I love building cities in Cities: Skylines, but loving something doesn’t mean being good at it. And when it comes to the cities I’ve built over the years, they all have one thing in common. It’s a total traffic nightmare.
I experienced my terrible road planning skills firsthand when I lived in one of the cities in Cities: Skylines (using some mods). And when I encountered a 400-meter-long traffic jam made entirely of roads, I realized the situation was even worse than I thought. ambulance, hearse, garbage truck.Heck, even the city I made a family living there The bus was still congested. I just don’t like roads.
But the new Cities: Skylines 2 road tool trailer (above) gave me hope. With so many great new tools for building and managing roads and traffic, I’m starting to wonder if maybe the world’s worst city planner (me) can keep roads from failing completely. increase.
First, when you build a section of road, Cities: Skylines 2 automatically builds the water and sewage pipes and conduits for you, so you don’t have to mess around endlessly with pipes and wires (like a power plant in a distant place). (except when connecting to a building) is great. and water treatment plants).
Second, holy cows! There is also a rotary! finally! It seems to be easy to add to existing intersections.
Third, there’s an easy way to create a perfect city grid. Because even though I draw the roads very carefully when I start building a new city, my city always ends up a little off, crooked and messy. Parking is also new to Cities: Skylines 2 (just recently added to the original game in an update). This is great if you want to build an American style city. Many cities are about 98% made up of parking lots.
It’s also a clever way to improve roads by adding trees along the medians, adding sound barriers to shield neighborhoods from noise, and lots of other aesthetically pleasing features. There are also some Traffic directions, adding intersections, traffic lights, traffic signs, roadside installations, etc. all look much easier than in the original game.
Or…does that seem a little too easy? I’d like to be confident in my city-building skills, but I’ve repeatedly failed to build a city that doesn’t end up in a big traffic jam that’s miles wide. So I’m not sure I can trust myself. We’ll know when Cities: Skylines 2 comes out in his October. In the meantime, to learn more about Cities: Skylines 2’s new roads tools, Here is the development diary along with the trailer.
