The Highs & Lows of Cities Skylines 2 - Gameplay

[@e-bow]

Thanks Few. I think this format actually worked really well for a yet-to-be-released game. Lot of info for people. Appreciate all the hard work that's gone into it.

[@fewcandy]

Thank you Ebow 😊

[@richieep]

I'm in full agreement!

[@missym877]

6:02 I also just noticed how the dog runs ahead of its owner in the crosswalk, but then waits for him. That level of realism is really great ✨

[@fewcandy]

Yes!! Really awesome little touches!

[@jemleye]

Since lots of comments are really honing in on the negatives, I would just wanna point out that Cities Skylines 1 was not a great game when it came out first. It took years of updates, mods, and expansions to get to what everyone now thinks as the "standard". It was way better than SimCity, but again that was not a huge hurdle to cross. Colossal Order is still not a massive game studio (they're pretty much still indie for crying out loud) by any stretch of the meaning, and they are not super well versed in releasing feature complete releases in the past either, that much should be clear with CS 1 and the expansions. Where they shine is working on the game to tweak, improve, and fix things over years upon years. Did they rush Cities Skylines 2 out? In my opinion yes. They could have taken longer to fine tune and fix things. Is it unoptimized? Yes, but again, aiming for similar 8 years of longevity I don't mind, as long as we would get options to tune down performance and simulation. Most likely those options will come, but they should have worked those things out better and focus better on key aspects of the simulation first. Will the game be amazing if given time? Absolutely yes, no doubt. Remember that Cities Skylines absolutely revolutionized this genre of games. We should not expect a second revolution, that would be very difficult for anyone to pull off. Just chill a bit and wait for how things unfold, I'm sure we'll get our props in due time.

[@TheTLLRS]

Colossal Order is like 30 people.

[@rakuloe]

The problem is that you are paying 50 euros for a game that could have offered more. You shouldn't have to wait multiple months to get updates and DLC to make it more worthwhile and make it a good game. I know that its a standard these days and they are not at fault on their own. Early Access is there for a reason. It seems that with a couple more months of development and some more additions, like bicycles a lot of the negatives would have not been there. And that's kinda disappointing for a lot of people. Supporting a game for 8 years should not mean releasing a bare-bones game to then add content in the form of DLCs. Which Paradox absolutely loves to do, so its always the question of how much Colossal Order had to say in this.

[@_davneb]

I do not want to wait for months on irrelevant tunning. I want to play this game 3 months ago, can't wait another two weeks until release @@rakuloe

[@jemleye]

@@rakuloe I do myself also wonder if Paradox is rushing them. It's worrying if they are. Their most profitable game ever needing to be rushed to a sequel? Hope they're not close to going under or anything. However, the same argument applies to the price tag. It was the same situation with CS1, the game was very rudimentary at launch. Again, not a commendable standard for a gaming company, but clearly a Colossal Order/Paradox thing. And most stuff taken for granted have always been part of the free updates that came along with the DLCs, so I still am not too concerned with that. They could, and should have done things better and just take an extra 6 months if they this clearly needed it (with the console thingy first and foremost). It is still easily the best game series in its genre by a long shot, which is unbelievable for an indie studio out of Finland.

[@KySparkzVODS]

very true, i actually bought CS in 2015 on launch and refunded it because i didnt enjoy it. i bought it and tried it again during the covid lockdowns in 2020 and i was absolutely addicted, mostly due to the insane amount of mods and assets + the dlc and patches that perfected the game. vanilla CS at launch was *not fun* (in my opinion) give it time.

[@OVERCHARGEDEGG]

I thought the same thing on the LBY intergration upon seeing the detailed cims 😆 Interesting to hear your honest thoughts FewC, the build turned out real nice!

[@fewcandy]

Thanks Egg! Look forward to watching yours!

[@transgirl2106]

Love how honest and thorough you are. Best CS2 review I've seen yet.

[@fewcandy]

Thank you!

[@MichaelDeSanta.]

You again! Saw you under conflicted nerd's video lol

[@transgirl2106]

@@MichaelDeSanta. I'm stalking cities skylines lol

[@MichaelDeSanta.]

@@transgirl2106 me too 😂😂 watching every single one of em 😂

[@tiotom9217]

This is by far the most informative video of CS2 so far, great job.

