How To Use New Road Tools In Cities Skylines 2! | Basics Tutorial

[@FyX77]

I feel like there probably shoud be a "Keep level" feature (keeps at 0.0% grade) and "Force cut and fill" / "Force bridge" (like some modded tools in CS1 allowed you too choose if you wanted to)

[@LiLBitsDK]

that would be really nice for sure... I hate the curvy quays... but if terrain tools are free then fine I guess

[@meowritz]

Seriously how did they not add that from the get go, i feel like the developers just looked over really basic features from the mods they themselves were inspired by

[@rapidfire4202]

yes and a snap to hight...

[@3DMVR]

Missing the forst terrain leveling but its a cheat terrain costs soil and shit as game balance

[@TheTaxxor]

Keep level would be a big request from me, just let us start a bridge at 5m and then no matter where we draw it, the endpoint will be at the exact same height instead of being 5m above whatever ground we place it. I've found that you still need to level the sea floor to get a straight bridge....

[@zaphod4245]

I suspect the need to upgrade every section of road to add grass, trees etc will get tedious, esp as you have to do it twice. Should be a keybind like shift which means that it will do both sides at once

[@OVERCHARGEDEGG]

Yeah, it's a very hard old habit to break

[@Den_drummer]

Random thought that came to mind while watching this video... whether through vanilla, dlc or through mods, I think it'd be interesting to see graffiti appear on the cut and fill walls when the wall is above road-level. Could perhaps even tie into crime to generate tags. Maybe even set certain cut-and fill walls to allow graffiti art.

[@rsWill525]

SC4 had that. It was linked to local crime, which was broken down into varying types and severity. Miss those little details...

[@bretthousman8317]

@@rsWill525 I'm an SC4 fan as much as the next guy. Got CS1 but went right back to SC4. Was playing it pretty recently. With this new game though...I feel guilty saying I don't see myself going back to SC4 for a WHILE. CS2 is great so far about 25 hours in.

[@Shaunus82]

Absolutely brilliant tutorial. I really struggled with my roads when I first started playing, but this has really helped me to understand how everything works, and I can see that there are almost infinite possibilities of what you could achieve. Definitely one to bookmark. Thank you so much.

[@emtims1670]

With the retaining walls and stacked roads, you can make a way more interesting downtown/urban area.

[@paraflax9198]

I like with the 3 way preset interchanges, you can addon them to existing highways without having to delete the roads beforehand. It snaps onto adding the remaining asset of the interchange.

[@James-xx7yt]

I absolutely love what you were able to do with cut & fill + stacked roads to create tiered urban areas in this video! I'm always trying to do things like this in C:S1 (mostly with quays as the retaining wall networks/ploppable surfaces/procedural objects combo is beyond my poor PC's ability to take on any more mods 😩)

[@OVERCHARGEDEGG]

And that's just the tip of the iceberg! Cheers James!

[@LiLBitsDK]

yeah I got a few highway interchanges in mind with those cut n fill tools to keep a sunken highway and have the city above it with roads crossing and ramps going up n down

[@MrCai01]

The parallel tool showing the train line was really useful, thanks!

[@TiGGowich]

Omg the Cowan Fill is a life changer. This is the first video I have seen that showcased this... I didn't even know this was a thing until now. I have been struggling with terraforming and trying to make the landscape look less awkward for so long now.... but this makes it look so much better and more natural - thank you kind sir.

[@stephansteele657]

I have played many hours already, and have a huge city compared to anything I ever managed in CS1, and I had NO IDEA you could stack roads! THANK YOU!

[@OVERCHARGEDEGG]

Glad I could help!

[@Phoenixfeuer909]

Thanks for this tutorial!! I always had trouble with building this "accelerate" and "slow down" side roads, now i know better thanks to you. The Building "Road over Road" was also unknown to me! Good lesson learned.

[@DerMattinger]

The complex curve tool is especially useful when connecting parallel rails.

[@samhamwich6763]

One of the more neat things you might want to mention if you haven't yet, in addition to the advanced road services, you can also add low voltage power lines right to the roads as well which adds a bit of realism to some streets!

[@davidgasc]

Thank you. This is exactly the sort of video I have been waiting for. I like the way you demonstrate everything at a nice relaxed pace. We need more of these tutorials to show us the basics of all the new tools and features in the new game.

