Police Simulator: Patrol Officers News

[h3]Fellow Officers,[/h3]

Police Simulator: Patrol Officers has officially been out for just a week now! 🥳 It’s been a whirlwind of a week and we’ve definitely been busy looking at all your great feedback.

Considering that our PS:PO community has grown a lot within the last few weeks, we thought it’d be a good time to answer some frequently asked questions for players old and new.

For this, we’ve prepared a little Q&A with the lovely developer team at Aesir Interactive, so that you can not only get a look behind the scenes but also get to know the team behind the game a little better. 🤍

[h2]Developer Q&A[/h2]

How has Early Access impacted the development of PS:PO?

Early Access really changed the development, especially in regard to all the features we implemented. We really listened to you and took all your feedback into consideration - and even changed our development priorities based on that. And that will continue in the future!


What future content are you most excited to develop (which is on the Trello)?

For us it is definitely being able to stack charges - we can't wait for that! Finally, we'll charge the criminals accordingly...


How do you identify what to add to the game next? What is the process?

It starts with a suggestion from the community, ourselves or from astragon. Then we check how we can pull it off and how it would meet realism the most. After that we check how long it would take us to implement it and if we all agree on the feature, we search for the best possible timing and plan it into our development roadmap.


What is your favorite district in the game?

Melting Pot! We really like the Melting Pot district because it is the one with the most diversity in the buildings and in the people.


How have IRL police officers helped you with your development of the game?

We're working together with a little team of four police officers from the United States which we can get always contact to receive their advice. We ask them everytime for every feature or change we do or plan to do in the game.


What’s your favorite feature in the game?

Definitely the co-op function, everything is more fun with a friend 🙂


Will there be more callouts in the future?

Currently our priorities are set to focus on bringing more depth to the game.


Are you planning on extending multiplayer?

Unfortunately, we won't be able to extend the Multiplayer due to technical constraints.


Will crossplay be supported at some point?

Unfortunately, no, crossplay is a huge technical task and with the current feature plan we are not able to do it.


Are there plans to add more playable characters?

Currently that isn't planned.


Can you give us a sneak peek of what we can expect in Update 8.0.0?

We think Trello gives you a good overview of what to expect. Make sure to check it out regularly and vote for your features!


Do you have more questions concerning PS:PO? Leave them in the comments down below because there’s going to be a live Q&A with Aesir Interactive very soon! 👀
More details to follow.

Thank you to everyone playing the game and of course to the developers at Aesir Interactive! This game is a group effort of all of us combined and we’re very proud of what it's become and where it’s still going in the future!


Your Police Simulator Team


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[h3]Fellow officers,[/h3]
we've just released a Hotfix Update with the version number 7.4.0. It addresses some frequently mentioned issues, resolves a bunch of crashes, and some other good things.

We continue to work on updates to improve the game further! Make sure to follow our official roadmap as well where we lay out our current and future plans.

Your Police Simulator Team

[h2]Changelog - Update 7.4.0[/h2]

World & Graphics

• Fixed some Subway Stations still having collisions enabled
  
• Fixed an animation delay when entering the car on the sidewalk
  

Multiplayer

• Fixed Client becoming partially invisible at times
  
• Fixed a crash happening to Client when attempting to switch seats multiple times
  

UI

• Fixed constant display of return to show police presence message (yes, it was annoying)
  
• Fixed map movement being disabled when hovering over certain UI elements with the mouse
  
• Deleted the giant red banner disclaiming the current debug version
  

Crashes

• Fixed a bunch of different crashes to increase the overall stability
  

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[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 
  

UI 

• 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 
  

UI 

• 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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Fellow officers,

with the official launch of Police Simulator: Patrol Officers only days away, it’s finally time to share more details about our post-release roadmap until Q2 2023 with you!

Since embarking on this journey with the launch of Early Access on Steam in June 2021, we’ve tried to involve you, the player community, as much as we can. We regularly updated our official Trello board with all details surrounding the latest developments in Police Simulator: Patrol Officers, added your feedback and suggestions and even got to implement a lot of the features you requested!