[@SchwiftyPug]

I think this is the best series from the EA of CS2, really. Your honest opinions and most importantly different format (everyone is just doing timelapses of building) and sharing important information (that a lot of others don't do, or don't even know about) really makes this stand out. Amazing work. Thank you! ❤

[@gregbuhr5464]

All I can say is Ouch!! Your summary at the end tells me everything I need to know. I'm glad I'm holding off on getting the game. Needs a lot of improvements. My biggest concern is this will turn into a money pit for improvements through DLC's

[@RobertBailey-z9w]

This is my impression. While there are many good features and improvements over CS1, this doesn’t feel finished. The industry stuff looks like it was developed (!!) for a child’s game and appears at odds with other parts of the game mechanics. I think I’ll give this a miss for now.

[@nickbroekhuizen8858]

I agree. Every DLC is going to put u out of pocket.... will wait awhile ... Thanks Few for the honest report, appreciated

[@RobinOttens]

I love seeing the seasonal trees, the autumn colours look so pretty. And the change to the building lights, less yellow, more white. It's nice to see the game is getting updates and changes like that with each of these early access videos. Thanks for the detailed look and criticism

[@apologu]

One thing I just noticed was that the low density homes have fences surrounding their lot. I think that's so cool and helps to make a more realistic look.

[@jstokes]

Love seeing the details on the buildings! Love seeing the facade textures. Great tips on getting different sizes and styes mixed together. Love those Dutch style row houses. Now, I am not all that great anyway at production chains and game mechanics when its working -so if it does not work at all, I think I would throw my hands in the air -and then just admire the abs and lace stockings! Thank you, Few, for such a great video!

[@Kisamaism]

At a risk of sounding repetitive, my main concern with CS:2 is that every creator's city I've seen so far has looked INCREDIBLY similar. When you are forced to zone low density (on top of the typical RCI of these games), you end up with a really flattened out diversity. You can do minor things like work in excessive amounts of parks and neighborhoods and things, but at the end of the day, it's still the same ratio you see in EVERY build. And it really destroys the personality of a city.

[@TigonOlogdring]

Probably the most informative of today's vid's FC, so huge thanks for this! In terms of the demands and the warnings not matching; I'd be interested to see what the commercial that is complaining is actually trying to sell. Couple that with the unemployment and the jobs available: are the jobs available for well-/highly-educated but your unemployed less well educated? Or it could just be buggy beta-code of course! The whole industry thing? Sure looks like they might say "We will be revisiting this shortly!" to... we hope!

[@japes7]

I agree. If you look at her residential, the fact that commercial is complain about lack of customers does not cause R demand to climb, makes sense. The problem is rather with the location of that C stores, or the product like you said. R demand was low because there were unoccupied buildings, so big buildings take time to fill up, especially if the location or conditions of that building isnt attractive for the cims. Education level I think is playing a role there about why jobs are empty, or those jobs are not at good locations, or the commercial and office may downscale, they can reduce their jobs of they are not doing well.

[@NomisTowns]

Loved the different approach to your video! Nice to have a walkthrough a lot fo things after you finished building out the city

[@fewcandy]

Thank you Nomis!

[@NewRocJacob]

I don't think it costs a lot of computational power to display every citizen living in a tower considering what the game is already doing. From what we've seen, CS2 is doing what the developers call "deep simulation." I seems that means they're basing the entire simulation, everything from traffic to resource demand, on the aggregate needs and wants of every single individual Cim. If they're already doing all that, it's trivial to show you where they live. I tend to look at all these random game "features" as potential exploits for modders. We can now track the progress of individual Cims. By extension, we can build genealogy maps, and define prominent dynasties within the communities. Wouldn't it be fun if, after a hundred years, a major Boulevard were automatically named after a prominent family in the community? Or maybe a park? Or an airport? I love this level of detail.

[@babybelleblue]

I Really love the way you’ve chosen to review the game! It feels honest and thorough. Really appreciate it ❤️

[@fewcandy]

Thank you ❤️

[@nicolemarietoma]

This is a perfect format for these videos Few! I really enjoyed hearing you explain your process and thoughts while going around slowly. I think it helps digest the info much better!

[@GabLeGamer]

So, this is what I think the demand conundrum is. You have high demand for industry because you are importing ALOT of stuff, just viewing your empty cargo ships leaving and full ones arriving is evidence of that. The electronics you have stored in your port are what was recently imported and waiting for trucks to distribute it around town. So, the game is asking you to build more industry to lower your importation needs, and once you have more jobs from those industries, your residential demand will go up... Thus fixing the "not enough customers" complaints at the same time.

