Cities: Skylines II - St. Luke (Part 2) - Expanding the Region
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- Опубліковано 26 вер 2023
- Welcome back to St. Luke! This episode is all about expanding the region as much as possible, adding multiple villages and hamlets to finish the island.
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gotta say out of all the city skylines 2 builds ive seen so far this is my favorite by a long shot
yeah all the others are just hastily slapped down, dull boring and square... this is alive, dynamic and inspiring... I started a "multiple smaller cities" in CS:1 but was like heck no... gonna wait to CS:2... pulling huge powertowers out to all the lonely house enclaves and farms got old fast... and 1 ginormous city just isn't as interesting as a sprawling area with many villages and towns and then yes maybe a larger town somewhere later on
Yes because it's alive ! Totaly agree with you
For sure!!
I agree. It's so pretty.
Agreed
St Luke could very easily be a little Cornish village, lots of saints have villages there
Absolutely. Definitely made me think Cornwall. If the landscape was more hilly it would be perfect.
EDIT: Just got to the part of the video talking about the landscape being too flat :)
saintly retirement communities...?
It's giving me a feeling of Anglesey too
Don't worry about the right hand driving. Just call it a French town. The towns look very similar in some parts of the countryside. The meditative feeling you're getting when building this city is the same we get by watching your video. You voice helps with that a lot. Goed bezig! En wellicht is dit je niche.
Saint-Luc!
@@PylonJon Sint-Luc-Picard 😛
Maybe even a channel island which defected to france after brexit and still looks quite english/british/UKish, but had to adapt to right hand driving
Silv, I am British and what you’re building here is phenomenal! 😍 Those who are critiquing you for the minute things just need to appreciate what you are creating with a game that’s not even complete or released yet!
I’ve followed you since the OG PlanCo days and this, my friend, is exquisite! It’s so great to have you back creating things in games again!!! Keep it up and can’t wait to see more villages, towns and cities from across the globe built by you in Skylines 2!! 🙌🏻
A lot of English towns that i grew up near and have a Saint in the name often include a geographical descriptor of a nearby hill or river - so St. Luke could just be short for its full name - for example St. Luke-on-the-Wold (a wold is a type of hill) or St. Luke-on-the-Plym (the river Plym runs through Plymouth). Possible inspiration for you! Absolutely loving this build!! ❤
Building on this good suggestion, a lot of very generic place names (such as Grange) got individual qualifying suffixes when railways reached them, to disambiguate e.g. Grange over Sands in Cumbria from other places with the same name.
28:58 dude, that last high altitude panning shot made me feel like I was looking out of a plane window. Well done!!
Yes. I think one of the reason for this, aside from the fact that this build's focus was realism, is that the water has this weird shimmer affect going on normally and in the last pan it didn't. In the regular build view the water shimmers as if it were a puddle. From this altitude in real life you'd see water in a more flat brightness, with little flashes of light as the waves catch just the right angle to shine light back up at you. I feel like the graphics engine uses a water affect that is meant for a first person perspective when viewing water with no waves. I think it's one of the main factors that makes the game look significantly less realistic.
@@901blitz100% agree - this has bugged me since I first saw videos of CS2
you’re the best city builder I’ve come across I love how you narrate the videos. Keep up the good work.
Thank you!
Agreed... and Strictoaster, where did he go?
Fluxtrance is the best. $2.20 is pretty good too
Silver is the best parkitect tho
You are spot on. The foundation of CS2 is just better than CS1 was offering. I'm pretty sure some quality of life mods will arrive shortly after release.
Came for the town, stayed for the chicken stables
Can't wait for the horse coops
The it-is-what-it-is episode 😋
Going to therapy 👎👎👎
Saying "it is what it is" 👍👍👍
@@Silvarret It's fine though... it is what it is!
the way she goes
I felt like other creators weren’t really showing off what CS:2 is capable of til I found this channel. Your town(s) really feels alive. New sub and I’m excited for the next video! 🙌🏻
I really appreciate that you’re just PLAYING. I have the dev diaries, live streams, and dozens of other creators to watch explain what things do. But right now, I really only wanna see someone play it and feel how much they’re enjoying it.
St Luke's rings slightly better to me as a native. I live in Plymouth and it certainly is familiar to this style as well as Bournemouth probably, but I'd say Torquay or something of that scale would be good for inspiration. Falmouth too and Lyme Regis. Lots of really lovely places on that south coast.
Honestly, this actually gives me a better sense about the game than most of the other videos. A lot of them just repackage info from the dev diaries.
But this actually shows me that making a European style city in vanilla is doable.
