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@Yozo_official

8 ай бұрын

Sure!

@manny1013

8 ай бұрын

Super excited to see you play sports FC (FIFA) and forza 😂

@OutdoorFreedomDk

8 ай бұрын

The link doesn't work . 503 Service Unavailable No server is available to handle this request.

@Quad-Cube

8 ай бұрын

@@OutdoorFreedomDk Same for me

@EricTheKei

8 ай бұрын

It takes me to a page to pre-order Forza. EDIT: A link to pre-order CL2 is on that page, but it doesn't appear to have your name anywhere on the page it links to. Just wanna make sure you'll get "credit" before I buy it :)

Don't you think it would be great if pedestrian paths would automatically turn into stairs when their steepness is increased ?

@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines

8 ай бұрын

I do 👍

@Pastamistic

8 ай бұрын

I'd like it to be optional. I've never been on a paved pathway that had steps even for pretty steep gradients.

@Ro99

8 ай бұрын

@@PastamisticI’d say tarmac less often but if it’s paving stones they become steps quite a lot but that’s just personal experience

@user-yy5fn8iz8v

8 ай бұрын

Where i come from there are only stairs for steep paths, never jjst a steep path

@adamgiddings4469

8 ай бұрын

I don’t mod but once th game comes out I don’t think it would be that hard to make into a mod.

Anyone else see at 32:29 the light turned green and the cim sped up to get across the street? It was walking, the light turned and it ran to get out of the road. This game is bananas. The detail inside the apartments is crazy...

@amandadeloff4278

8 ай бұрын

Yes! And the pedestrians in that shot seem to walk more like humans and less like cims.

@jackfood3319

8 ай бұрын

I love the flashing traffic light for pedestrian before it is turning red.

@Ahjusshi_Brown

8 ай бұрын

Yes! The devs definitely brought up that feature in a dev diary when discussing traffic ai. A great, realistic, detail.

@unhommequicourt

7 ай бұрын

we already saw that in trailers as well as flashing cars

@KaiHenningsen

7 ай бұрын

@@jackfood3319 Huh. Over here, it works very differently. The pedestrian light turns red, then there's enough time to finish crossing the street, and only then do cars get red-yellow, then green. On the other end, sometimes there's a button on the opposite light you can press to say "someone's here", and then sometimes, there's an extra white light or symbol that says "yes, I noticed, just wait for green". Also, more and more often, there's acoustic signaling, as well, to support blind people. (Plus profiled paving around these places, or on bus and train stops, to steer them in the right direction.)

From what I've seen, traffic in this game is much more like the "real time mod", so it is heavier traffic at 8-10am and 4-6pm (1600-1800). Most of the beta players are busy playing away from the downtown areas so the heavier traffic is rarely shown.

@davidmhaggarty

7 ай бұрын

I'm also assuming that the traffic scales more tightly to density in Cs2 than in Cs1. Much of the footage available so far features cities in their early to mid development. I'm sure the developers of the leading traffic management simulator paid attention to the level of traffic and its affect on gameplay.

I do wish that the buses were the same color as their line color, it helps differentiate easily when you have too many and it just looks cool

@-SaKage

8 ай бұрын

Not 100% sure, but I think there is another bus type that is line colored

@user-ru5vz7sm5z

8 ай бұрын

Biffa has chosen to put the busses with CO branding on them, line colored options are also there, you can see an option for them at 17:31

@cmdr_talikarni

8 ай бұрын

I've seen other beta players, the normal busses are the color of the line, but since he selected the CO Bus, they stay the Colossal Order blue.

It looked (around the 8:20 mark) that the traffic was all trying to cut lanes at the same place, almost as if they are using nodes like the first game

@AlphabetSoupABC

7 ай бұрын

The merging and parallel parking look really janky in this game

@22Uzbekistan

7 ай бұрын

Oh no, you're right! :(

@terrydactyl2077

7 ай бұрын

Do you think though that was because they were turning right? That furthest lane at the top was the only one that allows a right hand turn. The camera pans and we then don’t see if any of them, went straight in that lane. Makes sense to me and seems proper. But I may have it wrong what you meant. Did you mean something else?

