Altengrad is not so much a game series as a series of history lessons illustrated in a game engine. I love it.

@57thorns

6 ай бұрын

Someone should recreate this circuit in a racing game, Just to see how bad the height differences are.🙂

@Ne1vaan

6 ай бұрын

@@57thorns You mean good. Laguna Seca is awesome because of major elevation change.

I love Altengrad, and I'm very happy to see your continue to work on this amazing series, even with the release of CS2.

@Oktobermedia

6 ай бұрын

I agree. While CS is a fun game, the reason I love this creator (inkl Asturis series) is the creativity and history, not the game itself.

@alfrredd

6 ай бұрын

CS with mods is still way better than current state CS2

Hey Akruas. I‘ve been an silent viewer and enjoyer of altengrad since you began the series. I truly respect the effort that you put in research, writing the scripts and creating a logical timeline. This series really is unique! Thanks for your work.

Watching a new episode of Altengrad is the quintessential relaxation, so to speak, after a full week of work. As for the episode, perhaps some tall statue of a worker will grace one of the new districts?

If we ever get to the 21st century, you are going to have to build a rally track😅 would be a nice fit since altengrad already has some elevation on some points of it

I have to say as a motorsport fan that you have done incredibly well on this project! You nailed the aesthetics of a vintage track upgraded to 80s standards, and the layout itself is something I'd love to try! Maybe some brave modders to recreate it in Assetto Corsa one day... a man can dream

@spiritwolf5792

16 күн бұрын

That'd be great lol

Absolutely love the real pictures mixed with oral history mixed with your creations!!

This actually hit another memory for me, in Riga, Latvia, in 1966 "Biķernieku trase", a racing circuit was built (right next to a large housing estate). It hasn't changed considerably since then, and as a kid I remember hearing the sounds of the engines on race days, as my grandparents lived right next to it. I didn't know that it actually hosted 7 times a stage of the single-seater series "Cup of Peace and Friendship". Interestingly, Melkus himself raced there in 1968 and took 1st place. In the past decade it has hosted 7 stages of the FIA World Rallycross championship, which is probably the most prestigious event ever held there. Of course, there is still a lot of amateur racing events held there, and in the winter it is open to public for cross-country skiing.

The “buses” really bring it to life oh wow

As a racing fan, this was awesome to watch It would be very cool and realistic to make a noise polluted area, and have fewer buildings around it And given the eventual ending of many other circuits like this, it would be great to follow it along in the ages

Being an Eastern-European car guy, I absolutely loved this episode. Thanks.

Congratulations on the content, the story about the culture of cars, circuits, racing in the eastern block. I was imagining the scenes in my head during the video. The circuit was top notch, I wouldn't change anything, it matched Altengrad, the vibe of the environment. ​

You should definitely add more sitting areas for visitors around the track in the future. The tribune opposite to the hairpin whoud have about 40% of the track visible, that's rare to have such a good viewing place on a track. The Altengradring is astonishing, i would love to race this one in some racing sim.

looks incredible! are we ever going to get football in Altengrad?

@jonah712

6 ай бұрын

I miss Scylla Republic :(

@JeremyThunder

6 ай бұрын

Scylla Republic is broken, but new videos are coming very soon @@jonah712

@jamesandrenfernantan9810

6 ай бұрын

I remember that one football stadium being made before the time progression part of this series. Perhaps changes may be made to it eventually.

@petjuh1985

6 ай бұрын

There is a stadium next to the old walls

This is one of the best cities skylines series ever. Every episode I learn a lot, and it looks amazing.

Доречі в нас був спорткар, під назвою Ленінград 1956-року, по світовим міркам це був роскішний автомобіль. З сімферополя до ленінграда проїхав приблизно 20-часових годин. В наші дні його знайшли взанедбаному стані, але на щастя його купили Латвійські інтузіасти її відновили.

It's so crazy how you always go through the work of creating an informative video and basicly just laying the main content (the building) below it😂 Can't imagine the amount of work which goes into every video. It's still a super nice combo, I love it!

The best series on Cities Skylines KZread, please don't ever stop these

Yay, my hometown of Kielce featured in the best series on KZread! Insane build, Akruas, I absolutely love it. This is by far the best racing circuit built in CS. The level of detail is immense.

