How to Build a French City with the NEW French Region Pack | Cities Skylines 2

[@Infrastructurist]

Huge shoutout to Gèze, Gruny, Jerenable, and REV0 (You might know all of them from incredible CS1 work as well!) for crafting this incredible pack! 🍟🥖

[@themellowpea]

finally getting paid for their work too, no less! :)

[@josephp9141]

@@themellowpeacities skylines devs took a whole year to finish asset manager and it’s still a beta 😂😂😂 biggest scam in the industry after cyberpunk

[@richarda786]

Guys, stop saying that french cities don't look like that. That it's just Paris and so on. The whole country would need at least 10 region packs to illustrate the diversity of architectures of the country. Let the content creator do their jobs, i'm sure we will end up with a Brittany style or a Alsacian style assets if we give enough time to creators to make them

[@christophermorales6680]

I commend your optimism, but I seriously doubt CO and the dev team will publish and commission that extensive of a pack. They have handled and visioned this release horribly.

[@ApollonDriver]

​@@christophermorales6680 of course they wont because it's not needed. We don't need thousands of buildings for just one country, this is cities skylines not france skylines

[@christophermorales6680]

@@ApollonDriverwhat the devs NEED to do is entirely subjective. They objectively need to improve performance and foundational mechanics. I still get 5/5 max level office jobs. There’s no technical limitation to adding an extensive French architecture pack. A more extensive asset library won’t slow down the simulation, just load times. And it just so happens that French architecture influenced/shares multiple European architectural styles. CS2 has been out for a year and we’ve received one small architectural pack (when compared to what we would already had if they added the asset editor) and abysmal improvements to the game.

[@MrUbister]

I agree but that means it's bad marketing, they call them "region packs" which imply the aesthetic captures that region, theyd better go with cities and call them themes, "Parisian Theme" would be better than "France Region Pack", and doesn't exclude adding other area's styles later

[@Infrastructurist]

Btw guys this was an absolute marathon to create so 2h vids is not the new normal 🤣😅😇

[@_mike628]

Oh no! 😢 great video bro

[@Aries-ne9uq]

🫡🫡🫡

[@zalmanizak54]

...but if it was? 😅

[@chuckleberrypieceofpie]

Darn

[@paolosammarini421]

It could have been a two episodes mini series with a little thought put in, instead of just rushing an unrealistic road layout and dumping services all over. If you just wanted to do a review of the new content you could have done one just looking at the assets and commenting on them, this way not a single new building got any proper attention and you made the whole package look generic in the worst way. This is not up to quality with your usual content in my opinion.

[@maxen4444]

It's like a two hour Christmas Special!

[@Infrastructurist]

Hahahaha, yeah it got a little out of control

[@Marshall17101972]

I'm french and I swear we've built things more recently than a century ago but yeah anyway, this looks great. It's just a bit frustrating that the assets only focus on Paris and only in an historic way... Would have loved to see Provence type low density housing, modern and futurist administrative buildings, museums, stadiums... We have modern looking transport infrastructures too... But it does look very nice

[@Infrastructurist]

I would always love more assets, haha! But I think Paris is the best place to start as far as a French-themed region pack goes (especially before we have the asset editor) because it represents what most people associate with French architecture (whether rightfully or not) and lays a great foundation to build Paris-inspired. I would love more packs in the future covering other French styles, e.g red-roofed Mediterranean as you mentioned, but I think it's nice that this pack doesn't try to do too much at once because that risks spreading the different zones "too thin", instead of being focused :-) Just my 2 cents - and thanks a lot!

[@Marshall17101972]

@@Infrastructurist that's a good point. I love your content btw, perfect compromise between playing a game and going for realistic cities. They are always beautiful. If you go for french-type builds in the future I'd love to give feedback but ofc if it's needed. In the end it's a game so what's fun is what counts

[@sanderenger5742]

​@@Marshall17101972 A lot of European modern architecture doesn't need a pack for each region rather than a "Modern Western European pack". Meanwhile the Paris assets is more exclusive to France and should rightfully have it own pack.