@cmdr_talikarni

7 ай бұрын

They do still use nodes like CS1, but the route is checked and changed if traffic is heavier, unless no other route exists. In this case with the long stretch of road, no other route exists so traffic tends to act very similar to CS1. Funneling all traffic into one or two main intersections will lead to traffic jams, so it helps to have the alternate routes available. In CS1 they would all continue to use that one main route, but in CS2 some traffic changes route if traffic is too busy along the route.

@Swarm509

7 ай бұрын

Honestly looks just like people trying to merge in my city, they just pick a point way back and force themselves in. Although the AI might actually be using a form of zipper merge at least and the humans around here have never figured that out.

I can't wait to play this. I hope the mod community is still going to be as robust as CS1

@MichaelDeSanta.

7 ай бұрын

I will be more mods then ever before. Just look at all the functions

@uhis1686

7 ай бұрын

should be a great mod scene, modders will even have access to some sort of beta realm so they can fix issues with their mod before a patch comes out. that way new patches don't brick mods all the time!

Didn't think I would be excited to see traffic issue in a CS game. Was worried they might have gone too far the other way and made it so you needed no thought or management behind it. Glad to see it can still spiral out of control if you don't put some thought into it.

@inyobill

8 ай бұрын

I'll be looking for being able to to lane control.

@wck

7 ай бұрын

I mean, they clearly did go very far the other way. There's like 20% the traffic density of CS1.

@Johnmafia81

7 ай бұрын

Well the population is only about 20k. The amount of traffic we see seems pretty ok for that.@@wck

@wck

7 ай бұрын

@@Johnmafia81 No, it doesn't. Go compare it to a 20k city in CS1. There's massive different in pedestrians and road traffic. This game clearly has around 20% of the amount of agents.

@Johnmafia81

7 ай бұрын

I'm not comparing it to CS1. I don't consider CS1's depiction of traffic to be the shining example that every city builder should aspire to emulate.

Yes, fixing traffic in CS2!! I love it! Brings me back to the old days!!!!

My jaw dropped when you showed the nighttime buildings and how you can "look inside" them

@babyrage1763

7 ай бұрын

timestamp?!

@ZaveskyBay

7 ай бұрын

@@babyrage1763 around 29:00

@babyrage1763

7 ай бұрын

@@ZaveskyBay Thats cool!

@WillowLiv

7 ай бұрын

It's a pretty cool trick, that barely consumes any graphical power. Have you seen videos of those large screens in some buildings where they make it look like there's something in the building? It's the same trick. It's an optical illusion that gives a sense of depth. In real life, however, this illusion would only work from a very specific angle. However, in a game, since you know the position of the camera you can adapt this optical illusion so that it works perfectly from the angle the player is at, making it seem exactly as if there was depth. And in the end, all this is is just a texture, and some code to displace it around. No 3D environment needed, so super easy to run.

@Lolwutfordawin

7 ай бұрын

@@WillowLiv as badly as the game runs it feels like they actually modeled the interiors. Don't know how else they could've made it run as badly as it does.

Wow! The texture upgrade is awesome. The traffic lights blew my mind. Not only can you see them change but they actually seem to be light sources too.

I love how they used the parallax mapping to create interiors. If you have played the spiderman game for the PS4 you will recognise this effect.

Biffa: Let me fix your cities traffic problems Also Biffa: One pier for four outside connections is perfectly fine, right?

I am blown away by the high definition textures from the update this week. I was a little concerned with it being two weeks away at the visual quality of the assets we had seen on the streams and content creator let’s plays, but the update has quelled all concerns. It looks even better than I could’ve anticipated. Love those window interiors almost looks like you can see inside

I haven't read all the comments, but I haven't seen anyone mention that buying the game from Instant Gaming isn't the best idea if you want to support the developers. The price depends on the country, and Instant Gaming either buys steam keys in countries where the price is lowest (i.e. less money for developers), or obtains keys by other, shadier means and then sells them to you. This seems a bit questionnable, but there's a gray area in most countries' laws so it is legal. This isn't a problem for the big AAA games because they sell millions of copies, so if you don't buy it at full price, good for you (and that's probably the case for Cities Skyline, so do what you think is best), but in general, for smaller indie developers, it means less money for them, so keep that in mind.

