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Fellow officers,
Christmas and New Year's Eve are upon us – and we have a new update ready for you... today!
Welcome to Update 8.0.0, now available to all players of Police Simulator: Patrol Officers!
Introducing: Update 8.0.0
Oh, you're surprised it's out already? Understandable. Initially, we planned to release the update in January. But as development has progressed quite smoothly, we are able to push it out ahead of schedule. Isn't that nice?



What's inside?
As mentioned earlier, with this update we're primarily focusing on quality-of-life improvements and a large number of bug fixes. Since leaving Early Access, we have started to collect all of your amazing feedback and included it into our internal development roadmap. Thank you all, it helps a lot! 💙
Here are a few examples: We've taken care of the incredibly annoying flashing lights in some precincts, fixed NPCs floating in the air at accident sites, made sure that am and pm are displayed correctly, once revisited the "return to show police presence" message, updated the localization... and much much more.
Oh, we resolved some crash reasons, too.
In addition, we're adding the ability to cancel a call for an ambulance or tow truck. Emergency vehicles should now also come from the opposite direction more often. Oh, we also improved the "Asking for Directions" feature!



A little break!
The team will head to a little Christmas break starting next week to relax a bit, take some time off and come back in full force in 2023! We hope you're able to do the same, enjoy playing PS:PO and spend an awesome time with family and friends.
A huge shout out to all of you, our amazing community. You've been absolutely fantastic and we enjoyed spending the year with each and every single one of you. We can not wait for 2023.
Here are the official patch notes for Update 8.0.0
New Features

Added ability to cancel & call tow truck & ambulance

Gameplay

Increased the frequency of callouts
Added timer for Asking for Direction and other NPC interactions so that you won’t get blasted by them all at once when starting a shift
Added several improvements to Asking for Directions
Improved Reward System for the Asking for Directions feature
Improved minimal distance for POI from NPC for Asking the Direction
Added interactive POI categories
Improved EMS targeting & pathfinding

Car Control

Rebalanced the Cruiser
Rebalanced the UTV
Rebalanced the Utility car

NPVs

Changed behavior of pulled over NPVs

Graphics & World

Adjusted NPC walking animations
Adjusted certain precincts light settings
Added mirrored animation for picking up barrier
Added collision to a police officer in the North Point Precinct
Adjusted camera while walking up the stairs

Tutorials

Added missing Player Accident Tutorial
Added intuition feedback for player accidents when leaving the player accident unattended
Changed the wording for "Already in session" to "Already in another session"

UI

Rearranged buttons and side panel in Police Computer to appear more aligned

Multiplayer

Added POI replication in Multiplayer

Controls

Added scrolling ability while using gamepad on "News"

Performance Improvements

Fixed performance decrease in map and while unlocking new POIs
Optimizing performance to have less hitches happening during gameplay

Bug Fixes
GAMEPLAY

Fixed not putting equipped tools away in certain situations
Fixed enable/disable callout function not working
Fixed Simulation mode removing the callout enable/disable function
Fixed Road Barrier removal so it can be removed from both sides
Fixed ability to reload a full-clip handgun
Fixed the range of speeding to cause CP loss to player while driving around in Simulation mode
Fixed evening shifts not unlocking when they are designed to unlock
Fixed unequipping tools not working properly
Fixed sub-folder not showing up in interaction wheel
Fixed other callout timer not ending when player has active Player Accident
Fixed position of callouts appearing in Open Patrol
Fixed backup officer being stuck after cancelling an arrest
Fixed incorrect number of tools showing in tool wheel
Fixed Early Access save games with no district selected not loading
Fixed freezes during gameplay

MULTIPLAYER

Fixed not being able to place cones as a second player
Fixed Multiplayer tutorial showing up every time in Multiplayer session even when tutorials are turned off
Fixed sequence of loading screens showing up for second player after being kicked
Fixed tasing NPCs as second player makes them teleport

