Welcome back, Cities: Skylines players! How many achievements does your city have so far? Are you satisfied with the progress of your city, and an even better question is whether the citizens are satisfied with your mayoral campaign?
In Cities: Skylines everything is possible – you can become the most beloved mayor, you can build a megalopolis, you can be the city best known for exporting its products. You can be anything you want, to put it simply.
In today’s article we will answer one very common question that can be found on various Cities: Skylines forums – can bridges be built across roads at all and how to do it? You have no choice, you have to stay with us and read the article to the end because we will just explain how to do it.
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Ah, good old Cities: Skylines. We are mildly nostalgic because the Cities: Skylines game came out back in 2015, which is 7 years ago. Many more similar games have appeared on the market but none can match this cult, city-building simulation game that has a bunch of loyal and active players even today, 7 years later.
Paradox Interactive launched Cities: Skylines into gaming orbit in 2015, probably not even imagining how popular this game will reach. This is a game where players play as building engineers (or builders, as you like) and as mayors at the same time.
When the new game starts, the player should choose the map on which he wants to build his city. Then he starts from the very beginning – he has to find places that are rich in natural resources, build industrial buildings on them and thus provide jobs for citizens, then he has to set up residential and commercial zones, and finally connect everything with roads. And that’s just the beginning!
Now comes the more complicated part of the game. The player must then take care of everything else that makes the city livable. This means that it must pay attention to environmental pollution, provide enough green space, move industries away from urban areas, build schools and colleges, as well as police and fire stations and hospitals.
Here, the mayor still has to deal with garbage collection, providing drinking water and supplying citizens with electricity. Then it’s time to collect taxes and deal with the policies. Did we say this is just the beginning?
And now we can on the main topic of today’s article: you know how in Cities: Skylines you can build bridges and roads, bridges and roads are extremely important in the city’s traffic connectivity because they allow citizens to move around the city properly. However, what if you want to build bridges over roads? We will now explain to you how you can do this quickly and easily.
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How To Make Bridges Over Roads – Step By Step
The usual way to build a bridge over the road is to choose the desired road, you have to make it ramp up to the side high and make the road go down on the other side of the course. However, if you want to place the bridge diagonally across the road an error can occur as the pillar will find itself in the way and block traffic. This can be prevented by turning off the road lane grid and road lines.
Now, let’s say something about a much better way to build a bridge over the road, which includes mods. Specifically, we are talking about a mod called Road Anarchy. This mod is one of the most used mods in Cities: Skylines, and you can find it on the official Steam Workshop site of Cities: Skylines. Keep in mind that we are talking about the mod for the PC version of Cities: Skylines, not for the console versions.
To see the full effect of this mod we need to make a plain bridge as before. It can be one-way or you can choose a two-lane bridge if you want a slightly different look. We will now see how we can improve the look of this mod.
First, we need to go to the road editor again and click on the icon that says ‘Upgrade Road’, then in the Road Anarchy window on the top right we select the button that says ‘Bridge: Forces the use of bridge pieces if available’ after which will be placed on our road bridge piece that is available. Also, we can change back to ‘Elevate’ if we don’t like the bridge piece after all.
If you select the button in the Road Anarchy window called ‘Ground: Forces the ground to follow the elevation of the road’ we will be able to lift the terrain to where the road is, which looks really wonderful. It simply gives a more natural look to the bridge.
The next mod we will use is Move It! mod which is also one of the basic mods that players have installed in their cities. You can choose nodes of the road, and make them sunken, for example. Place another road next to the main road where you want to build a bridge and use the ‘Ground’ button again in the Road Anarchy window.
Then, the elevation will follow the new road. With the Move It! mod you can select the set nodes and select the ‘Align To Object High’ option which will make those parts of the road sunken at the same depth as our new road. Terrain really keeps track of changes which makes it easier for you to make a normal road that will serve as a bridge over road.
After that, change the road back to elevator road, force the road to elevate and you will get different bridge pieces. This way you can make the sunken road with bridges over and align the road to the border of the canyon to make it more beautiful.
After that, change the road back to elevator road, force the road to elevate and you will get different bridge pieces. This way you can make the sunken road with bridges over and align the road to the border of the canyon to make it more beautiful.
Warning: Here are some mods you can download and install in your game. Mods can be a really wonderful refreshment in the game as they provide a variety of content that is not available in with the base game. However, when downloading the mods you need to know that your data will be available to the creators of the mods.
Also, mods besides being able to improve your game can also ruin it. There is a possibility that the game will crash or some glitches will appear that will disable your normal gameplay. So keep in mind to download mods at your own risk, always download mods from verified sources, read reviews from other players and only when you are sure that some mod is worth the risk download it.
Don’t forget before you insert the mod into your game save your previous game just in case. If the mod has a bad effect on your game you will be able to remove it and continue playing the previously saved game.
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Final Thoughts
Congratulations, you have reached the end of the article. As we said at the beginning, this short guide needs to be read carefully in order to apply the tips in your city. Now you know how to build bridges over roads, but with the extra help of mods.
The mods listed in this game are really essential and a very large number of players use them in their cities. Follow our tips and explore all the options that are offered to you when building bridges. We have no doubt that your citizens will be satisfied with the bridges, and you will continue to be the most beloved mayor of your city!
