EmergeNYC
Update 0.9.8B is live! (Black Screen Issue & Chainsaw bug fixed)
The next few updates will include new building fires setup with the new system as well as more fixes to reported issues. We are also aware of a lot of users crashing on loading due to running out of memory. Lowering your texture resolution in the main menu in settings can help alleviate this issue. Also if your game starts in windowed mode and low resolution, hit Alt+Enter to maximize the game window and go to settings to set your resolution. Hit apply and then save. Thanks for your patience!
Fixed screen going black after 20 minutes fighting a fire with the new fire system
Fixed pressing 6 with a chainsaw holstered not allowing you to equip the chainsaw
Update 0.9.8 - Revolutionary New Fire/Smoke Simulation & Procedural Emergencies
0.9.8 is live on all branches! A change log of all of the bug fixes and improvements can be found below.
Revolutionary New Fire & Smoke Simulation
Introducing a new realistic physics based fire simulation system powered by AI. This system allows for an ultra realistic fire and smoke simulation within EmergeNYC. Currently it is set up on all car fires, manhole fires, all new non structural fires and a small selection of building fires as I still have to convert each building fire to use this new system. Fire and smoke collides with walls, ceilings and more allowing for realistic simulation of smoke accumulation in a building and through rooms. I had to also redesign how you take smoke/fire damage. The new system uses a volume for each room in the fire and calculates smoke density and temperature as well as your proximity to the fire to calculate damage to the player. I made some improvements to the fire spread logic as well. Fires now only spread horizontal and up or just below them to other fire nodes but fire no longer drops down an entire floor. This system is still in the early testing stages to see how it performs across all hardware. More building fires will be added in the next updates.
New Procedural Emergency System
EmergeNYC now features a new procedural emergency system. This allows for virtually thousands of new calls across Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Montgomery County meaning you won’t have to respond to the same calls each playthrough. The new system is able to place emergencies in hundreds of different possible locations. The new system also automatically detects the emergency and generates the emergency information, address, box number, assignment and sends out the tones to the assigned units all procedurally. This makes adding new emergencies to the game much easier and faster so look forward to more new call varieties in bulk in future updates.
Redesigned Car Fires
Random car fires can spawn on any road or parking spot on the side of the road. There are over 30 new vehicle fires with a dozen paint schemes for each vehicle. Cars can also spawn wrecked, flipped over, on their side and with or without victims inside. All vehicle fires now utilise the new fire system. You can open the doors, trunk, and hood of cars now by left clicking the door. Fire can hide in the trunk, hood, and inside the car. Car fires are more difficult now as they spread throughout the car and it takes longer to put out. There are new bus fires and garbage truck fires as well as a few other special vehicles.
Redesigned Manhole Fires
Manhole fires have been redesigned and can spawn on any of the hundreds of Manholes on the map instead of going to the same 4 or 5 manhole fires. Manhole fires now utilise this new fire system as well. Manholes will smoke and flare up and make realistic popping noises. Once a manhole fire reaches its max intensity, it will constantly shoot out fire and the next nearest manhole will explode and catch fire. This makes manhole fires more interactive and challenging. Manhole emergencies have been added to Montgomery County as well.
Other Non Structural Fires
Many other variations of rubbish fires have been added using the new fire system such as dumpster fires, trash/rubbish, scaffoldings, food stands, news stands and more.
Procedural EMS Calls
EMS calls are now also procedural. They can spawn anywhere on the street and injuries are completely randomised as well as the look of the patient. This means you can have thousands of unique EMS calls instead of the same ones every game.