[@ZackyVillain]

Complex curve tool may be better for creating highway ramps.

[@CosmicFurFace]

Managed to miss this one a few days ago, glad I tripped across it now that I've had most of the problems you describe. Good to see more useful and enjoyable CS2 videos these days. Thanks for your work, I usually come away with something new to try in my game!

[@waldo109]

It's honestly such a shame there are no simple quay walls that use the road tool like Cities: Skylines 1 has. The cut and fill is great (when it works) but it shouldn't be a replacement when it makes quays more time consuming to make than the previous game.

[@LiLBitsDK]

yeah quays without roads would be nice (just walking paths or bike paths.... where are bikes?)

[@kanojune5754]

​@@LiLBitsDKmaybe in the next expansion via DLC.....

[@mhgscrubadub9917]

trying to get the wall to actually place properly ist just too much of a hassle especially since its tech that literally existed in their first game

[@LiLBitsDK]

@@mhgscrubadub9917 the "no water" requirement is super annoying when building at the water since they need to be higher than needed to make it work... which is annoying... remove the "no water" requirement and it wil be much better... and make it so we don't need roads there which will make it nicer too in case we don't want roads all over the coast line

[@NineEyeRon]

It needs to be a toggle rather than just a trigger. Both would be great.

[@Zarosian_Ice]

The complex curve tool is my favorite tool, i use it so freaking often, it allows you to get defined curves you otherwise wouldn't get.

[@biedl86]

There are just some basic things I didn't know. I was annoyed that I cannot remove cross walks and stop signs after removing traffic lights. This already helped me out tremendously. And the cowan fill is amazing. Very handy, thank you.

[@VainEldritch]

Absolutely essential viewing for someone coming into CSL2 blind with no previous CSL1 experience.... bravo!

[@OVERCHARGEDEGG]

Thank you!

[@cheungchingtong]

31:23 This is a game changer for me to build a city on a island with skyscrapers and villas in high density from the bottom to the mountains as what Hong Kong Island looks like in reality. Good job on the video btw!

[@withnail29]

Yeah that blew my mind. We are going to see some truely unique Cities using elevation

[@kohlwinters6289]

My guy, i came her solely because of the stacked roads. Thank you for such a clear thumbnail, it saved me from all kinds of video surfing.

[@MadocComadrin]

Embanked roads are awesome, but I wish the made it a toggle instead of height-depedent. Sometimes you really do want a low bridge.

[@krissscott2432]

Thanks for the clear explanation! I'm kinda glad to see that your cut and fill roads have ground cutting glitches. I tried it before and got those glitches and I thought I was doing something wrong, but now I can see I was okay and it was just the engine. Hopefully they will fix those glitches in a patch.

[@ysharros]

I will absolutely be referring to this again when I start messing about with the cut & fill functionality. While some launch aspects of CS2 may be a little disappointing, the network tools look like a dream.

[@g-hmd]

that cut and fill example you gave for the raised terrain is absolutely fantastic, will 100% try that out at some point!! can see it being so good next to a retaining sea wall when the terrain is much steeper/harsher than other areas.

[@mpcamposz]

4:56 - "I don't know for what reason you would need to do this, but, if you want to you can do" This should be the MAIN principle of this and any other sanbox/simulation game ever!

[@quaz18]

really great tutorial! One of the crazy things is that the cars use blinkers to indicate what turns they do. Very cool and in depth!

[@RamblinRick_]

That Parallel Tool is a godsend. Thanks for the quay tutorial. I subscribed just now. I look forward to your future CS2 tutorials

[@OVERCHARGEDEGG]

Thanks for the sub!

[@rosaria8384]

Tbh quays should also be a standalone thing alongside the road combos, though I love the cut and fill feature, something that takes a ton of mods and hours to get right.

[@Hannodb1961]

Why? I never understood the point in quays with unusable space on top of them. As far as I've seen in real life, Quays almost always have some sort of road on top of them, or even a pedestrian promonade. It always annoyed me in CS1 that you can't put a path on top of the quay.

[@TheTaxxor]

@@Hannodb1961 but the quays are used by pedestrians if you connect it to a pedestrian path

[@Hannodb1961]

@@TheTaxxor The modded ones, not the vanilla ones. I tried in vain to connect them to pedestrian paths.

