End of Early Access - Official Release OUT NOW

[h3]Fellow officers,[/h3]
Today is the day! We’ve graduated from being an Early Access game and are ready to conquer the gaming world as a fully released game. Since embarking on this journey in June 2021, we’ve grown so much: We’ve added

7 content updates (more to come!),
20 achievements,
49 violations,
10 tools,
13 languages,
2289 localization lines
and so much more!

And we also got to welcome 7311 of you on our discord! Thanks for sticking with us! We couldn’t have done this without you! 🤍

You can also check out our End of Early Access Trailer with a special message from the developers at Aesir Interactive.

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But enough of all these sentimentalities… We’d like to welcome you to Update 7.3.0, the official release update of Police Simulator: Patrol Officers!

[h2]Introducing: Update 7.3.0 [/h2]

Yeah, this is indeed 7.3.0 - we initially had a 7.2.0 but then we put together another update and practically merged it with the one before, thus evolving into 7.3.0. But let’s have a look at what’s new in 7.3.0!

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We are aware that sometimes incoming callouts can be quite annoying, especially when you’re already in the middle of dealing with something else. That’s why you can now disable incoming callouts!

There’s room for more

Got a lot of criminals on your hand? No worries, everyone will get escorted back to the precinct. Multiple arrestees can now get cozy inside the police backup vehicle.

You shall not pass

Traffic cones and road barriers are just not enough. To help with traffic management, your police car can now act as a road blocker.

Urban Terrain Vehicle DLC

Also now available: The Urban Terrain Vehicle! The brand-new patrol car is free for all Early Access players (it’s a thank you gift 🤍). It is also available for purchase at a price of 2.99 Euro/2.49 GBP/2.99 USD.

BTW, Modders! The UTV is now supported within the modding tools. Please check out the guide for the override values - and download the updated modkit which includes the new files.

Bug fixes… lots of them! 👾

Check out the detailed list below, but let me tell you, lots of things have been fixed and improved!

More to come…

A lot of you have probably already seen our post-release roadmap until Q2 2023, but here’s a little reminder what you can expect from updates 8.0.0, 9.0.0 and 10.0.0!

Also, just as a reminder:

We still recommend creating a completely new save game now that we are leaving Early Access. Loading a save game that you have created during Early Access might cause unexpected behavior in the newer versions.

If you start a new journey instead of using an old save game, you will have the best experience when it comes to updated game balancing and a better learning curve while also avoiding any outdated balancing issues that might cause the game to misbehave.

Thank you so much for your support and now it is once again time to take up the badge! The city of Brighton needs you!

Your Police Simulator Team

[h3]Here are the official patch notes for Update 7.3.0 [/h3]

New Features 

The police backup vehicle can now fit multiple arrestees inside 
Being busy/not available for incoming callouts 
Make a police car act as a road blocker

Controls 

Added steering sensitivity for gamepad 
Adjusted "Switch Seats" button to be a different keybind 
Added gamepad input deadzone

Gameplay 

Added player accident interactions 
Added patrol car damage as evidence 
Added ability to cancel a single arrestee from being taken by backup vehicle 
Set new start date for the gameplay (07.11.2022)  
Adjustment to giving orders to NPCs 
Adjusted IDs and Car insurance info to the new start date 
Added minimal damage threshold for player caused accidents 
Let players place cones between lanes or intermediate positions 
Emergency vehicles will now not react to cones and barriers to get to the destination regardless

NPC / NPV Behavior 

Adjusted road blockers in order for NPVs to react to them accordingly 
Changing the way EMS acts when being stuck in traffic 
Adjusted the distance the NPVs should stop behind a cone or road barrier 
Adjustments to NPVs Switching lanes 
Adjusting NPVs braking abruptly after blipping them 
Adjusting NPV lane switching to not take such a steep angle 
Balancing NPVs turning into a lane blocked by a police vehicle with siren lights on less often 
AI Improvement: NPVs react to EMS sirens and can use the rescue lane

Added speed limit indicators for both players in Multiplayer 
Added speed limit indicator while using Radar Gun 
Added speed limit indicator while driving 
Created icon for "Accident's apology" 
Created unlock image for Patrol car accident 
Created & added tutorial images for player accidents 
Added Hungarian Tutorial images

 
Balancing 

Adjusting and balancing unlocks for player progression , more details can be found here
Changed Player Speeding violation threshold 
Added CP penalties for player caused accidents

Performance Improvements 

Improved textures optimizing memory usage

Animations 

Improved picking up barrier animation to not clip into the player 
Improved animations for conversations 
Adjusted switching seats animations 
Created new animations for Police Vehicles when entering/exiting the vehicle, or placing an arrestee in the back of vehicles 
Added an animation for the precinct counter police officer

Intuition feedback 

Added new intuition feedback for road blockers 
Added intuition feedback for U-turning in a one-way lane 
Added intuition feedback message when NPV cannot find a parking spot

Tutorials 

Updated text for Patrol cars accident in the Handbook 
Updating Handbook entries for high crime area and traffic stops 
Changed Radar Gun Handbook entry with speed limit

