First Feature Video: Road Tools

[Ghostrider]

What can I say but cool. Have also added in the dev diary link as well. All in all I am excited for CS2.
https://youtu.be/5lt_sE16yZk

Added in the new behind the road tools video, as seen on the main community page.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHvINwjMzAg

Dev Diary
https://colossalorder.fi/?p=1547

[Hert the Fisherman]

Awesome cant wait for the release. Managing traffic is my favorite part of cities skylines.

[sirupflex]

The features, tools and mechanics seem to be very cool, indeed. All (most) of the things that people (at least me) ever wanted without installing mods. Really exciting!

I am getting worried, however, about the graphics standard. Yes I know, some people playing city simulators don't care about graphics, but others like me care a lot. Outdated graphics (besides performance and mod stability issues) were the reasons why I stopped playing CS1 about 3+ years ago.

Looking at the dev diary with closer in-game footage, I have to say it's certainly better than CS1, no doubt. But it is at best "average" for a 2023 AAA game, to put it into polite words. Considering that we probably have to live with this standard again 6-8 years, I'm afraid I'll get demotivated soon when all the wonderful UE5 games start popping up everywhere in the next 1-2 years and CS2 will look like a console game of 2010 in comparison, on the PC. And no, going again the way of just modding the hell out of the game to keep it kind of beautiful is not the solution for me, because this will lead to the same performance, compatibility and stability issues we suffered in CS1. I'm not the kind of person who wants to spend time scanning through exhausting mod compatibility spreadsheets every month just to figure out why it is crashing again.

[Ghostrider]

Originally posted by Geist:

Yep very cool.

Also Overcharged Egg and Biffa already released their commentary videos on YouTube.

Yeah saw that when I went to youtube. lol

[lusciouslanguidity]

Looks awesome! But I Hope we can make cities more walking-centric too!

[Ghostrider]

Originally posted by lusciouslanguidity:

Looks awesome! But I Hope we can make cities more walking-centric too!

Looking at the dev diary images, there is one of a row houses along a pedestrian boulevard with tram tracks. The other is a very cool look pedestrian bridge going over a highway.

https://colossalorder.fi/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/10-Pedestrian.png

[Sticky Wicket]

Pros:
Very pleased to see the introduction of no turn signs (very much needed) and traffic lights.

Pedestrianised streets that allow only service vehicles is also a good addition.

Cons:
Very disappointed though to see the same *auto-placing* of pedestrian crossings.

Making auto pedestrian crossings at join points of a roundabouts is particularly a very poorly thought out idea; you'll have traffic jams, pile-ups and no end of other silly nonsense going on in no time. Edit: at least you can remove them it seems.

Overall seems good.

[sirupflex]

Yes I've seen that with the pedestrian crossings. In the written text, however, my understanding is they say you can deactivate any crossings individually if you like, so I think we can live with that.

[Sticky Wicket]

Originally posted by sirupflex:

Yes I've seen that with the pedestrian crossings. In the written text, however, my understanding is they say you can deactivate any crossings individually if you like, so I think we can live with that.

If you have an option to deactivate them than all good. I also hope it will visually remove them too since it also just looks very silly.

Edit: yeah found that in the dev diary, thanks for that.