[@Kristofburger]

In CS2 it seems to matter a lot more where commercial is located because there's an infographic on customer density. There's just not nearly as much commercial demand in low density residential areas, and content creators generally have been confused by this because they autopilot to CS1 zoning habits.

[@jceess]

@@Kristofburger low density residential in CS2 seems to be absolutely brutal (in a realistic way). Huge single family neighborhoods only support a few shops at best, whereas 4-5 blocks of medium density or just 1 block of high density supports the same amount. Not to mention mixed zoning which is basically a perpetual motion machine in that regard.

[@tuntowatkins1375]

5:35 I thought that ambulance was about to finish themselves by the oncoming train😅 "9-1-1, what's the emergency?..." "😳uhhh , yea.. I need an ambulance for an ambulance? .. "

[@paulraymond1357]

Hey Few, a real Rollercoaster video you can clearly hear the section you think are great appreciate the time you put into this. your city looks amazing. Take care.

[@fewcandy]

Thanks Paul

[@Mackieee]

I think you hit the nail on the head. Feels like a lot of development time spent on arbitrary things like the detail on the people, the detailed household information etc and then super basic things like the industries textures just look rushed and quite frankly are criminal how ugly they are 😆 I hope we get some patches early on Great summary as always despite the technical challenges! Excited to see what you do with the released game

[@ForeverNERVOUSZan]

GREAT video explaining a whole manner of things I was confusdd or unsure about. Thank you, FewC!!

[@thundafromdownunda]

Sorry you didn't get to show your downtown build 😭 .. but this was a happy accident as this was super helpful, with lots of info ahead of the game release .. thanks for all three of your videos, really helpful 👏👏👌👍

[@raytbrown2]

Oh, my! Thank goodness. @14:05 when you got rid of the blue outline I finally decided the game wasn't a fail. Watching *everyone's* videos and seeing the blue outline made me scream, "WHY?" as it's so intrusive. Thank the Gods they didn't make that always-on.

[@gijskramer1702]

I think what is missing most about zoning is mixes use rowhouses. A lot of european towns dont have these high density commercial but they have a lot of mixed use commercial.

[@Kiwi2703]

I wish there was more dynamic "uglification" of the city because all the textures and assets just look too.. perfect. Too clean for a bustling city. Maybe if the roads and sidewalks were slowly deteriorating, cracking, and the facades were getting more dirty and people would leave trash and litter in poorer area around... that would be cool and more realistic imo

[@japes7]

I thought I saw cracked roads before, which is fixed by the road maintenance.

[@hawkeye7527]

Industries is a major bummer because I was really excited by the farming when I first heard about it. I assume a dedicated DLC will be made as with CS1. I'm happy with most other things as long as they improve the bugs.

[@jonasjohansson5038]

There will be soooo many DLCs..so many.

[@itsanthony1980]

C:S was always going to be a massive act to follow. Knowing the Paradox mindset of release, DLC, patch in a regular cadence, i can say i am not too worried at this stage. I think the game will be more like we are expecting this time next year in all honesty, once the CCPs and DLC for the season pass are under the bonnet so to speak Great video FewC.

[@fewcandy]

Totally agree!

[@weiliao7642]

rest in peace FPS, I can tell in many scenes you got a low around 20 fps and that's just around 45K population````

[@Paigeturner716]

5:32 when you don't have a 911 call to respond to, make your own!

[@BookloverFantasy92]

Thank you so much for this video! I’ve been seeing so much building, I haven’t seen much of the actual builds. :) I haven’t finished the video yet, but I hope we get to see some disasters like fires and things. :)

[@almarcaUrban]

Amazing video, really went in to depth and you seemed to be very unbiased and direct. I didn't know until this video that bike infrastructure was not going to be in the base game. Bike infrastructure is such an integral part of city design, and such an effective and important mode of transportation. It staggers me that they just straight up haven't included it. It's not just the netherlands anymore that enjoy their bikes, across the world more and more cities are implementing proper bike infrastructure as the way forward. It's incredibly upsetting knowing i'll have to just build any old north american city - especially considering that most cities in the US are used as examples of what went wrong with urban design throughout history!

[@SIowpoke]

I believe the proper term for american football is eggball.

[@grayone9sargent257]

Thank you so much for the explanation as you go for what's happening in city as well as with the people. Your pros and cons are good to take into account for when we start our own cities.

