New DLC In Cities Skylines Remastered
What’s up, Sasquatch/wander? We’ll get started in a minute. This music is way too chill. This is a new radio station. We’ll talk more about it. But checking out the new DLC tonight. Hello, Adia. Welcome. We got Riverrun running running in the background, but we’ll check out some of the new maps, new intersections. What does the new DLC bring? And is the new music too chill perhaps? We’ll see how long we last with it. There was a little bit of a a beat to some of them, but then I started the stream and turned on the radio and it’s like, you wanted solo piano, right? Yeah. Is it kind of mid? I you know it brings variety, but does it like I don’t know. I I think people still want like gamechanging DLCs and not just content creator packs. There’s only so much you can do with the tools as well in the base game. Feel like the game is really loud. The city noise sometimes is too much. too close to hearts of Korea. They need to step away from East Asia. Yeah. I like some of the stuff they did with the the region packs in two. It’s unfortunate that we didn’t get some of that uh here as well. I mean, they’re still in the model like they could charge for them in one because it was never the expectation. Uh, okay. Let’s get out of here. Let’s get our starting soon off. Let’s maybe consider because we want to hear the music that I am going to turn is effects like the the bulldozer and stuff. Emergency broadcast volume. No. Let’s see if that is is a little bit a little bit more manageable. Yeah, there’s a little beat. There we go. See, now I feel like I’m in a supermarket in the in like 1988. If you’re in if you’re in New England, you you know Market Basket. And this absolutely makes me feel like Market Basket mid1 1990s. Lenolium tile floor. Wicked thick Boston accent coming through a speaker telling you about the specials. Get more for your dollar. So, we do have this mall over here, the Lone Pine Mall, which we’ve got some space in and around it. It might not be bad to build a little commercial, a little commercial into here. Let’s see. Ah, district-wise, let’s paint a district first. Man, I am going to be rusty. Okay, so Lone P, Lone Pine Mall is a district. We don’t have it is just this one little pocket. So, if we come in here and we say we want the building style to be, are you sure changing the style will demolish? Yes. Shops of Shabuya. Shabuya. Shibuya. Shibuya probably. Uh, whatever it is. It is low and high density commercial. So, let’s get a little bit of both in here along this along this path somewhere. So, we’ve got the the treeline streets coming up this way. There won’t be parking directly on it. Let’s do like one one and a half blocks. So, we’ll do this back to back. Well, you know what? We’ll see. We will see how it handles that hill. That’s always interesting to see what it does with the properties. So, we’ll come in here and why don’t we mix and match? So, we’ll do we’ll kind of see what these look like uh next to one another. So, I’ll do a couple I’ll do a couple four blocks and then maybe we stagger in some smaller lots to see what they look like. I am really interested to see how it handles the hills. We’ll go two back to back here. I’m doing some some slightly off lot sizes just so that we get some different buildings. Sometimes you just get the same building again and again. And although certainly things can get repetitive in these packs, we want to at least give it a chance with some potentially different lot sizes. I wouldn’t worry about back here. We’ll probably get water over to them eventually. Oh, there’s just nothing. Yeah, move move it is so great. I wish they had found a way to do that on console by now. And maybe someday I can tell you stories if somebody ever goes out of business. Um, okay. What have we got moving in here? I don’t know that I like it next to the mall necessarily. I’m also not crazy about this time of day. We need to be able to move the sun, not just change the time of day. Okay. So, the the lot height it handles just like any other building as we can see. Yeah, the sun the sun angle on this map is not great. Okay, we’ll put the sun back on this side. or we’ll try. Uh, I really should put them side by side on a street. Let’s do that real quick. So, let’s do over here high density. It will at least give us a block to walk down. We’ll let that grow in. Oh, we’re over 100,000. Huh. I got to I haven’t been in here, as you can tell. Well, I’ve been borderlandsing, so our our progress to a billion is going very very slow. I mean, you know what has is funny to see the the transition in the comment sections as the lifespan of the game has gone on and like there there’s still some instances of it, but console when console went, console when, but now it’s like the the main discourse, the most common comment you see is nice to see cities one getting supported while the other one’s getting uh abandoned and people. Oh my god. Oh my god. People jump. Do I not have my camera plugged in? People jump to the defense of the devs, which by all means, like, don’t let people abuse them. Um, hang on. Let me activate my my camera here. Okay, there we go. Oh, wow. It’s dark in here. If we do that, that little better. Okay. What was I going to What was I going to rant about? I was going to rant about something. Oh, the comment shift. The comment. So, so everyone’s, you know, console when console went, console went. Now, yeah, it’s about CS1 getting content and CS2 being abandoned. And man, people do jump quickly to defend the devs. And the defense makes sense on the surface level, which is to say, hey, uh they’re not spending time on this cuz Tantalus is the one that is integrating these packs into the game for both console and for PC. And uh they’re not even building it out. It’s the content creators, right, that are building it out. But here’s the thing. So, on the surface, is that true? All that is true. Absolutely. But here’s a wild idea. You have a flailing game that came out two years ago. It still doesn’t have a date for its final DLC. That still doesn’t have a date for release on console that it promised. It promised Xbox, by the way. I’m pretty sure Phil Spencer is going to crack some shins with a baseball bat pretty soon if he doesn’t get his Game Pass game. But people jump so quickly to defend it. But but consider this alternate reality where you brought those dev teams on to help you with the broken pile that you’re dealing with over here that the people that have been building it for the last 2 years haven’t been able to put together. Maybe you need somebody else to help out. You know, like maybe you need a design shift. What do I know though? I don’t know. I I don’t know anything. Some thick buildings. Yeah, they’re also like, as you can see, too, like I I made it a point to, you know, put a put a little one, put a big one, put a little one, put a big one. They are very they are very repetitive. They’ve got different um different advertisements and signs on them, it would appear. Let’s walk down the block between the buildings though and and see if it if it feels horribly horribly dark cuz there’s only one hour a day when the light can get between these buildings cuz we can’t move the sun. Um in here. No. Where is it? This one. Hide. Uh wow. Man, I am so rusty. Okay, so here we are. The buildings are nice and shiny. Has anyone determined what the the beeping is in the ambience? Beep beep beep beep beep beep. Like where where do you walk around in a city in here? Beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep. Is that a European thing that I don’t know about? Did the sound designer have extreme tonitis and just think like reality sounds like you just got flashbanged all the time. So I don’t know the buildings they look okay. I think this also um something I would like to show is like how long did it take to build this? 30 seconds. I did a road and I stamped some zones down and I feel like this is the same effort that went into the the the trailer city cuz it literally was nothing but a straight grid block with nothing at the end, mind you. Exactly like this. We went for the exact same aesthetic as the um the trailer, which was to say we did very little effort. So far the music is okay. We got that real quiet intro track, which was just bad timing on part of the radio station trying to promote itself. Like, let me throw this stinker on there now that you started your stream. But everything else has been a little bit new fusion vibbey. Okay. Okay. Slow down everybody. I mean the problem is like as much as you as much as you change the aesthetic of the city man that is like that is really flat. Okay. One side of the street has nothing but flat storefronts. The other side of the street has nothing but but this column supported building again and again and again that has like a a setback first floor. Does this have an actual walkthrough? No, it’s just where buildings collide. Okay, game. It’s just it didn’t know what to do here. It’s I will put all the support pillars together here. So yeah. So as much as you change the aesthetic of the buildings, it’s still very much it’s still very much hot dog trucks and donut vans and giant SUVs. Um, it would be kind of cool if you had like different different cars in districts could achieve something like that. But I get that’s asking a lot of a 8-year-old game at this point. I say 8-year-olds. It’s 8-year-old on consoles. It’s a decade old in theory. Remastered only came out in what, in 2023. It came out the month before they announced 2, which was, might I remind you, a slap in the face to this community that you were a member of. just in case you forgot. Cheers. I wish I hadn’t given away all the um they let you gift uh gifted memberships for free as the the the channel owner and I wish I hadn’t given them all away cuz I gave them away on other streams. I think one cities and one other one. But next time, subscribe, come back. We’ll be doing some more building. Uh, let’s Are there uniques? There’s got to be uniques, right? I think. Okay. So, we have Harado. Herado. Harado. Right. A home for high culture and performance art in your town. Okay. Can we fit it right there? Ooh. Can we get it centered on the block? No. So much for that hope. What do we have? The parking lots in here. Oh, we have parking lots all the way around. Huh. Okay. Well, we’ll put it we’ll put it where we have the spot for it for now. That’s fine. Should we put it? That’s a very flat facade facing the street. So, I guess I guess we’ll orient it this way. Okay. Did that all of a sudden develop a texture? That didn’t h remember. I just said the the music is glitchy on your end. Just the music, nothing else. Wish there was a traffic control deal. I mean, just give us a traffic control in the game to be fair, but I would take a DLC. We would all pay for it, but we should get it for free. To be fair though, they said they were including it and you still need the traffic mod in two. Cheers for your crypto stealing malware by the way if you decide to install the traffic mod. Do we have a little a little problem? Hopefully it’s back. I I’m on Do I have any reported drop frames? I don’t have any reported drop frames. And I didn’t see any issue on this side. So maybe it’s YouTube encoding, maybe it’s me. Hopefully it’s not a problem. Either way, when I put this building down, it did not have texture on the side. So something was going on. And now it found its textures. So now that there’s actual actual bricks on it, that is a lot of air conditioning units. Is there a door? Wait a minute. Hold on a second. Okay, hold on a second. How are you going to open these doors? It’s a double door. Even if it opens inside, that’s stupid and inconvenient. Like that’s that’s just bad design. Okay, so that is Herado Herado Hall. Bad architecture and engineering. I mean, you know, to be fair, the artists may not they’re just get they’re just decorating. They’re not thinking about it from that perspective. They’re not thinking of it being actually usable. In fact, most PC players aren’t going to get down this close to your building, not to mention this close to your building, you know, like, and again, could console is an afterthought from the from the devs and from the the map creators. Well, I say that, but we’ll give this map pack a fair shake and we’ll look at it what it looks like on 25 tiles at least. The true test for if it cares about console is whether or not because you can pay money and buy it on the base nine tile game. So yeah, you can’t walk on PC without a mod. It is it walking first person and driving um and and like what you can do with uh the cinematic camera when you especially when you turn the uh sensitivity down. So, if I turn the sensitivity down where I really have to crank the controller, like you can do these live on the fly, you know, camera movements that you could program into a mod on PC, yes, but like you could still do some some really smooth camera movements that you just cannot do. Ah, why? Why? We’re trying to just have a good time game. We’re just trying to have a good time. Oh, that’s hot. That’s hot. Come on. Okay. Well, well, that’s getting put out. That’s totally fine. There you go. Oh, hey, there’s new emotes, members. We got one for Borderlands. We get the $70 the $70 game for Borderlands. Um, I feel like one that can come in handy around here, of course. And then incredibly useful. The longer you’ve been here, the more useful you know this is the microphone icon to indicate that mouse you’re muted. You forgot to unmute, you idiot. Uh that’s what there’s for. So So there’s some new uh there’s some new emotes. I do I do like this um the way this overpass comes. I’ve been getting a lot more spaced out and patient like where I would have previously just come down 12 units and like immediately slope that down. Now this is like 40 units out slope out to here and there’s just nothing zoned on this road. So I I I don’t know like little things like that. I’ve I’ve come I’ve I’ve come away as as a builder. Also, highway interchanges, I’ve started to realize you don’t necessarily need to use um off-ramps. Just use highway pieces. It works to it works totally fine. Um they’ll do wonky lane changes, sure, but it’s also just so much more capable of handling traffic at volume. Of course, you can do it the other way as well. Uh we’ve got the parklo over here. There’s no stop lightss. Uh, and then over this way, we’ve got like a really sloppy diamond interchange. Um, and this is handling things, too. So, you can overengineer and design things, or you can just go three lanes all the way. Just use your highway as your your main setup. Is the music too loud? Is it okay? I do want to showcase it to give you an idea of what that station’s like if anybody’s thinking of buying it. I think the bundle is What? What is the bundle? 14 bucks. 13.99. The map pack is six bucks. The shops of Shabuya is six bucks and the radio is three or four. It’s a bit loud. I’ll bring it down a little bit if it gets too quiet and you want to hear the music a little more. I don’t I don’t mind today especially like with the music bumping up a little bit too loud. If anybody’s thinking about buying it, you should hear it here first. I will probably get claims on this. I wouldn’t be surprised. Last time I ran in-game music, I got claims for it. Um, which is unfortunate cuz they don’t give you that warning that it isn’t stream safe. In fact, they kind of imply that it’s stream safe otherwise except for Gold FM, but it’s literally like they won’t even let you use game DVR while you are playing any of those tracks. So, isn’t this supposed to be copyright free? Technically, I think so. And I again, I very much think that the game implies it with its menu, but it doesn’t implicitly say that. Again, it says that Gold FM cannot be streamed. It doesn’t mean that you won’t get claims against the other stuff, just that outright you cannot stream Gold FM. They don’t have a license to let you play it and they have to disable game DVR to even have those songs in the game, which is just such an odd licensing choice. You could have been worried about so many other things other than bringing an oldie station into the game. I mean, I guess I don’t know. Like, I’m Gen X. I know I’ve got white hair on my temples. I’m not a boomer. um in in generation or in actual mindset, but uh I’m sure there are some some boomers that paid for the oldie station. I got a lot of stuff for free. I only started having to buy DLCs the last two rounds um since the cord was cut with Paradox and uh Colossal Order because they totally can handle criticism even if it’s not positive and you don’t like the game. That would never affect our relation our working relationship would it? Never. Never. Never. Would never affect any. No, of course not. It’d be You can take criticism. Oh, sure you can. They can’t. They can’t take it, by the way. Okay, so uh we were dropping in uniques and I got distracted. Go, go figure. Uh can’t even have a screenshot with that station on. Nope. Nope. Sorry. Want to take a picture? Too bad. Okay, that one got put out right away. Thank you, fire department. We’ll keep an eye out for any um Oh, I never ran power over here, huh? Hold on a second. We may as well fix that real quick. Happy as a clam. Everything you need. Be quiet. Don’t complain. And remember to to vote for me next election cycle. Thank you. Okay, so back to uniques. There were three uniques. One uh two of them were unlocked. One of them was not. What is this one? The It should be three syllable, right? Harado. Harado. City Museum of Modern Art. I’ve been playing a little bit of skate here and there as well. And that makes me want to skate that structure. I was about to drop it in the industrial zone. Can we get it? Where can we get it? Let’s take a parking lot out. Does that not fit there because of this thing which was passing the power? So, let’s see if if if this will pass the power instead. Hopefully, I think this it looks very similar. Somebody said it in chat. Who said it in chat? Uh, was Sasquatch or Patton? This looks very much like Hearts of Korea, even in the the the buildings, the the unique buildings. Where is the hearts of Korea stuff? That’s modern Japan. I don’t know what it I apparent American doesn’t know Korean from Japanese flag. Um I mean I do, but I like I just jumped straight at the the Japanese one. It’s I guess it’s a it’s a very similar color palette and and Asian architecture. That’s a cool That’s a cool building. Why are we not using this somewhere? Hold on a second. Do I have a street I can plop this down on? Oh yeah, we got to use that somewhere. Oh my god. Okay, that’s that’s going off there for now. Okay, so this is the the high density is way too much for over here. If we keep this, I might do some more narrow streets, a bunch of streets cutting through there and do some some sideways businesses and change the lot sizes around. But the the high density stuff is just too big for over here for sure. Uh what do we have to do to unlock our last unique? I wonder monuments back in here. Man, there’s a lot of tabs now. It’s nice to see that they It looks like they got everything in the game and working. Be great if they could fix some of the bugs. Taruma department store. All tax rates at most 4%. 4%. We can do that. We can a We can afford that. I assume you have to maintain it for a period. maintain for 20 weeks. Okay. What is it? It is August. It was August 2nd. What is 20 weeks from August 2nd? Do we just wait till 2277? Is that 20 weeks? That’s not 20 weeks, is it? We got to wait a while. How is everybody? How are you? How are you? Sorry, that was probably really loud. How are you? I’m sorry, that was obnoxious. We’ll give it some time. This city’s about to be broke, you think? 