When City Planning in Cities Skylines 2 goes wrong

[@RTGame]

It's finally time to relive Cities Skylines and I'm so excited. I will make the perfect city

[@StickMaster500]

Dixfield is the perfect city that will rise from the ashes in the morning with glory 💪

[@Vestige_]

the """"perfect""""" "city"

[@JamJuice101]

Hey Dan! I want to recommend a game called Cave Story to ya! It’s an old RPG game that’s really well made and was hoping you give it a try!

[@thanatos4610]

Holy Guacamole!

[@snomcultist189]

Make sure to make full use of commie blocks!

[@meirzamsky]

fact: 99% of city planners quit 1 lane before they fix traffic forever

[@DZ-DizzyDumm]

City planner here: I'm 26 lanes in, I'm sure that 27 will be my lucky number

[@SkyP9812]

City planning ruined my life: my spouse left me, taking the children with her. I tried bringing her to court, but I was deemed unfit to take care of my children. All my old friends look at me as if I am a stranger, and I can feel their judgements as they go behind my back to gossip. I am in financial ruin, wasting away days upon days building just one more road as I feel my bones grow more weary with every hour that passes. That being said, I'm sure that if I build just *one more road...*

[@Ikxi]

no roads, all pedestrians and cyclists@@SkyP9812

[@nicolai8820]

Fr i had 40 Lanes and the Highway filled up with a population 10000 vehicles normaly 4 lanes roads can carry up to 40000 Vehicles city skylines wtf

[@Absenteeee]

just one more lane one more please bro one more and itll fix traffic forever PLEASE bro just one more one more lane

[@flippanties]

The fact that this video is about as long as he spent in stream fixing the graphics settings is truly something

[@proluit_igne3619]

Welcome to Modern Gaming TM! We’re games are launched when they’re half broken, optimizing for most devices doesn’t exist, and we actively make everything ugly and shove politics into everything in the name of diversity!

[@flippanties]

​@@proluit_igne3619I was with you till you started complaining about "politics in games" as if that's a new thing and not a constant in media of all formats and genres. Are you honestly arguing AGAINST diversity and representation in media? Because you're an idiot if you are.

[@jowysw]

​​@@proluit_igne3619The comment started fine but... why did you have to go with the stupid "too much politics" angle? Just... Why?

[@rustler08]

@@jowysw Because it's true.

[@Idkpleasejustletmechangeit]

@@proluit_igne3619 you probably think Mario is "woke" lmfao

[@StickMaster500]

While we can't currently do a Country Roads moment, in the glorious city of Dixfield, the size of our buildings and monuments don’t matter, it’s how we erect them.

[@matthewboire6843]

Hahah

[@draglorr5578]

THE MASTER OF STICKS HAS RETURNED!!

[@Batt-man]

Holy stick

[@Unhinged_Pegasus69]

The city is getting pretty excited.

[@manboy4720]

more like dickmaster69.

[@leahyt]

I love that the CS2 players all build elaborate structures for like 2.000 people, it's a rural village but yeah they need an international airport

[@kreuner11]

Cities skylines doesn't have realistic populations

[@nicolai8820]

They also need a 40 Lane highway that still fills up even tho a 4 lane highway can easily carry 30000 Cars and the Population is 10000

[@pekkause]

Noo you can't say CS2 mate 😂 I thought you were talking about Counter Strike 2...

[@jaydaykoth]

reminds me of the first one where it looks like a city but it only has 4 thousand

[@vic_who]

"I'm running out of ideas, I'll kill the poor", classic RTGame moment

[@TrolledBy]

First you kill the poor, then you wonder why no one wants to work. Build more cheap housing for workers, and repeat the cycle.

[@Chewberto]

hearing that utterly broke me

[@kittygrass]

I love watching Dan absolutely destroy lives that he created.

[@TangoWolf09]

I can't wait for him to have kids

[@Person74892]

​@@TangoWolf09lol

[@CoochieSlosher]

god flooding earth:

[@diydragon8764]

Dan, I feel that you need to know that citizens won't get mad at you if you set all the parking fees to $50. I basically fund my entire city entirely through parking money lol

[@William43210]

Just blame it on inflation :D

[@draketurtle4169]

Parking money and the giant pollution stations we use to power the city.

