Poly Bridge news & patch notes

We are very excited to share with you that Poly Bridge 3 is coming soon!

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Coming to Steam on May 30!

Our new game!

After 5 years of work, we're happy to finally reveal the new game we've been working on, Plasma. Plasma is an engineering sandbox. Unleash your creativity with fun and intuitive robotics, physics, and visual programming tools.

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The wait is over!

Dust off your engineering skills and join us for some fun in today's launch of Poly Bridge 2!

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Coming to Steam on May 28th!

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Dear bridge-builders, below you can find information on what changes we made recently with a number of small build updates and hot-fixes, as well as a long-term plan for improving the health of our much beloved Leaderboards.

Recent Patch Changes

A number of changes and bug-fixes, including:

• Fixed the Ranks screen sometimes not displaying properly
• Fixed a bug with Hydraulics Controller when transitioning between levels
• Icon update for Grid
• Fixed a bug with Grid in Tutorial mode
• A few other minor quality of life improvements and bug fixes

Long-term planned changes to Leaderboards

We recognize that over time we have had to deal with plenty of cheats and hacked scores, we do have a shadow-ban system in place that takes care of most, but not all, situations. To improve the health of our Leaderboards going forward, we will be implementing the following changes over the next few weeks:

• Prevent 'falling road' solutions from submitting in leaderboards
• Prevent other known exploits from submitting to leaderboards
• Remove Top 1% from all boards (this is where the majority of hacked scores live)

We realize a leaderboard purge isn't ideal, which is why we're limting it to just the top 1%. This will require top players to re-submit their scores to get their footing back on the boards, but we hope it will be useful in providing a more level playing field for everyone. Any thoughts or comments please let us know, and thanks for playing.

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The acclaimed bridge-building simulator is back and better than ever!

https://i.imgur.com/7kdzdVZ.gif New levels, new mechanics, and a custom deterministic physics engine. Relax to the soothing new soundtrack as you try, and retry, to keep your bridges standing long enough to get to the other side! Pinch every penny and cut every corner to edge your way up the separate verified Unbreaking and Unrestricted leaderboards. Create, upload, and play a never-ending variety of levels in Sandbox or Workshop. Challenge yourself, friends, and the world with your own puzzles.

Exciting news today!

After lots of work adapting the game for touch input, Poly Bridge is now available for iPhone and iPad on the App Store http://imgur.com/tOaMdgl.png

Exciting news today!

After lots of work adapting the game for touch input, Poly Bridge is now available for iPhone and iPad on the App Store http://imgur.com/tOaMdgl.png

Dear fellow engineers, after a brief period without updates we're back with another patch! This patch focuses on fixing a few pesky bugs, some of which could be exploited to submit invalid scores to the leaderboards. We'll be focusing our attention over the next couple of weeks on leaderboards to make sure they stay clean and valid for everyone to enjoy. Do keep in mind we have an automatic banning system that checks submissions every 24 hours, any submissions that have been tampered with will result in the player being banned from the leaderboards.

Bug fixes

• Fixed an exploitable bug related to moving joints with the click&hold method and creating longer than allowed struts
• Fixed an exploitable bug related to starting and stopping the simulation very quickly, which resulted in the simulation running without it affecting the bridge pieces
• Fixed a bug with Twitch authentication
• Fixed a bug with planes above left land-mass not causing bridge breakage on collision
• A few other minor bug fixes

If you find more bugs, suspicious scores on the leaderboards or have any suggestions please let us know, we're always happy to receive input from players. Thanks! http://i.imgur.com/Sx8ZQZm.png The goat is watching...

Dear fellow engineers, after a brief period without updates we're back with another patch! This patch focuses on fixing a few pesky bugs, some of which could be exploited to submit invalid scores to the leaderboards. We'll be focusing our attention over the next couple of weeks on leaderboards to make sure they stay clean and valid for everyone to enjoy. Do keep in mind we have an automatic banning system that checks submissions every 24 hours, any submissions that have been tampered with will result in the player being banned from the leaderboards.

