Transport Fever 2 Review - Should You Buy It?

[@IcyyMike]

What game should I review next?

[@Krepost_Grafoniy]

Go review first transport fever and we can both luagh together.

[@Omie_TheHomie]

Good work, just one suggestion, your mic is too bassy. you can easily equalize it. because it has lots of low ends, its kinda annoying on good speakers

[@provo1337]

@@Omie_TheHomie I confirme that, still good video tho :D Go on like this!

[@vortex9116]

For the end of the year can you make a video of the top Simulation games of 2019

[@Nawa11YT]

My life

[@forglory9537]

“I started my company in 1850, when my father gave me a small loan of 5 million dollars.”

[@albertlaw5344]

For those curious, thats $164,355,128.21 in 2020

[@CFGPiU]

@@albertlaw5344 Thank you! I was curious about this myself.

[@wheresyourmama6925]

@@albertlaw5344 So that's 3/4th Neymar

[@TotoDG]

I got it for a discounted price because I already had Transport Fever 1. I only played it for an hour so far, but I can already say it’s the most fun I’ve ever had in a tycoon game. The only thing that’s disappointed me is the Asian vehicle set, because it’s mainly Russian and Chinese stuff. You hear “Asian”, you’d expect more Japanese or Indian trains. Thankfully, the modding community is quite strong, so that can quickly be resolved. I also saw that they optimised boats and planes to work far better than they did in TpF1, evident in the fact that I used them quite a bit when I _barely_ used them in the last game. Same goes for industry. It had way too many levels to work efficiently without a lot of planning, so now it’s a lot simpler, which I’m more than okay with. Except that livestock is no longer a thing, so if you plan on delivering food by rail, you _will_ need more than one train. I get framerate issues a little early on, but I don’t have a high-end gaming computer (my parents use it for work!) so it doesn’t come as a surprise to me. I could improve it (i.e. by uninstalling all the mods I have for TpF1), but I personally don’t even care about framerate that much. Even on relatively low settings, it still looks gorgeous, so I’m not mad that I have to reduce the settings. Bottom line: if you found Transport Fever 1 fun, you’ll find Transport Fever 2 even _more_ fun. Just be aware it might slow down a bit.

[@IcyyMike]

Nice, I never played TF1 but I am sure a lot of people will find this info useful. Thank you for contributing here!

[@TotoDG]

Well, I have invested over 300 hours of time into the other game, so take my opinion with a pinch of salt. Just as a side note: not a lot of people realise Transport Fever 2 is actually a third-generation game. Yes, it’s a sequel to Transport Fever 1, but that was also a sequel to Train Fever. It was fun, but you could tell it was the studio’s first time making a game of that calibre. EDIT: It was their first game _in general._

[@wta1518]

@@TotoDG yeah, TPF2 definitely feels like a third time game. There are a few bugs, but they seem to have been ironed out. They biggest issue that I have with this game is the community. What a bunch of complainers! The devs made a post wishing people happy holidays, and guess what half the comments are? PEOPLE COMPLAINING THAT THE DEVS ARE SPENDING TIME TRYING TO BE NICE! There are comments complaining that this game is a buggy mess (it isn't), people complaining that the economy is too simple (guess what? There are mods for that.) people complaining that they need mods for some niche thing that only a few people actually want (If you want it that badly, you can spend the 30 seconds it takes to download the mod from the Steam Workshop).

[@TotoDG]

@@wta1518. Yeah, but to be fair, not many shows or games have great fanbases. Honestly, unless the community ends up ruining the things I enjoy (or if the creators mess it up themselves), I just tend to ignore the community and try to enjoy it on its own merits. Transport Fever 2's no different, and so far, I still love it.

[@wta1518]

@@TotoDG I also tend to ignore the community, but it is a bit sad to see, especially compared to the communities of some of my favorite games like Cities: Skylines (which to be fair is mostly people who are glad they don't have to deal with EA anymore), Satisfactory (mainly because the devs have a good sense of humor), Raft (It's a fairly small community, and the majority are people who really like survival games), and Software Inc. (which is a fairly niche game developed by a very small team that is able to deliver fairly constant updates).

