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!

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

2:30 - It works the same way in CS1. I used to use right-click to set the height for the flatten tool and it works in CS2 too.

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.

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

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.

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

This makes me more comfortable jumping in, thank you Party! Also i would love a dedicated terraforming video where you show specific 'structures.'

About to start my journey! Thanks for this video lol

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.

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

one crucial thing i learned the hard way? check your wind flow. put your industry away from the city. say your wind is blowing -> way then you place your residency in the opposite direction. i had to move my complete industry and is cost a lot. lesson learned.

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

Great video as always!

16:46 BEST advice ever. Thanks for this fantastic video on tips! :)

Fantastic explainer. Thank you.

Thanks a much for the info help a lot

Nice video loved it❤

hoping for a gameplay series! :D

Very helpfull without bs... Like!

Excellent video, thank you very much! I see only one more video has been added to this playlist: did you give up on the game?

It's always a good day when party uploads, cheers.

Everyone complaining about it being unplayable. I got a 3060 and am playing on high with 60 fps. Just turn filtering to TAA and X2. Turn clouds off and turn day/night off. Still looks relatively good, but overall it’s actually playable.

FPS jokes aside, ppl seems to forget what Cities XL was and what low FPS and poor optimization really means.

I'm very happy you're picking up city skylines.

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 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

Very much appreciate the terraforming tip about it being free, had no idea and that certainly makes it more interesting to actually play with.

I would really like a deep dive into how zones level up. I want to get level five high-density zones for the signature buildings, but my buildings don't seem to want to level up.

I can never get roads to connect to power stations etc.... even when I level it off... any ideaS?

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

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?

Either you have 2 music tracks playing around 4:47 or this game has some aweful tracks in it :D

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

When will the let's play start?

This was very helpful!! Can you please make a video about power? Its very confusing to me. I had a city that basically maxed out space so i bought more land and expanded my residential area. Up to this point, everything had power, water and sewage hookups. I expanded one of the roads that i created (it was not a highway or bridge) and none of the houses on that new side were getting water sewage or electric… i spent an hour or 2 trying to figure it out and gave up. Someone said putting street lights adds power, but all my roads already had street lights…!? I made a new world, hooked up the coal plant and now only like 2 of my roads were getting power dude i have no clue how that stuff works any more 😂😭😭 please help!!!

10:45 Im not sure, you understand what pedestrian streets are for. They are not used to connect locations and destinations. They ARE the destination.

Going to have to wait 6 months at least on this one. Hopefully they can optimize it to the level they where hoping for.

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

I keep doing minus 4-9k. Iam harvesting wood etc. I have high enough taxes. My industry is near the harvesting zones. But i keep doing minus and my citizens are sinking. And in my industrial Quarter there are 0 Trucks. And i didnt overbuild it. Can someone help me please?

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

How do I trade a water?

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.

I want this but the performance issues are scaring me.

Great video, as always. Just want to clarify that planting trees (3:12) does cost money, unlike the other free terraforming options you describe in Section 1. So, people may want to use sparingly early on.

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.

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

Mostly negative reviews is crazy

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

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

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

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?

l hope you play planet zoo again

🎉🎉🎉

Can we turn the tweet off?

Grading your terrain (aka terraforming) is part of the core mechanic of Cities Skyline 1. It's the same with Cities 2. Cities 2 subtly forces you to follow the terrain more than Cities 1

I LIKE DUCKS!!!

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

visually, this game looks such a large step backwards!?

buy 4 4090's, water cool them and switch settings to low at 1080p, enjoy the full 30fps.

Is anyone else having issues with the sewer pipes? I think they're glitching because none of my streets show them.

Ew why using old roundabout method from CS1? 0:42 lol

Edit - This isn't aimed at you, or a subsequent playthrough, PE, I look forward to following along with your progress, and as I always have, appreciate your contributions to your community. My critique is aimed squarely at CO and Paradox. As someone who put 1000s of hours into Cities: Skylines I should be the primary target for this sequel, but they pretty much skipped over all of the hopes and critiques I had of the first game, first among them, not migrating away from Unity (even without the massive pricing boondoggle). The engine isn't build for this kind of game and the performance issues were obviously going to happen. I have very little faith Colossal Order will ever be able to meaningfully overcome the limitations of the engine which means that one of the primary pain points of the first game will remain here with the sequel, and all of the improvements in game systems won't add up to anything other than a slideshow once your city reaches any kind of interesting complexity. I'll keep my fingers crossed that this can somehow be overcome, but it's hard not to feel like Paradox will just do what they always do and pump out DLC for years without actually giving CO the opportunity to make the game Cities: Skylines 2 should be. The only hopeful point is that maybe this will prompt someone new to do to Cities: Skylines what they did to SimCity after SimCity's disastrous launch, but for now, the situation just bums me out.

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

how to turn a Profit

You didn't cover the income part 😂, I'm a beginner and no matter what i do my money is always going down to the minus number in long term and the building cost doesn't help replanning city structure Also traffic lights suck in this game cause no ai ever uses it right and it still causes traffic and car crashes

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

Essential tips, yeah here is a tip. Don’t buy this game until they figure out their multiple crashing issues throughout the game. On a game like this were you can have so many hours in on a build before it just starts crashing over and over again. I’m tired of devs releasing Betas to customers as finished products!!!!

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.

The graphics are like 5% better the CS1.

Wait a year to buy tip 6

Step one: you need to upgrade your PC.

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

I think one of the essential tips will be to get a solid pc with high ram, high graphic cards

that rain is very annoying

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

Tip 1, get a threadripper and a 4090 to run it at 1080p.

Tip #1: Buy a game that runs at more than 5fps in the menu.

No Steam workshop 👈 :(

Tip number 0, wait, the more years that pass before you play the game, the better it will be.

Tip 0 break into Nvidia ceo Jensen's house and steal a prototype 5090 from the oven, hook up to ur pc and enjoy cities skylag 2 at 30 fps 1080p

first tip: buy a pc for 10k $ to get 60 fps :D

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

Step 1: Buy a £2000 graphics card Step 2: Set graphics to very low Step 3: uninstall the game because you still get less than 50 frames Step 4: Request a refund Step 5: Buy the game in a year when its actually ready

Jesus it runs like garbage...

Why do these people speak like they're botified robots? Sounds weird. 👎🏽

Tip 1: don't buy it.

Tip no.1 Buy a fucking 4090 NASA pc.

Tip #1 through 100 you should not have preordered or even bought this game in the current state it is in. People stop rewarding developers that put out unfinished games.

Disappointed

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

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 😅

Tip 1. Buy a 4090 to run at 1080p