EmergeNYC News

Update 0.9.8B is live to fix two of the most reported issues.

The next few updates will include new building fires setup with the new system as well as more fixes to reported issues. We are also aware of a lot of users crashing on loading due to running out of memory. Lowering your texture resolution in the main menu in settings can help alleviate this issue. Also if your game starts in windowed mode and low resolution, hit Alt+Enter to maximize the game window and go to settings to set your resolution. Hit apply and then save. Thanks for your patience!

Fixed screen going black after 20 minutes fighting a fire with the new fire system

Fixed pressing 6 with a chainsaw holstered not allowing you to equip the chainsaw

https://youtu.be/W4LLnbEa_us

0.9.8 is live on all branches! A change log of all of the bug fixes and improvements can be found below.



Revolutionary New Fire & Smoke Simulation

Introducing a new realistic physics based fire simulation system powered by AI. This system allows for an ultra realistic fire and smoke simulation within EmergeNYC. Currently it is set up on all car fires, manhole fires, all new non structural fires and a small selection of building fires as I still have to convert each building fire to use this new system. Fire and smoke collides with walls, ceilings and more allowing for realistic simulation of smoke accumulation in a building and through rooms. I had to also redesign how you take smoke/fire damage. The new system uses a volume for each room in the fire and calculates smoke density and temperature as well as your proximity to the fire to calculate damage to the player. I made some improvements to the fire spread logic as well. Fires now only spread horizontal and up or just below them to other fire nodes but fire no longer drops down an entire floor. This system is still in the early testing stages to see how it performs across all hardware. More building fires will be added in the next updates.



New Procedural Emergency System

EmergeNYC now features a new procedural emergency system. This allows for virtually thousands of new calls across Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Montgomery County meaning you won’t have to respond to the same calls each playthrough. The new system is able to place emergencies in hundreds of different possible locations. The new system also automatically detects the emergency and generates the emergency information, address, box number, assignment and sends out the tones to the assigned units all procedurally. This makes adding new emergencies to the game much easier and faster so look forward to more new call varieties in bulk in future updates.



Redesigned Car Fires

Random car fires can spawn on any road or parking spot on the side of the road. There are over 30 new vehicle fires with a dozen paint schemes for each vehicle. Cars can also spawn wrecked, flipped over, on their side and with or without victims inside. All vehicle fires now utilise the new fire system. You can open the doors, trunk, and hood of cars now by left clicking the door. Fire can hide in the trunk, hood, and inside the car. Car fires are more difficult now as they spread throughout the car and it takes longer to put out. There are new bus fires and garbage truck fires as well as a few other special vehicles.

Redesigned Manhole Fires

Manhole fires have been redesigned and can spawn on any of the hundreds of Manholes on the map instead of going to the same 4 or 5 manhole fires. Manhole fires now utilise this new fire system as well. Manholes will smoke and flare up and make realistic popping noises. Once a manhole fire reaches its max intensity, it will constantly shoot out fire and the next nearest manhole will explode and catch fire. This makes manhole fires more interactive and challenging. Manhole emergencies have been added to Montgomery County as well.




Other Non Structural Fires

Many other variations of rubbish fires have been added using the new fire system such as dumpster fires, trash/rubbish, scaffoldings, food stands, news stands and more.

Procedural EMS Calls

EMS calls are now also procedural. They can spawn anywhere on the street and injuries are completely randomised as well as the look of the patient. This means you can have thousands of unique EMS calls instead of the same ones every game.


Other improvements and additions

Improved the thermal imaging camera especially with the new fire system

Added walking pedestrians on all maps


AI Bug Fixes

Fixed AI walking into outrigger of truck causing it to move

Fixed Division 4 icon showing 5 in Manhattan

Fixed Ladder 57 getting stuck leaving quarters

Fixed Engine 85 getting stuck leaving quarters

Fixed AI Battalion 5 and Ambulances not responding in Manhattan

Fixed Squad 28 door not opening for AI

Fixed some units having brooklyn radio audio when ai acknowledges the run

Fixed Ladder tips pushing the truck off the building sometimes

Fixed pressing E causing AI to pick up or drop a hose sometimes

Fixed pressing the hosebed keys causing you to deploy a line if an ai is at the hosebed

Improved click area of roll up doors

Improved click area of climbing up and down portable ladders

And more

Multiplayer Bug Fixes

Fixed hydrants not being networked

Fixed issues with Montgomery County hoses causing major frame drops in Multiplayer

