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Update Log 01/12/2024 - Christmas, TFU Update, Delivery App Overhaul and QoL
This is a quite a large update bundled in with the annual Christmas changes! As well as this we are also launching the new PERPHeads Store where you will be able to purchase Premium (more information in the update logs below).
We also welcome @Draxen to our development team who will help us with creating more models!
As always thanks to everyone who has worked on this update; @Fredy, @Bolli, @Carrot, @GP, @Jyrgen,@Maia, @Sindarin, @Ezza, @kasperr, @rogue, @Draxen.
TFU Update
As some of you may have noticed applications for Tactical Firearms Officer have been closed for the past few weeks due to a 'pending' update, this is the update! Expect TFU Certification Applications to open soon. From now on being a TFO will have three tiers are outlined below, I would like to take a second to thank @kasperr for all his work on both the TFU and Winter PD Models, as-well as @Bnjemann for the creation of the Tier 1 TFU skin. For now the models will remain a surprise, feel free to find them in-game and responding to incidents, keep in mind the models have all changed and been re-done since the previous post showing them.TFU Tiers
Tier 1 – Recruit:
- Simplified access process (no practical exam)
- Applications will open tomorrow December 2nd, and are to remain open at all times under normal circumstances.
- The goal is for it to be fully automated in the future for most people.
- Limited to up to 3 on duty at a time
- Must not patrol: heavy gear only
- From this point on all new TFOs will be in this tier
- Highly restricted armory, no access to the sniper in police state
- New Model
- No specific limit (6-7 depending on City Policies)
- Access to light gear
- All current TFOs other then the very few who will be given tier 3 have already been migrated to this tier (See Basic TFU Certification on your profile on PLPD Online)
- Same armory as current heavy gear TFU, access to the sniper in police state
- Same model as current TFOs with some new attachments
- No specific limit (6-7 depending on City Policies)
- Access to light gear
- PD SMT, TFU Command, and selected TFOs (decided by TFU Command) will be given this tier, please see a incoming message from TFU Command on how you can get this tier in the future
- Extended Armory, new weapons, and new attachments!
- New Model and new attachments with a new clothing slot never used on PERP before, with a focus on a all black look!
- Chat / Voice color will change in heavy gear depending on cert level
- New Prefix within your rank in the radio menu when in heavy gear
- Aggregate TFU Limit (6 or 7 depending on mayor policies)
- Being kidnapped will result in the removal of your clothing items, this is especially embarrassing for Incident Commanders
Police Winter Uniforms
- The Paralake Police Department has come ready for the cold!
Expect some cold weather gear and gloves to keep you warm from the snow while your out on patrol!
Incident Menu for EMS, Firefighters and Police
- You no longer need to be inside your vehicle to create or interact with your assigned incident.
- "Incident menu" is the new name for what used to be called the unit menu.
- Employees can now move their current incident from the incident menu.
- Choose from a precise location, nearby places, or even broad areas for when you don't know where something is exactly.
- For example, you can now set the area to "Somewhere in the City" or "Regals Fire Escape".
- Only nearby places show up, so you need to be in the general area of where you want it moved to.
- Choose from a precise location, nearby places, or even broad areas for when you don't know where something is exactly.
- Incident UI will flash yellow when updated. The sound is lower for a period of time, to make it less annoying when dispatchers need to do a lot of changes such as assigning multiple units.
- Improved automatic messages sent to incident radio by officers (joining, leaving, moving, unassigning, etc.)
- Tweaked the text of some quick incidents. Added new "Shootout" option.
- Gov employees will do the hand-to-hip animation when sending information to the Dispatch system if outside of a vehicle, to prevent it from being used to sneakily relay panic situations to dispatchers.
- New area name for the clearing next to Suburbs Monorail: "Monorail Clearing in the Forest". Also for Farm-Highway forest: "Off-Ramp Forest".
- Defined more specific areas inside PD so they can be targeted with the new move incident system: Interrogation 1, 2, Holding Cell, Supervisor's Office.
