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• Removed ghost colliders on bridges
  

• Optimization: Improved performance and reduced client size
  
• Fixed an error where savegames were permanently corrupted when saving after teleporting while the player character was sitting in the car
  
• Mission 6, 12, 21 (and sandbox): Fixed an issue where car chases were not aborted after the cars escaped the player
  
• Fixed an issue where "invisible borders" frequently caused traffic jams at one spot
  
• Fixed an issue where the police car would fly off a bridge frequently
  
• The lane changes of AI cars were tweaked to make the traffic more smoothly
  
• “Sudden Obstacle": Fixed an issue where it was not possible to get all points
  
• "Rescue from above" and "Reckless Moving into a lane”: Fixed an issue where it was impossible for the player to reach their destination
  
• Fixed an issue where players could not get the STEAM achievement for getting all improvements from the tech tree
  
• Fixed some translation errors and character display errors for German and Hungarian
  
• Fixed an error in which lorries that transport logs were highlighted during police intuition
  
• Fixed cases in which voice audio was doubly played
  
• Fixed an issue where sunlight would shine through the tunnel
  
• Fixed an issue where the character would clip through ground during an arrest
  

• Improvements of streets textures and materials
  
• Fix: Cancellation of a car chase when the chased car is out ot reach
  
• Fix: problems with the character shader by night
  
• Fix: possible crashes in mission "Risk of collapse"
  
• Fix: traffic control - colour of the vehicle inspection stickers
  
• Fix AI: improved roadgraph
  
• Fix: Mission 13 and Accident 13 are finishable again
  
• Fix: Mission 15 - suspect doesn't change the chair anymore
  
• Fix: Mission 16 - driving speed of the convoy adjusted
  
• Fix: Mission 20 - navigation
  
• Fix: problems when despawning vehicles
  
• Fix: problems with traffic jams caused by non despawning vehicles
  
• Fix: problems when closing the game
  
• Fix: shadow flickering after indoor cutscenes
  
• Fix: trucks don't spawn out of the Autobahn
  
• Fix: Tutorial can be restarted (after reaching 100% chaos factor)
  
• Camera: Improvements within dialogues in traffic controls
  
• New: French localization
  
• New: Background assets, for example landing / starting planes
  
• Optimization: general smaller optimizations
  
• Update: new engine version
  
• Improvement: Camera positions in dialogue scenes
  
• Improvement: shadows
  
• Improvement: "Dead End" icon better visible
  
• Improvement: Higher walking speed of player character is more visible
  
• Improvement: better performance next to seas
  
• Improvement: localization errors fixed
  
• Improvement: NPCs aren't pushable anymore
  
• Improvement: During the tutorial the police station isn't leavable anymore
  

• Missions: PR conferences now always take place in the early noon
  
• Missions: Improved QTE in M17
  
• Vehicles: Civil vehicle is no longer incentivizing an emergency lane before the bluelights are toggled once
  
• Accidents: Sketch does now show the correct vehicle details
  
• Dialogs: Fixed case where members of the conversation would lean forwards or backwards when the other one is not on the same height
  
• Free-play: Radio communication now correctly resumes after an mission has been accepted
  