This is a really great build. Completely made me rethink what I want to do for my first city when I get the game. My only comments would be usually you wouldn’t find buildings directly on a ring road. They usually have service stations next to the roundabouts but that’s about it. Also, towns and villages no matter how big or small usually have a ‘high street’, which the new mixed use building types would be perfect for. Otherwise it all looks very familiar!
You mentioning wanting to make a Dutch series makes me really happy, would love to see that happen.
However I think it will definitely take a long while before the possibilities are there, as the game right now definitely is not fit to create Dutch cities sadly.
I'm Dutch, but I'm not versed in city building games or urban planning. Your comment makes me wonder, what are some examples of things CS2 needs to recreate Dutch cities?
@@mikehirst1605 Number 1 would be bike lanes and biking paths
I am not sure why people would complain about England/UK. The typical village/town from each of the nations do vary in style. Scotland is probably the highest contrast to England, I would say. Maybe they assumed you didn't understand the difference between the two. But I see no reason to make that assumption.
P.S: St Luke or St Lukes is a very English name for streets or churches. But not towns or villages. :)
Was the rain at the end intentional? Cheeky! I'd have you know that the volume of rainfall in England is middle of the pack. Just as many countrys have more rain than have less rain than us.
You make by far the most beautifull and lovely cities in this game, I just love the tiny hamlets along the farm roads and even when it wasn't your main idea the industrial area it's just so well designed... the road placement is atonishing, if you make farm villages like this good, I cannot wait to see a big metropolis or a major city
I hope so much that they will impliment random tree rotation into the base game. That would make such a difference
I just laughed so hard at the end of the video when you said your roads were worse than in Belgium (where I’m from and live) 😂 I honestly don’t know if that’s possible to be worse 😅😅
Anyway, a great video again, I’m amazed by what you can do and how it looks like at the end. I really love it and can’t wait to see what you will do with your Dutch inspiration!
The music at the end gives me Downton Abbey vibes 😄
I live in the countryside of England and yeah this looks like what you’d see on Google maps. Little imperfections aside, the ‘patchwork quilt’ of farms and grassland is spot on. Great work! 🙂
I watched possibly every major creator cs2 video from CPP, $2.20, toadie, biffa, yumble and so on... but this rural layout and the focus on just creating instead of the new mechanics makes this my favorite. It really looks realistic and beautiful. Thank you for making it!
This is the only CS2 build I've seen so far that doesn't look like all the rest, and I'm so glad. I was starting to worry it wasn't possible to make a unique build, but yours proves that's not the case :)
This is absolutely amazing, I’ve never seen someone create a British setting in cities skylines this realistically before!
People who are less skilled than you will just create an American style town with British buildings in it and then call it a British town, however you have replicated the style of the road layout so perfectly I might think it is actually a real place! Thank you!
As someone from rural south England, this was very nostalgic, I deeply enjoyed seeing all the countryside roads being made
The idea of a rural island with a big city just across the water fits the south west of England perfectly, which makes sense since you based it around that area. Straight away makes me think of the largely rural Isle of Wight with the big city of Portsmouth just across the sea
St Luke isnt the worse name. Some (particularly small) towns are named after Saints. The moat hilarious example is the city of St Davids, population 1800.
From Wikipedia, there is a total of 10 (excluding St Davids) named St [something] that have a town council or market charter. There could be more villages and hamlets, but I only checked towns.
St Luke makes me think about a small Cornish town, few St XXXX place names down there.
Ohhh thank you! I was looking at the south of England for inspiration, so that's probably where I came across some "St." towns on Maps.
Please continue in this build, AMAZING! ❤🎉
As a person from Plymouth, this is very similar to what it’s like, the rural area is exactly what a lot of Devon and Cornwall looks like. Definitely my favourite Cs2 map so far
best CS2 city layout I've seen - there are some videos and even the main live stream that make you hesitate and wonder if this game is not going to be what you hope it to be, and then you see St Luke and realize the opportunity to do a town/village like this makes it worth every penny - outstanding work Silvarret - I was going to mention I love your narration - when you mentioned Bob Ross that was exactly what I was thinking while i listened :) - loved all your "happy little trees" - keep up the inspirational work
17:13
The chicken 'stables' are called coops or hen houses.
26:41 also this is pretty accurate to England. All of our roads are terrible due to the lack of upkeep. Don't keep them too nice if you're going for realism 😅
I am honoured that you would want to build our undesigned random vilages over your perfectly planned dutch neighbourhoods
St Luke is absolutely fine for an English town, I like it. We have 2 places called St. Luke’s (as well as 4 St. Martin(s), 6 St. George(s) and at least 10 places called St. John/John’s)
With the flatlands and the fact that the towns are on a island + right-handed driving it could be one of the Waddeneilanden. The lore is still intact!