[@tpmiranda]

FPS count is hurt mainly by AI. It was a problem in TF1, and it is a problem in TF2, to the point where there are mods that actually remove half the population or more just to ease the CPU load. And each vehicle is also an AI entity so, the more vehicles you have in the map, the worse the CPU load.

[@benrowlinson]

This is a really solid review - instant like-and-subscribe. The full-disclosure bit at the beginning is a masterpiece of the form, but, for all that, I have to take issue with the thing about the framerate drops. This is a logistics simulator at heart, and doing such a thing as it ought to be done will inevitably involve a ton of algorithms with non-predeterminable runtimes. Given that, whether or not the code has been fully optimised to run native on the broadest possible range of C|GPUs is beside the point. In fact, I don't believe it'd be all that unreasonable to say that if the frame rate on at-heart-logistics-simulator isn't dropping to a crawl every now and then, it's entirely safe to assume that the game is a good deal more shallow than it pretends - that there's some kind of dark electronic artistry involved.

[@latuchi]

Great video again! :) I'm also very impressed that you can run the game on high settings with that cpu you have, which is not that much better compared to the minimum requirement.

[@IcyyMike]

Thank you!

[@uselessgamer234]

I completed the first one after a total of 52 hours yesterday! Bought this one, much better looking, much more variety, alot elss flaws. BUT THE UI/MENU IS DIFFERENT!!! At first I didn't like it. Now I'm use to it I like it, not more but not less than the first, in a different way. Glad I gave it time and didn't write it straight off!

[@justXcallXitXtechno]

seems like a decent review so far. getting up to 60+ fps on high, after release, on a semicondutor-crisis 970 that already was subpar like 10 years ago feels a bit of an odd "argument" in terms of criticizing "lack of optimization". Thankfully you somewhat noticed mentioning economic/logistics or tycoon sim as an actual genre over meaningless "sandbox" buzzwords at least after a while. :)

[@nathanhardcastle1729]

10:00 which games exactly?

[@IcyyMike]

Anno 1800 Cities Skylines Planet Zoo Planet Coaster Train Simulator

[@denver3739]

@@IcyyMike Agreed, highly recommend Cities Skylines. Great vid btw.

[@Zeigy]

@@IcyyMike Hang on, are these other games higher quality or easier? Because, too me, the easier the game is, the lower the quality. Anyway, I want to know how similar this game is to OpenTTD because I love the train management in that game, screwing around with train signals.

[@JoeKnaggs]

@@Zeigy But none of those games mentioned above are transport simulators but they are all in the simulation/management type of game like this is.

[@donald347]

Gameplay is always more important than graphics and optimization. Graphics are largely subjective and optimization doesn't make a game playable- just playable on more systems. Gameplay is king.

[@titooregano7416]

Just bought this game yesterday and im liking it so far, you touched on all the key points. Pretty good sim game, but not the end all be all :D

[@IcyyMike]

Glad you found the review helpful. I hope you are enjoying the game!

[@SaintEaon]

Did they steal their UI completely from City Skylines? Because it looks like they stole their UI completely from City Skylines.

[@IcyyMike]

🤔

[@EverythingEVEo]

This game is essentially a city Skylines mod.... it couldn't be any closer

[@dixie_rekd9601]

@@EverythingEVEo its very similar to the first transport fever.... you could say city skylines is a transport fever mod.

[@zackbobby5550]

They have been making these games way before Cities Skylines came out.

[@SaintEaon]

@@zackbobby5550 That doesn't change the fact their newest iteration has almost exactly the same UI, Color Scheme, and layout.