[@Piggynom]

Chicago if they didn't give away their parking meters for corpos to profit off of (decent rabbit hole)

[@aeroon9991]

He must see this comment.

[@wildfire9280]

@@Piggynom more like corPOS amirite?

[@patrickdix772]

As a descendant of the Founder of Dixfield, Richard Dix, I am saddened and appalled at what the election of Mayor RTGame did to that fine city. When Richard settled his farm, he didn't realize it would become a hub of the area, which was destroyed within a few short years by this maniac.

[@sour.sparkleofficial]

Oh no

[@jackhammergaming1973]

I am truly sorry for your loss, Dick Dix.

[@RichardCox0]

My condolences

[@ThomasMeeson]

His father was Hugh Mungus Dix

[@ap1evideogame44]

How's your son, Hugh Jass Dix?

[@thelongestrose]

That went from zero to "kill the poor" rather fast. Dan's finally thinking like a real city manager!

[@krezzybot]

He sounded so devastated when he realized the town would go bankrupt, I felt so bad. Maybe if he didn't try to build a space center and a shipping port for a town of 2500

[@solangel8002]

LOL 😭

[@lithium444]

I find it funny that Dan reoptimizing the graphics just made the game look like City Skylines 1 again

[@illdeletethismusic]

CS1 insome ways looked better, the terrain wasn"t as fecked after placing roads or buildings, except for heavily modded games

[@theregularterrarian3933]

it's not the size of Dixfield that matters, it's how it runs

[@danksheev66]

Yet the pipes don't even look like they work

[@CarlosDeLosMuertes]

The funny thing is that many cemeteries actually do stack multiple coffins into one grave. There's only so much land and when someone stops paying they either get dug up and chucked out or pushed deeper.

[@katsimpsforleviathan]

I can't get over the fact that every time Dan said that a road was going to kill someone, it looks like something I would see on my route to work

[@F0rtuneLT]

"Please for the love of god help me optimize this before we start playing" yea that about sums up the launch of this game pretty well

[@jaidenkoch3487]

I love dan bragging about him being good in the first game but makes this monstrosity

[@flux_casey]

Dan is an accidental genius in this game. Like when he created a monstrosity that accidentally completely solved traffic congestion in a competition. Now, the goal *was* to solve traffic as best he could, but neither he, nor the competition organisers, knew how the hell he did it. Dan is a true miracle worker. A bumbling, city-building Jesus. "Oh Lord Jesus! How did you turn this water into wine?!" "... Bein' honest with you, no idea. I just built more roads and it kind of happened. Good wine though, eh? You're welcome."

[@Slacker420]

I've been watching my brother play CS2 and its been a buggy mess at times and a good stable game at other times. I can't wait for Dan to become the menace he was always meant to be

[@caseys2cold]

Damn Counter Strike looks different than I remember

[@scarletrhapsody]

The first time I saw CS2 I thought you were talking about Counter Strike 2, and it was indeed buggy.

[@draketurtle4169]

It’s C:S2 CS would be counter strike

[@Cursed394]

One day I’m sure Dan will learn that you have to terraform BEFORE adding the roads and buildings not after 😂 He’s always so surprised when the same thing goes wrong every time 😂

[@kamilslup7743]

gotta love randomly playing the best part of "Vordt of the Boreal Valley" from dark souls 3 while dan creates an unlivable hellscape of a city

[@exp2745]

RT over here thinking chickens are vegetables that need to be planted in fertile ground...

[@cyberneticsquid]

Professional chickener here, proper planting is an often neglected aspect of raising chickens!

[@cameronweaver2013]

​@@cyberneticsquiddirt baths!

[@Mr.ANDERSONYOURASCAL]

The fabric of reality glitching at the start can only mean that good things are coming

[@tekalh7647]

Ah, modern gaming. Where remastered games look so good that in order to run them at as many frames as the original ran, you have to turn down the graphics so low it looks worse than the original (Unless you have a NASA computer of course)

[@KiotheCloud]

So far u probably nid a 3080 minimun to play on med grphics without lagging late game my friend has a 4090 and his still struggling at high on late game

[@firockfinion3326]

"I'm starting to run out of ideas, so I'm just going to kill the poor." - Every dystopian villain.