“Glowing uranium truck “ THREW ME

The things you can do with roads in vanilla is seriously impressive hopefully they can optimize the game to run better down the line

It’s my understanding that if you want to get rid of the high rent and no customers pop-ups, you need to build more houses. There will almost always be high demand for houses when those 2 icons pop up. This is bc if there is a low supply of houses yet a high demand for them, the rent in the area will skyrocket but there’s still gonna be too little ppl for the commercial areas to make enough money to afford the increased rent/taxes in the area.

@cmdr_talikarni

7 ай бұрын

I see a lot of these beta streamers doing the same thing, more concerned with aesthetics, complain about residential demand, but then also complain about the cims complaining about high rent. They want these really pretty small cities and won't add the big ugly suburban sprawl even though the demand needs it.

@KingDavidCreates

7 ай бұрын

@@cmdr_talikarni To be fair having the goals to reach and time limits on how long their videos can be probably doesn't help. They all want to show off different aspects of the game but only have a limited time to do so, so having a really large well functioning city isn't as easily done. Also I believe Toadiezzz in her last video has found that it's not just "Build More Houses" but also provide higher education and in turn better paying jobs. You can build all the houses you want but if the best opportunities for your people are simply graduating high school, and working a lower skill office or industry job. They're gonna struggle to afford some level 3+ Single Family home built on a max sized lot.

@KingDavidCreates

7 ай бұрын

In fact if you look at 2:41 It's a level 3 house but the income is poor. That's not a density or sprawl issue, that's a low wage employment issue.

@reilandeubank

7 ай бұрын

@@cmdr_talikarni seems to be super realistic, because even in IRL cities with incredibly high rent issues, the people running the city can't seem to understand that the solution is to build more (dense) housing lol

@29.24 during the night view, the shine on the side of the truck the bus was passing by, just amazing!!

Love to see more realistic population and the medium density style housing!

@daviddanser8011

7 ай бұрын

I think the population number is sort of realistic if you multiply the number shown by 10. Would be too much processing power to have that many actual ai citizens.

@Zacho5

7 ай бұрын

@@daviddanser8011 Think the devs already said there not doing that this time. CS1 did though.

I really like this long episode giving a relaxing view on the game revealing all kinds of fun details, I love how you can steer the ships now to any location with waterway connections!

8:31 Not sure if cS1 has this, but i like how when the green truck does that hard brake, it bops down like real life.

@unhommequicourt

7 ай бұрын

i also like how he goes right through another truck like in real life

@cmdr_talikarni

7 ай бұрын

I think CO went overboard, all the vehicles look excessively top heavy causing them look like they almost tip over when turning, and the front end diving hard every time they brake like the suspension is shot.

I really hope there will be more buildings available on release too. The zonable buildings seem to repeat so often

@mathoreen

7 ай бұрын

I would love to see that but cities Skyline 1 had a similar issue and was never quite fixed without some DLC so...

5:40 You can divide the rowhouses with nice walkways decorated with trees at the back of those houses, also make it seems like a back alleyway. I usually do that in CS1 when there's no corner house or I'm just too lazy to be bothered by it haha

Super exited for cities skylines 2! Sad that it was delayed on most consoles but it seems amazing!

@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines

8 ай бұрын

Indeed :-)

Ohhh, that reflection of the bus @29:00 makes me very happy! Small things eh?

8:22 I couldn't have been more disappointed. still the same old node lane switching that plagued CS1

Went to watch you’re new vanilla playlist and found this very excited I play on xbox and have pre ordered so I’ve watched all cities 2 videos 😅

@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines

8 ай бұрын

Enjoy :-)

Adding the bus stops first and then making the bus lines is how Transport Fever does it too. It was weird at first but after a little while I ended up liking it more than the way Cities: Skylines 1 did it.

