateunleashed9680]

I love Coffee Stain's way of communication for updates and such!

[@kleckerklotz9620]

This is basicly a question of collision detection. Unity has some standard collision boxes (and also very specialized ones too), which you can define for every mesh you add. To have something like soft/hard clearance you need to adjust every asset in the game and define what is inside and what is not (aka unclick collision). Or you can write a script which calculates the volumes of models and defines insides and outsides on the fly. They will certainly not do the first option. This would make modders lifes harder and would cost a lot of manpower. The second option is conceivable. But IDK if this is a good idea for a game that already struggles with performance.

[@alexanderdrechsel6858]

you should suggest this to CO. biffa is hardly a dev for this game :)

[@gulgir2850]

@@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines I made a topic "soft clearance / hard clearance for buildables." in the official discord trying to explain what the idea is about. Can i use this video as reference in case there is need for more clarification?

[@RogerPlayz2025]

Bicycle lanes would also change the game a lot. DLC of this will make the most sense! (Bicycle upgrades and bicycles in the city as extension, with bicycle paths as option). Btw, this patch also makes the game more interesting to play. Great patch.

[@iamjames8200]

Should be in the game for free. Bicycle infrastructure is a massive part of city planning irl, it would be criminal to make it paid dlc.

[@RogerPlayz2025]

@@iamjames8200 I am from the Netherlands and live in Germany, so I know many differences between cycle lanes in different countries. I also explored Slovenia, which had completely different cycle routes through Ljubljana. So this in Cities skylines II would change the game for most of all.. 👍 **This makes the game more european-based.

[@AndersonYagosb]

@@RogerPlayz2025 I work with urban mobility at the city hall of my city, Fortaleza - Ceará, which is trying to become a reference for bicycle mobility in Brazil. I miss the immersion of planning with cyclists in mind, as it would significantly impact the gameplay since some citizens might switch from cars to bicycles depending on the conditions, helping to reduce congestion. I imagine that a challenge for implementation might relate to traffic accidents, given that we would now have a mode of transportation more exposed to risks.

[@xavian8970]

I would pay for a bicycle dlc ONLY IF it has expanded a lot on cs1 Otherwise it should be free

[@xyzxyzxyzxyzxyzxyz]

I'm holding out and staying in CS1 until bikes, bike paths and bike roads are native (or dlc).

[@lamardoss]

I just want an “undo” option. 😬

[@seathomplay4167]

My city was the exact size of yours (about 53,000 citizens) and dropping a bit from a high of 54,800 due to the homeless bug. The population almost immediately jumped to 60,000+ and the monthly income jumped from 1.5 million to 2.1 million. Unemployment dropped from around 5% to .3%. I'd say that makes this patch very good. As someone who doesn't use the dev mode, I appreciate the extra assets we can place. As someone who lives in small-town America, I am still waiting for the church and baseball field assets so my town can look authentically American.

[@SiqueScarface]

15:15 While tunnels might be less noisy than open roads, they still cause the same amount of pollution. It's just differently distributed. A real-world tunnel would have massive pollution at either end.

[@drkevorkian2508]

They have ventilation through the tunnel to prevent this.

[@SiqueScarface]

@@drkevorkian2508 And the exhaust from the ventilation just disappears out of existance?

[@drkevorkian2508]

@@SiqueScarface No but it's disappated above the tunnel (off to the side slightly at a ventilation building), not out the ends.

[@SiqueScarface]

@@drkevorkian2508 And those ventilation buildings are where? At both ends, and for tunnels that are close to the surface, sometimes also along the tunnel. (I happen to live in a mountainous region with lots of road tunnels, and the ventilation buildings at the ends are sometimes quite impressive.)

[@drkevorkian2508]

@@SiqueScarface I don't know where you live but in most places the buildings are at the sides not the ends. Maybe they'd be at the sides for really short tunnels but even that would be a waste of engineering to reroute the vents. The point is that the ventilation is designed to be unobtrusive to those around the tunnel.

