Starting out the RIGHT way | Growing a city organically in Cities Skylines 2

This is my very first look at Cities Skylines 2!
Let's have a look at the game, how it works, and what has changed. We are also going to build out a new town called Lake Hayes as organically as we can. We will explore why cities may begin in the first place in an effort to help shape a realistic city.
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A big thank you to CO and PI for letting me have early access!
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[@Dirty.H]

What, you guys haven't heard of an artillery road? 😂

[@OutermostGold]

I have now

[@jamestriplett5854]

it's a new term that's really blowing up

[@TenOrbital]

I thought arterial but then I thought of Military Road, which is a pretty common name in Australia, where I am. In fact one of the main thoroughfares on the North Shore of Sydney is Military Road.

[@stabilesteil]

what is the hardware you are using in CS2? CPU, Videocard, RAM?

[@Dirty.H]

@stabilesteil5736 Check out my YT profile, everything is listed there

[@CitiesSkylines]

Organic is the way to go!

[@sandeshvantveen]

This got me excited! It's been a while since I played, but I often tried starting out with a typical European type city centre and try to grow it organically, but always ended up making grids and filling them in, because my city would always end up fIling otherwise lol.

[@alexn6060]

Hey Cities! Excited for the game, looks like a great step up, but a couple of things: cemeteries should function like farms or landfill where there is a main building - perhaps a small and large option - and you draw the shape based on the size of your town/ need/ topography. Perhaps paths could be drawn freehand by the player and the crematorium and mausoleum would attach as it currently does to the shape created. Also, zone-able cul de sacs and corners! Perhaps achieved by providing some flexibility in terms of which road the zoning grid interacts with. Particularly handy with row housing to ensure it faces the right street. I realise the difficulty with this with corners that aren't 90 degrees, and the need for specific corner assets, but cul de sacs would be a great start :D

[@frikon726]

Give my man Shawn Builds access!

[@paradigm2897]

Cannot wait, hopefully I will get a chance to play it as I start a new job as a director in supply chain in mid Oct, so just skylines 1 for now! Love the vid, and great job, it shows the love and passion of delivering this title!!!

[@lophtt]

Hello , can i have early acess? ..... hahah thank you

[@andisart]

Hopefully smaller versions of buildings like high school, cemetary etc will be released at least as mods to make smaller cities more realistic. Or maybe a function to send students to neighboring cities, which is very common in country side towns

[@thumss]

Agreed

[@TeddyRadko]

Love the city growth between the hills. Great first video DH!

[@Dirty.H]

🙏

[@monkeytime9851]

Yes!! Organic growth instead of gamey is my way. I want a reason to build there in the first place (natural resource maybe), and growing slowly as real life residents, businesses and industry would do.

[@noblel1342]

My advice for a realistic city is to place commercial along streets, rather than filling up a whole block. (Which youve kinda done in the starting area). A commercial area won't benefit from having shops on a street having their back to the shops on the next street. But they will benefit if the shops face each other, and people can easily cross the road to see what's on the other side. It's also more natural to how commercial areas look in reality.

[@GaiusOctavius4]

Yes, almost all settlements in europe (that were not roman) were built around a church and a central market place. And it looked like you described it.

[@sully_skylines]

Just finished your video buddy! Great work as always. Can’t wait to see how the town develops. You’ve got me thinking about what you mentioned about the landfill and farm functionality being modded for different assets. That’s a really intriguing concept I hadn’t considered

[@Dirty.H]

Could be a game changer!

[@drac124]

Made cemetery the center of the city. Great idea! I always put it farway like its a dumpster. Looked very cool.

[@swatty_8950]

I’m so glad to have seen low voltage power poles finally! Thank you for using them in your video, I had been so curious!

[@darklightning]

Ok, now I know why you stopped publishing Venice

[@HudsonJamesGaming]

it's Hudson from Skyline Chronicles. Your channel has become my trusted source for Cities: Skylines inspiration and knowledge. Your commitment to the game is evident, and I'm thankful for the valuable content you provide."

[@fewcandy]

Love this start and looking forward to seeing how you develop this!

[@Dirty.H]

Thank you! Loved your video also

[@ddr8993]

Love seeing the incremental improvements they've been doing since they announced the game

[@whatawhiff6805]

Man good to see you being successful and getting early access! Keep it going! Still loving the vids even if I don't comment as often!

[@Dirty.H]

Good to hear from you brother!

[@JakeSoulFreeTravels]

Glad to support your creativity.

[@franzeusq]

Excellent grid, the best I've seen so far.

[@TheKickBeck]

You geed me up, can't wait to play cities ckylines2

[@rivenda1264]

i think my playstyle is most similar to yours, fun to see!

[@TheAtomicANetwork]

I know about arterial roads, but artillery roads are new to me lol

[@Dirty.H]

Lol

[@ElDimitrius]

Nice informative video! You make me want to play this game asap!

[@Dirty.H]

Cheers mate!

[@BriggsGuy54]

Oh. Boy i cant wait for the assets. Imagine having custom sized beaches and custom cemeteries.

[@duncanrymer7892]

It seems odd watching you playing vanilla. Looking forward to the new series

[@EricThyKaiser]

You can make roads go through one another and they connect by themselves (I know there's probably another 10 people who already told you that)

[@jstokes]

Thank you!

[@walker1073]

Can't wait to see what you build in this game!

[@Dirty.H]

Once those custom assets hit the workshop, look out!