I usually watch KZread at 1.5x speed, but this is one of the 3 total serieses i watch at normal speed to truly take it in. Love every single bit!

the photographer POV shot looked so damn good. your builds are insane

As a Motorsport person I had no idea you asked for ideas,nothing showed up😭 looks amazing as always. Would love to see the track surrounded with some commie low density neighborhood ( something like prievoz in Bratislava would work with it very well I think Also hoping for a big tv tower on some hill surround by mansions and modernist villas

This city needs a big stadium/sports complex. Most cities in the eastern block held big parades and festivals in them. There's an asset on the workshop based on Berlin's Jahn sportpark that would fit very nicely in this city. For a closed sports venue you could take inspiration from the Spodek in Katowice

We absolutely need a first-person ride or realistic footage of a race

You have really made this a special series! Not only is the building sublime but your historical input adds so much more to the watching experience.

The circuit looks great! I've been watching since episode one and have learned so much about the history of the Eastern Bloc

This is so impressive. This is still the best series on YT.

WAKE UP BABE NEW ALTENGRAD EPISODE

As a racing and tracks enthusiast and having read the actual FiA rules for tracks and track safety -and enthusiast of realism in general- i can say you did an exceptional job! i can't say how accurate to the 80s this version of the track is (really does look more late 90s, early 2000s), but that's fine! Means you won't have to update it for the next couple decades!

Documentary and citypainting is such a good combination.

I learn so much from your videos, especially Altengrad! Keep them going please, you're amazing

Such a cool build. You're right, there are things I could pick on as a big racing fan, but who cares when it looks so cool. Also, the section shown at 40:00 totally feels like Spa-Francorchamps in Belgium, just after the Kemmel Straight. Wonderfull job

As a WRC and WEC enthusiast this is just amazing. I've seen a bunch of people try building race tracks in C:S, but none did it so accurately realistic. The only 2 things I noticed is the absence of sausage curbs, which are used in hairpins and chicanes to prevent short cutting. And the other thing is that usually at race circuits you'll see an ambulance car every few corners. Other than that, well done!🎉

@_SpamMe

3 ай бұрын

Sausage kerbs are far too modern (and already being removed again). In those days, there might still be just some tires or even hayballs being used for those sorta temporary soft barriers. Even normal kerbs were relatively sparingly used, but then were often quite steep (not like the modern flatter and wider ones). In general I think the track is a bit too modern. Too much and too large run off areas that I also think aren't quite correctly placed (they need to follow more the trajectory of the cars going around the corner and how fast they'd be at the stage of going off and where they'd be going). It looks more like a 1990s track to me than anything earlier.

F1 in communist Hungary sounds like one of those things that was done as an experiment, which was then dropped after a few years. F1 has visited tons of tracks for only one or two years. But weirdly, Hungary just... stayed on the calendar, until today, and now there's no sign of it being dropped any time soon. And it's a nice track, maybe a bit narrow for modern F1 cars, but the racing is still mostly good.

@kristss8534

6 ай бұрын

It is a bit dated for the modern formulas, but the history is nice

wow, just wow! amazing work my man, this looks like it took so much work to do, very well done. and i really love the extra history podcast with CS1 in the background, perfect combo. thank you :)

Polonez 2500 aka "Stratopolonez" have rather different story than any other rally eastern car. Andrzej Jaroszewicz, son of politician, rally driver and director of FSO R&D center, was driving Lancia Stratos in Rally of Poland where he crashed the car. Engine, gearbox and rear chassis survived, transported to FSO and mounted in modified and strengthened Polonez body. Missing parts like cooling systems were replaced with, surprise surprise, parts from STAR truck. Also making racing cars driving on bus lines was really clever. I really didn't even think it would be functional!

Track limits will not be an issue with all those gravel traps 👀Great episode, I love it!

Seeing those cars go around makes my brain happy. Thank you so kuch for this awesome build!!

Just a tiny nit pick - on the final corner on the exit towards the straight, drivers would use the full length of the track, width-wise, to maximise the speed coming out of the corner. Basically, when coming out of the last corner, they would be hugging the left side of the track heading down the straight. This would allow them to get on the throttle earlier in the corner.

Using bus technology, I have built a functioning airfield for customised small aircraft routes through the city

great episode once again :) I'd love to see one on sports aswell, where you build an sports center. I'd also love to see one about agriculture, though I assume you won't focus on that in the build again. And I'd love to see en episode where you just go around the city doing some changes and infrastructure updates here and there :) anyway, wish you all the best :)

As a racing fan ant marshall from Spain, I found that very interesting. One thing about the track. Pit Lane in and out should be in the outside part of the Pit lane, connecting the fast lane. Looks amazing!

