Just for context, this was recorded before my "We have to talk about CSL2" video. As I said in that video, I'm not abadoning CSL2 so enjoy this fun and extremely challenging fix! 😃

@Skibidy_rizzler_

3 ай бұрын

What is the L in CSL2

@synapticbit

3 ай бұрын

@@Skibidy_rizzler_probably “Lines”

@der.Schtefan

3 ай бұрын

@@Skibidy_rizzler_The L is for "Lies". ;). I think he writes CSL2 to not be confused with CS2 Counter Strike 2. I usually write C:S2, but that is awkward on a mobile phone. Some people just call it "Cities 2"

@JWegers

3 ай бұрын

how do you like this kind of gameplay (fixing other cities instead of building your own)? i got a bit bored with the game at the end of last year und just started loading up some city saves from other players posting them in the official bug forums, to see if i can fix them somehow and found it quite entertaining for myself. Regarding your content, i only joined for CS2 after launch, so i am not really interested in CS1 or Timberborn content. And from your CS2 videos, i really like this kind of fix my city videos as well as new mod highlights or some kind of testing video because those usually focus on one city or specific information in a more or less isolated context. The kettlebridge series, i think i watched maybe half of those episodes got less and less interesting for me personally over time because i also watch a bunch of other CC and watching so many different cities growing up, i kinda loose that "personal relationship" (for a lack of a better wording) with your specific city.

@jamiejoe100

3 ай бұрын

Biffa, would you do a large city fix?

27:45 "We know roundabouts aren't the best, but..." you've changed, Biffa. You've changed.

@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines

3 ай бұрын

Honestly, I just wish csl2 did roundabouts better... 😳

@im_a-walking_shitpost_machine

3 ай бұрын

whats wrong with the roundabouts@@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines

@James-sk7jw

3 ай бұрын

One thing wrong with roundabouts, the amount of lanes or only affected by the number of lanes coming into it. This could be done better. The inability to control the lane direction, even with the unofficial mods they have out, you cant change a roundabouts lane direction, it even says on the mod, only works for 3/4 way intersections. Sure there are other minor little things, but these are the two that annoy me the most.

@JonesBeiges

2 ай бұрын

@@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines I guess all the negative reviews agree.

@peterdodds2694

2 ай бұрын

came for this comment. I was shocked

So glad city fix is back

@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines

3 ай бұрын

Enjoy :-)

@CallMe_Ohio

3 ай бұрын

If the Devs won't do it, Biffa will haha

@edwardmiessner6502

3 ай бұрын

Same here

@CMDRJakob

3 ай бұрын

Same.

@just-in-tech

3 ай бұрын

My favourite series of yours

My city now has over 510k population and the simulation now runs as fast as a PowerPoint presentation 😆

@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines

3 ай бұрын

Enjoy the speed! :-)

@ucbuianh722

3 ай бұрын

Ehhhh does that mean fast or slow? Cuz in my line of work, I've seen some crazy VBA powerpoints that lags like crazy!

@HolgerNestmann

3 ай бұрын

@@ucbuianh722bless your soul for thinking powerpoint could be mistaken for fast

@MihailBFC

3 ай бұрын

much speed, such wow ❤😂🎉

@James-sk7jw

3 ай бұрын

If you feel brave enough to do it(disclaimer) there are some settings you can access throught he dev tools to make the simulation work better. These are tweeks and stuff that I guess would be on a system basis(since some folks have dif pc builds) but I have managed to get this game running better by adjusting some of the default settings in the dev tools. Noticeable differences of 7-10 fps. My biggest city atm is 322k and I manage to keep 30-40 fps on all high graphic settings with clouds/fog/shadows off. Using a 4070 ti and a AMD Ryzen 7 5700, so all I can say is make a backup of a save and play with the dev tools. some things can be adjusted to make it better, just the defaults are not for everyone, so trial and error. EDIT: thought id mention I only play the game in the slowest speed as the simulation doesnt even achieve 4x on triple speed(you can see this in the dev tools) so I keep it at a 1x to achieve these fps numbers.

32:00 nice uphill on the bridge I think the drivers love it. They didn't want to drive it anymore as it was bumpy so traffic went down, great fix.

@FurryWrecker911

3 ай бұрын

Fixing roads the same way rust-belt states fix roads: make it so uncomfortable to drive that people straight up avoid it. Won't need to fix it if nobody depends on it anymore! :D

@ds_e5202

3 ай бұрын

I was shouting at the screen “Look at the bridge, look at the bridge!”