[@rosaria8384]

@@Hannodb1961 some quays are meant for pedestrians to use in real life.

[@TheTaxxor]

@@Hannodb1961 I never used modded ones, the one you have in the base game and those that came in with a CCP all connect to paths

[@kristhebard]

That makeshift quay wall is brilliant. Looks better than the one in cs1 with the road on top

[@markoleary1120]

These tools are beautiful. They really tapped into the ocd of their audience with all of these lovely, symmetrical options lol

[@Bikeadelic]

The fine adjustment on upgrading roads is so useful. I wish there was a fine adjust tool with no limits to use for any road even without upgrading

[@TheHitmanSF]

That special technique you teach at 27:14 is amazing.

[@ThE4EvRPs3GaMeR]

I was contemplating this game for a while as my first city builder. Ive always watched people build these beautiful metropolises with individual trees and rocks.

[@fewcandy]

Great intro video Egg, the tools are so much improved from CS1!!

[@OVERCHARGEDEGG]

Thanks FewC! Looking forward to your cs2 content too! 😊

[@pebrain21]

I think that if we use a pedestrian path with the new "Cut and Fill" feature, we could get as close to a walkable Quay as we can.

[@danwallis1984]

I think there is a pedestrian only road that i saw Biffa use to create a walkable quay.

[@juliet4093]

No turns doesn’t make the road unusable. It forces traffic to go straight, very useful

[@RubleTrillions]

I’m new to CS. Never played CS1. This was incredibly helpful. Thank you!

[@LeighFlies]

31:30 - I notice that the retaining wall is very nice but it seems like the shadows are being cast from what the terrain would be like if the retaining wall was not there

[@johnninocovers]

Yeah, you can see the clipping mask of the terrain mesh in the right corner road (the blue glitch in the rod corner) 32:44

[@leftcoastfunk]

literally came here to say this! The functionality is so cool, but the end result is visually unappealing because of the strange out-of-place shadows. Hopefully CO can fix that one soon. I've also noticed similarly strange glitchy shadows at tunnel entrance and exit retaining walls. yuck

[@zefnoly9147]

@@leftcoastfunk Not to mention the terrain mask affects terrain further away causing the ocean bellow in skybox to become visible in ugly unexpected ways.

[@leftcoastfunk]

I still think it's amazing they included this type of functionality in the base game though, even if it falls a bit short. This isn't the first time I've said this about something CS2, but once again hoping a mod can fix it (if CO can't/doesn't). At least the added or improved base-game functionality for a ton of things in this game might give modders more to work with than they had in CS1

[@MattR336]

Hopefully they fix the jagged shadows and water running through the areas where terrain is tearing. Super excited for tomorrow's release and more videos to come!

[@michaelw6222]

Great stuff to kick off our new experiences with CS2. As would be expected, a lot of the pre-release creator content was a bit generic looking. Now that more of the options and features can be freely explored and exploited, we are going to start seeing some really cool stuff with the cut and fill and stacked roads and so much more. With the lack of props, stuff like layers, zoning, and road layouts are going to be even more important.

[@mtuumut8400]

Stack roads are insane, man. I love the video. Much appreciated.

[@DWinfred]

Great explanation of the road tools Egg! I can't wait to see what you develop in your first vanilla CS2 series with these awesome improvements from CS1.

[@Maanta360]

it means a lot to start a video wishing everyone a beautiful day, little but still wholesome, deserved a new sub

[@OVERCHARGEDEGG]

Thanks for the sub! Appreciate ya :)

[@almightysosa3007]

I always thought you should be able to stack roads in CS1, I’m glad they added that into the vanilla game

[@Nyzzio]

This tutorial is amazing when it gets to the complex stuff like the cut and fill stuff.

[@surio389]

you can also add bus/taxi/sevice lane to existing road lanes by upgrading them with the bus/taxi/sevice lane tool selected and in upgrade mode

[@rrael]

Great video! I really appreciate it after playing CS1 with mods, which sometimes felt overwhelming between all the tools and the janky natural of vanilla roads. This is such a huge improvement. Can't wait to see what the modders get up to.