[@CarnerioTostado]

Basically every single major multinational company that's worth billions nowadays

[@TheHutchy01]

2:45 I think the Doughnut shop needs another round of voting before it picks the Doughnut Pope looking at those stacks

[@raidedsalt7110]

13:11 I wrote an entire satire piece for a literature class I had where killing the poor had worked to stop the divide between the rich and poor

[@beefylasagna1389]

Hey RT! This is he first youtube video I'm watching in 2024. When I got home from my relative's place, the first thing I did was sit down with my dog and watch this video. Thank you for being a part of my year!

[@samboi123]

And when he no longer needed Pelican Town, Walter White moved the entire Breaking Bad Farm operation to the growing city of Dixfield. There, he and his companions Sebby, Emily & Ga could reach an even greater audience with their wonderful blueberry product.

[@alexhound5705]

3:05 a 4 way intersection like this exist like this is my town and i have to navigate it anytime i want to go somewhere

[@xackwrites]

Every time RT grabs the terrain tool you know the city is gonna get wild.

[@extralyfe]

building a city big enough for fifty thousand people when you have ~3k people is just amazing city planning.

[@Mini_Squatch]

You just know that paradox pushed colossal order to get this game out before it was ready

[@Wolphie]

I think the worst (or best?) part is, Dan really is trying to do actual good stuff at the start. xD

[@karelpgbr]

1:52, no joke I used to live in a neighbourhood that abused roundabouts, but the thing was that the sheer amount of roundabouts made it really fun to drive illegally over the distibutor roads, because they had cool curves and braking points, it felt almost like a race-track... Also it is where I practiced heel-toe'ing the pedals for smooth shifting, and also where I taught myself how to slide and drift cars. Thank *KZbin* for Dutch tarmac, otherwise those would be shredded!

[@consciame]

I’ve lived in Dublin for about two years now and I can say that Dan’s roadwork is very close to reality

[@kensprivateinvestigation2128]

Can't wait to see an entire city made of nothing but round about. Any other road type is illegal.

[@Foxy_AR]

RT is probably the first person to go into debt in this game

[@Blue-Maned_Hawk]

?

[@couruu]

how? it's really hard to make money in this, you basically make a loss until 25k population

[@aussiejo5764]

Buildings are set to make money even if they don’t have any supplies. How can you possibly lose money?

[@BlackGateofMordor]

​@@couruuPump up the taxes. I think I have an average of 18% and the demand is still crazy high.

[@couruu]

@@BlackGateofMordor Damn, whenever I go above 15 demand starts plummeting

[@danieljames1868]

3:04 I can think of multiple locations near me with intersections like that. RT's reaction to it is appropriate.

[@angrybidoof847]

This ran better suspended in the air. Still a good game, but wish time could of been put aside for optimising

[@vhh2953]

dan is the incarnate equivalent of "god has forsaken us"

[@senabecool7232]

Well, time for the lives of Cities Skylines 2 to feel the suffering of a poop volcano

[@muhammadnursyahmi9440]

Honestly, i'm kinda excited Dan doing that again in CS2

[@MartinJnr]

Corporate wants you find the difference between these two images: (1) Cities Skylines 2 / (2) Modded Cities Skylines.

[@Eclipse-lw4vf]

i will say, cant wait for when the game is fixed, btw if u didnt know. it renders every shadow.. including INSIDE buildings, for every singular object in the game. so many objects are detailed and rendered in when they dont need to.

[@ParanoLives]

Not a minute into the video and Dan's already summoned Missingno, classic

[@imchrisu]

Nothing better than RT slowly and steadily creating the most dystopian hellscape of a city possible.

[@chrystianodell1344]

Dan saying how horrible and scary it would be if a city/country's police actively encouraged you to lock your valuables away and stay vigilant at all times was almost textbook when it came to irony

[@Qaos]

I like how quickly this devolved into madness.

[@car-c1j]

this is oddly the most normal looking city rt has ever made

[@stuff31]

I'm eagerly awaiting the return of The Poop Volcano, this time with ultra-realistic fluid physics.

[@allstheartist]

this town would literally make me puke with all the roundabouts, but we love dixfield. may the suck-cess of your giant town grow!!

[@TheMegaMarshtomp]

3:05 There's actually an intersection/roundabout not too far from me that looks like this. I'm afraid to go outside because of it.