@magnushmann

7 ай бұрын

I always disliked that in TpF2 in comparison to CS1. It’s just more clicks for the same result. I played both a lot.

I'm loving the amount of Harleys in the game. And the fact that they lean into the corner. And the rider being on the bike.

Wow! The graphics update makes a HUGE difference! The game looks amazing now!

@Isengardtom

8 ай бұрын

Yeah it’s really a huge difference

Wow, I have actually noticed a pedestrian jaywalking, which I don't believe I had ever seen in the first part, am I right that it's something new in the sequel? 8:25 for anyone interested ;)

@opolskiowcaburz9929

8 ай бұрын

I noticed that earlier as well. Very interesting. I love the detail in this game

Graphics looks amazing! Also looks like it's running smoother after the update? Can't wait to see what you'll do with this game😁

I think people seeing to little traffic is caused by the more realistic population. In CS1 small houses were always overcrowded and highrises were pretty empty. If you play with realistic population in CS1 you really wont have trouble with traffic until you reach high density buildings.

@orenong

7 ай бұрын

A NYC style street with 5 cars isn't more realitic. they reduced the traffic by A LOT

@Mephora

7 ай бұрын

@@orenong are those new York sized cities tho? Most of them were around 20k

@orenong

7 ай бұрын

@@Mephora if you'd take a 20k pop section of NYC and seperate it, it'll still be jammed

Loving this series....the fall colors are amazing! The 4k clarity is also just awesome!

I have to say, those high resolution textures are looking great

Wow you can really get close to objects now! Those "3D" graphic effects on indoor areas are a bit of an old trick but that still makes any game instantly look more realistic! It also shows why we have less building assets: They had a lot more work put into them with the individual rooms being modeled and textured. I think the exact name for the effect is interior cubemapping.

@-SaKage

8 ай бұрын

I'd rather have more variety than this gimmick you basically only see, when you are looking for it. x times the same assets right beside each other is just... meh

@troublesometoaster4492

8 ай бұрын

@@-SaKage That's fair, I really think the game lacks in assets at the moment, but I haven't been here since CS1 released so I can't say whether this is normal and more assets came a few months after CS1 released or whether they really just cut down on the number on release by a lot

What if there was a setting where they shut down the roads when you change them and it’s like construction workers and equipment there.

@btwfaded4798

7 ай бұрын

Yeah I get what you mean. It would seem sick in my opinion.

It'd be hilarious if you placed a police station and all BUT ONE of the 'reactions' were happy. Definitely worth adding to first patch. "where them criminals at?!"

I love how at night even the car headlights & tail lights look realistic, like some vehicles have halogen HID or LED style lights

Looks like the vehicle diversity has improved quite a bit

@Lucasolvalou

7 ай бұрын

Improved quite a bit from the abysmal variety in CS:1 sure, but it is still bad. Watch any CS:2 vid and have a sip of tea every time you see a smart car. You'd have to brew another cup before the end. In reality out on the street your tea might get cold before you saw even one. At least there aren't any donut or cake vans in sight.

@LeverActionLarry

7 ай бұрын

@@Lucasolvalou I was referring to CS2, the early early access had a ton of the same smart cars and motorcycles, after the last update on the video, it looks like they improved that, compared to videos from a month ago. Cheers! ☕

Finally someone shows the underground parking building! Thank you, Biffa :D

List of Mods I think we are going to need: Would have been nice if they implemented some sort of the same ingame. - Traffic Manager - Prop Line Tool - Move It! - Intersection Marking Tool - Network Multitool - Node Controller - Crosswalk, Street Arrow Remover These I use in CS:1 and can not do with out them.

@matthewparker9276

8 ай бұрын

Some additional traffic manager tools, like lane specific turn arrows, and zoning control would be great.