Other improvements and additions
Improved the thermal imaging camera especially with the new fire system
Added walking pedestrians on all maps
AI Bug Fixes
Fixed AI walking into outrigger of truck causing it to move
Fixed Division 4 icon showing 5 in Manhattan
Fixed Ladder 57 getting stuck leaving quarters
Fixed Engine 85 getting stuck leaving quarters
Fixed AI Battalion 5 and Ambulances not responding in Manhattan
Fixed Squad 28 door not opening for AI
Fixed some units having brooklyn radio audio when ai acknowledges the run
Fixed Ladder tips pushing the truck off the building sometimes
Fixed pressing E causing AI to pick up or drop a hose sometimes
Fixed pressing the hosebed keys causing you to deploy a line if an ai is at the hosebed
Improved click area of roll up doors
Improved click area of climbing up and down portable ladders
And more
Multiplayer Bug Fixes
Fixed hydrants not being networked
Fixed issues with Montgomery County hoses causing major frame drops in Multiplayer
Improvements to multiplayer nozzle spray sync
Fixed more units with light sync issues in Montgomery County
Fixed other players causing truck to move when climbing down ladder to turntable
You can now use the middle mouse camera toggle in multiplayer
And more
General Fixes
Fixed not being able to grab portable ladders off trucks
Fixed some reverse tones being too quiet on some units and balanced out the distance you can hear them from
Fixed vehicle staying in reverse if you jump out and reverse at the same time
Temporarily removed boats
Fixed hose spray sound stuttering
Redesigned hitboxes for fires so hose can go through the fire’s trigger but still put it out
Fixed not being able to grab hydrant tool from E33-1
Fixed water can aiming and shooting
Fixed thermal imaging camera IK broken
Fixed always able to spray water even after water runs out
Tweaked street textures in Brooklyn
Fixed Montgomery County Sirens sounding far away
Fixed Ladder 111 spare bucket not extending when in use by AI
Fixed Ladder 33-1 pink chrome material
Fixed Engine 85 missing its mesh
Fixed missing hole model in man in hole calls
Fixed Engine 249 mesh
Fixed police officer holster being red
Fixed cinder blocks in collapse call being red
Fixed some missing buildings in Brooklyn
Fixed getting in the back doors when trying to get in the driver seat in Montgomery county (You will now just enter the nearest door instead of entering two at the same time)
Fixed not being able to return the spreaders on some units
Fixed dropping the hydrant tool in Montgomery County causing it to fall through the map
Fixed seeing player legs sticking through doors of Engine 1
Fixed seeing player legs sticking through doors of Heavy Rescue
Fixed not being able to spray water from quint ladders when pump was on sometimes
Fixed cant charge line from nozzle with radial menu in Montgomery County
Fixed not being able to return some tools in Montgomery County
Fixed random hole in MC terrain in city under trailer
Fires now only spread upwards and horizontal, if something is very closeby and slightly underneath it will ignite as well
Nozzle will now always aim at the center of the screen
Fixed some issues with dropping tools in MC and them falling through the ground
Fixed some engine portable ladder holders not rotating down all the way
Fixed not being able to charge lines in Montgomery county with the radial menu
Made cutting roll up doors easier and improved the trigger zones
Fixed being able to equip double SCBAs in Montgomery County
Pump ui and reving will now always be synced to the trucks pump state
Improved reliability of MC helicopter water refill
Improvements to EMS menu UI and actions
Fixed missing lightbars on USFS Engine and Buggy
Optimizations
Fixed 111 missing its 12 foot portable ladder
Fixed more missing buildings in Manhattan and Brooklyn
Fixed a giant flag in times square
Fixed some occlusion culling issues
Improved reliability of hydrant trigger
And more
Update 0.9.7B is Live for PC & Mac! More Bug Fixes & Improvements
IMPORTANT CHANGES
I removed the right clicking to open firehouse garage doors. Use the door button in the firehouse by pressing G near it if on foot or if in the rig you can press the Z key and it will toggle the gate open or closed.
Updated game to latest game engine version Unity 2022.3.1
This caused a few random issues like missing buildings and materials, if you notice something report it in bug reports.