376 million. See if we can shoulder this burden for a bit. Starting starting running start finally college in high school seven you’re only seven 17 you young and whole life ahead of you make smart choices I I made we won’t go into detail on this stream but I made a lot of stupid choice choices around your age. It uh it resulted in in permanently ringing ears, um occasional flashbacks, and a gigantic record collection of techno from the 1990s. I guess it could have been worse. since Woodgard. Nice. Nice. That’s That’s crazy to think like like it’s been that long. It’s been a while. A lot has happened in that time in everybody’s lives. So, man, 19 to graduate. That’s just a just a timing thing, huh? The music goes so up and down on this radio station. It’s like vibey fusiony lowfi and then just totally chill. I I feel like this could be in like a like a Zelda game or something. Okay, where are we at? Does it tell us how many weeks we’re at? Five. Five weeks. Come on now. Was there anything else in here? So, oh. Oh, yes, there is. What is this? Oh, that’s right. The parks that don’t populate any people. Do you think they populate people now? I called this on the trailer that they had these parks. There’s nobody walking around in them. We have room for both these here. This is perfect. Okay. Notice that all of these other park objects have people congregating at them, right? This is from natural disasters DLC. People hanging out at both those parks. Oh, they do have people hanging out. They they fixed it or they like put it down where there were no citizens for the for the movie, which was a choice. This one would be great in a pedestrian area. There’s just like it looks like those ballards would be a great cut through and there’s just one old person just hanging out standing there in the middle. Okay, there they go. I don’t know if they fixed the pathing on this one. Then again, like where would they path to on the other side of this to nowhere? So, that’s part of our problem. Let’s give them a reason to walk through here. Where are is it landscaping? It’s over here. I think Mars Mars Rio’s got a very different vibe in my mind. I like this this just feels this feels like shopping in a supermarket in the 1990s. I can’t explain. But it would be very it would be quieter with a reverb and no bass. Just hear the tininess of the high end. Uh okay. Paths gravel. Is it wanting this? Is it letting me snap there? So, it has like a snappable point, which is nice. I wish I could Well, I wish I could snap to it again, but apparently I can’t. So, apparently we’re going to use this one. Or not. Or not. Okay. So, if there’s actually a path now for people to cut through, like maybe maybe they’ll walk through. It’s not the most efficient pathing. Okay. They’re hanging out there. Let’s Let’s go see what these two new park assets look like since we can walk around them. Don’t be jealous. Don’t be jealous. I was going to say don’t be jealous, PC people. But don’t worry, we can’t walk around him either cuz it’s just a floating thing. We can’t go down there. It’s It’s little It’s little things like this. It It frustrates me so much that I can play the game for like five minutes and find this crap. They don’t They don’t play test it. They don’t play test it. Like why would there be an invisible blocking volume here that they can walk through that we cannot? That makes zero sense. That’s like a thing designed to stop you from falling through the world basically like like what happens with the the baseball stadiums with the bad peanuts. So like, so very cool that we can come down here and walk around on foot. Not very cool that we’re hovering over everybody and can’t actually walk around and like experience the asset except to look at it from up here. Only NPCs allowed. No human players. NPCs only because they go below ground technically. I mean, yeah, I get it. I get it. But like, okay. Okay. Okay. Hold on a second, Sasquatch. I will take your uh below ground asset and I will raise you one metro station. It’s very much possible. It’s very much possible to have staircases and layers that go down and to have your human player be able to experience these. Now, it is a little glitchy here and there. Like, we can come down three layers of metro station. How come I can’t walk down a stair set at the park? This goes way deeper, right? Like, so touche. Um, let’s see if we can walk on the other one. Oh, that’s good. You may ask, how do we get this past the ballards? Why did all the people disappear? All the people disappear when you get in a car. It’s like LA Noir. They’re just expert dodgers. If I’m no longer on that with a car. No, if I’m soon as I’m in the car, like the people disappear. That’s weird. Okay, so we walk and they’re here. We drive and they disappear. Interesting. Very interesting. They’re still there playing that broken game of chess. Does it depopulate all the It doesn’t try and animate walking pedestrians when you’re in a car. I don’t know. Interesting though. Very interesting. So, uh, how long has it been? We are still in 2276. So, this it has not been long enough at 4% taxes. It’s not a big deal. It’s just one It’s just one little fire. It’s nothing to call Will Smith about. How’s everything doing over here? Everything’s doing pretty good. In case you’re wondering why there’s all this ore in this one black field over here, this is where Vegomite is made. These are the Vegomite fields. Nothing else can be placed here because it because the vegomite has permanently tainted this soil. Never to be used for anything valuable again. Yeah. Remaster, but can’t can’t render pedestrians same time as cars. I mean, they’re on they’re on the side of the road, aren’t they, when you drive? Have I not noticed that? That it only renders cars when you’re driving? This intersection up ahead looks dangerous. There’s a lot of cross traffic and I just head on to hear. Okay, everybody slow down. All right, let’s drive the speed limit. That actually is a pretty nice looking drag. I like that this is like a a straight shot for a very long time and then there is like a a crossroad at the end which is on a slightly different grid cuz it makes those those buildings at a 45 angle really pop. It adds a lot of depth where it could be if it was just like a 90° it would it would seem much flatter and boxier. So, who is just like adding any DLC at this point or who is who’s here trying to find out and figure out if they want it? Do I public chat on by the way? I think I do. Chime in if you got an idea. Let me know what you’re thinking. I cuz I think these still are fun in a way to to bring new content to There’s a Cities 2 billboard. Um I think it’s fun to bring some new content into the game and on console it’s it’s not mods so you have to pay for it. Welcome to capitalism. But uh I don’t know, you know, I don’t know if this one is enough to warrant. I got to do something with this back side of the map. This is still very very vacant over here. Okay. Uh, we will. We’re on We were on three times speed. Now I’m slowing things down. We’re in December, though, which is good. And we’ll see if we can get this last building unlocked. Which, by the way, did I even look at what it is? It’s the department store. Flagship store for a large retailer. Sells just about anything money can buy. Entertainment, upkeep. Okay, we’re at 18 weeks. Okay, so we’ll be doing the grand opening to celebrate the the new year 2277. Crazy. My far my furthest into the future city. Uh this one right here. Also my richest. It was over 400 million at one point, but we’ll get there. This I mean this piano track I feel could have fit into the original city soundtrack which is still good for a listen once in a while. I I feel like the music starting a city is really weird how like it it starts with like that ambient drone and then when you start to play and people move in, it’ll actually start to kick in that that slow build. Oh, here I am. I’m over here just looking at the industrial area when I really meant to be over here looking at the new stuff. Oh, you know what? I guess uh heart of Korea specifically is very lit at night. What does this look like at night? It looks It looks very flat light. Not a lot of color popping here. I’m I’m kind of surprised where Heart of Korea is like a giant pink glow. And I mean some of these buildings, look at some of these buildings in the back. Lit up. Lit up. Lit up. Lit up. Lit up. Completely off in the back. That is oversight. Correct. Why? Why? Oh, it fires out by the time he cuts in. That’s hot. He was too late. There’s still a pretty good spread, though. There’s some There’s definitely some trees missing there. I don’t feel like this is lit particularly well here. Or hold on a second. What is um uh district tool? This one? Nope. This one. This one. So here instead of shops, let’s do heart of Korea. Just just for an example of lighting. Did I um did I unlock that building by the way? Do I have to do anything in the district specifically? No. Okay, good. Uh, here is the department store. We’ll throw it down here on the end. See that? It is also kind of poorly lit. And a a basic cube with no windows. Okay, that’s a choice. That’s an architectural choice. Um, so we yeah, we’ll see what happens as hearts hearts of Korea move in here instead and we’ll we’ll pop some color into this map. There we go. Look at that. Look at that. Look at that color right away. All of a sudden, I was expecting to see a little bit of a little bit of neon and the Japanese inspired a little bit of bright lights. I guess I don’t know the district specifically though that they’re that they’re going after city in Japan. Yeah. See, no, the the first picture it’s a ward area of Tokyo and one of the first places they show is an incredibly busy intersection with lots of neon lights. It It’s like a 75 lane street. And meanwhile, everything that they showed was two-lane roads with no parking. Yeah, I don’t know. Okay, I’m going to close that. I’m just going to get depressed looking at the actual the actual district. Um, but yeah, look at the color difference. Now, this is mixing in high density as well. And I think parts of Korea is only the Is it only the low? Uh this one, this one, this one. It’s low density residential and high density commercial. So any of the low density commercial is actually is actually staying the old one. Shouldn’t that get demolished? It doesn’t matter. Whatever. Like I said though, you can see right away like the the way that the light pops on the Hearts of Korea DLC versus how flat and plain the other buildings looked. And some of the a lot of those have moved out. You can see that the the ones that are more colorful and popping are the Hearts of Korea one. So I don’t know. I I feel like this one is a is a little bit bland in terms of the content creator pack. To be honest, I don’t think it’s necessarily bad. Like you could combine this with Hearts of Korea and Modern Japan and this and like have a more Asian inspired city, but I think it still suffers a lot of the same problems of of just the general sameness of these packs without really being able to do a theme mixer and plloppables and dropping the building you want where you want it. We kind of need that freedom in 2025. If you’re if you’re not going to give us console CS2, maybe start thinking about the smallest of things you could give us. Throw us a bone here as this game approaches 10 years old. Okay. Um, I will leave this for now. I’m not going to knock the balance out. We’ll just awkward. Is that Is that That can’t be how they intend the building to look, right? Can someone please tell me this is not how the exterior of the building is supposed to look? Maybe. I don’t know. Maybe I don’t know the architecture. I like I don’t feel like that’s correct. Right. Is that Is that how the windows are supposed to look? What is this? What is going on here for real? Is this a style I don’t know about or is this broken? Please tell me this is broken. Look at the City Skylines one banner on this one. Did they hear my complaints to stop shoving Cities 2 down our throats? Or is this building not know about the Cities 2 banner? And it has its own cities one banner. That is a lot of City Skylines advertisements in a game that is City Skylines. Okay. Uh did I not throw the third building down? I did. Okay. Yeah. So, not not the most impressive. I don’t know. I’m not I’m not blown away by any means by I don’t think anyone needs the radio stations. You can play most of this music on Spotify. You can play Spotify on your Xbox and PlayStation while you play the game. So, it’s not even like you need another layer. And if you’re on computer, you can play Spotify on your computer. Like, you can get all these stations. you get all the you get all this music basically um and and stuff that is you know thematic to this but a lot better. So I mean and no offense to any of these artists but okay so is there any place else this content would be hiding? Um, we’ll look at the intersections. I don’t think there’s any other buildings. That’s the countryside ones. I think these are in order. Yeah. Okay. They didn’t add any hubs or anything, did they? No. Railroads of Japan was the last one to add hubs. Uh leisure. We did the two parks. We did the three uniques. There’s no monuments. Is there any park objects? Nope. And I don’t think there would be anything in any of the DLC specific sub menus, financial districts, and hotels. Okay. So, I think we saw all the buildings. Uh, do we jump around maps? I think we jump around maps. Okay. Whoa, that’s so loud. That’s so loud in my head. It’s not that loud in the stream, but it is so loud in my head. Oh my god. Oh my god. The music was so loud. I was max volume in my ears. Okay. Yeah. Let’s check out the maps. Did I turn the radio off? Muted. Muted. Okay. Uh, well, sure. We’ll save Riverrun. Why not? Okay. Quit. Nope. Quitting out to main menu. This is where we need to be patient, everybody. It takes about a minute and a half, I think, to load each map. So, new game. We’ll go all the way to the uh map pack three and then one over. Uh, I will try and at least initial these as we go. So, this is bad land ridges. We’re going to turn on all the cheats cuz we’re just checking out the maps. And, uh, there are 10 new maps. Three of them do not have water connections. Three of them are landlocked. Other than that, they every map has everything. And the three that are not landlocked also have shipping. So you can do highway connections, train, air, and water on everything but three maps. And then they all have a pool of resources, which are less problematic, I will admit, than farmland that we saw in the previous uh map pack, which had a beautiful looking farmland map. But the way that they achieved the look of the different colored plots was to paint the ground with ore and oil. which unless you were doing cheats, completely makes the ground unusable for farmland. So, it was this beautiful farmland that you could pay real money for cuz it’s a content creator pack you have to download and the content creator basically contaminated all of the land that you would have used for farming. So, hope you weren’t planning on building a farm on that beautiful farmland. Okay. Was it Badland? Badland ridges. Badland Ridge. Something like that. Okay. And we’re we’re back again. It freezes for a good a good chunk there and then it starts picking up again. Yes, I unlocked the monument. I forgot to to put the taxes back up. You’ll have to remind me to do that at some point. Um, I’ll be wondering why my path to a billion is getting worse and worse. And it was nothing worth the wait a deal. So it I think the the shops of Shabuya pack is just okay. I think if you really want to build an Asian inspired city and you combine it with Arts of Korea, Railroads of Japan, and Modern Japan, you could be on to something. Um, but on its own, it’s not really a standout pack for me. It It’s just kind of bland buildings that are very repetitive and do not light up well at night. That was the thing. So, I ended up reszoning in some of the hearts of Korea and it looks way brighter and the lights pop. Um, and when you look like look at the Shabuya district in in Tokyo, like it is lit up. It is lit up. It’s got some lights going. No. Okay, this is the first of the 10 maps in the map pack. So, let’s unlock all our tiles. Okay, now I’ll tell you one thing right away that I don’t like about this map. So, these grass circles, the way that they’re done with the trees means that the the farmland is the bright yellow. And over here on the edge of the map, like what are these what are these empty farmlands? What are these things doing? I don’t know, but we can’t touch them. So, like if it was desert or if it was like this that trailed off, but this man-made shapes and structures that we can’t go touch and build on always frustrate me. So, right away, I think that’s really weird. Like, could you contain it? Yes, you could in spots. like what’s our buildable space? Our buildable space is pretty good. But it’s still very weird, I think, how those the the grass pockets the grass pockets I think are just a little weird. I mean, I get that you want to have and it and there should be like these it almost looks like these, you know, maybe these have uh water in them sometimes of the year, but not all year. you know, these drying river beds would still have this this green life around it. Um, if anything, the the river would also have more, I think, along it. It’s a little it’s a little surprising that the river uh edges are not more like this. I think um so I don’t know. So, like it’s a it’s an okay map. I don’t feel Let’s Let’s take a look around. Hold on. This is this is always the test is how do the edges feel and do we want to go fix something that we can’t touch with 25 tiles. I can’t say and we’re not looking at this from a nine tile perspective. So, so please keep that in mind like this is a very different consideration if you have base game cities and not remastered. Um or if you’re like me and just occasionally load up the old game just for the challenge. I guess though, like if it’s good enough for you on remastered, you probably you there’s a good chance you may own both. Um, so I don’t know. So it’s okay. It’s not exactly screaming like, “Oh, you got to build here.” You can see some of the new highway infrastructure. We have access to some of these things. They they plunk down funny still, though. Okay, so this is Badlands Ridge. I’m not I’m not thrilled. Like I don’t have to build here. I do like like look at this train infrastructure right here. That’s beautiful. That’s beautiful right there. So depending on what you want to do with the build, like I mean maybe that’s the thing for you. And I do like it’s it’s a relatively flat town with mountains around it. Now, I’m pretty sure the next map I I like legitimately laughed out loud when I saw it. One one of them is like it is so stupid flat. I don’t think it’s I don’t think it’s finished. I think it was a like I did this and I was going to finish it and it got thrown into the pack and I didn’t realize it kind of thing. It’s so flat. Hold. Hold on. And I will show you. Um I think it’s the second map cuz I like I loaded into two maps and and I think it was Was it that one? I don’t know. We’re We’ll go We’re going through an order. Hold on. Midshshire. I it I’m just going to say it’s not a great name because it already has me feeling like it might be like it might be mid. Let’s see if this is a super flat one. I don’t think that it is. One of them is so stupid flat. And I hope I didn’t accidentally load a map pack 3. And here I am like calling out map pack 4. I’ve been playing so much Borderlands 4. I I hate parts of it. It’s