Flashing Lights News

We're delighted to announce that in-game voice chat is here! You can now chat with your friends while playing Flashing Lights directly through the game. We've also added more text chat types - one for individual departments, and one for radio chatter. The ban option has also been improved so that the game now saves your list of banned players, preventing them from joining your server again after they've restarted.



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New

• Voice chat push-to-talk added [Default key V] with colour coded pop-up icons
  
• Text chat type: team chat, type /t in front of message. (Example: /t Hello!)
  
• Text chat type: radio command, type /r in front of message (example: /r 600 is the best), text colour coded for each department
  
• Text chat /me command added (bold text)
  
• New menu for multiplayer commands when pressing Esc for Mute, Kick, Ban and Unban functions
  
• Multiplayer Ban command improved to now save list of banned players, preventing them from joining your sever again after restarting
  
• Voice chat volume option added in Audio Settings as a separate channel from game's master volume
  

Fixes

• Vehicle menu appearance tab should no longer get stuck
  
• Fixed freezing on faulty lights import/load
  
• Player Left message no longer displays when banned players try to re-join
  
• Fixed kicked and banned messages
  
• Footstep volume reduced
  
• Police charger car windows tint changed to defaults
  

See you next month for the September update!



Thanks,
The Flashing Lights Team

Hello all,

We're happy to announce that the vehicle lights colour and pattern customisation update is here! You can now design patterns and colours for vehicle lights - that includes all vehicles in the game, covering all departments. You can also import and export vehicle configurations, allowing you to share your creations and use those other players have created should they share them with you.





New

• Lights colour and patterns customisation introduced
  
• Game now spawns the last vehicle with the lighting setup that was used in a selected role
  
• Vehicle menu loads last lights configuration on the selected vehicle
  
• Ability to import/Export vehicle configurations (livery, lights setup, customised patterns, lights colours), in order to share and save your creations and use other players'. Available from the top right of the 'Select Vehicle' menu
  
• Option to import/export lightbar only, available from the top right corner of the 'Lights Customization' menu
  
• Lightbars have 3 default flashing patterns
  
• Lightbar menu shows model names
  

Fixes

• Lightbar menu now highlights the current model that is on the vehicle
  
• Party hat disabled D:
  
• Vic police car pushbar size adjusted
  
• Old lightbar added in options
  
• Right mouse button icon to rotate vehicle during customisation
  
• Spawning vehicle with no lights will revert to default setup
  

We hope you enjoy this update and have fun customising and sharing your vehicle light set ups! Flashing Lights has a couple of big updates coming up in August and September.



Thanks,
The Flashing Lights Team

Hello all,

We're sorry to say that we've had to move the public version of the July update back to next week. While the lights pattern and colour customisation is coming along nicely, it needs just a little more time in the oven. As developer Nils continues to polish the update for next week, there is a way that you can play an early version of the update right now if you wish to!





If you want to play an early in-development version of the update, you can do so via the unstable branch. Please join the Flashing Lights Discord if you haven't already and head to the #announcements channel for details on how to access the unstable version.



We're excited to get the update out to you all next week, and also continue our work towards the August and September updates.



Thank you again for your ongoing support!

The Flashing Lights Team

Hello all,

The day you’ve been waiting for has finally arrived. We’re excited to reveal the Q3 2020 roadmap, detailing our plans for July, August and September updates! We’ve been teasing the major background work that’s been in progress for some time now – and we’re glad to be able to give you your first look at the results of that work in September! Read on for more details.





In July, we’ll be expanding on the recently introduced vehicle lights customisation system. You can look forward to vehicle lights colour and pattern customisation this month.

We know how important multiplayer is to you – especially role play and spending time with friends. Which is why in August we’ll be adding in-game voice chat, and upgrading our in-game text chat with multiple channels.

In September, you’ll get your first look at some of the major background work that Nils has been carrying out alongside all of the new content and bug fixes. The goal of the background work, as we’ve stated before, is to improve the foundations of Flashing Lights.





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We hope you're as excited about this roadmap as we are. See you at the next update!

Thanks,
The Flashing Lights Team

Hello all,

We've just launched a new patch, which fixes various bugs some of you have been running into regarding the new vehicle lights customisation system!



Fixes
- Fixed a saved lights set up bug that prevented further lights adjustments for police
- Saved lights set up could be loaded incorrectly when switching departments - this has been addressed
- Fixed livery menu displaying incorrect amount of options
- Vehicle menu buttons "Clear All" and "Default" could stop working - this has been fixed
- Fixed an issue where the fire ladder truck left side small cabin light tag was missing
- Fire ladder truck icons to use ladder removed while editing lights
- Traffic advisor now previews lighting when emergency lights are turned on in vehicle menu
- Traffic advisor light in-game no longer turns off together with emergency lights
- Vehicle menu mouse hover effect added for buttons
- Vehicle menu cursor rendering underneath UI fixed
- Added a memory clear when you enter/exit Vehicle Menu (Please report any crash or improvements)