[@rockmonty]

I don't see the point of the residential props if you can't place on top of houses plots.

[@coldfanta4963]

A little park would make sense, but I agree.

[@SpaceE1f-Jiro]

It's definitely a nice start for decorator but we still need to use an anarchy mod just to fully use them. And no placeable buildings and surfaces without mods too. Find it and Anarchy feel mandatory. Also that new road builder mod. Also I have been waiting so long for that Japanese theme pack.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Region Packs soon! 🙏

[@caponecashfunds]

​@@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines Maybe

[@phillbt]

They should include a homeless shelter, a welfare office, and a social services building

[@thts_txc3491]

there's already a welfare and social services office

[@phillbt]

@@thts_txc3491 thanks for letting me know! does it currently address homelessness?

[@stevenpoon1040]

Still no hotels and motels found in commerical zone

[@Stellarnaut]

I'm glad it's not just me

[@RogerPlayz2025]

Placeble hotels makes the game more interesting if it goes about tourism.

[@benjy5142]

You could have a couple of keeping up appearances houses. One for mrs bucket/bouquet and one for onslow/daisy with the rubbish piles

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

😅

[@Knight1118-gk7ok]

"No, I'm sorry. This is NOT the Chinese takeaway!"

[@houstonfirefox]

Nice addition. However, I miss the ability to designate an industry zone wherein only industries of a certain type could be built there. For instance, near a forestry harvesting area, I would like the forestry industry buildings to be in close proximity. This could be done in CS 1 so I'm not sure why they removed it in CS2

[@thsaintful]

this has been my biggest frustration since CS2 launched. it worked perfectly in CS1, why on earth would they remove that

[@MarcPi]

I'm a bit unsure about the patch. The homeless improve is good, but the detailing thing with the fact that you can't put a tree within a planter or you can't put a decal over roads is a bit frustrating. I want to be positive, but right now the patch if kind of a meh. I thing CO needs to be less restrictive with collisions.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

We're pushing for it 👍

[@charlesingram9471]

More than anything else now, I really need a traffic pathing fix, so vehicles (mainly hgv's and even more so than general hgv's, bin lorries!)stop lane switching. They are so janky it's unreal, you notice it a lot more on large/ very large cities, if that's what 450k pop is........ The constant unnecessary lane switching is really really annoying. Bin lorries especially will start say on the outside lane of a highway, hold all the traffic up trying to switch to the inside lane to then just before the exit, try to switch back to the outside lane again. This in large cities causes a lot of issues.

[@marcgarrett4401]

It sounds like a patching issue. The vehicle seeking the shortest path cutting corners.

[@gtpower3]

it might be a bug but its not unrealistic especially not where i live lol

[@Chickenkiller23]

Props ain’t all hyped up to be. we need the creator packs (new buildings) then I’ll be playing again

[@AnarchoAmericium]

For what I'd like to see in-game: right-click dragging the traffic light tool down a road and/or shift clicking will install synced traffic lights.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Me too 😁

[@Punz18]

With the pilons in the junk tab assets: you can totally make a dilapidated dock with them jutting out of the water

[@THISISLolesh]

Oh wow… how exciting…

[@WildcatRene]

Love the new addition. While fiddling about today, I figured lets try with the RoadBuilder a VOP like in CS1 and it marvelously works so far!

[@glenofborg]

2:37 I often like to follow a bench 🤣

[@bobblebardsley]

It seems pretty basic that scenery items should be able to overlap each other and be placed on larger 'property' assets. Someday the Biffa #SaveTheRock campaign will get the justice it deserves! I'm still quite early in the video but I really like some of those stone/rock props, like the heads, the crypt and the gravestones, feels like the perfect time of year to use those in a spooky cemetery build. (The stone heads kinda make me want to see a Labyrinth recreation too, that's the kind of thing I'd probably attempt to build in CS2.) I don't always love 'explainer' type videos but I'm really enjoying this one so far! And yay for planters with trees in them, those have been sorely missed.