• Missions: Fixed knocking SFX in M13
  
• Missions: Toilet can now be entered properly under certain conditions
  
• Traffic control: Beards are now animated during alcohol tests
  
• UI: Fixed localization of back button in help menu
  
• UI: Options menu adjusted to be uppercase
  
• UI: No longer need to click multiple times in help menu to show item
  
• Vehicles: Improved visibility of vehicle lights for low-detail models
  
• Vehicles: Improved handling of civil car
  
• Vehicles: Disallowed generation of license plates with leading zeroes
  
• World: Corrected some holes at bridges
  
• World: Adjusted height of some signs that were too low for trucks to pass them
  
• World: Changed location of the Huttstaetten fast-travel spot
  
• World: Improved performance at lakes
  
• Accidents: Corrected information about vehicles in accident sketches
  
• Audio: Added new theme for the station
  
• Audio: Added second theme for normal gameplay
  
• Audio: Added theme for main menu
  
• Engine: Upgraded engine version to 2017.2.1p1
  
• Free-play: pursuits are now triggering correctly
  
• Graphics: Shading on adjacent road terrains at dusk and dawn now looks correct
  
• Input: Input configuration file should now be properly read in all cases
  
• Input: Remapping inputs will now properly persist
  
• Missions: M10 truck of arrested suspect is no longer driving away
  
• Missions: M16 convoy is now starting more smoothly
  
• Missions: M20 pursuit does now fail when suspect left the map
  
• Missions: Added popup after campaign is over
  
• Missions: Specific vehicles no longer spawn inside other vehicles on the road
  
• Performance: Reduced overhead of adjusting several dynamic materials
  
• Performance: Reduced frequency of garbage collections
  
• Performance: Removed small lags caused by the playback of collision SFX
  
• Performance: Improved memory usage by properly unloading procedural meshes during world streaming
  
• Performance: Disabled static batching to support procedural mesh unloading
  
• Performance: Removed resource unloading strategy that was too broad and produced lags when unloading streamed world parts
  
• Performance: Reduced savegame size by a great bit, reducing time needed to save the game
  
• Traffic Control: Improved positioning of interaction handles of some vehicles
  
• Traffic Control: When arresting suspects, the jail cutscene is now playing back properly
  
• Traffic Control: improved vehicle interaction in "Follow Me" matrix mode
  
• Traffic Control: Alcohol test is now always considered valid as long as the suspect has any blood alcohol percentage above 0
  
• Traffic Control: Fixed a case where the driver has different looks than the game assumed because the character was not properly initialized
  
• Tutorials: Fast travel tutorial will no longer pop up after loading a savegame
  
• UI: Positioning of gamepad button indicators in tech tree view improved
  
• UI: Mouse cursor is now hidden when using gamepad or steering wheel
  
• UI: Distance display during convoys or pursuits is now showing a unit
  
• UI: Changed key binding required to accept a radio call to a different key than required for exiting the car (by default: R on keyboard and the X button on XInput devices)
  
• Vehicles: Bear Baranga driver characters will no longer sit in the steering wheel after the game is running for a longer time
  
• Vehicles: Driving backwards no longer stops acceleration
  
• Vehicles: Enabled functionality of civil vehicle front matrix display
  
• Vehicles: Vehicles no longer get stuck behind an obstacle and instead try to overtake it
  
• Vehicles: Vehicles are now reacting more dynamically to emergency situations and build a emergency lane when a vehicle with blue lights enabled approaches
  
• Vehicles: Exiting the vehicle is no longer possible when the doors are blocked
  
• Vehicles: When part of a convoy, vehicles will no longer react to the blue lights of the player vehicle
  
• Vehicles: Reduced aggressiveness of truck acceleration
  
• Vehicles: Mirrors of the van are now working properly
  
• Vehicles: Prevented generation of license plates having 0 as the number
  
• Vehicles: Speed cameras are now back in the trunk after loading a savegame
  
• Vehicles: Vehicle performance upgrades now work properly after loading a savegame
  
• Vehicles: Fleeing suspects will no longer honor the blue lights of the player vehicle, making chases more difficult
  
• Vehicles: Can now switch to a rear view camera by using either the right stick button on gamepads, the right mouse button or the Y key on keyboards (by default)
  
• World: Traffic lights are now in working condition
  
• World: Removed some geometry cracks
  

• Chaos: Capped max chaos given when colliding with other cars to 70%
  
• Chaos: Chaos is no longer disabled after teleportation
  
• Navigation: Improved navigation graph coverage, giving better navigation path results in lots of cases
  
• Performance: Improved AI simulation logic
  
• Physics: Disabled transform auto sync for a slight performance boost
  
• Vehicles: Fixed driverless cars appearing during longer sessions
  
• Vehicles: Improved positioning of rear light emitters of the Bear Baranga
  
• Vehicles: Fixed case where the players vehicles wouldn't properly reset to their parking lots after loading a savegame
  
• Vehicles: Restored mirror rendering
  
• Vehicles: Removed cause for license plates not being replaced correctly when re-spawning a vehicle from the pool
  