ve It’s very um I will say it’s a very disappointing game in that it could have been so much more. It has a lot more potential. Um, they released it with poor performance. They haven’t had good story since Borderlands 2, honestly. Um, and they haven’t been able to recapture that humor cuz they went overboard in three and everybody got mad at them and now they tried to back it down a bit and it like it captures it sometimes but not quite. But the game play and the endgame boss farming is pretty fun. like I’m just grinding my character up. Um, we’ll see what gets patched, what gets nerfed, but I want to try and like I want to try and get to level 50 and hunt some legendaries. And I don’t mind using like I’ve got a a Vex build that just like she’s not finished yet, but she’s already like very quickly draining health bars and and in like five levels will be just outright deleting health bars. She can destroy mobs. So, it’s been really fun in general just playing the game with some of the builds that you can mess around with. But the game itself, the writing is not great. The open world is stupid. There’s a there’s a lot of complaints. So, I am playing tons of it. I am also I have like a 40page essay of rants that I need to edit and sort and get screenshots and footage for because I do want to talk. It’s a remarkable It’s a remarkable two-faced game on some levels. It’s just like it hits all the right notes. Performance I hope will eventually get better. But uh but man, it’s been it’s been a wild ride cuz I’m really enjoying it when I’m enjoying it, but I also am constantly reminded of ways it could be a lot better. Is this the super flat one? No, this isn’t even the super flat one. I don’t think it’s pretty flat, but I think it was a coastal one. Okay, so let’s uh again go back into areas. I don’t remember Midshshire. I don’t think I named the map. It’s called Rocktail. So, no, I definitely did not name the map. This is Midshshire, which is a nice uh a nice looking farmland, I will say. And if you’re going to build farmland and countryside, like you’re going to be less less dense. Anyways, I would hope there is some nice train tracks that come through here. It’s a relatively flat map. That is that is nice. I like that a lot. It’s not far off from the tutorial I once had, which is still up. which I’m debating if if I should take down because I’m pretty sure you can’t put the roads as close together anymore. I don’t think I should try and follow my own tutorial and see if it works. But I do like that. I like that. That is nice. Um, okay. So, here’s the thing. When when they paint those farmlands, what do they do? Well, they’re doing ore and oil. So you can see like the ye like the almost yellowy green is farmland. This is the ore and this is the oil. So the light the light farmland you could do farms on. The other stuff is basically contaminated or you could do oil or ore which is not really a good look for a giant flat farmland in England somewhere which is what this makes me think of. It’s un really unfortunate that the LODs are so broken for roads. I I sent them this this footage and this complaint before like before it went live. I told them about this stupid LOD problem in February of 2023. Do you look at Do you see the the the highway intersection down there? How it looks like it’s covered in sand? Like look how close you have to get for that not to be a problem. That’s just like a busted lot. Like the road shouldn’t look like that. It shouldn’t have a bunch of sand texture all of a sudden when it’s trying to animate the road at that distance. It’ll also like if you get it at the right angle Oh, I had it there for a second. If you get it at the right angle, it’ll just like non non-stop shimmer. So, some roads are just black when you zoom out. Yeah, it’s fine. It’s fine. It’s a console game, right? Um, Sasquatch, are you on console as well? What do What are you on? PC, Xbox, play uh PlayStation. Hopefully not Switch. Not if you’re playing this Xbox. Cool. Wait, where was There’s that plane. I thought the plane had a had a funny texture, but I guess it’s okay. It’s an odd pattern. What? Okay. All right. So, that is the second map, which if you’re looking to do a farm town, like it’s a very beautiful map. Um, I don’t feel that it constrains you particularly bad in any place, but let’s do the obligatory run around the outside of the map to make sure there’s not something we want to fix just off the edge. Yeah, so far so good. My only complaint is, at least on this one, the artistic nature of painting with oil and ore is a detriment to a farmland map. It it forces the decision on where the farms are going to be on you. That’s that’s the only downside. This one is not nearly as egregious of a defender as one of the ones from map pack 3, I think it was. that was like it it looked like a farmland map, but it was 100% covered in forestry or or oil, which if you’re not playing with the cheats, you literally cannot have a successful industry on there, which is really unfortunate design decision. Is that the one? Milestone Valley. It’s bad. I kind of want to load it up just to just to show anybody that doesn’t know what I’m talking about. It’s like they literally like broke the map designing it. Map pack 3. Milestone Valley. Here, we’ll load it up. We’ll load it up real quick. I don’t even think I need to turn the 25 tiles on. Like, we can just see the resources from the starting tile. Yeah. Real like I’m so glad they added parking lots for realistic American cities. Like that was something that was missing for so so so long. Like you couldn’t you couldn’t there there’s not parking lots everywhere. They’re four times the size of the building you’re going into. How are you actually building an American city, right? Yeah, parking lots and garages were were really cool update. They say like decorative, too, but car people walk into them and cars animate in spots. So, it’s good. It’s good enough for me. It seems functional. I guess they just mean like they weren’t adding like a payment mechanic or something like that. That would be kind of cool if you had paid parking lots next to big structures. Thank you all 30 of you for tuning in, checking out some of the new DLC. Appreciate you. Hope you’re doing well on a Thursday. Shopping mall is easier to build, too. Yeah. So, I have that shopping mall on Riverrun and like one of the first things I did was like, “Oh, let me grab this giant shopping mall unique and let me surround it with parking lots cuz it was we can do that now.” And that’s how it should be. Um, I guess unless you’re building it in the center of a really urban environment and then you probably have underground parking or uh better mass transit options nearby, but you know, anywhere that is not a a major urban downtown area, you know, is going to have malls with gigantic parking lots. America is so car ccentric like I think people from other parts of the world like if you haven’t been here you don’t understand that like you could live a 100red yards from somebody but there’s no foot path to get there and you’d have to get in the car and get on the highway and go down an exit and come back up or drive like five miles down the road to a overpass. It can be really stupid sometimes. Okay, so this is milestone value. This is map pack three. Don’t worry everybody. We’re just we’re just making a point here. When when you come into the areas is this one. There’s one that’s worse than this. Um info views. Oh, no. This is horrible. Okay. No, this is you. Okay. I’m sorry. You’re you’re you are correct. This is the one. So, if you look like like look at this map. Wow. What a beautiful farm map. I would like to build some farms here. And there’s rail infrastructure. Maybe I could have like a ton of fruit and animal products and maybe a little factory row. And we’ll have ourselves a nice little farming town. Except there isn’t a single bit of farmland left because it is all painted with ore and oil. So, I hope you were planning on building a highly polluting industrial smokefilled just hell hole because that’s what you can build on this map. So, when they do stuff like that, it’s just it’s very concerning from a like, does it look nice? Yes. But that’s where the usefulness of it ends. Like, as soon as you go to actually play the game on it, it’s it’s kind of pointless. Yeah, literally like it’s teasing you into thinking that there’s farmland there, but there isn’t. You The only way to do anything with the industries DLC on there. Farmland, forestry, I don’t think it matters. Like I I’m pretty sure the ore and oil both override it. So like again, it’s it’s forcing that decision on you. Okay, we did Badland ridges. did midshshire and it was suitable to its name. Mid Oxbow River looks pretty nice in the overhead. Um, one of these though again is so flat. So, uh, Oxbow River game froze. It is back. Okay. Oxbow River. I think map number three of 10. This could be it’s this one or the next one. I think Sasquatch it it it’s stunning how flat it is when you see it. It’s like it it makes me think that like this map was built and like shaped from overhead and they were going to come back and and do the terrain. I’ve I’ve never seen I don’t know. Tell me I’m wrong people when we get to it. I’ve never ever ever seen a coastal area so flat. Like rivers carve can like they carve canals and like there are banks and shapes and places the water can’t go cuz it is higher. And like if it was all flat and the water could e easily overrun and flood the area, you wouldn’t have people living there. So, like I’ve I’ve never seen in an inhabited area this flat and close to to water level. Again, I don’t know if it’s this map or the It’s one of the next two maps. I think flat map on Green City. Not super flat, but pretty flat. Was it wasn’t aid planes, was it? Was arid planes natural disasters? Oh, this could be it. This could be it. Look. I mean, this this is this is this is particularly flat. So, like like look at the banks of this river. If there’s the tiniest little bit of a swell, if there is like a heavy rain day, this thing is coming over. But it’s a very flat flat map. And you know what? Like maybe I’m thinking about this very selfishly cuz like we have we have terrain and mountains up here. But like if you fly over the center of the country, it is very flat for a very long time. So I guess this is possible. It’s just like it see it’s a little bit it’s a little bit dull I think. Um okay, we can’t go further up which concerns me a little bit that that highway cut off to the top. Let’s see where we can go in this space. This is Oxbow River, one of the new maps. So, over here in the corner is a lot of farmland, but it is always unfortunate when you have this huge space to work with and no natural barrier for why you would stop it. So, if anything, like you kind of have to leave that flat farmland untouched because I don’t know does it doesn’t make sense to to have stuff stop out there. Why would you stop building, you know, farmland when you have tons and tons and tons of free open space for farmland? You figured you’d continue to industrialize and expand. Um, okay. So, over here, wait, let’s come over here because this is this one was the the part that concerns me. You cannot change this intersection, right? We can’t get out there. It’s not bad. It’s not terrible. I’m not crazy about the trees. And you can’t really change them because you could only change half of this leg. Trees can be very hit or miss uh on console, especially with the horrible wad like I’m also just thinking about this from a visibility perspective. It’s weird to me. It’s It’s weird to me in this giant giant open space. There’s these giant open fields and they decided to make the intersection for a major highway interchange where they had to cut the most trees down. like you could see where the forested area was and it got gutted. So, are these like I think like these details around the the highway, the entrance is okay, but then like you can see like it it quickly kind of I don’t know. I feel like it quickly gives up on the idea cuz one side of the road is lined. the the one side of the road is both sides of the road are lined here. And then it’s just like, yeah, yeah, I’m gonna do this side, but then I’m gonna put random trees over here, and then I’m just going to stop it over here. It’s a little It’s a little weird how it’s like I I you know, I paid money for it. I’m a consumer. I can say this. I feel like this is a partially finished project. Nexus, what’s up? We got new uh we got new emotes, I think, since you’ve been here last time. Um I am feeling this one tonight. So, and it’s not even that the interchange is is as awful as it is the the trees. Although, to be fair, I mean, like somebody’s thinking it, right? I don’t have to say it. It It popped into somebody’s head. You know exactly what I am talking about. It’s not a great design choice. It’s it’s I think why uh you’ll find a lot of highway ramps take both uh loops around the same way, you know. And again, we can’t change we can’t really change this one. Can’t change the top. We can’t give it the old snip snip on the top if we wanted it to look different up there. We could prevent it from from creating other intersections though, if you know what I mean. We just do a little little bulldoze down here. Okay. So, this is kind of cool, too. I like this is very creative. This is a really creative use of the the old abandoned factory. I like this a lot. This is a very cool little little detail which I wouldn’t build anywhere near, but like when you’re, you know, when your town is when you’ve got a a cinematic camera and that’s kind of floating in the background, that’s that’s very cool. Nice little detail. Is that ore? I think that’s just dirt. Or is it oil? It’s ore. Good call. So, it actually is a C. Like that. That’s very clever. That’s a really clever use of where to put your ore in your map. Like that’s that’s absolutely awesome. The only thing honestly this is missing is some train tracks running up to it. Like where is the where is the train? You see a train’s way over here. If you had this massive quarry, like there would be train tracks. There would be train tracks closer to that thing for sure. I do love I wish we could do like uh what is the mod that I’m thinking of? It’s it’s like invisible assets or or service blocks or something. I wish we could create points like I I wish I could make an invisible nightclub and put it just inside the old abandoned what dog and put it inside the old abandoned train factory. Train train factory. I don’t know what the hell is this train factory. Uh my brain’s broken. You know what I meant? It’d be very cool. See like okay that see and that’s the this is this is console poppingin everybody this is remastered too this is remastered popping in like surely there’s a lower res bush that you could do where it doesn’t just say like oh I am not even a thing that is existent surely like it’s just a dark circle there would have been better than completely disappearing hearing. But like why is that circle so perfect? Well, I I mean I know why cuz they probably used the tool to create it cuz you can use certain mods in the creation of a map. Uh as long as you don’t commit certain changes that the game is not capable of understanding. Move it being one of those things that can mess up uh a base game map if you’re not careful with it. But anyways, the the the circular trees are a bit much and the the popin just is absolutely killing me right now. Map editor doesn’t have the liner circle tool, but you can use mods to turn those on. And if you’re careful what you do with those, you can make a map that you can share. Um, but they like what you’ll see is like they generally don’t do that kind of stuff around uh intersections because those can really get messed up. if you try and move it and then remove move it and then let the game reload the map like it can get very confused. Are there manhole covers in the road that I never noticed until just today? Is surely that is a new update. That is a that is a new update. Good night. Okay, my wife’s off to bed. Good night. Love you, baby. Um, that is new everybody, right? Know that’s been there. Shut up. Shut up. And it says cities on it. No, that has not. I almost got hit by that car. This poor little kid with his teddy bear just wanted to read the manhole cover and that guy almost ran me over. You jerk. making Tik Toks out here. Jumping cars. Please don’t do that, kids. It’s very dangerous. But I saw it online. I seriously I’ve never noticed manhole covers. How have I not seen that? Like cuz do they not show in when I’m flying around and No, they do show. You are all gaslighting me. This is part of the latest update. It has never been in the game before. You are all gaslighting me right now. And by all I mean Sasquatch and the Dio. Hey, Edge Map Fog, our old friend. We’re not gaslighting. You two got a side chat going saying like, “Oh yeah, make them make them think that they’ve been in the game the whole time even though they just got added in the latest update. I guess today I learned we have is that three edge of map fog cut scenes back to back. Oh, cuz we do have an empty map and it’s just going to it’s going to go to where all the people are and all the people are spawning in on the edge of the map. So definitely some cool things on this map, but again it’s it’s it’s incredibly flat. So, if you I think it’s something to consider. Like if if people have been wanting to build like especially a a Midwest town in the United States, like this could be a great pack for that. I feel like it’s lacking terrain. It just it feels so flat cuz I am so used to seeing hilly and mountainous terrain all around me every day. Okay, new game. Uh new map. Back to map pack four. What were we on? We were on Oxbow River. This is Paradise Coast. Paradise Coast. Okay. And then all the cheats, please. After it’s done freezing, we are no longer listening to the radio station, by the way. We listen to Epidemic Sound. Wait, do I have double music on? No. Okay. I double check. Make sure it’s not loaded when I get into the game. Um, is that the flat one you’re thinking of? No. I don’t know. That was very flat, but I feel like there was an even flatter one. I’m still not convinced about the the that not being gas lighting. Honestly, those manhole covers are new. I’m going to go check old footage. I’m going to go check old videos now. And my mind is going to be absolutely blown. Like when you found out that Froot Loops is spelled F R O O T. It’s a Mandela effect thing. The the mantle covers were never there. There is no spoon. Froot Loops. Yeah, check it out. Yep. Yep. I think that’s how they get around with it not having to be actual fruit. By the way, if anybody is from Canada, could you please take a picture of Froot Loops and send it to an American and make sure they’re sitting down first? Froot Loops in Canada have no dyes, so they look like Cheerios at quick glance. There is like a residual chorus effect in this song that is making me think that the game is also playing music. So, I’m going to skip to the next song. Um, just message AC in the Discord. AC, we’re going to need you to go get some Froot Loops. Don’t ask. It’s not important. It is important, but just don’t ask. Okay, this one has some See, this is what a coastal area next to an ocean for sure is supposed to look like. Maybe the rivers, you know, again, Midwest Rivers. Okay. Do we do we did all the cheats and is it we could just get to the edge of the coast here? Okay. Okay. So, we got to go check our coastline first. So, is there a reason we don’t build over there? I mean, it is it is foggy and mountainous and hilly, and I do like I actually really like what they’re doing over