[@serpicopiu3591]

Have been watching playthroughs of this game exclusively by people who are actually experienced and saw that RT had posted. What a beautiful change of pace 😊

[@whatisavehicle]

This video represents the beginning of RT's journey to truly understand America

[@NukkuiskoHyvinVaiPois]

I feel bad for the devs. The first Cities is obviously made by people who got tired of EA not giving a damn (especially after the catastrophic SimCity 2013 which was a broken crappy mess), there's no way they wanted to release the game in this state. This has "publisher ruins the game and then wonders why it doesn't sell" stink all over it.

[@aturchomicz821]

It is morally correct to pirate Paradox Games🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@lyoselli]

I live in Tampere, I love how placed the huge garbage dump pretty much where our city centre is.

[@pilarwolf8818]

I’m glad to see RT found yet another game in which he can torture digital people endlessly

[@tunasandwich8049]

Ah the duality of the cities skylines community -people who make actual art of a city -RTGames

[@thefoxessockess8239]

Now that I’ve got my drivers license, I can truly appreciate the hell that is dans roads

[@imagummybearr]

I’m sooooo looking forward to more cities 2 streams. I was going through an awful time when Dan used to play cities 1 a lot, and looking forward to his streams every week really helped me get through a really terrible time. It makes me so happy to watch him enjoy this new game when I’m at such a better place in my life than I was during the popularity of his original cities streams.

[@aturchomicz821]

I doubt he will actually play it for real, its no longer 2018 bucko lol

[@imagummybearr]

@@aturchomicz821 thank you for your very informative and helpful comment!

[@livingglowstick1337]

@@aturchomicz821 no he wont play it becuase it sucks compared to the original and dosent work

[@aturchomicz821]

@@livingglowstick1337 Also true...

[@wilmamarttelin]

did not expect to see my finnish hometown of tampere in an rtgame video but i’m glad it happened

[@pheebs887]

I STRONGLY believe that the livestreams are the best! If you haven't watched RT on Twitch PLEASE do! It's always a wonderful time and it's a wonderful community ❤️

[@Gamorou]

Valefisk sweated to do what RT did unintentionally, making the roads hell

[@The13thRonin]

How you went wrong in 3 easy steps: 1. You bought Cities Skylines 2 despite it being an absolute disgrace. 2. See step 1. 3. See step 1.

[@kryptx96]

This was so stressful the whole time, and then everyone left the city. 10/10 content

[@bangormc3rd562]

I'm so glad the sequel apparently has Road Anarchy on by default.

[@thedancingheavy93]

Cities Skylines 2 is my favourite audio book

[@kirbyfromdiscord2640]

Maybe the Country Roads were the friends we made along the way

[@Unhinged_Pegasus69]

One of the CS II videos of all time.

[@MapOfEurasia]

Things I don't like in CS2: - Pipe and electrical connecting (in CS1 was way better) - We have random natural disaster but we cannot launch it manually like in CS1 - "Messy" RCI demand Poor performance aside (but it runs acceptable on my Alienware 17 R2 with a 4th gen i7, 16GB of ram and a GTX980m) I like it, but there's sooooo much room for improvements!

[@magicalnoodles]

- Pipes irl go under the road. It also makes it easier for you, since there is no need to manually set up the whole pipe/electricity network. - The game will add DLC as it develops. Natural disasters with most probably be included. - The RCI is far more realistic now Just play CS1 at that point bro. It sounds like you vastly prefer the way that mechanics work there.

[@Nico78Not]

@@magicalnoodles A DLC from 1 should be baseline in the sequel. Paying twice for the same content is stupid. But hey, I bet you're gonna excuse it too because "it happens in other games" even though it's a anti-consumer move from both the devs and the publishers.

[@MapOfEurasia]

@@magicalnoodles I'm not talking about the pipes running under the roads (which is great! clean and neat), I'm saying that often aren't easy to connect to building that doesn't necessarily needs a road because the nodes are smaller and the pointer often doesn't lock on it. Nothing that a little update wouldn't fix. There are already disasters in the base game (fire, tornado, hail) and I don't know why they didn't add a dedicated menu from the beginning and then implementing it with more types of disasters later down the road with a DLCs. I mean, let us have fun with the base ones until the DLC. The RCI demand system is a great improvement from CS1, more detailed, but I think there's room for improvement. Besides that, I having a great time! Even if I took a "pause" because of Alan Wake 2 ❤️ Don't take it personally man 😅 even CS1 had its issues at launch.

