Some really promising additions here. I especially like the pedestrian roads, which hopefully means we will be able to build less car-centric cities this time around. Also the roundabouts look great.

Parking lots

Wow. Now you can finally build realistic American cities ;)

I got a little bit too excited about roundabouts. "Ooh, they'll be so useful!". I know we kind of had them in the first game, but only really as huge junctions. I want to build Milton Keynes.

Traffic accidents!

I shouldn't be happy over seeing my cims get wrecked, but I've wanted that for CS. The game mechanics of road blocked and temporary queues and having to remember to build detour-alternative roads.

I love how they're designing the roads so they actually degrade over time and need maintenance and the pedestrian walking areas. It's all the tiny details that has me excited.

I love me some cities skylines. Even if it's just me making the worst-designed cities and getting mad about traffic.

The most interesting takeaway for me in this diary was that you can select individual lanes like the one in the video where you’re selecting an individual lane to create a slipway and how the mouse selectively panned over each lane and choose the one that created the said slipway. This is really exciting stuff and I really really hope that they fixed the traffic problems that the first CS game had 😭

Visually it looks amazing. Love the addition of the "parallel roads" feature too, that'll be a huge timesaver.

I don't see any bike lanes :(

I'm staying away for my own good. The first game sucked waaaay too many hours out of my life!

I can't wait to pave over the green hills with parking lots. No, really.

I'm so happy to see a thread about Cities Skylines here! And one with plenty of reactions and comments.

I was worried the community would vanish along with Reddit and I would have go elsewhere to get my complex intersection fix..

The hype is real!

I've not played for some time but I'm liking the sound of these changes! I'm glad they've started these diaries by talking about roads, which were always a pain point for me. Here's hoping the traffic simulation is also improved.

Wow, I cannot wait to try this. The stacked road tool looks really interesting especially in the city. I never tried it in v1 since it wasnt really easy. Parallel roads I had to use a mod tool to have that ability and itll be nice to have this built in.

As a console player, this is immensely exciting.

Seems like they are adding a ton of improvements from popular mods. The automatic intersection feature is honestly the biggest though, it was so annoying having to find tune intersections in the first game.

Honestly, I was a bit surprised at how much better this seems! If the rest of the sequel has a similar level of improvements, it will shape up to be a great game at launch!

I love all the public transit and walkable stuff. Let me make my people-first cities! Also the traffic accidents and road quality stuff seems promising. If there's one thing I want the most it is greater depth on the management part.

That clip at 2:34 in the video where they build the off-ramp might have made me drool a little bit

Okay, I'm excited now.

Have no interest in building a city without bicycles -.-

Nice to read and all, and I'm looking forward to that game, but am I the only one who expects a "development diary" to contain some information about the actual development of the game rather than just a feature presentation?

Built in sewage & electricity to the roads! No more forgetting, and having a sewage backup emergency in your cities

@chloyster Cities Skylines II looks dope. I can't wait to buy it when it gets cheaper.

Glad to see these tools be adopted in the sequel. They where some of the most popular mods for a reason

Roads are the backbone of a city

One if the things I liked about city builders back in the day was the aspirational approach to city design, I could build a city entirely using wind energy decades before it became possible in real life. This assumptions is dissapointingly but understandably backwards looking.

That said the parking lot and road maintained stuff looks neat. I hope it setup such that busses and other public transit reduce the need for road maintenance and encouraging foot traffic in an area encourages commercial growth. If well designed I think it could actually be a pretty powerful teaching tool of modern urban planning concepts that still haven't reached the mainstream(death to Stroads!)

I do hope this lives up to the hype - I loved the first. I sure would be annoyed if I had bought all the DLC though...