Brooklyn & Queens pack!

[Chris6d]

Who else is stoked about the new Brooklyn & Queens pack?! As a New Yorker, I'm beyond excited lol. Hope they included some row houses as well

[BoraBora]

I don't know about the Queens but there's already a lot of Brooklyn assets : https://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=866047074

[Austriaco]

As a fellow NYer and Brooklynite who was raised in Queens I was also excited, at first. THEN I saw the photos and was very disappointed. No shops, not a single bodega to be seen. The houses are flat and square without any facade or stonework whatsoever. They're just dirty red brick buildings. I feel like the devs just looked at two or three photos of Brooklyn and were like "yea this is it". Not a single brownstone. No NYC style streets. MTA buses? Not in it. Some of the apartment buildings are ok but still pretty lackluster. The Marcy Projects have more detailed facades than these buildings lmao.

[gregory-bone]

Has anyone tried to assemble a Brooklyn specific pack on their own using mods from different assets?

[Chris6d]

Originally posted by Austriaco:

As a fellow NYer and Brooklynite who was raised in Queens I was also excited, at first. THEN I saw the photos and was very disappointed. No shops, not a single bodega to be seen. The houses are flat and square without any facade or stonework whatsoever. They're just dirty red brick buildings. I feel like the devs just looked at two or three photos of Brooklyn and were like "yea this is it". Not a single brownstone. No NYC style streets. MTA buses? Not in it. Some of the apartment buildings are ok but still pretty lackluster. The Marcy Projects have more detailed facades than these buildings lmao.

True... I do agree that the row houses look very basic, but the apartment buildings are pretty accurate to what you'd find around here. As for the other assets, I'm pretty sure most of those are on the Workshop. There are some good Brownstone buildings and Smilies is working on some low-density NY houses and shops

[Chris6d]

Originally posted by gregory-bone:

Has anyone tried to assemble a Brooklyn specific pack on their own using mods from different assets?

I'll be creating a low-scale version of NYC (and specifically Brooklyn) soon, when the new pack comes out, and will probably create a collection containing all of that content

[Austriaco]

Originally posted by Chris6d:

I'll be creating a low-scale version of NYC (and specifically Brooklyn) soon, when the new pack comes out, and will probably create a collection containing all of that content

Waiting for someone to make a to-scale borough. I know the upwards limit is 84 tiles, I wonder how much of Manhattan could be captured with this. Maybe up to the Upper East Side and including Astoria, Dumbo, etc so you have a bit of those three boroughs? Honestly wouldn't know what the scale would enable but even if it were just a third or half of Manhattan with a bit of BK and Queens that'd be great. Every premade NYC I've seen looks like it was done by someone who saw a few photos, like the devs on the DLC lol.

[Tsubame ⭐]

Unless you play on consoles, not sure why the excitement as the Workshop already contains everything you may want, and much more.

Originally posted by Austriaco:

Originally posted by Chris6d:

I'll be creating a low-scale version of NYC (and specifically Brooklyn) soon, when the new pack comes out, and will probably create a collection containing all of that content

Waiting for someone to make a to-scale borough. I know the upwards limit is 84 tiles, I wonder how much of Manhattan could be captured with this. Maybe up to the Upper East Side and including Astoria, Dumbo, etc so you have a bit of those three boroughs? Honestly wouldn't know what the scale would enable but even if it were just a third or half of Manhattan with a bit of BK and Queens that'd be great. Every premade NYC I've seen looks like it was done by someone who saw a few photos, like the devs on the DLC lol.

The limit is 81 tiles, not 84.

A full map is 18 x 18 km or 13 miles wide. That is just a little smaller than Manhattan's length.

So all of Manhattan could fit, except the northwestern tip, or the whole thing may fit, a little scaled down.

The nearby counties could be added, if not for the fact by the time you finish Manhattan you would already be close to if not already hit a number of game limits, i.e. number of buildings, zoned blocks, segments, and nodes.

[Verullus Forgefire]

Originally posted by Tsubame ⭐:

Unless you play on consoles, not sure why the excitement as the Workshop already contains everything you may want, and much more.

Not everyone would like to download hundreds of different assets. There is also a few PC players that continue to play this game in vanilla.

[Tsubame ⭐]

Originally posted by Verullus Forgefire:

Originally posted by Tsubame ⭐:

Unless you play on consoles, not sure why the excitement as the Workshop already contains everything you may want, and much more.

Not everyone would like to download hundreds of different assets. There is also a few PC players that continue to play this game in vanilla.

For basically the same content, free > paid content.

That is my point.

And you do not need necessarily have to add hundreds of mods when using Workshop. Tempting, but not obligatory.

[Chris6d]

Originally posted by Austriaco:

Originally posted by Chris6d:

I'll be creating a low-scale version of NYC (and specifically Brooklyn) soon, when the new pack comes out, and will probably create a collection containing all of that content

Waiting for someone to make a to-scale borough. I know the upwards limit is 84 tiles, I wonder how much of Manhattan could be captured with this. Maybe up to the Upper East Side and including Astoria, Dumbo, etc so you have a bit of those three boroughs? Honestly wouldn't know what the scale would enable but even if it were just a third or half of Manhattan with a bit of BK and Queens that'd be great. Every premade NYC I've seen looks like it was done by someone who saw a few photos, like the devs on the DLC lol.

Check out ithinkyouknow's NYC 1:1 series on YouTube. In a 1:1 scale you can basically only create a little bit of each borough until the game becomes unplayable. Not to mention it would take literally years to fill up and would basically be impossible due to the game's engine

[Chris6d]

Originally posted by Tsubame ⭐:

Unless you play on consoles, not sure why the excitement as the Workshop already contains everything you may want, and much more.

The thing is, if you're from NYC like I am, you can tell the difference between specific buildings, and the pack contains different varieties that aren't on the workshop. So for that reason I'll be buying it, but I can see why others might not (not saying all of the buildings in the pack look good/are accurate, however. The tiny row house buildings do not look good).

[SLG]

I wonder if these new DLC will be grouped together like the last DLC? I mean when released.

[Ground Breaking Joe]

I really do not know how to feel about this new Brooklyn & Queens NYC pack. I was super excited when I heard about it being that I am from New York City. But after looking at what they have to offer as a paid content, I do not believe I would buy this pack because I have seen and I also have down loaded better NYC options for my cities game. When you look at the buildings and what they say they are giving, you can get all of this and much more from the workshop. I do believe that the devs have already been asked and have already created many different things from NYC. I think DLC's should be a console things also being that I started playing this game on console, I love all the DLC that they have because you can no mod of consoles. So for PC and Mac players I would say that their is no need for this, but if you are a console player then you might want to jump on this DLC if you are from NYC. its the best option that you will have to recreate that wonderful city of New York.

[howardbeachman]

Originally posted by Austriaco:

As a fellow NYer and Brooklynite who was raised in Queens I was also excited, at first. THEN I saw the photos and was very disappointed. No shops, not a single bodega to be seen. The houses are flat and square without any facade or stonework whatsoever. They're just dirty red brick buildings. I feel like the devs just looked at two or three photos of Brooklyn and were like "yea this is it". Not a single brownstone. No NYC style streets. MTA buses? Not in it. Some of the apartment buildings are ok but still pretty lackluster. The Marcy Projects have more detailed facades than these buildings lmao.

I am also a New Yorker (born and raised in Howard Beach, Queens and now live in Bay Ridge. I was hoping that there would be a map that actually looked like home. There are no mountains anywhere nearby.