Bug fixes

• Fixed an exploitable bug related to moving joints with the click&hold method and creating longer than allowed struts
• Fixed an exploitable bug related to starting and stopping the simulation very quickly, which resulted in the simulation running without it affecting the bridge pieces
• Fixed a bug with Twitch authentication
• Fixed a bug with planes above left land-mass not causing bridge breakage on collision
• A few other minor bug fixes

If you find more bugs, suspicious scores on the leaderboards or have any suggestions please let us know, we're always happy to receive input from players. Thanks! http://i.imgur.com/Sx8ZQZm.png The goat is watching...

A new kind of collaborative bridge-building experience is now possible with our Twitch Integration! http://i.imgur.com/kzvX4R3.png

Twitch

Twitch is a live streaming video platform, allowing anyone to broadcast their game-play sessions and for an audience to watch the stream and participate in a chat. We took it a step further and created a web-based version of Poly Bridge that allows viewers of a Twitch stream to take part in the building process itself!

A new kind of viewer experience

Viewers are no longer restricted to the chat-box, instead use an in-browser version of the game to build along with the streamer, submitting their suggestions on what and how to build

For Streamers

Poly Bridge lets the streamer play at their own pace and control how the interaction works, allowing for a tailored and entertaining viewer experience To find out more on how to use the integration in-game or to find live a stream to participate in, head over to http://twitch.drycactus.com

A new kind of collaborative bridge-building experience is now possible with our Twitch Integration! http://i.imgur.com/kzvX4R3.png

Twitch

Twitch is a live streaming video platform, allowing anyone to broadcast their game-play sessions and for an audience to watch the stream and participate in a chat. We took it a step further and created a web-based version of Poly Bridge that allows viewers of a Twitch stream to take part in the building process itself!

A new kind of viewer experience

Viewers are no longer restricted to the chat-box, instead use an in-browser version of the game to build along with the streamer, submitting their suggestions on what and how to build

For Streamers

Poly Bridge lets the streamer play at their own pace and control how the interaction works, allowing for a tailored and entertaining viewer experience To find out more on how to use the integration in-game or to find live a stream to participate in, head over to http://twitch.drycactus.com

Another day, another patch! In today's patch we introduce some small improvements requested by players, as well as fixing a few minor bugs and tightening security around leaderboard submissions.

New launch parameters

Two new launch parameters have been added:

• -noscaling : prevents the UI from automatically scaling since it can cause issues on some Linux multi-monitor setups
• -nobackground : prevents the game from running in the background since it can cause GPU over-use on some setups

Grid changes

As requested by a few players, disabling grid-snapping will no longer entirely hide the grid, but rather make it more transparent, allowing you to still maintain the visual guides for symmetry but not forcing you to build on-grid. The game will now also correctly remember your grid settings between play-sessions.

Leaderboard cheating

We've implemented more client-side checks to minimize submissions from hackers, and are almost finished with our automated tool to monitor leaderboards 24/7 and ban offending players. A reminder that we use a server-side shadow-banning system, more info at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stealth_banning

Bug fixes

• Fixed exploit on Wrecking Ball vehicle which allowed 'cheated' solutions to 100m level
• Line tracer would occasionally crash when filling with segments of 1.0m length
• Some minor bugs with the Twitch integration

In keeping with the tradition here's a cool picture from our artist Javier http://i.imgur.com/ydOKf7s.png And as always a big thank you to all our players for providing feedback, bug reports and great ideas to improve the game!

Another day, another patch! In today's patch we introduce some small improvements requested by players, as well as fixing a few minor bugs and tightening security around leaderboard submissions.