[@kaupaxup]

Closing in on where I might pick it up... but... ofc Satisfactory and Factorio are both coming out shortly so lots of room for more bake time

[@Cities-By-Maps]

What would be cool is to have the ability to choose different types of service vehicles coming from different types of service buildings such as different types of fire trucks for example and the ability to paint them different colour schemes just as they do in different states in America but it may also depends on the firehouse in that area as there colour scheme may vary from eachother and that includes fire trucks they may have ladders, pumps and others and in bigger built up areas they may have the larger fire trucks with the cherry picker type ladders used for high-rise and the same for police some have SUVs and cars so the ability to have a mix of them and the ability to be able to select which ones can spawn from that service building and what can't spawn. Also if we start getting more harbor and sea type stuff, coast guard and life boat stuff could be interesting. Oh the possibilities. 😊

[@jimhearsonwriter]

I'm guessing the props are purely cosmetic? i.e. if you plop down some benches and a pergola, nobody will use it as a park? Assuming that's the case, if you use the mod that lets you draw on usable surfaces - e.g. draw a hang-out zone of a park and people will just chill on the grass - and draw on a park area, would they use the mods then? Or, again, are they just there to look pretty?

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Not sure tbh, I'll be testing 👍

[@kirillkomarov5928]

Yeah it would be fantastic if the props can serve a function too like you mentioned. Hopefully that’s something that can be added soon!

[@filipecaramelo5443]

I think this is a step on the right direction. But regarding some assets. There are a lot of shipping containers (for example) that I would like to have and they are on the base game. I wonder why they didn’t include those…

[@Mr.M290]

Finally the homeless bug is fixed!

[@coreydavis6868]

its still broke for some people like cpp

[@bw4593]

So my question is one of perspective. Is it flattering/satisfying for devs to just take what modders do and make it part of the game, or is it frustrating that they are basically unpaid developers? Like I feel like they should get compensated lol

[@Kenobi3019]

Amazing video Biff my friend, I play on console and a lot of the time I feel like I am so restricted to what I can do, I see what PC players can do and say to myself if only we had something to give us the same fun experience, I know if we had that freedom as a console player I would invest so much more time into the game.

[@stimpyueediot]

Big question Biffa. will the people be able to use and interact with the props. i have not noticed anyone using the football fields that i have place in my city.

[@tigerpawdesigns]

I love the cemetary options... I want to re-create my town and was wondering about grave stones and mausoleums. I noticed in your city at point 17:46 to 18:18 that the cars were stopped in the middle of the road for some reason, then I saw cars doing U-turns and causing these slight back-ups - Nothing major but my OCD wouldn't like that LOL.

[@Chorcai]

But the citizens don’t interact with the props eg sit on a bench

[@Foguinho0O0o]

Thanks for the video Biffa!❤ it's easier to keep track of the new things that are being added

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

You're welcome 😊

[@jeison00]

I don't know if this has been mentioned already but when you where talking about the game speed you had the camera in a location where the cars were doing a very random U-turn and seems like it was happening just so that they could turn right at the intersection by making a left from the opposite direction.

[@littlemouse7066]

I don't know what problems this game is supposed to have but I really like the look they gave to everything. the potted plants have no sense put in a field I hope it's possible to put them on a sidewalk or in a paved plaza otherwise they are useless.

[@drkevorkian2508]

Can you place decals on top of other decals without flickering? You could make the yellow cross box "no stopping" thing you get outside of fire stations with two stiped yellow box decals.

[@letspretend_22]

Not sure if it was fixed in a previous patch, but I don't see any wiggely cars any more! It looks much less cartoony without them.

[@Atomicdelta765]

Q3 2024 and we are admiring rocks and benches! WOW! Simply mindblowing...still only one paved path....I cannot believe it that everybody is ok with having just one path (amongst other million things).

