The stock exchange looks great except for those big coins on the corners. Skylines has such a weird aesthetic of realistic mashed together with cartoony.

Nice review, and fyi, the Panda at 4:00 is representative of a bear, which is the opposite of the bull, so when we're in a "bull" market everything is going up, and a "bear" market is when all the stocks are going down

Bull and bear vs. cow and panda. Like the humour of Colossal Order. :)

I think they should focus on improving the graphics on next gen consoles. If they added better textures, a further draw distance, an alternate color palette and also add the most popular PC mods. (Move it, etc…). It would breath new life into this absolute Gem of a game.

Toronto on Yonge street has a lot of old stone banks with glass skyscrapers on top. Very common for condos

The "bull' statue represents a "bull economy" ( stocks are going up, people are buying) and the other is a "bear" statue which represents a "bear economy" ( stocks are going down, people are selling). They have these two statues outside the New York Stock Exchange building, not a panda bear, but a regular brown bear.

Some of those buildings look like a great starting point for dual zoning. They are just begging to be residential towers on top of commercial and office bases.

Idea for modded build with the elevated garden. Take off the benches beneath the platform garden with BOB and place a metro station entrance with Move It. Bang, you have a metro station AND a garden at the same place... The underground plaza, is you manage it well with a well placed small modded metro station entrance, the plaza can become the plaza for a metro station as well.

Bull and Bear, 2 different types of markets you can have, Bull equals stocks going up and bear market stocks going down. Great video as per norm.

The plazas look so good. I also think that the large bank has three different variations of glass roofs, as mentioned by FewCandy.

I did a search and it seems there are some skyscrapers like this, old building with modern glass on top, e.g. Hearst Building, NYC.

The "printing money minigame" sounds like insider trading to me, but what's in a name....🙂

I LOVE the bank and "Wall street" integration into the game and the new buildings... A+

Firstly, OMG was that Palaven music at the end?!! Throw back! And Secondly, thanks for the great overview of all the assets, super useful for those deciding whether its a DLC for them or not!

Think I’ll pass on this DLC. Feel like it could have done with more of an overhaul to the crime system. Maybe with criminals doing heists or something, so if you haven’t placed many police stations around you could potentially lose lots of money if you aren’t prepared. This would also provide more functionality to the banks. I feel like money isn’t really a problem once I have my first lvl 5 industry and my residential is levelled up a bit, so new ways to make money just seems kinda redundant to me. It sounds weird but I feel like many players would appreciate more ways to lose money, it would make players think and plan out builds a bit more if there were more ways for things to go wrong.

The Bull & Bear statues refer to the terms "Bull" Market or "Bear" Market.

Thanks for your honest reviews, looking forward to the tiermaster videos ♥️

Thanks for this excellent no nonsense informative video that clearly displays the new assets included in this latest expansion pack. it looks great! The Bull and the "panda" which is actually a BEAR represent the terms used by financiers to describe the current state of the financial markets.

Thanks for the honest overview. I like the buildings so I'll probably buy it but not sure I'll do much investing.

I'm here for the doggos and the color corrections. Cold and Faded I think will be my favourites. thanks for the video!

those older looking buildings with glass towers are very common in places like NYC and Toronto, where the older financial district needs development but they don't want to get rid of the classic feel of the original district, so they keep the front facades and basically build on top of them.

Insider trading is very powerful and simulated accurately in this DLC. I mean how congress acts on information and gets to trade

The financial pack is somthing I never expected to see in cities skylines. I feel like I will use it for making my city look better, rather than stock exchanges.

finally we get upgradable buildings. makes no sense irl but I love it. although next step is modular buildings

The "cow" and "panda" statue refer to the financial term "bull market" (where the prices are rising or expected to rise for a prolonged period) and "bear market" (where the prices are declining or expected to decline for a prolonged period). As for the buildings with glass superstructures on top of stone "foundations", I think they take inspiration from some of the building here in New York City. Due to the narrow street and busy traffic, it is easier to build on top of existing structure than tear it down then rebuild, some developers may opt for this method to shorten the construction period. This would put heavier duty on the architectural design aspect of the process. Overall I think I will get the DLC, it's nice that they finally added the industry that I work in LOL. Thanks for the content like always!

thanks for the review! 😊

From what I know, in NYC specifically (but potentially other big cities) you can buy the space above a building in order to expand, since there's very little buildable land left on the island. Which is where I imagine all of the glass upgrades comes from, since that is how architecture has evolved - they're not going to build up beautiful old stone buildings to the same height etc.