here from a bush perspective, but hold on just a dang second content creator trees. Could Can someone back up my my mental process here? I am pretty sure if you don’t have the content creator trees that anywhere those trees occur is going to not have a tree. So there wouldn’t be any of the pink bushes. There wouldn’t be any of the palm trees. Uh I’m pretty sure anything without what’s called ruining on the ground is not a default tree. So, like look at this. If I put a tree down, see how it breaks the ground and it like it makes dirt all around it. Every single default tree does that. Those are the trees that are built into the base game. These are the content creator trees. I believe these are Mr. Mason. They’re amazing. The the horrible downside for console players is even though there are size variations, it never rotates the tree. There is no way to rotate the tree. the way that you rotate a prop. Uh, like if we go over to like props, what where is it? Here. Here. Like a bench. I can use the D-pad to rotate that around. But if I Wow, that ruins a lot of ground. Putting a bench down. Putting a bench down just took a giant dump on like half an acre. Okay. Um, but again, these these trees when we uh d-pad, we’re changing the size of the brush that we want to paint down with, not rotating them. So, like I still don’t understand how it’s 2025, they are still updating this game and can’t give us a basic rotation tool on a tree cuz it makes it so that repetitive trees, even though of different sizes, end up looking very repetitive because they’re all the same shape and orientation, which is really unfortunate. But again, like, do you see all these trees that aren’t causing ruination, right? Like, uh, I meant to stay in there and do more Mr. Mason trees cuz there’s definitely some of these palms in here and some of those. And I would love if anybody that doesn’t have those packs, that did happen to buy this map to tell me if any of these freaking trees are here, cuz I’m pretty sure they’re going to be missing. I I I do do we uninstall DLC and test this right now? Because I’m my my mind is I think about to be blown if there is a giant empty field on a map people just paid six bucks for like Oh, that looks nice in the trailer. No trees for you. You didn’t pay for the trees. The trees are a separate price. Oh god. It might be good for humanity that Cities 2 didn’t really work out cuz honestly all it was was a reset switch to sell a bunch of $500 of DLC again. So, how much are we really missing out on? I don’t know. Paradox moment. I got like I it right like isn’t hang on hang on hang on hang on hang on can I uninstall like the DLC doesn’t quite work the same way um let me go in City Skylines. Manage game and add-ons. 52 add-ons installed. Holy schneikes. Okay, so we want to find was it a content creator tree pack? Could somebody help me? Like what is what is that Mr. Maza and tree pack part of? Okay, hold on. What CCP is trees in City Skylines? Is that a Is that an awkward enough question for Google? Uh, what content creator pack has Mr. Mason Trees? I could probably just I could also pop on over to the the creator Discord and just be like, “Dude, which which DLC was yours?” 14 of my trees released for the base game. Did those get added into the base game? 14 new vanilla trees with the new patch. Those were included in the base game. Okay, so that does work then. I did not realize those were they’re in the content creator menu. And I do appreciate that there is a separate slot to go there cuz when I’m when I’m looking for trees, I’m usually looking for a Mr. Amazing tree. Did we look at that map enough? I was so blown away. No, we didn’t. I went to the first corner and was absolutely blown away that that I was pretty sure I’m I’m very glad that I’m wrong. Um, but I was pretty sure that those trees weren’t going to be there for anybody. And it and I I think it’s a fair assumption considering it’s under the content creator pack and they basically charge us for every content creator pack. So, it was a content creator pack, but it wasn’t. They implemented it that way in the game. I don’t even know if they did that on the PC side, but that’s good that that was included for free. He honestly, Mr. Mason does the most amazing trees. I still think I I don’t I hope I I asked people to pass the word up cuz like I said, I don’t have contacts there anymore. I would pay like what were those DLCs today? pay $6. I would pay $6 for a fall tree pack, especially if it’s Mr. Mason and trees. I’ll give you $10 if you let us rotate them on console. Like, just go fix the freaking thing, please. But honestly, like fall trees, like I don’t know where everybody is from, but trees around here are beautiful at the end of September, beginning of October. It is just an explosion of color. reds and yellows and browns and it’s just it looks like the there’s like a a good week where it just looks like the trees are on fire. Um if you see, you know, enough of them, it it just it looks so amazing and beautiful and we can’t capture that in cities without mods. Um we have summer and we have snowfall and we have nothing in between. And that in between especially with trees in a like a boreal is it’s so beautiful. General tree autumn trees remix. Yeah, that’s what I’m saying. Like I like give me a tree pack. Tree a tree pack would be one of the most amazing things. And I think they’re overthinking what they need to do with some of these. Like we don’t guess what we don’t I’m going to go out on a limb. We don’t need more Asian buildings next. We have three packs and and like I think they need to think outside the box and you could make cities I think feel much more alive. Um at least I could replicate towns around here a lot easier um just by giving them that color, that pop. Go, if you want to check something out, go check out my let’s play season 7. Uh there were it’s based on a New Hampshire town called Portsmith on the Sea Coast and I used Mr. amazing trees, uh, fall trees, and there’s oranges and reds and yellows, and like it ju it just completely changes the experience of looking at, you know, cinematics on the map. It is it’s a completely different world. It’s a different game. It’s a it’s amazing. And they could add that in so easy with just a new tree pack. I don’t know. I I know that I would scoop that up in an absolute heartbeat. I would be I would every single one of my towns um at least the ones that I have based in my brain in New England like Wood Garden was was a New England town. Um I’m sure if I could think of more than one of my 13 let’s play seasons. Uh Portsmith was another New England town. Uh I’ve got ideas for some others I want to build. Anyways, we’re back in whatever the hell PC stands for. Port coast. I don’t know. Let’s see how this one looks. We went We went to the corner. I got offended. Um I’m really happy to know those trees are in the base game, so that’s good for everybody. So, if you have the base game and you come over here, you will see these beautiful trees. Um, and pink bush is highlighting stuff over here because they are base game now. And again, they don’t cause that same ruination effect. So, it allows for like gr, it still has grass everywhere, right? Really changes the look of the design. Cuz if you use just the original vanilla trees, right? Like, let’s let’s throw a bunch of trees down over here. Like, look what it does to the ground. Like that’s awful. That’s so awful what it does to the ground. That’s what vanilla maps and trees looked like. It’s it’s so wild to think, you know, and now you look at the vegetation here and this it looks much more natural. Looks a lot better. More North American packs, some European ones also. Yeah, like the the the Europe the default European buildings are European theme, but they are so repetitive. They got the stupid billboards everywhere. Um, it’s really unfortunate. They could use some they could use some style there with with some another CCP. I mean, the whole model of them giving them away for free on PC, like you you obviously there’s still an audience that’s paying for things on on one, there’s more people playing it. Um, and they don’t feel that their game is incomplete. If anything, like it is the more complete version, the more capable version. Okay, what does our coastline look like? Looks like there’s a spot up here for um an industrial dock. Where is um where is this set? Maybe this is France, northern coast of France with a uh a war channel dug in. You know, I don’t I don’t know if it would be a big seller, but it’d be kind of fun to get some um it wouldn’t even have to be the the holes, but I would love to get some golf props. so that we could do like, you know, different shaped fairways, give us a little tea object we can lay on top, a little green, um, you know, and let us construct our own our own golf courses. I don’t I don’t know if there’s a market for that. I did that in in my Vegas build that I did for the city’s channel. Um, I didn’t talk about that part of it, but it was like an actual, it was a theoretically working golf course and it was laid out, you know, to not have two par threes in a row, to not have two par fives back to back when possible. Uh, so there actually was an actual design of the front and back nine. Uh, and and literally all it was there for was a single panning camera shot that I never talked about in the video. Yeah, I want to build a whole course though. Like I I want to take like like that and build a course right there cuz it probably wouldn’t fit on just that side of the highway. You’d have to cross over and come back. Giant waste of real estate. Okay. So So mapwise, I mean, I I really like the the hilliness a lot better. The the flat maps are just so basic. The It is interesting that that some of these have some infrastructure. So like it’s not just, you know, hey, here’s a highway exit. This is actually really interesting. I wonder how this would work. So what do we have for for roads coming through here? There’s this one this one snaking road that you are if you’re going to put an exit anywhere along here, you are tearing out a major chunk of this because it is two roads that are dangerously close to one another. Two single lane highways. So, that will be fun to hook into. Over here, you’ve got this one three-lane highway going each way. And over here in presumably your starting tile area, here’s your main intersection in the middle of your highway. It’s not even like a bypass of any kind. Your highway just comes to a roundabout. Why? Like all I can see is the is it Ryan Reynolds? But why the the gift? Like seriously, like why why would you take your only highway on the entire map and just put a roundabout in the middle of it? That doesn’t make any sense. I’m so like I so want to build here just to see this break down and and watch the town fail and not try and fix it. So anyways, there’s some interesting stuff, but I would definitely recommend rebuilding the highways. And that is a very painful proposition up on this side. So maybe this is just more of a bypass route and you, you know, suck it up and and add an exit somewhere where it’s not terrible if you need it. But it almost seems like they don’t want you to build up there at all. I think it requires a major infrastructure change. to uh to make that work, especially without mods. So, this one’s okay. It’s just it’s not it’s not lighting my world on fire. Okay, let’s check out the next one. Let’s see what else we got. The maps certainly look good in the trailer and I hope it it’s not the case of, you know, just finding the good angle and and and pulling a quick one. All right, Pine Lakes. This looks that looks particularly beautiful, if I may say. Like that’s a great picture of the map. Is it the best one yet? That’s map pack three. So, the desert, the flat desert doesn’t impress me. The farmland immediately had me thinking like, “Okay, there’s a bunch of ore I can’t grow on.” That was interesting. That was an interesting looking map. It was okay. Paradise Coast. H. So, okay. Let’s jump into Pine Lakes. PL it. I don’t know why it hangs there every time. Okay, Pine Lakes. It’s a pretty looking picture. I will say I haven’t found something horribly egregious on the edge of the 25 tiles. I don’t know what the nine tile breakdowns look like at all. So, grain of salt if you’re still playing on unmoded, OG, non-reastered. Um, if you are, I I think Remastered is worth the upgrade. It has a couple quirks and a couple bugs that don’t exist on the other one, but it’s the best way you can play it. If you have uh an Xbox Series S or X or a PlayStation 5 or Pro, it’s definitely the best way to play it. 25 tiles is nice to flex, but it doesn’t mean that a lot of the maps are appropriate even still at 25 tiles. I did a 10hour stream over two days like loading up and looking at every map and some of them were just such horrible offenders of like this horrible horrible disgustingly ugly and broken interchange just off the map. So, it’s like you couldn’t fix it if you wanted to. Um where some maps at least it’s just like oh the thing you can’t get to it’s just flat highway going off into the fog. no big deal. But when there’s something like really ugly or some of the original maps I think are completely broken, if you want to do things like trains, they’re going to be completely broken cuz they have really small triangular intersections. And trains can get stuck waiting for the next train to go because the segments are shorter than the train body, the train length. So literally like if you want to use trains on your map, your external connections are broken on 25 tiles and you cannot fix them, which is wild. Like but again like I don’t think anybody plays test this with console players or nine tiles in mind or 25 tile limitations. Everything is built and considered on PC first and foremost. Um, and you know, we get the scraps. It’s okay. It’s still the best citybuer on console in my opinion. And I don’t think it’s a bad citybuer, per se. It’s just odd how some of it doesn’t hang up, hold up. Um, did has has Phil been here? Is city planner already starting a map on this one? Um, that’s a that’s an interchange. I don’t know. Okay. Uh, tiles. Let’s see where we can buy here. Cuz this one looks like it’s I’m I’m going to be regretful of the shape here. I think I can tell already. Maybe. Maybe not. It depends on what’s on that other coastline, but I feel like we got a lot of land up there in the mountains top left that we’re not going to touch. So, we probably wouldn’t build on this side of the mountains at all. So, right there, I mean, you’re talking like, is that a good quarter of the map that you’re not going to build on because it’s just one mountain range? Okay, but that’s okay. That’s okay. I like reasons that the map does not go on to infinity. um you know that that’s unfortunate if if you’ve got like a really hard edge and uh natural lines are a great way to to prevent that. So this does seem like it it cuts off in in a very decent natural place down here. I’m okay with this. I’m okay with how this goes off into the distance. I think I’m I’m happy over here. I’m not crazy about the repeated use of the the tree lines, especially when they’re crooked in comparison to the road that they’re lining up to. Like that is not an accidental line of trees. That is very much an intentional line of trees next to a relatively straight piece of train track, but they are not parallel. I don’t know. Not everything has to be perfect. But is it so much to ask that if you’re going to break out the line tool that you do it parallel to the to the road? And I mean, like, here’s the thing. like it might have, you know, like it might have looked parallel at the at the right angle like and it was just good enough over here on the edge of the map. But I still think it’s weird. I still think it’s weird that it that it veers off that way when it’s very much an intentional line of trees. Like why wouldn’t that line of trees I don’t know. At least we can fix that stuff and get rid of some of those. Is this Is this lined up with the Yeah, but again, like why why would you plant a row of of pines near the near the train tracks? Look at this. Okay. So, this looks cool. It It looks cool. It looks cool. I’m just going to Hold on a second here. So, um eyeropper. Can I Can I get a train track? No. Okay. Here. Well, I just I just want to see something here for a second. Hold on a second. Um, how come they can put train tracks down? Do they have any regular road coming off the highway somewhere? No zonable road over here. Come on. Really? Where? Where the heck was that train? I have no idea where that was now. Where? Where the hell was it? Oh, it was over here. Okay. So, like you got this big circular thing like coming up and around this rock. Like that’s very cool if you’re a child or building a Rube Goldberg device, but like if you’re like if you’re in the real world, you would have a like why give it a this huge incline to climb up here in this short space when it could gradually climb around an even softer corner that you were forcing it on. Maybe maybe this is some kind of like way for a train careening down the hill to slow its to slow its roll so to say. But like why would you like does that look cool? Yes. Is that how you would do that? No. You wouldn’t force a train to climb any further than you had to. Any incline is lost efficiency. If anything, like you’re sending it up this hill to send it back down in this hill. You might even spend, you know, tens of thousands of dollars in a week’s worth of time, just bulldozing this out a bit, flattening it. But either way, like this, you know, hey, that’s beautiful. It’s cool. And if you think about it for 3 seconds, it’s kind of stupid. So much incline spent there. I mean, and again, maybe it’s a safety thing that I don’t understand cuz I’m from America. and we only have slowmoving trains. But what do I know? Okay, so this map I think has some potential for sure. Very cool kind of uh mountain town could be built here. I will say it is a little unfortunate for as good as the map as good as the map looks. Like I love the tree details. I love the water. The the roads are a pretty decent start. In fact, like you’ve got a literal neighborhood you can start building off of immediately. Even even abandoned houses that you can keep for a while um if you wanted to. So, there’s a lot going on here. Those mountains though, those mountains are pretty basic for for such mountainous surroundings. I feel like they are not not at all sharp enough. It doesn’t help that they lose a lot of their detail when you come down here cuz like there is some some color change that you don’t see but like the shape is still very much it’s very flat like you don’t see any of the actual peaks which is I think is a problem from a design perspective when you’re looking at the map down here but like a lot of BC players like live up here in in you know kind of this overhead pivot. So when you’re not used to coming down here and walking around like it may not be as obvious, but those mountains don’t feel right in comparison to their size. Like they I I feel like they should be much more jagged in spots um and not so rounded. But again, maybe maybe my experience is just too limited. I’m I’m expecting it to fit, you know, the slices of the world that I’ve been to. Uh, no fires. That’s a good thing. I I was complaining about how flat the mountains look essentially at the top. Like, they’re just they’re just not jagged enough. But I think this map has potential. This is my favorite one so far. This is Pine Lake. There’s good reasoning as to why you would stop your build. I do like the uh the trees. There’s lots of farmland. There’s a little neighborhood you could build