@Vvopat96

3 ай бұрын

@@ds_e5202 😆

35:00 they weren't being used because they had no busses, it is possible they could have been well used if the busses were available

The unused lines you removed were due to lack of vehicles and not lack of use

@memory-of-a-dream

3 ай бұрын

yeah, I sometimes feel that Biffa would be a good urban planner ... in the USA

@ptterz1277

3 ай бұрын

@@memory-of-a-dream Especially since he decided that the tram must not have separated lanes and suffer with the rest lmao

@Nikola_M

15 күн бұрын

@@memory-of-a-dream And also adding even more lanes when there are already a lot of them. Here where i live in Europe, a three lane road inside a city is unthinkable

I misread the city name as "Ensnaria 2.0" at first, and thought that was a very appropriate name for a traffic-hell city.

Well that coincides nicely with lunch time. Time to stick a brew on!

@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines

3 ай бұрын

Nice :-)

Got a hospital in Myrtle Croft, yet didn’t apply coverage to that area. Suck to have a hospital next door and not be able to go!!!

@aboriani

3 ай бұрын

that's exactly why I don't like setting operating districts everywhere. You are bound to forget something and it can be extremely difficult to troubleshoot afterwards

I really don't like setting operating districts everywhere, except when I have a remote zone or secondary towns. Setting the operating districts in the main town is messy imo, because as you expand, you will have to go through every district and city services to update and you will eventually miss something.

@zwanni20

2 күн бұрын

yea best example was when he dedicated operating districts for the hospital and forgot to add the district the hospital is located in

I LOVE CITY FIXES ARE BACK! :DDD

I think quite a lot of those busy intersections would be fixed with pedestrian tunnels or bridges.

@inyobill

3 ай бұрын

I have a hard time building above/below grade Ped paths in CS2. So much to learn.

@Jept

3 ай бұрын

Pedestrian crossings are an absolute menace in the game and I can't believe not more people are talking about it. In my couple of cities on CS2 about 75% of traffic problems has been pedestrian crossing related.

I thought this was Toronto, Ontario lol. I mean, if Biffa can fix this city, he can fix the horrendous traffic in Toronto 😂

@inyobill

3 ай бұрын

I believe (Reykjavik?} Finland?

@jakobeklid3502

3 ай бұрын

Tampere, finland🇫🇮

@inyobill

3 ай бұрын

@@jakobeklid3502 thanks

@MrTopHat-gt7wd3dh8w

20 күн бұрын

Facts bro go to the church and PREECH it

I love city fix episodes cause I can just jump in with no background. New Tealand worked for me cause I had the time to never miss an episode, but lately not so much time sadly.

@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines

3 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it, thanks for jumping in :-)

What I've found in my current build is that upgrading 4 lane roads with dedicated tram tracks down the middle really reduces traffic. The results are staggering, even if it's somewhat counterintuitive, cause you end up reducing the number of lanes available for vehicle traffic. but you need a good public transit design for that. I use the trams as the backbone of my transit network, linking my various bus lanes together. city is only 24k though. will have to see how this works at larger population levels.

@ptterz1277

3 ай бұрын

Induced demand is a funny concept in the urban planning that many don't seem to get. You'd think "one more lane bro" has proven it's inefficiency by now.

Thanks for not giving up on the game altogether. A lot of people bought this game and want to get our money's worth out of it. It's really not a bad game, it's just not as finished as it needs to be. With CS1 level mods and assets this game will look better than CS1 ever could. Also I think the community wanted a Cities Skylines sequel where as this game is more of an unfinished reboot.

I can't be the only one that noticed the shear road wall that the game put in place at 32:08 😂😅

@Vvopat96

3 ай бұрын

you weren't, that's why the traffic went down 🤣

Lines weren't in use because there were no vehicles! All you had to do was upgrade the depots, no need to delete the lines hahahahahahahaha

@fradefly

3 ай бұрын

this was exactly my thought ahaha

@aboriani

3 ай бұрын

yeah but why the "hahahahahahahaha" tho?

@jonblair5470

3 ай бұрын

I saw the same thing and audibly yelled NO!!

@inyobill

3 ай бұрын

@@fradefly Me too, but apparently like you,. didin't assume I was first and checked to see the suggestion already made. Well played, friend.