Miscellaneous 

Adjusted dialogues to the precinct counter officer

Settings 

Adjusted "Apply" button in Video settings 
Added setting to change sensitivity and deadzone for gamepad 
Added setting to disable being penalized for causing player accidents 
Added Custom language option 
Changed description for changing Audio setting 
Reordering settings to not show categories twice

Graphics 

Improvement to the counter officer lighting 
Improved Police vehicles lightbar 
Improvement to the counter officer dialogue camera

 

Bug Fixes 

GAMEPLAY 

Fixed an issue where sun blinding a driver was mentioned during night shifts 
Fixed player being unable to change some settings 
Fixed issue where player was not able to take evidence photos 
Fixed being able to pick up road blockers while aiming 
Fixed issue where cones sometimes would not despawn correctly 
Fixed player being able to move during interactions with NPCs 
Fixed an issue where character would T-pose while swapping Save games 
Fixed issue where "Reset player" didn't function in co-driver seat 
Fixed an issue when after “Resetting Player” player lost ability to move vehicle 
Fixed an issue with Save Games 
Fixed random freezes during gameplay 
Fixed an issue where timer for active callouts would not end if a player accident was caused

MULTIPLAYER 

Fixed an issue where loading screen was present after being booted in multiplayer session 
Fixed focus loss when Multiplayer tutorial got displayed 
Fixed not being able to interact with a NPC if second player is too far away 
Fixed an issue where second player was not able to place cones in Multiplayer

NPCs 

Fixed an issue where sometimes NPCs would be invisible 
Fixed issues with NPCs Feet IK 
Fixed a bug where sometimes NPCs were floating above benches 
Fixed an issue where NPC would teleport outside of their vehicle in a Patrol car accident 
Fixed issues with sitting NPCs 
Fixed an issue where NPCs involved in drug deals would sometimes not interact with each other 
Fixed an issue where NPC sometimes would get on top of the roof of kiosk after interacting with player 
Fixed NPCs involved in accident clipping into oncoming traffic

PATROL CAR / EMERGENCY CAR / TRAFFIC CAR 

Fixed car positions at precincts 
Fixed blipping near crossroads causing issues 
Fixed traffic not moving in Historic Downtown 
Fixed an issue where NPVs would stop at certain crossroads and clip into each other 
Fixed stopped vehicles not having their blinkers on after using "Wait/Move" gesture on them 
Fixed NPVs sometimes ignoring collisions while being blocked by road blockers or accidents 
Fixed NPVs not being able to find a parking spot in Traffic Stop 
Fixed an issue where NPVs would lane switch without a reason if the road is fully blocked 
Fixed an issue where player was unable to pull over NPVs after using wait/move gesture 
Fixed Emergency Vehicles not arriving sometimes 
Fixed stuck Tow Truck after towing a NPV 
Fixed a bug where player was not able to re-enter a vehicle

WORLD & GRAPHICS 

Fixed parking lot in Brianna, Brickston 
Fixed invisible collision in North Point 
Fixed invisible collision in park in Jefferson 
Fixed smoke and sound not stopping after ramming patrol vehicle into objects 
Fixed a Traffic Stop next to the bus stop 
Fixed the inability to walk under-bridge of a park  
Fixed incorrect district borders being shown 
Fixed buildings clipping into each other in North Point 
Fixed invisible collision in Conway Stadium 
Fixed windows flickering in Nelson Hill 
Fixed windows flickering at distance in Historic Downtown 
Fixed an issue where there were buildings clipping into each other in Historic Downtown 
Fixed a bug where Olivia Smith would have wrong skin tone outdoors 
Fixed blocked subway entrance in North Point 
Fixed police officer animation and collision in North Point 
Fixed disappearing shadow of a building near the North Point precinct

Fixed wrong intuition feedback while ordering drivers to drive in reverse 
Fixed unlocalized texts in settings and in-game UI 
Fixed issue where texts for gamepad would show an emoji 
Fixed description of "Controller Deadzone" 
Fixed cut off text in a pop-up window 
Fixed missing string table entry texts in pop-ups in some situations 
Fixed missing translation in Window Resolution 
Fixed focus loss while tutorial is getting displayed over Interaction wheel 
Fixed localization missing in text of emergency callouts 
Fixed incorrect linebreaks in handbook 
Fixed wrongly shown button prompts in handbook 
Fixed overlapping text in encounter report 
Fixed text being too long after shift is long over in different languages 
Fixed some texts being too long in settings in different languages 
Fixed wrong character showing up after launching the title 
Fixed Missing String Table Entry in displayed error pop-up

CONTROLS 

Fixed hitches while having controller plugged in while playing with keyboard 
Fixed cursor moving by itself if popup gets opened while cursor is moving 
Fixed controller vibrating non-stop in certain scenarios

 
SOUND 

Fixed an issue when multiple dialogues would be played the interaction itself might freeze

 
CRASHES 

Fixed a crash after blipping and ticketing NPV driver 
Fixed various crashes in Multiplayer 
Fixed a crash in Multiplayer while being alt-tabbed 
Fixed a crash related to Steam Cloud sync 
Fixed a crash when joining a closed session 
Fixed a crash when placing road blockers in front of a precinct or some roads 
Fixed crash which could occur after letting a suspect go 
Fixed a crash when ordering "Wait/Move" to the Police backup 
Fixed a random crash in the gameplay

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