off of to start, it looks like. Although, I would desperately want to change this intersection. I’m not crazy. We got to check out the intersections, too. Uh, if you bring it up a level, it works well. Oh my god. What’s uh what’s the new DLC? New DLC is a map pack, 10 maps, also 10 intersections. We just pllopped one down. Um, this is actually a map pack 3 intersection, but I just thought it was funny because it’s like I was gonna say these don’t always work right when you put them on flat ground and that is one of the best issues. Um, I’m still not showing drop frames here, so maybe it is it is on user side. So, refresh if you’re having problems. Um, I’ll keep an eye on things though. Yeah, they have a definite. So, if we put that same thing down over here and we just uh if we just raise it, then it it handles it fine. It keeps all the levels correct. So, I believe that the new intersections all have that same problem, right? If I try and put these down on flat ground, they may get wonky. That one carved out pretty well. So, this is kind of useful for connecting a three-way interchange, a highway, but not necessarily if the traffic is going the way that a normal three-way interchange would be, where like I think the most common use case is going to be a major highway splitting to uh a subhighway. So like for example uh at least in the United States the way that we do things is like if you have highway 95 and that is running north to south and you have a highway branching off of it called say 395 that will never connect back to 95. An odd number 95 connects once to 95. If I have a highway called 495 or 295, an even number at the front means that it connects it it departs from and reconnects somewhere down the line. It’s it acts as some kind of a beltway to reconnect to that same highway later on. And that’s, you know, like a three-way interchange is more common, at least in the United States, for connecting like a a connecting highway to the main highway. So, it’s odd that there isn’t really a highway that connects straight through. Technically, technically these two roads are the ones that connect straight through, but this one really wraps around this way. It just it’s a little wonky. And then there’s this giant stair step here. When the highways get too close together, they can get real crazy. So, like you really have to flatten the ground out if you’re going to use um any of these intersections. But anyways, like that. So, that’s that’s the first intersection. I don’t know. It’s okay. I feel like I feel like I could do that. Especially if you especially if you paid me. Um here’s another one. Little donut. It’s okay. I don’t know. Like, this is not I I don’t think this is selling the DLC for for a lot of people when you look at these. Like, you can do that. It’s not like that’s not that tricky. It’s also not It’s not particularly I’m So, it’s not particularly beautiful. It’s not I’m not going to call it ugly, but I’m not going to say it’s not ugly. Speaking of, this is this is a little harsh. So, you’ve got these uh four-lane streets connecting with a crisscross uh so that you’re getting highway traffic off before you’re introducing more. It’s it’s principled is very well principled. I don’t I mean I I would rebuild it differently. Like this is a a good design concept. If you have highway going each direction um in a like through a downtown urban area connecting to side streets like you kind of want to do something like this. I think I would do it over a much larger space so that I don’t have to get so wonky with these interchanges or, you know, I would take the time to build a little depression here. Doesn’t have to be a tunnel, but just bring the ground down a little bit so you can bring this over with less height. You could finesse this, I think, pretty quickly and make it look a lot better. I mean, do we do I do I prove my point? Hold on a second. Let’s see. Let’s see if we can do this real quick. So, we’ll go over to highway tools. No, we’ll go over to landscaping. And let’s see. This probably isn’t worth my time, but we’ll just bring the ground down between the two roads for now. You’re an AHDR as well. Okay. So, you know, you know that this is not something that we can avoid right now. This is something that has to be solved. So, what if what if we use regular roads? How do they have this? So, the one in the back is bringing traffic over to get onto the highway. Okay. So, back here, we’re going to start a little further back. We’re going to go right there. We’re going to come out and up one uh elevation step right there. Can we keep it? Can we keep it even to the road? We have to snap it to a node if we or I had snapped it someplace else. So anyways, you could do something like this where your incline is more gradual and then you know cut over. So I’m going to I’m going to do this I’m going to do this very sloppy but like I don’t think it’s necessarily that’s way worse. I don’t think it’s necessarily worse than you know what was done on the other side. You just have to be careful kind of where this midpoint is and then you could even start taking it down over here. So like if we did this, you know what I mean? Like I So like it’s not even it’s not even finished, but like you could make it. This is me this is me doing this really stupidly fast on a stream with no consideration. And like it it it doesn’t need to be that abrupt of an up and a down. Like that’s a roller coaster. You could make it. You could shape the terrain a little bit and make it a much more gradual incline. And that’s not this is not a great example of it. This is a really fast way to do it. Um, and then you bring the other road underneath, which we’ve created plenty of space for. Like again, this is not I’m not saying this is perfect by any means, but just a quick example of how you if just lengthening the road segments a little bit could make it look a lot smoother. And I guarantee if you gave me 20 10 minutes, I I could make a much better version of this intersection. Um, in fact, like that kind of gives me an idea for a series like recreating these intersections, tutorials on recreating these intersections or better versions of these intersections for handling traffic without mods. Um, that’s a ramp for the donut truck. Exactly. Yeah, that’s a jump over there. So, like, okay, did I did I make it perfect? No, but like you see like even just a quick change in the slope can make it look a lot less a lot less drastic. So, uh anyways, we were talking about the new intersections and I was showing you how I can build just as sloppy of an intersection for $0. So, this one’s okay, but I don’t know if you were here on the stream earlier, I have a really simple diamond interchange that is even it’s way worse than this. And like it’s this is very easy. Like literally, this is a highway, you have a road, and you connected it with a like I I I can’t even understand what this is what that is adding to the game other than, hey, we asked you to make 10 intersections and you only had nine. Oh, hold on a minute. Let me get you I’ll get you one. So, we’ll come up three. We’ll do We’ll just do this real quick. We’ll try and keep the segments pretty even. Which does that keep? Yeah, that kept all the uh the supports good underground. And then we’ll grab uh the fourlane is it a four-lane grass road? Four-lane grass line street. And we’ll come about through the middle, but at a at like a slight angle. No, we want it on the ground. Okay. Oh, yeah. This is lazy as all hell. $0. That’s death. That’s such a death drop. It’s awesome. Okay, so you wouldn’t do that. Like you wouldn’t, you know, immediately drop it down, but you could you could come down in segments, you know, come down two clicks. That’s too much. Come down one click first. You’d space it out a little bit more. Well, not like that. Something like that, you know. This This is paid for. This is 30 seconds. And we could do this a lot better. I honestly like I don’t I don’t think I don’t know if you’re if you’re if you’re desperate for content or a new map to build on maybe I I I think it is safe to say this is one of the laziest uh releases that I have seen in terms of content delivery. And I I don’t mean any offense to the creators. Like I’m sure you put time into it. I’m sure it is. I’m I’m It’s the buildings aren’t bad. They’re just like It’s just more of the same. And it doesn’t fix the problem with the game. And the game doesn’t help by throwing the same building next to one another 15 times instead of finding a way to pull from the pool of the other buildings. Uh it’s content creator packs put a bow on it. They polish it up. It’s still It’s still the turd. And we love that turd here. But you’re It’s It’s polishing it. AJ, I hope you’re well. Welcome. We’re going through the maps. And actually, right now, we’re going through the intersections and finding that they are, I think, a little lackluster. Uh what were we on? We were on that one. So, let’s check out this one over here. I mean, that one’s kind of okay, but again, if you don’t flatten the ground before, this is a remastered problem. Um, I think a console problem, too. But like what you could do with move it is like select that node, select this node, and say like just smooth the slope between those two nodes. Uh, and and everything goes with it. Like you can correct it very easy with mods. It’s just unfortunate like you have to be very careful when you’re placing these down. Functionally though, I think this is one of the better looking ones. It’s a little weird though cuz it comes out into a nonp parallel highway, which is always fun, right? This is not parallel. Yeah. No, this is heading directly at each other. So, like what what should I mean I’m just going to say like for the for the ease of of players at home when you’re doing something like this like you should have your highway set first, right? Spaced out from one another. Connect your roads to that, right? Well, not maybe not like that. Maybe a little bit a little bit better. something like that, you know, and then you delete the the straight segments cuz but then at least like when you have like when somebody wants to come in here and and build a highway off of it, they can like, oh, I can extend this highway and it goes straight. It doesn’t go into itself with the default snapping. So, like I think if you’re going to charge people for maps, I don’t think that that’s too much to ask. like some basic courtesy of me being able to extend a highway straight if I wanted to, you know? I mean, think about it from somebody who’s just trying to play the game basic. Like I I have very basic starter friendly tutorials. Like, and if you go back and look at my cities from 7 years ago, like my god, they are disgusting six-lane roads everywhere that are square blocks. Like, it’s what everybody learns to build first. even some creators who who are brave enough not to take those videos down. Uh, leave a like if you go watch that monstrosity, please. But point being, like you got to think about it from the basic players perspective, too. Like an advanced player is going to have no problem like, oh, I’ll just I’ll shimmy around or I’ll recreate my own snap points or I’ll I’ll do this or I’ll do that. But the people that need the intersections most are the ones that like don’t really understand those tricks and don’t, you know, and then they end up with two crooked highways cuz they like eyed it and it wasn’t snapping right cuz the thing they were coming off from was giving them different angles. And that was a particularly bad offender where it like was crashing into one another. But if it was like a degree off and like your highways eventually separate, like that could be annoying, too. So, like you saw it took two seconds to fix that. If you’re going to charge people money for this stuff, like I don’t know. I I think that is an easy enough ask. I I you know, I don’t know anything about the content creators themselves, but like it just feels like there’s nobody. It It’s tantalus and make a content creator pack. Does it look good enough? Okay, let’s sell let’s sell it and make some money off of it. And like I don’t I don’t feel like there’s a lot of love for the core game. It’s just about, hey, this is the thing. How do we continue to monetize it, you know? And I don’t I don’t know. Like, at least from a non-moddded console player, the cracks really, really show. Um, this is okay. This is interesting. You have a highway and you put a roundabout in it. But again like um roads, highways, right? Is that highways that we’re on? That’s highways that we’re on. And then I want to do a curve. And I come kind of somewhere here in the middle. And then we’ll just we’ll come out like that and that. So curve that. Nope. Okay. It’s going to be a little funny about cuz I didn’t brace it. Okay. Well, I don’t particularly care that much. I know it’s bending the wrong way, but like come on. Where’s the Where’s the roundabout that we just dropped in? It’s a circle. This is not like this. If you’ve been playing City Skylines for a decade on PC or 8 years on console, you’ve built an interchange like this. And you know what happens to an interchange like this if you’ve been here for a while. I’ll give you a little hint. Traffic is going to absolutely dumpster it. It’s going to fill up once and never empty ever again is what’s going to happen to it. Hope you don’t need to get anywhere. Yeah. I wonder I wonder how many batches they got left cuz like the though the player base is still averaging more on CS1 than on two. It is still slowly dwindling and there’s only so much of a market. I mean I guess you keep bleeding money out of the whales. Like I’m a creator and I want to show this stuff cuz I think some people will come here to look for it, especially from a console perspective and I want to give them an honest take on it. So like I I feel like I have to keep buying any of the DLCs they push out, but I also obviously I have no connection to them and I wasn’t a afraid giving honest criticism when I was connected to them. They said that they could handle it. I don’t think I said anything particularly offensive. I put the CEO, Marina, in a like a funny meme of her jumping out a a window to avoid a a discussion on user expectations. Um, but like, you know, if you can’t if you can’t handle that criticism with with your $50,000 watch and your $1,200 Balenciaga hoodie, I I mean, I don’t know. So, I’m sorry. Life is so tough. you have a 52% rated game. Like maybe there’s other things we could be worrying about. Okay, so interchanges honestly not I think I said at one point and and maybe we’ll throw some of them down after to compare. Um, we just did the roundabout. This one again, like, again, I don’t want to I I’m say I don’t want to. It It’s more of an expression like I’m going to knock the map creator because you are getting paid for this. And I feel like this is something that I built in like Rockdale season 1. It’s a It’s a roundabout over a highway with a diamond interchange. Like I I did this in 2017 when it was like still season pass one and I was trying to figure out everything on my own. It doesn’t help that when it’s on uh nonflat ground, but honestly like I mean forget the height difference. Like just look at the design of it. like it’s not it’s not particularly impressive. Let’s come over here for this one. Can we try to put it down here? Will it be flatter over here? No. Over here. Over here. Perfect. Look at that. Okay. So, like, so what is this, right? This is a roundabout in between two highways, which like you could build you could build a lot of interchanges that would be more effective than this one. Like, it takes a little bit of time to thread this roundabout through here. Like that’s the only thing that’s kind of like yeah you saved me a step but also like I wouldn’t have designed it that way to begin with knowing what I know now. So to think that this is something that is paid for is amazing. And then this is the only one that I actually want to use in a city. Uh, I’m pretty sure is it in slow with the magic roundabout is a way to connect uh five roads to five different roundabouts. So, you can cross and go anywhere. The thing that I think is really interesting is this is all using regular roads. So, I kind of want to put this in a major downtown interchange and watch a bunch of people park on it because I think that will be even funnier to see all this traffic trying to navigate around around these these roundabouts with a bunch of cars parked on it. Cuz again, or not again, I shouldn’t say that. I was about to go off on the diet tribe about the trees, but uh like they don’t give they should give away the two-lane roads at this point for free that are part of mass transit and two-lane highways cuz then you could do stuff like this. Wait, wait a wait a second. What? Why are both of these facing the same direction? These are not facing the same direction. These are opposed. These are opposed. These are opposed. This is broken. You who does nobody double check their work. You’re selling this to consumers for money. I correct the stuff before I publish a video on a YouTube channel that I do on the side. Like I take this more seriously. You’re charging consumers money for this crap. I’m sorry. Like they’re so I’m like I I can’t I can’t like walk the fence of of pretending that this is okay. Like they don’t give a anymore. This is the lowest effort crap I have seen from them. I I I am sorry to the the content creators behind this, but this is really disappointing. This is particularly disappointing. I This is such a simple fix, right? But like here’s this intersection that you can drop in your map. It’s going to have cars parked everywhere, pedestrians walking everywhere because you’re using roads, not two-lane highways, because you got to pay for the two-lane highways. So, like, what’s the point of this intersection if it’s going to completely break down? And also, if it’s not going to road traffic correctly, cuz you forgot to put the lanes in the correct direction, you idiot. It’s such I know it’s such a small fix. Like, okay, what what’s this guy’s pro? He’s getting so angry and he could just fix it in two seconds. I paid for it. I shouldn’t have to fix it. I shouldn’t have to notice the problem on an intersection that I paid for. I paid to have some convenience. I gave a company money. They gave money to the content creator that sold them this. And nobody at the company apparently looked at it cuz I look at this for 10 seconds and I find you problems. You idiots. You’re so stupid and lazy. Like how can I I’m not even trying to find the problems. They’re just staring you in the face. I I get criticism for you that you’re not going to like. If you thought you didn’t like the criticism up until this point and this is the that you were going to shovel out to consumers with such low lazy freaking effort. They never gave a about the console community cuz I I would have to guess that the console community is is a major market for these DLCs at this point. And they do have more players on PC playing Skylines 1. But like if you’ve got a PC and you know this, like you can mod the game in a ton of ways. You can add new functionality. You can add new transport lines and train stations and assets and all kinds of crazy intersections on the workshop. You don’t have to pay for these things. And you certainly, you know what I’ll tell you? You know what? all the cool free interchange uh mods and assets that I grabbed from the uh from the workshop. You know what they don’t have backwards traffic. It’s so so so freaking lazy. It it kills me. Like if there was a way if there was a way to share content in the game, right? Like let’s say there was a little um a little shop where