Watching you fix traffic problems for right hand side cities messes with my head haha. Good vid, thanks :)

@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines

3 ай бұрын

😂

People underestimate the utility of having a good train network. Your video on public transit network designs was great for inspiring the planning of my cities. Now I only have traffic issues when I do a bunch of expansion and everyone is moving in!

I believe the High Rent problem is only fixable now by using the LandValue Overhaul mod (unofficial). Heard a lot of good results from it. It also remedies the need for high rise/high density buildings in early city centers, which is not that realistic if you’re not planning on building a Singapore. Thanks for the video 😊

@hhuntteri

3 ай бұрын

Yeah Im only now realizing the only way to ratchet down rent is the land value shenanigans. Ive been subsidizing my citizens with negative tax rates for too long! Its chaos!!!

@ignas49

3 ай бұрын

building welfare offices also helps

YESSSS!!!!! I feel the IV plugged into my veins and the good vibes of city fix a-flowing. Like others, I love the investigation, the trouble-shooting, the problem solving, the guess work of "what I would have done...." and ultimately seeing the new product from some simple critical thinking. Love Biffa! Love!

Sometimes I suspect overlooking mistakes like the cliff on the bridge for minutes of the video (from 32:) is just to make us comment for the algorithm. And let me tell you it certainly works. Shouted at my screen tbh ;-)

Glad to see the "Fix it" series coming back for CS2

Biffa needs his own brand of tea.

I'm so glad city fix is back! It's what first introduced me to your channel years ago :)

I feel like if you delete a line with 0% usage, that may also be BECAUSE there are no vehicles available and it wasn’t operating in the first place, so deleting it won’t help the lack of vehicles, and the line may actually be fine. 0% just seems a bit too low.

“We can’t fix high rent, just hope they made enough” so realistic!!

I'm so glad this one worked out better than the last one. I hope that when some of the other problems get sorted,you will be able to go back and try again.😁

I love watching these, because it is super satisfying to watch you solve all the issues AND, added bonus, I can pick up some tricks along the way 😅😅

Definitely want to see more cs2 city fixes, iv watched all the cs1 videos multiple times, cant wait for more cs2 videos

Note: Something I liked in your CS1 version of fix my city. At the end you showed the original version vs how it was at the end with a bit of video editing. Please bring that back.

31:35 That in the game solving traffic jams put 6 lanes for vehicles (2 of which are shared with the tram) rather than 4 lanes for vehicles + 2 exclusive for the tram, makes us realize how bad the pathfinding simulation is and the 'choice of transport mode in this game. Because as you could already see in kettlebridge, you put in place a huge network of public transport and the traffic flow % continued in the same order. As urban planners explain, in real life there's a concept called "induced demand," where one fewer lane of cars on a boulevard means people choose an alternate route or mode of transportation , since people perceive that 2 lanes have slower traffic and are easily jammed than with 3 lanes and if on the same avenue there is a tram with an exclusive lane that allows it to overtake all the cars and go faster, already people don't think about it: leave the car at home and take the tram. On the other hand, if the tram shares space with the car and has to eat traffic jams and is slow, and also with the car they have 3 lanes instead of 2, people will go by car and they will collapse it for you. On the other hand, the faster it is to move, the longer the journeys that the population will choose to make. If they put in lanes, people will perceive that commuting is fast and will make longer and more frequent trips, collapsing it more and more.

That city looks really good aesthetically! Great fix, Biffa!

I truly love this series when you're doing this I'm glad it's back also. I know somebody beat me to this comment but I really am happy to see it.

I love your fix video's!! They are so informative and really do help! Nice city today and you got it operating really good! 🤩

Very nice road layout, I like the creative highway junctions and flyovers.

We do love a city fix ❤ thanks Biffa!

Just the thing to make a dull, wet February day brighter.

It always amazes me that you can fix other peoples disasters. I can't even tell what I have done in my own cities (CS1, I don't have CS2)

I am so happy to see a city fix again!

Tea with lemon and no milk? Oh dear Biffa...

@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines

3 ай бұрын

Blame the "uneducated in the British ways" editor :P

I was finally able to make a self sustaining island city with no traffic issues. They key I found is to make good use of secondary main roads of the main road that connects to highway. Giving the sheer amount of traffic from the highway more room to breath per say.