“I’m not going to build many cities on hills”. Spoken like a true Dutchman ❤️😂
This build is incredible! I’m from the UK and have lived in multiple counties in northern and southern England. I think the build is most evocative of the Channel Islands. Guernsey’s capital is St Peter Port, which is similar to St Luke!
Would be fantastic if there were churches and castles to make this build seem even more like England.
I’d also love to see your Dutch builds. You guys really lead the pack when it comes to healthy and sustainable public transport and when I visited 20 years ago it seemed you had a lot more urban trees than us. I’d love to see a realistic depiction of NL in CS2
So beautiful! Absolutely stunning work!
Loving this series! Can't wait to try out CS2 for myself!
Really good work! Your build is relaxing and just makes sense. I love that you try to give it an organic pattern, and that you give it a history to influence your decisions. This village looks also very similar to the French countryside. Finally, really great to see some European build (not only to add diversity in the middle of an American downtown.
Actually loving this build, this actually look like a real city and as a brit myself this does indeed look british! Best CS2 city so far! Look forward to more.
Love the creativity, thank you for sharing. The rural 'city' is beautiful.
the cinematics at the end. show CS2 in all its glory - love the showcase. Best one out there.
Watching a lot of CS/CS2 youtubers because I can't have the game yet. Your part one was the first I came across your channel, and I'm really liking what I'm seeing. Will definitely be watching more of your videos! Great work!
This is het best CS2 pre-release video I've seen, and I've seen a LOT. Bravo!
I absolutely love this series. I'm generally super happy for every upload you do
I'm glad I found your channel from your first video on CS2! Your narration is lovely, and this build so far is amazing!
I was looking forward to watch part 2 Silvarret!!! EPIC VIDEO AND CONTENT! Loved it!
Nice work my friend ! I just did a roadtrip in southern england and you are indeed spot on. Your first video inspired me for my written article when I described the fields and how the roads felt. It also inspired me to build a new city in CS1 :)
I was listening to the video whilst tapping out some work, and it was my comment about the map being inspired by my hometown Plymouth 😊 I had to rewind and let my partner hear it too 😅 thank you for the shout out! Lovely video again, BTW.
"Let's see some cinematic shots"
*5 minute montage of permanent rain*
perfect.
the map looks sooo relistic great job, you are by far the best ive seen so far, you have yourself a new sub! thanks for sharing!
I paused your the video you uploaded before and compared it to Paris (my City) at night ! I feel like I can learn a lot from this game and from your videos ! Thank you for sharing your gameplay with us it's always a pleasure to see it from your perspective and worth the time for a subscriber such as myself ! Have a wonderful day !!!
If you do a huge rural area at the start of your next build, it would be great if you released that map/scenario for us to make cities on !!
Favorite Skylines 2 vídeo so far, congrats! It’s super realistic!
This is the first series that I watch on your channel. I love how you try to do different thing from other content creators. Love your videos, keep up the good work!
Love the look of your build - it's very different from most other creators, which is welcome. Hopefully, items like lighthouses and churches will be available to plop on smaller settlements like this, as well as smaller and/or rural stations, schools and other services. Low density mixed use would be perfect for a lot of high streets in British towns too.
by far my favorite build so far, you have created something beautiful
Stables for chickens! Love it. Your whole build is beautiful and as a Brit, this is very faithfully done. Great stuff.
Said it once I'll say it again, it's so refreshing to see a build like this and not the easy boring grids
This is definitely my favorite city Skylines 2 series
Very realistic! Most impressive build seen so far, good job!
no High density building yet and this build is looking so beautiful! love the layout!
This might actually be a good idea for either C:S3, or for a patch / update for C:S2.
Having many small villages / towns with their very own progression on one map instead of having the game assuming you'll build a metropolis every time.
Absolutely love the towns you've designed!
That's what I think the best way to build ! Start with rural and THEN develop it, makes it much more realistic and so satistying, so thanks you ! You're I think the only one doing it that way it's pleasant to look :)
A building for chickens is called a Coop. Pronounced "/ Kup' /". Pidgeons and doves live in a Cot (rhymes with tote).
By far my favourite CS2 city/village. Glad I discovered your channel
Amazing follow up the first video. I was really looking forward to this one.
Can't wait to see you do a dutch one! Was my idea as well. And use my town where i was born as a starting point!
Great job!