you could share intersections. It’s not that far off to think like you could technically build like park assets and then upload those assets in the in the main game. They just don’t have that mechanism to do that. But like let’s say you could do that. I can guarantee you for free I would spend more time on intersections and post them to whatever workshop they allowed us to and and I would triple and quadruple check it and I would ask those of you that are regulars in the community and I would say hey I’m I’m post like would you double check this? It looks right to me but would you double check it? And that’s that like I would do that I would check it 10 times before I gave it away for free as an intersection. Uh, and they’re charging for this with with backwards lanes like do you actually put it into the map and watch people drive on it or do you just build it and copy and paste and you’re done? It looks like it’s a build, copy, paste done. It looks like a lazy loweffort DLC and I honestly can’t believe that I am surprised at this point. I honestly shouldn’t be like this is it. My god, is it a boring read, but if you want the actual story of what is happening here, go read like I I know there are people in the community that will tell me that like, oh no, uh it’s colossal. They said it was ready. But when you look at the financial statements and expectations and uh companies that have shareholders have to speculate on future earnings and they often will explain how they are going to get to that point, how they are going to change their business structure to grow year-over-year and uh invest capital in new methods of earning annual recur recurring revenue. Paradox does a ton of breakdown of this in their annual financial reports and they do explain a major shift towards being able to get titles out and then support them long term with content. Cities being the model example of that. Cities 2 failed. I think you could say pretty safely like they still they’re still crashing. It’s not done yet, but they got to they got to turn around pretty quick. Do we look at Rock Valley yet? Um, sorry. I like I lost a couple minutes just I blacked out a little bit. It’s It’s It’s sad. It’s really disappointing. I it hurts it hurts me more cuz like you know I saw I mean Fallout 4 is not not the best game but it was but I enjoyed it a lot cuz it was Fallout in Boston and then Fallout 76 happened and I some people like where it has come to. I like can’t stay far enough away from that game. It doesn’t interest me at all and it hurts to see like a property that you really like go downhill. though, I’m sure there’s plenty of of old school uh was it Black Isle Fallout 1 and two fans that hated everything Bethesda did to it. But I like what Bethesda and Obsidian did for for the first two or three games that they were under that umbrella. But then it like it just takes this turn to, you know, a live service game and now we’re looking at maybe 2035 at the earliest for the next Fallout game when they really missed the boat on on all the success of the Amazon series. But like to see that that sucks, you know, like to see a franchise that you really love kind of dwindle or or fade out or not do something right. this cities was particularly painful for me uh because I’ve been you know I I’ I’ve been a part of the community for a long time and I had some inside connections there and got early access to things and I was just I was bored with Cities 2 from day one and it just like it kind of shook me to my core because I was like damn this is where this is where it’s going to a game that I don’t really care about like I don’t have fun playing this game anymore. Um, it was the game that was never fun to me, regardless of the looks or the performance or or any of those other things. I guess I never I never had fun playing the game. I just wanted I just wanted a better looking, better performing version of the same game I was already playing. Um, we didn’t need all the new mechanics and I think they’re still trying to fix some of those broken systems. Um, but it is it’s just kind of wild to see like, you know, you can watch the making of documentary and and them saying it was ready and it was their decision to push, but you can also read Paradox financial statements and how important cities is to their financial success and how important bleeding DLC’s out of existing properties is to their success. And whether it was Colossal or Paradox that pushed for that release, they thought it was good enough to get out the door and start, you know, churning out DLCs to sell on top of that instead. And I think that they honestly would be in much better shape today if they had just simply called October 23rd, was it October 23rd? October whatever 2023, uh, early release access. and they would have, you know, who cares when you release it. They could they could probably still be selling content creator packs in early release like Ark did it. Lots of games do it. Uh so they they could be doing that stuff, but but here we are instead uh buying map packs and the the intersections absolutely blow my mind. I feel like those are some of the lowest I I I’m sorry. I’m sorry if if they spent a lot of time on that. That is that is some loweffort that is some lower effort stuff to pay for. I I am absolutely thrown by those intersections. The the magic roundabout having a backwards road absolutely broke my brain though. Oh my god. Okay. Okay. This map looks pretty nice. And the farmland looks like farmland. The snazberries taste like snazberries. Like this. This is very cool. This little mountain pass road that comes out here off to the edge of the map. Little train track that comes over. I like this a lot. The It’s like the artist’s signature. Straight lines of trees next to curved things. I can’t handle it. I can’t handle it. Why the tree line tool right there? You know what? We need a line of trees right there. And a line of trees right here. There’s some trees along the highway. There’s got to be another awkward straight line of trees somewhere, right? I thought for sure we’d find one over here. How does it look off map? What’s going on over there? Train splits. This is nice. I like this. subtle enough, especially over here on the edge of the map. Um, like good hills and terrain. I like it. I like that there’s actually farmland. There is some some ore and oil in there as well for a little bit of color, but it looks like there’s a lot of good farmland. This one’s pretty neat. Uh, what was this? Was it rock valley? I could see building on this one. Was that one from the from the last map back? No. Okay. I thought that was one of the last map pack ones that they squeezed in there. Okay. Well, that’s the I think that’s the best map so far. The intersections were such a major letdown. My god, I am still I’m like I’m reeling from it that like none of them are intriguing to me and some of them are outright broken. I do have a new Boston map I was working on. The external connections are such a pain in the butt on uh on console. Okay, that was Rock Valley. Ron Ronstein Castle. Ramstein Ramstein Castle. It freezes every time. Don’t rename your cities, kids. Doesn’t want you to. So, so far, I’m going to give this a big pass recommendation for everybody. Unless you feel a really strong connection to one of these maps, but I don’t know. I’m not feeling a strong connection any of these maps. I’m going to go end up going back to Riverrun. I’m I’m playing cities. I’m reeling from that intersection in the roundabouts and I’m thinking about hunting legendary loot in Borderlands. It’s an odd sauce that’s going on in my dome piece right now. A lot of things happening up there. There’s emotions There’s trauma. There’s regret buying this DLC. I think the radio stations could be really hit or miss. It’s certainly not the worst radio station. It was okay, but it wasn’t it’s nothing that you need to have. The content creator pack was particularly lackluster. If you’re going for a really heavy Asian inspired build, I think combining all the different uh what is it? Heart of Korea, Modern Japan, Railroads of Japan, and the shops of Shabuya. Like I think you could you could get a a theme cook in there. But it’s like, you know, I if that is your purpose, sure. I assume this is the castle up on the hill. This is an interesting terrain to get up to it. That’s pretty wild. And then you got the bridge here. Okay. Can we Oh, you know what sucks? We need to move it. We need to move it so so desperately because like all this work is done. And I just want to drop this guy up here, but he has the the rocks built into the bottom of him. Also, he must be placed next to a roadside, but he’s got the buildings. He’s got like the rocks built into his bottom. So, if we could sink that down into the ground, that would be awesome. And put it up on top here. We could do it with move it, but we end up just making an absolute mess uh of everything if we do it this way. Unfortunately, it’d be really cool if we could uh drop the chirp up there. Like I said though, we got to we got to put it into the terrain. So, what have we got over here? Um some very square roads. Okay, let’s buy our tiles. Find our edges. Get inspired. or angry here. Hold on a second. We’re just going to throw something over here as a reminder. Okay, so what do we have on the map? We’ve got the castle, which I’ve already butchered. Um, why are these bends so sharp around around here? Okay, man. And the black edges on those roads when you zoom out for the lot is is rough. What are they using? They’re using highway off-ramp single lane roads all the way around here. That’s weird. That’s a choice. Okay, so map edges. Why wouldn’t you just round out the terrain here and support the I don’t know. Right? Because if you were going to do this, you could just hook us out a little further and not deal with the incline. Like inclines are expensive. Bridges are expensive. You would you would bring this around that terrain, not build a 100 foot bridge. But okay, we’re getting mad at the wrong things. We’re getting distracted here. over here. This is again unfortunate. I hate seeing like this giant open space, but why would this space have buildings and and development, but over here would not? So, you kind of almost have to stay away from this side of the river altogether. You got the old castle here. You got to have a way to get to it, which apparently this also 90 degree bending road. I don’t I don’t get the 90 degree bends in those roads. What’s up with this over here? Like what? I don’t know. Like is it just me chat? I feel like this is me in 2017 saying like, “Oh yeah, that’s good enough.” Not let’s charge for this. A one lane becomes a three lane. There’s one leaving, one coming on, three ahead. One lane becomes three lane. Introduces with four. This is it’s it’s weird. I just I don’t get it. Terrible with the highways. Yeah, I mean like they look good from the satellite like they like this it like looks cool but doing anything to it or if you have these LOD problems again as as I don’t think this is a problem on PC. I think this looks fine on PC and I think it’s remastered especially that does this to the terrain but like this is just like we didn’t we didn’t think about you console players. Joy, I hope you’re well. The experience I think is very different on PC. Um, can I I Joy I got to show you what triggered me. It like literally caused a screaming rant. So if you look at this, I think this is like the magic roundabout from Slow, the five roundabouts that connect to each other. You’ll notice that they’re all It’s pretty basic. There’s five four-lane roads connecting into each and they all go around the same way. And then you’ll find that the roads are two and two. Two going one way, two going the other way. Two going one way, two going the other way. What’s this? We paid money for this. It’s broken. I know it’s a quick fix, but there are people that are not going to notice that, and they’re going to be like, “Why is this stupid five roundabout intersection not working right?” Because it’s broken. They charge you money for a broken interchange that goes the same direction here. And and I just think I just think it’s I think in particular the intersections are one of the laziest efforts that I’ve seen so far just in general like they are not they’re not impressive interchanges. And like I think you could build better versions in just a couple minutes even without mods. Like that’s 2017. That’s a diamond interchange connecting to a highway roundabout. like th this is what this is what the community was doing in 2017 before they learned about move it and slip lanes and mass transit gave us multiple uh lanes. I don’t know. I kind of let’s let’s look at let’s look at three for a minute. So these are the three interchanges. That’s beautiful now. Okay. The terrain still still a little messed up. We still have to flatten the terrain, but in terms of this interchangees structure. Like the structure of these are are much better. I don’t like this one that like curves away from itself. It like it doesn’t create a natural bend in the highway. I think it’s it’s really an odd choice. Um, and I would change some things about some of these, but these are unquestionably unquestionably better interchanges. I don’t think the diverging diamond uh handles well without Can you bring this one up? No, you can’t. Okay. Um I don’t think the the diver uh diverging diamond handles traffic well. Uh man, it does not I remember using this interchange and it does not look good connecting all these paths. Also, they put um this a this is a highway exit and they put uh foot paths under here so like a ton of pedestrians will travel from one side to the other and it doesn’t make a lot of sense. Uh I’ve been meaning to go check out Town to City Joy. Like I I am really excited for that. I loved the little patch of land we could build on in the demo. Um how are you thinking of it compared to uh Tiny Glade? Are you feeling equally as creative? I did go back to that recently to do a little bit of building. I got to spend some more time on Tiny Glade soon. Delete those paths and replace the streets with two lane highways. Yes, I did as well. Um I think that’s what I did on Riverrun. But yeah, having these paths here creates so many pedestrians where if you remove these, they won’t um they won’t clog up your highway interchange, your highway exit. It’s a very odd choice. So yeah, the the the interchanges in map pack 3 are without a doubt so much better than uh map pack 4’s interchanges. I like again like I’m I have to call it out like it’s there is some lazy loweffort stuff here like like you can’t you like put that in the put this in the game for free. If this is something that you think adds value to the player, I certainly don’t think that you should be charging for it. It’s so basic. It is literally I guarantee you I can go find an episode of Santa Rica. Santa Rica, the highway interchange between the big downtown and the suburban side basically had this exit. That was season two. Like season pass had just come out. Uh I was just learning the game and this is the kind of intersection I would build. It’s 2025 and they’re trying to bring life back to this game. And I’m sorry, this is just so basic and boring and my god. And and like look at the tech the textures too. Like Tantalus is still working on this game. The people that are responsible that developed the remastered are still working on this game. Can you can you please fix lodgs for roads and train networks especially love the road tools in city town as well. Yeah, I wonder how much did they give us access to. I probably don’t know a whole lot yet. I definitely I had it on my whiteboard but but other things happened. I’m trying to think what happened. Skate came out and then I ended up really loving Borderlands 4 and that has been chewing up all of my free time. Um, I was explaining earlier like I have a whole rant that I’m writing cuz it’s so much missed potential and there’s so much wrong with it, but it also really nails the endgame loot hunting loop really well. I do like what they did there with uh like the boss repetition. You can just run bosses without having to restart the game. They did. So, they did some little things, right? This was whatever RC was. I don’t know how we feel about the map. It is okay. It’s not necessarily inspiring me to come build on it. It’s not the worst map. I I find these these road bends though around the central feature very strange. Like why wouldn’t there be some curve to those? Like why why all these fixed 90° bends when everything else kind of follows? Well, I mean again then again I say that like this would be a really sharp bend at at highway speed without a divider in the middle. Think about how many people coming down this way would carine into that traffic in the far lane with no divider there, no jersey barrier, just highway speeds and then a reverse turn and just like I don’t know 5 ft of flat grass in between. Maybe some gravel so your wheels really slip out. Rance the best. Very insightful. I I wonder how many of them I’m going to have left before I pop an aneurysm though at this rate. So So we dropped in all the intersections. I love how it handles the tunnel segments. It’s uh it’s pretty rough. The new intersections though, definitely not worth I I for sure at one point said like you might consider map pack 3 on console especially just to get you some cool intersections, but you do have to flatten the ground to make them work. I definitely do not feel that way about this map pack for sure. Uh, okay. That was Ronstein. Ronstein Steinstein Castle. Star Fort Delta. Star Fort Delta. Okay. Star Fort Delta. All cheats. and we load. My driving could not make that curve. Yeah, it’s not a safe curve. I mean, and that’s the that’s the thing that I have found myself doing is like when I see stuff like that in my builds, I’ll like, oh, let’s raise the highway here so there’s at least a jersey barrier or a sound barrier on that segment. Um, little things like that can bring a lot of realism to to a build when you start thinking a little bit more in terms of like how infrastructure would be nestled in with other parts of the town. Okay, so I have definitely got to put city town to city in the in the short list. In fact, did I I’m pretty sure I wishlisted it, but did I buy it yet? Town to city 25 bucks. I bet that’s a steal. Um Oh, it’s already in my library. Okay, I did buy it already, right? Wait, no. Did I not? I can download the demo, but is it in my is it actually in my library? Town to city update cued update. Oh, hopefully that doesn’t impact the stream. It’s probably a small game. 20% complete. 30% complete. Okay, we’re good. No buffering, please. 