The highly anticipated release of Update 0.7.8 is here! You heard that right. Montgomery County is here! Just in time for the Christmas Sale starting tomorrow morning. EmergeNYC will be 20% off (20$ USD) through January 2nd 2020. View the full changelog here:
This is v0.1 of our Montgomery County map meaning there are only about ~40 emergencies and just as many bugs. We want to welcome our players in to the testing and polishing phase of Montgomery County. We know you guys have waited impatiently for months and months for a release and we kept saying “give us just a little longer” Well, the end of the year creeped up on us and we feel like we haven’t delivered what our community expects from us. We feel comfortable that we have squashed so many of the game breaking bugs and feel that gameplay is virtually stable. I have decided to abandon the hope of delivering a perfect product polished and all to you guys and want to welcome everyone into the testing phase to find the problematic bugs and get feedback on ways things should work. This game has been built on community feedback and bug reports and we are excited to move into the next stage of development.
As after every big update, we will be patching the game daily and making fixes and changes based upon all of your feedback and reports.
Multiplayer is disabled in this build while we want our players to solely test the single player gameplay to help us find bugs and provide important feedback to continue to improve the game with each hotfix. We are also working on several Multiplayer issues that render it unplayable at this time.
This update has been in the works since earlier this year and I have faced tons of criticism and accusations that I figured now would be a good time for me to address.
“These developers are so stupid adding new things when they need to fix the broken game”
While deciding to go through with the idea for Montgomery County may not have been the right timing, I still feel as though this update will hopefully be a breath of fresh air to our players who have been waiting for new content. People were claiming that we were solely adding things and have abandoned the original Manhattan map which is as far from the truth as possible. Manhattan has new emergencies, countless bug fixes (As you can see by the 8 page change log below) as well as the Fire Academy. The game all around has seen tons of fixes and improvements, but is still far from perfect.
“This game is a scam”
Believe it or not, it’s not a scam. I am not here to take your money, hence the huge free update! I am a sole individual running and creating this game with little to no outside help lately. It is difficult to work the hours I do and try to please every one of you with an explanation or a response. I do this not for the money, but because I love this game and what I have built from the ground up with many of you who have been here since the very beginning. It is easy to say hateful and ignorant things when you don’t know what has to go into something of this scale.
“This project is dead”
Many have began spreading these rumours, which I take blame for not having been communicating better these last few months while trying to get the game to a place where it is stable enough to replace 0.7.7J. So many new issues arose, game breaking bugs that took weeks to fix, it was nightmarish where i’m sure any other single game developer would have pronounced the project. But that is not an option for me. This is my livelihood and the only way this project will die is if I die or get locked up. Progress maybe slower than what everyone wants, but it is moving a long as is already leaps ahead of most of the competition.
Main Highlights!
Entirely new rural map with over a dozen new units, 50 new emergencies, and more!
New Emergencies on Manhattan map!
New Brush Fire Scenario in Fire Academy!
Optimizations to improve loading and streaming times when loading vehicles and characters
Added Interior to Engine 32, Ladder 66 Firehouse
Added Spotlights to all Police Cars
Added water coolers and waste bins to rear of all Engines
Added Boat Fires to Manhattan
Readded Bridges to Manhattan
Tweaked Handling & Speed of many trucks including Ladder 75 & Rescue 9
Fixed all game breaking issues with Tiller Ladder 75
Fixed FDNY/NYPD Boats to work as expected
Fixed Helicopters (Will now hover in position when released)
Removed Unfinished Bus Fire Radio Call
Added Loading Text when spawning trucks with the new Addressables system
Fixed a Physics issues causing trucks to teleport into the sky and float over downtown
Extended the reach of Engine Deck guns spray
Fixed Engine 31 Spare returning to quarters with AI Command
Improved K12 & Chainsaw Roof Cutting
Fixed Locks that dont drop after cutting in the Fire Academy
Fixed
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