[@Banthah]

Brilliant video thanks for posting. My favourite road guide by far. I’m still struggling with my quay walls so this is gonna help me a lot (I hope). You make it look so easy though lol. Gotta say, I am loving this game. So much better than CS1, but I am missing Move It. Once that becomes available (with TMPE) it’ll be glorious! Oh, and prop line tool

[@OVERCHARGEDEGG]

Practice makes perfect! 😌

[@ShadowVFX]

No matter how many times I try, I just cannot got keys/quays to work. You make it look so easy, but I cannot get zones to appear on the inner side of the road. I hope they implement a more straight-forward way of doing these in the future.

[@cheesetoasties.]

thanks for the tutorial i will be needing this on tuesday

[@ogomes7424]

Yeah me too😂

[@Zennec_Fox]

@@ogomes7424 Me three

[@OVERCHARGEDEGG]

No problem 👍

[@josephhodge7343]

You could make a giant pyramid if you kept going around and around while going up with the retaining walls.

[@VelvetGlove]

Excellent video, one of the very best I've seen so far - I can't thank you enough for all these tips and insights into using the various road tools that are now available in CS2. Very helpful!

[@ElShotte]

What a great tip video. Clear and concise information explaining all the tools. Also, tips that otherwise would be very difficult to figure out like with the quay road. Well done mate. 👌Thank you.

[@OVERCHARGEDEGG]

Glad you thought so, cheers 🙏

[@qunewsguy]

Excellent tutorial. Thanks for this! I've got thousands of hours in CS1 but this new road building system was confusing the heck out of me

[@OVERCHARGEDEGG]

You're very welcome!

[@daver7465]

Very helpful, thank you. I wish there was a way to set stop signs at intersections for only one or two legs rather than an all stop intersection

[@Jean_Mi]

Thank you for your demonstration This is exactly the tool that was missing in CS1

[@ben0329]

Cut & fill and the stacked roads are amazing!

[@ShrimplyTheBestCo]

Cut and fill looks amazing! Thanks for these tutorials OE! This plus your maps ranking have me set!

[@Jonas_æ]

For anyone trying to create quays by the water and run into issues with the "in water" error, or simply don't want the terrain to rise to the 3.75m road elevation when creating the quays; try this. 1. Level the water terrain and ground terrain at the shore line. 2. Instead of building the quay by the water, extend your ground terrain out into the water a fair bit more than you want it to be. Then create a ditch at the elevation of the water floor, and build your road next to the ditch instead. The quay with zoning can then be built without having to elevate the road itself, because it gets the "elevation" from the ditch. Then you just terraform away the extra land area and let the water take its place again.

[@Lisa-Azra_Broad]

Thank you for all this help, there was so much I didn't know :)

[@OVERCHARGEDEGG]

Glad it was helpful!

[@brinedpickle]

I thought after having watched your 3 part series I’d figured out how to do quay walls….I was wrong. Gotta give it another go w/the height tip

[@randallcromer66]

I so very much appreciate you doing this video for us, I wasn't going to buy Cities Skylines 2 for at least a year's but my wife knows how much of a fan I'm of Cities Skylines 1 so she decided for my coming birthday to purchase it for me as a early birthday gift. Which I really do appreciate it but we all know that game isn't anywhere were it should be to be released. So I guess I'll make to most of a bad situation and try to enjoy the game and community as I can until we finally get the game we deserved at launch. Thank you for helping make Cities Skylines community one of the best one's in all of gaming and for sharing content like this that helps us all push passed the games many faults and help us try to enjoy what is good about this new installment, hopefully one day we'll look back and realize just how far the game and us as a community have come over the next couple of year's. So please keep up the awesome work and I promise to keep coming back for more..🤟😉👍

[@germanopolito5294]

thank god these exist now it’s so difficult to create decently looking roads in vanilla cs1

[@bagussriadjipamekas4286]

very usefull, to the point without wasting time.. thank you

[@Echo_4609]

Im sure this will help me eventually, probably gonna stockpile this video, cant wait for the game to come out tomorrow!

[@kellyhope9574]

Always enjoy your videos. Thank you for the nice road tutorial. Looking forward to experimenting with these tools!