[@gandalfwiz20007]

Transport Fever is a combination of Trains & Trucks Tycoon, Cities in Motion and Transport Tycoon Deluxe

[@Perjoss]

Game looks awesome, thanks for taking the time to review it, keep up the good work :)

[@cbadplayz4093]

I have a question, I’m relatively new to the simulation and tycoon genre, I’ve played cities skylines and other titles but I wasn’t sure about this game, any thoughts?

[@zackbobby5550]

Seeing you use a heavy freight locomotive to pull a short passenger train hurt my soul lmao.

[@wta1518]

I would say you were a bit low on the graphics rating. I would give it a solid 8/10. While they aren't AAA level, they are great for a game of this type (which is more about gameplay anyways), and for a smaller dev studio.

[@KILLER_W0LF.]

Very good and in depth review IcyyMike! I'll sub you!

[@IcyyMike]

Thank you for the support, always means a lot to me!

[@TPMTactical]

Is this like a newer version of Transport Tycoon?

[@IcyyMike]

Yup, been having a blast!

[@davidthompson59]

I played Transport Fever 1 quite a bit and thought it a really good game, very much in the mold of Transport Tycoon. My only criticism of both of the above is that they are very rail centred. In Transport Fever 1, making money from aircraft is almost impossible and updating or expanding airports is often not possible either because of terain, building growth etc. The distribution of goods to where you want them is also difficult in TF1 as the first station on a route often grabs everything. Has any of this been addressed in TF2?

[@valdrex3531]

Dave Thompson To answer your question about distribution, they did actually fix that. Goods are assigned to a destination upon creation so that will surely help.

[@ImperialEarthEmpire]

Transport Fever have a sequel already? I thought not many people play that game... btw i love TF1 so im definitely gonna get this game...

[@IcyyMike]

Have fun!

[@majestic_G6]

We need next cities skylines with with these graphics 👀

[@KevinM0890]

and with a huge performance upgrade :D

[@miamianz]

i had trouble with the first one was difficult to get going is the new version any better?

[@IcyyMike]

Yeah the start is a bit tough. But if you can get 2 cities close enough and get a train network going or get oil going its fine.

[@royporterjr.2764]

Please help by requesting that major some horrible changes reverted or corrected! 1. The gray screen for managing lines or vehicles is a death color and too bright even with brightness turned down and takes away from immersion. 2. The resource icons look like a 6 year old's chalk scribbles on the sidewalk, not even HD quality. 3. Names of towns, depots etc. disappear when you need them most, to name and set lines. (Is a programmer laughing his a$$ off about this one?).

[@yumpinyiminy963]

Much improved over TF1. However TF1 and TF2 are GPU killers. I have an AMD FX 6300 16GB and GForce 730 2GB. The game tells me I need 8GB of VRam to play on High graphic settings. It also has Very High and Ultra settings that look great but I would imagine you need a super high end gaming PC. I have seen KZbinrs start getting lag once the map starts filling up with killer PC's. My PC is a 2016 and don't want to spend $2500 + for a new PC.

[@IcyyMike]

Yeah it’s brutal

[@dixie_rekd9601]

a gforce 730 is a terrible terrible GPU though... its really not a gaming graphics processor at all. Even in 2016 a GTX 730 was a terrible GPU... im not knocking it, for a budget GPU for web browsing or working on documents, its fine, but the GTX730 was never intended for games even on release.

[@jordanferrazza8700]

The GUI is like the opposite direction Cities Skylines went while knocking off Simcity

[@UnsaltedCashew38]

Thanks for the review but there is way too much bass in the sound of your voice, sit further away from mic or change some settings.

[@ryaeon9793]

Nah.. still bugged. Sometimes my train didn load even there 300 item on station. Or didn unload/sell item to city. The fix is to call them back to depot then reuse it again

[@Strafe2011]

Yeah, mine crashes far too much. Only played 2 hours and I've had it crash 9 times already. My PC is above their minimum required specs, so I'm stumped why the game won't work properly.