70% complete. Okay, Town of City ready to go. Ready to roll. What’s I be I got to catch up on on what you did on um what do you call it on uh Tiny Glade stuff. I I still I have a halffinish version of that map you shared with me, Joy. Uh, it’s really like I really love how they did the undo and replay and like they made the the sharing and like the video creation really cool for that game. Um, okay. So, guess what everybody? There’s a line tool. It at least looks parallel to the road in this instance. Um, I think something was planned here. This is called Star Fort Delta. So, maybe these are like are these crop circles like alien stuff going on out here? Let’s uh let’s take a look at our tiles and where we I do not like that. That’s where the top of the 25 Why Why did you give me four tiles of water? Okay. Three and a half Three and a half tiles of water. Like you I can’t do anything with this. I cannot imagine where the nine tiles are. Like cuz technically you could be a ninetile base game non-reed console player paying the same money for these DLCs and I kind of I wonder if I need to load these up on Ninetile to see what they’re like. Okay, so this is the Star Fort, I assume. Let’s look around. Hold on a minute. Yeah, that’s the star fort. Sure, that’s the star fort. What is with all the the prop the prop line tools? See? Okay. Okay. Okay. I’m I’m again. I say I don’t want to accuse, but jacuzzinish map. These are outlines for where you were going to put farm plots and roundabouts. What is this that is just lines of trees in the middle of a field? A big circle of trees over here. A big circle of trees over there. Don’t tell me you finished this map. Is this a finished map for real? Or is this one that was painted out to be farmland that never went back to like draw the rest of the lines? Tell me it doesn’t look more like that. Like this was going to be another farmland map cuz it has clearly painted divisions of forestry, oil, ore, farmland. Like they’re there, they’re just not finished being traced out. None of them are. Why would you have that obvious separation of really dark terrain, treelining three quarters of it, and then nothing? Like it feels like it was sketched out and never finished. I’m not crazy, right, Don? It’s certainly a safe expectation to guess that it could have been pushed out the dirt the door early. I detect I may be autistic, but I detect the obvious sarcasm. That one did not go over my head. You’re with me? Okay. It’s wild to me. Like this feels like an unfinished project I I like what what is this? This is like the this is the start of something. Absolutely. But it’s a bunch of half-finish lines dividing properties. There’s random circles near the highway where probably roundabouts were planned and basic infrastructure. I’m guessing it it’s Let’s look down here for a minute cuz like we get a bunch of this water. All this water is buildable if you want, but we can’t get over here. Like you can build on this flat land but not that flat land. I this is something that I find particularly offensive as a console player, as a remaster 25 tile player. These maps are never considered like they’re they design the map and and 81 tiles has been so much a part of the meta of how to play the game for so long. Like people play quote unquote unmoded that still have 81 tiles. Like, oh hey, I play unmoded. I have the entire map unlocked. But I play unmoded. Like it’s just like such an assumption of how the world works that you don’t have. It’s it’s the outside box that you have to worry about, not the inner box that you have to worry about cuz that was one of the first barriers that was torn down with mods way back in the day. So, I feel like and I’ve and I’ve made this complaint in public and in private to some of the people that make the maps and I was assured that no, they’re very much designed uh with 25 tiles in mind. I I then will remind people that they are also selling this to people who play on nine tiles and that very much is not a consideration of these builds at all. Uh there are very few maps that are good for nine tile. That flickering of the road is just just great. Okay. It makes enjoying it really tough. Yeah. You know what else doesn’t help people that can’t afford PCs right now? Did you see what is a brand new Xbox Series X up to now? Did they raise it another $100? Which by the way, if you are looking for one or for a backup, you can find you can find quite a lot of retailers that are trying to slash prices to get rid of stock cuz they realize like I am a I am a longtime Xbox fan. Like literally day one Halo it it ate thousands of hours of my time. Um I am a big Xbox fan. I think they have a good multiplayer and dashboard and connecting to friends experience. That’s what I think that is the premium that you pay for. Of course, they have Game Pass, but my god are they like they’re doing horrible things to like why should you own an Xbox anymore? I don’t think they have I don’t think they’re creating good reasons. You know, they’re they’re making me go to uh Steam and my Steam Deck and the Switch more. If anything, if I can do all the same things, like I like I don’t need you don’t need to buy the Xbox anymore. They’re not giving you like a good reason if especially if I think there’s still a case for like if the price point was competitive, but the the Xbox Series X is now more expensive than the PS5 Pro, which is, you know, it’s a stupid move. But again, there’s um because the Xbox brand is a little shaky right now. If you are looking for a deal, um especially if you are in Australia where the dollar is not particularly strong against US products, uh you can get some absolute steals in Australia right now. Uh across Europe, I know like wherever there are EB games. Um if you’re in the States and have a Costco near you, you could go get an Xbox Series X for $250 right now. Like you get literally half price of the original listing. Um, so they are literally trying to dump stock because it is failing so bad as a retail. They just they just want to get it off their shelves. And meanwhile, what Microsoft is saying in the background is we are going to raise prices because of tariffs and increases and in hardware costs. But like if you’re not selling the units to begin with, increasing the price isn’t going to help you idiots. They increased price twice in in two months. So just absolutely wild. But yeah, you can you can get some steals right now. So they just got removed from Costco today or yesterday. That’s they probably sold out of most or they’re shipping them to like one location to sell out. Yeah, that’s crazy. Like think about that. like Microsoft game console. Can’t buy it at Costco cuz it doesn’t sell. It’s wild. God, you got it when it was cheap. Yeah, I know. I got to I you know, can I say one thing that I am really really excited about because I have watched a lot of games go by and like the reason that I am playing Borderlands on Let’s just fly around some random cinematics while I rant. The reason, of course, it’s such a map fog. The reason that I’m playing Borderlands on Xbox is because I have a 3080 and I like to stream and record. I only have the one box and it is I don’t have the most powerful. I got a 10 700K CPU. So, like it was great at the time, but it is getting long in the tooth for newer games, especially games that aren’t performing well even on 5090s. So, that’s the reason why I’m playing Borderlands on the console now. But, I am so excited. Well, I’m I’m excited. I’m not cuz I’m still going to play it on on console and PC, but Battlefield is coming. There are a lot of hackers from my experience on the beta. Um, but I will give it a try. I’m going to play it on console as well when I aren’t playing with friends that are on PC because like I don’t want to deal with the hackers. But if you’re going to crossplay with friends that are on PC and you’re going to have PC players, then I will probably play on the PC. I’ll I’ll buy both. But I was so excited to see the Battlefield 6 system requirements like partic Oh god damn that explosion scared me. Um I I went to the Steam page. So minimum is an i5 with a 2060 or an RX5600. Recommended is a 10700. I have a 10700 K. 16 gig of RAM. I have 64 and for a video card a 3060 Ti. I have a 3080. So like I am above I am above recommended specs for a major release title for the first time in a long time. I am so excited about that. They didn’t go overboard in the graphics. It does look great. The beta played fantastic. I am really excited about Battlefield 6 not going overboard on ray tracing like they did in past titles. Like they said, “Nope, we’re not even bothering with ray tracing anymore.” So, it’s wild that like literally an entire generation of RTX cards was born to support ray tracing and big companies that could support it realize it’s not worth the performance drain. So, hey, did you see those trees in a straight line by the side of the highway? I sure did. So, yeah, this this I don’t know. Like I maybe maybe you could tell me otherwise, but I would like to accuse the map maker of probably not finishing this project on time and there being a a very uncomfortable discussion and someone saying, “You know what? It’s good enough. Ship it. It’s not as bad as Cities 2.” So, let’s roll with it. Kind of a sad state of affairs, though. Um, so there’s the Star Delta, which is World War II trenches and propline tools and a lot of vegetation that loads in way way way too close. It just literally does not exist. Like why do those little Okay, look at the little bushes that are there. someone worked on. Okay, so there’s there’s what’s called loads, level of detail, and basically you have these different animation layers because I don’t need to show the same tree up here as the tree that I show down here. I can get away with showing a lot less detail in a little thing like a tree. But notice that the tiny little bushes, even at this height up in space, they still exist. But if we go down these giant things, which you know to remind you, like they’re they’re overlapping on one another, but like they’re pretty big. That should have a mesh out here. Like that color should not disappear from existence. It’s wild. It’s just wild. Parking lots. Oh yeah, parking lots are the worst on Riverrun. Like I would love to like have like a little helicopter shot looking down at the stadiums, but it’s just empty concrete cuz the lines disappear. And like you could look at little details on roofs that are like the size of air conditioners and uh drainage pipes. Like you can make out things that small from really far away. It’s it’s very sloppy how they applied those loads and what they thought was worthwhile to animate at a distance or just at at worst like a lack of in of consistency where the guy that worked on these little bushes was like, “Oh yeah, this is a bush and it should still appear up here, so I’m going to do this simpler mesh.” And then the person that was working on this bush was like, “Hey, it’s a bush and it exists and I don’t know about lads. and like nobody checked off on it because like that can’t be intentional. Why would you animate the tiny little individual bushes but not have those dark patches of color and just have them disappear and fade away into flat grass? And that’s that’s the game. I’m not blaming the mapmaker for any of that. What I’m blaming the mapmaker for is for not finishing the map. Like there’s an abandoned house out here. There’s no roads out to it. Nothing. Just just an empty field. Used to be some rows of trees, but they took some of them with them before they left. It’s so It’s so weird. Okay, my my music stopped and we’re just listening to the quiet drone of of this sad little city here. Okay, let’s see the next map. Star Delta, ain’t it? Some of the radio stations were okay, but I don’t think radio stations are a good a good reason to a good thing to buy necessarily when you can listen to it on Spotify. I mean, if you have any streaming service um that is commercial free, I don’t know. I I enjoy music a lot. So, I definitely want to stream commercial free music, but like all the same music is available and then some. Uh we have two left. We have Sunny Keys and Victory Harbor. Certainly, if we save Victory Harbor for last, we will find Santa Rico. Uh, Sunny Keys, we will find Victory at Victory Harbor. I’m sure it will be the best map yet. Emerging downtown was an amazing CCP. So is Countryside. Yeah, I I I didn’t get into Countryside cuz I don’t know how to build small countryside stuff. Spoiler alert, Victory Harbor is ass. No, give me give me like 20 no Pepes, please. Um, if you’re a member. Uh, man, I got to save the I got to save the gifteds for uh for city streams. Then again, I think there’s going to be more Fallout before there’s a lot more cities. I got to get Riverrun going, but I also got to get back into the Fallout mode for for December. I hope that they have something exciting for us like a some kind of Fallout 3 or New Vegas remaster or god if they just borrowed what the community was already doing and paid them. They were working on Fallout 3 in Fallout 4. Like there was already community of modders working on porting the game over and they probably are going to do a better job than anything they try and do in house. My dad is more excited for the show than I am and he’s not even close to being a gamer. Has he has he played the Fallouts? Cuz like you could try and get him into Fallout 4. or if he if he doesn’t mind the old isometric over the head like top down stuff that may be a little bit easier to absorb for someone from an older generation who maybe played a PC game back in the day but not you know a fastmoving first person shooter cuz the f the first two Fallout games are amazing if you like that top down I want to say isometric but I know that’s not the right word not never played the game but obsessed with the I don’t know if Fallout 3 still holds up, but it’s an amazing story. And Fallout New Vegas is way better in how it diverges. Uh the lore around it is amazing and but the game doesn’t hold up. Like I tried to go back and play it recently just to play the console version, the 360 backwards compatibility, and it’s so sluggish and like doesn’t handle as a shooter. you have to use VATS, which basically turns it into a turnbased shooter, which is fine, but like I forgot that cuz I was thinking it’s like, oh, it’s Fallout 4. You can actually treat it like a gunner, and you can’t. So, like, if you play Fallout New Vegas, I recommend specking every single point you can into whatever gives you the most action points so that you can use as much VATS as possible throughout the entire game. Um, but my god, even just like looking up the lore, like find someone who does a good lore analysis on on Fallout New Vegas, and you could probably spend like a good 2 to four hours on a YouTube video finding out about the story in that game. And it wouldn’t it would barely scratch the surface, but would still be an amazing four hours. Um, really amazing lore. I understand why people didn’t like Fallout 4. it it didn’t hit for everybody. I loved it so much because I grew up so I grew up in and around Boston and I spent a lot of time my aunt’s house in Malden which is right next to Medford which is right next to Boston. Um and they literally start you in a little suburb that is like two blocks from where I spent a ton of my childhood. So when they’re like, “Oh, you have to find your way to Diamond City.” I’m like, “Okay, Fenway Park. Let’s follow this road.” We turn right at the river, we cross at the next cross street, we’ll be at MIT, and then we’ll be at Fenway. So, like it was just it was so I could understand it being a very different experience if you aren’t closely connected to the area. It was so cool just like knowing where to go though to go find, you know, what I wanted to see. Like, which I think for the main character kind of would have been the case anyway. Like, sure, it’s all it looks all bombed out, but it’s not like you don’t know your way around the city you lived in all your life. Like, he’d find his way around Boston real quick. Um, GTA V from LA. I don’t think there’s enough they I don’t think there’s enough structural similarity, but I also haven’t spent time in LA, so like the scale is way off on Fallout uh in Boston. But it’s like a a shrunk down version of the map. Like the highways are proportionally correct into where they cross. Why so much water? It’s a lot of water. That is a lot of water. Oh my god. Come on. Okay. Where can we safely assume that this is an ocean and not a a lake? Probably. Even if it was a lake, I think like a bad storm day could be problematic. But look at how flat this is. Imagine Imagine a a a tide swell in a storm. It’s It’s just so flat. Like I think it can look it can look okay from up here. Like it it doesn’t look bad from up here, but when you get down at this level and it is so flat, it looks obviously wrong. Like you need you need more clearance than this. I don’t know. Unless like we’re trying to recreate New Orleans and actually flood it. Like you have one bad storm and and that water is coming up. I know not in cities, but it just it doesn’t it doesn’t look right because it shouldn’t be built that flat and that low to the ocean. Not responsibly at least. It And again, it’s not a bad looking map, but it’s I think it is particularly tough to make a really flat looking map look good because like all of your buildings and all of your roads, there’s no hills. It’s like you have to go in and and give it hills. I think I don’t think this looks natural. I don’t think this is good. It does look I will say at least more finished. I don’t see any like lines that were traced and left as like a blockout for something that never got finished. Holy crapa. What the actual is this? What? What is this? What is this? What is this? So, if I’m over here, I’m going to I’m going to stay left to go left. I’m going to stay left to go left. Okay, here we go. This costs money. Okay, we’re going to stay left. We’re going to we’re going to we’re going to crash into the Jersey barrier. We’re going to stay left again. Look, you know, like, okay, if you’re building this yourself, you did an excellent job at this intersection. If you’re charging money for this with lights poking up through the highway below there, like there is no quality control. Like if if Colossal Order was a restaurant like completely char grilled blackened pizza is going out to the table because the person expediting does not give a give an F. You know what I Like if you’re if you are a a player of the game on console without mods and you build this, I I actually think this is totally fine. If you are charging money for this, I’m I am a little shocked. I’m honestly a little shocked, especially when like one of the first maps that we loaded into had like a a pretty nice stack interchange. And this just feels like somebody could not have been bothered to finish this project. Oh, I thought we had a super lumpy road, but it’s how the LOD loads the textures. It really throws it off. Like that’s I don’t know. Like why why and why are the like the lights sticking up through the the layers below? That that just that triggered me. I don’t know. This is This is This is a rough DLC. Is it It’s a tough time. Prop lines. Prop lines. The random prop lines everywhere. It’s I’m trying to I’m trying to get into this headsp space of why a line of trees there, but okay. So, it’s it’s times like this I wish I was doing this on Steam and I had a two-hour refund window. Although, to be fair, I’ve been playing it for 3 hours. So, so I would have missed my window anyways cuz I’m too busy having my head explode over it. Okay, new game. Last map. It is Victory Harbor. And I’m going to pretend that I didn’t see Sasquatch’s message earlier and that I don’t know already that this map is ass, but it honestly wouldn’t surprise me at this point. Oh man. Okay. Well, town to city soon for sure. for certain we are going to do some town to city. I am also going to in my free time push my Borderlands build as fast to 50 as I can before they nerf all the Vex bloodletting and and easy boss kills. I mean, not that they’re easy. you had to grind 50 levels and build your character in a very particular way and find very particular gear. But but I feel like there was some So there’s some other things. So what a weird assortment of games on the channel lately and coming up because when Battlefield 6 drops, that’s what I might be doing for the rest of the year gaming wise. So we’ll try and get some co-op action on there with my brother-in-law is usually pretty fun. although he works second shift. So we are going to be on some late nights. Joy, what are you are you like as far as cities? Are you still doing I I