Thank you for mentioning Dakar Truck category. It was really unbelievable and unthinkable moments when our trucks (that was taken as third world country crappy vehicles) with just very little modifications from their factory settings became competable with best Western Dakar specials right from their very first races and really quickly started to even beat them. Really proud moments for Czecoslovaks mechanics and drivers in late 80's and through 90's. And reason why Truck category in Dakar is our most favourite and most represented to this day here in Czech Republic. Even tho our golden era is long gone, we are still hoping for next victory for our trucks and their drivers (Tatra is still quite strong and some drivers are using foreign truck brands. Liaz is long dead tho.). Mabye next year we will finaly gain another victory. Our cars are strong and drivers quick a determinated but had a lot of misfortune for last few years. Well, just few more weeks to find out... :)

Thanks for the history lesson! Super interesting and great build!

Amazing, one of my most favorite series. Will we see a small airstrip in the future? There are some iconic Czechoslovakian planes.

This is looking so cool. It's crazy to see how creative you can get with this game

the low fov shot was so good!!!

yaaaayyyyy i loved watching the original episode of making the racing circuit and i love formula 1 and know quite a bit about Formula Easter which was he explained in the video and people built there own cars for racing and had little amount of tyres so they ran on the same tyres for most of the season and no they didnt really have the power or recourses to have formula 1 cars and and there are still Formula Easter races going on, racing on these tracks were very dangerous as the very small amount of tech they had to build the cars and the track was also dangerous on its very intresting though and there is a whole entire wiki on Formula Easter

I would love to see a full circle from a perspective of a race car on this track. It looks awesome!

“And it’s lights out and away we go for the Altengrad Grand Prix!”

@dragonbornexpress5650

4 ай бұрын

Someone ought to make that some kind of mod in a Forza game or whatever.

Every time video like this releases I become exited Japanese fangirl

Laying in the driving line and everything! I love your videos and your attention to details. Altengrad is looking beautiful.

Boring comment but I honestly learn so much from this series! I will be so sad when it’s over. The level of detail, research and presentation you put into this is just so top tier. Cheers!

In Poland, you left two model race car based on Polski Fiat 125: Polski Fiat 125p „Monte Carlo” 1600 and Polski Fiat 125p „Akropolis” 1800.

As an admirer of motorsports and an avowed socialist, I thank you for bringing me this information. I didn't have much idea how much history there was about competitive vehicles in the socialist bloc, it's admirable... It's sad that many projects didn't get off the ground, but understandable given that the central socialist state always had other concerns. As a socialist I think that the socialist state was wrong in not allowing Soviet engineers to carry out such projects. Motorsport is a technology development laboratory and if these men had support from central planning, Soviet technology could be on par with Western technology in terms of competition vehicles. Engineers' cooperatives could lead this process and with the appropriate initial investment from the state, over time these cooperative could beself-sufficient in terms of financing and produce on a sufficient scale so that these cars could reach the garages of ordinary workers. Sad that a lot of things didn't go ahead, but happy to discover that there were many attempts. What excites me today is the car market from China, the quality of cars that are coming out of there such as BYD, NIO, Huawei Xiaomi is undeniably superior to Western cars, there are electric vehicles there that easily exceed 250kmh and they cost 1/10 of what a luxury car made for unproductive billionaires in the West costs. They are leaving traditional brands desperate and quickly gaining market share in countries like Russia and Brazil. I have a very positive expectation of what the world of electric vehicles has for us in the near future.

This is an episode I've been waiting for and I have to say, you've done a beautiful job! 👍

i really love motorsport and i am from east germany, so i am very thankful for this video. i still see a lot of 353 and 601 here, and the 130RS is a beautiful Monster. For me ,the Formula cars was a little short in this video, the eastern Formulacars was pretty loud and slow, but very popular (in germany) actually. there are still E1300 Races up for people who are intrested. Also Motorbikeracing came a bit short, in east germany at least Bike Racing was more popular than cars even. Schleizer Dreieck and Sachsenring in Germany are still known as Motorcicle Circuits. Hillcimb was missing aswell, called "Bergrennen" around here. However im happy many famous cars and manufacturers got mentioned, you really did good research. At the End i'd like to say: If you ever can see a Melkus Live, go there! its slow, its loud, its smells, a wonderful car with a twin engine and 2 gearboxes. when you shifted, you had to shift both transmission, have seen a rebuild one last year.

