Two Tier Bridge
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The Two Tier Bridge is a world structure that allows infantry and vehicles to cross bodies of water and can be opened to let ships through.
Construction
It cannot be built. It can be found on the map across certain rivers.
Reconstruction
A destroyed Two Tier Bridge can be rebuilt with a Hammer and 300 Basic Materials.
Use
River Crossing
Like other bridges, its main purpose is to allow infantry and land vehicles to cross it. It is wide enough for just one lane of vehicle traffic.
When destroyed, vehicle cannot cross it. Infantry can cross but has to swim across the small gap thus preventing soldiers from carrying Large Items across.
Destroying it can be used to block the enemy's logistics routes.
Drawbridge
It has movable parts that can be raised to let ships pass through. In order to raise the drawbridge, a player must activate both switches located on each side of the drawbridge. To lower the drawbridge, only one of the two switches must be deactivated by a player. If a player is driving any type of boat or ship they can simply press E to open or close the bridge while close to it.
Motorboats, Landing APCs, and amphibious LUVs can pass under drawbridges even when not raised, but all ships require the bridge to be opened to pass. If a ship is in the way of the raised drawbridge it cannot be lowered until the ship is moved or destroyed. Ships that linger under bridges start taking damage after 2 minutes and die in less than 5 minutes. If the drawbridge is destroyed no vehicle or ship can pass through except submerged Submarines.
If structures are built on the movable parts of drawbridges, they will be instantly destroyed when the bridge is opened.
Defensive Position
The nooks on each side of the bridge can serve as cover for crouched infantry, making them safe from enemy vehicles trying to run them over.
A few types of defensive structures can be built on it, even on the moving parts: Sandbags, Tank Trap, Barbed Wire, deployed Tripod, Fire Pit. Shippables (like Emplacements) can't be placed on the moving part of the bridge nor or on the ramp but there's a small area at the top of the ramp that allows them.
Ladders on each side of the bridge help people that are in the water get back on the bridge.
Gallery
A destroyed Two Tier Bridge
A Two Tier Bridge being rebuilt
Two Tier Bridge Showcase
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