apologize. I haven’t checked out the channel in a little bit. I haven’t been watching any cities content or any kind of creator content really. Um, but are you still doing one and two? Have you moved on from cities in general? I again, I apologize. I haven’t checked in a bit. I try and pop in when I see the streams in the weekends, but I am often busy with my daughter. I’ll get to see her all week and finally get to spend some time on the weekends. I see them like for a couple minutes in the morning and then for bedtime. stopped doing tiny glade. Obsessed with Town of City. Yeah, Tiny Glade’s great, but it does like you really have to you run out of creative tools at some point. There’s only so much you can do. I hope they keep adding stuff to it. such a great platform and I hope a lot of other games learn from it in like I I would love that kind of creative freedom in more games. Okay, so Adia, I feel like they built this for you. Let’s just put all the colorful trees in one spot. Okay, we’re going to see what this looks like on foot. Already I’m concerned about that staircase not being handicapped accessible. It doesn’t even look like it is. If you’re ablebodied accessible, looks like there’s a little bit of a jump to get up there. Yeah, that is quite the step up. That is At least this handrail is in kind of an okay spot. The handrails at the zoo are like eye level. There’s not a lot of um consistency in the design scale of things. I think they got better at that in two at defining some of those standards. So, this is kind of cool. That’s all right. It feels better on in person. It looks a little rigid up here. What about the rest of the map? It looks like there’s not a lot of buildable space here, unfortunately, is is my first problem most likely. How much water do we have? Not a lot, but that’s also not a lot of buildable space on those mountains. So, what would you do over here? Like it’s really unfortunate that you can’t that you can’t build on that. Like this is very flat friendly dock land that if you’re if you’re developing here, you would 100% be leveraging that little that little clearing on that neatly shaped dock area, which I’m sure every PC player with 81 tiles is going to leverage. But the people that need these maps and features most that have to pay for them can’t touch it. That’s that’s I think the the ultimate irony too. Like if you’re on PC, you can download maps. You have tools to make plenty of maps. Like there’s there’s thousands and thousands and thousands of maps. If you want maps on console, you got to pay for them. And they’re not made for you. They’re not they’re sold to you. They’re not made for you cuz they they don’t consider this 25 tile boundary limit or certainly a ninetile boundary limit when they make some of these decisions. Holy how 2017 here I am again. Country roads. It stinks. Yeah, it’s it stinks for console players and I will continue to buy DLC to prove that they don’t care about No, I I somewhere at the company they do care about, but like it is I think it’s pretty clear when you take a look at some of the failures like in my day job as a manager of individual contributors like some of it is on them but if there are patterns of failures that’s on me. That’s not that’s not on one person. If there is something happening across the entire team and they’re not getting corrective recommendations, if they’re not getting feedback, if they’re not, you know, suggested adjustments or how we work with other teams crossunctionally like that, some of that is on the person managing and overseeing that. And I think that’s a consistent problem at Colossal Order. like the the management layer is not looking at big picture stuff. Um what what is that on the road? Okay, from there like that that red truck right there like doesn’t load and it kind of like I don’t want to be crude, but it kind of looked like a sperm on the road right down here. See this red truck? Watch as I pull away. Right. Right. Right there. I thought it kind of looks like a tadpole or a helicopter without a rotor just floating down the road. Had to let the dogs out. What’ you miss? Another another bad map and and more disappointment. I mean, this this map I like the terrain. I don’t know what’s going on here with the trees. I think if you don’t if you stay away from this, but like what is what is the point of this interchange? This is just an interchange for two highways. And like what why does this highway bend 90° to bend 90°? it like it doesn’t make any There’s no there’s no reason for that bend and you can’t correct it on 25 tiles because you can’t go touch that part of the highway. Like what the hell is going on over there? Okay. What do we do? We see Do we see any problem here? Let me let me riddle me this. Do you see any problem with this intersection? any problem at all. They charge money for this. So, you can get on the highway going one direction and you can get off the highway going the other direction. I I’m honestly not entirely sure who got ripped off here, the consumer or colossal order paying a content creator to produce this for them. Yeah. No, I mean, okay. So, yeah, it can happen. It can happen. Let’s zoom out and look at the structure of the highway. if this is an appropriate way to do this. So, what problem is this solving? Because you have all this traffic coming from off the highway into this really sloppy interchange. So, this is two external connections of highway traffic coming into your city and it can exit one direction down this one lane road to come down here. And if you’re leaving the city this way, so guess I guess if you want to go left, you have to come down here. Jesus. Again, this this cost money. This was not a free map that you downloaded. This cost money. This required you to build up this required you to be 18 years of age build up some form of credit enough brain cells to figure out how basic transactions work and then you had to presumably work some for money. You had to do some kind of labor or effort to put money into your account. You decide to part with some of that money and hand it over to a Finnish developer, Swedish producer, other way around. Anyways, you handed some of that money to a Scandinavian and they handed you this. What is that interchange? If I told you that I did it myself and it didn’t come with the game pack that you just bought, would you be less offended? I have interchanges like this in cities from like seven years ago and and I had a long hard think one day about do I private these videos cuz I am so embarrassed at how these things look and some of them I actually did end up privating some of the old tutorials cuz I was like my god I can’t I can’t show people what I used to build. They’ll think I’m an idiot. They’ll never take my advice. Apparently I’m wrong. I could be selling content. Fog me, what’s up? Welcome. I’m just ranting about the new content creator packs, the radio station and map pack. It’s not great. It’s not great by any means. It’s questionable at best. Um, and particularly lazy in spots. It’s so simple to fix, but I but I absolutely think one of my favorite things tonight is this. for for a couple reasons. One, because it’s all because they don’t give you the um what do you call it? The the mass transit two-way two uh two-lane highways. This all has parking and pedestrians. And this is going to be a nightmare in your city. If you have five roads connecting this close and any kind of zoning anywhere near them, there’s going to be people walking these roads. It’s going to get clogged with traffic. It’s gonna get clogged with pedestrians. It’s gonna be an absolute nightmare. And where is it? Here. It’s broken. They forgot to reverse the direction. Like this. This is something that we paid for. And I have to fix the roads cuz they they didn’t do it. They put the road in backwards. Okay. So, I think that this is the metaphor for This is the metaphor for the DLC right here is this road. I should have left it with the backwards road. Very very disappointing um DLC honestly. And the circles are warped because they weren’t locked. Yes, that too. Like you see how off off that circle is? Like I don’t know. Like it I need a different vibe. Yep, that works. So likeh like Okay, I know. And and this is the same defense that fanboys and the company will throw. We can’t blame Colossal Order because this isn’t Colossal Order. This is content creator packs and Tantalus is the developer for City Skylines 1 now. They’re handling the PC version and the console version. Okay. But somebody at Colossal Order and Paradox thought, “Hey, let’s this thing we’re going to charge money for it.” And I think this is one of the most egregious things they have done in the City Skylines. I can’t think of another DLC financial districts at release on console when you could not look at the price of a stock without pausing time. They literally did not play test that. I’m saying that I bet if you pressed them hard enough, they would admit to it because it was such a stupid mechanic to not recognize that was broken before shipping your game. Like I they heard they heard from me on that one. So, they have done something as bad or more broken at release, but like this is just from a design perspective, it it’s loweffort and lazy. One of the maps for sure looked unfinished. This intersection had a backwards road and a wonky as hell roundabout. Like, like look at look at this and tell me you’re paying for this. I would be disappointed to grab this from the workshop for free. And you are including this in the list of features. 10 new maps, 10 new intersections. Technically true on paper, but ask ask yourselves if you are happy with these results. And if you are happy with these results, maybe crack a window at the office cuz there is not enough air getting in there. I can guarantee. There is not enough air in that office. Oh my god. I want to throw this. Let’s load up riverrun. Let’s find a spot to put this intersection without making any changes with a broken road. And watch how quickly it clogs up in a downtown. I can’t I think I went to tutorials or something. Oh my god. Right. There is not a lack of creators. I I I know he does streams once in a while like Yumble could build an amazing intersection pack. Mr. Ma fall trees take my money please. Like there are absolutely give Beast Squicklehousen another crack at more Transit stuff. Like the there are so many people who could do amazing things for this game and do them a lot better than this is shameful. I hope somebody clip it. I hope somebody at Co and Paradox understands that this is I think the this is the worst deal. He had no business charging money for this crap. flat, boring maps. Some of them aren’t finished. They have some of the sloppiest intersections that I did back in 2017 when I had no idea how to play the game without mods. You have no business charging money for this crap. This is just such a This is a cash grab. It’s what it is. Like, the very nature of this game is a little cash grabby. will admit I was fortunate enough not to have to pay for most of the DLCs until the last two waves. I’ve been completely removed from any from any kind of inside uh getting key access or anything like that. Uh but if you’ve been here for a while, you know I’ve never pulled punches and always told the truth about what I thought about those DLCs. It got a little too much for them at some point. Um and they lost my phone number. So, so I don’t have direct contact, but if they can hear me, this is this is borderline criminal. It’s offensive. I’m glad that I am not in your insider community anymore because I would have had feedback to share that you would have apparently been very uncomfortable with and probably would have kicked me out again because this is so sloppy and lazy. I I don’t talk about exactly what I do, but if this came from somebody on my team and a customer saw work like this that I would have a that would be an immediate conversation as soon as I found out that like, hey, what are we going to do to make sure that this does not happen again cuz this is unacceptable to deliver something like this to a customer, not to mention to an entire fleet of customers and try and get excited about it on social media and show it off with fancy camera angles. when you start to poke around the maps and you see the flaws and the holes and the crooked interchanges that have backwards roads like come on man that like that is again that’s very much a problem at the managerial and executive level. That is something that you cannot fix overnight and it is not something that any one artist or dev or coder is responsible for is the person or persons that are overseeing and connecting the dots between those different teams. It requires a different skill set to manage a team than it does to direct multiple teams to work together. Even in a studio of 30 people, you got to have a couple of different lines of management and teams that are working together towards a common goal. And you’re talking 2 years after release and some of the game systems still don’t work. And the DLC that they had hoped to have as the initial wave of DLC still isn’t finished. They don’t even have a date for it yet. I don’t know. Maybe inside creators know when that date is coming, but they haven’t told the rest of the world and it is almost October. Um, can they sh get off the pot on console release? just say you’re not going to do it at this point because if you do it, I’m pretty sure you’re wasting a bunch of time cuz we don’t have mods to fix the game. And if you go into like comment sections today, people are offended that any effort is going to con to CS1 because I want my CS2 fixed. And then invariably there’s people like, “Oh, don’t worry. You can fix that with a mod.” But like there’s something inherently broken with a core system of the game and you want people to go fix it with a mod, which is great that it can be fixed with a mod. What about fixing it inside the paid product that you paid for? What about fixing it inside of a studio with hopefully security practices so that something like traffic doesn’t get infected with a crypto stealer? That could have been so much worse. The CS community is so lucky that the person that did that was kind of an idiot and only targeted one specific type of crypto wallet. They could have gotten away with a lot more. Tons of ransomware infections, tons of stolen user data. They could have stolen uh YouTubers channels, you know, because I guarantee they all had the traffic mod. Um, they just didn’t have a targeted crypto wallet that that thing was looking for. A similar attack in a in a a more sophisticated threat actor’s hands could have been incredibly devastating to a couple hundred thousand people. So, fix the taxes before you leave tonight, Sasquatch. Thank you. We’re never going to get to a billion dollars at this rate. Back up to 12% across the board. We unlocked our unique buildings. We don’t care about the citizens anymore. Just like I learned from Colossal Order. I learned it by watching you. Okay, these are the new buildings, by the way. I don’t think this is what the glass is supposed to look like. But can somebody now that there’s new people in here, am I wrong? Is this what the glass is supposed to look like on these windows? It’s not right. It’s not supposed to be all broken and patchy and missing stuff. Uh, the buildings are very repetitive. We mixed in some of the low density with the high density. Uh, I put some of the Korea buildings back in here afterwards. I’m probably going to probably going to ditch that that spot. So, where can we drop this little roundabout in? Um, it adds character to the otherwise crappy buildings. The the patchiness. Yeah, it doesn’t it doesn’t necessarily add character when all of them are exactly the same though. That this can’t like I don’t know. This is not the building mesh design. This is a mistake, right? I paid money for this. Got to love it. Okay, where can we get the worst roundabout in the world in? You know what? Let me do this. I’m going to save and we’re we’re going to drop it like right in the middle of downtown and see what happens. I don’t even care. Um, I want to put it somewhere that’s at least trafficked enough that we’ll get a bunch of cars parking on it. I don’t really have a good spot for it, honestly, though. Here, we’ll just we’ll start building out over this way. Can we hook it in? Beautiful. Oh, look at that. So nice. Three times speed. Is anybody going to come over here for any reason? Wait, hold on. I got an idea. Um, let’s really mess this thing up. Uh, road tool. Road tool. Change direction. will make it so that they can’t go that way and they have to go around the other side of the roundabouts. And then that’s how they get up to this road. This is going to be great. Right here. Nope. Right here. Right here. And then we just come over here and we change this to a one-way road where you can only come off the highway this direction. We’re the oneway roads up here. So if you want to get off the highway now, you got to go around the roundabouts. Oh, they’re using it to turn around now. What are they doing? What are they doing? Okay. All right. Well, this thing’s hard at work already. It was probably not the smartest way to drop it in, but all right, Joy. Hey, thanks for stopping by. I uh I appreciate it. I’m going to check out Town to City soon. Hopefully, we’ll catch you again soon. Have a good one. Okay, so I you know, I’m going to find a spot for this in a much busier city and drop it in without changing any of the lane configurations and see what happens to it. But I bet it’s not good and I bet it’s crooked circles and I don’t know what you were expecting, but this is what you got. So, okay, it is my god. Is it almost 1:00 on the east coast? Holy crap. I got to get out of here, chat. I got to calm down so I can get some sleep. I am riled up from this. Good night. Good morning. Do wood. We drop in wood garden. We’ll go we’ll drop some of these intersections in old cities and I definitely will do wood garden for you sass. Let’s do it. Um, okay. If you are new around here and if you’ve been hanging out, there will be more cities, but lots of other games, too. I’ve been live streaming a lot. I’ve got some ideas for a couple rant videos I want to go on. Um, one of them is Paradox is the worst. Uh, another one is on the lost potential of Borderlands 4. I’ve got some very lengthy essays, like rants written out, and I just need to structure them like more of an actual essay and decide how I want to edit them down. But I’ve got some ideas, uh, videos I create when I’m really passionate for them. Games I play all the time, and you’ll find me here most nights, uh, 9:00 p.m. Eastern. So, subscribe if you’re new. Uh, there will be more cities soon. There will definitely be more Fallout soon as season two of the show approaches. And uh you know, I know it’s a very different thing, but I love Battlefield 6, and I will probably be around playing an awful lot of that between now and the end of the year and into next year, too. So, uh stay tuned. If there is any updates or new gamebreaking goodness, uh new DLCs and content career packs in the future, and of course, if there’s any CDs to console news, you will find out here. But, uh stay tuned for lots of other stuff. I hope you had a fantastic time. 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Let’s find a lullaby. Okay, good night everybody. It’s the weirdest freaking outro. Oh god. Oh. Oh god. I had a I had a horrible nightmare. Oh my god. Oh, I had a horrible nightmare that cities put out this really trash DLC and there were these super flat unfinished maps and and there was this horrible horrible roundab. No.
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