Thanks for the review

This is awesome, props to creative minds & more additions to boost an aging game. P.s. You neglected to show stock exchange building does actually level up! Thanks for another gr8 vid

In my own personal view, the original colors of the game are already very cartoonish and dark, horrendously dark, and they added a new even darker LUT, like, whatahell And I must say I just loved how "VIBRANT" LUT is just, color fckd black shaded, again, what does Paradox Interactive have against sunlight and brighter shadows?

Great explanation Egg! Some of those plopable banks will add some nice height into a skyline. Are there any new props under Find It?

Looking forward to the assets, not so much trading stocks... Good summary. Thanks.

Insider trader simulator 14:05

Yep I’m all for the level ones in that tiny bank! Super cute!

LOVE that we can changed the plazas like that! I think that's great! Great overview, Egg, thank you! Looking forward to your search tabs on the new tier list video. 😂😂😂😂😂😂

🐃 Wall Street: Bull statue symbolizes an up market: Bear (not panda) statue symbolizes a down market 🐻

Not sure if this was mentioned, but Stock Exchange building has 2 additional levels, that changes its overall aesthetic, similar to the leveling system to the assets you've shown.

The cats are amazing. Just walking to work with my puma!

Insider trading time, next DLC will be law enforcement with an FBI headquarters unique building to stop you for your white collar crimes 😂😂😂

The “Bull andPanda” at 3:52 refers to how the stocks are doing. A Bull attacks upward which means a “Bull Market” and people sell stocks while the price is high. Bears attack by swiping downward so a “Bear Market” means the price of stocks is low so you’re supposed to buy stocks. Hope that helps explain the statues lol

16:26 - it was nice watching the graphic overlays but I was concerned because it seemed like there were a lot of planes plummeting to the ground.....

The Panda represents the "Bear Market" aspect of the Stock Market

Hey Egg, I'm going to buy some expansions and what not this month. Is there a way to give you credit on Instant Gaming get a little something something? Thanks for all the cool videos.

Egg .I have a question. Where did you put the skyscraper that stood alone.

The Cow and Panda is a pun on the stock market (Bull market and Bear market)

i wanna ask....what mod you use so that object is so closer when you zoom? because i use zoom it cant so closer like yours

I love the Pelosi expansion pack!

The bull is because people who think the market is generally groing are called "Bulls". People who think the market is generally shrinking are refered to a "Bears". So a Bull and Bear statue makes sense. You'll hear things like "Merril Mynch is Bullish on this stock so you should buy" and similar.

Will the color corrections be on consol?

Looks great. Now they just need to bring Match Day and Concerts to console.

It's a nice expansion would I use it. Not sure. But maps that's very cool

I like the new expansion. Anything that brings me back to CS is a GOOD thing!

Finally! 🐈♥️

Why cant i find the color corrections on console?

The cat could be a maine coone

I think the statues repersent bear and bull trade time

Ever LUT set to “Faded” ✌🏼

Hopefully stocks can be modded. Custom stocks would be interesting.

I think the aesthetic actually is pretty neat, probably worth paying for a mini-DLC. In Storm City these sorts of add-on towers would be very common since half its inhabitants fly (in canon, not, sadly, in game mechanics) and can land directly in the towers, but that's a very unique circumstance. In the Real World, you do see this some times in cities that want to preserve historic old buildings but need to build more, and can't simply clear more land. The financial minigame is pretty much a total dud, as you pointed out. It's *already* far too easy to make $ in this game - adding more *challenge* to the financial model would have been a far better choice. If you absolutely love playing hard mode, this might make it marginally easier, but that's about it. it can be cheesed at will. And it's especially weird coming after Plazas and Promenades, whose pedestrian districts are money-printing machines all by themselves. (One of my villages is all-pedestrian, and my income went from -100K to +250K as soon as I finished plopping houses down). If you like the building aesthetics, get it, otherwise, it's a soft pass.

The way you feel about this dlc is kind of how I feel. Don't ever see myself stopping building to trade stocks. Those financial buildings past level 1 or pretty ugly & awkward. I do like the bank asset. I dunno about this one...