[@rivox1009]

It's something, which is better than nothing. As soon as the asset editor will come out, I bet we'll start seeing thousands of assets. In the meantime this is a really cool content pack, it's free, it's made with love, very detailed, and it's a great showcase of what the game could become going forward.

[@Bioshyn]

yeah those are in the base game since all modern buildings basically look the same anywhere in the world

[@P.Mad95]

I wouldn't mind watching you build for 10 hours tbh

[@Lukthegaywolf]

Since you asked I personally find myself enjoying more the detailing part of the video rather than the quick big expansion kind of sequences… I like when you line streets with trees and landscape with flowers etc… it really makes a build stand out…

[@zblurth855]

Hey French here, love your videos, just want to say for French city we rarely use 2 lanes roads, even less 2 lanes + parking, like for example the "Paris Gare Nord" so the big train station is only 1 lanes + parking on the bigger one we can replace the parking for a bus lane in some nice city> We also have a lot of one way road + parking. Now on the pack it is looking good, too bad it is againt limited to 90 degrees angles because if you look at paris on a map you will see that most of the corner are not close to 90 degrees, the roads themself are mostly strait it is just the angles they meet at that are wild and I love them for that Ps : I enjoy the micro building format over macro quick city one, for a showcase the macro is the only one that make sense but for the regular series micro with a lot of details and tough is what make you unique over other city builder creator

[@who_is_artis]

I was really hoping they'd do non-standard-angle corner buildings because that's so prominent in Paris but then I remembered the game can't really do anything other than 90° :(

[@BlazingsNL]

I guess that's the problem when the game has pretty much exclusively US roads (unless edited with the road builder mod)

[@bagel1546]

Im French and I don’t give a fuck la vidéo elle était cool frero

[@datdonedude8765]

i have to say i do love your attention to detail. i've been playing cities skylines for a while, but there's so many small tips and creative tricks i have learned from your videos. for example something as simple as turning off snapping and angling buildings. makes such a huge difference! watching your videos gives me ideas on how to pay more attention to detail.

[@renatovidaurre1345]

This map was created by Octopolis and it is based on Santos region in the state of São Paulo - Brasil. He created this map for a coop series with Barbosa cities. Both awesome Brazilian creators for CS. Btw, very nice city in the end. Very well detailed as always. Cheers.

[@petercampbell-smith9861]

I like both types of videos that you do. I like the detailed version where you sit there and work out the best way to bring in traffic or create a residential area whilst keeping to the aesthetic however this video is good as it gives me an idea of the mods you can use as well as keeping things basic to understand why things are done that way. I am still learning how to build a beautiful AND functional city so I enjoy this. Looking forward to the UK region pack. Love to create London.

[@themellowpea]

diagonal roads = parks, service buildings, etc. straight/square roads = RICO zoning adhering to those rules may give "flexibility" in a road layout, ie, zone on the straight roads or grids, decorate on the diagonal or crooked streets, etc.

[@bruh666]

Awesome ! I really hope you continue this as a full city, I know there's limited models for the french set but I think you could combine it with European and some modern international pockets to create something that looks really cool and coherent.

[@endless123487]

I really appreciate the small watermark clip around 16:00! Oh my god indeed

[@endless123487]

and just to answer your question around 1:19:00, I really enjoy watching you build something fast and with less detail, because it shows how we can use the base game. I'd also argue that adding details in a further episode could be great to see the evolution from nothing to 'quick' city, and then to detailed and more realistic city!

[@diggersdingo4282]

I think smaller zoning blocks would look so much better than large ones with these assets

[@Infrastructurist]

Agree - although I was pleasantly surprised to find that you can do both, as some of the deeper assets have buildings "in the back" as well, instead of just empty space :-)

[@detpacks]

YES! FINALLY SOME NEW ASSETS🥳

[@mygetawayart]

and new assets every monday, when each new region pack comes out

[@detpacks]

@mygetawayart even better

[@iea96]

TWO WHOLE HOURS OF INFRASTRUCTURIST?!?!? 🫨

[@flippnorge7105]

I couldn’t believe it! I screamed out loud in joy!😂

[@szarkoz]

What a fantastic showcase of an amazing asset pack. I've watched from the beginning to the end in one sitting!