General Fixes & Changes
Added texture streaming and Virtual texturing to optimise memory usage and prevent crashes when loading into a map due to memory usage
Fixed not being able to get off tower ladder turntables
Fixed 111 New parking brake lights not turning red
Fixed engine 33-1 back wheels being too low
Fixed engine 33-1 hose mount points on the rear not being lined up with the model
Fixed hydrant tool falling through floor when dropping it
Fixed character having no animations when taking control of an AI for the first time
Fixed doors missing at Ladder 66 firehouse
Fixed mask first person camera angle not matching non mask first person camera angle
Hose & Hydrant Fixes
Fixed not being able to connect to a hydrant if you were too close to it
Redesigned how dropped hoses and nozzles work to be much more reliable and not have issues where you have hose without a nozzle or vice versa
Fixed hydrants not turning off when pressing P
Fixed game freezing when pressing Shift P while turning on hydrant
AI Bug Fixes
Fixed not being able to drop or attach hose most of the time playing as an ai character
Fixed AI characters and tools pushing vehicles around
Fixed your player disappearing if a call comes in while walking around as AI and your company rally’s to the vehicle
Lower airhorn usage by responding ai vehicles
Multiplayer
Fixed all vehicles that had emergency light syncing issues in multiplayer
Fixed hose deploying breaking in multiplayer sometimes causing couplings to connect to wrong mounts
Fixed seeing other players still carrying a supply line when they connected it to a hydrant
Fixed nozzles duplicating in multiplayer when dropping or returning a hose line
Fixed Engine 1 and Engine 33-1 having a light stuttering issues in multiplayer
Fixed multiplayer characters and tools pushing vehicles around
Players in the officer seat can control the sirens and horns now
Fixed issues with hoses in Montgomery County
Update 0.9.7 Live on all Branches!
0.9.7 Change Log
Optimizations and Code Rework
Fixed Montgomery County performance dropping massively when spawning a vehicle
Optimizations to vehicle physics
Optimizations to vehicle emergency lighting
Optimizations to sounds
Optimizations to animations and animators
Optimizations to fire logic and particles
Optimizations to multiplayer
Optimizations to Montgomery Country forest fires
Bug Fixes
Fixed a bug where radial menu option to grab, return, or use certain items would not show up when they are supposed to
Fixed Engines auto responding teleporting to calls
Fixed ladders not returning when pressing the return all button
Fixed not being able to drive Tower Ladder 68 Spare sometimes
Fixed automatic sirens on Engine 31 Old being super quiet
Fixed dodge FDNY Ambulance causing all sirens on map to sound echoey
Fixed placing backboard on patient causing physics to freak out
Fixed first person camera draw distance to be the same as the TPS camera
Fixed time progression and weather not working
Fixed tiller trailer rotation to reset when tillers are respawned with shift + R
Fixed seated police officers sometimes floating out of their seats on police cars
Fixed 3rd Floor fire in Manhattan causing unplayable frame drop
Fixed basement fire in Manhattan causing unplayable frame drop
Fixed misalignment of Still water Tower Ladder wheel
Fixed house in Montgomery County roof disappearing if you get too far away
Fixed some fires that wouldn't extinguish
Fixed fire in Empire steel shelves that wouldn’t extinguish
Fixed placing down portable ladders in Montgomery County causing them to fling away sometimes
Fixed apartment in Manhattan with door you can walk through and having gray material over walls and standpipes
Fixed alignment of rescue engine spare front left wheel
Fixed issues with grabbing debris or patient with mouse
Fixed Fire Academy occlusion culling causing pieces of the buildings to disappear depending on the angle
Fixed hazmat barrel floating through truck in Brooklyn
Fixed 2 story garage fire rollup doors being scaled improperly
Fixed vehicle teleporting home if you hit return all button while driving a vehicle
Fixed gas leaks and odors not being consistent and not working sometimes
Fixed Tiller Trucks floating or sinking into the ground
Added hose colliders to school grounds in Manhattan so hoses don’t fall through the ground
Fixed issues placing patients on the stokes basket and backboards
Fixed battalion 5 doors having invisible back doors
Fixed dropping the stokes basket or backboard and then picking it back up not deleting the one that was on the ground