NPCs

Fixed several issues with NPCs in the NPVs at accidents
Fixed NPCs responding negatively to a repeated move/wait order when player has a valid reason
Fixed some issues with injured NPC clipping in ambulance
Fixed evidence missing on NPC after they fled
Fixed NPCs being able to interact with in precincts which should not be the case
Fixed NPCs in accidents sometimes spawning under the ground
Fixed a case where sometimes wallet thieves could go inside a building
Fixed NPCs on bridges being interactable
Fixed flickering NPC models every now and then

PATROL CAR / EMERGENCY CAR / TRAFFIC CAR

Fixed issues with NPVs flying into the sky
Fixed the ability to create duplicate tow truck calls in order to get SP
Fixed tow truck towing car distance in order for tow truck to tow NPVs that are close
Fixed windows of Cruiser missing damage
Fixed CP loss if player pulled over same NPV multiple times
Fixed losing CP after towing a NPV in accident
Fixed some cases where hitting NPV at high speeds would not cause Player Accident
Fixed NPV drivers to see the hand gestures more easily
Fixed parked NPV spawning on a lamp

WORLD & GRAPHICS

Fixed broken arm animation while escorting NPCs
Fixed holes in the ground
Fixed Arrestee climbing into backup vehicle animation to look better
Fixed a gap between two buildings in Historic Downtown
Fixed High crime area map in Police Car to look less bright
Fixed cones disappearing after picking them up
Fixed arm animation for escorting NPCs
Fixed Open Patrol showing previous district information
Fixed missing hair texture of Emma Davis after greeting an NPC while having hat equipped
Fixed an issue with Emma Davis’ model
Removed floating object outside at North Point precinct
Fixed resolution of some tutorial images
Fixed some issues with metro stations
Fixed inconsistent State of Franklin text on license plates
Fixed NPCs not properly exiting their vehicle in car accidents
Fixed animation delay when entering Police Car on a sidewalk
Fixed interaction when using Radar Gun near parked NPV
Fixed a floating bench near Conway Stadium
Fixed a gap in the ground at North Point
Fixed parking lot in Brianna
Fixed a fire hydrant next to bus stop
Fixed missing collision of crashed NPVs
Fixed backup police officer floating when exiting the vehicle
Fixed wrong character showing up before Main Menu
Fixed lighting on traffic stop callout
Fixed objects in counter officers hand clipping through the hand

UI

Fixed an overlap of multiple present callouts
Fixed intuition feedback having incorrect background color
Fixed blue bar appearing after "Press Any Button" screen
Fixed Asking for ID not being correct in Japanese
Fixed waypoint not appearing for Cruiser
Fixed highlighted text still appearing after hovering
Fixed missing localization for switching seats
Fixed wrong localization for ‘Resolution’
Fixed player name appearing in pause menu
Fixed incorrect line break in handbook in "Guide for Good Cops"
Fixed subtitles overlapping alcohol/drug checks
Fixed tutorial windows overlapped by other windows
Fixed overlap of subtitles while performing ID check
Fixed unlocalized tutorial image texts
Fixed overlapping arrows in callout UI

CONTROLS

Fixed key bindings not working properly
Fixed issue where player was not able to change performance setting

SOUND

Fixed brake sound on patrol vehicle sometimes not stopping
Fixed timing of subtitles and VO lines

CRASHES

Fixed various crashes reported by users
Fixed a crash occurring during first shift
Fixed a crash after using hand gestures on emergency vehicles that are done picking up arrestees/injured people.
Fixed a crash that occurred on multiplayer if second player used hand gestures
Fixed a crash caused by some missing information
Fixed a crash that was caused by spamming call & cancel tow truck function
Fixed a crash in multiplayer if the party leader returned to the main menu from a public session
Fixed crash when joining a multiplayer session
Fixed crash that occurs when NPC despawn
Fixed crashes that occur after first shift or when using pull over sign
Fixed crash after completing accident
Fixed a crash while driving around
Fixed a crash in multiplayer
Fixed a crash when using traffic cones
Fixed a crash for player in multiplayer when traffic stop callout appeared
Fixed a rare crash that sometimes happens related to audio drivers
Added preventive measures for crashes
Added checks to prevent certain crashes

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