Improvements to multiplayer nozzle spray sync

Fixed more units with light sync issues in Montgomery County

Fixed other players causing truck to move when climbing down ladder to turntable

You can now use the middle mouse camera toggle in multiplayer

And more


General Fixes

Fixed not being able to grab portable ladders off trucks

Fixed some reverse tones being too quiet on some units and balanced out the distance you can hear them from

Fixed vehicle staying in reverse if you jump out and reverse at the same time

Temporarily removed boats

Fixed hose spray sound stuttering

Redesigned hitboxes for fires so hose can go through the fire’s trigger but still put it out

Fixed not being able to grab hydrant tool from E33-1

Fixed water can aiming and shooting

Fixed thermal imaging camera IK broken

Fixed always able to spray water even after water runs out

Tweaked street textures in Brooklyn

Fixed Montgomery County Sirens sounding far away

Fixed Ladder 111 spare bucket not extending when in use by AI

Fixed Ladder 33-1 pink chrome material

Fixed Engine 85 missing its mesh

Fixed missing hole model in man in hole calls

Fixed Engine 249 mesh

Fixed police officer holster being red

Fixed cinder blocks in collapse call being red

Fixed some missing buildings in Brooklyn

Fixed getting in the back doors when trying to get in the driver seat in Montgomery county (You will now just enter the nearest door instead of entering two at the same time)

Fixed not being able to return the spreaders on some units

Fixed dropping the hydrant tool in Montgomery County causing it to fall through the map

Fixed seeing player legs sticking through doors of Engine 1

Fixed seeing player legs sticking through doors of Heavy Rescue

Fixed not being able to spray water from quint ladders when pump was on sometimes

Fixed cant charge line from nozzle with radial menu in Montgomery County

Fixed not being able to return some tools in Montgomery County

Fixed random hole in MC terrain in city under trailer

Fires now only spread upwards and horizontal, if something is very closeby and slightly underneath it will ignite as well

Nozzle will now always aim at the center of the screen

Fixed some issues with dropping tools in MC and them falling through the ground

Fixed some engine portable ladder holders not rotating down all the way

Fixed not being able to charge lines in Montgomery county with the radial menu

Made cutting roll up doors easier and improved the trigger zones

Fixed being able to equip double SCBAs in Montgomery County

Pump ui and reving will now always be synced to the trucks pump state

Improved reliability of MC helicopter water refill

Improvements to EMS menu UI and actions

Fixed missing lightbars on USFS Engine and Buggy

Optimizations

Fixed 111 missing its 12 foot portable ladder

Fixed more missing buildings in Manhattan and Brooklyn

Fixed a giant flag in times square

Fixed some occlusion culling issues

Improved reliability of hydrant trigger

And more

0.9.7B

IMPORTANT CHANGES

I removed the right clicking to open firehouse garage doors. Use the door button in the firehouse by pressing G near it if on foot or if in the rig you can press the Z key and it will toggle the gate open or closed.

Updated game to latest game engine version Unity 2022.3.1
This caused a few random issues like missing buildings and materials, if you notice something report it in bug reports.

General Fixes & Changes

Added texture streaming and Virtual texturing to optimise memory usage and prevent crashes when loading into a map due to memory usage

Fixed not being able to get off tower ladder turntables

Fixed 111 New parking brake lights not turning red

Fixed engine 33-1 back wheels being too low

Fixed engine 33-1 hose mount points on the rear not being lined up with the model

Fixed hydrant tool falling through floor when dropping it

Fixed character having no animations when taking control of an AI for the first time

Fixed doors missing at Ladder 66 firehouse

Fixed mask first person camera angle not matching non mask first person camera angle

Hose & Hydrant Fixes

Fixed not being able to connect to a hydrant if you were too close to it

Redesigned how dropped hoses and nozzles work to be much more reliable and not have issues where you have hose without a nozzle or vice versa

Fixed hydrants not turning off when pressing P

Fixed game freezing when pressing Shift P while turning on hydrant

AI Bug Fixes

Fixed not being able to drop or attach hose most of the time playing as an ai character

Fixed AI characters and tools pushing vehicles around

Fixed your player disappearing if a call comes in while walking around as AI and your company rally’s to the vehicle

Lower airhorn usage by responding ai vehicles

Multiplayer

Fixed all vehicles that had emergency light syncing issues in multiplayer

Fixed hose deploying breaking in multiplayer sometimes causing couplings to connect to wrong mounts

Fixed seeing other players still carrying a supply line when they connected it to a hydrant

Fixed nozzles duplicating in multiplayer when dropping or returning a hose line

Fixed Engine 1 and Engine 33-1 having a light stuttering issues in multiplayer

Fixed multiplayer characters and tools pushing vehicles around

Players in the officer seat can control the sirens and horns now

Fixed issues with hoses in Montgomery County

Update 0.9.7 is live on all branches and addresses most of the major issues as well as many other fixes, optimizations and improvements. Please read below for a full list of fixes and changes.