New launch parameters

Two new launch parameters have been added:

• -noscaling : prevents the UI from automatically scaling since it can cause issues on some Linux multi-monitor setups
• -nobackground : prevents the game from running in the background since it can cause GPU over-use on some setups

Grid changes

As requested by a few players, disabling grid-snapping will no longer entirely hide the grid, but rather make it more transparent, allowing you to still maintain the visual guides for symmetry but not forcing you to build on-grid. The game will now also correctly remember your grid settings between play-sessions.

Leaderboard cheating

We've implemented more client-side checks to minimize submissions from hackers, and are almost finished with our automated tool to monitor leaderboards 24/7 and ban offending players. A reminder that we use a server-side shadow-banning system, more info at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stealth_banning

Bug fixes

• Fixed exploit on Wrecking Ball vehicle which allowed 'cheated' solutions to 100m level
• Line tracer would occasionally crash when filling with segments of 1.0m length
• Some minor bugs with the Twitch integration

In keeping with the tradition here's a cool picture from our artist Javier http://i.imgur.com/ydOKf7s.png And as always a big thank you to all our players for providing feedback, bug reports and great ideas to improve the game!

Another patch today, bringing you a couple of player-requested features and a few bug fixes.

Budget Auto-save

Many have asked for it, so here it is! Every time you complete a successful simulation run and the "Level Complete" dialog is displayed, the game will automatically save the bridge design to a new "Budget Autosave" slot available in the Load panel, only saving when the budget is lower than the already existing save, making it easy to keep track of your lowest-budget bridge for a specific level without having to manually save it.

Extra-wide aspect ratios and multi-monitor setups

We've fixed the bug that was preventing all the available resolutions from showing correctly in the Video Settings in-game. If you're on a multi-monitor setup and the game is using the wrong display by default, you can change that by pressing and holding the 'Alt' key (or 'Shift') as soon as you launch the game, a dialog will appear where you can change the 'Display' drop-down to a different display.

Changes in 1.0.3

• New: Budget Autosave
• New: Custom shapes in Sandbox are colored according to the selected Theme
• Bugfix: Sandbox was preventing Workshop submissions with over 99 pieces used in the solution of an unlimited resource
• Bugfix: When flipping horizontally and pasting a split-joint, the attachment-side indicator would not flip correctly
• Bugfix: Extra-wide aspect ratios not showing all available resolutions in Settings
• Bugfix: Zero-thickness selection area causing selection of wrong items

As always, a big thank you to our dedicated players who take the time to let us know about bugs and provide input into improving the game and suggesting useful features. Here's some fun sheep having lots of fun in Funland! http://i.imgur.com/O4ZRSUb.png

Another patch today, bringing you a couple of player-requested features and a few bug fixes.

Budget Auto-save

Many have asked for it, so here it is! Every time you complete a successful simulation run and the "Level Complete" dialog is displayed, the game will automatically save the bridge design to a new "Budget Autosave" slot available in the Load panel, only saving when the budget is lower than the already existing save, making it easy to keep track of your lowest-budget bridge for a specific level without having to manually save it.

Extra-wide aspect ratios and multi-monitor setups

We've fixed the bug that was preventing all the available resolutions from showing correctly in the Video Settings in-game. If you're on a multi-monitor setup and the game is using the wrong display by default, you can change that by pressing and holding the 'Alt' key (or 'Shift') as soon as you launch the game, a dialog will appear where you can change the 'Display' drop-down to a different display.

Changes in 1.0.3

• New: Budget Autosave
• New: Custom shapes in Sandbox are colored according to the selected Theme
• Bugfix: Sandbox was preventing Workshop submissions with over 99 pieces used in the solution of an unlimited resource
• Bugfix: When flipping horizontally and pasting a split-joint, the attachment-side indicator would not flip correctly
• Bugfix: Extra-wide aspect ratios not showing all available resolutions in Settings
• Bugfix: Zero-thickness selection area causing selection of wrong items

As always, a big thank you to our dedicated players who take the time to let us know about bugs and provide input into improving the game and suggesting useful features. Here's some fun sheep having lots of fun in Funland! http://i.imgur.com/O4ZRSUb.png

