Flashing Lights News

Hello all,

We hope you're excited about the next Flashing Lights update! We have some news for you today.

This update will bring all EMS callouts over to the new map, plus a fire department callout, and some new liveries for the ambulance. We know you are going to love it. However, we need your help!

We have made an unstable version of the new update available for testing, and we need loads of you to give it a try. With the missions having been ported to the new map, we need to make sure that the update goes through additional testing. So please jump into the Discord and head to the #announcements channel to find out more. We really appreciate your help!

The release will be dependent on what bugs you may find, but we are anticipating the full public release to be delayed until next week.





As we're asking you wait a bit longer for the public release, we wanted to give you a good look at the update itself.

EMS and Fire Department Callouts on the New Map



In this update we have ported all EMS callouts from the old map to the new map and made some adjustments. This includes motor vehicle collision, unconscious person, hit and run and gunshot wound callouts!

We've also ported a fire department rescue callout to the new map: motor vehicle collision.

We hope you'll enjoy playing these callouts on the new, optimised map.

New Ambulance Liveries

We know you love to be able to customise your Flashing Lights experience, so we have added two new liveries for the ambulance.



Please note: We recommend that you hold on until the public release of the update if you are expecting a more polished experience.

If you wish to play the early unstable version of the update right now, please head to the official Discord and check out the #announcements channel for details.



Today, Tuesday 29 June at 4pm BST/8am PDT, Nils Jakrins (600) and Tim Boss (RedPandaViking) from the Flashing Lights team will be going live on YouTube to answer your questions! We have a massive amount of questions already submitted on the Discord, so we will be answering some of those, and maybe also some questions from the YouTube stream chat if we get the time.

https://youtu.be/_7l8PzJas-w

https://store.steampowered.com/app/605740

We're really excited to get the update in your hands and to see you all at the Q & A livestream!

Thanks,
The Flashing Lights Team

Hello all,

We hope you're continuing to enjoy Flashing Lights, whether it's with friends or alone, whether it's patrolling the city, treating patients or putting out fires! We're currently working hard on the June update, due towards the end of the month. If you haven't seen it already, take a look at our roadmap for the next few updates.



In September, we'll be adding callouts for all services to the new map - at this point, all functions from the original map will have been ported to the new one - and so we'll be removing the original map.

What we want to talk about today is some of the exciting new content that we have planned for late 2021 and throughout 2022.



Here's some of the new content planned for late 2021 and throughout 2022!

New map area: Suburbs with interiors and callouts
We're excited to announce that we're working on a brand new area for the new map: suburbs. This isn't just a nice change of scenery either. There will be new callouts designed for the suburbs - and yes... there will be some interiors!

Traffic stop update with vehicle search and drug tests
Rural towns with additional police, fire and EMS buildings
Fire system rework with spreading fires, hose system update, plus a fire engine
Police K9/Fire rescue dog

We will also be focusing on bug fixes. While we are excited to add new content, we will also be working on bug fixes and improving the quality of the game.



On Tuesday 29 June at 4pm BST/8am PDT, Nils Jakrins (600) and Tim Boss (RedPandaViking) from the Flashing Lights team will be going live on YouTube to answer your questions! Get your questions in now via the #q-and-a channel on the official Flashing Lights Discord, and then tune in to the live stream here on YouTube to see if they answer your question!

We're open to anything, whether it's about which department we most like to play as, or whether it's about our favourite pizza topping!

Thank you once again for your patience while we've been working on the new map! We hope that you're as excited as we are about the next steps.

Thanks for taking this journey with us.
The Flashing Lights Team

Flashing Lights has been updated with a smaller hotfix to address the following issues

Fixes
- "Exit to Main Menu" could break AI and mission systems in newly created servers and singleplayer
- Updated vehicle interaction tag system for doors and seats to fix issues when players couldn't open doors or sit in their vehicles
- New SUV textures updated (rear lights, gas tank and other smaller adjustments)

Hello all,

Today's update brings the new SUV to the game, some of you may recognise the model of vehicle this is based on. We have also made improvements to the siren system and to the siren sounds.

The new vehicle has been added to all 3 services with some additional blank liveries.
Here is how the vehicle looks across Police, EMS and Fire roles.


Of course, we have a full interior as well for the vehicle for those who prefer the first person driving experience.


You can read the full list of changes a little further down


https://store.steampowered.com/app/605740

[h2]Full Update Notes[/h2]

New
- SUV for all departments
- Reworked siren controls, use button 2 to turn ON and cycle through 3 slots, double-tap same button to turn them OFF
- Added direct input for siren slots, by default NumPad 1-3, can be used to turn OFF sirens as well
- Siren customization menu updated with new siren sounds
- Customizeable horn (H or Middle Mouse Button) for secondary siren that stops traffic temporarily
- Daytime running lights when engine is on added to both SUVs
- White livery option added to the old SUV

Fixes
- Default horn changed to Air horn
- Changed engine sounds for old SUV and charger type car
- CAD pending card Accept button should go inactive after one click to prevent spam-clicks
- Could not operate traffic advisor light when sirens were on
- Siren selection dropdown in customization UI didn't update to current siren

Thanks for the continued support,
The Flashing Lights Team

Hello all,



We have updated and overhauled our roadmap for the coming months, and are excited to share it with you today!

As you will know, we ran into some issues with the previous update and released it a little later than expected. Because of this, we've had to reorganise the roadmap. Once again we thank you for your patience and support while we have been and continue to work on the new map, and we hope you enjoy today's roadmap reveal!



May

In May we'll be adding a new vehicle which will be playable for all departments! We're also overhauling the siren sound effects for both maps based on your feedback. In addition we are updating the siren system, making it easier to use.

June

In June we will be porting lots of the existing EMS and fire department callouts from the original map to the new map.

July

This update will be focused on bug fixes, but will also introduce Greek, Hungarian, Norwegian and Slovak support. Plus, another new vehicle - we'll let you guess which vehicle it is...

Please note that following this update we will be returning to bi-monthly updates.

September

In September the new and expanded map will replace the original map, multiple languages will be reworked and updated and there will be callouts for all three departments added to the new map.


There's plenty more to come too following the September update. In early June we will be sharing a little more with you for our plans for new content following the September update, so keep your eyes peeled for that!





We've also released a hotfix for the previous update which fixes a bunch of issues.

Fixes
- AI traffic could get stuck on intersections and not move when traffic lights were green
- AI traffic could steer into objects on the side of the road or turn around right after spawn
- AI traffic didn't react to sirens as they used to in old map
- AI traffic stopped and got stuck when the player beeped their horn
- Mission CAD could run into issues if used in first person
- CAD active cards didn't show joined player IDs
- Missions clear before arrival in multiplayer for client players when host did not accept the same call
- CAD active card still displayed player IDs after they had left the server, leading to never ending callouts
- Fixed an issue where calling EMS transport would not remove unconscious/deceased pedestrians/suspects for client players
- Fixed an issue with pedestrians/suspects teleporting from last position for multiplayer client players when using Grab
- Floating street lights adjusted in 9 locations
- Fixed an error when putting away fire hose
- Occlusion culling and NPC navigation re-baked due to street props position fixes