[@sacrificiallamb4568]

Yeah, not even DLC, Sims 4 still doesn't have stuff Sims 3 launched with. And Sims 4 is over 10 years old. And broken. And you still can't change controls. EA change them and you have to stick with that. (Especially on console.)@@Nico78Not

[@eldiaz3527]

@@Nico78Not Paradox operates on a different monetization model to most other video game companies. They release a base-game, with all the general features that make playing the game fun and then spend YEARS polishing and refining the game into an incredible experience. They use DLC as a monetization technique to keep generating revenue on old games instead of releasing a new one every couple of years. I think that everything that was DLC in the original would be nice to have but is not mandatory. By separating advanced features to optional expansions people can choose not to buy them if they think it doesn't improve their enjoyment. For example I do not care about spawning natural disasters. Yes it would be better if video games didn't have DLC but in that case you would need to release a new game every couple of years to keep up development costs. If it were any other company I would not support this model, but Paradox have proven that they can make incredible games, and if that requires all the DLC then that's fine.

[@leonardochapman4736]

grids and roundabouts, you just built Milton Keynes

[@NatriSpace]

Good to see you continue the carnage and chaos

[@marxmeesterlijk]

Every city RT builds always ends up as the UK in the eighties.

[@TaylorToman]

I almost considered buying CS:II, thank goodness I watched this video before making that mistake.

[@waywardpoet5310]

@3:04 That's how one of the roads looks in a city near me, those lanes included 😂

[@foolishdeadbeat]

6:53 rt has created an accurate depiction of every intersection in boston, ma

[@distance7721]

What do you mean "imagine if the cops didn't investigate crime?" You live in the UK: they don't do that in real life

[@Powoga]

Heck, you can be happy if they aren't the ones committing crimes!

[@Kabanist]

"ChirpX Space Center". Considering that this thing has been added to C:S several years ago, this is a hillarious foresight by the devs.

[@spookyskeledook]

12:57 wow, this frostpunk 2 gameplay preview looks sweet

[@Tajealos]

Citizens: "There is no internet coverage throughout the entire city; let's go on the internet to complain about not having internet."

[@Michplay]

I can’t believe i live in a era where you need dlss to play a city builder. And it hasn’t even got dlss

[@LataraHanu]

Every good city needs: - Waffles - Roundabouts - Literally nothing else

[@jordanfry5138]

"I'm running out of ideas, I'll kill the poor" Wait a second, Dan's Irish, not British!

[@JustsomeKid93]

I like how there’s a quick way to slap down some American car central infrastructure

[@thevoid6596]

RT is the onceler of cities skylines

[@MigratoryWhimbrel]

Dan unironically re-creating certain US cities: very unsafe and trash everywhere

[@allosaurustime]

Dan putting the only hospital right by the nightmare highways is absolutely amazing

[@aidanfarnan4683]

Start as we mean to go on: By Thanos-snapping the first city over an easily fixable issue.

[@ArrowArchitect]

Dixfield turned into Johannesburg at the end there

[@a9ollo653]

I missed those country roads.

[@antigravityfire3816]

Literally live next to a roundabout just like this 3:15

[@JacobTheCroc]

Funniest thing, Dixfield would've thrived as a city only if RT didn't insist on using four laners and invested in public transport allowing people to arrive to work.

[@Universe2]

bros talking about the end when the video just released 5 minutes ago like brah

[@JacobTheCroc]

@@Universe2 I seen the stream.

[@Zestieee]

I absolutely adore how he recorded a different "KZbin!" for every single curse word he had to censor. Still crazy that we have to do stuff like that tho...

[@AwesomeDakka]

"dixfield! i'm so immature!" and that's why we're here

[@BobOrKlaus]

that end certainly was a country roads ending

[@Sylvayex]

I have a pretty bad cold right now and this chaos is what I need right now

[@pewpewplasma3793]

Dan should really play Frostpunk. He’d fit right in

[@andrewdiaz3529]

0:40 Brave for them to stealth release City Skylines 3 under the guise of 2!!!

[@MagicLuckyyy]

3:02 the city where I grew up actually had a road like this. It was terrible

[@chthonic_f4]

Omg mom im famous 0:08

[@theotherbird8381]

RT makes City Skylines look like frostpunk with how difficult resource management is for him