[@AndyKoch]

"The details on the assets are amazing" - as a train drives right through a van =)

[@fewcandy]

😅

[@robertl6442]

Did the train run through the ambulance at 5:22?

[@robertl6442]

5:44*

[@fewcandy]

Yes 😂

[@TheMrTorbi]

Thanks for showing the zoning sizes. Would have been the first thing to try out getting the game :D

[@everithh]

Grateful for the honest review! I need to know the bad too to decide if I should buy the game or wait, and reviews like this highlighting both the good and the bad are exactly what I need. I'm glad you're willing to chat about it!! Can't wait to see more from you and hope the game improves. Especially on performance which it seems to be struggling with oh no

[@fewcandy]

Thanks everith! The embargo lifts on 19th October, so I'll be able to speak openly about the performance then!

[@WeilianTing]

This is what I want to watch at early access preview... nice! And 12 days to go!!!

[@liampustkowski7192]

Thanks for the vid! One tiny thing that frustrates me is every car seems to drive into a parking space, I wonder if they'll update this post release where some cars reverse into the bay!

[@khaled.hashed]

The most beautiful downtown !! The city looks fantastically realistic.

[@PikaPilot]

For all those electronics in the harbor, your city has a deficit of *locally* produced electronics. The reason that you have 200t of electronics sitting in your harbor is that your city has about 387t of electronics delivered into that harbor per month. That "deficit" is not a shortage, instead its the total tonnage of import orders on electronics.

[@ben0329]

Thank you for the review! Those assets are incredibly detailed. Though I think the biggest thing I noticed was the simulation speed being very low at times.

[@naturedo2]

I've been watching your videos first because you talk about the good AND the bad. Excellent video, and going into some detail of the game mechanics is appreciated. Maybe performance is something you can't discuss at the moment, but I will be interested to find out how your pc handles the game. Mine doesn't reach recommended requirements but is above minimum. Still not convinced I will even buy the game yet though.

[@UMTWPP]

Thank You, #awesome🤗

[@jasonarthurs3885]

What an intrepid response to a surprise issue. As always, looking forward to future content.

[@jeremymartin1957]

For the demands, I remember the transportation video emphasized the distance the citizens have to travel to a destination effect if they will. Maybe that’s what’s happening here, yes you have enough people but where they live is too far away from where they’re needed or as you mentioned it may also be due to the rents - the people needed for those jobs were priced out of the market.

[@jemleye]

In terms of demand: 1. I wonder how much taxes affect that. Maybe the game expects you to tax industry and commercial harder than residential. 2. Demand most likely is not exactly that the city "needs" something. I imagine it works more akin to there being businesses and industry that want to move into the city, which means there is demand on the free estate market for these new businesses. These explain one another as well. Low taxes make the city an enticing spot for new commercial and industrial development, but the taxes might be too high for the residents, meaning they don't really want to move in. Ofc the system should have demands better eat into other demands, as your situation is indeed rather odd and lopsided, and it wouldn't take a genius to figure that you wouldn't really wanna put your business into the city despite low taxes if you can't find the workers. Small optimization stuff really

[@fewcandy]

Yes it;s really baffled me but I'm sure there is method behind the madness, I just don't think it's super intuative! I had lowered residential taxes and made it higher for most industry and commercial, waited a long time, and still nothing changed!

[@erickok]

Thanks for the honest review. I think some parts (like the simulation, the demands) are just is not yet 'getting' the game, but other parts are just worrying. Let's see what the future brings.

[@TransportSimulatorNationTSN]

Awesome video, but maybe you need to Zone more industry so you don't have a lot of backup at the Harbor.

[@albinorhino6]

The yoga man has me dyin 😂💀💀

[@joachim2464]

I dont understand how they are able to track each and every citizen like that. The amount of calculations just on that feature must be insane.

[@jasonarthurs3885]

@43:29; notice the sims using the the two-stage crossing accordingly. Sims waiting midpoint at an island for the next crossing cycle is next level.

[@fewcandy]

So cool right?!

[@rainofdrumandbass]

thanks for the honest review, in CS1 I enjoyed so much the industry DLC en seeing these buildings randomly pop up just hurts my brain.. Can't believe that they think this is acceptable, maybe they ran out of time?