[@legotoilet-paper]

If it works, it works

[@ErwinPPP]

Ah this game is still pretty shite.

[@carriegarrisonvos4433]

woohoo 🥳🥳 truly needed in this game!!! thanks for the update🤩

[@dcurri]

At this point, this game is only decorating and detailing. Might as well change the name.

[@MrBillclintin]

Is seems the new props is yet another unfinished function to the game. If the props isnt interactive with inhabitants then they will be dead props like the props in the parks dlc cs1. Where is the assets?

[@Square_Peg]

It is great they are making improvements, but for me the excitement wore off long ago when playing the game early on after it came out. I got tired of things not working right and looking at my city packed with school after school after school. Many things are better now, but I have moved onto other things. Maybe someday I'll try playing it again, but for now I'm not interested.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Then I have to say, you're missing out :-)

[@Square_Peg]

@@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines I'm having a lot of fun playing Fallout 4 and Minecraft now, maybe when I get bored of those I'll end up trying CS2 again and will find it to be a better experience than before.

[@davidwhite3337]

So awesome Biffa with these new assets in game

[@teekayfourtwoone4686]

Weird moving shadows/dirt? on tracks (18:00) and up.

[@dwbelew]

Homeless bug…? Or an accurate description of the problems in current US cities…

[@WhiskeyHunterVAT69]

The homeless bug fix is what I was wanting. the props are extra credit.

[@michaeljforde]

Thanks for all the work you put into showing us how we can make the most of this game!

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

My pleasure! 👍😁

[@GENERALTIM21]

@@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines did you notice that your city was bleeding cash at ~17 minutes into the video? You were losing lots of money at ~4.35 as well and eventually went severely into the negative ~17 minutes in

[@wombora]

with the industrial items you could totally build a warhammer 40k map :D

[@teekayfourtwoone4686]

What's going on with some vehicles wheels flickering? Example garbage trucks (example 14:30 to 14:42). White car in intersection at 15:30. Motorcycle 15:38.

[@bbbenj]

You seem to be happier and happier as time goes by, don't you?

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

That's a good thing! :-)

[@samuelloso7022]

Do any of these affect mechanics? like, do they improve desirability or anything? or is it just for the player to enjoy looking at

[@SvarrOS]

I love that update! It also provides vanilla menus for mod authors to add their props and decals.😄 Btw, what was going on at 16:16? The city's bleeding money like nobody's business. 😬

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

529 tile mod being silly again!

[@rorygallagherironmaiden3377]

They should add the find it mod to the assets menus so it won’t crash to desktop every time I stroll on the find it mod

[@noxj_]

I came here in less than 15 minutes, where is my free tea!😂😂

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

In the post! Might be soggy though...

[@K0pfkr4bb3]

Thank you to the run through from the patch.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

No worries!

[@HazelPlace89]

More steps in the right direction!

[@World-of-Virtual-pinball]

I would like to see a fix where emergency vehicles can get past when waiting at lights etc...

8:00 Those are outside heaters😂😂😂

[@stevengalloway8052]

This is fantastic! Thanks, Biffa! 👍

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

My pleasure!

[@giacomo22101993]

-2.000.000 euro/h on the simulation speed part of the video? 17:01

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Yeah, my mods playing silly 😅

[@YarnoJns]

My game went unplayable after 300k pop. I get around 24 fps which is fine but the sim speed pauzes every 3-4 seconds. Will it be fixed with this update since they optimised the sim speed? I feel like they need to focus on optimising. So people can still run their city after 300k pop

[@danielthinnes1140]

home made shelters just what i needed for my citizens

[@WizzardofOdds]

The homeless issue may have had people living in every park, for some towns and cities that is the reality. If the Devs can fix it in the game, perhaps local, state and Federal governments should take note and fix it in the real world.

[@mythcrafts]

they need to add an undo button, there's still no mod to undo anything

[@confused47]

I totally misread the Hardcopy Bookstore sign at 6:10 and had to rewind and check...