[@wernercollins1319]

thank you for this, i really like the stacked roads, this was a great tutorial

[@rafaeljose3128]

Great video! Very helpful to understand all the new tools 🤩

[@staenker1983]

Welcome to a simple … road tutorial - so he says in the intro of a 40 minute video training 😂😂😂 Don’t get me wrong, I’m loving it, I just party your definition of simple :)

[@ChrisS-xb3kj]

I just want to say...the quay roads do not work like that for me...

[@sebesams]

Absolutely very useful. Thanks for creating and sharing!

[@OVERCHARGEDEGG]

No problem, glad it could help 😁

[@DrGonzo-k]

Amazingly helpful! Those shadows along the retaining wall are a bit weird though. Hopefully fixable down the line.

[@vladchocolat5756]

Thank you for the video, was so awesome to see the functionality.

[@carriegarrisonvos4433]

Very nice tutorial for the road tools! Big difference from CS1!! Thanks for doing this!🤩

[@OVERCHARGEDEGG]

No problem 👍

[@jecleworth]

Excellent info, very detailed and thorough. Much appreciated!

[@OVERCHARGEDEGG]

Glad it was helpful!

[@지성준-m7h]

thanks for giving a detailed road tool tutorial!! ❤❤

[@OVERCHARGEDEGG]

You are so welcome!

[@hkan_theswed]

I wonder of you are a teacher? It sounds fantastic when you do the explaining. Wish I had a teacher like that when I was in school. Thanks for this. Soon I can practis it in real life.

[@max-lee]

so thats how we change road direction. Thanks!

[@Hannodb1961]

You made key walls look much easier than I found it. If my key wall just so much as touch the water, it won't build. And then, whenever I add a T junction to the road, the zoning disappears.

[@cykoop194]

Thank you for this tutorial. I think I will use very much retaining walls. It would be good to have them as brick walls.

[@hughhiggin]

Your videos have been getting me so excited for the game! I’m wondering if you can stack on top of stacked roads (so you could do a double level highway for example)?

[@OVERCHARGEDEGG]

You can yes 😊 thank you!

[@sjguy1962]

Excellent video and tutorial well thought out and presented, looking forward to your other content.

[@OVERCHARGEDEGG]

Much appreciated!

[@NeverwascooL]

I hope they add the feature from the first game to drag the street names to have them be more customizable and I can determine if a road name ends at the curve or it continues. I really hate having so many roads in the grid be these big squares of names where they normally would be 4 different Streets irl

[@TinyJediGaming]

Thank you for the tips seeing as I didn't get early access. they will be great to know when I'm streaming Tuesday. Keep up the great work OE.

[@陳柏諺-o3s]

Thanks for your video! I learned a lot of new things!

[@RLJSlick]

Excellent work as always Overcharged!

[@OVERCHARGEDEGG]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@vincewilson1]

@23:40 Raptor should watch this because he was trying to do this a few days ago in CS2.

[@sam23696]

As a temporary fix for the ugly shadows around tunnels and retaining walls you can just go into advanced graphics settings and toggle off Terrain casts shadows.

[@dandomine]

Parallel pedestrian city incoming with these stacked roads! I hope it works with pedestrian streets!

[@RobertSavello]

this was very helpful. But like Phoenix19 said, it would be nice to have a keep level option.

[@dr.bherrin]

Not being able to set stop signs, as one example, to one road instead of all the roads in an intersection is a complete miss by CO. It makes the tools about half as useful as they could be.

[@duckpond7856]

Really helpful tutorial. The tricks with the quays will come in handy. (That was a huge fire department btw!)

[@gottawon6415]

Sure hope one of the first mods made is “move it”. It’s a must have for this game.

[@haryotomo]

Are there any keyboard shortcuts for different tool mode (straight, curved, etc), or snapping options?

[@Nuunuu69385]

Very helpful video! Learned a lot, thank you. Hopefully you gonna make more videos like this about CS2.

[@welshcoastcatdad]

Can’t wait for the next one 😁🧡🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[@aresivrc1800]

Thank you for the video. May I request that you do a power plant comparsion for CS2?

[@davidatkinson89]

I’m interested to try a parallel path or pedestrian road against a road with a “sea wall”. Can’t wait to get my hands on the game to experiment!

[@mygetawayart]

afaik the cut&fill and quay feature works with all roads, including pedestrial paths