Another small patch today, primarily to address some crashing that users were experiencing on specific AMD CPUs, and also adding a feature that a few players requested: automatically load 'Autosave' when loading a level. Changes

• Player Request: Automatically load 'Autosave' when loading a level (off by default, toggle in the Load panel)
• AMD CPUs fix
• Small User Interface fixes
• VSync should be correctly enabled on first boot

And another making-of image, finding the style for Zen Gardens http://i.imgur.com/IZXmKu4.png

Another small patch today, primarily to address some crashing that users were experiencing on specific AMD CPUs, and also adding a feature that a few players requested: automatically load 'Autosave' when loading a level. Changes

• Player Request: Automatically load 'Autosave' when loading a level (off by default, toggle in the Load panel)
• AMD CPUs fix
• Small User Interface fixes
• VSync should be correctly enabled on first boot

And another making-of image, finding the style for Zen Gardens http://i.imgur.com/IZXmKu4.png

After a very busy and successful final release day, here's the first patch to address a few issues that some of our players were experiencing.

• Fixed a bug what was preventing players from editing their existing Workshop Items
• 'Esc' key now will always ask for confirmation before exiting a level or the game
• Very wide aspect ratios (such as 21:9) now show the correct zoom-level when transitioning to simulation mode
• High resolution monitors (2k and above) will now scale the UI automatically to avoid the elements and text from being dis-proportionally small compared to the physical screen size
• Added the missing Steam Achievements for Tropical Paradise world
• Fixed wrong theme settings on level 'The Two Towers'
• It is now possible to select a different monitor when launching the game, as soon as you launch keep Alt (or Shift) pressed to bring up the display dialog selection

And here's a cool picture showing the process behind making some of the game's vehicles, by our talented artist Javier Villalba. http://i.imgur.com/tkwTGFk.png We're always here to listen to your feedback, suggestions and bug-reports, please don't hesitate to get in touch through the discussion boards. Thanks!

After a very busy and successful final release day, here's the first patch to address a few issues that some of our players were experiencing.

• Fixed a bug what was preventing players from editing their existing Workshop Items
• 'Esc' key now will always ask for confirmation before exiting a level or the game
• Very wide aspect ratios (such as 21:9) now show the correct zoom-level when transitioning to simulation mode
• High resolution monitors (2k and above) will now scale the UI automatically to avoid the elements and text from being dis-proportionally small compared to the physical screen size
• Added the missing Steam Achievements for Tropical Paradise world
• Fixed wrong theme settings on level 'The Two Towers'
• It is now possible to select a different monitor when launching the game, as soon as you launch keep Alt (or Shift) pressed to bring up the display dialog selection

And here's a cool picture showing the process behind making some of the game's vehicles, by our talented artist Javier Villalba. http://i.imgur.com/tkwTGFk.png We're always here to listen to your feedback, suggestions and bug-reports, please don't hesitate to get in touch through the discussion boards. Thanks!

After a wildly successful year of community-driven development during our Early Access period, Poly Bridge launches today in its final version, bigger and better than ever, with more levels, new artwork, improved game modes, leaderboards, a greater variety of bridge-building functions, and even a revolutionary take on Twitch-streaming integration. We would like to extend a huge warm thank you to the players that have supported us along the journey, giving us feedback, suggestions, and bug reports to allow us to make the game into what it is today, so much more than the little bridge-building game it was when it released into Early Access a year ago. http://i.imgur.com/cWn2hHy.png If you’ve been with us for a while, below you can find a list of the changes and additions that are part of final release.

Tropical Paradise

The final world of the Campaign has been added, 15 new levels await you in Tropical Paradise, but don’t be fooled by the name, they are hellishly hard! http://i.imgur.com/9au29z8.png

Featured Items in Workshop

We’ve added a convenient ‘Featured’ tabs to the in-game Workshop browser, every week or so we will be rotating these featured levels, making it easier for you to find cherry-picked Workshop content.