[@TangerineUnicornDesign]

That grey look before the snow arrives is horrific as is the removal of knowing how much money you're making or losing, I'm hoping they roll that decision back after all the negative comments from literally every content creator so far. Nice autumn trees though, they're lovely and the night time look is amazing. Those washing lines are my favourite prop that nobody has access to which makes me sad. And don't get me started on the industry areas, they're just horribly executed.

[@nephritedreams]

The water at night is so gorgeous

[@StMansur]

Your comment on CS2 "new" players is spot on.

[@mamuf]

Did you say "now we get full trees" or "Fall trees" after 2:14? The automatic subtitles show "full trees", so I'm not sure - even though you're talking about seasons, so I guess it's "Fall trees" 😀. Thanks.

[@fewcandy]

Haha, fall trees, definitely fall trees! (Although the trees have grown up a big too so I guess you could also say they were full 😂)

[@JBCreatieve]

your city is absolutly awesome,sure also the game,so much detail in the buildings and homes,also very nice you show us different sizes of zones ans buildings ,this was i wanted to see,thanx for sharing this 👍👍👍👍🙏🙏🙏,this very informative video ,Great work 👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@fewcandy]

Thank you!

[@DutchOldGamer1]

That ambulanche got demolished by the train 5:30

[@CrispyChickenMando]

*out of breath* Hi Few sorry I’m late!! Watching now.

[@marcosfarodrigues]

This was a very interesting demonstration of the game 😊 thank you

[@franciscomagalhaes7457]

Thank you for the video, very informative. Very curious about whether this "numbers situation" gets sorted out.

[@arthurl5280]

This is a great video and has got me super excited with all the improvements and detail now in the build. Thanks and more like this please

[@LorentGuimaraes]

Thank you for your balanced and honest review. A lot of the other CS youtubers have completely lost their credibility in my eyes for being shills for CO.

[@japes7]

Well I think a bunch of them were critical about trees, lack of props and so on. However they maybe held off on too much criticism until all the patches came out, they literally got patched the whole time, so they have to wait until release version. And also they might be trying to have positive mindsets that some things could be improved soon. Because remember, they were able to pass along their concerns and criticisms directly to CO. Being honest is important, I think we just have to wait for release version reviews.

[@Hiebly]

The landfill looks more like a plain old dump. Does it get buried into soil over time? Like a landfill usually digs out a section, fills it with garbage, and then covers it in soil. In Cities it appears it's just an open-air dump which aren't widely used anymore

[@fewcandy]

No.... this would be a dump then! Would be super cool if it did get buried and form a mound you can't terraform away...

[@incarnate3276]

Very informative video, thank you for your hard work! I think I can make sense of your residential demand by putting together the pieces of information throughout the video. I am sorry if this is presumptuous, obviously you have played 100 hours and I have just watched for like 50 hours. ;) You are right, unemployment is high and also empty residences are available. The reasons no one wants to move in anyway are also listed, unfortunately without any indication of their respective strengths in cancelling one another out. I am certain taxation is your problem. You have residential taxes between 4 and 18 %. You wrote in a comment that you had lowered it for highly educated people. I saw a few KZbinrs do that to encourage people to get educated so I suspected as much anyway. Your CIMs are happy with education in the city, so I assume you have no problem with it. You didn’t show the workforce stats, but I would think you may have unemployment in another education bracket than the one the open jobs in your city fall into. At least in CS1 people moving in were uneducated and since it would be pretty game breaking if it were otherwise I come to the conclusion that your tax rate for uneducated may be as high as 18%, making residential demand impossible to materialise.

[@vastpeople9623]

Best critical analysis so far. You correct about industries setup looks odd, mybe if the remove the unrealistic ground/suface fillin. They should offer us a fading textured decals to paint in, for industries, environment and general.

[@fewcandy]

Thats a great idea, thank you

[@HopelesslyRomantic1987]

As a sandbox player, I will be waiting quite some time I feel to buy the game. Once assets mods DLC’s are more abundant, the creative juices and excitement will flow lol

[@Akitorbenov]

Here in Italy every little town till every big city has mixed building with shops at floor and apartments above, and more or less are all from 2 floors to 10. If you should pass through Milan roads you would see almost the whole city os build this way.

[@galacticsurvivor9917]

oof, that performance doesn't look good.

[@natep6729]

One thing i noticed is that the shadows are still too dark as seen at 15:45. It looks like parcels of night time and day time mixed in. Realistically they should be a lighter shade of grey. I really hope they'll fix it. I'm sure there will be mods if they don't but having that in vanilla would be so much better in my opinion.