I've yet to play this game (just finally bought) and figured I'd watch some videos, one that shows problems and how to solve them was a great choice. I used to play Sim City a lot so I'm hoping this won't be a total shock. Thanks much for the pointers.

City Fix, but it's just Biffa fixing every glitch in the game.

I feel like I learn more by watching cities getting fixed than actual gameplay content haha

27:52 WHAT?!? Doth mine ears deceive me??? Did @Biffa just say “We know that roundabouts aren’t the best…”. *ach* my heart! My tea has gone cold and the spoon is now horkie borkie!

@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines

3 ай бұрын

I know, it's been something that CSL2 does not do well at all....in CSL1 though, they are THE best! :-)

@Yay295

3 ай бұрын

@@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines Does a CS1-style roundabout work in CS2? I haven't seen anyone try it yet.

You do have to say, despite the now-so-overwhelming styling features of CS2, these "random" cities do seem to look quite a bit more realistic, if you compare to some of the CS1 cities you fixed. But maybe it’s also just this city in particular.

Great to see a city fix in CS2🎉

Glad it is back the Cityfixing. @ 24:50 i see a problem whit the setup ther well seen some seconds leater to that the trafic from the highway isent gona switch off and goes right back to the highway. Meybe you have to make the switchoff under the incoming from the roundabout or make it more accesible for the offgoing trafic. Edit: Damn 1 min leater he fix all that ^^

What I found that helped my traffic areas are adding one ways and 3 to 4 lanes at traffic light of off ramps. Roundabouts works sometimes but not all the time. Also, I am using mods.

only 14k elementary students in a 111k city !!! Wow, In my cities the school population would be like 99K ; ) Not only are the grade schools massive but you need absurd amounts of them.

Yes!! A City Fix! Great Video

@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines

3 ай бұрын

Thank you!

Good one biffa, thanks for the upload, thanks for doing yet another city fix, finished my cup right as the video ended, splendid

@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines

3 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it :-)

First thing I noticed in the city regarding traffic, was a [underground] parking lot on a main road, and a non free flowing on/off ramp at downtown area. For best flow I would have that one Hwy that ran from one side to the other (outside the downtown area), and a secondary [split-off] that would run through the downtown area. I also wonder if there is any subway, which relieved a lot of my traffic issues when I had over 100k. Every subway car is what(?), like 260 cars off the roads? In education, and with over 100k people, I have noticed (pre any fixes, coming soon I think) you need about 10 to 15 Elementary Schools to balance the education. Hopefully the fix on the way will bring a bit more realism to the Elementary to High School ratio. Currently in game (as mentioned above) you can have a city of 100k and need 10-15 Elementary Schools, but not even fill 1 High School. IRL, 2 to 3 Elementary Schools fill up 1 Middle School, and 2 Middle Schools fill up 1 High School. The issue in game isn't just that a High School doesn't hold over 2-3k students, it's that not everyone goes from Elementary to High School, of if they do it's a much shorter time frame.

That new university next to the brown lake should be called "Poo University" Poo U

@9:27 "A bit smelly" That college will have a good wastewater program. 😂

Loved to see some positivity and success around C:S2 again. Loving the Satasfactory2 content as well. I need to take a second to let you know about @CitySculptor! He just did a recap video of his first 15 episodes. They are a very new channel, but his approach, tempo and atmosphere is top notch. He really brings a positivity to the game and is creating things that seem more akin to C:S1 in detail. I hope you check out his channel, it seems like he's coming from a totally different background in the game and I for one really appreciate his content. Keep it up on the road to 1 mil! Cheers from the Ohio Valley!

Hi Biffa. You are my wife’s favorite KZreadr. Whether it’s watching intently or having something comforting on in the background. Our 1 year wedding anniversary is coming up soon and if you could shout out Jessica that would make her whole year. Keeping making wonderful content and improving the lives of my wife and I. Cheers.

love the episode and city fix, keep it up :)

KZread: "We've put an ad in the middle of the sponsor read, so you can watch commercials while you're watching commercials." 🙄

@J-TechOne

2 ай бұрын

Its the channel owner who decides where midroll ads get placed

I love the city fixes. They are fantastic. Will the before and after files be available for download?

Some people don’t like the high rent problem, I for one think it’s really cool they put such a realistic feature into cities.