[@duckpond7856]

Nice build. I'm glad I watched this. 1st time seeing you but won't be the last.

[@Dirty.H]

Appreciate it!

[@JoyBuildsCities]

Sweet!! So excited

[@audaciko]

building under the bridge/bypass is quite realistic especially in dense cities. Can CS2 make the corner building that wraps the block nicely? Maybe European zoning can do it? I see rowhouses' end facade is a bit too stark and barren, which do exist in many NA cities, but it would be nice to have corner buildings in vanila

[@Mr.HarryPlays]

functional seasons was the only reason for me to get CS2.... I'm glad i didn't spent my money on it

[@CarsDiecastGuy]

I can't wait!

[@Dushess]

3:00 all you can see the empty site with crane, then it disappear and building being plopped instantly. Yep, that's it. You need way more resources to allow all custom building models+anims.

[@jengoh3826]

A minor complaint. Where the cars on the road turn into the building parking lots, the pedestrian sidewalk needs to be sloped. I am referring to the motorcycle moving from the store to the road at the start of the video.

[@Efebur]

Hello DirtyH, was the footage in the beginning (from 0:17 to 3:20) from an earlier build? There's all sorts of graphical glitches, untextured bushes and cars and houses, and the date says Jan 2023 instead of June 2023, which is a date everyone else starts with (even you after those 3.5 minutes).

[@Dirty.H]

Some shots are from CS1

[@Efebur]

@@Dirty.H Wtf, yeah, I obviously didn't mean those. There are weird trees in the background at 1:38 and 2:18, and the untextured models at 2:38 onwards.

[@Dirty.H]

I loaded the game without all the vitual texturing completed the first time, haven't had that problem since. Sharp eyes mate!

[@kocurmc3649]

what components do you have in your computer? because I'm afraid that the game will lag on a weaker computer

[@Dirty.H]

Check out my profile mate

[@fullyawakened]

Can't wait for modders to make this into a good looking game in about 3 years. See you then

[@stefanformgren4978]

i missed the sound, did you use the powerlines just for looks ? and not use the roadgrid for power?

[@Dirty.H]

I forgot we could use the roads for power at first, hence the power lines

[@stefanformgren4978]

@@Dirty.H ok:) im thankfull that they put them in the roads, make the zoning start easier

[@xobkced]

Would love to know what your PC specs are, I'm wondering if I need to make any huge upgrades as well.

[@Dirty.H]

Check my profile description

[@sully_skylines]

Lets go :)

[@conorchristmas6844]

So powerlines can be placed on the road cells of buildings. That’s interesting.

[@Sweenus987]

If you're going for organic cities, using power lines instead of the in road power makes sense given most rural towns and viliges only have overhead power lines from my experience

[@gonzalos4379]

What graphic card do you use in this demo?

[@Dirty.H]

RTX 2070 super 8gb

[@Bottle-OBill]

God damn it. They'll forever be "artillery" roads for me from now on 🤣

[@FoolishPedro]

I knew it!

[@gigachadshorts1]

how much more graphically demanding do you think is CS2 compared to CS?

[@Dirty.H]

You'll definitely need a beefy PC to run CS2 smoothly. That said, the loading times are insanely quick

[@Tomogitarist]

Can you give us PC specs that ran CS2 in your video?

[@Dirty.H]

PC Specs are in the 'about' section in my YT profile

[@gryffin638]

Be careful driving on the artillery road

[@captainufo4587]

Is Venice abandoned?

[@Dirty.H]

Nah, just excited for CS2 atm

[@alteredchallenge9318]

How'd you get access to it.

[@user-wq9mw2xz3j]

They basically give any and all content creators early access

[@marijn29m37]

What are your computer specs?!

[@Porphyrios1]

All natural baby

[@classistfr]

how did everyone get a month early

[@282sleeper]

But the color of biulding lightning is a bit off, looks like all building is hit by a arsonist and flames is just about to blow out the windows.

[@Dushess]

that blue thing already started to annoy me, and that's not even my gameplay. It means obligatory cage symbol Tweak the chirper with mods or obligatory cage symbol remove it by a mod.

[@Zyo117]

3rd artilliary road? What division? 😂 I think you mean 'arterial'.

[@drummonkeystuffuk1875]

Lol main artillery road :P War monger detected... Just kidding

[@moonjuice7647]

"artillery" roads lmao

[@ZGreenGaming]

Well from all i see so far i am not impressed……

[@88balloonsonthewall70]

Why not? Its a much better game, this framework and scaling will help the game surpass CS1.

[@ZGreenGaming]

@@88balloonsonthewall70 we will see ... but stuff i am sure a lot of people hoped for jet need to be provided in final game or some near future 😀

[@bartomiejwalich6108]

@@ZGreenGaming well, i thought i was the only person that expected more from this game

[@ZGreenGaming]

@@bartomiejwalich6108 exactly

[@ColoringAHouse]

Finally someone not meat riding the devs, there is so much more to be seen and with CS2 it just feels like a DLC to me.

[@baloney_sandwich]

u ruin the river/beach front just to build roads? That's the thinking that destroy most cities.

[@Dirty.H]

Indeed. Also makes for a realistic city

[@baloney_sandwich]

Building real shitty cities in a game that encourage u to do the opposite. That's why they never made parking lot in the first place@@Dirty.H

[@fxdx68]

i find the buildings ugly