Sandbox Themes

You may now set a theme (Alpine Meadows, Deserts Winds, etc) when designing a Sandbox level. The terrain outline will now show while in Blueprint mode, and selecting the start or end terrain will allow you to change its shape by choosing from one of six available options. http://i.imgur.com/Bc0ua66.png

Twitch Integration

We’re pleased to announce the public release of the Twitch Integration we’ve been working on for the last few months. This allows Twitch streamers to interact with the audience in a new and unique way, giving viewers the ability to build their own bridge and submit it to the streamer as a suggestion, creating an exciting and entertaining collaborative experience. Find out more at http://twitch.drycactus.com http://i.imgur.com/LH25nD6.png

Improvements & Bug Fixes

• Replay Editor improvements to make it clearer how to edit down your replay’s length
• When hovering over a split joint selector, the affected bridge strut is now highlighted
• Static Joints are now represented with a red square
• Split Static Joints no longer attempt to invert the numbering
• Clipboard contents can now be rotated by 1° increments
• Fixed a startup hang on certain hardware
• Fixed crackling background music issues some players were experiencing
• Many other small improvements and fixes

After a wildly successful year of community-driven development during our Early Access period, Poly Bridge launches today in its final version, bigger and better than ever, with more levels, new artwork, improved game modes, leaderboards, a greater variety of bridge-building functions, and even a revolutionary take on Twitch-streaming integration. We would like to extend a huge warm thank you to the players that have supported us along the journey, giving us feedback, suggestions, and bug reports to allow us to make the game into what it is today, so much more than the little bridge-building game it was when it released into Early Access a year ago. http://i.imgur.com/cWn2hHy.png If you’ve been with us for a while, below you can find a list of the changes and additions that are part of final release.

Tropical Paradise

The final world of the Campaign has been added, 15 new levels await you in Tropical Paradise, but don’t be fooled by the name, they are hellishly hard! http://i.imgur.com/9au29z8.png

Featured Items in Workshop

We’ve added a convenient ‘Featured’ tabs to the in-game Workshop browser, every week or so we will be rotating these featured levels, making it easier for you to find cherry-picked Workshop content.

Sandbox Themes

You may now set a theme (Alpine Meadows, Deserts Winds, etc) when designing a Sandbox level. The terrain outline will now show while in Blueprint mode, and selecting the start or end terrain will allow you to change its shape by choosing from one of six available options. http://i.imgur.com/Bc0ua66.png

Twitch Integration

We’re pleased to announce the public release of the Twitch Integration we’ve been working on for the last few months. This allows Twitch streamers to interact with the audience in a new and unique way, giving viewers the ability to build their own bridge and submit it to the streamer as a suggestion, creating an exciting and entertaining collaborative experience. Find out more at http://twitch.drycactus.com http://i.imgur.com/LH25nD6.png

Improvements & Bug Fixes

• Replay Editor improvements to make it clearer how to edit down your replay’s length
• When hovering over a split joint selector, the affected bridge strut is now highlighted
• Static Joints are now represented with a red square
• Split Static Joints no longer attempt to invert the numbering
• Clipboard contents can now be rotated by 1° increments
• Fixed a startup hang on certain hardware
• Fixed crackling background music issues some players were experiencing
• Many other small improvements and fixes

Hello again fellow engineers! A small patch today, mainly to correct a small issue introduced in yesterday's patch, and also an improvement with the colliders for the environment.

Collidable Environment

The environment is now fully collidable, so you will no longer see vehicles mysteriously disappearing and popping out the other side. Instead, you can do fun stuff like smash vehicles into this pretty mountain: http://i.imgur.com/IVfmfLw.gif

Bug Fixes

• Fixed issue with checkpoints not triggering correctly when transitioning from a previous level
• Binding key actions to modifers (Ctrl,Alt,etc) is no longer allowed

As always if you find any bugs or have any suggestions please let us know! Thanks!