Every time I watch a big creator's CS2 video I cry inside seeing cars move at the actual speed, my pc has them in slow motion all the time 😢

Oh yeah! drinking JD and coke and screaming at the screen "No Biffa! No!" Is there any better way to relax and enjoy my down time? :)

@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines

3 ай бұрын

Lol :-)

Cant wait for the Hugo there mod to get implemented in CS2

So many good tips packed into this video! 🎉

City fix is so relaxing

Apt Valentines Poem: Roads are red Violet's the flow Biff fixes Skylines Just like a pro!

@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines

3 ай бұрын

😅

The driving skills at 34:44 😮😅 (nr transport options).

It looked like you didn't select the district the hospital in actually in when you did the operating district for it. It might have only been one big downtown district but it looked like it was 2 districts and you only choose one.

Nice break after playing dark souls. Thanks biffa!

satisfying video 😂❤ glad to see city fixing is back 🎉

Never played this game but now I want to

Could watch you fix cities all day :)

@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines

3 ай бұрын

Thanks :-)

It be good if they added a retirement home for a percentage of residents so the homes can cycle before death.

if your running out of ideas on city builds for cs2, why not try an hexagonal city roads build only with the new ai, it be neat to see how the ai can work in such an world city it be neat to see it in action when the city becomes huge how the traffic might flow out.

Ah love watching this series at 1.5 speed ❤️❤️

Love the fixes videos.

I'm surprised nobody said anything about the bridge and the vehicles driving up vertical😂 Nonetheless a great fix.

Thank you for fixing my mess! Love your content❤

I love city fixes..❤

Love city fixes

Love city fixes 👏🏻👏🏻

@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines

3 ай бұрын

Thank you @333yipeee :-)

Could you fix high rent by placing one length of highway on each road surrounding the business districts? That way the spread of property values would be stopped instead of creeping down the local streets?????

I have one big problem with traffic fixing. They give you some good tools (definetly not enough).. but even those tools just don‘t work. For example, I hate it, that pedestrians also walk across the street, when you removed the crosswalk and built a pedestrian bridge. It just not realistic, that so many people will cross a seven lane road without a crosswalk and traffic lights, instead of using the bridge. 😢

Imagine the game releasing on ur bday and u have been waiting for months just for it to not release on Xbox so ur still waiting…

Yeah I was about to buy the game by 10 minutes in, then I saw the bus part and remembered I so hate fiddling with bus lanes.

City planner plays made a video about the rent issue. According to him, there’s a mod that fixes it.

@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines

3 ай бұрын

There's mods that fix quite a lot 😁

The tools at my disposal.. its CSL2, there's about 4 tools Mr. Biffa x) #TeaLandBrewsOn

Anyone else notice the schools didn’t have districts chosen? I thought that I saw at least two districts. Right? How does that affect things? Given mechanics of this game are a bit… confusing to say the least. I wish the game mechanics would force pedestrians to use the overpass vs ignore them and use the crosswalks instead.

Playing city skylines 2 just makes me want to play City Skylines 1.

@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines have you built a city yet designing it to only using assigning districts of schools and resources to specific districts to work, even when I set to only work a district, they still go out the city or to places I dont want them, just thought Id ask, awesome content. Keep it up :) EDIT: I notice another thing I deal with and I saw it in this video. So you got 10 vehicles and a crap ton of symbols saying a vehicle is needed yet the hospital is only using 3/10???? I notice that with everything, including garbage, it never uses the vehicle counts?

That was nice fixing.

I love your problem solving skills. I will use your technique on my city that I got up to 230k after the last update. It has since dropped to 140k and lots of wealthy homeless people. I do have a question on how to prevent cims from walking on the highways. Its an eye sore and slows traffic down.

First city fix i've watched since CS2 first launched. Have to say it's still rather disappointing. Not the fix but how mediocre the traffic jam is, and honestly you only seem to get this in CS2 if you actively try to mess up your city. Never mind that the city is still making money and growing like this lol.

aha this is more like classic Biffa :)

Biffa here 17:46 you forgot to select the small districts on the most populated area, the one with the hospital and others at 17:50 (Myrtle croft, Thornton Acres, ''something'' Grove and Mulberry ''something'', couldn't see some of it's name) Edit: now i saw the small districts have the hospital coverage

You are just so amasing on this. Im enjoying it and vish that it was me. Im just one of thouse that reastart the city When it start to becom a mess