Police Simulator: Patrol Officers News

[h3]Fellow officers,[/h3]
We hope you had an amazing weekend! Today, we're releasing Update 8.3.0 which is fully focused on resolving some pressing issues that came up over the last few weeks and months.

First things first: The biggest problem that required a lot of internal resources were the invisible cars that caused frequent and truly frustrating car crashes. Fixing this bug was our main priority with this update and it turned out to be far more complicated than we initially anticipated. Our team investigated the issue extensively and... yikes, was it difficult.

Here's what we found out: When a car is despawned it remains in its last location until it is required elsewhere. When it is eventually required, the traffic simulation moves the car to its new location and turns the visualization and collision back on. The issue was that the collision of the car is not transported to the new location until some frames after it moved to the new location which causes it to exist in the old location for the same period. If the player is inside the collision zone of the car in that moment he is thrown off the map, gets a "car totaled" game over or gets stuck in the ground which leads the game to eventually crash. In that brief period you can also run into the invisible car while driving. This very short time window and the collision not being visible in even our debugging tools was why it was so hard for us to consistently reproduce the issue and why it took us so long to figure it out.

We hope that the related issues are now fixed – should you still encounter them, please report the bug with a video so that the team can investigate them further.

FYI: In some threads we mentioned that we are also working on update 8.4.0 before pushing out 9.0.0. We now decided to migrate 8.4.0 into 9.0.0 instead as we believe to have discovered the reason for the issue of seemingly no callouts coming in. However, we want to take a little bit more time with resolving it.

Have a look at the full changelog here:

[h2]Changelog - Update 8.3.0[/h2]

• Fixed an issue where a player could collide with something Invisible during the gameplay when driving with a patrol car
  
• Fixed an issue in multiplayer where players lost the ability to place & remove a wanted NPC in patrol car
  
• Fixed issues related to road flare placement and the outlines of road flare placement not being accurate
  
• Fixed an issue in multiplayer where the client would not see the intuition message for the host toggling callouts on & off
  

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[h3]Fellow officers,[/h3]
We’re back again! And we’ve brought another hotfix update along with us. 🔥

8.2.0 once again focuses mainly on resolving some of those pesky crashes and bugs that snuck in with the 8.0.0 update (and obviously the ones that were present before!). We’re cautiously optimistic that we’re getting closer to resolving them all, so thank you for your engagement and especially for filling out those crash reports! 💙 They really, really do help a lot. As always, if you’re still encountering a crash after this update, please let us know here: Crash Report

With this said, we're gonna start working on update 8.3.0 asap to tackle more issues and further improve the game 💪

Have a look at the full changelog here:

[h2]Changelog - Update 8.2.0[/h2]

Gameplay

• Fixed an issue causing the tow truck to not being called
  

Emergency Cars

• Fixed two ambulances arriving to a crime scene at the same time
  
• Fixed that medics with injured NPC are clipping through the ambulance
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the arrest transport to clip into the players’ car when being called
  
• Fixed an issue with medics accompanying injured NPC to clip through the ambulance car
  

World & Graphics

• Added an animation so that picking up a barrier from the left side is properly mirrored
  
• Fixed an issue causing NPV drivers to float a little after stepping out of a bigger car at accidents
  
• Created blockers for buildings
  
• Fixed a floating fence inside the park in Chester
  
• Improved the animation when placing an arrested NPC into the UTV
  
• Fixed an issue with all patrol cars where you stand on one side of the car and placing the arrestee happens on the opposite side
  

UI

• Fixed a bug that caused the camera to not reset when focusing while switching seats
  
• Fixed a missing string table entry related to multiplayer sessions
  

Crashes

• Fixed a crash when moving far away from an NPV, causing it to despawn and then leaving the encounter area
  
• Fixed a crash related to some different stop locations
  
• Fixed a crash related to tow trucks
  
• Fixed a rare crash that occurred when the web browser is still open while loading into the map
  
• Fixed a crash related to a bugged street in Brianna
  
• Fixed a multiplayer crash that occurred when the client returns to the main menu right after calling for an arrest transport and that officer leaves the car
  
• Fixed a crash that occurred when a car performs a U-turn
  
• Fixed crash when unloading level when joining multiplayer session or exiting to main menu while unresolved player accident is active
  

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[h3]Fellow officers,[/h3]
we hope you had a nice start into the new year! 💙 We've kept ourselves quite busy and worked tirelessly on the next updates, the first of which is out today.