17:10 the word you are trying to find is 'coop'. Chicken Coop
Looks amazing! One of the best cs2 beta builds ive seen so far. Its amazing to see what uve achieved on this version. Roll on the 24th 😬 gonna be a long 4 weeks
I love how much work you put in your rural areas !
Very, very keen to see ya do a Dutch series
Hopefully they’ll add bikelanes soon
Just discovered your channel with the early access for Cs2 and you're already my favorite creator ❤
I literally searched for "skylines 2 rural". I'm playing this game for the first time and i feel overwhelmed because i had no expirience at all. All roads and houses are all over the place and everything looked crowded. I needed to pause cuz i've imagined living in this city and it made me nervous 😢😂
Looking at your rural city gives me peace. Feels like fresh breeze of air.
I wish you showed some real close-up shots as well of random points in the town.
I know there's an element of FOMO where it's like "i wanna show EVERYTHING", but then it also ends up just being cinematic shots of EVERYTHING from high above but NOTHING up close. I'd love to see some slow shots of super close-up intersections, or neighbourhood alleys, people walking and cars doing their thing.
Forgive me, but these are the best, most beautiful and most realistic videos on the second part. Thank you very much!
I can’t wait to play...
_"It is what it is."_
That's a tautology you are fond of, isn't it?
Very enjoyable, thanks!
Oh man that looks so incredibly good! I like watching others creations but since i was watching only American YT i sa to many grids in the creations. This is so much natural and go with the flow vibe! I can't wait when i get my hands on the game...
This series of videos of cs2 has me looking forward to the game more than any other content creators videos so far. I love what other people have made, but being from the uk this shows that it seems possible to make a kinda realistic looking english looking town in cs2 that you couldn't do in cs (at least without mods) on console. Looking forward to seeing more.
Very chill and relaxing video. Your playstyle is an inspiration for me on how to make a realistic european city
I still have your Dutch series on my go to list for inspiration... Amazing. Again. And you're not far away from Scottish Lowlands as well, we're just a bit more hilly :)
"Happy accidents" Respect to you & Bob Ross!
Thanks for this! It is possible to build smaller communities, you're the only one that I found that has tried so far.
I wish I could be a Sim in Saint Luke, such a beautiful place. Awesome music you used for the cinematic, felt like I was in a movie jajaja
This is truly amazing. I hope i can replicate this once the game comes out.
It would also be cool go over these vids after the embargo drops and slow the timelaps down and really walk us through the process. Or just do a new one at normal speed haha
Makes me feel like i am back to Midlands, nice work! My Favourite 30mins
Выглядит просто восхитительно!
Жду не дождусь 24 октября :)
Love the Map Men call out! 😄
I live in Dorset, about an hour from Plymouth. Great video, thanks Silvarret :)
I love how CS2 is handling scale. Like in the cinematic at the end it almost looks like google maps or flight simulator! thats how realistic the scale looks in my opinion
When the game releases I plan on starting rural since you can get so much space early on. I'm going to be referencing my home town I grew up it since I moved to the big city. This content gets me so exited and gives me inspiration for the future! ❤
You can really tell the games needs a terrain painter, mod or otherwise, as soon as possible. This looks great, but imagine it with more varied terrain. 😘
This build looks absolutely incredible
This man is going to become unstoppable as soon as CS2 gets some mods. Incredible work!
Loving this build, I live in a town with all these country roads and farmers fields, I think you’ve got it spot on 👌🏼 giving me some ideas for when I start on CS2
I think the way to make the most naturally growing (and looking) cities would also be to have no motorways on the map to start with, just some national roads cutting accross the map. Those roads would become the main roads and high streets which towns grow around. Motorways would then come later, once the population warrants them, and have to fit within the geography of the city, rather than the other way around. This wasn't possible in CS1 as you couldn't add new outside connections, so the motorways had to be there at the start, but in CS2 you can build motorways to the borders once you unlock the tiles to them. I kinda wish that some of the default maps (esp the EU theme ones) did this, but I guess the map editor means I can create maps like this myself by removing the motorways and then adding national roads instead.
Also I wonder if it's possible to change the driving side by editing the save file, obviosuly not sure how the save files are structured in CS2, but I'd think it's likely there's a parameter which can be changed.
You're very much right! And you want to see highways bend around the borders towns had in the 50's and 60's, and connect to regional roads somewhat clunkily - or replace them for sections. But that's something for later I think, this island is too small to feature any highways for sure.
yes it really looks amazing 🤩
Your city is very inspiring for how I want to design mine! Yours is very very unique among creators and very natural looking. Honestly, St Luke sounds more like it could be a New England location, if there was somewhere in america like this. That would go well with the right hand driving too.
Such a beautiful and realistically laid out town.