[@Da1andonlySamsung_]

its a good day when Infrastructurist posts a 2 hour video :D

[@who_is_artis]

This is awesome!! Even better than what I expected when you were teasing a big project on Patreon!!! Thank you Infra

[@Infrastructurist]

Thank you for the support!! ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️

[@mohamedalsaud9481]

Details are your specialty, keep it up. Love your longer videos as well, specially that you’re not downloading content everyday. Cheers 🎉

[@RWDtech]

That grid looks like absolute chaos lol

[@gawel772]

Yeah, wrong use of snapping tools

[@eweewe9372]

hope this will become whole new series like Riverview or Eastheaven county cause this city is too great to be left XD

[@erikw1251]

I prefer when you plop, beacasue youre great at it

[@anthonybenvenuti4557]

i like having the variation between a series on a city that focus on high detail versus a long, one episode city that focuses on the macro

[@johane4764]

That thumbnail reminds me so much of SC4 Paris assets and it brought back so much good memories.

[@OctopolisGaming]

I'm super happy to see my map featured in such great city!!!!!

[@VictorChukwuemeka-qe8jm]

Let’s goooooo Infrastructurist giving us a 2 hr vid

[@joshinio]

Great video. I’d love to see you do a mini-series where you speed run this city to 100,000 population in this format. I enjoy the long form, however I also really like it when you do shorter length videos that focus on one or two big builds. Returning to your builds is more satisfying than one off videos for me.

[@wrick17]

I definitely prefer more details, but this is definitely fun to watch. Don't mind the length. Lovely build by the way.

[@amenboughanmi5819]

Great build as always the placement of the assets the Notre dam the two hospital and city hall are on point with more packs to be unveiled the possiblies of mixing different styles of assets will be marvelous

[@Kitsunefoxy021]

I saw this and said no way am I sitting through that (then I continued to watch the entire thing no skips) good job infrastructurist

[@felipegriever]

Dude. Congrats for the effort. Every vídeo gets better and better!!!

[@Hubbubb22-citiesskylines]

Love this kind of live-style playthrough! And the assets are gorgeous!

[@alexandraangerer8262]

O M G!!! I am soooo thrilled to see a frickin 2hr long video from you!!!! LOVE IT!!! Thank you so much for your hard work btw 😊

[@tola4303]

Two-hour video? Feels like Christmas came early this year! I just hope they fix the optimization issues-I’m having so many problems with the game right now, it’s driving me insane.

[@Infrastructurist]

You still having performance issues - even with smaller cities (like less than 100k-150k people)?

[@tola4303]

@@Infrastructurist Unfortunately, yes-I’ve spent 100 hours in CS2, but about 60 of those hours have just been me trying to get the game to work properly. I haven’t managed to surpass 10,000 citizens because the game randomly crashes. When I load a save, buildings from mods sometimes appear randomly in my small town of only 100 people, and if I try to delete them, the game crashes again. It’s definitely not a performance issue since my PC is nearly identical to yours, and I’m using the same mods. Anyways Im loving your creativity, I suspect I might go crazy soon.

[@maxterostorm]

Hell nah I’m forced to watch this 2 hour video at 9.23 pm

[@morrischen5777]

*1am* *see Infra 2 hrs vid dropped* I... MUST... RESIST... THE URGE! *click*

[@MatthieuOrtiz]

Very nice, by the way the "french college" is the old Ecole Spéciale des Travaux Publics in Paris, boulevard Saint Germain, I've studied in there :D

[@justpricey4411]

I loved the long format video. The city looks great!

[@Admre]

I like how the hospital looks like it is shortened so that it doesn’t block a view of the cathedral. Kind of like how skyscrapers in London were not allowed to block the view of St Paul’s cathedral

[@anonimus1230]

I love the high detaild builds

[@Everie]

It's been 84 years since I started watching this video... Reason? I keep pausing to do chores

[@ValdemarKJ]

You already have sewege treatment with the french water tower upgrade!