It focuses primarily on resolving a bunch of annoying crashes that sneaked in with the 8.0.0 update last December. Thank you so much for sticking with us while we investigated all the crashlogs. PSA: If you encounter a crash after installing this update, please do not forget to send us the crashlogs so that we can take a closer look at the issue. You can do that here.

In addition, we fixed a few bugs and overhauled the UTV. It was always intended to carry four passengers but for complicated reasons could only carry two. Well, now you can actually put four into them – so try out the DLC and improve your transport capabilities!

We are already working on another update focusing on crash & bug fixes, releasing within the next few weeks. Plus, work on Update 9.0.0 is also well underway, introducing new features such as stacking charges and tackling fleeing suspects. More details about those will be shared as soon as we can :)

[h2]Changelog - Update 8.1.0[/h2]

Urban Terrain Vehicle DLC

• Changed the back area of UTV so that it can now actually carry 4 suspects
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the UTV model to develop weird spikes when repeatedly receiving damage
  

Memory & Performance

• Fixed low LOD objects rendering while walking around the city
  
• Fixed infinite loading screen for the Player when Host resumes a single player activity
  
• Fixed issue where textures at Beaufort Landing wouldn’t load properly
  

Crashes

• Fixed a crash while closing the game
  
• Fixed a crash when placing arrestees in Holding Cells
  
• Fixed a crash where game could crash when using abilities as Host/Client
  
• Fixed a crash while using abilities in a single player session
  
• Fixed a crash after launching last played shift multiple times in a row
  

Other bug fixes

• Fixed cars spawning on top of each other in accidents
  
• Fixed player model glitching in main menu and while idling
  
• Fixed “SH!FT” sign floating when opening the trunk
  
• Fixed some skinning issues on police officers
  
• Fixed an issue where NPCs would stand on chairs next to tables
  
• Fixed an issue where resuming a single player activity while being Host of a multiplayer session would create a new multiplayer session
  
• Fixed an issue where towing NPVs in accident was not possible
  
• Fixed an issue where NPCs sometimes would go on pyramid structures found in Conway
  
• Fixed an issue where game would crash if the player would somehow go outside of the world
  
• Fixed speedometer inside of the car and on-display in 3rd person not having matching speeds
  

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[h3]Hello to our new recruits,[/h3]

Ho Ho Ho! The Steam Winter Sale is well underway and, of course, we're part of it as well!

For a limited time only, you can save 20% on Police Simulator: Patrol Officers and get access to the streets of Brighton at a discount. Is there a better way to celebrate Christmas?

This sale runs from December 22 until January 5.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/997010/Police_Simulator_Patrol_Officers/

Police Simulator: Patrol Officers is even more fun as a co-op experience! If you're still looking for a partner, now's the perfect time to gift the game to a friend! Take a look at the store page for details!

And it's not just us! Other games from the astragon portfolio are also deeply discounted - with up to 90% off.

Check out our publisher page for details.
See you soon on your next shift,
Your Police Simulator Team

[h3]Fellow officers,[/h3]
we've just released a Hotfix Update with the version number 8.0.1. It addresses some frequently appearing crashes which sneaked in with the most recent Update 8.0.0.

PSA: If you encounter a crash, please send us the crashlogs so that we can take a look at the issue. You can do that here.

[h2]Changelog - Update 8.0.1[/h2]

Crashes

• Fixed a crash which occurred when attempting Car Patrol
  
• Fixed a crash which occurred when driving around
  

[h2]Christmas Break[/h2]

As mentioned before, we are heading to a little Christmas break starting, well, today! We'll take some time to relax, reflect on the year, spend some time with family & friends, play some video games, watch movies, catch up with the latest series... and come back in full force in January. We can't wait for it!

[h2]Enable & Disable Callouts[/h2]

Some users have mentioned that the feature to enable & disable callouts has been removed. Well, actually, you have to activate this feature in the game's settings!

Head over to the settings, select 'game' and you will find the setting 'Show turn On/Off the radio callouts'.

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