"looking pretty good..." is an understatement dude!

this is actually incredible

That's excellent. Great work!

Love Altengrad and have and always will enjoy it

Simply brilliant! I love it, such an amazing work

i could watch the cars driving on the track for hours! the invisible roads are AWSOME! can u do some cinematic only videos? the cinaematics are the best, because u can build it soo good!

Great work. We are following you intro the future.

I don't usually comment. But this is brilliant. Greetings from Prague.

Great stuff. I'm not a big cat person but I love the history and the attention to details!

I was right now just watching one of your older Altengrad videos and thinking about when you are going to upload the next one, well here we are❤

Fantastic history- and build!

That track really came out looking fantastic!

It would be really cool if you could do a street track in your other city. It wouldn’t need to be permanent but still for one episode it would be awesome

this is my favorite cities skylines project out there, great work as always!

Great build is usual!

Would be cool if you released a first person view of the racing car going around the circuit!

Akruas: *calmly showing the build* My dumb ass: OMG THE CARS ARE MOVING ON IT

Awesome, love it. If I owned a PC this is one of those things I could spend a week on. The circuit possibilities are endless.

I find one of the most interesting old school motorsport traditions was being rewarded with a jug of milk. NASCAR, which inspired many international motorsporting events, was at one time sponsored by a dairy company. So having a glass of milk was the norm. I find it quaint, but kind of sweet.

you did a great job on the racetrack, dude ^w^

i really want to see a first person view of cars racing on the track

This looks so sick bro!

First video i've ever watched from this channel and let me say that i'm blown away by the amount of information while you're constructing a very neat circuit. I love motorsports and i'm fascinated by socialists experiences around the globe. Always asked myself how did motorsport work in socialist country. Nice content my friend, cheers from Brazil. I'll be checking more of your content

Akruas, it's not like the Lancia Stratos was unheard of here - I am honestly wishing you will delve into a motoring topic in 80s Altengrad again, maybe with some sort of high end life style, for example: many celebrities in Poland actually had western cars like Porsches and whatnot. Actually, Porsche 911 was a quite common racecar here if someone had the buck to go with :D The Stratos here is an interesting case as well. I think it was like polish government got some (three iirc), and our prime racing driver, Andrzej Jaroszewicz was driving them, but one of them got crashed beyond repair with intact drivetrain and therefore, Stratopolonez was born

You could have a couple more stands around track for spectators. It feels a little empty in some areas at the moment but other than that it's fantastic

I love this series 🎉

Coming back to Dakar and rally trucks - because of the very low budget polish crews running the STAR trucks actually used to drive trucks from Poland to Paris, then drive the rally and come back from Dakar to Poland. All done under their own power on their own wheels.

If the nuclear reactor is built near the edge of the map id love for the end of the communist era for it to have a nuclear meltdown similar to Chernobyl disaster. Imagine having editing in the disaster, having everyone leave and then having to do cleanup and containment that episode. In future episodes you can see a part of the map covered under the containment with overgrowth and abandonment. It would be extremely unique series one of a kind.

@dragonbornexpress5650

4 ай бұрын

I doubt it's gonna be a Chernobyl situation, but I'd be lying if I said I wasn't at least intrigued in the idea.

That's such a cool idea

This is really a special interest episode but I enjoyed it as usual.

Hungaroring. Great idea.😊

You are really amazing, really, you know architecture, structural engineering, civil engineering, railway engineering, and now, car racing !?

Love this

Amazing contect AS AWAYLS man

really good series, you should definitely build an airport

My hometown mentioned, lets go

Question to the last episode - isn't the lower tower in export company HQ the Central from Łódź?

Anything motorsport gets a like from me! Would you mind sharing which decal assets you used to detail the road surface a bit right at the end? That looks great!

Please renew the stadium as well and maybe build a giant olympic swimming pool, as the soviets liked that sport.

babe wake up new Altengrad just dropped

insane!!!

I think that, in Soviet and post-Soviet countries, rallying was the preffered motorsport. Partly I think due to cost constraints.

The track almost reminds me of the Hungaroring