Love that 4k update! The only thing triggering me is the rear lights of the cars during daytime - if you have daytime running lights these would stay off during day just like the regular headlights... ...I guess I'll have to cancel my preorder now. Kidding!

I love the new transit menus. I really wanna see the subway being used

Wow the graphics look so much better!

They changed the colour of the night time lighting in the building assets, and I didn’t mind the yellower lighting, but I must say I LOVE the whiter lights. More than I thought I would.

Dark and dreary weather, perfect for Biffa's next UK-inspired city. 😁

“ glowing uranium truck “ I nearly choked on my morning coffee ☕️ 🤣🤣

What an awesome game. I'm so looking forward to the release date!

Good afternoon, Biffa! And fellow viewers! 🎉

Wow those visuals improved a ton Bought the game with your link Thanks Biffa 😊

It would be great if the bus windows were lit up, like in real life! Very good video, well done Biffa.

Bought it from Instant Gaming, thanks for the discount! Also, pedestrians need umbrellas when it's raining :3 The game looks astounding.

32:33 I absolutely love how pedestrians are no longer brain-dead. They actually understand that cars want to pass lol

Grey clouds, rain, Biffa, it's beautiful. Can't get more British then that.

Im very happy they added waypoints. Super necessary for beautifying cities

I pray that my GPU has enough VRAM to support these beautiful textures.

Thanks for the video! Waiting for the game so much! WTF the tram at 24:44?!

8:10 really blew my mind when i noticed it automatically set up dedicated lanes for the roundabout. Im really looking forward to cs2 lol

That tornado looks like it came from a game made in the 2000s.

@kwando472

7 ай бұрын

Who cares gonna disable those anyways.

I love that they built in a car deathtrap with that underground parking garage 😂

Wow it looks amazing! Nice city and fantastic textures❤

@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines

8 ай бұрын

Thank you! 😄

Oh-oh.... opening few seconds, I see a car up to its wheel arches, sinking into the concrete! Oh and yea, the hover bikes :) Now, wow the updated textures :) wow, great! Biffa, briefly what are your system specs, pretty please?

Hey Biffa, do you know how large the game is in GB? That update looked massive but surely it was just the download and it didn't add that much to the game's size overall? I remember some games having like 12GB patches but the size after download remained similar or just grew up a few hundred MBs

cant wait to see more development, I do hope theres less need for mods ranging from traffic manager to transfer manager, also the tons of dlc...mostly because optimization.

29:30 Look at buss' reflection on the truck 🤯

With the dreary clouds, rain and row houses.. looks very uk 😂😂

I hope we get additional models for each of the public transport options. I'm going to miss my bendy buses and retro-styled streetcars.

at 29:30 i love how the taillights of the bus reflect in the white truck that passes going the other way.

I've said it in your latest video, but it's more relevant to this one, so I'll repeat myself. What I noticed is that the big thing that's missing in these games that takes away the realism are road signs that show ways, streets, cities, etc. Especially on highways, there should be huge signs before every exit or intersection that goes above the road. They're everywhere IRL, but in the game, the highways look just too clean and empty without them.

Are the graphics meant to look like that i.e. flat and grey? The houses look like barracks from the air. Hopefully there'll be a LOT more visual variation when the game releases, I want to play CS2, not Milton Keynes Simulator.

@matthewparker9276

8 ай бұрын

That is what the NA low density housing assets look like. Idk if the European assets look any better.

Got my mug in the mail today! Cool Beans! Grey, grey day: German neighbors, "Don't you hate this weather?", us, "We lived in the desert for 34 years, we got enough Sun, we don't much it."

29:31 i love the small Lorry

I did not lower my Car too far, said the driver to the dachshund...

I agree with you that there is less traffic that in CS 1. I ike that. Thank you Biffa for this video. Great job again!