[@rvgytroblox634]

I’d really like to see people use the southern styled buildings to create southern French cities it would look really nice

[@guy_autordie]

2hours but there is always bangers as soundtrack

[@joshuawiggins3891]

very cool one great work on this city as always , i love the detail videos but i too am heavy on the details lol so might just be me but keep up the great work loving the content

[@eoln_]

Also a mirror option for the buildins would be awesome

[@LaHypeDuTrain]

the skate park in front of the ocean is what has been build in Saint-Nazaire, witch is actually the place you assume this city to be build =)

[@AuhoOfficial]

Im excited for the German Pack, because i think u can do some Super Cool stuff in Fjordhølm. Great Vid Infra!

[@GeneralMimzy]

Bro called his city “before clear” actually pretty poetic. Good choice 👍🏻

[@konkretnykonkret647]

Two hours? You really are spoiling us with those!

[@topette_radio]

Bravo from France 🇫🇷 Ce pack est fantastique et très stimulant (I had the same problems with the zoning)

[@robertjohannessen2796]

Those buildings were incredibly bright

[@mallysh1998]

This Yonk makes me look for a 30 foot python in the Florida everglades😂 Enjoy your stuff man!

[@convec1320]

I think you should come back to this map for each new asset pack to show case of each pack. Think it would be awesome to see how each town/city changes

[@emilepierre1663]

2hr of my favorite KZbinr..life is good (FOR NOW). Great video and city Infrastructurist

[@WhatsleftofTom]

I prefer the slower, more considered and more detailed style from your other videos but I still enjoyed this

[@hola_my_name_is_Paans]

Yay, new video!

[@Infrastructurist]

Hola!

[@hola_my_name_is_Paans]

@@Infrastructurist Thanks for responding! LUV YA VIDS!

[@Infrastructurist]

@@hola_my_name_is_Paans No worries - thanks a lot!!!

[@sanests]

I personaly love the detailing part of the vids so yeah keep dokng judt that

[@anthonybenvenuti4557]

love this format!

[@huuuleo2612]

amazing pack ! we need a serie !

[@Vera-r6y]

i would love for you to come back to this city at least once. To do some tweaks, detailing, public transport etc.

[@shadowthehero3140]

Great pack in any case and a fantastic video!!! But I had hoped for more unusual buildings and not just normal apartment buildings. So also several station sizes incl. subway, airports, finally churches, shopping centers, hotels, cinemas etc... Also, typical sidewalks/plazas/pedestrian zones would have been great, red cobblestones would have been a good fit here, the gray in gray everywhere on paths is not so nice... But it's all free, which is of course really great 🙂

[@victorcanito6366]

omg u used a map made by my fav brazilian youtubers of cities skylines (of course I'm brazilian too) ❤

[@BlazingsNL]

I like the building style, but hope they make it look a little less clean/monochrome. With all the grey it looks like someone made a model city but still needs to paint it.

[@xavestudio4623]

a 2 Hours of Infrastructurist? is it christmas already??

[@HenriqueRossiHR]

I missed La Tour Eiffel and l'Arc de Triomphe in this pack.

[@sciclonic]

French water tower is immediately gonna get repurposed into a tourist attraction

[@pjb.1775]

HOW DID YOU SYNC YOUR VIDEO UPLOAD EXACTLY WITH THE FRENCH REGION PACK TRAILER VIDEO????

[@Infrastructurist]

[@gabrieltaquary5672]

its amazing seeing draconian map here

[@kpbst1647]

I love your content man! Can you tell me which Map Theme do you use? :)

[@maxrips]

i don't really know how they will do it for England as a brit London and other places has many different types of building there are: fancy ones in Regent street , red brick ones near belgravia , shorter terraced houses in marble arch. And in my opinion if you mix all of that it would look quite bad so i'm excited to see how they will do it

[@suhaibfarooq4341]

Great video bro

[@thegreatdodo5092]

My god are they actually releasing today?!?! 😱

[@Infrastructurist]

Yep, French pack is out right now!