[@ryaeon9793]

@@Strafe2011 yeah.. I can play most demanding graphic game on ultra.. Play this game on biggest map. Crash. Only smallest map got no crash for me :/

[@TRtraybloxeey]

It costs so much. $65 AUD!!! I would really appreciate if I would know if and when there would be a sale.

[@awesomepilot7567]

put it on your wishlist, steam sends an email whenever stuff on your wishlist is on sale

[@player_unknown963]

He's playing on an AMD FX rofl even 3 years ago that would be a problem...

[@ThePumperCloggs]

I hope it winds up with multiplayer goal servers like OpenTTD

[@MiguelBaptista1981]

Till the late 2000's ? Well, you must not mean the decade but the millenia, because I'm at the year 2156 :p

[@berberger4814]

your cpu isnt exactly that what ppl have today, single core performance is pretty low on a fx 8350, its nearly half of an amd ryzen 5 3600 in passmark, maybe you should mention this, when you review performance. I am not complaining about your system, but it may irritate some ppl when you do not say that its slower than average, what clearly is the case

[@yangguan4070]

Should i get ttd over this instead?

[@Chrisbajs]

Why all the downvotes on this video?

[@martingab2556]

Is this coming out on ps4 ?

[@adamedwards1462]

Martin Angeles No it’s way to demanding so I doubt they would even consider it on PS4 and if they do it will be much different from this

[@kingjasko]

Here, have a like.

[@IcyyMike]

Here have a like

[@joaquinmacrae6084]

I was going to watch the video, but when you started talking like graphics were the most important....

[@muaazprince1916]

CAN IT RUN ON INTEL HD4000?? FPS ?

[@Questchaun]

Probably not well

[@imtiredlmaooooooooo]

a roundabout for trains yea man

[@kongkim]

Is this a new Transport Tycoon :D?

[@IcyyMike]

Just released today!

[@gemmel3197]

I think so and I played tycoon back when it came out

[@Strafe2011]

It's inspired by Transport Tycoon. The devs do want to make a Transport Tycoon game, but AI competitors are still needed to make it a proper Transport Tycoon game.

[@WysteriaGuitar]

Is it better than Cities Skylines?

[@IcyyMike]

No

[@dixie_rekd9601]

its a completely different game, lot of people are comparing it to city skylines... Its like saying "tetris isnt as good as mario" theyre two completely different games.

[@cheeky_farquar]

More like Transport Fever 1.5

[@IcyyMike]

🤔

[@conekiii4211]

Ivan not judging but what do u think they could of added?

[@stickydude8921]

That performance looks so damn awful.. gives me PTSD from Stellaris

[@emilehlers3249]

just over 10 minutes... wonder why.

[@nopenoppitynope1923]

"the most important topic of a video game, graphics and optimization." LMAO next

[@Yassified3425]

The new game is disappointing as it has no new vehicles and the "European vehicles" should not be called that as there are only Swiss and German trains.

[@IcyyMike]

They added the "Asian" vehicles in this iteration actually.

[@eshanrafique1242]

Ty-cou???

[@SylerProductions]

It really is not worth it, for 50 CAD at least. It actually has less important features than the TF1 as well, very poor performance across the board for many and for me i cannot even play the game. The second i zoom out to look at the map it start stuttering loads up 16gb of ram usage and then crashes as i "only" have 16gb. Even when i play looking at the floor zoomed all the way in it will crash every hour or so. Then you have the absolutely dumbfounded design choice of not letting you edit two trains to mix and match wagons/locomotives. Town's max sizes are limited by their initial size which is just unacceptable for a game of this type where you can start from nothing in 1850 and are suppose to be able to build a huge city with all kinds of transport no matter where you start. Then you have the absolutely dumbed down cargo system that doesn't make sense from a realism standpoint at all, all towns/cities just need two goods and that is it. The smarter design choice would have been to make towns have two specialized or in demand goods or something but needing all of them in the end. I wouldn't recommend it honestly, and the only reason keeping me from refunding it is the 25% discount i got for owning tf1 and the fact that mods will hopefully fix it in the future. But it will need an overhaul mod which will most likely take months to make.