Hello again fellow engineers! A small patch today, mainly to correct a small issue introduced in yesterday's patch, and also an improvement with the colliders for the environment.

Collidable Environment

The environment is now fully collidable, so you will no longer see vehicles mysteriously disappearing and popping out the other side. Instead, you can do fun stuff like smash vehicles into this pretty mountain: http://i.imgur.com/IVfmfLw.gif

Bug Fixes

• Fixed issue with checkpoints not triggering correctly when transitioning from a previous level
• Binding key actions to modifers (Ctrl,Alt,etc) is no longer allowed

As always if you find any bugs or have any suggestions please let us know! Thanks!

New Road Changes

As you may be aware we made some fundamental changes last week to how the roads are simulated, which resulted in introducing a new mechanic: reinforced roads. We've spent the last week tweaking values and improving the reliability of road simulations.

Leaderboard Reset

As we iterate over new road changes we need to ensure leaderboard entries stay relevant; because of this we have reset the leaderboards. Please keep in mind we will likely be resetting leaderboards at least once more before Final Release, thanks for your patience!

Leaderboard Rankings

Many of you requested a way to get an overview of your Leaderboard rankings, we tried a few different things and eventually settled on a 'Ranking View' that displays the percentile you're in for each Campaign Level, giving you a clear indication as to how you're placed within each Leaderboard compared to the total number of players. Access via Leaderboard>My Ranks on the World Map. http://i.imgur.com/jztpkbc.png

Leaderboard Banlist

We're actively monitoring the leaderboards and banning players that hack or cheat their entries. If you see any values that look suspicious, please let us know. We want to ensure the leaderboards stay challenging and valuable for everyone to compete in.

In-Game Gallery

This patch also introduces a new in-game Gallery browser accessible from the Main Menu, and is also used to display the replays associated with a Workshop item, which you can open with the 'Community Replays' button in the Workshop browser. You can now easily filter by level, show only your own replays, the replays of your Steam friends, and any replays associated with a specific user. If you want to share a replay that you find in the in-game Gallery a convenient 'Copy Link to Clipboard' button is available. http://i.imgur.com/TNeTYFd.png

New Features

• Leaderboard rankings view
• In-game gallery
• New level in Zen Gardens

Bug Fixes

• Line Tracer no longer causes the mouse-drag lock-up issue
• Arc Tracer Shape pop-up now closes correctly
• Road placement exploit fixed
• Flipping a vehicle during simulation no longer makes it weightless
• Hydraulic Controller should display correctly when appropriate
• Ships correctly break road again
• A number of other minor bug-fixes

Improvements

• Social media authorization window now supports pasting (useful if you use a password manager)
• Leaderboards size increased (Top 20 and ±5 around your rank)
• Show time-stamp for save-files when hovering over 'Info' button in the Load/Save panels
• Split-joint Index Choosers no longer overlap

Suggestions

Please help us improve the game by reporting bugs and relating your feedback and suggestions. You can do so here on the forums, on our subreddit, or by email.

Every bridge needs support, thank you for supporting us during Early Access!

New Road Changes

As you may be aware we made some fundamental changes last week to how the roads are simulated, which resulted in introducing a new mechanic: reinforced roads. We've spent the last week tweaking values and improving the reliability of road simulations.

Leaderboard Reset

As we iterate over new road changes we need to ensure leaderboard entries stay relevant; because of this we have reset the leaderboards. Please keep in mind we will likely be resetting leaderboards at least once more before Final Release, thanks for your patience!

Leaderboard Rankings

Many of you requested a way to get an overview of your Leaderboard rankings, we tried a few different things and eventually settled on a 'Ranking View' that displays the percentile you're in for each Campaign Level, giving you a clear indication as to how you're placed within each Leaderboard compared to the total number of players. Access via Leaderboard>My Ranks on the World Map. http://i.imgur.com/jztpkbc.png

Leaderboard Banlist

We're actively monitoring the leaderboards and banning players that hack or cheat their entries. If you see any values that look suspicious, please let us know. We want to ensure the leaderboards stay challenging and valuable for everyone to compete in.

