Officers! Action is awaiting you! ????
Put your skills into action and capture fleeing suspects: The Tackling Update has been released for Police Simulator: Patrol Officers across all platforms!
This update primarily focuses on the new tackling feature, the new minimap for foot patrols and quality-of-life improvements to enhance your overall gaming experience! Let's have a look at the details:
The suspect is getting away!
Make a choice! The new action-packed feature introduces another option for catching a fleeing suspect, offering increased versatility and autonomy in these situations. Tackling presents a more challenging alternative to tasing a suspect, infusing a fresh sense of interaction into the gameplay.
Training is key! When an officer may need to resort to physical force, proper training and experience are required. Police tackling a fleeing criminal is a highly perilous und critical situation that demands careful handling, considering the unique nature of each individual incident.
How to take action? To tackle a fleeing suspect, you will be prompted with a button while running and when in close proximity to the suspect. Use this button prompt to forcefully bring the target to the ground and restrain them with handcuffs before they have a chance to escape! It is crucial for the safety of both involved parties and their environment to select an area with sufficient room and only approach the individual from either behind or from the side.
Minimap on foot patrol ????️
You're getting lost easily? We got you covered, introducing the minimap on foot patrol! With this new feature, you will be able to effortlessly navigate your surroundings, locate destinations and move around with enhanced efficiency and intuitive ease!
Quality improvements
In order to enhance your overall playing experience of the game, we have implemented a multitude of bug fixes and improvements! These include the removal of the sun glare screen, the rectification of unreasonable CP loss, the fixing of unpleasant flashing lights within the precinct at the start of the game and the resolution of an issue that provided incorrect feedback regarding illegal item intuition.
Take a look at the official changelog at the end of this post for a full overview!
Rest assured, we are continuously working on further improvements to enrich your life as a patrol officer!
Watch the Release Trailer for the Tackling Update here:
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Now available: The newest generation of vehicles ????
We're happy to release two new vehicle DLCs! Explore the exciting features of both to keep Brighton safe and sound:
The Guardian Police Vehicle [GPV]
A spacious and practical choice for a great police officer.
This new innovation vehicle allows you to personally transport up to 6 arrested criminals to the police station. Earn +10 SP for each prisoner you successfully transported and locked in their cells, with the reward doubled when delivering 6 criminals simultaneously.
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/2210960/Police_Simulator_Patrol_Officers_Guardian_Police_Vehicle_DLC
The Surveillance Police Vehicle [SPV]
A versatile choice to support you at observing the streets of Brighton!
Presenting a state-of-the-art additon to the police vehicle force that revolutionizes the detection of violations. By closely following a suspicious target vehicle, the SPV provides intuition feedback to the driver. Operating similar to pacing, it fills a colored bar in the same position. Once a violation is detected, you can pull over the target vehicle and conduct a complete investigation of the suspect.
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/2527820/Police_Simulator_Patrol_Officers_Surveillance_Police_Vehicle_DLC
The GPV and the SPV are purchasable each at a small price of 2,99€ / $2,99 USD or the equivalent in your region.
Modding Support for both vehicles!????️
Personal creations thrill you? Then this is for you!
Modding is supported for both the GPV and the SPV and gives you the ability to create your own customizations for the vehicles! Personalise your police vehicles now and share your modifications with us and the rest of the community! We are eager to see what you have already created for the new vehicles, since the modding kit was updated on the day of the update announcement!
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2778896763
Are you ready for more details?
Momentarily, our primary focus is on delivering quality improvements and resolving bugs, which is why we have made the decision to move first aid to update 13. This allows us to assign more resources towards addressing current issues and ensuring more bug fixes in the upcoming months.
But for now, let's take a good look at the official changelog of this update:
New Features
- Added an option to tackle fleeing NPCs
- Added a minimap to foot patrol
- Introducing the new Surveillance Police Vehicle (SPV), now available as an optional DLC
- Introducing the new Guardian Police Vehicle (GPV), now available as an optional DLC
- Introducing Modding Support for the SPV and GPV
Callouts
- Adjusted the Transport Arrestee Callout to become an Emergency Callout, now allowing the use of sirens
UI
- Adjusted wording for Drug Dealer Callouts
Crash Fixes
- Fixed a crash that occurred within a drug dealer callout
- Fixed a crash that occurred after declining a drug dealer callout
- Fixed a crash that occurred after placing a tool and switching to a different car
- Fixed a crash that occurred after entering the garage and switching to a different car
- Fixed a crash that was related to crime scene evidence
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Bug Fixes
Gameplay
- Fixed an issue that caused Traffic Stops to be generated in a wrong way
- Fixed an issue that caused Traffic Stop callouts to be proposed to a player when no parking spot is available on that street, resulting in a non-working callout
- Fixed an issue that caused unjustified CP Loss for towing illegaly parked cars with the MPV on sidewalks
- Fixed an issue that caused unjustified CP Loss for a drug dealing charge
- Fixed an issue that caused placed items to disappear when going too far away and not teleport back into the trunk
- Fixed illegal item intuition being triggered when none exist
- Added Injury as a reason to finish the Wanted NPC Callout
- Fixed an issue with Traffic Stop callouts being proposed even if no parking spots are found resulting in a broken callout scenario
- Fixed an issue with drug dealers not running away when being observed drug dealing
- Fixed an issue with passive emergency callouts not amounting to emergency callouts
Multiplayer
- Fixed an issue that caused everything to be much brighter for the host as soon as the client joined the precinct
- Fixed missing icons and labels on the maps for the client
- Fixed an issue that enabled the MPV to tow a car that is being towed by a tow truck at the very same time in multiplayer
- Fixed an issue with players owning different kinds of DLC
- Fixed an issue with clients not being able to use the garage
Patrol Car / Traffic Car
- Fixed a bunch of cases where the player will be launched into the air while driving their patrol car
- Fixed an issue that caused the lightbar on top of patrol car vehicles to appear invisible
- Fixed additional cases causing taxis to leave behind appendages
- Fixed an issue that let parked cars near crime scenes block access to multiple areas
- Fixed an issue that caused NPVs to quickly change direction, potentially causing accidents with the player
- Fixed an issue that turned underglow lights on after fining
Graphics
- Removed the sun glare screen after lots and lots of feedback
- Fixed the really bad flashing lights inside the precinct when starting the game
- Fixed some other lighting issues within the precinct
Game World
- Fixed a floating plant box near the bakery in Brianna (thanks, Beaver)
- Adjusted the collision of securing tapes at crime scenes
- Fixed an issue with crime scene evidence being placed in areas where you can not photograph them
UI
- Fixed an issue that showed wrong illegal item intuition feedback
- Fixed the description of the MPV and the UTV when they have been unlocked
- Fixed an issue with no text being visible in key bindings for computer group
https://store.steampowered.com/app/997010/Police_Simulator_Patrol_Officers/
We hope you love the update!✨
Your Police Simulator Team
