EmergeNYC News

0.9.5F Change Log

You can now select characters and vehicles easier by putting the mouse over them and left clicking them instead of the drag select method

Fixed stretcher pick up not working on the dredge ambulance using AI

Fixed reviving downed firefighters with AI not working

Added a carry icon that shows if an AI member is carrying a victim on the top status bar

Fixed Squad 28 Spare character spawn points in Manhattan

Fixed quick attack line spray fire not working

Fixed Rescue 2 crashing into the bus on the bicycle under the bus call

Removed spray tower ladder button

Fixed Spray Nearest fire button showing up on vehicles

Fixed the chief car in Montgomery County shaders looking weird

Fixed FF options showing up on EMT AI

0.9.5E

Did some changes to selection script to hopefully fix the selection square breaking (Needs testing, haven't been able to recreate)

Fixed Battalion 37 not turning out correctly when responding with AI

Fixed 2 Story garage on Herkimer street interior not loading and breaking MDT Call clearing

Fixed strange lighting and shading in Montgomery County

Fixed Montgomery County Ambulance strange shading

Fixed Montgomery County Rescue Engine strange shading

Fixed Montgomery County firefighter head disappearing if you zoom in too much

Squad 252 2nd piece now does not spawn with AI and can drive using manual AI parking placement

Fixed Ladder 112 Outriggers not working properly when using automatic ladder placement

Fixed Ladder 44 not extending and retracting properly

Fixed ticket of Apartment fire behind 227 saying 252HT instead of a 3rd engine and 2nd ladder

Green selection rectangle will now not show when using radial menu or spraying water

Fixed Spray option showing up when having more than one person selected (Should only show up when having a nozzle man who can spray water selected)

AI can only put out fire if they have a valid water source and nozzle/can/extinguisher

Fixed open up option showing up when having more than one person selected (Should only show up when a single member with halligan, axe, or hook/pike equipped)

Fixed primary search being more than once causing firefighters to be stuck in the carrying animation when reaching the patient

Temporarily removed lay in AI button if using AI members

Fixed change into station gear button tooltip not working

Fixed Key selection for paramedic/EMTs not working

Removed drop stretcher AI action that wasnt working as its not needed

0.9.5D

Fixed immediate death when taking over paramedic AI

Fixed 1 story commercial on bergen street missing its roof and interior

Fixed Dredge ambulance AI commands not working

Placed parking spots for auto response on hazmat calls

Fixed some other auto response calls that were not working

Fixed dropping off patient at hospital making paramedic enter ambulance without returning stretcher to ambulance first

The AI update 0.9.5 has been released on the staging branch. To access the staging branch head to steam, go to library, right click on EmergeNYC and then select properties. Go down to Beta's and select the drop down menu and click on staging branch. The update will release to the default steam branch at the end of the week as I continue to iron out remaining bugs.

Speed tutorial series on how to play the AI Update:

https://youtu.be/xUgmd3VTyU4

https://youtu.be/IqoLh8zigxA

https://youtu.be/Sy3HDxkT3ao

https://youtu.be/Xg4drM1E9oQ

https://youtu.be/jvyWcgz6NF0

EmergeNYC Update 0.9.5 Change Log

A new way to play

This update completely changes how the game can be played and adds tons of Real Time Strategy style AI mechanics to the game. (ONLY IN BROOKLYN FOR TESTING)

AI Firefighters & Paramedics that can be controlled and given tasks from the RTS Camera or while in control of a firefighter.

Units in Brooklyn will automatically respond to emergencies if they are spawned and assigned on the ticket.

AI Firefighters can be disabled to play the game without them

New revamped Montgomery County city area





Added Model 28 Siren to Ladder 123

And more

Improvements:

New graphics, lighting and post processing overhaul




Improvements to AI Vehicle driving (Shouldn’t overshoot turns anymore and should stay on the road when driving to a call)

Made hose couplings not so slippery to slide around the ground

Mouse cursor will now stay on game monitor if using more than one monitor

Returned Squad 28 to inside firehouse

Returned Rescue 9 to its firehouse

And more

Optimizations (ms is milliseconds saved on the CPU per frame):

Massive memory usage reduction on Brooklyn & Manhattan maps (Less than 16GBs used with full resolution textures)

Shorter loading times

Split scenes and environments into sections that are only loaded when the player or camera is in that area to save memory usage and performance as well as loading times as before all scenes were loaded when the map is initially loaded

Optimised Airhorn script .24ms

Optimised Fire threshold script .4ms

Optimised tool target ex script

Optimised Car controller script

Optimised Mount Points script

Optimised AI Canvas script .3ms

Optimised hose controller attach script .17ms

Optimised non convex mesh collider script .14ms

Optimised siren control script .2ms

Optimised rotate from inputaxis script .3ms

Optimised Disk Asset Load script .37ms

Optimised AI Actions Stop Spray function

Optimised hoses a little bit by adding LODs

Removed exhaust hoses temporarily (large lag contributor)

Optimised object checker 1.85ms

Optimised car door on click script .42ms

Optimised Event system .5ms

Optimised Actorbucket trigger .76ms

Optimised Ai Trigger Actions

Optimised RCCWheel colliders .6ms

Optimised hoseline deploy .15ms

Optimised Siren Control .21ms

Optimised flasher update script .51ms

Optimised Item pickup script .38ms

Reduced smoothness of hoses mesh to save performance

Optimised RCC Trigger on stay

Optimised nav mesh carving

Optimised on update dispatcher .8 ms

And much more


Bug Fixes:

Fixed game locking up when dropping a carried patient

Fixed issue with street props (parked cars, trees, lights etc.) despawning and spawning in when switching camera targets

Fixed an issue with the camera being under the map or other weird issues when switching back to RTS Camera and pressing V sometimes

Fixed character dying randomly while driving a vehicle in Montgomery County sometimes

Fixed minimap in Manhattan being upside down

Fixed minimap in Manhattan saying Brooklyn instead of Manhattan

Fixed not being able to exit the church in Brooklyn due to an invisible door collider

Stretcher will reset if clearing a call while a patient is in the ambulance

Fixed not being able to open, kick or force some doors

And many more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxI-I8nLAk4

The long awaited AI Update introduces a Real Time Strategy gameplay similar to the Emergency Series to EmergeNYC. This video shows the basics of how to operate with the new features and gameplay mechanics. This update will release to the public testing branch in the next week or two depending on any unexpected issues that may arise. Closed testing is going well and many bugs are being caught and fixed quickly to polish up the new experience for the public.