In-Game Gallery

This patch also introduces a new in-game Gallery browser accessible from the Main Menu, and is also used to display the replays associated with a Workshop item, which you can open with the 'Community Replays' button in the Workshop browser. You can now easily filter by level, show only your own replays, the replays of your Steam friends, and any replays associated with a specific user. If you want to share a replay that you find in the in-game Gallery a convenient 'Copy Link to Clipboard' button is available. http://i.imgur.com/TNeTYFd.png

New Features

• Leaderboard rankings view
• In-game gallery
• New level in Zen Gardens

Bug Fixes

• Line Tracer no longer causes the mouse-drag lock-up issue
• Arc Tracer Shape pop-up now closes correctly
• Road placement exploit fixed
• Flipping a vehicle during simulation no longer makes it weightless
• Hydraulic Controller should display correctly when appropriate
• Ships correctly break road again
• A number of other minor bug-fixes

Improvements

• Social media authorization window now supports pasting (useful if you use a password manager)
• Leaderboards size increased (Top 20 and ±5 around your rank)
• Show time-stamp for save-files when hovering over 'Info' button in the Load/Save panels
• Split-joint Index Choosers no longer overlap

Suggestions

Please help us improve the game by reporting bugs and relating your feedback and suggestions. You can do so here on the forums, on our subreddit, or by email.

Every bridge needs support, thank you for supporting us during Early Access!

Hello again Engineers, another quick update today as a follow-up to yesterday's changes about how roads are simulated. After more testing and receiving very useful feedback from the community, we're introducing a way to allow road reinforcement. This should greatly minimize the current issue of roads being over-loaded while keeping the game's balance mostly unchanged.

Before

Notice how the left piece of road is the first to break off, and the rest follows http://i.imgur.com/SsO8eXf.gif

Reinforcing road with a wooden strut

You can now place another strut on top of an existing road strut to reinforce it http://i.imgur.com/mfICni1.png

After

With the load minimized on the road strut, it's smooth sailing for this van http://i.imgur.com/KAQfBUs.gif We'll still be adjusting values in the coming days to find the best balance possible, but wanted to get this change out there to hear your feedback and ideas.

Stress Indicator

We've also added a useful stress indicator at the bottom of the screen, visible during Simulation, which shows the current highest stress value across the bridge http://i.imgur.com/DxP4HEJ.png

Thanks for your support

We highly appreciate the feedback we've been receiving, in particular we would like to thank 'I_am_a_great_magician' for his input and ideas in strengthening the new road system. Please let us know what you think of these changes and thanks for your ongoing support during the development of the game!

Hello again Engineers, another quick update today as a follow-up to yesterday's changes about how roads are simulated. After more testing and receiving very useful feedback from the community, we're introducing a way to allow road reinforcement. This should greatly minimize the current issue of roads being over-loaded while keeping the game's balance mostly unchanged.

Before

Notice how the left piece of road is the first to break off, and the rest follows http://i.imgur.com/SsO8eXf.gif

Reinforcing road with a wooden strut

You can now place another strut on top of an existing road strut to reinforce it http://i.imgur.com/mfICni1.png

After

With the load minimized on the road strut, it's smooth sailing for this van http://i.imgur.com/KAQfBUs.gif We'll still be adjusting values in the coming days to find the best balance possible, but wanted to get this change out there to hear your feedback and ideas.

Stress Indicator

We've also added a useful stress indicator at the bottom of the screen, visible during Simulation, which shows the current highest stress value across the bridge http://i.imgur.com/DxP4HEJ.png

Thanks for your support

We highly appreciate the feedback we've been receiving, in particular we would like to thank 'I_am_a_great_magician' for his input and ideas in strengthening the new road system. Please let us know what you think of these changes and thanks for your ongoing support during the development of the game!