[@desto13c]

Since the cims are so detailed, they could add an avatar for us mayor (player) and maybe control them to walk around the city.

[@fewcandy]

That would be so cool

[@missym877]

5:42 well they’re definitely gonna have to work on that railroad crossing with the ambulance cuz the gates meant nothing 😂

[@matsv201]

29:05 I kind of think the reason the oil field looks like this is that the devs made one field then went on to make more pressing things. Sot hey just made this one place holder for the grain farm and just copied it over. They are probobly coming back to this and fix it at a later date. My guess is that it was the season assets that was more pressing, and now when that is done they probobly are about to fix this. I kind of doubt they get it done by launch. 42:20 The clothing don´t take simulation speed, that take gpu power, and it almost certainly in a LOD, so when you zoom out the high detail clothing is unloaded and replaced by a low Polly model. Typically most modell would have 3-5 LOD so when you zome out the very detaled dude is just replaced with one with solid color pants, top and hat/hair

[@andrewhallam237]

One thing I would love to know, what's the water like? What's the viscosity? is it thick and syrupy like CS1 or is it more " runny " like real water?

[@bish0p2004]

Great video and thank you for showing us more of the assets. Although I think CO were headed in the right the direction, I still think they dropped the ball with their design choices. The most disappointing (besides the specialized industries appearance) are the low residential assets and to a lesser extent, the industrial buildings. For the low residential, they really went wild with the driveways and made them too big, which means smaller yards and less greenery in general. This makes the zoned houses look like concrete jungles instead of nice, cozy areas. Looking at places like Tampere, Finland in Google Earth, I'm not sure I understand why they chose this art direction when in Finland (where the developers are located), the suburban homes have big yards and there is a clear distinction between those homes and the more industrial and urban areas. Everything in CS 2 is just too grey as well. Again, in Finland, you have these houses and buildings with grey roofs, but you also have a lot of nice looking orange roofs there as well, which could have brought more variety to the vanilla assets. I'm really hoping they do better with the dlc (which I hate to look forward to just to enjoy the game more).

[@joca1378]

The job thing makes sense, you may have a demand for high skill workers that the 8.9% low skill workers cannot fulfill but I really don't know if that's the case.

[@matsv201]

11:15 The name is probobly algorithmic generated. So it don´t matter to the simulation what the person is named and so on. It just cares where they live and work and where they currently are. Still a list of a million units don´t take that long to update.

[@archiveiteverywhere]

The frame rate in your opening shot is brutal, what's going on there? Thanks as always for being honest!

[@InimitableAde]

37:01 the bridge height makes much more sense for clearance. Ferries, ships and trains should only clip bridges/overpasses on podcasts about engineering disasters.

[@Jammydj-1]

I am super excited for this game, however the more and more gameplay I see of it the more worried I become at its performance. This is a step back from the performance of Cities Skylines 1, and with the bump in recommended system requirements and the delay on consoles, I'm deeply concerned. I am lucky enough to have a PC that goes beyond the recommended and even still I think this game is going to run poorly on it, feel bad for those who are now left under the specs requirements

[@planemadmatt]

Think of all the folk that complained about accuracy of traffic in CIM1… you can’t have it both ways, there needs to be a trade off. This will be around for over a decade, performance will improve as will PC specs as people upgrade their PCs.

[@stevekirkby6570]

You got to realise the potatoes people were running when CS:1 launched - I'm sure it challenged many people's rigs. Now nearly 10 years later we have CS:2 in all it's naked glory... awaiting patches, mods, assets and dlc. And yes, most peoples rigs are going to struggle on high settings. But in 5 years this will be running easy on your shiny new setup... and with all the goodness that CS:1 developed, plus some. Just remember how clunky CS:1 was on launch - fear not.

[@tonyschillinger2204]

Excellent information, especially regarding Row houses and Low density housing. 💖😎 Seems like they are creating The Sims game inside Sim City. 🤔😬 lots of stored data from every Sim. 🤓😵‍💫

[@Ephryad]

Наконец то они поработали над освещением. Глубокие оттенки и наконец то нет этого "жёлтого" фильтра

[@japes7]

It looks yellow in the fall/autumn. I like that effect, it makes the seasons more impactful and noticeable.