17:47 someone may have already pointed this out before, but here you meant to set the Rosewood CW bus line fair to $4, but you accidentally left it at “$5” … I know this is some really OCD spotting but hey sim money doesn’t grow on trees haha

Are there any small graveyards? Those oversized ones are nice as a feature of the city, but should probably be a signiture building, rather than the standard. Doesn't make sense to have more than one of them really, as they take up so much space. Would be nice to have a bunch of smaller graveyards (with or without churches attached to them) scattered around local towns/villages.

I don't think I've ever heard a Brit complain about rain so much lol 😅😂 I would absolutely love to see a right proper truck stop. It been a long time since I've seen one built and with 2 coming out I'd love to see if it can be done.

I love that this game will give us everything CS I could have given us with all the good mods and more out of the box, but the interface looks like it was taken from Fischer Price. I hope there will be skins available to rectify that.

A lot of things are looking great in this game. The bugs that seem most annoying to me are the ships overlapping, cars sliding sideways or sunk into the road or hovering, and the other thing that was weird is when it's raining, you can still see hard shadows on the ground and sun glare on glass, which is quite unrealistic when you're under clouds. It's like all they did is turn the exposure down. It's a bit like when you're in a partial eclipse. Everything looks sunny, but just less bright. I hope they find a way to make soft shadows under clouds.

cant wait for this game!! couple weeks left!!

@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines

8 ай бұрын

So close!!!

"I know it's dark, I know it's dreary, but I just think it looks so good!" Tell us you're English without telling us you're English.

Disappointing to see the ships still driving through each other, but overall looking great!@

@crokydriver1521

8 ай бұрын

Yeah.. and the harbor is just to small for two piers as the second ship is clipping the first ship.. hope they resize the ship/harbor!

@anders95

8 ай бұрын

Yeah, I hope they fix that

@crokydriver1521

8 ай бұрын

@@anders95 the game looks nice, but things like that aren’t even details but makes it feel kind a sloppy. Especially as it is well known unrealistic behavior from CS1. Makes me wonder if it still happen with the planes..

I like that you showed us more details instead of only building. Just wondering what fix you were talking about near the end of the video.

34:06 Well alright then, smacking us all in the face with the light poles; I see you Keepo 44:35 "Pun not intended" lmbo

20:51 "everyone is happy" - except the criminals 😂

Is there traffic in a traffic game? Let's find out while I do everything else.

I think I'm more excited to see what the community creates when they get hold of the game then the actual game itself being released.

Seems you still need traffic manager mod to dedicate lanes and other things. But over all it is a huge improvement in traffic for the base game.

The fire truck driving away was definitely something else, they only came for search and rescue, definitely some insurance fraud going on and the fire department was in on it 😂

This time im going to out-biffa biffa in city building. In the first one i started a city after watching biffa wanting to try to make a just as beautiful city. It never ended up looking like anything.

They are probably using cubemaps for the interior of the windows which is a neat little trick to give a 3d effect without actually being 3d.

I like how we still have to drive over curbs to get to driveways and parking lots. So realistic like the original CS.

In regard to the air pollution over the residential area, are there any policy changes or upgrades available in the industrial area to reduce air pollution?

My gaming computer caught on fire just watching this video. It'll be years before I have a machine capable of playing this monster.

after seeing the updated models I'm even more happy my RX7900XTX arrived today 😀 Do you know if CS2 will support 32:9 Monitors by default?

Watching the ships docking in this video makes me think C:S2 definitely needs anchor points, (think car-parks for ships) that are placed in the creation of the map close to the ship outside connections for them to wait/queue for docking points to become available. Not only to prevent the clipping of ships we see, but also to add the simple gameplay element of docks having a limited capacity, meaning if you want more ship traffic you have to add another dock to your port area.

Honestly I never minded the concept of traffic in CS:1 - it just drove me crazy with how it would happen for the smallest reasons and the AI couldn't adapt leading to gridlock. Seems CS:2 is a smarter system, thankfully.

@andromidius

8 ай бұрын

I hope they put some thought into the boat traffic, though. Even if its a DLC feature in future.

My first thought, when you took the camera into the underground parking and found water, was that you built it on top of a groundwater deposit. 🤣