[@sinbadvanderglas1403]

in my opinion, the pack is gorgeous but the colours may be a bit repetitive. i think this pack (and the ones that are still to come) will be suuper sick to COMBINE with the current buildings CS2 has to offer. for example, i could see some of these buildings near the school hub in your easthaven county series. or what about that sick police station, in the middle of your new downtown! i liked seeing you build for scale instead of detail for a change, but i can say with certainty that i prefer your more detailed work: it gives me more time to see certain parts of the city because you have to work on it for longer, every part of the city is more memorable, it creates depth, colour and FEELING.

[@kennedyspace1159]

How many washroom sessions will i need to watch this oh my god 💀😭

[@fashionforty]

That Caberet Hall is in Paris, not too far from Hotel Panache

[@mwas01]

You should do more manicured parks for a French build

[@vitothepizzaguy7475]

I hate how good you are at this game

[@pascalvoets7079]

I like this too but your detailed cities in Europe are much nicer

[@Vekhh]

Sadly city doesn't have much to do with French one, only by some of the looks. Road layout which is a base is completely different in French cities which is especially visible in Paris which inspired the mod creators. Really sad that they give us that mod but still we can't build for example plazas and something else than 90 degrees grid without anarchy and plopping...

[@EkoFranko]

Agreed, this looks like Barcelona lol

[@Vekhh]

@@EkoFranko exactly. I really got excited when I had seen that release but now I'm sad. Creators should spend more time on improving the rules of the game so the zoning isn't confined to 90degrees figures with so many roads around. They just should look at that Paris that inspired them in that French pack and see the street layout, see all the plazas and sit and think how they can improve system in the game so it allows that. We really not asking much. Mods are there it's true but still some things can't be done and often popping buildings can destroy a save or functionality of those buildings or completely blow out the buildings demand marker. I don't build just for aesthetics, I want to see it working.

[@Aries-ne9uq]

TWO HOUR INFRASTRUCTURIST VIDEO???

[@tommeakin1732]

Ngl it's pretty funny that you say you can't do French when you go out of your way to speak as much French as you can when speaking "English" 😅 You love your French, man. Even your channel name is French

[@bruh666]

I hope you will make more videos with a lot of progress in 1 video

[@kriss_kross24]

Nice bro you have to get more sports centers…French big on football

[@GeeksGets]

Mimicking the good intentions of public housing but also simultaneously mimicking the fatal flaw of concentrating all the public housing together 😭😭

[@Morkeoth]

YeY !!! Frannnnnce !!!!! My beloved country !

[@Infrastructurist]

Vive La France!

[@Morkeoth]

@@Infrastructurist Well, if i had to be a bit picky, this pack they made is not really France, it's more just Paris and some of the biggest cities in France. Which reinforce that stereotype of "France = Paris".

[@tigonologdring9189]

I assume the "problem with the rail yard" was that you couldn't select which train you wanted for your line... known issue, unknown solution, workaround is place original railyard, select train for line, remove railyard again. Nice showcase BTW, shame the majority of the building set has been designed so as to not allow for re-colouring.

[@Blackmetal699]

Eating well tonight!

[@traumatized5470]

Thanks for the lovely build. Also, could I ask for the song name of the first timelapse track?

[@Uzig250]

Could have made it more realistically French by making the layout less of a grid and more organic, but a nice city overall

[@bagel1546]

J’aime bien tes vidéo

[@karlnr1020]

Which country are you from if I may ask?

[@iwanjoness]

Please makw this a series!

[@amithasan5151]

What mod you used to give the surface that look? I really like it. Brings more realism

[@AlexisRodriguez-bl1hw]

mixing grids with XIX century european architecture looks like buenos aires or montevideo

[@grassblizzard]

bro released a whole movie

[@nicoladewit]

Don't forget that France is THE land of roundabout :D They are EVERYWHERE !

[@nicoladewit]

edit 38:00 : my bad haha

[@bruh666]

And yes I prefer this macro style of building! I love seeing big developments and making a lot of progress, that makes me want to watch the full video. To me it doesn't need more detail than this, what I love to see is a city like this growing, and then only having very specific detailed custom parts, like a few custom plazas, intersections, stations, etc. Not everything has to be detailed imo