• Vehicles: Brake and rear driving lights on unit vehicle and van do work now properly
  
• AI: Removed one-off error causing occasional AI simulation lock-ups
  
• AI: Cars no longer accidentially spawn in "parking" state on highway
  
• Accidents: Objects can't be picked up simultaneously any longer
  
• Cameras: Improved player camera clipping and collision avoidance
  
• Cameras: Player camera now correctly chooses inside/outside mode after loading a save
  
• Characters: Added new available clothin, i.a. merry bag caps
  
• Characters: Fixed regression on player beards not having emotion expressions
  
• Chases: Chased vehicle now properly despawns after arresting the driver
  
• Companion: Added patch code to fix missing Hans as a companion during free play in existing savegames
  
• Cutscenes: Revoked player control during several cutscenes
  
• Cutscenes: Fixed several cases where some NPCs couldn't talk in dialogues after participating in a cutscene
  
• M12: Improved traffic cone positioning to avoid AI not recognizing closed lane properly
  
• M13: Knocking SFX can now be heard
  
• M15: Fixed some gameplay triggers not only reacting to the player or player vehicle, which threw off mission logic in some cases
  
• M16: Arrival trigger now only reacts to the player vehicle and not NPC vehicles anymore, potentially starting the convoy early
  
• M18: Timer is now correctly stopping when arriving, not ticking down during the cutscene anymore
  
• M06: Gave voice to the NPC during interrogation
  
• M19: Improved cleanup after cancelling mission resulting in wrong companion
  
• M20: Restored Hans as companion after finishing the mission
  
• M21: Improved cleanup after cancelling mission resulting in wrong companion
  
• A04: Fixed task resolution during talk to driver
  
• A06: Put flying character to ground
  
• A07: Improved cleanup when cancelling mission
  
• A14: Added new texts for part II
  
• A14: Added target marker to find companion
  
• Performance: Optimized some initialization routines to reduce lags
  
• Performance: Removed a waiting condition in parallel AI code to lock up AI processing, resulting in occassional half-second lags
  
• Performance: Reduced number of recomputations required during AI simulation
  
• Performance: Split up a large background job into multiple smaller jobs to improve throughput
  
• Radio: Trash missions can now be accepted
  
• Radio: Influence points are now only given when actively changing to the right radio state
  
• Traffic Control: Removed loophole allowing you to enter car during control
  
• Traffic Control: Saving no longer allowed after requesting a vehicle to stop to prevent broken savegames
  
• Traffic Control: Name mismatch on driving license and registration certificate no longer requires to call out a warning
  
• Traffic Control: Restored notebook availability during paper control
  
• Traffic Control: Mismatching photo on driving license now warrants an arrest
  
• Traffic Control: Wrong driving class on driving license now warrants an arrest
  
• Traffic Control: Switching through trunk objects is now also possible with keyboard keys
  
• Traffic Control: Same drug quiz answers no longer appear twice
  
• Traffic Control: Captives no longer float on their chairs in the interrogation room
  
• UI: Vignette and notification for chaos don't vanish anymore after opening the pause menu
  
• UI: Added help menu
  
• UI: Changed map icons style to pins to improve representation of true position
  
• UI: Radio calls can no longer be accepted from the pause menu
  
• UI: Improved gamepad control for sliders and scrolling
  
• World: Removed despawners placed at stadium exit crossing
  
• World: Made some world barriers open for AI vehicles
  
• World: Fixed dog food cans stacking up in the stations walls after loading a save
  
• World: Added cutscene when shopping for donuts
  
• World: Fixed several level design issues
  
• Firefly Trooper: Improved trunk contents
  
• Input: Added separate steer and camera sensitivity settings
  
• Logging Truck: Fixed lights
  
• Audio: Ambient SFX improvements
  
  
• Localization: Added translations for paddle inputs
  
• Shooting range: Improved QTE failure
  
• Shooting range: Doors now block the player
  
• Tech: Fixed people at coffee maker
  
• QTEs: Reduced sensitivity of some quick time actions for better usability