[@Youberc]

Homemade homeless shelters. You are right. That does sound wrong.

[@mikehellert9099]

I hoped they fixed the hotels not spawning

[@tenalafel]

It's time for an Alien Rock Park in Newbrewburg

[@nealjroberts4050]

TIL what a pergola was.

[@Nazeem-m7u]

Love how these updates are making the game better and better. Mods can take this up a level future down the line. Of course thanks biffa.👏

[@solanumpotat2441]

Brilliant patch

[@start7047]

Usually every house is "hand made" I think :)

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Hand made yes, but homemade....not so much if you're homeless!

[@start7047]

That's for sure!

[@mrfog9791]

"Homemade" homeless shelter lol 😂

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

😬

[@josiahkcyuen2513]

Not sure if anyone has the same problem but as soon as I put a new road/highway intersection in. All cars only uses the new ones and not using my old ones which sometimes is the more direct route. Which is causing a lot of dead traffic. Any one got any advice on how to fix this.

[@graphitegems]

Hi dont know if you mentioned it in past videos but how did you get the cathedral building? I couldn’t find it in the mod menu

[@justdude7222]

Sorry to bother but is there a mod that makes it easier to connect power lines and water and heating. It's driving me nuts.

[@nosignal88]

Per-goal-ahh

[@WillyLangley]

Nice Video!

[@kerfrazl]

you sound like wheatley from portal 2

[@ThatGuy-ot1gt]

Oh nice! It's not small.. 1.5GB.

[@prodigy2k7]

What mods do you have loaded? I want that little dropper/picker tool. I cant find it! I dont know the name. Thank you!

[@Toll99725]

somehow I dont have the surfaces menu in my landscaping tools. is there a way I can get it back?

[@119princesskida5]

Will you ever continue your CS1 British themed city? :(

[@michigantoga]

Do we have re-enable our mods after the update?

[@carpemkarzi]

Still disappointed there is no official Alien Rock Park Rock in game

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Maybe soon! :-)

[@birk22]

Uh very nice😁

[@SweetPieWizard]

Do these props get used when placed? example - if you place a bench, is anyone going to sit on it?

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Doesn't look like it :-(

[@rfknol]

I would really love to have CS2, but I'm not sure about the minimum requirements vs my pc. Could anybody help me with that? I have a i5 8600k, 16GB ram, M.2 ssd and a gtx 1070. Would that be enough to run the game in 1080?

[@ClarissaMac-m1b]

Turcotte Streets

[@Georgiameetslife]

Someone please help I can’t find an answer online anywhere - how do I delete MULTIPLE trees at a time, I’ve heard click and hold on the mouse but that gets rid of minimum amounts. Do I need a mod - if so, what one? Please and thank you

[@Izabela-7]

Increase the brush strength and right click and hold over the area

[@LarissaKurasz-l8r]

Aufderhar Mission

[@Djegosandra]

Did he say detritus or Detroit-esque?

[@Kopa_Malphas]

Bro casually sitting there with $-2,900,000/hr xD

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Gotta love mod problems lol :-)

[@LoreneKnight-r1i]

Elaina Inlet

[@ShannonLenarz-g9z]

Kihn Shoal

[@Britonbear]

These items (and more) should have been in the release version.

[@VinceP1974]

"Should have been" lol. How profound.

[@shaneolson237]

I love the vids biffa

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Thankyou 😁

[@cooper3064]

This update looks bussin

[@mattgallienne415]

Still waiting for a line tool, I play on GFN so can't use mods

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Hopefully in a future update!

[@sadbear101]

Anyone else watching his income just dive into the red there near the end? Wonder what got so expensive?

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Mods playing up 😅

[@MrMalu01]

😊

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

First!

[@MrMalu01]

@@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines I should sleep after work but… we have new episode.

[@toonbarmy4201]

Where are the hostels?