Fixed floating flags on Ladder 174 in Brooklyn
And much more
Multiplayer Bug Fixes
Fixed some synchronisation issues in multiplayer after getting out of a vehicle sometimes other player would be far from where they were meant to be
Fixed carrying and dropping victims not working properly in Multiplayer
Fixed getting on another players ladder turntable causing truck to start shaking or floating
Fixed running into another players vehicle causing it to move
Fixed items duplicating when one player picks them up it wouldn’t register for other players
Fixed water leaks and gas leaks not being synced
Fixed Tillers floating away
Fixed Tillers trailer being jittery for other players in multiplayer
Fixed the over the shoulder camera being broken in multiplayer when holding RMB
And more
0.9.6 Now live on all branches (Bug fixes and Stability Improvements)
Readded interactable switches in trucks (Can now be used while truck is moving)
Fixed Tower Ladder 111 Old and Tower Ladder 68 Spare causing firehouse to unload and reload making them unusable
Fixed Montgomery County POV sizes
Fixed Major lag when refilling super scooper in lake in Montgomery County
Fixed lag spike when dropping water on a forest fire in Montgomery County
Fixed using Saws in Montgomery County causing you to be pushed back (Couldnt reproduce)
Fixed youtube links not allowing to be put in and updated youtube API
Fixed press G to open gates with buttons on walls not working in Brooklyn
Fixed pikes and hooks causing some trucks to flipover when grabbing off the truck
Fixed white flight instruments
Fixed missing materials on spotter plane
Added analog flight instruments to fire plane
Fixed Private dwelling Doors on Manhattan houses and added doors to the ones in Brooklyn
0.9.5Q live on Staging Branch (Hotfix for some issues)
0.9.5Q
Fixed yellow/green circles appearing under fires in Manhattan after playing for some time.
Fixed doors in academy that were scaled improperly and causing weird force door animations
0.9.5P is live on staging branch (More fixes and improvements)
Lots of optimizations to Montgomery County (Reduced batches and draw calls significantly by mesh combining areas of the map)
Fixed the render queue of water spray particles to render over the smoke instead of under it making it difficult to see if or where you were spraying
Fixed Quick Attack Line charge line radial menu option not working specifically on the Quint
Fixed hoses falling through ground in the City area of Montgomery County
Fixed Stillwater Tower Ladder nozzle not tracking the bucket sometimes
Fixed when radial menu is open being able to click on units to bring up their ai menu
Fixed patient falling through floot of burger knight in Montgomery County
Fixed some montgomery county trucks being stuck and unable to drive after pumping and using hoses
0.9.0O live on Staging branch (More fixes and improvements)
0.9.5O
Fixed the character camera zooming into the back in certain firehouses and near certain triggers
Lowered path generation time for AI taking a while sometimes when telling them to do an action (There still seems to be a bug every now and then where they wont do an action unless you get them closer to the destination, another issue with the pathfinding)
Fixed the dredge ambulance not returning home or being able to move after picking up a patient
Fixed Ladder 175 not going to destination when using AI commands
Fixed Ladder 175 members exiting truck and being inside the cab
Fixed Stop spraying button not working on the tower ladders nozzles & engines deckguns
Fixed Montgomery County Tower Ladder nozzle in bucket not following the bucket sometimes (Needs testing)
0.9.5N Hotfix live on staging branch!
Fixed scaling of some of the Montgomery County units being off
0.9.5M is live on testing branch (Bug fixes & improvements)
Fixed doors not closing on trucks in Montgomery County or Manhattan when exiting trucks
Fixed Heavy Rescue driver door having duplicate door inside of it
Fixed some bugs with carrying, dropping and loading patients onto stretchers
Fixed not having water when you take direct control of the nozzle man
Added feature when charging the line via the radial menu the hose will automatically connect to the pump to send you water
Fixed a bug when leaving a character in FPS camera and going to another character the FPS camera will be where the previous one was
Fixed trucks not teleporting to their parking positions when crashing into a parked trucks
Fixed not being able to delete vehicles in Montgomery County sometimes (Needs testing)