CITIES: SKYLINES 2 | FIVE ESSENTIAL TIPS BEFORE YOU BEGIN (Beginners Guide)

Been looking to dive into Cities: Skylines on the channel for years, and I've always said I'd do it when the sequel releases. Well - it's almost time! Kicking things off with a beginner's guide series - I have a few topics in mind, but I'm always open to requests of course. Then we'll likely dive into a let's play too, though I've got a few different thoughts on format there before I begin. Enjoy!

road upkeep seems nerfed from CS1. commercial creates noise pollution when placed directly next to rural, put a hand full of blocks between.

I watch a lot of BIG CS2 names and you have prepared, speak, and present yourself as one of them. I subscribed and will continue to watch your videos. Good job.

Nice video loved it❤

I have a 8gb ati with 12 usable gb of PC ram. I play at 2040 and it run great and high settings

that rain is very annoying

its rubbish. just keeps telling me water pipe connected or sewage not connected when it is. pants game.

Thank you for this video! All the other videos I found are parts like an hour long, this allowed me to jump right in without spending a day watching hours of content

I suppose something that would be good to know is why my city only ever seems to want Low Density Residential. I only have a few plots of Medium Density. Also how the actual hell are these cities supposed to get to a positive cash flow. I don't like having to rely on hitting that next level and getting a major cash infusion to offset the constant 10k+ deficit I run every hour or month or whatever that number is

Shit game

mannn i really dont know why some people struggle to run the game on their 4090. it seems like another New World issue. Put the game on an SSD if its not already. Im running a 2060 and barely have any problems with default settings.

One thing that annoys me is the high demand for low density residential, and that row houses are 'medium density', whereas in reality they were just the old fashioned, historical version of low density homes (albeit higher density than modern low density homes). It's completely unrealistic to have fully detached suburban homes anywhere within at least 5-6km of a 'downtown area', so to me it just makes sense to start your city with terrace/row houses instead, as they were generally the first types of houses to be built in a city, before density increased but also before suburban sprawl happened. For that reason I think row houses would have been better classified as the alternate low density option rather than an alternate medium density option.

Something I never knew I needed to hear "cities aren't stagnant entities, let yours grow"

The graphics are like 5% better the CS1.

I'm playing on a 2060 at 1440p and it plays perfectly. All these people struggling to play CS2 with their new PC's have been super cucked 😅

There is only one "must do" for this game atm.
Wait until the devs fix it.

I BEG, I’m new to cities skylines and city builders in general and I cannot seem to understand the utilities (water, energy, sewage). I’m starting to feel pretty stupid bc it seems like it can be simple but I keep getting bottle necks and when I upgraded to use a dam so that I could start exporting excess energy, I couldn’t figure it out (how to export energy, that is). Same goes for the water treatment plant bc when I placed it and got rid of the sewage pumps everything went to sht (no pun intended 😂). If anyone can take a moment to help a noob like me I’d be forever grateful.

My beginners tip: save your $50 for a few months while they fix the optimization and the plethora of bugs. The economic simulation is broken, there’s never any freight trucks or goods vans driving around. The game, at launch, is literally just placing roads and zoning them, and placing service buildings. You’re much better off sticking to CS1

Hey man, just wanted to let you know that this is one of the best videos I have watched when it comes to information on a game.

This game desperately needs a campaign like Rollercoaster Tycoon to help players ease into each mechanic

Thank you for this guide!

I'm considering making content with this game. Do you think a 3070 (8GB VRAM) is enough to steam/make recordings on medium settings?

Will I want to take it down to low settings or should I avoid this entirely?

I cannot believe that CO repeated the same mistake as in CS1: the lack of an undo feature.

INTERESTING HOW SOME BASIC STUFF LIKE UNDO button is becomming almost impossible to get

How do u connect the outside connections. How do u make other power connections

5 tips? You only need one. Do not buy the game, its crap.

Dont play until all of the game breaking bugs are fixed.

how to turn a Profit

So stupid that the game is more heavily focused on terrain variation, slight slopes etc, yet then builds everything flat so you have mini cliff sides appear behind or around houses etc.

Anyone tips how to disable abandoned building in CS2?

I love how the Thumbnail is very similar to the SimCity 3000 box art.

Very helpful, I would love a video about traffic, roads and that stuff, You explain very well

Wait a year to buy tip 6

Ita not even working correct stfu about how to setup up your city

hoping for a gameplay series! :D

Well done. That was a great video! Thank you.

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Very helpfull video thanks !! Having no issue with performance for now. Keep it up

Great video as always!

Terraforming is where those walkways are!!!!!!!!!

Really hard for me to play this boring game when I can play frostpunk for hours with fun

i9 K13900 - watercooled
64GB 5400mhz DDR5 RAM
Z790 Hero Maximus
3080ti
2TB firecuda M.2

turning EVERY setting to low/off gives me a whopping 150fps, for about ten minutes and then the game crashes, no exceptions. playing on 4k gave me 10fps on a fresh map before it crashed. please tell me how i can play this for longer than 20 minutes?

Step one: you need to upgrade your PC.

Does anyone know how to remove zoning from a road in such a way that an arterial road does not interfere with the zoning of local roads? I'v tried running alleys along the arterial road, but this is clumsy and far from perfect. Also, any word from the devs on adding a priority road as that's so basic, I m not sure why its not in the game already?

Tip 1. Buy a 4090 to run at 1080p

Its crazy people are saying that they need super high fps for a city builder game. You wouldn't have survived playing Golden Eye at 24fps back in the day.

My 4090 and i7-13700K work just fine at 1440p @ 144hz

Tip no.1 Buy a fucking 4090 NASA pc.