Delivery App Overhaul
In our ongoing commitment to improving user experience and accessibility, we are excited to announce a complete overhaul of the Delivery App. As one of the most utilized smartphone applications, we recognized that it was falling short in several key functionalities.On top of this, to support the significant development effort behind the new and improved Delivery App, and to ensure its continued optimization, we have made the difficult decision to adjust the delivery fees to $1989.
Feel free to send me some feedback if you think something can still be improved.
What's new:
- Search Box
- Counter for maximum of items (increased to 400)
- Indicator of available weight on the player
- Possibility to call the delivery driver from the app directly
- Possibility to import data straight from TinyCalc
New Items/Models
- Drug Models
- To enhance the depth and realism of the drug system, we have introduced new models tailored to reflect the quantity of drugs being dropped
- To enhance the depth and realism of the drug system, we have introduced new models tailored to reflect the quantity of drugs being dropped
- New cash register item
- A smaller more modern Payment Terminal purchasable from Ye ol' Chaddy
- A smaller more modern Payment Terminal purchasable from Ye ol' Chaddy
- New model for electronics
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- New model for fertilizer
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New Christmas Sweaters
Added new Christmas sweaters purchasable with gingerbread from Bazaar Shop 3:
- peeps (pink)
- Rogue (yellow)
- Carrot (orange)
- Sindarin (lime)
- Lelios (blue)
- Maia (purple)
- GP (black)
New Roadcrew Truck
A very long-awaited change and update for Roadcrew, we now have a new Tow Truck thanks to @Ezza and @CollierMinor changes are planned for the truck such as a skin.
Crosshair
With the recent changes to the server rules removing the restrictions on using third-party crosshairs we have decided to add an option to use the built-in GMOD crosshair customization. This will allow everyone who wants to use a crosshair to have easy access to one without having to rely on any additional third-party software. Do note that PERP guns are highly inaccurate when not aiming down sights.This can be toggled using a new option (defaulted to off) in the F1>Options menu under the HUD settings. Enabling this option will show the crosshair for all guns and melee weapons, but not for things like the keys or camera.
You can use the GMOD crosshair customization menu located in the "Game" tab of the GMOD options menu to edit the crosshair to your liking.
Updated Weapon Models
Thanks to work by @phoondos all of the gun and attachment models have been edited to have better shading as well as fixing a few minor visual bugs.Here are some previews of the guns with these changes compared to the old models
Scar
AK-101 (Custom Skin)
AS50
HK USP45 CT
AK-101 (Custom Skin)
AS50
HK USP45 CT
The New PERPHeads Store
We are also introducing the new PERPHeads Store. With this comes some changes to how you buy premium. The two options for purchasing premium is now either a monthly subscription at a slightly lower price, or a one time token which can be redeemed in game, or sold to other players in game, just as players buy each other premium for in game currency now. When purchasing a token, you will be given an in game item which you can redeem yourself, or place for sale the way you would any other in game item.The prices on for the new subscription is £4.99 or €5.99.
Other Changes
- Holiday items (and Premium Tokens) can now be sold using cash registers without having to pay sales tax
- Emergency vehicle lights speed is now dynamic.
- Slow for no driver or turned off engine.
- Fast if driver is present and engine is running (or hazards turned on).
- Faster while ALT siren is sounding.
- Fixed a problem that allowed infinite uses for crowbars.
- Officers will now be able to impound vehicles if they have been clamped for over 10 minutes, even if Road Crew is on. (Right click with the ticket book)
- Map app can now be pinned to the screen without typing a console command.
- You can zoom in and out of the map app by scrolling.
- Allowed evidence cones for all PD divisions.
- Increased AFK property confirmation to 2 minutes (from 1). It will also beep for a bit when it first appears.
- Anyone is now able to remove abandoned Police road spikes by pressing 'E' on them.
- Changed TFU van alternate siren due to bad looping on the previous one.
- Changed Police Mercedes emergency lights pattern.
- Removed old Government employee "Toggle busy" bind from F1 menu. You can instead use the incident menu system.
- Fixed an issue where the mayor car or job slot slider would pick different values than what you intended.
- Fixed some elements of the pink UI theme using the incorrect colors
We hope you enjoy these changes. Happy Holidays!
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