0.9.7 Change Log

Optimizations and Code Rework

Fixed Montgomery County performance dropping massively when spawning a vehicle

Optimizations to vehicle physics

Optimizations to vehicle emergency lighting

Optimizations to sounds

Optimizations to animations and animators

Optimizations to fire logic and particles

Optimizations to multiplayer

Optimizations to Montgomery Country forest fires


Bug Fixes

Fixed a bug where radial menu option to grab, return, or use certain items would not show up when they are supposed to

Fixed Engines auto responding teleporting to calls

Fixed ladders not returning when pressing the return all button

Fixed not being able to drive Tower Ladder 68 Spare sometimes

Fixed automatic sirens on Engine 31 Old being super quiet

Fixed dodge FDNY Ambulance causing all sirens on map to sound echoey

Fixed placing backboard on patient causing physics to freak out

Fixed first person camera draw distance to be the same as the TPS camera

Fixed time progression and weather not working

Fixed tiller trailer rotation to reset when tillers are respawned with shift + R

Fixed seated police officers sometimes floating out of their seats on police cars

Fixed 3rd Floor fire in Manhattan causing unplayable frame drop

Fixed basement fire in Manhattan causing unplayable frame drop

Fixed misalignment of Still water Tower Ladder wheel

Fixed house in Montgomery County roof disappearing if you get too far away

Fixed some fires that wouldn't extinguish

Fixed fire in Empire steel shelves that wouldn’t extinguish

Fixed placing down portable ladders in Montgomery County causing them to fling away sometimes

Fixed apartment in Manhattan with door you can walk through and having gray material over walls and standpipes

Fixed alignment of rescue engine spare front left wheel

Fixed issues with grabbing debris or patient with mouse

Fixed Fire Academy occlusion culling causing pieces of the buildings to disappear depending on the angle

Fixed hazmat barrel floating through truck in Brooklyn

Fixed 2 story garage fire rollup doors being scaled improperly

Fixed vehicle teleporting home if you hit return all button while driving a vehicle

Fixed gas leaks and odors not being consistent and not working sometimes

Fixed Tiller Trucks floating or sinking into the ground

Added hose colliders to school grounds in Manhattan so hoses don’t fall through the ground

Fixed issues placing patients on the stokes basket and backboards

Fixed battalion 5 doors having invisible back doors

Fixed dropping the stokes basket or backboard and then picking it back up not deleting the one that was on the ground

Fixed floating flags on Ladder 174 in Brooklyn

And much more

Multiplayer Bug Fixes

Fixed some synchronisation issues in multiplayer after getting out of a vehicle sometimes other player would be far from where they were meant to be

Fixed carrying and dropping victims not working properly in Multiplayer

Fixed getting on another players ladder turntable causing truck to start shaking or floating

Fixed running into another players vehicle causing it to move

Fixed items duplicating when one player picks them up it wouldn’t register for other players

Fixed water leaks and gas leaks not being synced
Fixed Tillers floating away

Fixed Tillers trailer being jittery for other players in multiplayer

Fixed the over the shoulder camera being broken in multiplayer when holding RMB

And more

v0.9.6

Readded interactable switches in trucks (Can now be used while truck is moving)
Fixed Tower Ladder 111 Old and Tower Ladder 68 Spare causing firehouse to unload and reload making them unusable
Fixed Montgomery County POV sizes
Fixed Major lag when refilling super scooper in lake in Montgomery County
Fixed lag spike when dropping water on a forest fire in Montgomery County
Fixed using Saws in Montgomery County causing you to be pushed back (Couldnt reproduce)
Fixed youtube links not allowing to be put in and updated youtube API
Fixed press G to open gates with buttons on walls not working in Brooklyn
Fixed pikes and hooks causing some trucks to flipover when grabbing off the truck
Fixed white flight instruments
Fixed missing materials on spotter plane
Added analog flight instruments to fire plane
Fixed Private dwelling Doors on Manhattan houses and added doors to the ones in Brooklyn