[@ze2775]

I'm brazilian :))))

[@StevenManser]

I cant play a game with that kind of framrate. Maybe im a framerate snob but I just can't. I had train fever, played it for a few hours and never touched it again. TOOK FOREVER for them to optimize that game and even then it never was great. So I completely skipped Transport Fever. From what I see via the gameplay footage its train fever all over again. I'll wait to buy it until its optimized and by that point Transport Fever 3 is probably announced or going to be released. I wish they wouldn't release these games with poor optimization. I just wont buy it, Open TTD is great

[@hippohippo9344]

Hmmm okay review never played a game like this. Only input I can give is, your computer is weak. My computer was stronger than yours 4 years before this review was made... So I don't think this game will by any means run badly if you were getting stutters around 40fps. In case you're wondering in 2015 my computer was a budget pc.

[@AceHardy]

📝

[@IcyyMike]

💪

[@user-mk1fr5iq8s]

Sorry but the UI is bewildering. This makes it unplayable. TTD is far superior.

[@elkaermusic]

You must be sponsored sinde you say “easy to manage”. Terrible setup and controls. No. Just no

[@skumdiggery4476]

You can't say the game is poorly optimised when your pc barely breaks the recommended spec requirements...

[@drewtube6838]

Typical unoptimized game. What year is this 2019? lol

[@IcyyMike]

Generally speaking, I think the pressure to get something onto the market to generate cash to stay afloat is very common with smaller studios. Not saying this is the case for TF2, but in general, I think that is the root of a lot of unfinished/unpolished games being released.

[@drewtube6838]

@@IcyyMike I concur. It's the state of the industry, It's like in the future I know the game will be performing great on my upgraded machine. This game is great BTW.

[@IcyyMike]

Yeah I am having a lot of fun with it myself

[@subsist99]

tbf, playing on 5-7 year old hardware isn't going to be the best gaming experience in 2019.

[@drewtube6838]

@@subsist99 I depends more on your specs. The 980 is still a powerful GPU, it's on the lower end but it still get the job done. I'm myself am working with a 1060, 16gb of Ram, i770k

[@s1nb4d59]

Fix your mic 8)

[@riphaven]

same as city skylines, only it cost more.

[@Jake-rc4ws]

As someone who plays cities: skylines, this looks a lot better and more fun

[@dixie_rekd9601]

theyre completely different games.... they are nothing like.... its like comparing mario and tetris and complaining that mario doesnt have enough long straight blocks.

[@bronkolie]

>30 fps >good gaming experience

[@prezofthemoon9486]

What a fucking awful way to start a video saying graphics are the most important part of the game

[@wiltonm1975]

get a new mic dude..

[@turn7racing]

maybe a pop filter?? listening to you on the mic was hurting my ears had to stop the video sorry! please invest in one or go back a bit from the mic.

[@konfuchie357]

You haven't played the first one? I'm out.

[@code_red_development]

Awesome video! I just recently posted my first Transport Fever 2 video, it’d be great if you could check it out! Keep up the great work! ✈️🚂

[@xiosade135]

"Should You Buy It?" no ,its cracked why would you

[@CommonSenserules1981]

Video game? I'm pretty sure it's a computer game as its ruining on a Computer not a video. Odd.

[@Kris.G]

But it's called a video game.

[@CommonSenserules1981]

@@Kris.G Its not - Its called Fever 2. Its only referred to a "video game" in the US and it just makes very little sense as it isn't a Video game, it's clearly a Computer game.

[@CommonSenserules1981]

@@Kris.G "Computer games don’t necessarily have animated video. They could have text or flashing lights." Had to look it up.

[@parkercook288]

The definition of video game is “a game played by electronically manipulating images produced by a computer program on a television screen or other display screen” (from Oxford) This game fits that definition.

[@CommonSenserules1981]

@@parkercook288 Yeah I looked it up already as you can see.