Fellow Officers,
it's now official: Welcome to Police Simulator in 2025!
After last week's announcement of a whole year of free updates, the very first one arrives... today! This preparational patch serves as a kick-off for future updates – fixing a bunch of bugs, improving several aspects of NPC behavior, plus enhancing stability, performance, and multiplayer synchronization.
You can find the full patch notes further down below!
Here's a note regarding crashes: If you experience one, please send it to us via this simple and straightforward Google Form. Thank you! ????
Looking forward
Scheduled for the second quarter of the year, The Car Customization Update (not the final name) will allow for greater and extended personalization of your entire fleet.
A brand-new customization tab will be enabled within the garage, allowing you to better adjust the patrol cars to your liking! Currently, we plan to include options for modifying bull bars, spoilers, lightbars, and rims, as well as applying trunk stickers. The most popular additions will be available for free to everyone (before you ask: yes, this does include the option for red-and-blue lights!), while select additional ones will be available via a small paid DLC.
Additionally, you'll be able to customize the gadgets on each car. Want to see the winch on your UTV instead of just on the MPV? Now’s your chance to create the machine of your dreams for your next shift!
Please note: You must own the gadget via the respective patrol car DLC to use it on another patrol car.
Work on this update has only just begun and we will share more details with you in the near future! You have feedback, wishes, and suggestions here already? Put them into the comments! :)
And now, let's finally dive into today's patch notes:
Changelog – Update 16.1.2
Gameplay
- Fixed Wanted Person spawning in unreachable places
- Fixed being unable to talk to a carnapper who was tackled after an accident
- Added a 'non-vehicle spawn zone' in front of a highway accident
- Reduced the despawn range for cars not in your peripheral view
- Fixed being unable to ticket a car for having an expired license plate
Multiplayer
- Fixed a discrepancy between client and host where the client sees different damage models than the host
- Fixed a desync of NPCs between the client and host after start a new shift
- Fixed smoke particles from the engine of a patrol car not being visible for the client
- Fixed FPV launch control getting cancelled for the client
- Fixed client not being able to open the board computer when inside the FPV
- Fixed cars sometimes having two NPCs in the driver seat of a vehicle when the host is too far away
Stability & Performance
- Fixed multiple crashes
- Generally improved stability and performance
NPC & NPV
- NPVs now better avoid you when you’re coming from the opposite direction
- Fixed NPCs floating a lot in the city or inside vehicles
- Fixed people being stranded on the highway (After being 'let go', the NPC despawn automatically one you move a bit further away from them while not having them in your peripheral view)
- Fixed trucks involved in accidents blocking the traffic too much
- Fixed carnapper trying to leave in the car they've previously stolen
- Fixed medics exiting on the codriver side breaking the entire ambulance behavior
- Fixed NPVs unable to unpark when they're near a player while the police siren is enabled
Patrol Cars
- Fixed patrol cars not being parked correctly in the parking lot of the precinct to better reflect real-life behavior: They now face the road, previously they were facing the building
Graphics & Game World
- Fixed a broken glass reflection in the precincts
- Fixed A poses when the character presets are being changed at the locker
Sounds
- Fixed foot steps still being audible even though the SFX volume has been set to 0
UI
- Fixed no callout marker being shown on the map for an NPC that requires arrest transport
- Fixed marker visibility for both the mini map and multiplayer
- Added a missing translation string related to the Unmarked DLC
- Fixed legend UI falsely being shown in district and shift selection screens
Already known issue: Subtitles can't be disabled, will be fixed next week
https://store.steampowered.com/app/997010/Police_Simulator_Patrol_Officers/