Does anyone know if the free upgrades for changing an assets colour and the lighting are available on console? I haven't heard anything saying these are PC only but I can't find the option on PS4.

Can anyone confirm the colour correction options on console? Not seeing it or am i missing it!

which part is the overcharged and which part is the egg

did they fix the airport bug?

Are the shaders PC only

Playing on the Ps4 and i can't see any FREE DLC on the PSN. Anyone got an idea of were it is?

slowmotion bug fixed?

Not having been to a city with glass towers over old bases, this DLC seems a bit cookie cutter. But that's just me not knowing it's a thing in Toronto, etc. I guess it fills a need some users have called out for. Not one I'll hurry to get. Been thinking that about Promenades, too. The one big financial bank building hit me as a lift of one from Chicago that was the federal court building back in the 1990's.

I am personally I bigger fan of industries to make money And I mean that in real life and the game haha Finance bring to my mind a lot of real world problems with world economies But anyway, kind of sort of neat DLC I think I’ll skip it though But this video was great! very informative

Just a heads up folks. Console players don’t get the colour correction stuff or the ability to change plaza colour ect. Only just found this out, damn I need a pc lol

not a fan of those glass towers being just added on to level one assets to be honest, looks really weird

Paradox and Collossal trying to tell us that insider trading is fine, actually.

I love the update can we get zombie outbreak new disasters DLC. Or even new hospital s

Stock exchange looks weird especially with the coins

I think they had a little miss and the Faded lut should have been called Vintage.

Stopped playing Cities about a year ago. This DLC is tempting to get a new PC.

Are the graphic changing options on console too??

The statues represents a bear or bull market in stocks trading

I think the new buildings seem kind of lackluster. There's something very weird about their proportions. I get that they're probably low-poly models to account for all the different platforms the game is on, but it turns out looking the usual CS-cartoon.

bull (positive) vs bear (negative)

Bull and bear economies. Is it for sure a panda specifically, or is it just a generic bear?

Why are nearly all the Cims purple? It is like a city fillled with Maries from Breaking Bad.

its refer to bullish and bearish xD

Bull and Bear Markets. A Bull Market is when the market is up (20% or more from the previous low) and a Bear Market is down (20% from the previous high).

NEXT THEY SHOULD HAVE A MILITARY DLC

"I wish my City had a way of making even more money than it already does." - No Cities player ever Maybe gives some encouragement for more players to select hard mode in the options panel though.

Insider trading cheese 🧀

Never seen an old stone building with a glass extension on top. Looks horrible and I doubt it exists in real life.

Just downloaded the console update and nothings changed for me on Xbox. No animals, no free content, nothing visibly changed. Anyone having this issue??

Always love it when they add more traffic to the game

It's a simple update. Nothing bad in it. A way to cheese money. Sort of worthless after about 20K people money is free in the game. It rains out of the sky. I've never had a city with less than 50 million in the bank. Away to get even more money. I'd never use it. Like I send money is pretty much not a problem in the game. Nice to see levels in the builds. Some look sharp. Others look like they just threw stuff on top of them. So, some good some not bad but not good. Would I get it? I didn't get the last 2 DLC. I pretty much never use airports. So that one was a waste of time. The other. It at this time looked worthless really. This one? Another area with different buildings is always a good idea. I might get it.

Is this breaking all mods again?

There’s a Bull Market and a Bear Market.

ok strong coffee fire CS watch MR EGG and FCandy and quite day off work

I like the small bank and the tall bank but most of the rest of the buildings are really ugly 😕

Worst expansion ever lol. Terrible assets, futile stock features... definitely one to be skipped. Great video though OE. As always

Bull and bear market! That's what those statues are. Good or bad market speaking about the stock market

Free update is not for everyone the lighting stuff doesn’t work on Xbox

Very disappointed of this DLC .. What are those buildings Super ugly unrealistic cartoony and grey 🫠

I actually had high hopes for this DLC, but now I'm quite disappointed. The economic side of this DLC is pretty interesting. But, as Egg said, I'd much rather just build up my city and earn my money that way. The assets are also a bit on the ugly side. I'd much rather just build IT Cluster areas because they're more vibrant and attractive. Overall, I'm not the hugest fan of this DLC.