[@Sternenschweif94]

Thanks for this informative Video, was much needed to have a little deepdive in the simulation part. Just some questions that came to my mind. For the low residential demand, could it be because of the higher taxation (in an unbalanced way), so taxes play a too big role for the demand, less than the availability of Jobs? And second Question for the high commertial demand, is this a mean demand value, so that you might need massive commercial in a part of the city, where there are more customers? I saw there is a heatmap for customer density, when placing commercial zones. These are just my theories of how one might be able to explain these contradictory demands and stats. Obviously i haven't played the game so i think you and other creators now have a much better knowledge and overview of things. It might be really just unbalaced but wanted or an uninteded bug. One thing I really like about the game so far, just as you, is the time simulation with the rush hour, thats the type of depth I wanna see for other parts of the game to. I'm looking forward to how the devs will further develope the game after release and I hope the performance will get optimized throughout that process. But overall I'm on the positive site even if a later release date surely could have benefited the game.

[@antaryjczyk]

Its a miniscule detail...but i'd love to see the waves on water as the ships move

[@duckpond7856]

Early on, there was a list of console achievements that included a "rat infestation." At the time, I figured that might be result of not picking up all of the garbage. I'm a little disappointed that it isn't happening. LOL

[@fewcandy]

Yes!! I’m disappointed that one hasn’t materialised in the game, could have been fun! Maybe further down the line, feel like disasters aren’t fully fleshed out yet!

[@nephritedreams]

I think the only thing I HATE is the cim walking animation. They look like they’ve shit themselves

[@redblitz]

Are you on a special mode or the game looks a bit jittery with low FPS when zoomed out? What’s the performance like (and yes I know it’s still beta)

[@chester6514]

That frame rate is just horrific.

[@AdamBowersDeveloper]

I've just subbed. Cheers for that honest play through. The ability to control industry in your city through tuning taxes and imports was a big sell, sound disappointing that it's not quite there. Out of interest, when does your media imbargo lift, when can we start to hear some of your thoughts.

[@fewcandy]

Thank you! Welcome to the channel! The embargo lifts on 19th October, so we can have an open and honest dialogue about everything including performance then.

[@AdamBowersDeveloper]

Thank you @fewcandy, I suspect from what I've seen it's not miles off, it looks like specialised industrial assets could have been refined. And there seems to be some clear balancing issues and bugs and performance probably could have benefited from a little more time in the oven in regards to optimization. It doesn't look that far off. I'm not sure how much they can readily address in a week. Looking forward to your take though

[@JoJoShabbadoo]

very informative, thanks!

[@paulbisschoff7092]

I like your city... Although wat are the specs on your pc, really getting worried about my pc running the game. (the fps usage (lag) seems pretty high). One more thing that I notice again about the roads is that where vehicles drive it should be darker in the ashphalt not lighter as the rubber of the tires give off some polution and exaust's immision darkens ashphalt. so I really hope that they would look into that... (am I wrong?)

[@jezzlaureano1956]

I just hope that you can put shipping lane, highways, high voltage electricity and play with the terrain outside the purchased tiles.

[@japes7]

Nope. Won't be happening right now. You can just purchase the tiles. There are lots of permits given especially around this milestone they are at. It's so that you don't grow everything on the first few milestones. Your city should progress with time.

[@JohannHitz]

Mi dispiace if you already answered this question. Do you still plan to continue your Meraviglioso CS1 builds when CS2 releases? Until CS2 catch up on mods and CCP? You are an amazing creator!

[@fewcandy]

The CS1 builds will continue yes!

[@polybian_bicycle]

Damn, the game looks so sexy. I haven't felt excited by a game in years.

[@bmrigs]

I think I am going to wait on a few patches before I buy this. But thanks for the video.

[@Mark-he3tl]

close up everything looks so slow!, those ambulances pulling out took ages? But it looks gorgeous. I'm definitely going to buy it, but I'm going to let it settle and develop a bit first, let the mods build out. Seen too much that would drive me nuts right now. EDIT: Hate those cranes when buildings are going up - hope theres a mod to change that, especially for small buildings EDIT2: Just finished watching Biffa's episode, he was also complaining about the economy and High rent warnings, seems to have happened after the last big update, so hopefully just a bug that needs sorting.

[@timothymooth176]

With the demand, it tells you why you don’t have residential demand. You need to lower taxes as that was a major issue. Once you do that, you should see a rise in demand.

[@RoefLaser]

A ponerme al día, otra vez, jejeje!… Este año me ha tocado estar por fuera un par de veces…