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Keep in mind I designed a significant portion of polybridge's campaign levels so i'm pretty good at that game. I haven't found any of the first 36 levels difficult and I've solved all of them with the single car and convoy. I think the 'cheap unrealistic' aspect of the physics is due to the elasticity of the structs/rope which is better jumps that it almost every level uses or can use. The rope is cheaper but the budget doesn't seem to matter in BCP. (haven't made any trap doors or bridges that purposefully move in anyway. I have not come across a situation where I wanted to prevent expansion but not compression which to me is the primary purpose of rope.

There is really little reason to use it except to save budget or because your too lazy to build the extra struts to do the same thing with the base material. Unlike in poly bridge the rope is weaker than the base strut material. The struts weigh the same as the roads which also lends itself to make construction of larger bridges more difficult as adding additional support adds more weight than compared to adding support in poly bridge.

However it also means that making a larger ridged bridge is much more difficult. The elasticity helps so bridges don't crumble when a car lands on them. This is helpful since so much of the games' puzzles seem to rely on cars jumping. I find this kind of odd but we do get some unique situations such as areas that truly prevent construction where the cars and stuff still go which is not really possible in polybridge.Р”Р„ll the rods are more elastic than in poly bridge. However BCP even tho the rod does not collide during simulation it can still phase though the land mass. In BCP your nodes collide with land masses but the rod does not, (same as in polybridge). The grid has a large thing to with this and perhaps the elasticity of the parts too. You can do land braces very much like you can in poly bridge but they are less effective. In BCP the rod will highlight red but you are still allowed to move it (removing the red rods) However in polybridge if you try to move a node too far away you will be restricted by a rods maximum length and those rods are highlighted. Poly bridge has this feature as well but it is easier to activate in BCP (shorter mouse hold time). You have to hold the mouse button down a bit to activate move mode and I don't think you can set a hotkey to use instead. Where poly bridge has a barely noticeable white highlight BCP will draw a dashed line to nodes that are within range.

no hotkeys (or not clear to me that they exist if they do)Р”В«CP has a better implementation of the 'nearby nodes' indicator.

Bridge constructor game on reddit full#

Selection (no clear all so it can be a bit tedious to remove a full design).

What I don't like is the things lacking in BCP that polybridge has. For example clicking a strut to toggle between road & strut is pretty neat but i do find myself accidentally double clicking from time to time which deletes. However this is likely due to my experience using them differently. There are some general differences such as how you move joints and place them that are different. I'm planning to write a long review for BCP after i complete the game so i'll use this post as a draft. There are 60 levels and I have completed 36 of them (single and convoy) Hello I've spent 3k hours in poly bridge and spent 4.5 last night in BCP (bridge constructor portal).