But we are aware that some features on our Trello board have yet to make it into the game. Which is why today, we are happy to give you a better preview of the free updates that you can expect by mid-2023, including some first timings.

It’s time to get excited for Update 8.0.0, 9.0.0 AND 10.0.0!



Update 8.0.0 (Q1 2023)

Are you tired of people always asking you for directions? No worries, update 8.0.0 introduces more improvements for the “Asking for directions” feature. Also, emergency vehicles will now come from the opposite lane to avoid getting stuck in traffic.

Did you accidentally call for an ambulance or tow truck? You can now cancel the call! Your phone bill will hopefully shrink that way... it’s getting way too expensive. (Wait, aren’t we using walkie-talkies?)


Update 9.0.0 (Q1 / Q2 2023)

Got a really bad criminal on your hands? Stacking charges is finally a thing in update 9.0.0. These criminals will finally foot the whole bill, that’s what I can promise! Oh, and you can stop a fleeing person by tackling them. No need to waste the limited stun gun ammo anymore... and you’ll get a nice workout, too. The gym can wait from now on.


Update 10.0.0 (Q2 2023)

Do you enjoy going on patrol with a partner? To make it easier to interact in a multiplayer game, predefined commands will be added in update 10.0.0. Also, adjustments to balancing values to tailor your game experience can be made. In addition, the minimap will also be visible while on foot patrol outside of a vehicle.


We hope this teaser will get you excited for what’s still to come! We will provide even more information the closer we get to each update, including all kinds of bug fixes and general improvements.

We’re looking forward to working alongside you even after release to further improve and expand the game. Your feedback and involvement is what makes this game so special!


Thank you so much and get ready to take up the badge on November 10!

Your Police Simulator Team

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Hello Officers,

We’re getting closer and closer to leaving Early Access on November 10 and launching a new chapter for Police Simulator: Patrol Officers. Some of you have been with us since the very beginning and we can not state enough how incredibly thankful we are for your support – in the past, in the present, and for everything that is yet to come.

While this is all quite exciting, we are aware that we owe you answers to some of your questions. Today we want to focus on future save game behavior and the future of our open beta program.

[h2]Will my save game be erased?[/h2]

Short answer: No!

Long answer: No, but we still recommend creating a completely new save game once we leave 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.

However, if you wish, you can continue playing with your currently existing save game. We won’t take it away.

[h2]What will happen to the beta program?[/h2]

As you know, right now, we are releasing every bigger update into open beta prior to its full release – and this has been very helpful during our time in Early Access.

However, once we leave Early Access, we sadly have to say goodbye to our beta program. This is due to a more complicated and sophisticated development approach going forward – but in return, we greatly increased our own internal resources in both the development and quality assurance part!

No worries, we will continue working alongside you to further improve and expand the game. Nothing has changed about that! We are grateful for all the feedback you provide and without everything you did, the game would not have been as successful as it is right now.

[h2]How will the release work?[/h2]

Well, to be honest, it is more a formal act than an entire revolution. Once we leave Early Access on November 10, we will release the “Day One Patch” with version number 7.2.0 – and it will contain much-requested improvements like being able to turn off incoming callouts, arrest transport picking up more people and using your patrol car as a road blocker. Of course, the update will also contain a huge amount of fixes for both bugs and crashes. Quite a nice care package!

In addition, we will carry out a price increase when we leave Early Access. The game will then cost 29.99 Euro / 24.99 GBP / 29.99 USD on PC. This seems obvious, but just to make it clear: If you have bought the game already, you will of course keep it. The new price is only relevant to players who decide to buy the game after November 10.

Everyone who bought the game during Early Access will also receive a free DLC containing a fourth patrol car, the Urban Terrain Vehicle. You can find more details about it here. The DLC will become purchasable to anyone who buys the game after Early Access.

And with all that… the shiny blue Early Access badge will vanish from our store page. We’re a grown-up video game then. But as with all of us, we will continue to grow and expand – and we can’t wait to do that alongside all of you.

Thank you so much and stay safe and healthy,

Your Police Simulator Team

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